June Goals

So, I accomplished my goal! I lifted weights twice a week for the month of May! This is the music I got as my reward! I'm not sure if I feel any different for it though....I don't know if I feel stronger or if I feel like I look any better. I have decided that I really like this goal setting thing. I have been trying to come up with goals for June now. I think I want to buy a special little notebook where I can write down my workouts for the day and possibly what I have eaten for that day too. I want to be able to see improvement in my workouts. I also want to look at what I have eaten. I know I can improve my diet.

I think for June my goals will be as follows:

1. Continue to lift weights twice a week.
2. Run (hopefully) 3 times a week.
3. Write daily exercise and food entries into a fitness notebook.

I say hopefully run 3 times a week because my sacroiliac joint has been giving me problems if I run too hard on it. I did really well in May by running twice a week like I wanted to, but at the end of the month I ran a really fast five mile run, (when I say fast, I mean fast for me...about 44minutes) and it was really sore after I finished. It has been bothering me a little ever since.

I want to work on my running because I am tentatively planning on running a half marathon in the fall called the Whistlesop. I really want to PR at this race. My best HM time is 2:04. My easy goal would be to just beat this time. My realistic yet harder goal would be to get under 2 hours. I feel like this is a good one to shoot for. I have to work hard to reach it, but it's definitely not impossible. My super hard goal would be to finish in 1:50. This is really an out-of-the-park kind of goal though, so I don't know if I can accomplish it. More of a wishful thinking kind of goal.

Oh! I went to the cabin last weekend and tried out an app on my phone for exercise! It was actually pretty cool. It's called Endomondo. It uses GPS to track how far you have run. Every mile it tells you the distance you have run and how fast you ran it. At the end it saves your workout and gives your splits for each  mile so you can compare them. You can also compare different workouts with each other so you can see any improvements! You can use it for other things like biking too, but I'm not a huge fan of biking. My butt always gets sore! I have the cushiest seat possible on my bike too, so you would think I would be comfortable! Anyways it was really cool and fun to use. I'm not sure how accurate it is though. I think it might make the  miles slightly shorter than they really are. Some of my times were a little fast for me. I plan on taking it on one of my normal runs here at home where I know the distance to see what it says about how far I go. I just haven't done it yet because I have to carry a fanny pack to put my phone in, and I feel kind of dorky doing that when I'm only running four or five miles. If I run 14 or more miles  I don't feel dorky at all wearing a fanny pack with water, but for some reason if I'm running a short distance wearing a fanny/water bottle, I feel like a loser. Weird right!? I mean who's going to know how far I am running anyway? They can't  judge!

Well that's the update!  I mostly just didn't know what I wanted to write about, so another goal entry seemed appropriate haha. I think the next entry will actually be something interesting.