New Plan

OK, so I've been struggling to find a new plan that is going to work for me. I told myself that when the kids were back in school and we were back in a routine that it would be easy to get up and go jogging in the morning. But guess what? It's dark at 6:30am. I know that I could get up and ride my bike down stairs, or do a work out DVD, but I am not a morning person, and I just can't get myself out of bed.  So while I was sewing the other night I came up with a new plan that I'm pretty sure is easy to follow and is something that I can totally do. I have to get up at 7am to get kids fed and out the door for school. So instead of just staying in my pajamas, on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday I'll get up and put my jogging clothes on and my jogging shoes. Once the kids are off to school I will head out with just the two youngest in the chariot and go for a run/walk.  This will work out perfect for a few reasons. 1) it is always light out by the time the kids go to school. 2) I haven't yet started on any projects so I don't have to stop what I am doing to go for a jog. 3) the weather is cooling off so it isn't too hot and hopefully fall will last a really long time and I can keep this up well into November. On Monday and Wednesday when Kymberly is off at pre-K and James is napping I'll do some strength training. I'll just have to commit myself to that time...for ME and use it for strength training. This might be a little trickier. I know that there will always be a thousand other things that I'll want to use with that time, but I'm going to have to put up a fight with myself.

Today was my first day on my new plan. I got up and got dressed in my jogging stuff, and followed through as planned. WOW, it is a lot harder to jog pushing a chariot. And I had to change my route. The old route wasn't safe for pushing a chariot with kids, the road is too narrow. The new route includes a long slow incline of a hill. It's a nice new challenge. I actually did a lot better than I thought I would(especially considering that I haven't jogged in nearly a month). And hopefully soon, I will have my new rhythm pushing the chariot and that will become less awkward. All in all it was a good run and I truly look forward to Thursday's run.

some other measurements

above bust 44.75"
under bust 40.5"
that roll of fat between my bust and my waist 45.5"
just below my hips and under that roll of fat 47.5"

progress

Stopped at Walmart to do some back to school shopping this past weekend. I also took the time to try on a pair of shorts. I grabbed the size that I usually buy and a size smaller...just in case. I ended up buying the smaller size, and even then it was a little big in the waist. So there you have it, even if the scale is not shedding the numbers as quickly as I would like, something is happening somewhere on this body of mine for the better.

In other news I started speed training today. Now that I've ran a 5K race, I want to try to get faster. So that is my new goal. But to be successful I am going to have to actually get up and go jogging more than once a week. So here is to a better week.

In other other news I thought I would take my measurements and compare them to the ones I posted at the beginning of this blog.

Today                                Last March

Waist 45"                           Waist 46"
Hips 50.5"                          Hips 51"
Bust 48"                             Bust 49"
Weight 239lbs                    Weight 247lbs

You can find the post with the original numbers here.

Walking/jogging/cycling across Canada

I've decided that I am going to walk/jog or cycle across Canada.  Well, not physically. But I am going to start keeping track of how far I have walked/jogged or cycled and use the Trans Canada website to help me track my progress. I need something to work for. Since I have finished training and was successful at running in the Bonanza day 5K road race, I have found it hard to keep up the motivation and keep up with my jogging and such. I don't know if this will work. But I think it will be fun trying. Is it cheating if I log all the km that I have already walked/jogged over the past few months that I have been training? Well if it is, I guess I am a cheater, because I worked really hard on those km's and I think that they should count. That's a total of 288km already walked/jogged or cycled...only a million(or less) to go!

Race Day!!!

Today I ran my first real 5K road race. IT WAS AWESOME! My two oldest girls, Kathryn and Tansley, ran with me. I was running beside another lady right at the end, and it was great to have someone to run against. It made me really pick up my pace and push through to the end. As a result I finished the race 3 minutes faster than I have ever done it. At the finish line there was my handsome hubby and the two younger kiddies. He had a bouquet of flowers and a chocolate bar for me! The whole things was amazing.
Our times were
Kathryn 37:51
Tansley 38:05
Me 38:29

It was a good morning!

I'm a bad girl

I didn't get up and go jogging or biking this morning...for the third morning in a row. I had no good excuse this morning. Not a single one....I told myself that I would be delivering flyers with the girls so that would count...lame I know. I PROMISE that I will get up tomorrow and jog.

My new jogging buddies

This morning my two girls came with me jogging. They wanted to see if they could jog a 5K. Somebody put it in there mind that maybe they should run the Bonanza day race with me. I have mixed feelings about that. I don't want to discourage them, but I also am afraid that I'll feel obligated to keep with them if they slow down. I really want to just run this race like I normally would run. I plan to start running the race every year and I want to see my improvement. Daniel says if I explain to them that I won't be by their side the whole time they'll be fine. There will be plenty of others on the route. I hope he's right. Although I may not have to worry. They did both finish ahead of me today, but then I also walked when ever they felt like they needed to walk. I would have preferred to just try and run it all again today, but it was their first day. I think next time I will run the entire thing and see how they do. I'll tell them they can walk when they need to, but that I am just going to do it like I normally would and we'll see how that goes for them. I'm proud of them though, for wanting to try and for doing such a great job this morning.