Lucky 15

One of my favorite activities at the gym is mentally composing my next blog post, which invariably tends to be a self-congratulatory rambling wherein I can say things like "OMG GUIYZ I DID LIKE SO MUCH RUNNING LOLOLOLOL"

One of my favorite activities coming HOME from the gym is to jump in a hot, steamy, relaxy shower, and then make mucho of the foodo, since I always exercise either before breakfast or before dinner (depending on the day). And all those things make me forget I have a blog.

Which is why I keep forgetting to update about workouts.

Lolz!

So on that note, OMG YOU GUIYZ I RAN FOR FIFTEEN MINUTES LAST WEEK.

As a recap, this is after super spotty two weeks of workouts followed by a month of inactivity. So I'm pretty darn proud of that!

But MORE importantly...

This blogger just signed up for her VERY VERY VERY FIRST RACE!

That's right! I plunked down the cash (via interwebz), and signed up for a race in May to celebrate Mother's Day!

I am all about killing two birds with one stone - ie, setting a damn solid goal for me to fight for, and honoring my wonderful Mumzy-doodle!

(She is going to love that I referred to her like that. It's better then Mummoo at least, right Mom?)

It's a 5K which I'm pretty sure is code for "Wussiest race I can participate in while still calling it a race" and I started training for it OFFICIALLY as of this very afternoon!

In which I encountered my mortal enemy (when on a treadmill)...

The emergency stop button.

That's right. You saw it correctly. SERIOUS ENOUGH FOR RED FONT.

Okay, disclaimer time: The emergency stop button is a big safety deal and when people get in over their heads and need a safe way to stop okay yes.

BUT SERIOUSLY.

It is right at waist level. And if someone, say, was looking ahead and jonesing to the music and running her last minute and a half for the night and just hitting a runner's high and didn't want to look down at the numbers and was trying to distract herself from counting down to help it go by faster, it is WAY TOO EASY FOR THAT SOMEONE TO BUMP INTO THE EMERGENCY STOP AND RUIN EVERYTHING.

So. Much. Fathomless. Rage.

FATHOMLESS, I SAY.


And then I get over it.

But! I got a happy surprise when I got home (aside from my Lumberjack), in that the workout clothes I ordered from Old Navy arrived!

YIPPEE!

I have currently been working out in two dollar loosey type pants from a super sale at JC Penney and old sports bras from like my junior year of college.

AND I TOOK A PICTURE GUIYZ

I know the bedspread is titillating too but let's focus on the clothes please

Yep. I just became THAT kind of blogger.

The damage:
Pair of running/yoga pants that are very form fitting/stretchy and more so than I'm usually comfortable with, but they are SOOO COMFORTABLE that I'm probably going to ignore it, cause no one's at the gym to check me out anyway.
Pair of running shorts that fit very well, but I haven't had much practice running with shorts, so we'll so how that goes!
Running shirt that I am in LOVE with. So comfy, it has thumb holes, I need another.
Training bra (kind of buried beneath the flip flops) because I need a new one. A little bit tight, but it really kept things in place when I tried it on, so we'll see how it holds up tomorrow.

And two pairs of flip flops because they were dirt cheap and I have zero flip flops.

I may or may not be ordering more things if they're still on clearance

All in all...SO EXCITED FOR TOMORROW MORNING'S WORKOUT. Go weight training!