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Boot Camp - Revisited

Remember back when I talked about taking that boot camp class? It certainly had it's pros and cons. One of the pros was it felt really good to get my workout over and done with before my day even started and to not have to worry about it later. However one of the cons was that with it so early in the morning I found that I felt I "needed" to "reward" my hard work all day later. Therefore I didn't really make any progress weight wise in boot camp. But I did like the instructor. Which leads me to now...Cycling and Having a Ball with Olivia. Well that's it's official name, but we haven't used the ball yet in the 3 weeks I have been going. But it is about half an hour of spinning and half an hour of sculpting work with weights, and some stair running, and some push ups. Geez that woman loves her some push-ups. I do need to start running soon, but I am so happy to actually have a cross-training plan in place that I like.

Birthday Post

Well, I did it. I finally made to 30 pounds! I am so excited. I am sure this next weigh in wont be as great, but I finally got passed my 12 month long road block. And boy does it feel good. Next step is 46. I know, not an obvious number, but after losing the first 10% I set a new goal a new 10%.

Looking Forward

Yes, it's tax day, and a Sunday, the week after Easter. But more importantly,April 15th is the day for the next race I am signed up for! I am now registered for the 10 Bridge to Brews race in Portland. Yes you read that right, 10k, and you have seen that race name before. You all may remember my post last April titled "Ode to my Legs" where I thanked my legs for supporting me while I walked 10 kilometers over 2 bridges and many city streets without real "training".  Well dear legs, I promise to not do that to you again. I will be working out like you would not believe leading up to it. Especially since this is a repeat race, I know what the course will be like. I know where the hills are, how bad they are (not that bad) and I know that mentally the first bridge will seem really really long. And I am signed up to do with a friend. I am looking forward to doing some training with her as the weeks go looking forward to the race. Somehow things seem to have cl...

Running

I have always had grand illusions of running. It looks awesome. It looks freeing. Everyone I know who does it seriously enjoys it. But every time I try it, it never pans out. I buy running magazines an other fitness magazines frequently in the hopes that they will have the "magic" article that explains the secret to it. I have tried the Couch to 5k running plan (interval training) and never make it out of week one. I have tried at various weights thinking maybe it has something to do with how fat I was. But nothing seemed to work. Today I was working out in the hospital gym/PT room with my friend Kelly and she was "enjoying" getting back into it, had one of those preset programs going on the treadmill and was running along. I blindly set the treadmill to "cardio" for 20 minutes. After about 3 minutes it kicked it up to a speed that was just past where it was comfortable to walk, so I decided to try it at a "run" and lo and behold a minute came ...

Randomness

Time to catch up on some little stuff. *Most of you know that my car broke down the day after Christmas. And led to a very stressful week spent finding a shop, arranging a tow, arranging rides to work (thank you to the super amazing people who drove me either to work or home from work) and eating cafeteria food 2 meals a day all week. And according to my home scale I gained 5 pounds.  *Due to said car being broke I missed a week of Weight Watchers. Which considering my home scale said a 5 pound gain I am personally glad I didn't make it that week. Because needless to say it was a bad week. However New Years came and with it said motivations to change. And Change happened. I worked out. for 4 days in a row before I took a day off.  * Which means by the time weigh-in day came around this week I had managed to actually LOSE 0.8 pounds since the previous weigh in 2 weeks (and 2 holidays) before. 

New Year..New Motivation

In case you missed the obvious, it is now 2012...that's a whole new year. And for a lot of the world it is a time of reflection on things past and looking forward to what is to come. And really I am no different. In 2011 I walked a 10k race. And I did way better than I thought. I didn't really "train" in advance for it, so I was honestly super excited about how well I did. I also completed my very first Warrior Dash! A 5k trail race (with a super steep hill) with a ton of obstacles in through out it. I think I am far enough removed from it to be able to say I would "consider" doing it again...Maybe. I also survived my first boot camp class...at 5 in the morning. I am not sure what I was thinking, and I didn't lose any weight, nor hardly any inches...but in the end I could do real push-ups, you know the ones where I am not on my knees doing them! I do have to admit I was really excited about that. I was excited to start a new 21 day challenge at the gym...