Obviously its been a couple weeks since my last blog. I have been overwhelmed with school. Being in this statistics class at times has me thinking..."What in the world was I thinking?" I am so lost. Each week I struggle to do my assignments, but I always pull through and complete them. Thank goodness for Josh, he has helped me tremendously! I am now in my 3rd week of my second 5 weeks. I am gladly counting down the weeks. However, each day has me sitting and struggling to figure out how to do the work. So I must remember...this too shall pass!
We learned that Adam will graduate from High School. He passed his testing requirements finally. We are now just waiting for all his work from his class he's been taking to get recorded. Once the last three classes are recorded with the school, they will mail his diploma to us. This is a very good news. Now we just have to figure out what he wants to do with the rest of his life. Some days I have a hard time getting him motivated to do anything. I have been trying to get him involved with me to exercise. I happened to get him to run with me for about 2 miles yesterday. Then today he was teaching me how to do some ab exercises. I had him laughing because I am so horrible at doing exercises.
Speaking of exercise...I am now in training to do a half marathon. I really want to do the Las Vegas half marathon in December. I have been running again every other day. During the week I will run 3-5 miles on my running days. For the past couple weeks I have gradually been increasing the distance. By Friday or Saturday I will be at about 5.5 miles for that day. See during the week I gradually go further and further, then by the end of the week I can add on additional distance. Some days I run better than others. Yesterday... was horrible! My knee started hurting and my calves were cramping up as well. So instead of doing a full run I walked quickly. So I did a combination of run/walk. At least it was something. Last Friday when I ran I did a little over 5 miles. I was doing really good until I stopped...I just about passed out! I was having a hard time catching my breath and was feeling very light headed...NOT A GOOD THING! Josh kept pushing me to walk, but I couldn't, I could hardly breathe to walk to the house. It took a good 20 minutes for me to finally breathe right. However, I am determined not to stop! I will meet my goal once again, even if I have to do it alone!
I also have another goal I try to accomplish everyday that helps me to stay motivated. My goal is to reach at least 10,000 steps a day. I have been trying to get a little more each day because I want to see that I can make 300,000 steps in at least a month. So days when I am able to go over 10,000 steps I get excited. But it sure is hard to get that many steps in without concentrating on it. I wear my ipod that has a pedometer in it. I panic when it doesn't charge completely over night, because to me...EVERY STEP COUNTS! So on the days when I run, I actually meet and exceed my 10,000 step goal. On days when I don't run, I walk as much as I can. Today I walked this morning around the neighborhood, but I still have a little over 3,000 steps to go for today. I'm thinking that I may just go out and run once the sun starts to go down later. I know it sounds kinda corny, but it helps me to focus on other areas besides school and the stresses in my day to day life.
So with all this being said...
Life and school are a struggle, so I have found a way to take my mind off the stress they cause me....RUN & WATCH MY DAILY STEPS :) Hey something is better than nothing, right?
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