Category: Weight Loss
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Fallacy or truth?
“I’m a slow runner because I’m thirty pounds overweight.” Am I making excuses? when I lose the weight I will get faster I’m just neglecting speedwork I’m genetically predisposed to be a slow runner all of the above? I feel like this training schedule has my body teetering at its injury threshold (thanks to Lesley…
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Photographic progress
I don’t hate how I look. For the last 9 years I’ve dreaded seeing candid photos of myself because I’ve hated how I look at my weight. Even pictures I’ve posed for elicit cringes. Photos from my recent Cyprus trip are rolling in on facebook and I don’t feel the need to untag myself. It’s…
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Weeks 2 & 3 and a new goal
Here’s how weeks 2 and 3 went: For whatever reason, week 3’s runs didn’t go as well as others. I had a particularly tight left calf for the Thursday run so I didn’t feel bad when Sunday’s run didn’t work out logistically. I felt like both of those runs last week were laborious (though I…