Slacker

Yep that's me. A true blue slacker, I haven't been blogging or running, and I've gained weight.

I'm scheduled for a marathon in one week, I should be tapering but my last run was 23 days ago and it was 2.5 miles. The longest I've run since my last half marathon was 10 miles on the 17th of February. I'm definitely thinking the marathon is a no go, the half marathon is a possibility, but the 5k is most likely. I refuse to not run a race in this series. I've run it the past 3 years, it was my first ever 5k and there's just no way I want to miss it this year.

I'm scheduled for a few races later on in the year and I'm definitely wanting to run them. My goals for 2013 were to earn 13 medals and to run a marathon. I still have 8 months in 2013 to accomplish these goals so its definitely something I should be ale to accomplish.

My weight is up to around 189 and that's my other goal for 2013 is to get to 135 by the end of the year. That's six pounds per month and I'm starting April 1 so we will see how that goes. I'm using my fitness pal which is telling me that if I eat 1640 calories a day I should lose 1 pound per week just based on diet. This means in order to get my 1.5 pounds per month I'll need to burn 1750 calories per week in exercise. I'm definitely anxious to get back to running and am planning on spending some time today looking at training plans. I'd like to add flexibility, swimming, bike and P90X into that. The biking will come into play more this summer with my new boyfriend and his 6 year old son. I'd like to start the flexibility right along side the running so that I don't end up with an injury.

April 1st is my start date for all this. It's time I got myself back in order.

2012 Goal

My main goal for 2012 was to Run 12 races in '12. Which I've done, and I don't think I'm going to stress myself out about running a race in December, which would also give me at least 1 race for every month. I've got enough to stress about in every other aspect of my life.

So  goals for 2012 have been reached and while I'm not giving up on running for the year, I'm not going to stress about the races.

I'm excited for my 2013 goals and will be posting about them soon!

Race #13 Dan Jones Black Friday 6K

Well since I worked on Thanksgiving and couldn't do a turkey trot and because I had overslept on the day of my 10K earlier this month, I decided to do a Black Friday 5K. I thought to myself what a cute idea!

I managed not to oversleep this race, mostly because I didn't get off work until 4:30 and only slept for an hour or so before I got up to get ready. It was about 45 degrees when I left my house and I decided it would be a brilliant idea to wear shorts. I never, ever, ever, ever run races in shorts! I don't know what made me decide that it was a bright idea this day of all days. In my defense I was actually pretty warm when I left the house. My dumb ass forgot that the run was around a lake and it was windy and cold and I sat in my car until the race started at 9. The cold air was hell on my asthma as well. It was also a 6K, not a 5K.

The race was small and on a course I was very familiar with. I think that if I had worn something warmer and perhaps something to cover my mouth and nose to warm and humidify my breath, I could have done much better than a 13:04 pace.

After I was finished I went straight to my car, I was so cold and so tired and miserable I didn't want anything to do with the finish line festivities, I just wanted the fabulous heater my car had to offer. From what I was told for the size of the event the finish line fare was outstanding. I know before I ran I noticed lots of water, fruit, baked goods, coffee and hot chocolate.

Unofficial time 48:45. I still haven't managed to find any listing with an official time or any kind of ranking. So I'm going with the garmin.

What Weight Watchers Has Taught Me

In less than a week weight watchers has put a very large spotlight on something I've been in a little bit of denial about, I EAT ALOT! I don't eat very healthy either.

For example, I get 29 daily points and 49 weekly points for splurging, plus an activity points I earn for my workouts. Here's how many points I have consumed so far…

Sunday 53
Monday 38
Tuesday 65
Wednesday 39

I've earned 24 activity points which still leaves me 6 points in the red for the week. This wouldn't be a problem as my usual workout burns 7 points per day. However I am done with my workouts for the week as I'm working Thursday, Friday, Saturday. I'll have to fit one more workout in after a 12 hour shift sometime in the next 2 days so I don't go way over, that's provided I stay at or under my 29 daily points for the next 3 days.

This is going to require better planning and much more discipline.

Weight Watchers

Well I've finally had enough, I was down to 179 at the beginning November, then back up to 184 and I had just kept doing over and over again, lose a couple pounds, gain it right back. I was just so fed up. I have no self control and I work in a place where everyone brings snacks. We work 12 hour shifts and are usually so busy that lunch means taking 5 minutes to eat a sandwich in the clean room. For me this usually meant ordering pizza or a burger and fries and just grabbing a bite whenever I could.

Enter weight watchers, I've tried calorie counting but I could never remember to write everything down and then I would eat over my calorie limit for the day and be upset and want to give up and I did. Time after time I just gave up and in my failure I would binge, it doesn't seem to be any one thing in particular, some times its sandwich after sandwich or lately anything sweet. Craving sweets really isn't like me, I usually am not a sweets person at all but the craving has been there and I've eaten everything sweet in my house.

I'm not saying that I have been perfect on the weight watchers plan but I'm sticking with it at least for now. I weighed in last week at 184 and today's weigh in was 180.6 so I've made some progressive. Maybe the more weight loss I see the more I'll stick with it.

I still have the possibility of safely making it down to 169 by the end of the year but it will a lot of hard work.