Day 7: Run Keeper Take 2

Today I set Run Keeper and locked my phone before putting it in my pocket to ensure that it would actually be recording my run.  Today I up the amount of time I am jogging from 30 min to 35 my target because today I also stepped on the scale. After the first full week of a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise I have lost…drum roll please… 2.8 pounds.  Not stellar but not bad for a week where I ate burgers and fries twice and drank beer. 

My hope is that by adding an additional 5 min. and adding some additional exercise I can get a four pound loss next week because I am battling something else that I had forgotten about when you exercise every day; it makes you hungry. Not just a little hungry either, I am starving a lot of the time and drinking huge glasses of water to help with the hunger pains.  It had me thinking of the last time I really exercised.

 (begin dream sequence)

From Humble Beginnings

A long time ago I was really heavy, heavier than I am now and I decided something had to be done.  For the first time in my life I decided to jog.  Keep in mind this is over a decade ago. There was a long straight road in front of my house and I marked off a mile on it. My first attempt at jogging went like this:

I stood at my start marker in red sweat pants and black and white striped high top sneakers.  I took a deep breath and started.  The first few steps I felt good, ten steps in I was really breathing heavy.  Twenty steps in I was at a dead stop with the worst side stitch I had ever had in my life, doubled over and breathing so hard my lungs hurt.  I was almost convinced I was going to die.  Perhaps a mile was a bit too ambitious for a first attempt. 

Humiliated I got back in my car and marked off a tenth of a mile.  Yes, one tenth of a mile. 1/10. I thought its okay, hey, Rome wasn’t built in a day and all kinds of other clichés.  The truth was, however, I was so badly out of shape I couldn’t jog a tenth of a mile.  I must have looked like a contestant on The Biggest Loser, except I didn’t cry, I could have though.  Here is the really sad part, (and I’m not talking about the red sweat pants and black and white striped high tops) it took me almost a week to jog that tenth of a mile without stopping. 

(end dream sequence)

Today Run Keeper informed me that I jogged 2.55 miles, not bad for having not really exercised in close to six months and before that it was always erratic.  I also found an arm band to that fits my phone since I am one of those people with a huge phone, it took some doing.

Daily Recap:

Matt – 35 Min Jog

Kelly – 52 Min Speed Walk