Screw the cough....run.

I still haven't stopped coughing. It's not as bad, but it's more like fits. I'm fine, walking along, doing my thing, *HACK COUGH HACK GAG HACK HACK HACK COUGH*, walking along doing my thing....

After a MONTH, yes a fucking MONTH, of coughing and feeling like shit, I finally just started running. My middle son has camp this week and I have to drop him off at an ungodly hour int he morning. Since my job is one of those fancy-pants high-tech things, and my hours are pretty late in the morning (comparatively speaking...I once worked from 7a-4p for three years and loved it), I have about an hour or so from getting home to having to leave for work. So, I decided yesterday morning to just start running in the mornings.

I really like the time alone when I'm running. I like getting lost in my music and just running/walking around the neighborhood. We live in a pretty neat part of town, and I enjoy looking at all the different houses and landscaping and silly stuff like that. Plus it's early in the morning and on the weekends there is practically no one around...it's nice.

Yesterday I was only able to run for about 10 minutes (and by run I mean doing week 1 of C25K), but this morning I got through 15 minutes before I couldn't handle it.  My lungs are clearly still healing from the infection, and my heart needs to strengthen back up (which won't take but maybe a week of running, I'm lucky that my heart seems to be pretty good/strong). I admit all the time that I don't *like* running. I like the time to myself and the being outdoors parts, but the actual act of running SUCKS. So, why do I do it? Why don't I just power walk or something? Because I know that if I go out there and power walk around, when I get back I'm going to beat myself up for not running while I was out there. I mean, I'm already out there! I'm 90% to being a runner...I have on running shoes, running shorts, a tank top, I have my iPhone in an arm band, I have music....now all I need to do is start running. That's it, that's all I have to do...run.

I have also started eating better...yesterday was a bowl of fruit for breakfast, a salad for lunch, a larabar when I got home, some nuts for dinner, and a peach for 'dessert'. The larabar and nuts should be replaced with more veggies, and tonight I think I'll d steamed veggies instead of nuts, but the larabar is my treat for now, so I'll wean myself off of it soon enough. Probably when I start feeling stronger and in better shape again.  Every time I get back into shape, I stop wanting to eat junk, it's AWESOME...the cravings go away and everything...just need to remember that, and go to the gym!!