105 to go: wogging in the rain

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Subtitled: Saturday's ramble from (LOL!)

The countdown in the subject lines will reflect the number of days until my 12k on 5/2/10

Sorry I haven't been around, but I have been busy and tired since I got back from CA earlier in the week. To be honest, I haven't even really been reading the digest posts to see what's going on with you all (SORRY!) so I will try to make that a goal and at least get my inbox cleared out, switch back to individual emails and back active in the group this next week.

Since I haven't been reading the posts to know what you are all facing weather-wise, etc I'll send my (( HUGS )) and prayers out early for anything you have been facing. I haven't even been watching much of the news. Sure, I know about the earthquake in Haiti and that is really devastating. Definitely thinking and praying for those folks and their friends/families as they go through the rescue/search period and then the recovery and rebuilding of their lives. I know it will take a long time because I don't think the U.S. is still recovered fully from all the hurricaines a couple of years ago. Outside of that, I don't know much of what is going on across the nation. Is the weather still bad out there for you folks across the country from me (TX, MD, DC, etc?)

Washington is fortunate (?) to be having an extremely mild winter. At least Spokane, where I live. I don't think we have even gotten 12 inches of snow at my house so far this winter.

Quick: knocks on wood!

This is compared to last year's over 100 inches of snow, remember! Summer is going to SUCK, trust me, without much snow pack to melt off for the rivers and lakes, not to mention the fire hazards this is going to bring.

Anyway. I feel for you all that have been inundated with our typical weather, but I do not miss it. Really. The last two winters, I had to do double duty shoveling at my house and my mother's because with my son's asthma issues, he really could not overexert that much so I didn't push it. So I was gearing up for a mellower (sp?) winter with having moved to mother's to at least only have to shovel one place LOL and now we get no snow. DS with his cross country training and conditioning for track coming up, he probably could shovel a decent piece now. Oh well.

Anyway. No snow on the road. No ice on the road, which is a good thing, as I don't know where my ice spikes are yet since we moved. Today, it's raining. So, I got up as planned, donned my running gear - I did not spray my new shoes with waterproof spray, so used my "old" ones and went one mile.

Time out: 14:49

Not good. Not bad. Last year's pace for the 12K was 14:42 and this year's goal is 12:40, so I have a lot of room for improvement. A lot. That is a 2 mph pace improvement goal to take 15 minutes off my finish time!

I won't beat myself up because this was my first time out and I have done virtually no exercise for 2 weeks.

I have a plan, though. There are basically 15 weeks to train for the 12K and that is 7.5 miles. So, I need to spend two weeks working on one mile and then add another mile and so on until I am up to 7/8 miles, right? It looks right on paper anyway, so that is my plan. That's not to say I am going to wog 7 days a week, probably better to aim for 3-4 times out wogging and then do some strength or cross-training on the other days.

I feel better today. Antibiotics are running their course. I can breathe better each day. Sinus headaches are further between occurances. Weight is going down.

As an example, I updated my weight graph for this past two weeks, but this is where I have been:

1/2/10: 269.0

1/8/10: 270.0

1/14/10: 272.6 (this is the up 4 from my trip I mentioned yesterday)

1/16/10: 270.8

So. I am still up a touch from the first of the month, but I know what it is. I always retain for a few days following airplane travel. I don't know why. Probably because I have airplane restroom phobias so I don't drink as much water as I should be to avoid the issue and that causes us to retain.... I am sure some of our eating had sodium when I was in CA added to that and then this antibiotic/constipation issue. UGH! Triple whammy in one week!

I still think boogers weigh a lot too! Fortunately, that issue is getting cleared up.

Since my head is starting to feel clearer, I feel more focused on me and my goals.

Last night, I went to the grocery store and got some fruit, veggies, health(ier) snacks and meal ideas. DS17 is rather into the healthy eating due to his training. I'm glad he got involved in sports. It's easier to at least have 2 of us now trying to eat healthier. Mom can fix her own "crap" to eat and I can cook for DS and I something healthier. That's not to say she can't eat what we eat, because she does. But on "her nights" to cook dinner, it's definitely different than what I cook on "my nights", you know?

I know I will do this. I know I will beat a good chunk of my weight loss goal down before DS's high school graduation. This whole time on the journey, that's been my only real time-frame goal, is his graduation May 2011.... it's just around the corner. 71 weeks away.

Like the school counselors said the other night at the college prep meeting: those kids are going to hit the ground running in the fall for their senior year and it's going to FLY BY QUICKLY!! Don't I know it!

Anyway. Hope you are all doing well, I will get back to check the posts as I can over the weekend.

in WA

310 / 270.8 / ?

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>I won't beat myself up because this was my first time out and I have

done virtually no exercise for 2 weeks.

Oh, I'm sure you did some kind of calesthenics while in California. ;^)

>I feel better today. Antibiotics are running their course. I can

breathe better each day. Sinus headaches are further between

occurances.

Keep your stinkin' sinus infection on the west coast, please! The past

few days I've been feeling poorly with the occasional bout of sneezing

but not *sick*, if you know what I mean. This morning I woke up and just

didn't feel like getting out of bed, but I had to; didn't feel like

doing my exercise, but I had to; and now I don't even feel like eating

breakfast, but I know I have to. Maybe it's SAD, the winter blah's, and

should seek out one of those full-spectrum lights. It's just been so

*gloomy* around here this winter with very few sunny days and even fewer

days that I actually was outside in the sun. Even then it's usually just

from the house to the car, to the store, and back again. Now the past

few days they're digging up the street near our house and if you want to

get a car off of the street the cop has to move the barriers, and nobody

is allowed back in, so I'm not even bothering to try go out anywhere.

> Weight is going down.

Congrats! Mine keeps fluctuating back and forth between 258 and 262 for

over a month now. Today it was back near the top number again, but I

blame last night's pasta sauce, as it was a last minute choice because I

couldn't get out to buy the fresh produce needed for waht I originally

planned and I didn't have any of the no-added-salt jars around.

> It's easier to at least have 2 of us now trying to eat healthier. Mom

can fix her own " crap " to eat and I can cook for DS and I something

healthier.

Around here it was Ed and I who ate healthy and the kid eats the crap.

But since he's home and jobless he's been gaining again and he's

starting to feel it, so he's trying to force himself to eat the

healthier veg meals I make. I'm bending over backwards to make food

he'll like because it'll be a heck of a lot easier and cheaper on the

grocery budget if we all ate the same things.

>Like the school counselors said the other night at the college prep

meeting: those kids are going to hit the ground running in the fall for

their senior year and it's going to FLY BY QUICKLY!! Don't I know it!

Some days I still think Henry's in HS and homeschooling and for a

fleeting second wonder what project he still has to do, then catch

myself and remember that was 10 years ago already! I'm sure once he gets

a job - ANY job - things will be a whole lot different around here. In

the newspaper just yesterday there was an article on a new Wal-Mart that

opened on the other end of the county, how there were 500 jobs (all part

time) total, they had over 5,000 applicants, but only needed to hire

about 200 because the rest of the workers transferred in from other

stores in the state, people who, until this store opened, were

travelling up to 2 hours each way to go to their part time jobs in other

Wal-Marts. The job situation is pathetic around here.

Sue in NJ