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After completing my 5k (and the biggest athletic accomplishment of my adult life), I kinda went into a fitness funk.  There wasn’t really a need to get those 2 miles in before work in the morning.  So in my mind there wasn’t much of a need to get any miles in that day.  It might have had something to do with going on this to see this:

But!  There was a gym on the boat and I worked out twice.  On vacation even!  When did I become one of those people?  One day I ran for 25 minutes on the treadmill.  Another day the gym was full so I ran up and down the 10 flights of stairs on the ship for 20 minutes.

Which, by the way, if you ever get the chance to do that while you’re on a cruise?  Don’t.  Especially not on the first day of the cruise when you have days and days of sight seeing to do after.  Your calves will hate you and be very vocal in letting you know their sudden want to be liberated from the rest of your silly legs.

Despite the 6 course meals every night and all-you-can-eat all-day-long buffets I managed not to gain any weight.  I did not, however, manage to find a new goal to replace my 5k goal.  Not yet anyway.

This new found strength in my body is so invigorating.  I no longer find eating healthy a chore, but a way to get my body the best fuel possible to run in its most efficient state.  I don’t think of exercise as something to do to loose weight but to get stronger and faster.

Now I feel like I need to put a disclaimer here: I still eat lots of chocolate and burritos.  I still talk myself out of going for runs sometimes.  I still get disappointed when I can’t quite button my skinny jeans and have to go for a size up that day.  I am still my fantastically flawed self.

But I’m stronger too.

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Cheers,

Jackie

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Today I did something I never thought possible.  I ran my first 5K.  The donut dash.  A deployment goal.  Something I’ve wanted to do ever since I saw the 1996 Olympics when I was a kid and I saw the American women’s team kicking some butt.  They were wearing the cutest track outfits and gold necklaces and had long manicured nails and I wanted to look just like that in body and style.

It was pouring and has been all day.  So at least the weather was nice enough not to rub my face in it by stopping the rain after I was done running.

There were kids there from my center with their moms.  This soaking wet cutie is Danielle.  Please notice my Bondi Band I’m rocking.  It’s the one I got from Wannabe Athlete to support her aunt’s fight against breast cancer.

I ran the whole race.  Not one second of walking.

35 minutes and 27 seconds of running.  Longest non-stop run time to date.  My goal was to come in under 40 minutes and I totally beat that.  I’m so amazing!  I didn’t stop smiling the whole way home.  I also didn’t stop cranking the heat.

When’s the next race?  I’m hooked.

I did it, bloggers.  I signed up for my first ever 5k today.  I’ve been training for the last few months for it and yesterday ran for 20 minutes without stopping.  The front of my calves can tell you all about it today.

I’m feeling really good about it.  I think it’s an excellent sign that this particular 5k is donut related.  Y’all, I feel so strongly about donuts.  Everytime I go to Germany I find the Dunkin Donuts there and buy at least half a dozen.  Then at least three more for the plane ride home.  Everytime I visit my parents in the States one of the first stops is the Krispy Kreme.  I don’t even want to go unless the “Hot and Fresh” sign is on for donuts straight out of the fryer.  Dirty.  And I love it.

Wait, this post was supposed to be about running and fitness.  Oops.  No can do when donuts are involved.

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