Rest Day

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:34

Rest Day

Today is a rest day in the training so since I started the blog midway into this journey here is a summary of what I have done so far:

Jenny Craig Summary:

Starting weight: 154.2
Current Weight: 141.2
Total wt. lost: 13 lbs

Weight loss Goals:

My goal weight is 130 lbs. I see other girls my height whose goal weight is 120 (or below. Yikes!) but I know I cannot maintain that weight. My true goal is to stay in the 130's. I don't want to have to get as big and as unhappy as I was this spring in order to take control again, but I am a round girl, and I am ok being a little round.

Team in Training Summary:

I started running again this April after a long hiatus due to sloth and apathy.

Total miles logged since April: 121.5 miles
Longest continuous run since April: 10 miles (done 7/16)
Overall Ave. Pace (minutes/mile): a blistering 13' 30"

Training Goals:

• Mileage: 22 continuous run miles before Nike Woman's Marathon in October
• Pace: Don't care! As long as I keep running!
  
• Body: Be injury free! (and maybe not jiggle so much when I run )

A Lofty Goal...

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:55

A lofty goal...

I started this blog to help motivate me, through possible public humiliation, to continue with my weight loss goals and in my training for the Nike Woman's Marathon this October. I intend to chronicle my experience to the seemingly impossible 26.2 mile run.

My goal for the marathon is two-fold:

1. To run the entire 26.2 mile course. No matter how slow!
2. Not die

To understand my journey, I guess you must know a little about where I am coming from. I am a recovering addict with 16 years clean and sober. I spent years in my disease on a couch, loaded, waiting to die. Sounds a little melodramatic, even to me, but that is how it was. I was also a two pack a day smoker until 13 years ago. In addition, I have always carried around at least 25 extra pounds and once vehemently defended the underappreciated virtues of Pop Tarts as a dinner entrée.

Even after I got clean and quit smoking, I found work and school to focus on. In true addictive-personality style, work and school were ALL I did. I moved from one couch to another. I would come home from work and crash in front of the TV exhausted from a 14,16, or even 18 hour day. When my boyfriend (now husband) would nag at me about my sedentary lifestyle I would exclaim “I am too tired to exercise”, “I don’t have time to exercise”, or my favorite passive-aggressive tactic, “Boy, it would be nice to have all the extra time you do to go to the gym.”

To make a long story a little shorter, I got sick and didn’t want my final epitaph to read, “She didn’t have any hobbies or outside interests, but boy, that girl could work!” I needed to find something to do and I had played sports in high school, but that was 18 years ago! I hadn’t done ANYTHING since. So I decided that the most realistic goal was a triathlon.

Yup, in my infinite, Pop Tart eating wisdom, I decided to do a triathlon. Thank God for the people at Team in Training or I would have surely drown in the ocean swim, been run down by real cyclists on the bike course, or had a heart attack on the run course. Thanks to their training and guidance, I completed my first Olympic distance triathlon (0.9 mi swim, 24.6 mi bike, and 6.2 mi run) in September, 2005. I have since done another Olympic distance triathlon and one half marathon (13.1 mi.)

Now I want to complete the ultimate event on my “Stacey’s Dream World Goal List”: a full marathon. I also want to drop those 25 pounds that have haunted me since high school. (Mostly because I don’t want to drag anymore ‘stacey’ along the 26.2 mile course than I absolutely have to!) To help me accomplish these goals I have enlisted the help of two important groups: Team in Training and Jenny Craig!