Alright, so I messed up. I missed several days of my blog challenge. I have immediately failed. Whoops. I blame the fact that I have been busy working. I picked up a bunch of shifts which is awesome but I also then forgot about my blog. On my time off I wanted to spend it with Nick so I just completely ignored my blog. Anyways, I'm posting this post today and maybe another one tonight. I am going to complete all 31 challenges but I may post more than once a day or it might go into June (whoops).
So today's post is things I love and hate about running. I've been running for about 4 years now and in that time I've run 2 half-marathons (2012, Ottawa, 2:01:35) and (2013, Toronto, 1:58:37), a 30k (2013, Hamilton, 3:09:08) and a marathon (2014, Toronto, 5:12:20). I also did cross country while I was in high school with my record time being 21:19 for 5k.
As any runner might be able to tell, as time goes on I haven't necessarily gotten better (see my marathon time, oops). I am running my third half marathon in Ottawa this month on the 24th. My goal was to run it in under 1:50, which I felt was a good goal when I signed up after my marathon because my split time at the half-way point for the marathon was 2:20 and I was pacing myself to run the marathon. Now I feel like my half-marathon time is probably going to be worse than past years, which makes me sad. It will still probably be around 2:15. But I have gotten caught up in life and have been running less.
Anyways, here is what I hate and love about running.
What I love:
- I get to see new parts of where I live that I never noticed before
- I get to make trips out of going to run different places
- It makes me healthier and makes me feel healthier
- It's something that I can choose to do on my own volition as it is not a requirement of society to do it
- It gives me something to work towards and look forward to
- It is an individual sport
What I hate:
- Sometimes I get injuries from running
- Being "weather dependant" on whether or not I run
- Getting stuck in rain storms (not a little bit of rain, that's pretty nice, but when it starts POURING)
- The pressure to never stop! I've started running but I feel like it will never ever stop. I don't know how! I don't want to stop yet but it just feels like it will never happen
- I hate when I get tired halfway through a run and I am about 10km away from the house
- Repetitive scenery. Sometimes it's hard to change it up when you've seen everything in the city there is to see and more.
- Having to bring water. Quite often I just won't carry water with me.
- Trying to keep my phone, keys, sometimes energy packs and water with me while I run
- Spending money on shoes constantly. I need a pair of shoes right now and I am broke!
Speaking of broke and needing new shoes, here is a shameless plug. I have a GoFundMe page to get a new pair of running shoes: http://www.gofundme.com/sarahsshoes. I'm trying to get the $150 I need so I can have a good-working pair of shoes that aren't worn down.
Anyways. Good luck to all of the runners out there. It's running event season right now because the weather is perfect.
So today's post is things I love and hate about running. I've been running for about 4 years now and in that time I've run 2 half-marathons (2012, Ottawa, 2:01:35) and (2013, Toronto, 1:58:37), a 30k (2013, Hamilton, 3:09:08) and a marathon (2014, Toronto, 5:12:20). I also did cross country while I was in high school with my record time being 21:19 for 5k.
As any runner might be able to tell, as time goes on I haven't necessarily gotten better (see my marathon time, oops). I am running my third half marathon in Ottawa this month on the 24th. My goal was to run it in under 1:50, which I felt was a good goal when I signed up after my marathon because my split time at the half-way point for the marathon was 2:20 and I was pacing myself to run the marathon. Now I feel like my half-marathon time is probably going to be worse than past years, which makes me sad. It will still probably be around 2:15. But I have gotten caught up in life and have been running less.
Anyways, here is what I hate and love about running.
What I love:
- I get to see new parts of where I live that I never noticed before
- I get to make trips out of going to run different places
- It makes me healthier and makes me feel healthier
- It's something that I can choose to do on my own volition as it is not a requirement of society to do it
- It gives me something to work towards and look forward to
- It is an individual sport
What I hate:
- Sometimes I get injuries from running
- Being "weather dependant" on whether or not I run
- Getting stuck in rain storms (not a little bit of rain, that's pretty nice, but when it starts POURING)
- The pressure to never stop! I've started running but I feel like it will never ever stop. I don't know how! I don't want to stop yet but it just feels like it will never happen
- I hate when I get tired halfway through a run and I am about 10km away from the house
- Repetitive scenery. Sometimes it's hard to change it up when you've seen everything in the city there is to see and more.
- Having to bring water. Quite often I just won't carry water with me.
- Trying to keep my phone, keys, sometimes energy packs and water with me while I run
- Spending money on shoes constantly. I need a pair of shoes right now and I am broke!
Speaking of broke and needing new shoes, here is a shameless plug. I have a GoFundMe page to get a new pair of running shoes: http://www.gofundme.com/sarahsshoes. I'm trying to get the $150 I need so I can have a good-working pair of shoes that aren't worn down.
Anyways. Good luck to all of the runners out there. It's running event season right now because the weather is perfect.
- A Short Story
Things I love and hate about running- A Picture I've drawn/created
- Talk about something on this wikipedia list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_philosophy
- 20 Things to do before I turn 20
- What I like and dislike about my City
- An Obit to my Father
- Should there be limits to freedom of expression?
- How I feel about Hedonism
- Writing Advice
- Letters to my future self
- A Picture of my life every hour (Set a timer on my phone and take a picture every hour of what I am doing, on the hour from wake until sleep)
- The Advantages and Disadvantages of being a philosophy major
- Something funny
- Describe something (My day? My job? I'll decide later) in 5, 50 and 500 words (We'll see how this works out)
Things that make me happy- Why monogamy and marriage are dead and I am still getting married
- Why sex is natural
- Thoughts on Minimalism
- A response to something ridiculous, whether an article or event, something
- Map Test: I will try to label 3 maps Canada (where I live), the US (where most of my readers are from) and a world Map. All in order to embarrass myself.
- My 5 favourites: TV shows, books, celebrities, comedians, music, food, movies, stores, makeup, clothing styles, drinks
- A recipe
- Why I love Nick (a list)
- My Life (so my followers who don't know me in RL can get a feel of what I do outside of my blog)
- A thought experiment (What if...?)
- Why I haven't been caring for the environment AKA Why I am selfish
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- What I learned from this blog challenge
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