Today's To Do List

• Finish reading Mockingjay
• Clean my room to find my running pants
• Make a short Christmas list (not really asking for much this year)
• Read some of The Help
• Make a grocery list
• Do load of laundry
• Workout/Run
• Complete a rough draft of my Family History Paper
• Finish at least 1/3 of my Article Summary
• Paint my nails

Now I'll leave you with this....

Second Day Log

Wednesday night I went to the gym for another training run. It was harder than the first one. The second day of working out is always harder than the first one. I still managed to do 2 miles that took me an even more time than the last time (didn't think I could get any slower).

Here's the breakdown:

• 5 minute warm up walk
• 1 minute run
• 1 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 1 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 2 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 4 minute walk
• end of mile 1 and quick water break
• 3 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 2 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 3 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 3 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 8 minute walk

I ended up walking a lot of the time because my body was just not feeling the whole running thing. Something was really off about my stride and it threw everything else off. I have no idea what my problem was, but I only ended up doing just over 2 miles. One of these days I need to run the whole 3.1

Music Update

I have been listening to so much Aunt Martha lately. Not only do they do a lot of great covers on their Youtube channel but their original songs are perfection.

Cross over Humor

This still cracks me up every single time. I love both of these things so much and the fact that they intersect makes me happy. 

First Documented Turkey Training "Run"

"run" aka a jogging pace

2 miles took me 33 minutes tonight. Yikes that's slow, I feel like people walk the whole thing faster than I can semi run it. I have started out by alternating running and walking because that seemed to work on previous occasions.

• walk 5 minutes
• run 2 minutes
• walk 1 minute
• run 2 minutes
• walk 1 minute
• run 1 minute
• walk 2 minute 
• run 1 minute
• walk 2 minutes
• run 1 and a half minutes
• walk 2 and a half minutes
• run 1 minute
• walk 3 minutes
• run 1 minute
• walk 3 minutes
• run 1 half minute
• walk 3 and a half minutes

I think that's right.... it should total to 10 minutes of running time and 23 minutes of walking time.

Even though I have a ton of homework I knew I needed to find time to train and just plain get exercise. I'm just making excuses if I say I have too much homework because I still take breaks and I might as well spend one of them working out.

I just got back today from a weekend with my great grandma. I love spending time and getting to talk with her.

Signed Up

Last night my dad agreed to run the Turkey Trot with me again!
He even signed us both up. So it's official. In about 19 days I'll be out in the chill kick starting my metabolism so I can eat gilt free on the day of thanks and feasts!
Guess I better get my butt to the gym on a more regular basis this next few weeks in order to train more seriously. I've been running off and on this semester and have built up a little distance (only on the treadmill) but during the next few weeks I plan on getting up to at least running one and a half miles. If I really thought I could train well enough to do 3 in the next 3 weeks I would but I don't see that happening. I'm up to about 7 out of 30 minutes right now.... but it's a lot better than the 3 out of 30 I started doing at the beginning of the semester. The plan is to work up two more minute each time I go, keeping about a 12 minute mile pace. Not fast but fast enough for me, and probably the only way I can run any sort of distance for at least now. I'm gonna run 3 times a week and hopefully get to the gym a fourth time for some sort of strength/crosstraining exercise.

Wish me luck! If you're in TC on Thanksgiving hope to see you there :)