My current After picture is quite old

I need to get a new "After" picture posted. I was about 200 in that picture of me in the kitchen. I'm 12 pounds lighter now. Stay tuned. Maybe I'll give ya'll a muscle man shot ;)

Back to work

Ok, my cold is almost gone, so it's back to work for me. Nothing tonight due to band practice, but Saturday I'm back at it. I'm floating around 187.5ish most days (10-day is still 189 due to some 191's 8-10 days ago). I REALLY would love to hit 170 for the reunion. I'll be happy with anything in the 170's, however.

Oh.. and I'm starting speed work again next week. My 5k times SUCK right now because I've been doing so much long slow distance (LSD) running that I've lost a lot of speed. So now I'll do 1 LSD on the weekend, and then some speed work during the week. I have another 5k on July 12th that I would like to do well on. It's a trail race, which means I should be a little quicker.

Damn it!

My survival course just got cancelled. The camp manager's daughter is in the hospital. Obviously I don't blame anyone, but it still sucks for me. I'm getting a phone call in an hour to chat about possible reschedule times, but I'm not so sure anything will work for me. We'll see. That is a BUMMER let me tell you.

Winding down

I going to wind down a little bit at the end of the week here. I leave for my 8-day survival training on Friday, and I really don't need to have sore legs.

I will be very interested to see what my weight does over the 8 days.

Boom! Average weight is under 190. 189.9!

In an effort to get the average weight down, I did a nice 12-miler on Sunday. I found out I'm MUCH stronger than when I ran the half marry back in May. I was holding to a 9-min pace for most of the 12 miles. At that rate I would finish a half marry in around 1:58:00, which shaves 17ish mins off my last time.

I need to take it a little easy this week since I go to my 8-day survival course on Friday. I'm stoked. 8 days of living in the woods and learning all sorts of survival training. I think it will be FUN! It also might be a nice weight loss period. I expect to be working very hard, and not eating much. I mean...if you ever watch Survivorman, Les loses like 10 pounds per week :) It's water weight mostly... but still! In case my Mom is reading this, "Don't worry mommy. I promise I'll eat enough to keep my energy up so I stay safe" (obligitory disclaimer).

This week will probably be:
Mon: Gym
Tues: 6-8 Miles
Weds: Gym
Thurs: 6-8 Miles

Jogging Stroller

Wow... that's hard work. I pushed the jogging stroller with my neice Alexis in it for 4 miles and it was TOUGH! Alexis was cute though. For the first mile or so she was chattering and clapping and having a great time. Then she zonked out for the last 3 miles. She's going to have to get her endurance up if she wants to keep jogging with me :) I went back out after dropping her off with hopes of doing another 4 miles. HA! I made it 2 and that was almost not doable. I didn't realize how much harder it is to push that stroller. It's stuff you don't think about that saps your energy. I can't take as long of strides, I can't swing one arm because I'm holding the stroller (I refuse to do like some people and let the stroller free roll in front of me, and instead always keep one hand on it). I also have to do a combination of popping the front wheel up and then quickly lifting the back wheels up when I go off or onto a new section of sidewalk or Alexis gets a brain-jarring jolt. It really works you hard!

Oh... and I weighed in at 189.1 today. It's unofficial since I track a 10-day average, but hopefully the average will be below 190 very soon.

I'm a geocacher!

I got one! Woot!

This is Cathy's and my new hobby. It's fun. We went to the ice cream social for the Geocachers of Northern Illinois (GONIL) and met some nice people who are going to help us get started.

Hoorah for Hiking + Electronics + Exercise!

Weight Loss!!

I'm finally moving down again. I'm around 191ish right now. I will surely be in the 180's by the reunion. I could possibly be down to the 170's. I doubt I'll hit the goal of 170 on the button, but I'll settle for "in the 170's". Hopefully that doesn't mean 179.9

Stay Tuned.

Nevermind

Legs are fine; no point in going to the doctor. A stress fracture still hurts 2 days later.

......I've had enough

I'll go to the doctor. I was just fine dealing with the pain, but I'm losing so much sleep that I'm back to nodding off at work and when I'm driving. Dangerous.... Time to go to the doctor.

I lied

What I meant to say was "I'll take it easy on running in June". I can't quit for June altogether, or I start from scratch in July. I'm just going to be stupid and run every day or when it hurts. Sore legs = eliptical/bike.