Revelations of a different kind

Sundays are my pampering-myself-days. (I've started out only recently. No more tomboy for me, Audrey Hepburn here I come.) And this whole day is geared towards caring for myself. I do my hair, skin and so on. (Hey, I finally have the eyebrows I've always wanted. It took only 1 hour of plucking! ;-) It's all about feeling good about myself and my appearance. And the revelation for me is right here, because it makes me feel so much better while I'm doing it and afterwards, it's FUN!!!

I know what you think, what has that to do with me getting to the Ironman Hawaii?! Well, what I realized a few minutes ago is that, I wanted to do the whole training and Ironman thing to proof myself. To proof to myself and my family and my friends that I could do it. (Same thing with losing the excess weight, I'm still in the "normal" range though on the upper end of the spectrum. And the 100 Day Challenge.) Nothing wrong with that, you might say, BUT it took the fun out of it. I really struggled and thats not good for keeping things up. I have to enjoy training to go for it again and again and again...

What now, you might ask. Do I still want to do the Ironman? The answer is a definitive YES. But I want to do it for the fun of it, for the feeling when I take part on the public runs and competitions. For the runners high. I've experienced it once, it IS absolutely fantastic. But all this I want to enjoy. I don't want to punish myself with running, exactly 1 hour every day or every second day. I want to enjoy both the training and the challenge.

So. I will start out with training again when I'm ready. Right now my priority is finding a new job (it's harder than I thought) and getting that wintercoat from Desigual (and learning how to wear heels the whole day).

By the way in exactly two weeks from now I will hike in the west of Ireland. It's VACATION TIME!!! Finally.

So, enjoy your life.

Starting out

on my journey towards the Ironman Hawaii. 

Let me introduce myself. My nickname is San, I'm a 31 year old girl originally from Leipzig (Germany). I've never been actually sporty, in fact in PE I got always  really bad marks. Anyway. About 1 1/2 years ago I've decided to do the Ironman Hawaii. The problem at that point, I never had run 10 k without walking a good part of it. I've ran the 10 k last year during my first Halfmarathon. Which I finished in 2:56 hrs. Bad time, but I finished it!  This was April 2008, after that my ambitions floated away. The end was that until 2 days ago, I didn't know anymore what my big goal in life was. Unbelievable but true, I had totally forgotten about the Ironman! 

But since there are a lot of changes ahead, I started searching my soul to find out what I want to achieve in my life. And guess what, there it was again, right in front of me. Just took me two long walks to rediscover it. 

Anyway now I'm back on track and already did my first workout in months. It went surprisingly well, considering how long I haven't been running outdoors. Come think of it, my last outdoor run probably has been the early morning run in San Francisco, December 6th, 2008. 

Okay, here are todays stats.

Time: 38 min.

In Zone: 31 min.

Ave. Heartrate: 150 bpm

My zone is 132 to 163 bpm. I don't have a glue how long the round was, but probably no longer than 3 k. I'm slow. First goal is 10k in 70 min., to get a training schedule from Peter Greif.

I'm so proud. I even was on a little bike tour with some friends and I withstood the temptation of buying myself a piece of "Streuselkuchen", which is a cake I absolutely love!!! This is a really good day. 

Have a nice Pfingsten!