Gotta start somewhere!!

Had a great workout day.  Met with my trainer this morning and had a good hour of strength training.  It's been a weird warm couple of days here in Ohio and that for some reason makes the gym HOT.  I was already starting to sweat before I even got off the treadmill from warming up.  By the end of the hour I was a gross mess!  But it felt awesome.  It's sometimes still hard for me to not get bothered that I can't do more...I feel like I shouldn't get out of breath so easily or have to rest so much.  I hate when Aaron says 'just catch your breath for a second, it's ok'.  But then I try to remember where I was when I started and how I could never have done any of the things I am doing now back then.  I always feel like I should apologize if I have to rest, or if I have a hard time with something...I try not to but I just don't want him to think that I'm weak or something.  He has another client and whenever she says something negative he makes her do burpees.  He reminds me of that sometimes and asks if I want to do burpees...that usually shuts me right up. ;)

After training today I decided to kill another hour or so on the treadmill while Luke was still at the gym's childcare center.  It was awesome!  Felt so good.  I haven't tried to run a whole lot since my hip had been hurting but it's been feeling a lot better so the other day I decided just to give it a shot.  Jami and I had walked for about 5 or so miles so when we were done I decided to just try it for a quarter mile.  The hip has been feeling so much better, and I really have no explanation as to why.  I tried a different pair of shoes for a couple of weeks and that seemed to help, but I was getting blisters so horribly that I went back to my old ones.  So I tried that quarter mile and it went awesome!  Look, I know that's basically nothing, but with how bad my hip had been aching it was a lot, and the C25K I was doing only had me at 1 min at a time.  I was proud of myself!  So today, I decided it was half mile time.  I walked a mile and a half and then turned it up and just told myself to get to 2 miles.  And I did!  I actually probably could have gone a little longer...and that is AFTER an hour of training!  I am really feeling excited about my progress.  I can't wait to hop on the treadmill and see how far I can go when I'm not already worn out.  And guess what......no hip pain!  I can't believe it feels so much better.  I guess all I had to do was make an appointment with the doctor haha:)  If this keeps up I'm just going to cancel it.  Yay!

So excited for the future!  I love this feeling of strength:)  I can do this!!