woo hoo. can maintain for 75 minutes. yay. also have added weights, so that's cool, and that's really helping me lose weight, but I haven't been able to get myself inside lately. running is just so GREAT.

woo hoo


and things are moving along great with the house :)

it's been a while.

but I am still kicking ass on the fitness thing--have lost about 20 pounds since the crisis point, where I was waaaay too close to a certain number that no one who is my height should ever get to. So I alternate running, swimming, and weights/biking/erg at the gym and it's great. All three are helping me to do each one better--swimming is good for the running endurance and the weights are really helping me trim down, I think.

And on the life side of things, work is good. The two jobs isn't getting to be too bad---though that may be because I didn't have any shifts this month, but that works for me, esp with the nice weather we have been having. Jake and I are in the process of buying a house--just waiting for the appraisal and then we should be coming up on closing. Woo hoo. Our house is kick ass, I cannot wait to start moving and everything :D

Life is pretty good right now, and summer is coming very soon!

woo hoo

I can run the whole 3-ish miles from downtown to the end of Taylor Dock along the South Bay trail and back without stopping...woo hoo. Love it. One of these days I'm going to do it twice or run through Fairhaven or something. I just need to get out of bed earlier, which means that I have to stop staying up until 3 am.

So Jake and I are going to buy a house this year. As much as I like my weekends at home, I also find that I get bored at home, so I am going to start a second job on-call at Skagit Valley Hospital. That should be fun. They actually pay more than SJH, so it will be worth it to work a few shifts a month down there. I can't wait to start. Hopefully I can meet their needs and make some extra dough :)

5k and Sun!

Did the 5k this weekend in 36:27...still kind of slow, but I don't care...I ran a race :) And am doing one next month and hopefully a 10k in March or April. Then, of course the 1/2 in June! Yay!

And it was clear today after starting out at a chilly 26degrees, but I still went to Boulevard Park and ran there, it was too nice not to. I love that place.

Race on Jan 17th

Woo hoo. Running a race on the 17th. Depending on my long run tomorrow, I'll do either the 5k or the 10k...hopefully I can do the 10k...it's in Mt Vernon and even starts at 10 am, which is a great start time :)

woohoo

so far the plan is great. I have worked out every day this week. I even did hills on Thursday. Usually when I run the hill (Yew St Hill, yeah), it's really hard to get up and I walk a good portion of it since I pretty run out the door and onto the hill with no warmup. Of course, the downhill portion always feels really good, but then I just feel like I ran down a hill rather than actually running the hill. So, Thursday on the way down, rather than just run straight down, I turned around and sprinted back up to the previous phone pole and then back down a bit and then back up, all the way down the hill. This way, I actually got a hill run in, and it felt great.

I have been erg-ing for cross training and on the easy xt day, I biked and did core stuff. Monday I go back to ballet. Tomorrow, I'm on schedule to run 7 miles, hope the sidewalks are clear. I am so done with this snow stuff.

I'm also seeing really good results on my body. A lot of my clothes are too big, even my workout clothes are getting loose. I can run longer faster already too...I love it. So far I'm down 18 lbs from the "crisis" weight from October 2007.

Time for a nap before work tonight....hope the run tomorrow goes well. I'm sure it will. Yay!

Start tomorrow!

Tomorrow I start my pre-training "training" plan. Just a moderate way to get my miles up before I start my 1/2 marathon training. Woo hoo.

New plan!

So I walked to work last night in the snow and it was glorious! Too bad it's not like that all the time here, or I would do it every day. The only thing is that it took like an hour, and it's just too dark at night to walk that far, but in the snow it seemed a lot less dark.

For my birthday, I am registering myself for 1/2 marathon that's in Seattle in June. Woo hoo! I need to get my miles up...I think I can do that in 6 months. I'll probably hit some 5ks and 10ks depending on my work schedule, but I see those as part of the training.

Yay!

Outside again!

So I bought a smartwool neck gaiter that I'm using as a headband/ear cover, and I actually took it outside today. It was AMAZING! About 40 degrees out and clear, totally invigorating! Wow. I ran through the park and around to the cemetery. There's a long trail section that connects the park to the cemetery, and it used to take me 25 mins/half an hour to get there, and today, it took 14 minutes. That was great. Apparently the treadmill is working :) So now on clear days, I think I will take it outside, and do the treadmill in the rain. I still need a buddy for weights, but running alone is the thing I guess.

I ran 23 minutes all together, so apparently the section I run is about 2 miles. I used to think it was way longer because it took so long. Guess I need to add more to the run. I'll probably do a loop through the cemetery and more of the trails in the park once I am ready to add more to it. Those stairs still suck.

All together it was great to get back outside. Wore long pants, long sleeve purple, light vest, and smartwool band. I need better socks I think, the shoes ventilate a little too well for winter--smartwool for sure!