Are you still there?

I know the last couple of days have been crazy, and hopefully fun! I hope you post here soon, I'm anxious to hear how you've been doing.

I am so freakin in love with my bike! I just love riding it, and it is so relaxing just to be able to ride and listen to some tunes....so much better than running. Plus don't tell anyone else this but I think bikers are nicer than runners ;)

Monday: On Monday I decided for my bike rides I should go between 45 minutes and an hour to get a really good workout because riding isn't as hard for me as running. So, instead of just going back and forth on 800 West I got daring and rode down 500 south to the trail at Legacy Highway and rode to the exit at Pages Lane, then went up to the Rail Trail until 400 north and then went along 800 west and home. I LOVED IT! I like it because most of the time I was either in a huge bike lane or a trail and that makes me feel a lot safer. I also like the fact that a lot of people take these trails and they are in the open so I don't feel like I'm going to get kidnapped. So here are the stats for Monday's workout....

Distance: 8.72 Miles
Time: 57:05
Calories: 441
Average Speed: 9.2 MPH

Tuesday:
I ended up being really busy on Tuesday but I was able to fit in a bike ride. I've been riding with Lisa so I get home about an hour later than I normally do, and then as soon as I got home I had to go visiting teaching. Then after that I hurried and ate so our Home Teachers could come over...they stayed for half an hour :P Then we had to run to the grocery store to get a few things, by the time I got home it was already 8:30 so I hurried and got ready and hit the road, hoping I'd be able to do the same route. I did most of it, but when I got to 400 North I called Luke and had him pick me up because there was no more trails or bike lanes and it was getting dark. But, I'm really glad that I did it, and it was super nice! I'm glad because I'm going to a jewelry party at Lisa's moms house so I don't know how late I'm going to be. But I love it because I actually look forward to exercising, and I'm even more excited for Luke to be able to come with me. Here are the stats for last night....

Distance: 7.05 Miles
Time: 43:36
Calories: 357
Average Speed: 9.7 MPH

Hope to hear from you soon! :D

Weigh in #4

BOOO! So, I either put the wrong weight last week or accidentally recorded a new weight on my scale.... I'm going to go by my scale.

Previous: 181.6

New: 181.6

Change: 0!

Okay so I have no valid reasons why I didn't lose anything and other than I'm glad that I didn't gain I'm pretty ticked! I haven't even logged on to Weight Watchers in the last couple weeks...which means I'm just wasting money and not losing any weight and I only exercised 4 times instead of my goal of 5.

This week I am determined to work out 5 times and count my points every day! I know yesterday was Sunday and I normally don't work out on Sunday, but I was way too excited to ride my bike so here is the workout.

Distance 4.93 Miles

Speed 8.2 MPH

Time: 36.17

Calories: 250

It's cool because I can choose biking when I put it under my workout so it knows what I'm doing!

Goals for this week:

Exercise at least 5 times ( I would really love to take the dogs on a walk and ride my bike)

Count all of my Weight Watchers points

Lose at least 1.5 pounds (I'm kind of nervous because I am going to be on my period next week)

Ice Ice Baby!

So do I get to call myself a runner if I have to ice my knees? It wasn't too bad, they were just a little sore after my run last night. But I did it! And that is what is most important, right? I want to find some new places to run, I normally just go down to A&W and back and go through the culsdac a I little bit. So I'm going to have to research that so I don't get so bored.

My run went as follows...

Distance: 3.55

Average MPH: 3.9

Calories Burned: 613

Time: 54:10

Great news is that for my cardio trainer I have to weigh myself on Wednesdays andI have already lost 1.2 pounds! Now I just need to keep that up hopefully! I still plan on running today, tomorrow and Saturday. How have you been doing with eating and exercising?

Weigh in #3

Bad! I did not do good at all, and it probably didn't help that I ate like crap yesterday.

Previous 179.8

New 181.4

Gain 1.6

I am super disappointed with myself and I really need to start weight watchers for real this week. I used up a lot of my weekly points yesterday so I don't plan on using any more of those, and I really want to run at least 5 times.

Now, on to the new week so far. So, I don't know if you have ever heard the song Imma Be by Black Eyed Peas? I have and it's one of my favorite songs, it always makes me want to dance...and last night it made me want to run. I just get so excited when it plays and I just want to be happy and active so I played it at least 3 times on my run last night. HA! I'm glad that you cleaned hardcore and you passed your inspection! I'll be checking on you to make sure you ride your bike today. Maybe we can exercise together Saturday morning like go on a walk or something, maybe even a small hike with the kids?

Distance: 3.73

Time: 55:08

Average Speed: 4.1 MPH

Calories: 614 (5 bananas!)

Here is my new running outfit, the whole thing cost $21 because I got biker shorts to go under the other shorts. I love it! And I think that is actually a really good deal, anywhere else it would have probably been at least between 30 and 40 dollars! I fell pretty self conscious when I am running but I just have to worry about myself and know that I am doing something about it. :) The tank top even came with the cute headband!

Monday, Monday

My weigh in will have to be delayed until tomorrow. I had a drivers meeting this morning at 7:30 and I woke up at 7:05...yup today is Monday. So, I didn't eat breakfast or weigh in just pulled my hair back put on my glasses and left.

Great job for you though! I am super proud of you!

My goal is to do 4 short runs and one longer run this week, preferably short one Monday through Thursday and the long one on Saturday. My short ones will probably be 2-3 miles and I'm hoping my long one will be 5-6 :)

I haven't got my playlist done yet, I'm planning on working on it today at work if I get bored, but as soon as I finish I'll let you know. :)

Weigh in #3

Last week: 162.2

New weight: 160.8 -1.4 :-)

I almost met my goal of 1.5 lbs! Woo hoo! I am really surprised because I didn't think I would make it with my back and not eating well this weekend.

I need to figure out what I'm going to do for exercise this week. I really liked riding my bike last week so I think I'm going to do that four times this week and then do some kind of strength training three times. My goal again is to lose 1.5 lbs. I hope I can meet that goal this week!

I hope you have a good day! Enjoy the sunshine!

P.S. Did you get your playlist done? If so, what songs did you put on it?

I love SuMmEr!!! :D

Yahoooooo! I love this weather and that I can go out later at night and it's not pitch dark so I can't run. But it's cool enough by 8 that I'm not completely dehydrated and laying on the side of the road halfway through. I'm kind of bummed because I forgot what I did before to make it 3 miles so I didn't do it as long as I wanted to but I did it so I'm proud. I'm not sure what will happen tonight because I have to wake up super duper early tomorrow morning so we'll see if I have time to do a run. The bad news is that I weighed myself this morning and I had gained weight....so I just need to continue exercising and watching what I eat and hope for the best. Next week I really am counting points for reals and exercising.

I am so sorry that your back hurts that stinks big time! I really wish you could train with me and we could do a 5k together. Hang in there and I bet the more you work out and slowly get better and strengthen your back the better it will feel :)

Time: 34.03

Distance 2.36

Calories: 251