Your life is a Beautiful Life

I’m mad that many of the videos I’ve been using that are online are suddenly offline or have broken links or I have to sign up for shit. No way. 

I did 30 minutes of yoga that focused on leg strength and about 14 minutes of Pop Pilates.  That tiny little peppy girl kills.  

Thanks to that tiny little peppy girl, my entire upper body aches.  DOMS is a bitch. 

I’m sorry I’ve been so shitty lately with my posting.  I have fallen off the bandwagon so to speak.  Life is in my way.  I’m honestly trying to do better.   I start a summer job in a week where I will be working 8-4:30 five days a week with no gym to use anymore and where I will be living is not safe enough for me to run outside.  I’m not sure what I’m going to do cause I might not even have my car for the summer anymore.  I guess I’ll be stuck doing my Nike Pro fitness stuff.  I’m also pissed because I forgot to bring running shoes home with me and I refuse to run in bad shoes and end up with foot and ankle pain again.  

So yeah.  Sorry I suck.

I usually don’t deal with numbers.  Weighing myself has been a negative thing in my life enough so I just don’t do it.  Well, I had to at the doctors and I’m at 143.75  at 5’8”(I know, 143 and 3/4 haha).  And this after a week and a half of drinking and bad sleep and eating shit food.  So yeah, that’s pretty great. 

But I still kind of suck.  I will try not to suck as much in the coming weeks. 

I haven’t posted in a while because my life has been completely overrun.  My senior recital is this Saturday and last week and this week I’ve been doing homework, applications, getting a summer job in line, and nonstop rehearsing and practicing.  My work outs and running and this blog are going to have to hold off until my recital is over.

Honestly, I’m thinking of deleting this section of my Tumblr.  Everyone following me on my main blog still can!  My life is just consuming me right now and I don’t know when I’ll be posting a lot again.

I love seeing my time improve.

I wish the road I ran on had more room on the side of it.  People don’t like to move over. 

It’s seriously the perfect road.  It has rolling hills with some shorter and steeper and some longer and more gradual.  You get to run by beautiful mansion-like homes and woods.  It’s pretty awesome. 

I’m going to PMEA conference super early tomorrow, and I get back Saturday.  If I have any energy I’ll be able to run Saturday but I’ll probably be dead and I have concerts Sunday.  I’ll be on my feet and walking all day at conference but I’m still glad I got this run in. 

Even though it was supposed to be blazing hot today, Tom and I decided to go walk around Twin Lakes park.  My pedometer is crap and calculates everything short, so I’m guessing the trail is a little over 2 miles.  Tom has severe asthma and foot problems, but wanted to try to run a little bit here and there.  He did pretty well.  I’m guessing about a quarter mile.  And I was proud of us both because the humidity started getting rough.

Of course, with it ending up at 82 degrees with little wind, lots of sun, and high humidity, I decided to run from the performing arts center to my place.  Because I apparently like challenges now.  Runner me couldn’t handle not running today.

That was stupid.  I ended up walking a hell of a lot because it was just so incredibly miserable. I’ve been done for about ten minutes and I’m still literally dripping with sweat.  Gross. 

Runner me may not be fast, but I’m pretty damn determined. 

I got to about the first half mile when I felt as if I already ran three.   I walked a ton.  I just felt crappy.

Yet it somehow only took me 33 minutes for 2.8 miles?

Either I mistimed myself or I walk really fast when I zone out (i seriously could not stay focused today). 

Meh. 

berryhealthy:

so as i’m scrolling through american apparel’s site wishing everything was cheaper, i stumbled upon this! i don’t know if they forgot to edit it out or if they just don’t really edit their photos but for some reason it made me happy (in an odd way)! people seem to think you need to be obese in order to have stretch marks/cellulite, but this girl right here is average size and she has them. i know a lot of companies edit things like this out because it’s not “visually appealing” but it’s nice that they didn’t because almost every girl i know has stretch marks or cellulite! they don’t make you disgusting, gross or anything horrible! it makes you human.

YES.  This is pretty awesome to see.  Model chick is letting her tiger stripes show. 

(via healthandfitnesswithkate)

fitandhealthy4me:

running

Hells yeah.  The treadmill is good for something after all! 

I still hate the treadmill.  It’s been freezing and rainy and might possibly snow tonight.  I know that many runners would say I should just suck it up (I thought about it, I swear!) but I have a big recital test on Friday and a performance Friday and Sunday so I don’t want to risk getting sick. 

Anyways! 

5k time at 34:26.  New treadmill PR.  Now if I can do this outside I’ll be set.

And then aim for 30 minutes.  Heh. 

It’s so nice that when the musical part of my life is upsetting and stressful that running will always be there to help me out. 

(Source: 091days)