Good news, and bad news

This week is week 2 of my "healthy life" blog, and I have good news and bad news.

Good news first: my running is getting better/faster.  On Monday I had a fairly good run, but it was cut short because Neal wasn't feeling well (he accidentally took 2 servings of pre workout rather than 1) so I ran 1.29 miles at an average 4.6 MPH.  Wednesday my workout sucked.  There is no other word for it.  I did a quick workout because Neal still hadn't really recovered from Monday.  I had a crappy run, and when the treadmill didn't even give me my workout summary so I could figure out my average, I got so fed up that I stretched and we went home.  Today, however, was an AWESOME workout.  I ran 1.6 miles at an average 4.8 MPH.  That's .7 MPH faster than I was running 2 weeks ago, and .5 MPH faster than I was running a week ago.  Boo-yah!  I also went up to 10 lb free weights for most of my arm exercises today, which was 5 lbs more than what I was doing.  So, at the end of my free weights piece, I was feeling pretty good.

Then, I went over to the bench press...aka the thing I have been avoiding for the last 2 weeks.  When I worked out regularly before, I would press 3 sets of 8 at 90 lbs.  I decided to use just the bar to get myself worked up, and to show myself that I hadn't lost as much muscle as I secretly knew I had.  I kept thinking, "Oh, the bar will be easy and then I can move up quick."  WRONG! I did 3 sets of 8 with a standard bar (45 lbs) and could barely get the last set done!  What was even worse is that when I was done, I stood up to stretch, and my arms were stiff and would shake any time I tried to push/pull on something.  Awesome.  My strength has literally been cut in half in my arms.

BUT, being the person that I am, this has just motivated me even more.  Here are my goals:
Run 1.5 miles at an average 5.5 MPH (which, mean running actually faster than 5.5 MPH because I include my warm up and cool down in that average).
Be able to do 3 sets of 8 @ 75 lbs on the bench press.
Use 10 lb weights for all of the free weight portion of my workout.

Hooray!
(Can anyone else tell I'm still hyped up on endorphin?  Bahahaha!)