Went running again.

Starting to see the appeal of it though it's still difficult for me to do.  It's some good quality alone time.  Not much of it to talk about right now, but it's still all mine.

Today's Stats:
1.1 miles in 19:00
Walked to .07     Ran to .19
Walked to .42     Ran to .5
Walked to .6       Ran to .66
Walked to .86     Ran to .91
Walked the rest.
Total Run: .31 of 1.1
(17:14 min/mile)

It doesn't seem like my stamina is getting any better, but it does appear that my recovery time is getting a lot better.  Probably won't run like this every day, but I think it's a good way to judge how well I'm coming along.  I'm still reworking with the 1.1 for right now even though I've been able to walk a whole lot further.  I don't really want to push the running part of it and get hurt.  I figure slow and easy does it.  I can work on distance as I go along.

So I took the day off yesterday to rest, and got back to work today.  The stats for my run/walk look something like this:

1.10 Total in 19:03 minutes
Walked the first .10
Ran the next .10
Walked through the rest of the 1.0
Ran the last .10
(17.16 min/mi)

So begins (again) my training to run a half marathon in January 2013.  Having had knee problems, sicknesses, and just plain no will to want to go work out for the last week or so, it's back to the grindstone.

Today's walk / run consisted of 1.11 miles in 20:51
Stretched out (not counted in time)
Walked .10
Ran .06 (couldn't go any further)
Walked the rest.
(18:39 min/mi)

Tomorrow we will try again, and work till I'm running more than I'm walking.   This is the first time that I've been walking that I really felt the urge to be sick though.  I'm told that feeling that way is actually a good thing??  I don't know about that!  I don't ever like feeling like I want to be sick.

A little about the half-marathon that I'm wanting to run.  It's the Disneyland Tinkerbell Half Marathon.  It's in January 2013.  The course is the normal 13.1 miles which seems extremely daunting for a non-runner like myself.  Regulations say that you have to maintain a 17 minute mile.  I'm hoping that as I move farther into my training, that I'll speed up naturally.  If not, then I'll have to work on it.

I found a couple new sayings in the last couple weeks that have really summed up the way this training has to be:

Suck it up so one day you won't have to suck it in!

You can give in, give up, or give it all you've got!

and of course there's the best one of all...

You don't have to like it, you just have to do it!

A day late, and a dollar short...

So I completely forgot to post yesterday, so it's double duty today!

Yesterday's Breakfast was:

3 cups of Spinach, 1 frozen banana, 1 Tablespoon Chia seeds, 2 cups water, and 1 cup mixed berries.

Bento Lunch yesterday was:

Top Left:  mini yellow cake loaf
Top Right: mini pretzels
Bottom Left:  mini meatloaf topped with cheddar cheese and bacon
Bottom right: peaches

Today's Breakfast:

3 cups spinach, 1 frozen banana, 1 cup watermelon, 1 tablespoon chia seeds, 2 cups water

Today's bento lunch:

Top Left:  mini yellow cake loaf

Top Right: peach

Bottom Left: Homemade meatballs

Bottom Right: Pretzels

In the beginning...

Just in the last week I've begun drinking "Green Monster" Smoothies.  I've never been really good at getting in all my fruits and veggies, and thanks to my new obsession with Pinterest, I found Green Smoothies.  Now for breakfast I drink my fruits and vegetables.  Thanks to some of the recipes that I've found, I picked up something called Chia seeds.  After soaking a Tablespoon of them in a cup of water, I add them to my smoothie.  It keeps me full almost half the day.  I'm learning to enjoy my smoothies.  Though they look odd, they taste amazing.

For lunches, I've been taking my bento box almost every day.  Today's looks like this:

Top Left:  Mini meatloaf topped with cheddar cheese and bacon

Top Right: Baby carrots with ranch dressing in the tiny container

Bottom Left: Mini yellow cake loaf

Bottom Right: Peanuts

Perfect portion control and it contains my lunch, and snacks for the workday!

~JJ

What it's all about...

This is  my blog of this, that, and the other thing.  My weight loss journey, my training for a half marathon, and anything else that comes to mind.