So. This has been a stressfull month for school. I have had a lot of work to do to prepare for student teaching next semester. I also had to pick up a job so that I could make some extra money and attempt to save for a car or at least for the car insurance I'll need to give my friend if we share her car.

I really need to stop overeating. Can I just put that out there? It has been really getting in the way of my ability to really lose weight. With the amount of exercise I have been doing I should be dropping pounds. But no. I keep eating so much that it never happens. :P

Anywho. I now run 3 miles consistently for my runs during the week. That's up from the 2.50 I had myself doing. I just really pushed myself to the 3 throughout this month and now it's become the norm. I'm thinking of trying to squeeze it up to 3.25 and then 3.50 and that would be my goal for October is 3.5 miles consistently. :) I do still want to work on improving my speed and I know that'll come with more fartlek and long runs.

I'm participating in a 5k on October 17th. I can't wait. I haven't felt this confident about a 5k in a while. I'm just really excited to have another bib in my collection. It's really motivational seeing all of it.

I'm also below 200lbs! I am now part of the 100s club. :)

I hope I inspire people that you can be a runner at any weight.. You just have to start really slow, push yourself, and believe.

Phew.. I finally have a few minutes to update my running blog. :) Well. I didn't really realize how much exercising I was doing until I visited my doctor last week. It's amazing that I only take off about 1-2 days of no activity at all. This has drastically changed some what I can remember when I first started working out. At first I loathed moving at all, hated running, hated the gym, hated anything that made me move too much. Now I absolutely love it and my body yearns for it. It has become such a great stress reliever. I feel myself become so much calmer after I exercise. I get a lot of my thinking done on the road when I'm running and sometimes I go into a zone where I'm not thinking about anything else except for my feet hitting the pavement and if a car is coming at me. It's something really lovely..

The other day I really surprised myself. I was on my normal route.. ya know..just trotting along there lost in my thoughts when I realized I was off my normal path. I was about a good half mile off. It made me happy because I wasn't even near tired and I was just like "Oh heck yeh more mileage!" and got dorkily excited. I've just been realizing how much faster I've been getting every single week.. The seconds dwindle down and my minutes per mile is getting lower and lower by seconds. I'm setting PR's on routes that used to take me over an hour to walk and I'm doing it in like 28 minutes. Like srsly? I'm so excited about everything in my athletic life right now. I schedule my exercises into my day no matter how much homework I have. I just need that release..

I consider myself an athlete. I may not have the body of one, but mentally.. I am there. Soon my body will be too. :)

I wish I had more money to register for races.. but that'll just have to wait until I get a job. Money really sucks right now with my laptop breaking and all. But yeh. I was hoping to do a race this month but it doesn't look like it's going to happen.

Jake said today that he was proud of me for keeping up with my running and getting really into it.

That meant so much to me. ♥