Winning, Running, Injuries, Foods and Godly Bodies
Today I discovered I won a $25 iTunes gift card!!!!! All because whenever I tweet about my C25K workouts using the @c25Kapp, I am entered into their weekly contest. I WON THIS WEEK. How awesome. Just the other day I was feeling like a lame for tweeting my workouts (I find tweets of every checkin on foursquare, miso, get glue really super annoying), but HEY HEY now there are some benefits to this here tweetin. I dunno what I am gonna blow my iTunes winnings on, but it will probably be a bunch of apps or something.
I’m on Week 7 of the C25K workout and I am able to do the full 25 minute run for realsies. I still have these negative thoughts before and during my runs, but they are less intense now. What helps motivate me is that I have been training on the same path all these months, and all I do is reflect on the times when I could barely run the path. Remember when I couldn’t run longer than 30 seconds? Well now I’m doing 10 minutes without blinking. My pace is pretty slow, but I am still running nonetheless.
I have an ankle injury. Each day I run, my ankle hurts for the rest of the day. Kind of like a sprain, but mild. If I try to rotate my ankle, the muscles on the top side of my left ankle hurts. It usually only hurts the day of the run though. I started stretching it but my ankle still hurts from yesterday’s run, to the point where I’ve got a slight limp. I’m pretty sure it’s because my weight and the increased impact from running is stressing it. I thought it wasn’t getting worse, but today is the first non-run day where it still hurts and I am still limping. I thought about icing it. Sigh. I need to be careful, I do not have health insurance for this.
My diet is way out of control. I’ve been eating junk. Ramen. Pizza. Drinking soda. Pints of ben and jerry’s. It’s been crazy. So. I’ve been stressed. And strapped for cash. Though, I’m sure if I put my mind to it I could afford my fresh food. I’ve just been so stressed lazy and have been looking for comfort. I gotta get off this carb-mobile and back to my veggies. I buy my veggies but let them rot in the fridge. I’ve gained a little weight but not that much. Maybe 5 lbs.
One of these days my diet AND my exercise will be on the SAME page.
My church has this series starting this weekend called Bod 4 God….where we talk about honoring God with our bodies. Now, when I think of this concept I think of sex and abstinence. But…no, we’re talking about health here. So for the next 6 weeks, my pastor(s) are going to be teaching what the Bible says about health, and how to stay motivated:
- January 30 - D: Dedication (Honoring God with My Body)
- February 6 - I: Inspiration (Motivating Myself for a Change)
- February 13 - E: Eat (Managing My Habits)
- February 20 - E: Exercise (Managing My Habits Pt.2)
- February 26 - T: Team (Building My Support Team)
- March 6 - Seeing Myself as God Sees Me
I don’t think I have ever been to a church where they spent this much time talking about physical health. I may have heard Joel Osteen do like 2 messages on health before, but…6 whole weeks? This should be interesting. I see my health related to my faith in terms of keeping myself alive. How can I perform whatever mission God has planned for me on Earth if I abuse my body so much that I take myself out before I really needed to? I think about this a lot. I also watch too much Terminator. I look forward to this series, as well as checking out the book that I am sure this series is based on.
Until next time….
