Half Marathon, Anyone?

Remember how back in 2019, when I first started running, I watched "Brittany Runs a Marathon" and was SO stupid inspired that I signed up for the 2020 Love Run half in Philly. Well, we all know what happened in 2020. I thought I'd dodged a bullet, but it turns out my registration was deferred to 2022. Oops. So...uh

.....guess who went ahead and reregistered herself? Yup, this girl. Honestly? I'm not sure if I have it in me to run for 13.1 miles. This was a rough running week for me, so I'm feeling extra doubtful about myself. Also, when I first signed up back in 2019, someone said to me, "I've been running my whole life...what makes you think you can run a half??" I kinda just brushed it off at the time, but these words have been rattling around in my head a lot this past week. I mean, she's right...I didn't even start running 11 minute miles until this summer! Is that even considered "running"? WHO am I to think that I can even dare to consider attempting 13.1 miles? If you look up the word "notanathlete" in the dictionary, my picture would be right there! But you know what? Fuck that. I'm gonna do this. So what if I have to walk up that one big hill?! I guess I'll walk up that one big hill. And if I die while attempting this? At least my husband can engrave "Died while attempting half marathon" on my gravestone. I don't know about you, but I think that's a pretty badass thing to have on my grave marker 🤷🏻‍♀️. Blah. End of rant. Wish me luck, I'll definitely need it! I should probably go watch that stupid Brittany movie again too. 🤪🤪🤪

Also, I did 5 miles today. Maybe I'll do 6 next weekend.

Heaviest weight perhaps

 I have been eating garbage and am close to or above my previous heavy weight.  So now I'm doing whole30.  Today is day 1.

Breakfast: scrambled eggs

Lunch: apples and almond butter, tea

Dinner: ribs and sweet potato fries

Snacks: almonds 

Exercise: went in a walk but got snowed on

I gained weight

 Up to 140 lbs.  Thighs really rubbing on the run. I wanna get down to 130 but first I gotta stop eating oreos and froot loops from the drs lounge every day so I'm gonna start writing down everything I eat and then all my readers can judge me.  I have so many readers

5k

This one time I ran a sub 35 5k

2 miles

Not too bad. Cold but ok.

Jane's fastest 5k!!!

Well, apparently that was my fastest 5k ever. Thought I might so 2 miles, but got to 2.5 and decided to just get to 5k. Nice day for a run, not too hot. So weird that less than 2 months ago, I was running 4 miles a few times a week!

2 miles

Well, it was hard, but I made it happen. There were a ton of people outside today, walking, talking, walking their dogs, and some just standing around. Made me super uncomfortable. Also, this old white dude gave me a dirty look while shaking his head. Not sure if he was mad at the crowd of people, me for running, me for being Asian, or life in general. Anyways. I hope I don't get covid from running outside.