I work out, a lot. Not a ridiculous excessive anorexia amount, but 3-4 times a week. It used to be 4-5 times a week but MamaPop losers ended and I remembered I had a life.
But lately I have gotten really exceptionally bored with my workouts. And I look fine and whatever and I think I'll just eat cheese and drink some wine this evening instead of working out. You see where this is going. Sloth, gluttony, and some other deadly sins.
So I've decided I'm going to start running. Yes, running. Yes, I remembered I hate running. I've toyed with running before but never seriously. But now I've decided I'm going to do it, I'm going to be a runner.
In order to facilitate this I have downloaded the couch 2 5k iphone ap. Why? Because everyone on twitter loves it. I am a marketers dream. Twitter loves it? Yep, I'll buy it. Twitter also loved the 30 day shred and I hated that.
So I did day one Monday and I hated it. Day 2 is tonight. When do you go back to the couch? I want the program to be couch to 5k and back to the couch. I like my couch better than the 5k portion of this program.
I'm not sure I'm any closer to running a 5k then I was Sunday. I still hate running but now I have a fun iphone ap. And boxes I can check. Must check the boxes! And then it tweets. It tweets that I just ran. No wonder twitter loves this!
Will I like it more if I pretend bears are chasing me?
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I hate running, too, but I’ve somehow convinced myself that it’s what I should be doing. Not that I’ve actually started yet…
I despise running. In college my boyfriend convinced me to join him and I would cuss him every step. BUT, that was the best my legs have ever looked. I don’t have an iPhone so I can’t get that app, so therefore I can’t do the couch 2 5k thing. That’s my excuse anyway.
I’m starting June 1st, after the moving and vacation drama has ended. I’m SO excited about it, even though I’m horrendously out of shape and I know it’s going to involve lots of pain and cussing.
I don’t have an iPhone, either, so I don’t have boxes to check.. but there’s a website for C25k that has the schedule and everything.
I hated running. Then I took of my shoes, and read Born To Run. Now I love running. Just sayin’. Also, the first mile is always the hardest. And I don’t just mean the first mile the FIRST time you run. I mean the first mile EVERY time you run. It gets easier after that. For a while. Until it gets harder again. But I digress. Have fun running!
That should say took OFF my shoes. Not took of. Stupid iPhone. (I really love you, though, iPhone. You know that, right?)
The first week of C25K really sucks. The second week sucks slightly less and it progressively gets better. I’m NOT a runner, and perhaps the least likely person to enjoy jogging. I wanted to kill someone those first two weeks. But I’m almost done with week 6 and I can honestly say that I’m starting to really dig it and I’ve improved so much. If you stick it out, I think you’ll surprise yourself.
And I’ll be totally honest, being able to publish my results to Twitter and Facebook really motivates me. If that makes me an attention whore, so be it. The encouragement and the accountability and the visible mark of progress means a lot.
I hated running when I started at 30. I was then lucky enough to live in Columbia MO, where we have the MKT trail – as close to perfect of a running surface as you would ever find.
I came to LOVE running. I loved watching the seasons change every day. I loved being out alone with music and nature.
Now that my right knee is shot and I can’t do it anymore, I really, REALLY miss it.
But you have a great new neighborhood to explore while running?
Okay. Maybe I will FINALLY do this. Now that it’s getting unbearably hot outside, of course. But I have to stop making excuses! I have never run a mile in my whole entire life, and it’s time to take some control and just do it. I’ve seen C25K turn a bunch of non-runners into GOTTA RUN machines. Maybe it will work for me too?
Thanks for the inspiration, and good luck!
Woo hoo – Go Jodi! Welcome to our cult!
I’ve been considering trying a couch-to-5k, because everybody else seems to be doing it. Then I remembered that (1) I hate running, and (2) I really hate running. But everybody doing these C25K programs at least inspired me to cut back on Mountain Dew and stop eating Cheetos for breakfast. So maybe eventually I’ll be likewise inspired to try getting some (gulp!) exercise.
this cracks me up! Yes, the bears chasing you theory will work.
if it makes you feel any better, I too used to hate running.
and since then I’ve done 3 marathons.
Now I run for my sanity. (and to get away from my kids for an hour!)
Hang in there, it gets easier, I promise!
Sadly I will probably check this app out and may even buy it. But I love to run. We got a treadmill a few weeks ago, and I have had no excuse not to run. With a daily run, I really feel less stressed, more focused and have more energy.
I hope you learn to not hate running. I picked it up again last August after quitting for 14 years. It keeps me from hating everything I can’t control.
Have you discovered http://www.dailymile.com, yet?
I love that app, but I don’t let it tweet for me…someone might notice that I’m still on Week 4…because I’ve kind of been spreading it out…and repeating weeks…