Five miles run and done before 6:25 a.m. Sounds great, but it started out quite miserable.
When the alarm went off this morning, I was so tempted to tell Ryan to head to the gym without me. I wanted to sleep in and blow off the run I had scheduled on my half marathon training plan.
As I took my time peeling myself out from underneath the covers (okay, the sheet – it’s 80 degrees in our house), I called upon one of my exercise mantras to get my butt moving.
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
My body wasn’t tired. I felt well-rested and knew I could churn out a run, but staying in bed sounded so much more appealing. Still, I knew I’d feel awesome after knocking out five miles, so I sucked it up and went to the gym with Ryan and got it done.
I upped my pace a bit and then walked 0.1 miles every time I reached a mile, leading up to five. It kept me more engaged in the run and made each mile feel like a mini accomplishment.
I spent a good 10 minutes after my run stretching and foam rolling. I did lots of stretches for my hips, including my favorite yoga stretch. It felt fantastic. I need to spend more time stretching after runs!
Breakfast
Today’s breakfast was another oatmeal banana combination winner.
I made the oats by boiling milk on the stovetop and then adding old fashioned oats, a sliced banana, cinnamon and a tablespoon of honey to the mix. I let everything bubble on a medium heat until the oats thickened (about six minutes).
Such a good breakfast!
Quotes of Interest
Since we’re on the topic of exercise mantras and motivational or inspiring quotes in general, I thought I’d share a few of my current favorites with you. (All pictures found via Pinterest.)
Question of the Morning
- What quote are you loving lately?
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I love the last one!! Mind over matter. You are in control of your own destiny and happiness 🙂
Dr. Seus has the best quotes! 🙂
“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
kim, i love that quote!
and susan, your blog is adorable! i just popped over and can’t want to follow along.
Hey Julie!
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy reading your blog everyday. You have completely inspired me to start my own healthy living blog which I have been working on putting together. I was wondering maybe we could chat over email sometime and you could just give me a few tips and tricks to running a successful blog? Hope you have a great day! 🙂
woops! i just replied ABOVE your comment on accident!
your breakfast looks so good! 🙂
im loving this quote right now:
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me.
– Dr. Seuss
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. -Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
It keeps me whipping up new adventures even if I just want to be lazy all day, every day.
Love those mantras, Julie! You are so inspiring!
The quote I am loving lately is from E.E. Cummings’ poem “I Carry Your Heart with Me.” I love the line: “I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my heart.” It makes me think of others and what they are going through and makes me so appreciative of what I have.
Stay lovely,
Heather
I just blogged last night about stretching. I am SOOOO bad about it. Grr. I could be having a giant coffee or something, anything, (stalking Johnny Iuzzini) instead of stretching. I have to FORCE myself to do it.
“change your thoughts and you’ll change your world”
Gah, I love that quote at the top, and I was seriously needing some inspiration to try and push my runs a little harder. Now, I will forever be repeating that in my head.
I also love the “People are just as happy as they make their minds up to be.”I have lived at each end of that spectrum, and it’s totally true!
I love that quote “sometimes things all apart just so other things can fall together” 🙂 I find quotes so inspiring!
It’s funny that you put up “Things fall apart so that other things can fall together” because I just had that on my FB the other day! I recently broke up with my fiance who I had been with for 6 years…it wasn’t a good relationship and now that I am out of it I look back and wonder why it lasted so long. Since then, I have met someone who is just amazing!! This quote obviously has a TON of meaning for me right now 🙂
That last one reminds me of Brittany from A Healthy Slice! She’s always so happy and seems to make the best of everything.
Awesome motivational post!!!
Great going on the run! I love the quotes above, especially the arguement one–> I’m guilty of always RSVP’ing! Have you tried egg whites stirred in your oatmeal?? As an eggs-lover, I know you’d love it…always feels like I’m eating a pancake in bowl-form!
Ah, I love quotes. I have a whole book full of them from over the past several years!
