A Year Ago...

It has been a year and I’m still not done.

A year ago I got an email from a yoga studio about a teacher training series they were doing. Looking for a way out of the house and a distraction from my ridiculously dysfunctional relationship (that had been that way for months) I signed up. I didn’t really have the money, but they let me do payments. I was on my way to becoming a certified yoga teacher.

A year ago this was perfect for me. I was pretty unhappy and getting myself out of the house 7 days a week between work and this was great. Perfect solution. Until life changed. Two months into the program I finally killed the relationship and then found someone who I wanted to spend time with. A lot of time. So much time that I started not going to teacher training and am now still working on hours.

A year later I am almost done. I say “almost” because it’s another 6 weeks or so. Maybe 8. Eventually I will be done, and I will most likely take a long break from yoga.

So about that 10k

Perhaps I am too goal oriented, or ambitious. I am sitting two and half weeks out from a 10k realizing that I haven’t hit 5 miles yet in my training and slowly realizing that maybe I was a tad ahead of myself.

That all said, I know that I will finish the 10k on May 14^th. It will likely not be the most awesome race I have ever had, and it’ll probably be painful. Really though, it’s part of the fun.

Serious Business is Serious.

I registered for the 10k I was thinking about signing up for yesterday. It's in like 30 days or something like that. May 14th. Awesome.

Well sorta.

Now this is serious.

Serious. Serious.

I basically get to double my mileage in 30 days, which sounds drastic but going from 3 miles to 6.2 in 4 weeks is not going to kill me. Most likely not going to kill me. In order to help bump up my mileage and start getting used to running through fatigue I present to you the workout I am doing tonight:

Run 2 miles, Lift Weights (Leg Focus), Run 1-2 miles.

Serious.

Adding some serious lifting in between miles in theory will allow me to run with fatigued muscles. Running through this should help me build mileage quickly and hopefully injury free.

So glad I got the gym membership.

Ugh

26.2 or bust?

26.2

That number has haunted me since my failed attempt at finishing my training for one in the fall of 2007. In 2007 I was shooting for a fall marathon and was training to complete a half marathon in July in San Francisco. About a month before the half marathon, I ended up with a back injury helping my boyfriend at the time move.

Instead of taking the time off and resigning myself to a vacation in San Francisco, I decided to run the 13.1 miles. It was a cold, rainy morning in July and I had left my prescribed Vicodin and muscle relaxers in the hotel room. Around mile 9 I realized what a mistake leaving those behind was.

It was a painful 13.1 miles, and I didn't run for a year after. I did finish though.

Fast forward to 2009 and I'm trying to run again, but the back pain returns. I can't actually run without pain and I start going back to bikram yoga. Hoping to get rid of the pain, yoga slowly started to help. It wasn't until I was in a bikram class in 2010 that in a spinal twist I felt the muscle pull finally release. I had been going consistently for about 3 months at that point. Now I try to do yoga a few days a week, either at home or at a studio to keep my back in line.

All of this is to say that I'm looking at finally realizing that 26.2 goal this fall. I pushed to 3 miles yesterday and felt decent for the first time in a long time. So I'm going to sign up for a 10k in a few weeks. Pushing my 3 up to 6.2 miles then slowly working on that last 20 for the fall.

Perhaps this will actually be the year I knock this off the life list.

Assisting: Week 7

I am now just about half way through my assisting hours and I have about 7 classes left to take before I finish my in-class hours. This is all to say that I will be done assisting around the end of May and done with classes this month.The only other thing I have left to do is make up a pre-natal workshop and class. That is all scheduled, so I am basically all set to finish.

I've been doing this a long time. I was reminded of that when I got the domain renewal reminder a couple of weeks ago. So it's almost officially been a year. I started the 50-hour series I believe in May or June of 2010, so it's been a long year.

It feels like forever.

Assisting last night was the first time I think it felt easy and almost natural. It was a smaller class (6 or so) so maybe that helped. Maybe it's just that I am spending more time in the class so that it's also easier. Oh well. At least I am almost done?