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Yesterday, I didn't do much of a workout. I was lazy and tired, and so I just did 10 minutes of Ab Jam (and man, my back muscles are sore today) and the 20 minute Turbo Jam workout. It was a non-running day, but I still wanted to do something.
But even with the low calorie burn yesterday, I was a snacking machine all day. It was ridiculous! I just wanted to eat and eat and eat. I suppose it could have had to do with all the exercise I had done in the previous days, but I think it was just the changing of the seasons and my body trying to store winter fat for hibernation. In the past few days, I broke down and bought three new pairs of pants in smaller sizes because my regular size just isn't cutting it anymore. So I have to be careful to not sabotage that. I don't have money to spend on clothes that I quickly grow out of.
Went for a run this morning. 3.5 miles, as usual. Still dark at 6am, but I've discovered that my favorite part of the day is when the sun just starts to come up. It's beautiful. However, it was also 40 degrees at 6am. Once I was about a mile into my run, I was quite comfortable, but walking out the door and doing my warmup walk was painful. I was wearing a pair of capri-style pants (but I'm short, so they're only about an inch or two above my socks - if I get some taller socks, I think they'll be fine for winter) and a t-shirt, with a very light jacket over top. I planned to take the jacket off once I got going, but I just couldn't convince myself to go out without it.
Not really increasing the pace much, but I did end up with a huge side stitch again this morning, which I haven't had on a morning run in weeks. Not sure what was up with that. I'd like to have that 3.5 miles down to under 40 minutes in the next couple of weeks. I'm at about 44 minutes now, which isn't terrible, given all the hills on the route, and considering that I do my first mile a bit slower, because even though I do a warmup walk, I'm not really fully warmed up.
I'm thinking that maybe I need to do something to get my heartrate up before the warmup walk. I joke that I should do laps around my dining room table, but really, that's not the best plan. I'm thinking that as soon as I get out the door, I'll do a whole bunch of jumping jacks, then do the warmup walk. And maybe that will make me less cold. It's only September. If it's 40 degrees in the morning now, what's it going to be like in a few months? I need to figure out what kinds of cold weather gear I have and then start saving my pennies for some better cold weather gear.
