dec2410
Shiny_Rock
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- Sep 5, 2007
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ok. so i''ve been pretty overweight my entire life. never physically fit in the slightest. even when we were required to run the mile in jr high and high school, never ran it w/o stopping and gasping for air. there''s a little pond/lake in front of my house that i used to try to jog around. apprx. 2.25 laps is a mile....i would stop w/ all sorts of cramps and heavy breathing after just 1 lap.
that being said, fast forward to beginning of this year.
so in the beginning of february, i joined a new gym to utilize their pool. i thought since i never had luck with "land exercises", maybe the pool will be easier on me. when i first got in the pool, i was BARELY able to finish one pool length (25 meters) w/o feeling like my lungs were going to explode. i knew that jogging was out of the question, so i kept going at it in the pool for about a month (about 4x/week, 2 hours at a time).
1st accomplishment...so at the beginning of march, i noticed that swimming was getting more natural and easier. i was curious on how far i''ve come, so i kept pushing myself, just to see how long i could go w/o stopping....i did laps for 30 minutes straight.
so 2 weeks ago, i thought, since i can do that in the pool, maybe i''ve built up enough endurance to try doing "land-excerise" again. i would use the elliptical, stairmaster, bike, and the treadmill...switching it up every 20 minutes or so b/c i''d get bored. i noticed running had gotten a little easier than it used to be.
so now my 2nd...HUGE...accomplishment. due to a series of stupid events, i couldn''t get myself to the gym today, so i thought, its a nice night out, let''s try jogging around that lake again. mind you, i''ve NEVER run more than a lap around that lake.......
.....today, i ran 8 LAPS AROUND THAT LAKE! THAT''S OVER 3.5 MILES AND ABOUT 1 HOUR OF STRAIGHT JOGGING!!!!!! this might not sound like much, but to me this is insane!!!!! i was so excited, i started to tear while jogging!
granted, it was a slow jog...but hey! i didn''t stop to walk, not even once! just the other day i was complaining to my fitness buff bf that the number on the scale wasn''t moving and bitching about how frustrated i was. he kept trying to tell me to focus on how far i''ve come cardiovascularly. i didn''t want to listen and continued to pout.
i think this is the first time i didn''t mind hearing "i told you so!"