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GOODMORNING:D

Today I am running to MY happiest place on Earth: Starbucks, to meet my best friend and chat for a while. I am excited because it’s an uphill run (ALL of it) a total of 3.5 miles, and then I’ll be running back home for a total of 7.0 miles. Then I am gonna come home and TAN:) hopefully….

I am still debating on what to get at Starbucks, probably just an iced-tea since I have to run back, I don’t want to have too much caffeine.

I hope all of you are having an awesome Friday!

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

So I started running again, after a week of some time off due to Easter and worship rehearsals. Also, I need to start eating cleaner. Summer is coming up… it feels like it’s already here! And I need to focus a bit more on getting my beach body ready.

Today I ran 6 miles. Uphill. My legs were really tired from yesterday’s speed workout, and tomorrow I have another speed workout, so that should be fun and difficult… which makes it worth it! I still don’t know if I am gonna keep my mileage at 6-8 or if I want to start scalating… I guess as days pass by I’ll figure that one out.

I have three more weeks left of school!
And I am STILL waiting to see if I got into the ONLY school I applied to.
fdhjkfhdjskhgjsd

I am growing up:(
:)

and so am I;)

HELLOO.

I am back. What a week! I had to take some time off due to personal stuff. Also, I haven’t been running and I really need to get back on track! AND I have exactly TWO months to get in shape for my BIRTHDAY PARTY:D

I AM TURNING 21!!

And I have to look hot, duh…
Hopefully I am able to plan at least the FIRST week of back-to-the-trails season. I am currently watching Nuestra Belleza Latina which is a fashion/beauty contest TV show. It is very inspirational, because it’s about real girls (20-27) becoming models. So it’s a nice way to get encouragement for the beginning of a new week:)

So, I like, completely killed my poor treadmill.

HECK YEAH.
:)
I did a speed workout, and I felt awesome! I ate an apple afterwards, and now I am having an amazing salad and later I am gonna have salmon… WHAT a great day:)
I wanted to give a shoutout to http://insecure-no-more.tumblr.com/ for the kind words on my previous post. I love this community. You guys are such a great network of encouragement:)

I hope all of you have a nice evening/dinner/late exercise routines if you have any!
xo

Yesterday I did not run.
I stood frozen in front of the treadmill for a couple of minutes and told myself

I actually do not desire to run.

I know what many of you might be thinking: “OH, like I don’t feel that way” or “you just gotta start running and the feeling goes away!” Yeah, but it wasn’t that type of feeling. SO many times I hate the fact that I have to run but I still do it and then I feel awesome, and whatnot. But yesterday was a different type of “Idon’twannarun” feeling. I just felt sort of down. So I headed to my bed and spent the next 50 minutes watching JuicyStar07 on youtube and eating M&Ms. 
I know why I felt that way. And hopefully I’ll be able to open up about it later. I just don’t like speaking of the subject because it makes just that much more sad. But it’s one of those things I HAVE to talk about in order for me to remember that it’s okay to bail on my runs, but it’s not okay to dwell on the feelings that make me so sad.
I just hope I get the enough motivation to run today. And it’s so pretty and sunny outside, I hope I get to tan as well:)

Have a wonderful day my dear tumblr community.
xo 

Today I saw a TURTLE during my run. I just had to stop and stare at it like a zombie for about 5 minutes. It was the cutest thing ever. Just there, frozen in the middle of the dirt trail. It was alive. I kept blinking at me, I guess it thought that maybe I hadn’t noticed it. It was the cutest, most awesome little creature.

It totally made my run worth it:)
AND it totally makes me consider taking my camera with me on runs.

Today’s workout was awesome. Mainly because I did a speed workout. And because I did not do my usual 400s, but went ahead and ran 800s (3 sets). It was not that difficult, which means that I could do even better! So next time I do a speed session I will probably add another set of 800s:):) My workout consisted of:

Warm-up: 800m at 9:00min/mi
Speed: 800m at 7:30min/mi
Recovery: 800m at 9:00min/mi
Speed: 800m at 7:24min/mi
Recovery: 800m at 9:00min/mi
Speed: 800m at 7:16min/mi
Recovery/Cool-down: 800m at 9:00min/mi
TOTAL: 3.5 miles in 29:00 minutes  

Moving on… MY WEIGHT. Okay I stepped on the scale today, and I am gonna be honest about it : I was SHOCKED to see a flashing 114.0 Then I thought to myself-well, it’s probably just muscle weight from all the running. But still, COME ON! I should be in the 110s by now… Then again I haven’t really concentrated on losing weight, so maybe I am not paying close attention to my eating habits… UGH, I hate having to give myself excuses. So I am gonna have to start focusing more on losing weight by eating healthier and eating because I need to eat and not because I want to taste the chicken and the cake and the chocolate (can anyone relate?!).

I just picked up my sister from school after a 2-hour nap (a HEAVENLY nap). Last night I stayed up until 3:30AM… yeah, now I am thinking that that’s the reason why I did not feel like running 7 miles and did 5 instead. Which is not bad, but it’s not what I was supposed to run. I need to sleep more grrrr. I just cannot get myself into bed before 12AM. And I usually get out of bed before 6AM. That’s 6 hours… I am a RUNNER. So, yeah, that’s bad. Anyway, I really need to start caring more about my sleep. 

Chai. Chai. Chai… do I need to say more? This thing is delicious. It’s so good, so calming, so relaxing, so fdjsklfjdslf. Best part of my day:)

…is that when you skip a day you feel empty and sad.

I did not run today, I was feeling sick…and now that I just woke up from a nap I feel sick because I did not run. Ahhhh life. Tomorrow I am running with a friend that I am helping train up to get into the XC/Track team at her college. I’ll probably run to her house and run there with her for 3.0 miles and then run back home. I am guessing it’ll be around 11ish.

Also, I am so impressed by how easily and fast my body can build muscle… IT’S AMAZING. I shed fat quickly, and I guess that while some girls can keep nice bodies w/o dieting and exercise, my blessing is that I can build muscle fast:) We all have our tweaks and cool body features.

I hope you guys are running your little hearts out. Love you much, all of you, no exceptions. This tumblr community is such an encouragement!

shoutout to:
http://trisporty.tumblr.com/ &&
http://healthyrunner.tumblr.com/
if you guys haven’t checked out those blogs yet, I recommend you totally do right this second. Both of these ladies are so encouraging and their blog content is very helpful:)

xo

Hello tumblr world. I haven’t posted anything about my current excistence since… last Wednesday I think?! That’s too long!

Well, I did NOT run the 13 miles I was supposed to because my running partner got injured (and blamed it on me) and I had to run 9 miles only. Then, Friday, I ran 1.5 miles and my right leg freaked out on me, so it hurt throughout the weekend. Monday (yesterday) I did not run because Sunday was a horrible day for me and I had been crying all afternoon, most of the night, and Monday I have class at 7AM, which means that I woke up at 5AM with very heavy eyes, my mood was horrible… it was a bad day (I skipped two classes). Today I feel much better. And so, I ran 3.0mi in 25:00 mins. Tomorrow I want to do long…LONGGGGG. So we’ll see how that turns out.

I’m sorry my dear tumblr peeps.
I hope you can forgive me and we can all be friends again:)
xo