Yeah so I have done 5 miles. I've done 6 miles. All in my training for the Hot Chocolate 15K. But I haven't run the whole entire time. I'm still kind of figuring out my fitness level and quite honestly I might be allowing myself to walk when I don't need to. Whatever the case, my running mojo isn't quite where it was before I got sick. But yesterday I left work, drove to the park in town to start running so that I could beat sunset. The town I work in is much more hilly than the town I live in. So I was worried about running the whole 5. There's a 1 mile loop at the park that has some hills that look small, but 5 times around would be killer. So I went around it once, then headed to the main street which is more flat. I ran till I hit 2.5 and then turned around and ran back to the park doing another loop. I was pretty proud of myself!
The funny thing here is that the pace of 11:36 is the *same* pace as the last time I did 5 miles when I walked 1/4th of a mile in the middle. I find that amusing and disappointing.
Remember the phone drama I spoke of in my last post? We returned all the phones to Best Buy on Saturday and rolled back our contract. I'm not sure what we will do. I honestly want my husband to get on his own plan. Why? Because I don't think we'll be together for 2 more years. So separating the plans later would be more complicated. I guess that's only *if* I upgrade the 2 year contract. Otherwise, the no contract options that providers are doing these days would be much easier to separate.
So here I am back to my cracked Galaxy S4 and hating every minute. The phone is laggy and the cracked screen is annoying. Plus I think it's kind of faulty to touch as when I'm typing suddenly words that I had no intention of typing are flying on the screen. Oh well. I also took the insurance on all these phones off my Sprint plan cause let's be honest - that's a scam.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!
Well I guess I was consistent this week and maybe the Friday weigh in isn't really helping. I don't know I just can't seem to buckle down and be clean all the time. I really want to hang around 181 for a while. I just gotta buckle down and do it I guess. But at least I pretty much just stayed the same this week.
I have been running and following Hal Higdon's training plan for the 15K. This was a step back week so not too much to report. So far I've done two 3-mile runs on the treadmill. I have a 4 mile run this weekend. Last night's run on the treadmill was one of my best feeling runs since I started running after my illness. I'd really like to get my fitness level back and be able to run consistently without any walk breaks.
There's been some cell phone drama going on. I have three lines on my Sprint account: me, my husband and my mom. And we were due for upgrades. And we could still get a subsidized phone on Sprint and get another 2 year contract. All phone providers are going to the lease a phone, no contract options. So we upgraded last Friday and got three Samsung Galaxy S6 phones. And we hate the battery life. I adore the freaking phone but despise the battery life. And so that makes me worry what it will be like in 6 months. . . 12 months. . the whole second year of owning it? So we are pondering switching to Verizon just for the Motorola Droid Turbo 2. It is shatterproof which is amazing. But I've only own Samsung smartphones. And I've only ever been with Sprint. So there's some anxiety in switching and I don't know which way I want to go. This is causing arguments with my husband and I. And tears of stress with me. Just over a phone. Honestly though for me, the issue is really that my life is pretty stressful and sucky that the little things are stressing me out more. What to do? I have unlimited data on Sprint. Should I really switch and pay more/same for LIMITED data?! AH!!! Any advice is welcome. :)
