Day 6

I DID IT!

That's right. Jogging was ROUGH today. Halfway through I had this massive side ache that encouraged me to give up. I battled with myself as this searing pain rolled up my side and you know what I said?

SCREW IT!

Oddly enough (and I feel like I've heard this somewhere), the movement helped it go away. I got so excited that I didn't give into old habits that I got Penny to jump around with me for a minute of celebration.

Another thing that just kept running through my mind was a quote that a friend posted on one of my blog entries. In case you didn't see it, it said:

"Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up."

-Dean Karnazes

Even though I was in pain I kept thinking, it doesn't matter how crappy my form is, or that I'm shuffling my feet as I jog, as long as I don't give up.

What a great day.

Also, here's another reason I love jogging with Penny.

This is her favorite thing to do on our way to go jogging. Once we're at 50 mph she starts to bite the air. It's hilarious. (In case you were wondering this was taken while we were stopped. I ain't crazy).

So after my hard run, my muscles hurt puuuurty bad. Luckily, I took a trip to Lush and spent some birthday money there a couple weeks ago. I got one of their cool bath bombs:

This is their Rose Queen bath bomb. It smells terrific and apparently it has some healing-ish, calming qualities or whatever. It was definitely not what I thought it was going to be though. The ball started to dissolve and then all these...things started coming out of it. It was like bits of rose and lavender but I felt like I was taking a bath with a bunch of little bugs. It was still awesome! And I'll for sure buy more of them cause they smell divine and it helped my legs, but it was just so strange.

As far as the rest of my day goes, I went to a wrestling match with Ryan and now I'm making a Valentines cake so we can celebrate early. I love the weekends.

Running song of the day: Who Run the World, Beyonce