Sleeping Late?

This was my last Saturday to sleep "late"  for a while.  Elias let me sleep until 7:30.  Next Saturday I'll be getting up at 5 so I can head out the door at 6 to make it out to Eagle Creek by 7:15.  Since I've only been there once I'm making sure to allow some cushion time to arrive and find where the team meets up.

Yes I know that is probably strange that I've only been to Eagle Creek Park once & have lived in Central Indiana for almost 15 years.

Training Update:  Today is a rest/ active work day.  Read no actual "exercise" but massive amounts of house work going on.  We have just emptied the remaining contents of our previous home into this one & now must find places to hide store it.  So in short a lot of lifting, moving, pushing & pulling will be going on around here today.  When its all done the house should be presentable.  Just don't ask to see the garage.  That will be a project for warmer days.

I'm So Excited & I Just Can't Hide It...

Okay this post will cover a lot of territory so please buckle up for safety.
1st - Team in Training Kick Off Party last night was a blast.  We're going to be waking/running with a great group of people.  Who are both positive & encouraging.  Not to mention we've got some top notch coaches to train me.  Ever heard of Ashley Johnson, he's the head coach for Indy Mini-Marathon?  We also have a great Staff Lead Jessica to help us with  

2nd - There was also a chance to sign up for the Team last night at the party.  Guess who joined the Team?  Oh come on take a wild stab in the dark?  Okay, I'll give you a hint.  He's the other two legs of my Seat.  Wow! You guessed it Tim.  Yes that's right folks.  Tim is going to train & complete the mini-marathon with me.  He & I will also be FUNd raising for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. 

3rd - We're planning a Euchre Tournament for March 5th to start about 1:30.  More information to come.  Please save the date.  

Bottom line there will be lost of things going on in our live over the next few months.  So you just might want to click the little button on the right over there that says follow so you are certain not to miss any of the news.

Training Update:
Did my Curve's circuit today. 
The official training schedule starts next Saturday.  What I like is that each workout is based on training for a given amount time & not distance.  This is how I've trained in the past with my running.  I find for me it is very effective.  Plus most of the workouts (at least until March) are under an hour so I should be able to complete these at one time and not have to break them in half. 

FUNd Raising

You see I need some donations to start coming in.   I'm supposed to be at 10% of my goal by February 9th. 

My overall goal is a mere $3000. 

So by 2/9/11 I need to have raised at least $300.00   

I'm gong to be wild & crazy and make a CRAZY offer to anyone that donates $50 or more before Tuesday 2/1/11. I will come watch your kids for 2 hours.  Make a donation & sign up to follow me I'll kick in a third hour.  You can follow me my clicking the follow me link on the right.  If oyu have questions about how to do this let me know. I'm here to help.  No kids at home? I'll clean a bathroom of your choice in your house & wash, dry & put away dishes or one load of laundry.   If you have kids & prefer to take option 2 you may do so.  Use the LLS box on the right & please make a donation to this WORTHY cause. 

Training update:  My goal is to post this daily jsut so I have some accountability. 
Slept late today thanks to AWANA last night causing the kids to sleep until 8.  I didn't realize how much I needed it, but, the extra sleep seems to have done my body good.  It allowed me to step up the intensity of my workout today.  Because the kids were already up I had to shorten the time a bit. So I ran for 20 minutes on the mini-trampoline today at my race pace, of course I'm not too certain how accurate the Wii is but it claims I ran just under 2.5 miles in 20 minutes.  Which would be a little over an 8 minute mile.  Sooo, I'm guessing it is a bit off.  But I do know I was moving pretty quickly and best of all it felt great.  Looking forward to my workout at Curves tomorrow please pray for no snow to delay the club opening.  I'm also looking forward to the snow melting and be able to go outside for walks/jogs.  Pray that next week the groundhog doesn't see his shadow & get spooked back into his hole for 6 more week.  I really could benefit from an early spring this year.

Save the date:  March 5th  - Euchre Tournament.  Prizes will be awarded & all proceeds to go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.   Time & location to be announced. 

Yeah, I'm sore!