A couple of my favorites are:
“Growing old is inevitable, growing up is purely optional.”
“If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn’t oversleep.”
“If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.”
“If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money can’t buy.”
My favorite quote is:
If you refuse to accept anything less than the best in life, you very often get it.
It inspires me to work hard and not settle for mediocre 🙂
Love those quotes – my favorite is “Excellence is not an act, but a habit”.
Oooh, I love Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/MsLeanne/)! I also have a board full of my favorite inspirational quotes but my new favorite: ”
Whether it’s a 14 minute mile or a 7 minute mile, it’s still a mile.”
It’s really gotten me through!
i like that a lot!
I love these quotes! Right now I am loving this quote: “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh.
I love all of those quotes! The quote I love the most is a Dr. Seuss one about those who care don’t matter and those who matter don’t care. Ha – I hope you know what I’m talking about 🙂
yes! “those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
fave quote of all time.
I always love inspirational quotes. They’re so motivating and encouraging. All of the ones you posted are great!
ahh i am always looking for great quotes (especially movie quotes!) i saw a good one of pinterest the other day
“Breathe it all in, love it all out.”
very calming!
I just posted a Pinterest quote on my blog yesterday! 🙂 It was, “Let go of things you cannot control.” Something I desperately need to do!
those quotes are great!
my two favourites are “every morning the world is created” – mary oliver
and
“you don’t have to be tall to see the moon” – african proverb.
I ADORE the “things fall apart so everything else can fall together” and the happiness one.
an all-time fave of mine:
“be deliriously happy, or at least leave yourself open to be.
fall head over heels. forget your head and listen to your heart. run the risk. if you get hurt, you’ll come back.”
and a close second:
“maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed.
maybe they’re supposed to run wild until they
find someone just as wild to run with.” 😉 (good ol’ sex & the city)
My fav quote lately is “The grass isn’t greener on the other side. The grass is greener where you water it”.
This helps me concentrate on the things I DO have and love instead of letting myself feel sorry for myself about what I don’t have 🙂
Love this! I’m totally stealing this one 😉
Because I just celebrated our first anniversary;
“Alone can do little; together we can do so much”. Helen Keller.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
Favorite quote ever! Quotes can seriously get me through anything! So powerful.
i looove thoreau.
I like all of these quotes! Isn’t Pinterest great?! 🙂 One I’ve been loving lately is “the hardest first steps for a runner are the first few out the door” (or some variation of that!). It’s so true!
Came across this one recently–it was attributed to Olympic Runner Patti Sue Plummer:
“Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don’t think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.”
I hope to one day get to that level! My evening workouts get tougher and tougher as fall rolls around. Blankets + books + chai tea on the couch sound MUCH more appealing!
I love inspiring quotes, and those are great ones! Pinterest is awesome for this kind of stuff…and every kind of stuff.
My fave quote is the Dr. Seuss one (people who mind don’t matter…) and “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude”
Definitely words to live by.
Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it. (Unknown) 🙂
Great quotes! I love ruling my mind 😉 NICE job on the run, btw!
“Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.”
– Harold Lee
love the quotes!
“It’s not who you are that holds you back, its who you think you are not” love the quotes you posted! I am a huge quote person
I am the stretching queen! It feels so good to get in a good stretch after a workout.
I played high school sports and we always were making each other cute signs with quotes. Many of us had them hanging all over our bedrooms. I love the new Nike ad:
You are entirely up to you.
Make your body. Make your life.
Make Yourself.
One of my favorite quotes is
“when the going gets tough the tough get going.” my mom always says this to me when I am feeling frustrated.
I love the one about time wasting:)
these quotes were definitely a great way to start the morning!
“The hardest thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing.”
i love those quotes!! they always put me in the right attitude before i start the day!
i love this quote especially
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10000 ways that won’t work.”
