So last night it was my night to do C25k. It's week 7, so warm up- run 25 minutes, cool down. I don't want to say it was easy, necessarily, but I kept my head in the game and I did it without much difficulty. I need to start pushing myself on the hill front more. I've never met a race yet that didn't have at least one very substantial hill. I don't want to be defeated by some little hill, you know?
When I got home, I did something I've been thinking about doing for months. Deven keeps mentioning that he wants to run with me. But 4 is too little, right? Well, I decided that when I finished my 'big' run, I would take him out on a 'little' run. So I queued up the week 1 podcast and off we went. We talked and talked while we did our warm up walk. We discussed fall, Halloween decorations and the neighborhood. Soon enough, it was time for our first 60 second run. Mind you, I just got back from about a 2.5 mile run, so I was kind of beat, actually.
He did great. I kept reminding him that we had a lot of running ahead of us, so don't go too fast. He REALLY wanted to turn on the afterburners, but he listened to me and settled into a nice pace. Soon enough, it was time to walk again. He started complaining that he was tired. I told him that you get the best results if you keep working when things get hard. I could see that rolling around in his little four year old mind and he seemed to like that, because he just kept plugging. If he'd said "Mom, I am really tired" we'd have headed home, but I want to squash the thing inside him that wants to quit when things get hard. I want him to be someone who pushes through things and does what he needs to do, whether in school, in fitness, in life. My tiredness evaporated as we ran, and I could have gone on like that for hours. We did 8 total one minute runs and we really had a fun time. I'd go so far to say it is the most fun run I've ever had.
We got home, my husband gave Deven a bath while I finished up dinner. An easy meal night- packaged Indian food over brown basmati rice. As a special treat, I made some pudding for Deven and thawed some frozen blueberries and cherries and had half a serving of vanilla pudding for dessert. He was in such a great mood. I don't know if it was the special time with mom, the endorphins from running or both, but it was really great.
When I tucked Deven in bed last night, I asked him, as I often do, what his favorite part of they day was. He said it was running with me, seeing the Halloween Decorations through the neighborhood and seeing a gargoyle on the trail we ran on. I told him that running with him was my favorite part of the day, too.
He gave me a big hug and settled in for a good night's sleep.
All in all, I feel like I am on track for where I need to be, weight loss wise. I'm trying to change my mindset where I need to lose 2 lbs every single week. I don't. I just need to live healthfully, burn more than I eat and keep notching it down., little by little.
I feel like I am in a pretty healthy place.
How are you all?
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