QOTD

QOTD:

This is something that I had to better understand recently in my own life and something that I am still trying to utilize in my life better! :)

QOTD

Quote of the day:

I absolutely love Winnie the Pooh. I think that he is adorable, so I wanted to post this. I think this quote is telling us that any day we are living should be our favorite day.. Don't take any day for granted! :)

A New Idea- "QOTD"

So, I recently came up with a new idea for my blog. In addition to blogging about my running journey, I am also going to blog a "quote of the day" each day. I am obsessed with quotes. I absolutely love them. Each day I go on this website called 'Pinterest,' which features various different "categories" that viewers can explore ranging from cute animal pictures to fashion to health and fitness and to quotes! I love looking at the various quotes each day because I feel as if many of these quotes play a role in my daily life. 

QOTD (Quote of the Day): - Unfortunately, this is a quote that registers too close to my heart right now... 

Long Overdue Blog post!

So, I have not written in a long time so there are many updates. First off, unfortunately, I was sick last week, as indicated in my previous blog post, so my training schedule has been a bit off. When I was not feeling up to running I did my pure barre class and yoga; however, these exercises are not really going to help me with my half marathon. Although I am already supposed to be running four miles (pretty easily) I decided that I would continue to run three miles this week. At first this was still a bit difficult for me; however, yesterday was the first time that this exercise started to become easy. My friend, Carleigh, and I decided that we are way too focused on the time and the amount of miles we have ran while running on the treadmill. I did pure barre this morning, so I am not going to go to the gym today; however, I have plans to go to the gym tomorrow. When I go tomorrow I am going to block the time and miles on the treadmill with a towel, so they cannot be seen. Consequently, I will run based on how my body is feeling rather than the actual time or the amount of miles I am running. It will be interesting to see how many miles I will be able to run based on doing this strategy. I will be sure to let you all know! I am definitely nervous about my running schedule during spring break, but hopefully I will still be able to workout. I am going to California with my best friend, Breanna, for spring break, and although we plan on working out throughout our week there we also have many fun plans- (thus running is not really top of my 'priority list.') Bye for now! :)

Training put on Hold

Unfortunately I woke up feeling awfully sick yesterday, so I did not exercise yesterday, and I am going to take off today as well to ensure that I feel better for tomorrow. This is obviously annoying since I was supposed to run today; however, I will instead do that run tomorrow (assuming that I am feeling better!)

Half Marathon Training Day 1 :)

       So, as you all know, today was the first day of my half marathon training. According to my training schedule, today I had to run 3 miles. I completed this; however, I didn't realize until today how bad of shape I am in terms of running! I had to walk a little bit once I got to 1.5 miles, but I quickly began running again. My goal for Wednesday is to run three miles without stopping to walk once! Hopefully it goes okay. I think this half marathon training is going to be even more difficult than I thought, but I am no where near to giving up.

       Additionally, I am almost done with my "pure barre challenge." As stated in an earlier post, the challenge is if you do 20 classes in 30 days you get half off for the next month unlimited! The challenge ends on Thursday, and I only have two more classes to complete, so naturally I am determined to do this. However, today is one of the days I can go due to my packed class schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays! Thus, not only did I start half marathon training, but I am also about to do a pure barre class. I have a feeling I am going to go to bed veryyyyyyyyy early tonight!

Tomorrow is the Big Day!

Tomorrow is the big day! I am beginning my training for my half marathon on April 27th! I am very excited to begin this journey; however, I am also a bit nervous as I have not run in a very long time. Wish me luck! I hope it goes well!

Some Motivation: 

Bikram Yoga :)

Because I am not beginning my half marathon training until Monday, I decided to participate in a yoga class this morning instead of running. I did a Bikram Yoga Class, which is a 90 minute hot yoga class. There are 26 different postures and the room is usually kept at about 115 degrees. Doing yoga in the morning makes my day better and allows me to feel productive early in the day. 

My New Title

I could not decide on a title for my blog initially as I did not know what type of project I would be doing. However, now that I am running a half marathon I have decided to make my title: "Going Myles with Jesse." I have decided to spell 'miles' as 'myles' because my middle name is Myles. 

Goodbye Dream Journal, Hello Half Marathon! :)

So, I soon realized that a "dream journal" is impossible to keep for a couple reasons. Firstly, I rarely wake up in the morning remembering my dreams. Secondly, some of my dreams are extremely weird, and I do not feel comfortable sharing them with the world! Thus, I have decided to change my project. I am going to train for a half marathon and document my training on this blog each day. There were several steps that I had to go through in order to figure out which half marathon I wanted to run. 

Step ONE: I wanted a partner to do this with, so my close friends, Sammy & Carleigh, decided to do it with me! 

Step TWO: we had to find a training program that was applicable to us. We both have never run a half marathon before, and thus we settled on the 12 weeks training program for beginners from "Shape Magazine." 

Step THREE:  I made a schedule of the times I will go to the gym everyday. We have decided to run in the April 27th half marathon in Mt. Clemens, MI (which is approximately 1 hour away from Ann Arbor) in support of childhood obesity. We are very excited to start our journey, and I am very excited to document my training 'book' on my blog! Happy Reading! :)
Step FOUR: I plan on eating super healthy while doing this "half marathon training program." I believe if I eat a diet packed with protein and low in processed carbs this will help me run the best possible marathon I can run. Although I will not be keeping a food journal, I will highlight some healthy foods that I have eaten that day as well as tell readers whether I feel as if I was successful in my healthy eating goal for that day. I am really excited to start this "book" of healthy living. 

This is our  gym schedule:

Sunday: Rest Days (yoga/ pure barre)

Monday: GYM @ 11:00 am

Tuesday: GYM @ 9:00 am 

Wednesday: GYM @ 10:00 am

Thursday: GYM @ 9:00 am

Friday: Rest Days (yoga/ pure barre)

Saturday: GYM @ 12:00 pm 

This is Carleigh and my training schedule. We will begin our training on this Monday, February 11th! :)

Week	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	Rest	30-36 minutes 3 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	30-36 minutes 3 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	Rest	4 miles
2	Rest	30-36 minutes 3 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	30-36 minutes 3 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	Rest	5 miles
3	Rest	35-42 minutes 4 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	35-42 minutes 4 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	Rest	6 miles
4	Rest	35-42 minutes 4 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	35-42 minutes 4 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	Rest	7 miles
5	Rest	35-42 minutes 4 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	35-42 minutes 4 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	Rest	4 miles
6	Rest	35-42 minutes 4 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	35-42 minutes 4 miles	45-50 minutes cross training	Rest	8 miles
7	Rest	45-50 minutes 5 miles	30-40 minutes cross training	45-50 minutes 5 miles	45-50 minutes cross training	Rest	9 miles
8	Rest	30-36 minutes 3 miles	35-45 minutes cross training	45-50 minutes 5 miles	45-50 minutes cross training	Rest	6 miles
9	Rest	45-50 minutes 5 miles	35-45 minutes cross training	45-50 minutes 5 miles	45-50 minutes cross training	Rest	10 miles
10	Rest	30-36 minutes 3 miles	35-45 minutes cross training	45-50 minutes 5 miles	45-50 minutes cross training	Rest	7 miles
11	Rest	30-36 minutes 3 miles	35-45 minutes cross training	30-36 minutes 3 miles	45-50 minutes cross training	Rest	6 miles
12	Rest	30-36 minutes 3 miles	30 minutes cross training	30-36 minutes 3 miles	Rest!	Rest!	13.1 miles!