Tonight was interesting, to be sure. For the last few days I've not been doing so much of the running thing because my legs have been a little bit bratty and also (partially) because I was really dreading the next workout for C25K. I've been doing a lot of strength stuff - wall squats, push ups, crunches, etc. which has been really good because I definitely need the strength training to help with the losing weight, but I really want to finish the C25K thing.
Since Matt's been working out as well but both of us hadn't been doing as much as we could or should have, I asked him if he wanted to come with me tonight. He said he would and so we decided we'd do C25K together. I'm basically starting it over, but that's okay. I've done it all before and it'll be so much better if I have a training partner.
I was expecting that it would be easier than it had been at first (I swore I wasn't going to make it to the end of the program on the day that I started) but I didn't really even break a sweat until the third running set. It was crazy! Matt had about as tough a time with it as I did at first, so I just kept his pace and when he wanted to stop, I made him keep going. I think he wanted to take a swing at me a time or two, but he kept going and finished the whole thing. I loved that I was able to encourage him and keep him going and that doing this together was helping me to get out there and keep running. For the record, I am incredibly proud of Matt for doing this. I was proud of myself for the fact that I managed to finish every run that I started and I think it's a huge step for him to start running too. Hopefully we can keep this going and eventually run a 5K together. One of the wonderful things about being married is that you'll always have a partner and I am absolutely looking forward to doing this as a team.
We've also gotten much better about not eating out. I think at some point before I mentioned that we'd made a new budget and we really limited the amount of money we would spend going out and it has made a huge difference. We've really wanted to go out a few nights but we've stayed in every time and cooked at home. It's so much easier to be healthy and eat good food (and lose weight!) when you're actually doing the cooking. Hopefully things will continue as they have been because I think both Matt and I are in a really great place right now. We'll just keep chugging along and motivating each other. And if anyone has any great healthy recipes or suggestions for where to find them, I'm all ears!
Also, since I don't think I've talked about it in awhile, things on the German front are going well! I'm doing Rosetta Stone pretty frequently and I think my handle on the language is getting better. I'm also going to actually attempt to have a conversation in German with one of my native speaker-friends on Sunday. I'm not sure how it's going to go, but I've already made said friend promise that he will force me to speak in German even though I don't want to and won't like it. For some reason (I think I've already mentioned this) the idea of speaking in German to a native speaker scares the crap out of me. I know that my pronunciation isn't that great and I hate every word in that language that uses the letter u or ü (which is like, 97% of the words in German) because it takes me a good 5 minutes to be able to get the pronunciation right and even then, I have no idea how the last time I said (or the correct pronunciation) it is any different from the first time I said it (or the completely wrong pronunciation). So hopefully I'll do okay and will manage to get over my slightly ridiculous fear of speaking the language around the only people in the world who will actually be able to help me improve.
And on that note, I think it's pretty well past my bed time. Goodnight all!
Tschüss! (See! Every word in German! They all have that stupid letter... :P)
Since Matt's been working out as well but both of us hadn't been doing as much as we could or should have, I asked him if he wanted to come with me tonight. He said he would and so we decided we'd do C25K together. I'm basically starting it over, but that's okay. I've done it all before and it'll be so much better if I have a training partner.
I was expecting that it would be easier than it had been at first (I swore I wasn't going to make it to the end of the program on the day that I started) but I didn't really even break a sweat until the third running set. It was crazy! Matt had about as tough a time with it as I did at first, so I just kept his pace and when he wanted to stop, I made him keep going. I think he wanted to take a swing at me a time or two, but he kept going and finished the whole thing. I loved that I was able to encourage him and keep him going and that doing this together was helping me to get out there and keep running. For the record, I am incredibly proud of Matt for doing this. I was proud of myself for the fact that I managed to finish every run that I started and I think it's a huge step for him to start running too. Hopefully we can keep this going and eventually run a 5K together. One of the wonderful things about being married is that you'll always have a partner and I am absolutely looking forward to doing this as a team.
We've also gotten much better about not eating out. I think at some point before I mentioned that we'd made a new budget and we really limited the amount of money we would spend going out and it has made a huge difference. We've really wanted to go out a few nights but we've stayed in every time and cooked at home. It's so much easier to be healthy and eat good food (and lose weight!) when you're actually doing the cooking. Hopefully things will continue as they have been because I think both Matt and I are in a really great place right now. We'll just keep chugging along and motivating each other. And if anyone has any great healthy recipes or suggestions for where to find them, I'm all ears!
Also, since I don't think I've talked about it in awhile, things on the German front are going well! I'm doing Rosetta Stone pretty frequently and I think my handle on the language is getting better. I'm also going to actually attempt to have a conversation in German with one of my native speaker-friends on Sunday. I'm not sure how it's going to go, but I've already made said friend promise that he will force me to speak in German even though I don't want to and won't like it. For some reason (I think I've already mentioned this) the idea of speaking in German to a native speaker scares the crap out of me. I know that my pronunciation isn't that great and I hate every word in that language that uses the letter u or ü (which is like, 97% of the words in German) because it takes me a good 5 minutes to be able to get the pronunciation right and even then, I have no idea how the last time I said (or the correct pronunciation) it is any different from the first time I said it (or the completely wrong pronunciation). So hopefully I'll do okay and will manage to get over my slightly ridiculous fear of speaking the language around the only people in the world who will actually be able to help me improve.
And on that note, I think it's pretty well past my bed time. Goodnight all!
Tschüss! (See! Every word in German! They all have that stupid letter... :P)
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