i am not an athelete

Contrary to what others may think, I am not an athlete. I was the "girl in the bubble" growing up. I was the last person picked for teams at recess. Today reminded me of that...

After my run yesterday, I felt good... then later in the afternoon had a long nap and couldn't figure out why I was tired. I slept in until 12:00pm today. I suck. I wanted to do a light run and take a Zumba class at 8:15am. I got up at 7:30am, then went back down. I was tired. I can say that my body is trying to adjust to this new schedule, or it was the 3 glasses of champagne after the run, or that I'm a weekend warrior and should have run slower. Either way, today was not a good day for TEAM BELLE. I did get to hang out with my dog, do some laundry, grocery shop and other Sunday chores, but I slept through my planned workout.

Maybe I'm too hard on myself, so after the LA Lakers-Boston Celtics game 2 started, I decided to do my run. The scheduled workout for today was a 30 minute easy run. Not sure what easy run actually means. It's never easy for me to run. I figure I'd run to Starbucks and back. This varies from 0.5 to 10 miles depending on the Starbucks you choose. The Starbucks I chose was 2 miles away. The goal 30 minutes with my heart rate at a reasonable level of 145, so I could work on base line training. Maybe it's because I just started running 10 days ago, or that I slept too much. It wasn't a bad run, but it was slow... really slow. It took me longer today to do 2 miles than it did to do 5k (3.1 miles) and I'm a little stiff.

I am not an athlete, but I will be.

2 miles

avg heart rate 144

31:09 minutes

15:54 minute mile