I DID IT!!!!

Last night was the Tiki Trot 5K and I did it! I wanted to have a time of sub 44 mins, but wasn't sure, since this race was on a cross country track, and to quote their website said, One of the toughest cross country tracks in the state. I'm not sure why that didn't send red flags up, or even let me doubt myself, but WOW........................is all I can say...........................WOW.

When I started out running and saw hills that were straight up, (no joke) I was thinking to myself, ok I will just deal with a time of 50 mins, because I can't try to beat my prior 5K times that were all on pavement and on 65 degree nights, this run was 80 degrees with rough terrain!

So my time.....................................drum roll please................................43 something mins! woot woot!

I will take it! I was also the last runner to finish, everyone behind me were walkers, the race only had about 150-200 participants, and the one I normally do has two thousand people, so it played tricks on my mind!

I surely did pray that dad was right there running with me, he was always proud of me when I'd run, he was the fastest runner in his high school, very athletic. I get the athletic part from him but not running! After he was diagnosed with cancer, he said to me "want to race? I can still beat you with cancer" no joke, we raced, he won. The old man beat me at age 64, sad for sure! :)

Melanie's family came to the race as well as my hubs and boys, I was so glad my family was there,  Melanie's son, Logan ran the 5K as well, he finished in 36 ish mins. and he knew I wanted to beat 44 mins. so he came and ran with me about 300 yards before the finish line, he was so encouraging, telling me to come on we are at 41 mins, come on and ran to the finish line with me, so so sweet of him! :)

My hubs took pics and my boys were clapping and wanted to run in with me, but they were also writing down times and asked for no one but the participants to run thru the finish line, I was so excited my family got to come, and hope they can come to future races too.

We all ate free pizza after it was over and plenty of water, then headed to the pool to take a swim, it was chilly water but felt so good.

Here are our pictures! :)

race bib

pre race-still thinking this will be easy

glad to see family and finish line

 

post race, praising God I finished without dying!

Jogging, jogging and more jogging

Ok, so I've been jogging, we won't call it running just yet! But I WILL get there! It's getting some easier, but I wouldn't call it easy by any stretch of the means! :) The first 4-5 jogs I was extremely sore, like taking ibuprofen like candy sore! My lower body is pretty fit, from coaching baseball, and playing softball, however jogging for a mile at a time must just work different muscles.
I've jogged about 12-13 miles this month, that is huge for me! I have also seen some definition in my thighs, the outside of my thighs, my problem area is the inside of my thighs, so boo on that one.

I haven't seen any weight loss, but clothes are fitting better, so I must be losing inches versus pounds. I'm still tracking everything in MFP, and I'm shooting for losing another 30 lbs like I did in the past! I've only gained back 17 of those, sheesh!

I've signed up to run jog this 5K, excited for sure!

picture from FS website

 

 

Melanie is going to jog this with me! I'm super excited to have a friend to jog with! That being said, when the Black Cat Chase 5K comes up, I'm hoping to run the entire thing and beat my time, so not going to hang with any friends on that race, so maybe we can all meet for Pizza afterwards downtown, the last two races I did for fun, not for time, so I enjoyed jogging with a friend, neither held me back, but I just want to be on my own, and by that time, I should be able to do a 10-11 min mile pace!

I've also signed up to do a Tough Mudder in Sept! Black Cat is in Oct. My Aug. race I had to cancel because the hubs work is having a pool party family fun night, and I don't want to miss that. Although I'm sad to miss the Midsummer's night run, I love to run at night, but oh well, maybe next year!

 

The Tiki Trot is on a cross country track, all grass, no pavement, so I think it will be a much tougher run for me, but again I'm not worried about time on this one! It's a family event, with free swimming afterwards, so I'm super stoked this will be the first run with my boys and hubs there to cheer me on. I really wanted them to come to the BC race last year, but it was cold and pouring down rain, they wouldn't have had fun at all, they are excited to come watch me! :)

 

 

I hope that I can report back a time of sub 44 mins. for the TT 5K this weekend, wish me luck!





Learning to become a RUNNER!

I have always wanted to be a runner! I mean always, even back in high school in my thinner days. I loved to run. I would run half mile or so every night. A big thanks to my dad who would follow me and pick me up, because I hated to run back the same direction. Gosh that man really loved me! ;)

I tried couch to 5k and it was just ok. I had a free trial version and when it was up I didn't purchase it. I had gotten to week 4 and that was it. The problem I had with it was when it was time to jog I would jog so fast that I would tire before it was time to walk again. So I read a blog about a runner and she said she jogged a very slow jog, which would be a fast walk to some! For as long as she could, and then built up her time not speed. After you get the distance built up you can work on speed. So that is my plan and guess what?........I'm up to jogging 22 mins without stopping. At first I thought the people at the gym were probably wanting to laugh at how slow I was jogging, but if the end result is me getting to jog a full 5k without stopping I will be thrilled.
I've had good/bad days on my diet as far as food goes. We had moms bday and a good day at work. We had a date night to Mexican and a lunch date to pizza inn. So pantry is stoked and ready for hopefully a good weekend.

Oh and our computer crashed. So the new one just got setup. I will be back to posting pictures hopefully by the weekend

The weigh-in

I was super stoked to weigh-in on Monday, I got to work super late and decided to heat the the doctor's office within my building to weigh in before I headed upstairs!
And when I stepped on that scale.................................ZERO weightlosss!!! I was shocked to say the least and disappointed.
I mean I had dodged fair food, and fast food, and eating out, and 2-12 hour EMT classes where everyone was going out with the other students for lunch, while I ran out and grabbed a salad!

So I contacted my trainer and asked what was up with that, I had tracked every morsel I put in my mouth! He said, that since I had just been dieting and took a break, it's gonna take my body a lil longer this time to drop the weight! Fine with me, I will win this fight against fat! ha! I'm strong-willed like that!

I don't pay for a personal trainer, but there is one in my family, so I drive him batty, ask him lots of questions when i'm fighting the scale! :-)

I went to the gym tonight, then came home and walked the neighborhood with the boys, so that they could get their exercise too, it was a great night!

I'm meeting Crane in the morning at the gym, so we can burn some cals before our day officially starts! I'm so glad she has teamed up with me to kick that scales butt! Her hubs promised her a trip to Hawaii, I'm slightly jealous, no trips planned for me, but I can change that very quickly! I'm anxious to see where we are by the end of August.

I'm also considering signning up to run a half marathon! One part of my brain is like, "seriously?? you can't be serious about this?" then the other part, has me super stoked! I'm thinking Spring of 2014, I won't be ready to run one by fall, I would like to have lost 35+ pounds before I run one, I don't care if I have to walk some of it, I'm just motivated to do it!