Monday, July 30, 2012

Top of the world!

Today starts Half Marathon #2 training! I'm Switching some days around this week because it will be hard to get my run in this weekend. So I'm doing 3 miles today and Wednesday and 4 miles on Friday. This week I'm also going to try to get in my last 5 days of the 30-day shred (more like the 90-day shred for me) so that I can start my next challenge: The Brazil Butt Lift. Don't laugh, but I want my butt to look fabulous and I totally fell for the infomercial. These DVD's will be my cross training during the next 3 months of training. I tried one a couple months ago and couldn't walk well for days so I will go easy on myself this time.

At the beginning of July I started a new med (ortho tri cyclen) and almost immediately my weight shot up 12 lbs. I lost 9 lbs of it last couple weeks, but was still up 3 lbs on Friday... then this morning I stepped on the scale and was 5 lbs down. I have been really enjoying my food and not tracking calories much lately. It's nice to know I can maintain this way, but I really need to get back into tracking so that I can get below 200 soon.

I'm going to be (gulp) thirty years old in 34 days. I couldn't imagine a better way to enter my 30's though. I feel like a girl who has it all lately: My son is amazing and growing into such a wonderful young man. My boyfriend is the most genuine, caring man who supports me in everything I'm trying to achieve in life. I have great family and friends who have always had my back. I have a great job that keeps me challenged and pays the bills. Running is becoming addicting and something I love to do.

With all that happy, mushy stuff said... I still have a lot to accomplish in the next 34 days. I'm not going to accomplish everything on my list, but I plan to give the important ones a good shot. Some of the ones I definitely want to accomplish are:
  • Run entire 10K without stopping (I'm positive I did this during the half, but it's not documented so I want to do it again)
  • Don't drink soda (still going strong on this one)
  • Do 1 (or more) real push up (ugh...)
  • Hold a bird (God help me)
That's all for now. I will update in the next day or so about how my training runs are going.

2 comments:

  1. Sounds like you're really enjoying life now, good job! Good luck with your marathon training :)

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