Craving a Race

Yeah, so it's been awhile since I posted.....I guess I kind of fell off the wagon (so to speak).

I was signed up to the the Crave Chick Chaser today.  It's an 8km run and you get a Crave Cupcake at the end.  Basically, I chickened out :-(  It's put on by a Triathalon store and I was super intimidated.  I even emailed the race organizers to ask if they ever had anyone walk/run it.  He emailed back and said, it a grassroots run and they accept all people wanting to participate.  I still wasn't convinced.....I tried to get at least one other person to participate with me, but had no luck.  I was super afraid I was going to be the VERY last person and by a long shot too.  Turns out I would have been very right!  I saw the results of the race and the last person to cross the finish line was about 1 hour.  I'm sure I would have been at least 1hr 30 min.  I think it would have been very upsetting to be THAT last!  So I'm glad that I decided not to do the race.  So, here's hoping that I can do it for real next year.

My next race is The Original St. Patricks' Day Race on March 15.  I have a friend that I do that with every year, so am looking forward to that.  She runs it and I walk it.  At the end they have the "Win Your Weight In Beer" contest.  The person who wins, sits on one side of a teeter-totter and they pile on cases of beer on the other side, until it balances.  Here's hoping I win it - it'd be a shock to them, if I won LOL!

I have NOT been training AT ALL.  Which I really hoped I would be able to commit to.  I come home and have a nap almost every day after work.  The days that I'm not napping, I'm either volunteering with CCASA or working at my 2nd job.  I've really got to get things moving along, if I want to participate in Melissa's Road Race in September.

I'm volunteering and working at both this week and then off to see my nephews on the weekend.  Who knows when I'll post next



 

Darn Chinook!

Well, we are in the midst of a chinook.  Which temperature wise is great, but walking wise is not so great.  It thaws during the day and then it freezes at night, which makes walking on the sidewalks treacherous!  Never thought that I would be wishing for cold weather again.  Or I guess I'll have to start walking before it gets dark....

I used 3 different things to track my walk tonight.
1.  I've been using the FitBit Flex for about 6 months now.  I've been using it off and on.  I seem to go in spurts.  I like wearing it, but occasionally forget to charge it and then it sort of falls to the wayside. I have several friends that are using it as well, so that helps with motivation.  I have been trying really hard of the last 2 weeks to get 10,000 steps per day, but it doesn't always seem possible.  But I did hit 10,000 today!
2.  Garmin ForeRunner 10.  I have had this for almost a year, but honestly haven't used it that much.  I have found that the battery doesn't seem to last that long.  I'll have to play around with it a bit more to make sure I'm using it correctly.
3.  Strava App on my Android.  A friend introduced me to the app.  I quite like it, as I always have my phone with me, so it's easy to use in a pinch.  The only thing, so far, that I don't like about it, is the fact that if you list your activity as a walk, it doesn't really take that into account for your weekly/monthly mileage. That is annoying!

I'm trying to figure out how to share my Garmin info on my blog, but not having much luck so far.  In the meantime, I'll continue to share from my Strava App and we'll go from there:



I have been looking for a run in February and finally found one.  I can't register yet, but it's a run that has Crave CupCakes at the end of the run!  I'm looking forward to it already!

I think that's it for tonight.

My First Post

I am hoping to make this a regular thing and post to my blog regularly.  I have been inspired by other bloggers over the years and particularly "Runs for Cookies".  I hope to be as successful in my weight loss as she has been.

I just turned 38 and need to lose at least 100 lbs.  I have set a goal for myself in 2015.  I am going to walk/run at least 1 race per month.  They will be a minimum of 5km, with the hopes of getting to Melissa's Road Race 10 km in September of 2015.  The 10 km course of Melissa's doesn't allow walkers, as it can't shut the roads for that long.  My only goal with that race is not to be last and to not have the tunnel mountain hill kill me.

I was out for a walk this evening, did 3.7 km.  Started off pretty crappily, as I slipped and fell just a few feet from my front door.  Hurt my knees, but continued on.  All the sidewalks were slippery, so it didn't lend to a fast walk, to say the very least.



So that's my first entry, of hopefully many.  Let's see what tomorrow brings.