Sunday 8 November 2009

Progress Report

T7 si Treadmill
I gave myself a goal of losing 15 pounds before I would post anything on this blog again.

And I did it! Woo! Hoo!

I can actually live at this weight.

I will continue on my food plan (Eat Clean Diet - thank you Tosca Reno!) and hope to lose more weight, but I feel FREAKING AWESOME right now.

After getting a freak October snowstorm where I had over 2 feet of snow at my house, I decided that I just needed to purchase myself a treadmill so that no matter what I could get a work out in.

So, I got a treadmill. It is awesome to get up early in the morning and hit the treadmill wearing freaky clothes, sweating like a nut, panting as I am going too fast for comfort, and doing all this before it is even light outside! Very good purchase.

Last week's mileage was 13.1 miles. I thought it was a wonderful coincidence that I did a half-marathon. I certainly didn't mean to. My run yesterday was 5 miles. I think it was a bit too ambitious with hills. I think I will go back to flatter long runs. I have added hills into my 3 mile runs, and that is OK. But I am still not feeling that strong, so I think I will cut myself some slack on the long runs for a while.

Here is my plan...
  • For the remainder of 2009 - lose another 10 lbs.
  • Build my base mileage - get at least up to being able to do a comfortable 10K
  • Register for the "winter race series" - 3 races, 1 in Dec., 1 in Jan., 1 in Feb.
  • Run a half marathon in Spring - hopefully in an exotic and fun location - suggestions?
  • Run a Real, Live, 26.2 mile Marathon in the fall, leaning towards Richmond - suggestions?
That's my plan. Hope I can do it.

(People advertising diets are advised to go elsewhere, I will delete your comments. Thank you.)

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Those goals sound fantastic! I like the idea of running a race in an exotic location!

Lily on the Road said...

Congrat's!

I don't know if I found Tosca through you or vise vera...but well done...I've JUST started my weight loss too...

Good Luck with your training...can hardly wait to hear how you are doing...

Jess said...

Congrats on the 15 lbs loss!

Unknown said...

Wow, 15 lbs is fantastic, especially since you feel so awesome right now. Yay!

Unknown said...

Wow, 15 lbs is fantastic, especially since you feel so awesome right now. Yay!

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Debbi said...

Welcome back! I love that you told yourself you couldn't post again until you'd reached the goal you'd set for yourself. And great attitude about the treadmill, too. I LOATHE it, but cold and snow and ice pretty much mean I'll have to make friends with it again before too long.

Wes said...

15 pounds AND a treadmill? That's pretty awesome :-) but really? What about OUR feelings? Hmmmmm? ;-)

Doris said...

Whoop! Congrats on the weight loss! ... and good luck with your plans - they sound ace too :o)

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