A little love of my favorite color- -ORANGE(theory)

I have been trying hard to not get upset over the fact that I pulled a muscle in my armpit. It has been very sore and honestly it shook me up. I am not a big fan of weight (surprise!) and with doing 21 day fix extreme last week, I stepped out of my comfort zone and got in some pretty great workouts. With that being said though, I miss running. While thinking a lot about my hiatus from running a couple things became very clear to me. First, I am a obsessive overtraining machine. I like to workout (a lot) and sometimes my 36 year old body reeeaaaallllyyy doesn't appreciate me. Second, as much as I love my treadmill, I do not like running on it in under 20 degree weather. With that being said, I have now signed up for the Love Run Half in Philadelphia at the end of March.
Have I been running? Funny you should ask that because the answer is a resounding NO!
I feel like this last year, I have grown so much into the person that I am truly meant to be and the part that has been missing in the person is the running part.
I know that marathons are out of the question for me. I don't have the time required to train for them and I honestly don't want to. It puts ton of stress on my family life and why would I want to do that?

So, if I don't want to do longer runs in my garage in sub 20 degree weather, what AM I going to do?

Enter Orangetheory.

The Orangetheory Fitness training session is comprised of three components: treadmill interval training blocks, indoor rowing and weight room or resistance training blocks.

A lot of my running friends RAVE about OT and we had a location open literally 5 minutes away from my front door so why not try it out. My friend Tara invited me to go with her and at first I was a bit hesitant. I haven't run since November (except the 2 miles I ran last night in order to get ready for today :)). They offer classes that start at 5:30 am, which normally would be WAY to early for me but the hubs was on board and I set up my free trial class. You see, I don't generally push myself when I am running. I generally run for the love of it and I don't see that changing any time soon. One of the reasons that I went on my running hiatus was that it wasn't fun anymore. Training and running 100 miles a week= not FUN! 

I was nervous when I got there and they handed my the heart rate monitor. I have never exercised with one on before and like I said, I don't usually push myself very hard. I started out on the floor circuit which involved...weights (UGH!) Normally, I would go for the lightest weights available but the instructor wasn't having that. So, I used 12 lb weights! That may not sound like a lot o you, but to me its 7+ from what I am used to using (in each arm). I struggled a little bit but I promised myself that I was going to embrace the experience. 

The interesting thing to me about OT is that is a lot like what I feel that Crossfit probably looks like but with more technology. Where in crossfit you lift tires at OT you have treadmills and rowing machines. (I digress) I also like the fact that there is a WOD and that when I go back tomorrow, the workout will be completely different. 

My plan is to go to OT 2x's a week and to do a cross training DVD 2x's a week plus do my long runs on Saturdays (it sounds like a lot, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't do some crazy scheduled workouts). I can not wait for it to get warm outside so that I can run OUTSIDE in the HEAT!!! 
It's time to get back to RUNCRAZYKYLE....now if only I could go run at Disney :(