Audrey & Mommy Day

With Ava gone Audrey and I had a Friday all to ourselves. We went to see UP (great movie!), got new flip flops, and smoothies. All of Audreys favorite things! Spencer is gone this weekend as well so we will see what trouble we can get into without him. :)

1derland!

Yes, I have reached a major milestone! I know it is not the end of the journey but for some reason it was a huge hurdle. One little number can mean so much. I feel like I can do the rest of this now. I don't ever want to see the number 2 in front of my weight again. I was quite emotional this morning, yes I cried. Why? Who knows but these last few weeks have been quite emotional for me. I am doing things that I never thought I would do. Never thought I wanted to do, yet I look forward to pushing myself. There was no confetti or streamers and I did not miss them! This was personal, this was my work my effort! Wow it feels good!

3 Weeks

Wow! Three weeks to go! I ran 2.56 miles this morning! Me the girl who has thought she hated running since JR high. I am learning that setting limits on ones abilities is easy to do. Tearing them down takes a lot of effort but is worth it. I don't want to feel like I cant move my own body ever again. I like the endorphins, the feeling of accomplishment. I never thought I would say it... I love this running stuff!
Yes I am still running off these wonderful endorphins, but I am not wanting to swear so much during the running part...:)..improvement!

Day with Mom!

We had a great day today! The weather is beautiful and I have four days off! A sister in our hall arranged for a picnic at the park. Last year at this time we only had a few children in our hall and no boys. We now have a congregation full and several are boys Spencer's age. We love it!

Wierd

Weird day today. Here I am at work thinking about my run this afternoon. I went out to get the mail this morning, it was slightly overcast and about 60degrees. My thoughts went to how perfect it will be for my run if it stays the same. It is now sunny and beautiful and I am still thinking about my run. Who would of thought I would be excited for this. Guess I need to remind myself of this while I'm running. Wow it feels good. This is even after waking up early to do my Jillian workout this morning. Weird!

New Favorite Site

I have a new favorite Web site. www.mapmyfitness.com. It is an awesome site. I can map out new runs, and see how many calories I burn according to speed weight and BMI. I am having alot of fun with it.
It is a beautiful day today. Hopefully we will go on a walk a little later.

4 Weeks

Only 4 weeks until the big run. Kind of nervous, still not up to 3 miles. My legs are getting stronger, I think I need to increase the number of days now. I guess that will include running in the rain....oh well, at least it is warmer now.
Last week I went on my 3 mile route and discovered that it overlapped with the Tacoma Marathon. Kind of funny running with all these professional runners. I was so embarrassed, the area that over lapped is a non essential road so they closed it down and it happened to be a refreshment station. So as I am running through there are people asking me if I wanted chocolate or water. ( Kind of funny) Then as I get closer to Tacoma Boys there is a police officer stopping traffic for the runners. I was not going in that direction so I told him so , a runner behind me told me to join them...I wonder why of all days I chose that day to go that route. Oh well...an adventure it was. Any how I did accomplish 3.5 miles that day walking probably a quarter of it, slow though. I have cut my mile down by 2 minutes so that is an accomplishment.
I also discovered something else. Bad food is going to happen. However I am starting to realize that it is not worth feeling like crap the next day because of it. So next time I look at pizza..I am going to remember how it slowed me down this morning instead of having another slice. (Just a note to self.)