Monthly Archives: February 2008

Tomorrow is the Alien’s first race!!

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I’m so excited about tomorrow, I’ve been training really hard this week and I can’t wait!! I am participating in my first 5k tomorrow at 7pm. I’m sure that 5k is a joke for most pro’s, and that my time wont be that good, but I don’t care, I’m excited about what all this represents. I will be officially a runner! (a noob runner, but still a runner!) and it’s another step towards running a marathon and then a tri and then…!!! It’s a confirmation that my life has changed, that I’m a different person and that I’m doing different things, that I’m doing what i want to do!

In the big scheme of things a 5k is a really small step. But I’m taking my life step by step now, day by day, living on the moment instead of staying in the past or worrying too much about the future. And now that i can take a look back, and see all that i have achieved by each small step that I’ve taken, I realize that I’ve come a long way, and it hasn’t been that hard, actually, it’s been fun. And this gives me strength to keep going, to keep going all out on each small step instead of saving my energy for the next step.
Tomorrow I’m taking another step forward, and I am so excited about it, I can’t wait for the moment that I cross that finish line.

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Today is the first day of the rest of my life

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Last night was my last night, my life as i knew it ended. Today it’s my new beginning, I was up to a good start last season, but today im starting in a totally different league! I am going to accomplish all my goals, each and evrery one of them this season, its going to be hard, my mind is going to be tired and my body is going to hurt! but i can do it.

I’ve been working out a lot lately, but i didn’t really had a set goal for it, i wanted to loose weight and to look better, and thats good, but it’s also a bit too ambiguous. But now I know what I want. I want to run and I’m starting now with training. I’ve set up my schedule to run 4 days a week, increasing the times and distances each week. The rest of the days I’m working out too, but not running, my legs need to get some rest.

My goals? Well I’m running a 5k this saturday, then I keep training for a 10k on april. After that it’s time for my first big trial, the one that I’m afraid off right now, a half marathon on may 1st!! I’ve never run as a sport or done it regularly, so thinking about running 2 and a half hours (thats the time i want to aim for) without stopping is intimidating, also the distance is intimidating, 21k seems like a lot to me right now. But i know i can do it if I work hard enough!!

So today is the first day of the rest of my life, it feels good to have the chance to start over, to be able to change and to know that I can do it… don’t ask me how I know it, but I just know!!

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How the Alien started running

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It’s been a few months since i saw myself one day in the mirror and thought ‘Damn, I have to change’. Of course, it wasn’t the first time that thought crossed my mind, but that time, i was being serious to myself, i had to do it. After that i joined a Gym and started working out. At first, it was hard, it was hard to find time to work out, it was hard to find the energy to work out, it was hard to go again after every muscle in my body was aching, and the diet’s… it was SO hard to stay on a healthy diet. But i had promised myself that i would do it, and this time, it was a serious promise, not like a new year’s resolution that fades away as fast as january does.

Now i look at myself in the mirror, and although i still dont consider myself to be Fit, i can see that I’m getting there, that I am closer to being fit than I am from being fat. I also see a different person now, I have a healthy diet, and its not hard to keep it because my stomach can’t handle junk food as well as it used to, and I’m actually proud of that!!! I also have to wear a belt now, because all of my old pants would fall if I didn’t, and It feels great when i have to pull my pants up because they are falling!!! I still have a lot to go, im 2 or 3 pounds away from truly flat abs, and after that, its time to work hard for the dreamed 6-pack!

For me, the trick was to set really small goals that i could achieve fast, knowing that each of those small steps would eventually get me to my big long term goals. Goals like loosing 1 pound in 2 weeks, staying longer on the treadmill or eating smaller portions each day. It made it easier to go step by step, because i knew if i was trying to reach for the finish line everyday i would get tired and frustrated too fast.

The best part is how good it feels to work out now. I started going to the gym 3 days a week, then 4, then 5, and now it’s 7 days a week. At the beginning it was hard to get myself to go, and i was really good at making excuses to miss a workout session. Now I’m eager to go since the moment i wake up and i get pissed if something comes up that makes me miss a session.

I ask myself, was it worth it to go through all this? Now people react different towards me, I feel more confident and i know that if i can keep up like this, i can achieve anything i want in my life. Im even starting to date again, and the best part of it, it’s that she is really hot!!

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