7/6/08

Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 0 ft Location: – Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 07/06/08 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0] Time: 02:00 PM Difficulty: 1.0 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 1.50 miles Time: 0:21:36 Speed: 4.2 mph Pace: 14' 24 /mi Calories: 183 Notes Wasn't feeling great. Should have ran sooner after eating (9:30 am biscuit and OJ). Bleh. Just something to get me back in the saddle after days of lying around in a pool of my own slobber… Wait, that's Bogie. Something to get me back in the swing of things. Wore my new shoes, Saucony ProGrid Rides! Left shin and bottom of foot not excited about shoes, let me tell you. Headaches and that right eye twitch for days, since Thursday. Driving me nuts.

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7/7/08

Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 0 ft Location: – Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 07/07/08 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0] Time: 12:00 PM Difficulty: 1.5 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 2.50 miles Time: 0:35:55 Speed: 4.2 mph Pace: 14' 22 /mi Calories: 304 Notes Not feeling great. Running in shoes felt better today. Breakfast at 8. TBSP pb on toast. Nope, didn't hold me 'til run. Should've run at 10 or something. Thinking I should get powdered Gatorade today for 8oz. on long runs for me. I know i'm not fueling right. Had planned on knocking my 60min. /4-miler out today. Conditions not good for that today. Too hungry and such. Just thankful I made it that far! Maybe tomorrow!! :0)

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The Great Outdoors

Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 644 ft Location: Clarksville, TN Elev. Gain: +9 ft Date: 06/30/08 Up/Downhill: [+68/-59] Time: 11:00 AM Difficulty: 1.3 / 5.0   Weather: Mostly Cloudy   74 F temp; 55% humidity   74 F heat index; winds N 16 G 21 Performance Distance: 1.41 miles Time: 0:18:00 Speed: 4.7 mph Pace: 12' 46 /mi Calories: 184 Notes I'm such a big baby. :-O Map   Elevation (ft)

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M & J’s Birthday!!!

Jumped on real quick and ran to 2miles before picking up Lulubelle. Didn’t bother with setting up a movie or anything. Didn’t get bored, though. :0) Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 0 ft Location: – Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 06/24/08 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0] Time: 10:00 PM Difficulty: 1.4 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 2.00 miles Time: 0:27:00 Speed: 4.4 mph Pace: 13' 30 /mi Calories: 228 Notes Easiest run ever!

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Wilma Rudolph 5K RR

First DNF! Poor Lulu. She doesn’t listen to me :0( She’s doing better now. Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 0 ft Location: – Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 06/21/08 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0] Time: 10:00 AM Difficulty: 1.0 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 0.75 miles Time: 0:10:00 Speed: 4.5 mph Pace: 13' 20 /mi Calories: 84 Notes DNF'ed b/c Lulu got sick at 5K. Did about a mile, and a cruiser picked us up and took us back to start. Got home, jumped on the treadmill. :0)

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“A randomizer is a useful device, but it lacks true discrimination.”

Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 0 ft Location: – Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 06/19/08 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0] Time: 09:00 AM Difficulty: 1.5 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 2.40 miles Time: 0:35:00 Speed: 4.1 mph Pace: 14' 35 /mi Calories: 296 Notes Not bad… hot. Sweaty. Ran first thing in the morning without breakfast… …and I made it!! Hooray for me. Watched a bit of "City of Death."

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So what you’re saying is, the TARDIS is part chav?

Wow. I’m awesome. I am in awe of myself. :-0) Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 0 ft Location: – Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 06/17/08 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0] Time: 12:00 PM Difficulty: 1.6 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 3.34 miles Time: 0:50:00 Speed: 4.0 mph Pace: 14' 58 /mi Calories: 424 Notes Wow!!!

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Father’s Day

Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 0 ft Location: – Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 06/15/08 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0] Time: 08:00 PM Difficulty: 1.4 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 2.05 miles Time: 0:30:00 Speed: 4.1 mph Pace: 14' 38 /mi Calories: 254 Notes Easiest run yet.

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The Eternal Sunshine of the Dimpled-less Behind

“A lot of people run a race to see who’s the fastest.  I run to see who has the most guts.”

–Steve Prefontaine

 

So the big question I get asked is, “Well, have you lost any weight yet?”  If my dropped jean sizes are any indication, then, yes.  Yes I have lost weight.  How much is unknown to me.  I do know my belly used to stick out like an NFL coach’s beer gut, in an almost third-trimester-gravid glory.  Now it’s kind of flattening at the midriff.  Still the lower ab pooch, but the pooch is perkier.  If it’s any indication, I’ve got a doughnut ring of collapsed skin around my navel, like the air sucked halfway from a balloon.  It’s not a six-pack.  It’s a gallon jug.  Okay, half gallon now.

 

Right now I’m also working hard on my arms-my main concern.  You can hide your cellulite in great jeans.  You can cover the cankles.  You get away with a pooch when you’re hauling around several children everywhere you go.  Hey, you’re a mom.  You’re going to have some loose skin in the tummy.  But the arms that continue to wave good-bye long after you stop can’t be hidden by that tee shirt. 

 

So every other day I do some lovely arm sets with 8 and 10 pound weights.  I have fabulous muscle strength in my flabulous guns.  I’ve carried kids around for over a decade on those ‘ceps.  Underneath the skin, I’m Spice Williams. 

 

It’s a kick knowing I don’t tire as easily.  Smiling more.  Being happier with myself.  Having a better disposition.  Being less cross with the kids.  Knowing I can run for almost an hour straight.  My former nap time is now “catch the housework up” time.

 

Got that second 5k coming up in a week.  Excited about that.  Last time I did 41:23.  My goal for the 21^st is to shave two minutes off my PB (Personal Best).  39 minutes.  A minute for each year my Significant Other has been on this earth. 

 

I may not BQ (Boston Marathon Qualify) any time soon, but I’m having a hell of a time.

“Trick Baby”

Watched first half of. Mel Stewart is so awesome. I love this movie. Activity Route: – Elev. Avg: 0 ft Location: – Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 06/11/08 Up/Downhill: [+0/-0] Time: 12:00 PM Difficulty: 1.4 / 5.0 Performance Distance: 2.02 miles Time: 0:30:00 Speed: 4.0 mph Pace: 14' 51 /mi Calories: 254 Notes 30 minutes. Cranked the setting up from 4 to 4.5 there at the end. :0)

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