The Jacqueline Monroe Show - 289- I Ran A Half Marathon lol

Episode Date: June 28, 2021

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Hey guys, it's episode 289. Welcome back to the show. okay I don't think there's any way to say this without sounding absolutely insane Um, but here we go. Here we go. Uh, I ran a half marathon today for fun. I ran. So we're going to, we're going to talk about it. Okay. That's what this episode is going to be about. I'm going to walk you through, I'm going to run you through my experience running a half Marathon as someone who is not a regular runner at all. So yeah, hit that subscribe button. I'm here seven days a week. If you're new, go ahead and do that. And yeah, hang out with me every day

if you want and listen to me talk about life, talk about things that are going on in the world. I often comment on current events and news and I put in my two cents, share my opinions, my thoughts um and then other than that it's pretty much yeah just me and my life me and my dog talk about my uh you know day-to-day happenings okay just like every other casual content creator on the internet who i don't know i just i feel like the only it's like low effort because it's nonsense and I don't have to I don't script this I don't come with a theme every show um that seems like low effort and the effort part is the fact I do it every day so it balances out I'm like oh well I'm serving you a podcast some days a week so I'm working really hard at that

but then the actual content itself like what I'm talking about is complete nonsense but that's fun and I feel like it actually is entertaining and people like it so whatever yeah so um I broke my legs fun fact I my legs don't work at least that's what it feels like um I got I'll tell you what I did I basically they've been iced all day I didn't actually break them but I iced them all day but let me walk you through let me back things up to why I decided to run a half marathon on a Sunday morning why did I decide to do this um it's quite simple it's kind of the same reason I decided to do a podcast um and I I think this might be a flaw in my wiring or a circuit issue in my brain

like I literally just had a thought about it and I locked in and decided to do it and complete it that that's it like yesterday I go I want to run 13.1 miles tomorrow I want to do half marathon and today I did it and it's done and my legs hurt but it's done and I did it Um, I mentioned this is the same thing as when I started a podcast or decided to do a podcast every single day for a year. I literally just had a thought and I did it. That's just what happened. And I, I thought it and I did it. And that's how simple achieving your goals is everyone. Jimmy, don't eat that pine cone boy. God damn it. He's going to crunch it all over the floor.

whatever he's bored and that's a natural product that's a natural chew toy that'd be like him just out at a park having fun I don't freak out about like him eating a pine cone I freak out about him eating a piece of plastic or something but that's how easy achieving goals is you just like whatever you want to do you can do just so yeah think it dream it right do it that that's simple that is how simple it is. And anyways, um, back to the run back to the deciding to do. So a little backstory is that I've been, now that Jimmy has gotten a little bigger, my golden retriever puppy has gotten bigger. I feel more confident and comfortable running with him versus when he was a little puppy, or I would feel like that just seemed like torture when he had little short

legs. So recently I've been going on daily runs. Like I'll go run a couple miles. I've worked myself up to six miles. So, you know, I've been for the last month kind of doing that. And so the thought came in yesterday and I go, okay, I want to push myself. I want to try. So I'm going to do something really hard. And it's not like I've never ran this far before, but I don't do it all the time. It's not something I really planned on. I just randomly decided to do it. So, um, this is, let me, let me just explain what I did. Let me just cut to the chase here. I woke up at like five, I believe. And I wanted to do this early. I knew it was going to take me a couple hours. Probably. I knew I'd probably have to break or walk some of it maybe,

which I didn't. I like, well, there was, yeah, there was a point I'll explain when I did, but So I woke up, yeah, I got up early. I had my outfit all set out before, or I had it all set out from the night before. I had liquid IV packets on deck for my hydration. Shout out liquid IV. I used the immune support one, the tangerine flavor. Yeah, I had some good socks, good shoes set up, some good pants. And I had my headphones all charged up and I just opened my door and I started running. I turned on my Apple watch that was tracking my run and I went and I did it. And I don't really know what else to say other than it was early on a Sunday morning. There weren't a lot of people outside. I played music the whole way. I played a lot of throwback, like middle

