No Excuses

This morning when I woke up to a crying baby, I knew it was going to be a long day. After my grocery shopping trip yesterday afternoon which included lots of healthy snacks and all the crude junk food gone, today was a new day. Instead of going back to bed like I normally do after I feed Connor his early morning bottle, I woke up, had some breakfast and water and got myself ready for a run. I knew Connor would be up for good at 7:00am. and if I was 100% ready to go when he woke up, I had NO EXCUSES! It was the longest run I would have ever done today, I would cut close to Connor's breakfast, I would start getting hungry myself.....I wanted to eliminate every possiblity so I had no excuses to quit.

At 7:00am. on the dot, we were off for my longest run in 4 months. Maybe this was going to be the edge of the plateau I was on and I was about to head up yet another mountain of accomplishment. I did 6 sets of 5X1's with a 4 minute warm-up and whatever was left over from the 6 sets to walk home for my cool down. I finished in 41:06. Not so much the time or distance, but I was really proud! I totally pushed through and still felt great.

I am going to switch it up a little from now on to give myself that extra little push. Mondays are my easy day, itwill stay my easy day. Wednesday is always my challenge day, it will stay my challenge day. Friday was a medium day. It builds to 36 minutes and then maintains there for the remainder of my training weeks. Instead of doing 5X1's on the Friday run, I think I am going to do one 5X1, run continually for 15, then finish with two 5X1's. I will try this little extra challenge for a few weeks and see how it goes. If I feel like I need to be pushed a little harder, I will keep taking out the 5x1's and then start adding 5's.

In terms of diet.......that's my downfall. I am under the poor assumption that exercise alone will bring me to my final goals, but it won't. I need to keep my diet under control as well. By managing food and calorie intake, I am helping to reinforce the exercise work I am doing and promoting healthy living and quite honestly, that is my end goal here.....to live healthifully.