-Thomas Edison
I also thought about skipping my run this morning to keep sleeping but knowing how amazing I would feel after vs. how awful I would feel if I didn’t go, makes me get out of bed every.single.time! 🙂
OH! and one of my favorite quotes is “what would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
I love the quote “rule your mind or it will rule you”. It’s so true!
Another quote thats recently resonated with me is “don’t make someone your priority when your ownly an option”.
I love all those quotes, especially the happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. So true.
I kind of collect quotes. I was trying to pick a favorite to post here but that included so many:
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing it’s best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; never stop fighting.”
– E.E. Cummings
“After a while you learn
the subtle difference between
… holding a hand and chaining a soul
and you learn
that love doesn’t mean leaning
and company doesn’t always mean security.
And you begin to learn
that kisses aren’t contracts
and presents aren’t promises
and you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of woman, not the grief of a child
and you learn
to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow’s ground is
too uncertain for plans
and futures have a way of falling down
in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
that even sunshine burns
if you get too much
so you plant your own garden
and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone
to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
you really are strong
you really do have worth
and you learn
and you learn
with every goodbye, you learn…”
– Veronica Soffstall
“When I was a child my mother told me, ‘If you choose to be a soldier, become a general. If you choose to be a monk, become the Pope.’ Instead, I chose to be a painter, and so I became Picasso.” -Pablo Picasso
“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people that treat you right, forget the ones who don’t. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.” -Anonymous
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” -Oscar Wilde
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.” – Mother Theresa
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” – Audrey Hepburn
“It is better to open your eyes and say you don’t understand, than to close your eyes and say you don’t believe.” – Anonymous
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
Does that win longest comment ever award? :p Thanks for sharing the quotes, I loved getting to read them!
haha 10 points for you! i loved all of these. thanks so much for taking the time to share.
You’re welcome! I’m glad to share them, quotes can be so inspirational.
Erin, you do win longest comment award! But, I appreciate that you took the time – I printed it out 🙂 Some really good ones in there I want to surround myself with! Thanks!
Oh yay I’m so glad you like them!
These are great quotes! Great inspiration for the day! I just love all the great stuff you can find on pinterest! Hope you have a wonderful day!
What great quotes! ….”Wire yourself to be happy” it takes effort but trying to be happy will help it happen naturally. 🙂
I really loved these quotes today, a good start to an otherwise bad day so far for me 🙂
my favorite quote is probably the one i have tattooed on my arm, it was my mantra through my hardest breakup..
“choose love or sympathy, but never both”
have a great day!
Ah I love inspirational quotes.
My favorite is
‘Forget regret or life is yours to miss!’
are you a fan of “rent?” 🙂
ha I have actually never seen it! I saw that quote on my friends facebook and decided for it to be my life motto! lol
oh it’s in the song “no day but today!” you should download it – so good!
I love the quote by nike, “your the only person who can tell you ‘you can’t’ and you dont have to listen” 🙂 I repeat this all the time when I am in the middle of a hard workout.
Hi Julie,
Thanks for another great post! I looke forward to each morning reading your blog ;0)
The mantras are a great way to start the day!
With regards to the oatmeal, I love Banana in my oatmeal, have you tried shredded coconut with it? It adds great texture and flavor!
Have a Fantastic Day!
coconut is my lover. 🙂
I love these quotes so much – Pinterest is such a wonderful source of inspirations expressions, and I ADORE quotes 😛 So so much. They make me feel happy and inspired and reassured and uplifted and imbued with a sense of purpose and understanding. Thank you for sharing these!
Congrats on getting up and going for your run this morning! I felt the same way when I went to practice yoga today, and I am SO glad I did – it was well worth it and I feel so good now having practised 🙂
I love your idea of walking a little every mile – it’s like breaking up a big task into little ones, taking it mile by mile. Seriously. Genius idea! 😛
Lastly, those oats looks deeeelicious! <3
Have a beautiful day! xyx
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an act of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. ~ Mother Theresa
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault
I love all of these quotes – the surfing one really resonates with me right now, thank you so much for finding it!