school, young jock, um, fucking soldier boy music, uh, Jay Sean type shit, like really old stuff So that got me through it. And yeah, I don't, I just, oh, this is the thing I should mention about my route. So last night I was dreaming up my route. I was like, okay, where do I want to go? I could run through the city. I could go somewhere scenic. I could drive somewhere and go somewhere scenic. I mean, we've got the ocean here in San Diego. I got, you know, it's like a beach view. I could do like a beach view run. So yeah, that was my night last night. And then I fucking, just ran in a circle okay I ran on the same road back and forth like how many times I have to do it like 20 times or whatever I don't even know what to say about that's what I did okay and

here's why so I go to this stop sign when I walk Jimmy I know it's a mile every day I usually if I do a quick walk with him I'll just go down and back the stop sign and back and I knew that was a mile so on my first lap or when I first went out the door I just started the run like as if I was walking I left Jimmy at home he was he slept in while I ran um yeah there's no way he was gonna do this whole thing with me so I just I just like walked out the door as if it was a typical morning where I've got my dog and I'm going on a run and I ran that route and so I got to the stop sign I'm like I'm just gonna go down and back down and back down and back and I got in this rhythm with it and I think what I realized is that when you know what to expect and you know

what's coming it kind of feels and if and if you're familiar familiar with the scenery it kind of feels i feel like it feels better than doing something like doing a new route and having like no i don't know that might be more interesting to like run and you would see new things and you'd be more stimulated by the visuals but like i like the whole boring um why is this why does this keep cutting out come on call center employee headset for me i was on that was 30 that i've been using this entire time for 289 episodes. Come on. Come on, girl. Work. It's all twisted up. I think that's why the cord's all twisted. It's kind of like running on a treadmill. You just stare somewhere

the entire time and you get in this zone. I think that's what it was. My mind just got in a zone. It didn't matter that I was running in the same location over and over and over again. It was just like mind over matter. I just put my one foot in front of the other and I was going and it was kind of like a game because i knew that every down and back was two miles so i just did the math and i was like i just got to do this six and something times right no fuck down and back is two down and back is four down the back of six yeah like seven times under less than seven i you know what you guys get it um so i ran six no i got myself done with eight miles and I went home and I got Jimmy and then I ran two miles with him so that's

when I stopped I went home at eight miles which was a bitch because I I think as I'm proud of is I never stopped so for those eight miles I never stopped I never walked I just there was a fire hydrant on the opposite end of the of the stop sign mark and I would circle around the fire hydrant and like I didn't allow myself to stop because that would have been like the I would be done with two miles and then I could like walk a little bit no I just like down and back down and back to so I went eight miles without stopping and then I came home and got Jimmy I drank a bunch of water right I drank a liquid IV that was probably smart probably for cramping and stuff more electrolytes more good stuff in my body and then Jimmy and I ran two miles we ran our route typical

same literally the same route and I dropped him back off at home so it was that 10 miles and then I finished the last 3.1 by myself like I just did that and then I was done that's it like I don't know there's not much else to say um it I did it in two hours I forget the time 2 39 seems like a long that seems really long for 13 miles to no 219 I don't know the thing is is that I was trying to be mindful of my apple watch and like pausing it when I walked inside and like I tried to make it so I don't think I did a good job of that like there were times where yeah I was getting jimmy I was walking inside my apartment I wasn't really running and I think that I should I should have stopped and paused the time, so it would have been more accurate, it would have,

so then it would just log what I ran, and not the other stuff, but whatever, I'm proud of myself, I pushed myself hard, it felt amazing, I hurt, but that's okay, I immediately, so one thing I did after the run was, because I planned on this beforehand, I was like, I know I'm gonna have to ice. So I went to, uh, right after the run, I like cooled off and then I went to the gas station and got a bag of ice and a protein shake and a banana or something. Yeah. I got a banana and a protein shake. Probably not enough, but that's all I fucking ate. I was not hungry after. I feel like people after a run are like, Oh, I'm so hungry. I'm like, I, I just kind of felt, I just hurt and I just wanted to relax and so I had my legs on ice all day and I had a back massager

it's my little amazon back massager I love I had that going on my neck and it felt really good and I just like chilled I mean it's Sunday I just like watched tv and iced and hung out and I felt really good I felt like you know it's not something I do all the time but it's something I just I liked that it was random I like that I didn't really plan on it and I liked that I didn't have a single doubt that I couldn't do it the entire time fuck yeah like that's it oh my god guys that's how easy achieving whatever like literally life is you just don't allow thoughts of I can't I can't it's gonna be too hard I can't I can't

