AAAARGH!

So I decided to do a run/walk outside yesterday instead of trying to deal with all of the madness that is involved in going to the gym. I figured it would be great to not have the hassle of fighting for a treadmill and I could just go outside do my little routine like I do at the gym and everything would be great. Apparently I must have been drinking the Kool-Aid at work. When I was putting my clothes on I felt like this was going to be the greatest exercise day yet and that little singing bluebirds were going to fly out of my ass as I went along too. Cuz after all shouldn't my great workout also make the world a little bit brighter as well. As you can probably guess from the title of the post. None of that happened. It was a bad day and a bad evening workout all together. Here's what happened.

First I spent the day being hassled by the bossman about the project I was working on. He came in, gave me a ton of notes and then came back an hour later wondering why everything wasn't done. Then gave me some more notes for the road. Then came back wondering why the project wasn't done. Then sat with me for fifteen minutes making changes to stuff and then leaving me telling me he didn't like it. Then about twenty odd minutes later I got a call from the other editor telling me they had another project that needed to be started and that mine was going to be put on hold and that I wasn't needed anymore. So I figured at least I can go home and have a great workout.

Fast forward to the workout. I did just as I would do on a treadmill. I had my five minute warmup walk. Then I started running. Again I don't know if I'm just running too fast outside or what. I tried to keep my speed to what felt like the same speed as the gym but I have no real way of telling. Long story short I wasn't running for as long as I felt I should be able to at this point. And found myself mostly walking. To make things worse, being outside made my allergies flair up so about the last mile I couldn't breathe very well. Now I remember why I didn't like to go outside that much. All told I still did about three miles which is cool. It was just really frustrating. One day I feel like I'm making progress and getting somewhere and the next I feel like I'm back to square one. I think I might need to reassess where I am and where I want to be and maybe retool my workout plan. Maybe I just need to concentrate more on getting in shape right now and not the actual running part. Suggestions etc. would be greatly appreciated. Sorry I haven't done a weigh in lately either. As of this morning I'm at 268. So down 10 from the beginning so that's decent. I knew this wasn't going to be easy and it hasn't been at all, but having you all to kvetch too has been helpful and cathartic.