Daily Exercise

While relaxing after work tonight I found a very interesting video on youtube that I would like to share with you guys.

It kind of brings to light some interesting facts supporting daily exercise.

Little Lily

Ah blessed sore muscles how I have missed you! Thighs are sore today. :D

I'm thinking since I have lots going on in my life right now that this will end up turning into a running/riding/eating blog. Will hopefully keep work/school out of this also.

Speaking of riding, I went to my riding lesson today and I was the only one! This meant that I was able to have a private lesson ($60) for the price of a regular one ($40)!!

The little mare I ride is just a sweetheart. She tries so hard! We managed to spent lots of time just working on flat work. Trying to get her to bend as well as working on her halt. She was really improving by the end of the lesson. We even popped over a few little jumps.

Food wise I managed to stay under my recommended 1200 calories yesterday...barley. My store sells the most amazing 2 bite cinnamon rolls with cream cheese on them. They are freaking to die for! Yummy!

That's all I had for today. Hopefully I won't be too sore tomorrow for a run. It is week 7 day 1 of the 10k runner. :D I'm actually looking forward to it for once.

Anyhoo laters all.

Why hello there!

So I'm sitting here in my office, listening to my fiance play ToR (Star War the Old Republic), reading running blog after running blog thinking to myself. "Why don't I start my own blog?" Then I say to myself "Pfft, that would mean I would have to WRITE stuff."

To hell with you negative self. I have bitten the bullet and am going for it.

I am not a writer at all. I am a numbers person and yet I sit here, ToR open (tabbed out), youtube open (also tabbed out), and typing this blog.

My inspiration for doing this comes from the fact that I have recently started running. I started back in September by doing the 5k runner  by Felttip on my iPhone. This was the greatest thing I could have done. I wish I had started this blog back then!

I completed this program before Christmas and haven't ran much since. I tried to start back at the beginning of January and after the second run I came down with Pleurisy. Now this wouldn't be a problem except for the fact that pleurisy is an inflammation on the lining of your lungs. This makes breathing very painful. So needless to say I had to take some time off from running. Lucky for me, my pleurisy didn't last long. A week later I was back out. :D

The first 2 runs back went great! I ran outside and it was beautiful. The weather was chilly so I wasn't overheating (which I tend to do if I run inside on a treadmill). On my second run towards the end my knee started to hurt. I thought it was just sore and it would go away in a few days. I tried to do my third run and oh boy! The pain! So I took another break.

Finally after 2 more weeks I have no knee pain!

I am officially pushing to finish my current program. I am working through the 10k runner by Felttip on my iPhone. This will have me running 60 minutes! A whole freaking hour! I thought half an hour was going to be tough ( and it wasn't too bad in the end ) but this just doesn't seem possible.

I just finished week 6 day 3 and it went really well. Total distance was just under 7km's in about an hour.

I really hope to stay accountable to myself by keeping this blog and hopefully my experiences will help others just starting to run!