Yesterday's W.O.D.

I.

HATE.

RUNNING.

.period-dot-the-end.

seriously, me and running have never gotten along. 

I once ran a 9 minute mile in high school for cheerleading tryouts, but it never happened again. Haha. I'm just horrible at it. My form is all wrong and I can barely get through one lap without huffing and puffing. And the shittiest part about running is that, I know the only way I can improve at it is to just keep running.

UGH..

anyways enough crying Chryssi and get to the story.

yesterday's w.o.d.

(workout of the day)

back squats

followed by:

2 mile run for time

(25 min limit)

F * * K 

okay, okay, maybe 2 miles isn't that bad to you, and maybe when you read that you were all, "oh 25 minutes to finish, sweet that's more than enough!" But when I saw that wod, my first instinct was to fake sick and go home! I even tried to convince the trainer that I had already finished with the previous class and he just didn't notice I was there. He didn't buy it. Lame. So I sucked it up, put on my big girl panties and just did the damn thing.

Going into it I had 3 main goals.
*Finish
*Finish without falling
*Finish without stopping to walk

Notice I wasn't too concerned about time. I chose to ignore the clock.
25minutes for me was just highly unlikely. I accepted it and moved on.
For the most part, the run started out the same in my head.

100m-'alright i got this'
200m-'..whew..control your breathing chryssi...you're a machine..'
400m-'...nice, 1 lap down 7 more to go..no biggie..'
401m-'...wtf...did i just get lapped already?!...'
600m-'...is this seriously only my 2nd lap....no...maybe it's my 3rd....wait..no it's my 2nd..damn..'


Now around 800m is where i really start to hate my life.
 I can't breath, I'm sweating like crazy, and if one more person passes me and says, "good job chryssi, keep it up" I swear I'll trip them. (if I can even catch up to them) And all this crap is going through my head, 'I hate running', 'I can't do this 6 more times', 'There's no way I'm going to finish on time' 
etc.
etc.

But something happened after that 2nd lap, I chose to stop being so damn negative.
My new mantra going through my head was:
I just want to finish.
I just want to finish.
and lo and behold, I finished.....within the time limit!

22:47 2miler! :)

It was my first time running that distance without stopping, and as of now that's my best time! 

So...yay Chryssi you can run, who the heck cares?! 

hahaha

I guess what I'm getting at is, yesterday I learned a huge thing about myself.

My mind is the only thing holding myself back.

I walked into that wod yesterday already defeated. In my mind I had already decided, that I hated running, I sucked at it, and there was no way I could do it in the allotted time.

It was only until I let go of those thoughts, I could actually achieve my goal and then some!!

It's not because I finally got my form right or my stamina is better...these are things that I still need to improve on. The only thing that changed was my attitude.

Anyways, Sorry I went all "the secret" on you guys! 

haha

but, I hope y'all enjoyed! 

See ya tomorrow

-Chryssi