I freaking did it!!!

So I ment to post the last two days and it just didn't happen, but I have exciting news (well to me at least) I DID MY FIRST OUTSIDE RUN!!!!! Woot woot it was supposed to be 55 and sunny today so I decided it would be a good day for my first outside run and instead its cloudy and 47 womp womp :-( I almost didn't go but I got my butt out there and I did it!!! And not only did I do it, but I did better than I thought I would. We have a park with a lake and it's a mile around it so I figured I would run around it three times, WRONG. I went around it once and decided I was going to die if I had to go around this freaking thing 2 more times. So I just went off meandering around the area and decided I would listen to 9 songs and it would be about the 28 minutes I was shooting for. Whoops guess I should mention I was using an app on my phone to track my workout. So after 9 songs I stopped my workout and when I went to look at it I'd gone 3.15 miles in 31:38 minutes!!! I was so freaking excited! 30 more seconds and I would of had my 3.2! So I officially know that I can go the distance of the 5k and that I can run outside and not just on the treadmill :-) I'm pretty damn proud of myself this is a big accomplishment for someone who had never ran more than a mile! I definitely liked running outside better than on the treadmill, I might have to take after SkinnyMeg and start calling it the dreadmill. I still felt like I was dying about 95% of the time, but at least the time went faster. I do have to say about the last mile it started to feel easier so hopefully that is a good sign!

In other news this weekend I decided I was going to go to the natural grocer here and get some coconut oil and see if it's as awesome as everyone says. I am not so sure about it so far, but we will see. Sunday afternoon and Monday morning I made a smoothie and put it 2 pretty large spoonfuls of it. It mixed it in pretty well, but you can definitely taste it and it kinda gives it a weird texture. It's not terrible, but takes a little getting used to.

Unfortunately both days it made me feel sick to my stomach :-( I am going to try taking less and work my way up and see what happens. My research shows that I need to be eating about 3.5 tbsp a day so not sure how I am going to get to that! I don't think I will ever be able to just down it by the spoonful so I am going to have to find some other stuff to add it to. I have heard a lot of people put it in coffee and tea so I might have to give that a shot.  Anyone have any ideas on what to put it in??  The last two mornings I have been running too late to make a smoothie, freaking story of my life! So we will give it a try tomorrow again and see what happens. I also tried putting some on my face yesterday because I hear all these miracle stories about it and I actually think it does work! Unfortunately I was blessed with crap skin that is always breaking out somewhere and currently I have like 3 of them and it made all 3 of them smaller so I am pretty impressed.

All and all it's been a pretty good few days I am feeling very confident that I am going to make it through the 5k in 3 weeks as long as its not raining, snowing, cold, or windy haha I am a fair weather runner :-) My knee I had knee surgery on is a little sore, but I think that is just the norm of adjusting, so I'm not too worried. Yesterday I ate like freaking CRAP so hopefully the rest of this week I will do better and be able to start seeing some results. Can't wait till my next outside run! Till then I will be hiding inside from this stupid snowstorm coming.