Today is Wednesday, so it was time for the weekly walk with my Best Friend. Since I did so well with Week 2 yesterday, I decided it was time to move on to Week 3. My friend got a head start walking down the path, while I got my iPod together. I did just fine with the 1st 90 second interval run. The next 3 minute run was a little tough, but not impossible. I kept saying to myself I’ve run 3 whole miles several times, I know I can do this. The second set of runs were a lot harder, but I kept pushing. I remembered the joy of running past the skinny people walking, even if it was only for 3 minutes at time. It was also cool to see people cheering on the “fat girl running.” People gave me a thumbs up and one plus size girl grabbed her heart and smiled. Like I always say, if I can do it, anybody can. Running feels so good, I can’t believe I let myself get back to the point that I had to start training all over…. When I finished all of the running intervals, I was so tired. When I turned around and looked for my friend, she was nowhere in sight. I figured that she would want to do the whole 3 miles so I kept walking. I slowed down and waited for a few minutes at the halfway turn around point. When she got there she told me she wished I hadn’t done the whole walk and she kept looking for me to turn around. I told her I kept turning around looking for her to wave at me to come back. Neither one of us really wanted to do the whole thing, but that’s the great thing about working out outdoors, whether you feel like quitting or not, you still have to get back to the car. And eventually, we did.
Hey Everybody! I’ve been real lazy lately. Eating too much devil food, not keeping points and not working out enough. I don’t know why…it could be stress, PMS, work, blah blah, I could make up one hundred excuses, and that’s just what they would be, excuses. Today I was determined to get back in the swing of things. After work, I came home and got dressed for the gym. It was much too humid to run outside. I really didn’t feel like working out, and I’m sick of being on Week 2, but I have no one to blame but myself. I put on the Week 2 Podcast and hit the track. At the time, I was frustrated with somebody who jacked me around for some money, and I took out all of my aggression on my workout. I was like “Bring it on Carli, I’m Ready!” (I know Y’all talk back to my podcast, so I can talk back too!) I did so well, I mean I RAN during the running intervals. I surprised myself. Maybe someone should always screw me over right before a workout….well, maybe not. But anyway, I did great, no extra walking breaks; sweat pouring and legs burning, I just pushed right through it. I think I’m finally ready to move on to Week 3. So now for the juicy stuff. You know how I said I might have a date on Saturday? Well I did. And it was fantastic! He brought a dozen white roses to the Mexican restaurant on our 1st dinner date. My pastor always says “while you’re busy looking for Tall, Dark & Handsome; Mr. Right, just might be Short, Fat & Ugly. Well, He ain’t short, and he’s kinda cute. So, you figure it out…. We had such a great time and after dinner we went downtown to the John Legend
music concert and watched 4th of July, fireworks under the Arch. It was funny because my WHOLE family was there. My Mama, sisters, best friend, my shopping cousin, everybody. I warned him that they would be at the free summer concert, but he didn’t mind, because he’s real family oriented too, plus there were thousands of other people there. I kept cracking jokes like “Dang Mama, get off of my Date” Lol. My family treats everybody like family, so he told me he felt welcome and comfortable. We had such a great time; we went out again on Monday, since we were both work off for the holiday. …Well that’s the scoop. Oh yeah I signed back up for boot camp class. So hopefully with both the Couch to 5K running plan and boot camp, I can get back in the shape I want to be in.
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Wow! Today was such as awesome experience. I went to the gun shooting range with my Big Little Sister. I always wanted to go for the experience. It was amazing…. At first it was so scary. I didn’t even want to get close to the glass counter with guns. I don’t think that I had seen a real gun that close before. I was surprised that they even had little pink girly ones.
When the class started, the guy explained that the best safety is using your head, and not keeping your finger on the trigger. For the first part of the 3 hour course we went through the paperwork and learned the terminology and parts of the handguns. During the second hour we actually held them and learned how they work. It was so weird. Much heavier than I thought it would be. (does this count as arm exercise? Doubt it!)
Anyway, TV makes it look so easy to cock a gun. It pinched my finger, and it pinched my sister and even drew blood! It’s definitely something that takes practice. The teacher was a retired cop, he was fantastic. He said learning to use a gun is like learning to drive a car, you’re scared and move 3 miles an hour and think everyone is going to hit you and then after a while you’re driving and talking on the phone and eating. Once we handled them and learned how not to break our fingers, we went to the actually shooting gallery. We put on our protective headphones and glasses. Everyone sort of steered away from the crazy looking gold-tooth chick who looked like she already knew who she wanted to shoot. We started small with a .22 revolver and an automatic. I was shocked at how good a shot I was. When the hot shell popped back at me and landed on my shirt, and I understood why the glasses were necessary. Then we shot the .38 and lastly the huge automatic .45 pistol. When that gun shot off and that big burst of fire was arms length from my face, I felt a rush and spun around and screamed WHOA!!!! … “Watch It!” the teacher exclaimed as I had quickly forgotten that I was pointing a loaded gun in his direction. I turned back around and shot the last 4 bullets. It was exhilarating, you feel so much power. Some of the ladies in the class were too scared to even try the .45. Overall, I did pretty good to have not even seen a gun before today. I put one in the target’s head just to see how accurate I was.
My sister was freakishly good, as she often is at stuff like this. The instructor told her He’ll make sure he stays on her good side. We had great time trying something new. I know this is completely different from the cool mellow groove from last night. But, hey I’m just living life. Don’t worry, I had fun, but I’m not going to trade in running for gun practice, or races for hunting. I don’t think I’ll ever even own a gun, because I don’t want the responsibility of anyone or anything’s life on my hands. Well, I have a busy holiday weekend planned. I might even have a date..…Ouuuuu! I’ll keep you posted.
