LLS | TNT

I've been a little off in my blogging, should redo the whole site but -- me neglecting this blog was for a good reason. I did start a new blog, but wait -- it's good! I've joined Team In Training a part of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in efforts to raise funds for blood cancer research. It's tough work with going to school more than full time.

Just a little update and check out the blog and donate today!:

-KP

Overtraining

Being sick was my big obstacle with training. It was a way my body telling me it was time to slow down. Good thing being sick came at the most perfect time. No, not at all.

With trying to train for my 15k in March, trying to compete with my friend and run a hundred miles in one month, and the stack of midterms I had to get ready for - my body wasn't ready for any of it. Neither was I mentally ready for any of what was going on.

I was completely on track, my running was improving much more. I was able to run more and more each time and running two miles straight finally didn't feel like torture again. I was enthralled, relieved that my training was finally going accordingly again.

It was during a weekend at the beach I started to feel the slightest of ill. I never get sick and even if I woke up feeling congested, it would pass through the day and I would be fine by the afternoon. It was different this time.

I was getting progressively sick day by day, then finally sickness struck my entire body come Monday morning. I didn't know what I had, I just needed the inconvenience to go away. The time I would spend studying was now spent hidden underneath my covers and hiding from the world.

This was not okay.

I missed a few days of training but some days I mustered enough energy to take a walk and actually run. I don't even know how it was possible when waking up the next day, my head would start spinning as my head left the pillow. I even got in a training session and I'm surprised I didn't pass out.

I trained 10-11 days in a row from being sick and trying to workout to now, I am feeling the exhaustion from it now. My body is telling me to slow down and just stop for a few days but my mind is just telling me you need to do this.

I know I need to take another day off and recuperate and make up for the days I couldn't study. Another day is being missed and I'm no where near 100 miles and the middle of the month is inching closer.

No idea why I decided to do tat but it will help with my training for my 15k. I've stopped with a lot of weight training, which my ego is taking a beating but the extra yoga classes and running have been nice.

Can't wait for the Shamrock Run and then getting back into more weight lifting.

:)

-Kathy

Discouraged

Sometimes I look at the number of miles I need to run for my next race then I see where I'm at. It's no where near each other. I feel so discouraged, thinking about the runners out there.

Then again, they've been practicing for so long and I've only been running for 5 months. I keep telling myself to push further and go farther. I just need to finish.

I cannot lose focus now, not ever. I have to constantly find my motivations to keep running. Not just because of the love I get from it, or the runner's high, or how I can get lost in runner....I have to dig deeper now because I don't see me making progress, so I must find it somehow.

Time for this journey of running in my life. Hopefully I can get certified by the summertime and work with my passion!

2012 :)

Week 1 - Jan. 1-7, 2012

Instead of doing the 365 picture project, I'm just going to do weekly. It's easier to keep, 52 pictures compared to 365, or in this case 366 for leap year. 

This is my picture for the week... Right before my 10k race. Body is still processing the alcohol consumed the night before along with the makeup and hair still in tact. I will never drink before a race again. My timing was okay but I could have done better. It's okay, there is always next time and there is way more to come. It's time to prep for a 15k race in march. :))

Work hard. Train hard.

10k Race

I finally did a 10k race. I've never even done a 5k before but decided I just needed to dive right into it and just complete it. The experience was amazing and I am glad I did it.

This race puts me on track for my training and it was a great way to start the new year. Now it's time to prep for the 15k in March for the Shamrock Run. Have a couple of people to do it with so I won't be alone this time. I'm finally getting the support I needed and wanted for a long time and it's makes reaching my goals all that easier. And after years of telling myself I would train for a marathon, I will actually make myself do it this year.

Running 26.2 miles....that's...nothing. ;)

Eyebrow Pictorial

People always me how I do my brows. When I first started out reshaping them, this is what I went through for a year before they became perfect. Enjoy! :)))

Desensitized Holiday

It hasn't hit me yet that it's christmas eve and tomorrow is christmas day. Working in retail for so long has made the holidays really just another day. More and more stores and restaurants are opened on the day of Christmas now and that has just made it worst.

It's quite sad how that is when I remember being a kid and always seeing pretty lights and the smell of winter, made you know it was Christmas. Now seeing decorations around town and at stores still doesn't stimulate my senses for the holidays. It's all plain and mediocre, nothing that is amazing. It's so minimal when I remember christmas being so extravagant.

I'm just so desensitized from the whole holiday experience because of my job. Probably the fact that I dont have a special person to share it with makes it even worst. I think I would get more into the holiday spirit if I had a nice boyfriend to share those moments with. At least if I had more of a caring family that would join in the holiday cheer with me, I'd be more in the spirit of the holidays. Maybe that's why I've spent so much money on myself.