If you don't, then it's, then anything is possible and you can do anything. It's such a mind, everything in life start, it's like the mind is everything. And I'm proud that I, or I guess that was a good test or whatever. Because I, after the fact, after the fact I noticed, or I can recognize and observe that I was in full like positive optimistic mode the entire time that's crazy to think about like the like last night I wasn't like I didn't say in my brain oh I want to do I want to try a half marathon or I want to do that again tomorrow morning oh but it's gonna be really hard oh that's gonna be really hard I didn't do any of that

I just got inspired by it I think what it was and this is a new thing for me about trying new things and and working towards new goals is I think about it and then I get inspired and then I get excited and energized about it And there's, that's what builds the momentum that carries me and that launches me towards achieving the goal. And the second I allow, or the second my brain, something negative gets mixed in there, it fucks the system up a little bit. It makes, it slows that progress and that momentum a little bit and it holds you back

a little bit. it, like, wilts you, it wilts you, and that's crazy, I mean, I'm a generally positive, optimistic, happy person, but you kind of have to be, what's the word, like, psychotically optimistic, what's the fucking Gary V term, you have to be, you have to sound ridiculous, I think that's, with goals, and being, and achieving big things in life, you have to sound ridiculous, you have to you have to sound you have to sound a little crazy it's got to sound like to the everyday person to your friend or your family they have it has to sound they have to go what the fuck I think that's how it's got to be and I think that's how this was for me because

it was it's not it's not like I'm a runner it's not like I I don't know I just did it I guess it's not I'm making I think it honestly and after now that I'm saying this I don't first of all I'm not I should quit saying this but I don't get impressed by myself over literally anything I'm never I'm just not a I don't go wow I'm so amazing ever I just I always feel like there's room to improve or I could have done better or um I just don't want to ever get complacent and like be I just I always want to have an edge I always want to strive and try to do better be better jump higher whatever and I think I can so what did I think I can go okay yeah I'm proud of that that was a big deal but in my brain I just

went or what I was going to tell you guys is I think it would be more of a impressive thing if I did a fucking marathon randomly not a half 13 miles ain't shit it wasn't that bad honestly it was like I could easily I mean I don't know I don't know about a marathon I mean my legs are shot I can't I guess you'd train for it but um yeah, I think that's something I need to cut out of my, or like, I'm kind of, I've recently been a habit of saying that I'm not, um, impressed or whatever with anything I do or that. Okay. Here's what it is. I know it's a, I know that I know it was a big deal for me to do that today and I'm proud of myself and I guess I impressed myself because I never stopped I

pretty much ran well when I got Jimmy I did so I I it's that that that little thought though those thoughts don't take up a lot of brain space and I don't it's like a quick thing like I can acknowledge it quickly wow Jacqueline great job that was a big accomplishment you did amazing but I just leave it at that and I move on and I don't want I don't I don't bask in it wow Jacqueline you're so amazing you're so talented you're so great at what you like and I don't think it's a self-esteem issue I think it's a like I don't know I just like I don't know how it just

again I don't want to I always want to have a fire under my ass and if I think I'm so great and amazing and all that I think that would take it would like make me I don't know I also here's the thing I don't I don't like to sound like I'm full of myself either like I'm shy about like I just don't want to ever sound like I'm full of bullshit or like full of myself or cocky and arrogant like yeah like so like what if I just nonchalantly nonchalant to like I what if I just casually mentioned I did that and acted like it was not a big like just like yeah I ran this morning and just like yeah it's like my legs hurt but you know like I feel like there's a way people talk that comes across super

arrogant and cocky and they're not even aware they do it and I just that's like I just don't want to be that person so I have to say like the other things to like like to alleviate that or whatever to diminish that or like they want it's you know what it is they come they say things this type of individual says things in a nonchalant way but they're but they're bragging is that what it is wait am I doing that I'm saying it not no I'm not saying it nonchalant I'm not I'm not saying oh I just casually ran 13 miles I didn't ever say

