On track for 21km.

Well, it's official, I'm working on a half marathon. I decided to take the plunge and join a running clinic to help me get to where I need to be in order to finish the race, and let me tell you, it's HARD! I knew that I wasn't quite as advanced as I should be to join the group and boy was I right. I'm not one to back down from a challenge though so mark my words, on May 25th I will be crossing the finish line having run a half marathon!

Back to complaining about the clinic...there is something so totally different when running with a group where you are being pushed to go harder, faster, longer. Normally when running on my own I can slow down if I want and really direct my own pace. With the running group you have to keep up and I think it's a good thing. After our run this evening I truly felt like I did some good for myself, after the initial pain in my lungs subsided I felt strong and basically unstoppable!

I like the fact that by joining this clinic I've been given a schedule and all I have to do is run when and how it tells me. All of the pressure of planning my runs is gone, I just look in my binder, put on my running gear and out the door I go.

I'll let you all know where I'm at in a couple weeks, I just have to say that I'm so pumped to actually do something that I've always wanted to do!

Cheers!

The end of the cleanse.

So I did better than I thought but worse than I hoped in the cleansing department. I ended up lasting 7 days. As the days went on, the cleanse got harder and not easier as I had hoped. By supper time on day 7 I was fed up with not eating and had some supper, after that it didn't take long until I was back at my old ways. 

I'm still glad that I did the cleanse as I'm sure it did some good, but boy it was harder than I had thought. All-in-all it felt good to stick with something and to know that I was pumping my body full of rich vitamins and nutrients. I think I'll try to do a 4 day cleanse every 4 months or so just to do a mini detox. 

Cheers.