I've been getting up 3x/week at 5:30 to go to the Curves in New Castle to workout before Tim has to leave for work.  They don't actually open until 7 but the owner come in at 6:30 to let me workout.  I have to say that I was very surprised when she said she'd do that for me.   

If you've never done a Curves workout & are a woman I highly recommend it.   Its fun, fast & effective.  I really pushed it today & now I have that nice healthy sore muscle feeling. 

I hope tomorrow I'm not too sore to do my cardio only workout.  On my "off " days I sleep in until 6:30 & get up and run on my mini-trampoline.  No its not the same as walking or jogging, but, I figure its safer than going out in the dark & trying to walk on the edge of the road since the sidewalks here are all snow covered.  I guess I need to find a school with a track my official training calendar starts in 8 days.    I think.  I guess I better drag it out & double check.

Along with all this physical training I'm also working on letters to mail out to potential donors & planning a Euchre Tournament for March.  I've never endeavored to raise so much money on my own.  I have to admit I'm a bit daunted by it all.  I just hope that I can at least make my minimum goal.  So if you're reading this don't hesitate to check out my LLS Team in Training Fundraising page.  You are able to donate right online.  Every little bit helps.

Good Intentions

I've been plodding along quite nicely, sticking to my self made training schedule.  My official Team in Training schedule doesn't start until February 5th.  However, yesterday I slept right through my alarm & once I woke up at 8 it was a crazy busy day; had a chocolate tasting at 1, and preparations trying for a baby shower today at 3.  So I decided to let yesterday be my rest day & I was going to get up today to work out.  Well what do they say about good intentions. 

Staying up until 11:30 with my loving hubby (LH) makes it very difficult to wake up at 6 to work out.  What makes it even harder is that I'm using my cell phone for an alarm clock & the battery went dead in the middle of the night.  Guess I'll have to work out twice as hard tomorrow & will definitely be in bed before 10 tonight.  So back on track I go.  I hope.  Plodding along. 

Won't be going to church today since neither kid should be in Sunday school.  They both have exchanged their noses for leaking faucets.  So as not to spread the health.  We made the decisions to keep them home.  So this does free up some time for more baby shower preparation & perhaps I can fit in a brief workout.  I'll have to see if their is room enough in our living room with everyone up.  This wouldn't be an issue if the weather would just warm up and melt some of this snow & ice & I could walk outside.    I'm eager for spring.

A Speeding Turtle

Okay confession time:  Up until about 3weeks ago I was not exercising regularly (read I was a certified organic couch potato).  The worst part of that is that not only am I prior service army, but my bachelors degree is in Exercise Science and Wellness from BSU.  So in short I should know better.  Not only was I couch but I am also overweight.  I don't mean I put on a few pounds over the holidays over weight but need to lose a significant amount of weight.  My goal right now is 50 lbs.  Which will put be within about 5 lbs of what I weighed at the end of college & about 10 less than what I weighed when I got married.  What I think would be a healthy weight for me. 

I decided that 2011 will be the year I start to get back on track with some of my goals.  One of my goals is to run a marathon.  I don't expect to win or anything but to start & complete a marathon before the end of the year I turn 40 (Aug 2014) was a goal I set for myself back at 25.  My actual goal was before 30 but I got injured and then I gained all my weight.  So I moved the goal out to 40.   I've had a couple of children in my thirties so that has slowed progress a bit also.  So here I am 37 with only a 2 1/2 yrs left to reach my goal.  So I have to get serious.  I've joined Curves, I workout at home some and I've signed up for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) Team in Training (TNT) (More on this in a later post).  My event is the Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini-Marathon (May 7th, 2011)

So I'm a certified couch potato who will be completing a 13.1 mile race in less than 6 months.  I don't move fast but I am moving.  Just like the turtle in the fable I will finish the race through my steady, constant, plodding along.  A speeding turtle that is what I feel like.  I feel as though I'm  zooming but know that in reality I'm just inching along. They say every journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.  So pull up your chair and come follow along on my journey and lets see if we can get me to a run a marathon before the end of 2014.  Assuming the good Lord tarries.

Off to go train,

The Speeding Turtle