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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Why run?

To be the fastest runner in case we ever have another Grizzly bear encounter!!!? Nope. If I know one thing about Grizzly bears is that you definitely shouldn't try to out run them. I also know that I am good at following directions in bear-related life threatening situations, so I probably will just do whatever the husband tells me to do...and he probably would not be one to yell "Run!!!".

So, why? Well, my friend Emy gets all the credit for getting me excited about trying. Here are the reasons why I have stuck with it:


  • To lose the newlywed weight
    Yeah, like the freshman 15..only this weight gain nobody warns you about, and it just creeps up on you. Here I am, happy and delighted to be trying all sort of recipes to share awesome newlywed dinners with my husband. The husband...well, he happily eats them and rates them all. Of course by the time he sits down to enjoy his dinner, he probably burnt like 1,000 calories playing tennis.
    Meanwhile something was happening...yep, it's the newlywed weight creeping in....and I want it GONE!


  • Boredom/ Wedding Planning blues
    A year of planning the wedding and working on all the details (and loving every second of it) is suddenly replaced with a whole lot of time to do a whole lot of nothing. Yes, I have an entire house to decorate and Alejandro and I have a lot to do...but that's not a day to day thing and I miss that. I miss all my planning, I guess I'm just a planner.

    No, I'm not completely bored, just a little bored. I need things to keep me busy and entertained...and depending on others for that can get very old, very quickly!. This little challenge is mine, I get to enjoy it, to hate it and to celebrate it...and I have nobody to blame or reward for the ups/downs but myself. So basically, it's me entertaining myself and sharing my results with you here (with all 3 of you :))

  • Flexibility and no Excuses
    This sort of related to Number 1, but not completely. Ever since the wedding. I moved up here and my routine got all messed up. I had worked so hard to get myself into a routine for the past 2 years, but slowly started to lose it with my excuses. I started working from home (which has it's perks) but I also started travelling a little more for work. This means I had plenty of excuses of why I couldn't get myself in a routine. Running eliminates all that nonsense. You can pretty much run anywhere and anytime.

  • Because I can
    My dad was a marathoner, so I feel like I have it in my genes (or so i tell myself). He inspires me and I know part of why he was so successful at it is because he's a planner. Hmm...sounds familiar?
Running is like no other exercise I have ever done. I was never much into sports but I can see what Alejandro means about it being all mental (he plays tennis). I would say running is 80% in your head.

You wouldn't even believe all the things that go through my head when I'm out there running. Sometimes I plan for the next day, or think of new recipes, or sing along. Other times (when the run is getting tough) I do visualizations. I visualize myself looking in top Marathon shape (even if I never actually run a fill marathon, it is still fun to picture myself!), I picture my legs strong and with effortless continuous motions...almost like they are not attached to my body and are like the wheels of a car.


Just a little update: I added two little boxes. One with my Monthly/Weekly running stats on the little box to the right and one farther on the right showing what I'm currently reading. I will be adding book reviews when I'm done (I've never been much of a reader, but it's just something else I started doing...Alejandro gets all the credit for getting me into that!!)

4 comments:

Felix Saez de Ibarra said...

Tus razonamientos me parecieron increibles, convincentes y llenos de fuerza, creo que solo se le pueden añadir un par de cositas: una es SALUD, cuando estas sometida a un ejercicio aerobico como el que estas haciendo estas convirtiendo tiempo en salud fisica, esta comprobado el efecto del trote como ejercicio aerobico en la circulacion, corazon, sistemas linfaticos, sistema urinario y desintoxicacion, a traves del sudor eliminas muchas toxinas, luego la otra parte que viene aparejada, es que el trote se convierte en una meditacion en movimiento, donde la mente se aquieta y comienza el proceso mental que es super importante en tu superacion personal, mejoramiento de tu psiquis, aprender a reaccionar adecuadamente, etc. No es tu caso todavia pero en un futuro cercano te servira tambien para socializar con personas interesantes que comparten algunos de tus gustos como el de trotar y que se pueden formar amistades bien solidas, tampoco es tu caso en ese momento pero para mi fue muy bueno el turismo del trote, yo tuve oportunidad de ir a trotar en maratones a New Zealand, NY, Aruba, Sweden y una de las cosas que mas me gustaban cuando viajaba por trabajo, era salir por la mañana del hotel a conocer la ciudad trotando, pues ofrece otra perspectiva muy diferente a la del viaje de trabajo, asi trote en Oslo, Paris, Londres, Zurich, Madrid, NY, Toronto, San Francisco, WPB, Miami, Rio, Sao Paulo, Santiago, Guatemala y un monton de sitios mas que no recuerdo en este momento, tambien te cuento que los zapatos de trote en los viajes, no los llevaba en la maleta por si se esta perdia sino que la llevaba en mi maletin, pues si se extraviaba la maleta, bueno son ropas reemplazables pero los zapatos a los que uno esta acostumbrado, eso si que no son reemplazables asi nada mas, manias? o practicidad? . Bueno iremos compartiendo mas cosillas a medida de que pase el tiempo y tengas la satisfaccion de terminar tu primera carrera, pues alli uno corre contra uno mismo, a diferencia del tenis u otros deportes que necesitas de alguien aqui solo de tus agallas para salir a la calle, Bueno preciosa creo que me excedi escribiendo y se hizo laaaaaaargo, que tengas una buena noche, Paz y Gratitud. erpapin
PD. SIgo confiando en que aparecera tu cruz, en caso contrario piensa un poco en el desapego de las cosas materiales, con todo lo que eso trae consigo que es muy fuerte.

Andreina said...

Erpapin, que lindo tu mensaje :)

Wow...tienes razon! No se como no se me ocurrio poner Salud. Creo que se me olvida que el trotar tienes efectos distintos a otros tipos de ejecicio. Lo de la meditacion es verdad....estas con nada mas que tu cabeza y la calle. Esta solo de parte tuya como los pensamientos controlan lo que tu cuerpo hace.

Bueno por ahora no me he metido al running club, pero lo voy a hacer pronto porque tambien me parece divertido. Hoy no trote y cuando sali a caminar a Chepe vi a una muchacha trotando y me dio un poco de nevidia! jaja, que tal?. Casi casi me pongo a trotarle al lado a contarle de mi experiencia..jaja.

wow, ni yo sabia que habias trotado en tantos sitios ni que tenias esa "mana" de llevarte los zapatos en el maletin!!!!. Me gusta como piensas pequeno ;)

Gracias y porsupuesto que la voz de la experiencia se aprecia mucho, asi que sigue compartiendo que se que no solo a mi me ayuda leerlo sino quizas a otras personas que leen esto (aunque no comenten...wink, wink Isabella!).

Besotess

Anonymous said...

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BESOS Y BESOS

MyRunningJourney said...

I found your blog recently by clicking through several other blogs dealing with running, and this post made me laugh, because I am in the same boat and agree 100%!! Keep up the good work!!!