Cardio and Legs to the max!

Gym double days...oh what fun you might say, no not really you must be thinking " what a crazy ass Mexican! She is gonna kill herself!" Well no pain, no gain right? Not a lot of people know why I am actually working out so much these past few weeks.

To start with, when I went home for 2 weeks on RnR the running bug bit me and didn't leave at all. I found myself waking up each morning at 0600 and find the streets clear with a few Soldiers doing PT in the morning and then there was me. Blasting endless fist pumping tune and just pounding pavement. I even pounded myself into a self driven 13.1 mile run, just to see if I was capable of running 13.1 straight miles. I surprised myself when I finished with 2 hours and 18 minutes. Not race pace material but the fact that I did it wanted me to do more and push myself more. So it has now been almost 2 weeks since I have come back to Afghanistan to finish the rest of my deployment. So far I have only missed one day of working out since the new year. Crazy?! yes! Insane?! not yet but getting there.

Now I am not going to say what I will be doing in the next 11 weeks but I really do hope I can pull it off....But as the time goes along I know my work outs are going to get harder and longer. Today was as grueling as it can get when you have not lifted weights in a while. I felt that pain with me all day from my butt to my toes. 45 mins of what seemed like endless sets and reps of 25 can be discouraging, but I know I need to work in strength training to build my runner's form and of course to burn fat. Cardio today was something I dreaded and did not want to have any part of, I some how forced myself to cross train on the treadmill, bike and stair stepper for an hour and a half. 35 miles on the bike, 4 miles on the treadmill and 10 minutes of the stair stepper was all my legs could handle today. A nice stretch, a cold shower and a pain pill did me some good before I turn in. lol

I'm sure as you are reading this you are thinking "what the hell is she smoking?" honestly I wish I knew. I am calling this an intervention, I am 30 years old, considered obese with a body fat of more than 34% and I want to change that. I don't mean by being a size 2 and never eating a carb. It's about getting healthy and being able to challenge myself and to push my body harder than I have pushed it before. Working out should be like breathing, it should come natural and with out a doubt done everyday. Let me just stop here before I start rambling on and on about this lol I have to get a good thought of mind flow before I put my foot in my mouth lol...now its time to stretch one last time and hit the sack to do this in a few hours again. =)