Git Fit or Die Tryin'

Happy Thursday, tweethearts.

As a follow up to yesterday's post - thanks for the feedback! - more info about my wedding-day ensemble.  My hair will be pulled back.  The dress is strapless (as are 99.6% of all wedding dresses, much to my chagrin), but I am wearing a lace bolero to cover my shoulders while in the church.  I am wearing a veil, although a simpler one than I had planned because I think things might get a little "busy" up top with too much accessorizing, blah blah.

But my little lace bolero will arrive from China any day now... (not kidding, more details to come depending on how bad it is), and I think a good try-on session is in order once that happens. 

I'm leaning towards the smaller ones, but I think I'll probably return those and buy a pair on Etsy.  There are literally hundreds of similar styles, I just need to pick.  My only nervousness is that I have purchased items on Etsy before, only to be disappointed that the "sparkle" I had envisioned was in pictures only and didn't translate to real life.  Soo.... if you have a favorite Etsy seller of fine, sparkly jewelry.... let me know!

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I'm sorry, was I going to talk about something besides weddings?  Unclear.

So, I have a wedding approaching in about 114 days.  Gulp. 

And unlike most of the brides I know, I haven't whitened my teeth, gone on a major diet, signed up for boot camp, or... well, anything really.  I would venture to say I'm mostly the exact same girl who got engaged on August 15th.

Little older, little wiser (maybe), slightly more likely to chug wine directly from the bottle.  At 9 am.

After a month of semi-fitness in March/April.... I've fallen off the bandwagon so hard it's left bruises.  Which leaves me staring into the eyes of my long-lost nemesis.  Running. 

Please don't judge me for my white socks.  They're my favorite, ok?

I finally busted out the new running shoes I got in January (!!), and tonight I need to refresh the music in my Couch to 5K app.  

You know, once I tear through my house and get ready for the garage sale I'm having bright and early tomorrow morning.

Who thought that was a good idea, exactly?

Clearly, I'm full of good ideas and dubious intentions.

Now excuse me, I have a bandwagon I'm clinging on to for dear life.

Any suggestions for my running playlist?  I'm so boring and have horrible taste in music.  Says Mr. RH.

Like he knows anything.  :)

Happy Thursday!

Couch to 5k

Are you sitting down right now? Cause you might need to be.

No! Not like that, Mr. RH and I are not married and expecting a baby. CALM DOWN!

Moving along.

I just finished Week 6 of Couch to 5k.

That's right, I've been exercising at least 3 times a week for the past 6 weeks and this is the first time I'm posting about it. I know, I don't even know who I am anymore either.

If you've been reading this blog for most any length of time, you know that I hate exercise. HATE IT. Loathe.

In 2009 I completed a successful course of the 30 Day Shred with an awesome group of bloggy ladies. It was good and I enjoyed it, but my knees were killing me and I promptly dropped off the wagon on the 28th of September. NICE!

Since then, I have done the Shred intermittently (most recently in March) but I could never really get into it. I always wimped out and ended up quitting a couple of minutes early - which is lame because the workout is about 25 minutes long.

I had seen the couch to 5k hype on twitter and I was intrigued, but my dad talked me out of it. My dad has been doing triathlons since I can remember and runs at least 3 times a week.

And one day, after a particularly uninspired round of The Shred, I downloaded couch to 5k. And sat on it for a week.

Took my time adding a playlist. Which, come to think of it, needs updated badly. I am sick of all my songs!

My first week, I thought I might die. It wasn't so much the running - the moving of my feet - that was hard so much as it was my cardiovascular un-fitness. I was out of shape!

Since then, I try and do the program every other day. I plan it around my work schedule (I don't run if I have an 8 am meeting) and I don't skip, even on the weekends. I find that the days that I run I am starving all day but also super-energetic.

I'm finally drinking the Kool-Aid and am totally feeling a tiny twinge of the exercise high that everyone always talks about (and I never understood).

Today's goal was 25 minutes of uninterrupted running. If you had asked me to do that 6 weeks ago, I probably couldn't have made it around the block. Did I have to take about 1.5 minutes of walking breaks? Yes I did, although I think that has to do with the ungodly heat and humidity Indiana's torturing me with.

Anyway, this post doesn't have much of a point except to say:
A) Couch to 5k is kinda awesome
B) running means you can consume more margaritas/ice cream/Mexican food/junk with your new BOYFRIEND with fewer fat rolls and
C) I am awesome.

Carry on. Happy Tuesday.