3/3/07

i’ve decided that it’s a major priority of mine to get in good shape. not *lose weight*, but get in good shape so i can be healthy, live to 110 years old and derive the 25379 other benefits of regular excercise.

and also because this is something i have never ever been able to do in my life. i have never stuck with an excercise plan for more than two weeks in my life. that is pathetic. i can do healthy eating all the time but i can’t get my butt to the gym.

so i’m bribing myself. if i go to the gym for at least 30 minutes (but preferably 45) at least five days a week (but preferably six) for four weeks i can treat myself to an hour-long professional massage. there are no limits on what i have to accomplish at the gym, i just have to go. because getting there is the hardest part for me. once i’m there i always manage to push myself moderately hard to very hard.

so after being at work serving customers food for 16 out of the past 24 hours i actually dragged my ass to the gym today. not only did i do that, but i got incredibly motivated and did more than i had promised myself that i would. when i ran on tuesday, i could only run one ten-minute mile and i got exhausted and had to take a break. today i ran 1.5 miles at the same pace with no breaks.

on the way out i saw a brochure for a half marathon/5k run. it’s on april 15th. now the problem with my running is that i get nasty ass blisters after very little running, ie, after my 1.5 miles my feet are going to hurt like a bitch for the next several hours. so i need to go to some kind of specialist and get better shoes/inserts or something. but the point is that if i can get the blisters under control, i have decided to run this 5k (3.2 miles) in slightly under six weeks.

i have never in my life run more than 2 miles without stopping that i can recall. so this is a huge deal for me. a huge fucking deal. i used to avoid physical exertion like the plague. then when i started occasionally working out, i hated running and i would never work out in any sort of competitive environment whatsoever. it will be a huge emotional push to be able to do a 5k, even though it might not be very much for anyone in good shape. if i can just finish it, that will be a great accomplishment. but my goal time is 30 minutes, which i imagine will be extremely challenging for me. but if i could finish it in 28 minutes that would be great.