2.1 + 4.4 = 6.5 MILES FOR THE DAY!!!

Went and walked around the market and the beach. I made sure to wear my pedometer to see how far we had walked.
What a great day. 6.5 miles!!!! WEEHOOO
And I am still alive.. for now we will see what I feel like in the morning, and let me tell you it was no joking around walking down the beach and up the sand dunes, hell I was even breaking a sweat.
This is good! Still being alive and all

Oh and I also thought I would point out although my weight has not changed but I have LOST 2% BODY FAT!! WEEHOOO

End of week 1

2.10 miles 40:00

Well this morning I had a rude awakening. I woke up @ 5:30 and laid in bed visualizing my run. I kept telling myself that I could run the 2 miles like it was nothing.

When I set out it was beautiful, just me and the road and the fog. I started out strong but then it felt like the air was burning my lungs and I had to walk. It felt like I could not even get going, I tried a few times to talk myself into it but to no avail. I walked most of it and I am upset with myself because I am too stubborn to fail.

Last night I bought myself a hydration pack and brought it along today, it turns out that when I get into my longer runs (lets try to get the 2 miles down first) I am going to have to figure out an easier way to hydrate. I had the pack with only 1 bottle of water in the bladder because I figured I do not really use all the much anyways, my cell phone, my pedometer, music, Kleenex, 2 gel packs just in case and a Ziploc bag just in case I was going to have a gel pack and not be close to a garbage can oh and my house key.
Well turns out with all my back issues manly my lower back and t-8 where my protruding disc is will not permit me to use the pack. It was very painful and the last mile home although walking my back was in a lot of pain.
I will figure it out though, if that means I need to take the bare min, with me, get a different maybe supper light weight, maybe a small back pack it will work out.

1 mile 17:05

So I procrastinated till 9:35 pm before I headed to the gym. I had to work all day so I made excuses for not getting out of bed earlier. It was too hot to do it outside today and I was going to then kept making excuses not to.

I really did not want to go AT ALL but I figured 1 mile is better than none and I walked mostly with a light jog to get the blood flowing. Tomorrow I have a big day planned with lots of walking on the beach and site seeing so I should get in a good workout. But BEFORE my day starts I am going to head out to do my 2 miles and try to run the whole thing (more like light jog).

Its time. Its been a week. Seeing how I have not ran outside as of yet I am going to try the best that I can to finish it running. Then for my cool down I will take my dog out for a little walk. Seeing how the weather will be 90 degrees by 10am I need to get out early. I am SO EXCITED to do this I have been thinking about it all week, every time I drive past the killer hill that I will need to run I think each time to myself and say out loud "I can do this, its nothing"

2 miles 42min (walk)

So i'm not going to lie. It was tough. When I first stepped out I thought well this is not so bad my dog gets a walk and I get a good workout. After my first hill I thought, there is NO way I can do this not for 2 miles. But I kept walking. And then at the park where I could have cut through I did not because I did not want to cheat myself, I thought about it... a few times actually but I thought I would be the only one I would be cheating. And then I told myself there was not that much more to go and 2 miles is not even a blimp in the radar with the impending 26.2.
My shins are friggin KILLING me, and I am not a wimpy person. I have a real high tolerance for pain. But this seriously kicked my ass!
Time to go ice my shin splints.
Well at least I know now that I can complete the marathon in 6 hours at the pace I set today. Which is good news.

2 miles 30:31

So I have discovered something this morning as I am sure on this journey I will discover a lot about me and my body.
Running @ 4.0 on the treadmill because I want to start slow makes me not be able to run a mile? Weird?
I ran .40 of a mile and then walked, another .10 of a mile I ran then walked the rest of my first mile. It just felt like I could not get moving.
Well mile 2 rolls around and I started to talk to myself out loud that this was nothing only 1 more mile to go. So I ran, and I turned it up to 4.3 and the mile came much easier to me that at 4.0.
I have also made the commitment to myself that I need to do my runs in the morning.

I am still having the most horrible shin splints but when I get to work I am going to ice them for awhile.
The feeling I get when I finish that run feels AWESOME I do not think I have sweat like this since high school. And then I walked my dog to cool down.

Today nothing can bring me down

Day off

I was going to run today and have my day off tomorrow but "Rome was not built in a day" and I had a lot of errands to do so I will run tomorrow. I did walk 2 times today for 20 minutes with a co-worker which I do every work day so I did a little work out.
Because I get a day of rest today I am going to aim for 2.5 miles tomorrow.
I CAN DO IT! And if not then it will take a little time

2 miles 31:30

I so cheated myself today. I said I was going to do 3 miles, I wanted to do 3 miles but my body would not let me. I am starting slow. As much as I would love to just bang out 3 miles at this time and my conditioning I do not want to hurt myself also on the advice of Patty and the hubby I do not want to burn myself out right away.

I ran and walked my miles, I am having bad shin splints that I am trying to work through, after the first mile I took some time to stretch and rub my legs before the second mile.

It was a great workout but I am a bit disappointed that I could not run the full mile, at least one anyways. But there is always tomorrow. And I can do it tomorrow.

2 miles 32:02

So I bought some new shoes for the occasion. These are the new shoes that will help carry me to my goals. Whats 26 miles anyways...

LMAO.... right.

This is the starting point

We have some work to do.

Day One

Ok so I have no illusions that I am out of shape. And having been a competitive gymnast I have no excuse. But you know I have no regrets other than I did not do this sooner. So cover your eyes if you need to. I am sheilded my face because this is a secret blog that I will let people read after I have attained my goal so they can see the journey that I took to get where I will be. I still can not believe I am doing this. (running a marathon that is)

Purpose of this blog

I had made a list a long time ago. Way back when I was still in shape, it was a list of things to do before I die. Well running a marathon has always been one of my dreams. Here I will document my 6 month journey of training with pictures that track my progress.

What Marathon am I running? It will be the Detroit Marathon October 21st 2007

Why am I doing this? I am doing it for me, I will turn 30 on October 1 of this year, I have put this off for a really long time lets face it, I am not getting any younger.

This all would not be possible without Patty, I have read her blog for quite some time and she writes about her running and through reading has given me that burn to try this. She will be my team and my support system through this what to me right now seems grueling training. I also have the love and support of a wonderful husband. A husband who when I told about what I wanted to do first laughed (you would have to know me I am BY FAR not a runner) hugged me and wished me luck and told me I can do what ever I set my mind to.

So here we go. There will be laughs there will tears and I am sure lots of bitching and complaining.