Welcome Back!

I am welcoming myself back to blogging. It's only been since May of '07 that I last posted! Oops!

Lots has changed, and lots has stayed the same.

Changed:

1) I'm growing my hair out. (not weight or running related item though)
2) Right foot injury, so this years running schedule will be interesting since I have *several* 1/2 marathons planned. But I will be good and do what needs to be done. I'm sure loosing weight and stretching more would help.
3) I'm back on "the diet". Although yesterday and today I didn't journal my food (YET), and it's only day 4. Another oops!
4) That's all I can think of right now!

Same:

1) Still need to lose weight.
2) Still thinks that the act of weight loss sucks badly.
3) Still knows it must be done.

Life update

Yes - I'm still here. Barely.

As of 04/02 we have our house up for sale (no bites yet), so that had kept me busy. Other things have been brewing as well that have been keeping me from my running and blogging. Excuses, excuses! I know. Lame.

Yesterday we did the First Annual Beach Wellness 5K Race out at the State Park. I enjoyed it, because it was the same course for Run By the Bay so I knew it. Didn't set a PR, but it was good to be out running! Ran into my trainer JH - always good to see her. Hopefully the weather will warm up and we will be able to resume our workouts like we want to.

Next weekend is the Flushing Tax Trot. Another good race. Nice residential run through a pretty neighborhood. My mom will be there to race also. Last year the Tax Trot was my first run ever. I finished in 35.22 (11.24 pace), I see no reason why I can't beat that! (keeping fingers crossed)

Off to do more laundry!

70 degrees!

I took the opportunity yesterday to run 5K outside, in the 70 degree weather. I did that yesterday because by the end of the day today we are suppose to have freezing rain. Welcome to Michigan. :-( It was great running outside again even if the wind was at least 15 to 20 mph in my face most of the way home. I still managed a decent time - 35:45.

I am definitely looking forward to the St. Pat's race on Sunday.

Tracking the Bunny - "It's About Time"

J & I got our custom Champion Chips in the mail Friday. Now when we register for a chip-timed race we can use our own chips. They have Mickey Mouse on them for the 15th annual marathon & 1/2 marathon and the date - pretty cool. We just have to keep the two straight of which number belongs to me and which one is his.

Now when we do big events, (like the Disney 1/2 marathon) if someone knows our chip numbers they can sign up for email or text message (on your cellphone) updates of our splits. I'm not sure if the Crim has this service or not, but it's a neat feature.

I'll have to post a picture of what it looks like - coming soon!

All hope is not lost, or is it?

Hello - it's me again.

As I was running on the treadmill tonight (horray, ME!), I was thinking about an article I read about diet and exercise, which says that you can diet, or you can exercise and it has the same effect on the body as doing both together. But doing both only works if your exercise (calories burned) cancel out your diet (calories consumed).

In terms I can understand, that means it doesn't matter how much I run if I still cheat on my diet. In other words, my body is smart enough to know it's not going to let go of any more fat until I start eating right. Crap! Foiled again by my own body! What a traitor!

Getting on the treadmill, or going outside for a run if it's decent outside (read: really and truely spring, summer or fall) just takes a little ambition. Sticking to the diet takes willpower. Willpower is alot harder to come by than ambition.

Although I am not obese (anymore), my BMI (Body Mass Index) still is in the overweight catagory of approx. 27.5 (normal weight would be a BMI of 24.9 or lower, I'm going to have to loose 13 more pounds to get to "normal". On the flip side of that, I'm also 12 pounds away from once again being obese. Okay, so I'm "middle of the road" overweight.

People must forget how short I am when I tell them how many more pounds I'd like to loose, because I hear how that is just too much weight for me to try to loose. (Thinking of a certain relative who recently admitted that the nurse is not allowed to say their weight out loud during physicals and the eyes are closed during the event.) Maybe they want to feel better about their own fat, who knows. Given my height, 4' 11" - my ideal-in-my-mind weight would be 105 to 110. So I have about 25 to 30 pounds to go. According to the BMI calculator I found on the internet (and there are lots of them out there!), I'd have to weigh 91 pounds to be underweight, and honey 105 is a long way from 91! I just don't see how I could starve myself that much, especially with running. I haven't seen 91 pounds on the scales in close to 25 years (think jr. high). If you want to throw out the scales completely, I can also say I'd be happy if I was wearing a size 4 in women's clothes. I certainly couldn't see myself in a size 2 because although by then I'd be almost completely flat-chested, I still have hips!

So I guess I've ranted enough on my body being sneaky and sticking to it's guns about cheating on The Diet, so I'll update my miles for the week and get off the computer and plan my meals for tomorrow.

OT - Why do you blog?

I ran across this Survey on one of the blogs that I read, I took the survey and thought it was interesting even though I've only been doing this for a few weeks and couldn't really completely answer all of the questions. So if anyone out there reading this has their own blog, take 5 or 10 mins and take the survey.

Krispy Kreme Challenge

Came back home tonight from spending the weekend with my cousin (JC) and her SO. J & I had lots of fun - good things to eat and drink, neat places to see. Ann Arbor is a nice town. Fun place.

JC and her SO are getting ready to fly to NC next weekend to run 4 miles in the Krispy Kreme Challenge. Run 2 miles downhill, eat ONE DOZEN Krispy Kreme donuts, and run back 2 miles to where you started. Which means you would be running uphill on the way back. Oh yeah, did I mention you are to do this in ONE HOUR?

There is a video on the web site, and there is a person getting sick on the video. How could he not get sick?

Instead of figuring out how to get to NC next weekend to do this crazy event (although it would be fun to do, you can register to run the race sans donuts but still get the t-shirt), I registered us for the Mackinaw Bridge Memorial Day run and booked our hotel. Unlike the KKChallenge, the Bridge run is uphill the 1st half of the race (5% incline) and downhill the rest of the way. Then you get breakfast at the end of the race before the awards start - but probably no donuts.

01.08.07

The first picture is obviously from the start of the race. J is the one in red with the big grin (#84). The 2nd picture is J's finish, it was a tough one - he was pushing it!

He wanted to finish with a time of 26.00 and he finished with a 26.15 - not too shabby! I'm very proud of him. It was a drizzly day and quite windy, I'm so glad I didn't try to run.

Today is Day One of "the diet". But I've almost completely lost my voice to laryngitis, so I'm holding off on working out until I feel better.