Day 93

Today's Stats: 5 miles, 6.45 km in 37:36, avg pace 5:50/km, avg speed 10.3 km/h burned 565cal

Day 87

Today's Stats: 5 miles, 6.45 km in 38:47, avg pace 6:01/km, avg speed 10.0 km/h burned 528 cal

Day 83

Today's Stats: 3miles, 4.60km in 25.44, avg pace 5:36/km, avg speed 10.7 km/h burned 397cal

Day 82 - Playing BIG!

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
The above speech by Nelson Mandela was orignally written by Marianne Williamson who is the author of other similar material." ~ Marianne Williamson

FRI August 20, 2010 7:00am

Temp 11

Wind

NW 6

Humidity 94

Today's Stats: 3 miles, 4.84 km in 29:11, avg pace 6:02 /km, avg speed 10.0 km/h burned 409 cal
Listened to: The Power of Now - just can't get enough of it!! :)

Day 81 - Persistence

Even though I was in a tonne of pain last night and hardly slept, I forced myself to go out for a run as I knew it would feel good to loosen all those muscles that were tightening up from the run the day before. I guess running daily has taught me a lot about being persistent. Not only do you have to fight through the challenges of time, health, physique, other people, but also the mental voice in your head fighting you everyday trying to convince you that you don't have to go out running today. I've learned so far that if you set yourself up for success, in other words, plan ahead, know what you are capable of and know what you want to accomplish, create the environment that will help you achieve the next step or next goal, anything is possible. I make sure I have my clothes laid out and ready for the next day's run, I go to bed early and I make sure I do my run first thing before anything else happens that day so I can enjoy my day full of energy and satisfaction. For any of you out there wishing you were dedicating daily workout time to yourself, keep this in mind. If a busy person like me can do it, anyone can do it. I started running and I could hardly make it around the block the first time out. There is hope!! Be persistent!

THU August 19, 2010 9:00 am

Temp 18

Wind

SW 9

Humidity 88

Today's Stats: 4 miles, 6.53 km in 38:47, avg pace 5:56 /km, avg speed 10.1 km/h burned 575 cal
Listened to: second half of Deepak Chopra & Dr. Wayne Dyer - How to Get what you Really Want - there are some very wise people out there...

Day 80 - I run everyday!

I thought I'd write about running everyday. Some people ask me why I run everyday, some say ' hey I didn't see your post today, did you run?' , some say ' shouldn't you have a rest day'! - There are 2 reasons why I run everyday! One is that, in the training program I'm following in Fred Lebow' s book ' Complete Book of Running & Fitness' it has a sure fire proof plan on how to run a 3:30-4:00 marathon runner at a 10K race pace and if these guys have done it than I can too! The second reason is that, mentally I just can't miss a day, if I let myself miss one day, I leave room to let myself miss another and so on and I will get off course. (I proved that last time I got off track a few weeks ago) So the moral of the story is to make sure I run everyday. Today was a weird day, I got up late having worked late last night so I was tiered. I would of had to push Sophie in the stroller 6 miles and just the thought of doing the run and then pushing 50lbs on top of that was not comforting. So I finally crawled out the door at 6:30pm when Dan took Sophie to Isabelle's soccer game. Oh yes, I had an hour to myself. For all you mothers out there, take the time for you!! It's so worth it. So just to confirm, if you don't see my posts everyday, don't fret!! I am still running everyday no fail! I've just let myself off the hook about writing everyday. It's not easy to get time alone at the computer....if you know what I mean :) To all you followers out there, reach out and touch base. I love hearing from you. :)

WED August 18th, 2010 6:30pm

Temp 23

Wind SW 13

Humidity 50

Today's Intention: to get my ass out the door, delayed long enough
Today's Stats: 6 miles, 9.70 km in 57:47, avg pace 5:57 /km, avg speed 10.1 km/h burned 860 cal
Listened to: Deepak Chopra & Dr. Wayne Dyer - How To Get What You Really Want - great stuff!!

Day 77 - pour down on me!

Today was one of those days that you wish won't happen on a Sunday. The day us runners have to do our long runs. I woke up to the sound of thunder and  lighting outside my bedroom window. I thought I was still dreaming, or maybe it was the middle of the night. But no, it was 8am time to get up. I waited and waited for the weather to clear up so I could go out for my run. I finally decided to venture outside to tackle my 14 mile run when I got half way down the highway to my destination the rain and lightening started again. So I turned around and started back home. I was telling myself what a great excuse to get out of running that far today. But then remembered I have no excuses as I have a treadmill downstairs that I can run on. So that is where I did my run today, on my treadmill in front of the tv. For 2 and half hours I ran and watched a couple movies and a few shows, it was great!! Not as bad as I thought it would be. But I do prefer running outside as appose to inside in front of the tv.
Today's Stats: 2 hours and 20 mins on tread mill