7th Day in a Life of a Runner Wannabe -Different Route-

Hello again.

It is day 7 in my challenge to become a runner. I am still doing mostly walking now, since I don't think it is good for my leg to take all the pressure of my body if I run. I still don't see any obvious changes on the scale but I won't worry about that too much, bacause I can feel my leg muscle building, and does drinking too much water make you heavier? Because I've been drinking a lot in a day and I get heavier at the end of the day.
Today I decided to use a different route for my walk, and I find it refreshing despite all the barking dogs, I like the route because it has less traffic but and quite compare to my usual one, but the dogs scared me and I wouldn't dare to run in that condition either bacause I'm too afraid that they might chase after me.

As of tomorrow I might lessen the km I'm walking for a while because of my leg. I think walking long distant while my blister still hurt was not a good idea after all, because of the blister I tend to put my weight on one leg more than the other, and my step are not even as well since I tend to avoid the blister from rubbing to much on my shoes, because of this my left leg feels really sore especially on my hip because of the weird way I did my step on it. I can't wait for my blister to heal completely, it almost but it still hurt my it rub against my shoe.  

As of feeling tired I begin to feel it now, my whole body is aching and I keep on popping my joint. My back specially hurt everytime I stand up from sitting. I desperately need a massage right now. I do feel like giving up but I keep on telling myself if I give up now when will I be able to do what I want, so I tell myself to suck it and just endure it.

Here is my data for today. Just x2 because something wrong with my internet in the beginning so I just manage to count the last 2 and so km. That the thing about using GPRS, we need internet for it to work.

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Signed
Dorothy
Runner Wannabe

6th Day in a Life of a Runner Wannabe -Another Rest Day-

Originally posted on 18/05/2014

It is Sunday and it is church day, so from now on every Sunday is a rest day, and maybe cheat day if I can't resist the temptation of outside food. I decided to have today as rest day because, I simply have no time to do walk today since I have to prepare myself for church and, straight after church we might be going somewhere else and won't be back till late evening.
So I have decided to have 1 or 2 rest day from walking in a week, with one day i'll some strenght training instead of walking, and the other day will be completely rest from all workout. But food wise, I will try not to have any rest day for that, if I do fall into temptation I will try to limit it to 1 cheat meal in a week.

Signed
Dorothy
Runner Wannabe

5th Day in a Life of a Runner Wannabe -Back to Walking-

Originally posted on 17/05/2014

After not going on my usual walk yesterday, I'm back to walking today and here is what I have accomplished.
(Read the one in the yellow circle)
1st round 2.399km

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2nd round 2.268km

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I feel less tired now doing this walk I even run a few metre, but than I have to stop because my blister still hurt and I can't risk it opening again. But guess what? My muscle don't hurt anymore YAY! The past two day was a torture for me, everytime I took my 1st few step everytime when i'm walking it hurt, and a few time I almost fall because I lose my balance when standing up, my leg feel so tight. But today after I did my usual 4-5km walk, yes I can feel my muscle hurting a little during the walk but after my my walk I can only feel a little ache for about 15 to 30 minutes and then it don't hurt anymore. I guess my muscle is used to it now.
Today my craving has lessen compared to yesterday, so because of this I guess I can conclude that I feel less desire to eat when I tired myself walking, compared to when I did my strenght training, or maybe is it because I just have brunch yesterday and kinda skip breakfast.
Here I would like to explain as well, beside my breakfast which usually I eat out because I eat it when i'm resting from my walking, the rest of my meal are homemade, and I cooked them myself, I tried to cooked healthy food for myself during this whole project, and I will try to do it my whole life as well. I actually cooked separate dish for myself. Since I'm currently unemployed and I kinda have become the maid of the house at the moment so I did all the cooking for the family, which consist of my parent, my sibling and myself. As for my parent it hard for them to accept new taste so it kinda hard for me to change the whole family diet. And as of this time I didn't use any supplement or meal replacement in my diet, I'm not sure how it will be in the future but for now i'll stick to this regiment. I don't weight myself very much as well, because I find weighting myself lessen my motivation since we usually expect the scale will show a lower number everytime we step on it, and when it don't we will feel down and less motivated so I avoid weighting myself so frequently. For now my indication of a succesful day is when I feel healthier and better than the day before, after I'm satisfy with my stamina and strengh then i'll try to venture further into achieving another goal beside this one. I am fat women and have been one almost my whole life and because of that It hard for me to be join in active activities and I have a huge desire to be an active person, but I can't do it without tiring myself and end up being hurt or sick, and that is why I set this goal for myself, so that I can enjoy an active life and feel good doing it.
That's my report for today

Signed
Dorothy
Runner Wannabe

Note: By reading my blog you might realize how English is not my 1st language, it is actually my 3rd language. I am of Kenyah and Kayan descent, native from the island of Borneo, I am from Miri, Sarawak which is the Malaysia part of Borneo. So sorry for my grammar mistakes.

