In my tummy

I know I write about this a lot, but I have a love/hate relationship with running.  Maybe love/hate is the wrong term.  The amount that I run just seems to ebb and flow.  Sometimes I’ll sign up for race after race and I’ll be running a lot and other times, I run once, maybe twice a week at most.  Lately, I’ve been in a running once or twice a week phase.  It wouldn’t be a problem except that I’m running the Peachtree (a 10K) on July 4th.  I guess I should probably train a little better!  I haven’t run more than three miles at a time in several months.  Oops.

Normally, I don’t like doing races where I don’t feel prepared but the Peachtree is different.  It’s one of the world’s biggest 10Ks with 60,000 participants.  I’m in Wave E, which starts 20 minutes after the first wave, but it goes all the way to like Wave X, which starts like two hours after the first wave.  So it’s crowded and if you’re in the back, it’s nearly impossible to run.  Since I’m closer to the front, there will likely be more runners than walkers (you can submit a qualifying time to get a better starting placement).  But I still feel like it’s a crowded race and PRing is not on my mind.

I’m not really feeling running lately, but I did want to do something new to switch up my routine.  Enter Best Body Bootcamp.

If you’re not familiar, it’s an online program that you do on your own that’s run by my friend Tina.  Today was the first day.  It was a 30 minute or so cardio workout that I did during my lunch hour at the gym.  I definitely worked up a sweat.  There was also an optional 20 minute cardio part.  I signed up for this tennis team at work (I suck at tennis, but there was an opportunity to join the “practice” team if you were a beginner so I did that) and I thought that would be my cardio, but it got rained out, so I just took Murphy for a walk to satisfy my cardio requirement.  And also because he demanded it.