RACE DAY IS APPROACHING!

Race Day is approaching!  Ask me how many I have gotten up to....... Go ahead ask...............

B2F, how many miles have you gotten up to? 

7.  A measily 7 miles.  I am at some kind of stand still.  Getting up at 3am in the morning just doesn't work for me.  Jogging in the evening doesn't work.  Staying away from the chocolate and sweets has been unsuccessful.

Oh my Lord, oh my Lord what shall I do?????!!!!

I will tell you what I am going to do.  I am going to do my best.  I still have 17 or 18 days to increase my mileage.  If all else fails, on run day I will just do my best.  This is my first 1/2 marathon and I am excited with just trying to attempt. 

IT WONT BE MY LAST!  ITS ALL ABOUT 1/2 MARATHON RUNNING AND TRAINING FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday 09/04/11

This was sunday.  I did nothing on Monday and Tuesday.  I jogged 4 miles this morning.  I plan to get in 5 tomorrow, 6 Friday.  I don't know about my 7 because I am going out of town, will see. 

Sorry about the mouth popping!  LMBO!

pics!

So here is my picture after I ran on Wednesday morning 3 miles.  I told yall I would start to post, just a matter of me remembering.  The past two weeks I may have ran twice each week.  I have fallen off, but I think I will try something different.  I will see.  Here is the pic:

LOL!  I look like mama huh! LOLAM!  Anyway, my weight for this day was 203ish, that was with my clothes and shoes on at work. 

Trying real hard!

I have not posted a pic, I just keep forgetting.  I may have ran twice last week.  I have run 1 time, 4.5 miles on Tuesday.  I have to change this.  My dilemmas are what time of the day to run, well my dilemma.  The kids have started school and by the time I get home it is too late because it also gets dark earlier now.  If I go in the morning, I would have to get up at 4am, when it is dark.  Not my type of hype.  I may need to get some courage though.  I do not want to be caught totally unprepared for this run. So I am calling myself doing week 7 over, but so far I have only jogged 1 day.  I have lost weight though!  Yeah!

I believe when I started I was at about 215 or 220.  I am down to 204 now!  I do not want to see that scale creep back up.  The other day when I ran the 4.5 I had only eaten fruit all day.  I felt good.  When I ran it was a little faster and everything.  The closer I get to race time, the more I will need to put healthier eating habits into practice.  Maybe only eating fruit a few days out of the week.

5 miles!

I did complete my five miles on Sunday!  It was good!  I decided how I will post my pics.  I just need a good camera or I will do a video of how I look everytime I run.  Starting next run.  Since July 24th, the day of my 5 miler.  I did 2 miles on Tuesday, July 26th and 4 miles on Thursday, July 28. Last week was a challenging in my personal life.  I didn't make it out the rest of the week.  In the training plan this week I am slated to run a 5k.  I never signed up for one so I will just do this week like a regular week.  I jogged 3 miles last night.  It was supposed to be 4.  I could have made that last mile but it is starting to get dark earlier and it was just too late.  Hopefully I will get some cross training in tonight and do 4 tomorrow night.

When I used to run in college, my digestive activites increased and got better.  Now I find my stomach hurting and I am gassed up.  My eating habits haven't changed much. 

I guess I thought, like many others that I could run and eat as much and whatever I want.  Truth be told, I really don't eat that much.  Maybe 1-2 meals a day, sometimes a snack.  I know what the culprit is. 

SUGAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In college I was jogging and working out a lot more.  Waaaayyyyy more than I do now. 

So should I up my exercise or just eat less and healthier?  We will see.

4 miles!

I did it!  I did another 4 miles last night!  I would like to get some running in today, but I don't know if I will.  I could use a good stretch.  I got a blister on my foot last night.  There was something in my shoe that was rubbing against it while I was running.  I didn't stop and when I did there it was, a blister.  How do you get rid of blisters?

I need to plan ahead

Once again I may have to put off some plans to get my run in today.  I may need to keep running clothes and tennis in a bag so that I can be ready at the drop of a dime if plans change.  Oh, I just cut my hair off, so I don't have to worry about that anymore.  I did not do my 2m or cross train yesterday, not even at home.  So today I need to get 3.5 or 4 miles in. I also need to invest in some workout gear.