4th Day in a Life of a Runner Wannabe -Rest-

Originally posted on 16/05/2014

It's the 4th day today in my effort to be a runner.
Today I didn't go for my usual walk because of the painful blister I got from my 1st day, so instead I did some weight lifting, it is as important right. I read somewhere how weightlifting is an important exercise for the muscle.
But today I want to share how I feel when I didn't go for my usual walk this morning, I did my strengh training for 20 minutes plus 5 minutes stretching and another 5 minutes post workout streching, after that I did my usual house chores. But what I realize is I feel less active and more tired today compare to when I did my walk, and I have more craving. I didn't even have craving when I did my walk. But one good thing happen today, my muscle don't hurt anymore, I guess they are right when they say it took 2 days.
I will be doing my walk again tomorrow and I will be taking my little sis with me as well. So that is my report for today.

Signed
Dorothy
Runner Wannabe

3rd Day in a Life of a Runner Wannabe

Originally posted on 15/05/2013

Today's data

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As we can see here I did extra km today, but for the 2nd data, my counter stop at least a hundred metre before I stop walking so actually I did more that the data say.
I really wanted to at least start running a few metre today but I can't because of this-

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Yup it's an ugly blister and it is so painful If I didn't watch how i landed my step, so I have to stick to walking carefully. I get this blister on my first day of running so kid always use stocking when you run and too thin stocking is bad too. Despite having this injury I refuse to stop, because I am not really good with stopping or pausing, if I stop I will keep on giving excuses to myself why I shouldn't do it tomorrow or anyday after that, unless it really necessary of course like when i'm sick or any other circumstances that cannot be avoided.

And here is my interlude after the 1st 2.912km

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Mee sua, low cal and it have protein as well. My interlude is my breakfast since I didn't eat breakfast before I start. After eating this I travel back another 2.912km. I don't know if this is a good thing to do if anyone can give some advice please do.

Signed
Runner Wannabe
Dorothy

Note: I've was originally posted in wordpress. Since I want to have a blog solely for this project of mine, so I open this one. I still post my progress on wordpress as well as this one.

1st and 2nd Day in a life of a Runner Wannabe

Originally written on 14/95/2014

Here is what I have achive so far in my attempt to run long distant.

This is my data for the first day.

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The route I use is my house to a local mall near it, which is 2km for oneway. I travel for 2km toward the mall and I travel back 2km more going back to my house making a total of 4km or more. And usually after I arrive at the mall i'll stop for a while to rest and have my breakfast at one of the many foodplace they have near the mall, I need a motivation to get there, I make sure I don't order bad stuff. After having breakfast then i'll travel back home, but not straight away I let the food to calm down first.

This is my data for the second day, I accidently lost the data for the last 2km because I accidently press the reset button and I didn't get to safe the snapshot. So for the second day my pace are slightly faster than the first day, and the length is about the same as the 1st and I burned a total of 423 cal which is more that the 1st and I think its because my pace on the second day is faster and I try to stay in pace.
That's my report for today..

Signed,
Dorothy
The Runner Wannabe

Lets Run

Originally written on 14/05/2014

I'm setting a new goal for myself starting two days ago. I know new resolution or goal are so four months ago but hey better late than never right.

My new goal is to be able to run or jog for more than 1km by next year. This certain goal have been in my bucket list for years but I never try to achieve it, until two days ago of course I know everyone will be like 'what? That's it?' But let me tell you something, all my life i've never been a fit person, I refuse to say skinny because people can be skinny or thin and not healthy, not that I've been any of both either, but what I want to say is since i've never experience being fit thus I never being able to run for a long period of time and for a distance longer than 100m or 200m. So it is very appropriate for me to have such goal.

Being a overweight or obese limited me from being active, and when I went to the park or anywhere and saw someone jog easily make me jealous. Not that i'm saying its easy but the idea of running and not be out of breathe after just less than a minute appeals to me and I want to experience that, so i've set this goal for myself, and 1km is a appropriate goal I think because I don't want to be too ambitious and end up hurting myself. So for now I'll stick to 1km, if I manage to achieve that before the dateline than i'll up the km.

As I was saying earlier I just start to run (It's not really running actually more walking) two days ago but i've been planning this for at least two week before that. Before I started running/walking I decided to change my eating habit first. I love to cook and mostly whatever I eat I cook it myself, I don't really care about what I put in my mouth as long as it is sooth my craving, so I have to change that, and i've been doing exactly that for the past two week. I know how people always set a oneday cheat day when it come to their diet bit I try not to do that.

As for running at the moment I haven't do any real running yet because I know my limit and I need to get use to the idea of travelling long distant without any form of engined transportation first. So yesterday and today i've been walking a total of 4km a day as a start. I am planning to do this for a week before I start to add in some easy jog into my routine. And to motivate me more so that I won't dare to quit I decided to blog about my attempt. So wish me luck.

Signed
Dorothy
Runner Wannabe