that. So, um, they say things in a just off the cuff, like nonchalant way, but like they're bragging. They're like, Oh, it's not a big deal. But like, if that makes sense, I don't know. So anyways, um, I know the recovery is going to be about three or four days of soreness on my quads, especially, and my calves, um, probably going to hurt when I, it's going to probably hurt to sit down and, like, bend my legs, but, dude, people are dying, like, this is my perspective thing, this is why I'm able to pretty much brute or fucking get through anything, it's, like, okay, so, yeah, your legs are gonna hurt for, like, four days, but you're not dying of cancer, you're not at, you're not in the middle of a war zone, you're not getting bombed, you're not

sad, like, you could have, you could have a thousand other worse things to deal with than having sore legs, and I don't, so perspective is everything, there's your little, there's your little life advice tip, whenever your life is feeling like it's caving in on you, and everything sucks, it's just, think of things that suck more, and that'll help you realize that you actually have it better than you think, you always do, everyone, like, that's the thing about life, you have like you're if you're listening right now you probably have it so good compared to other people in this world like i don't know it's all i don't know your your version of hell though is your version of hell and it's valid i think that's another

thing to add to that is that it's okay like it's like when rich people cry and they're sad and people go, like, well, you have all this money, like, you know, what the fuck, or why aren't you happy, well, it's, like, it's real for them, you know, it's, it's their, I don't know, it's, everyone's entitled to that kind of stuff, like, with your, um, because you, I don't know how to say it, you can't, I don't know, fucking Jacqueline, and shut the fuck up. Can you stop swearing so much? Um, what's happening? What am I going to do? I don't know. Probably eat something hefty tonight cause I should. And I'm on a new show. It's called billions, billions on Amazon prime and it's great. It's a, it's

like about a hedge fund in New York and it's got that actor from Band of Brothers in it I don't even know I literally I only know about Band of Brothers because of my dad and brother would I feel like that was a we had like a a set of DVDs of all of the Band of Brothers episodes or it was like a series like a tv i don't even know what it was but um the main actor from that is in billions and he's uh i think the hedge hedge fund manager guy it's a billionaire and then there's the attorney guy in it that i feel like i so one thing i haven't done yet you know when you recognize an actor or someone in a show and you're like i've seen you before but i don't know where usually I go and I look them up and I figure it out well this guy I haven't done

that with yet and I'm in like the fourth episode I think or fifth and I'm like I'm purposely not looking up looking him up because I want to have that moment throughout this show where eventually like by episode like 13 or whatever I'll go oh that's where he's from it'll come to me I don't know why I'm like that sometimes I like doing that with actors or actresses like because it bugs you You're sitting there the whole time going, where do I know you from? Where do I know you from? Where do I know you from? Where do I know you from?

Because I could look up his IMDB and, like, figure it out in two seconds, but I'm not going to. All right. I think that's it. Do hard things. Push yourself. You'll surprise yourself. There's your – that's the takeaway. the human body is so resilient resilient and so amazing and it's i don't know it's meant to move

it's meant to work hard it's meant to be i just love i love physical challenges i've always been that way i like that's why i loved like fucking crossfit when i was in middle school and like high school I was just like it sucked so hard but I it's so there's it's so rewarding to do something hard like do something super strenuous with your body and then like the feeling after can't be beat I guess that's like the whole runner's I must have gotten a runner's high but I got cocky at the end speaking of being cocky I um I knew I had like two miles no a mile left and I started I started running really fast and then I went like 400 meter I imagined a track and I went fuck me so if it's another mile that means I have to run around a track four times

so basically I just sprinted one lap or like ran really fast from one lap there's no way I can do this three more times and keep this pace up so I just tanked and I just slowed the fuck down and um the very last like bit of it though I ran really hard I'm just like get me done with this and then I called my mom okay thank you for hanging out with me this was episode 289 of the Jacqueline Monroe show I'm podcasting every day for a year um so if you're new hit that subscribe button I'm here seven days a week I hope you have a great day and I will talk to you tomorrow okay bye Thank you.