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.

35 minutes...seriously, it's true!

Today's training was to run for 35 minutes. I honestly didn't think that was going to be possible. So I told myself that I knew I could jog a full mile(12 min) so I would do that first and if I felt like I could keep going I would. Well I just kept going. When I got out the the half way mark I walked for 30 seconds, to check my watch and to take in the fact that I had just jogged for 19 minutes and 21 seconds. I then resumed jogging and didn't stop until I had completed 35 minutes, a total of 4.42km(2.75miles). That's just short of my 5k goal.

What an accomplishment! I feel amazing. At times I didn't think that I was going to be able to do it, but I stuck to it, worked through the pain, and here I am. I have another two weeks before the race. I have no doubts that by then I'll be able to jog a full 5K. This is seriously amazing stuff!!!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Today I ran a mile with out stopping. One full mile. I ran it in exactly 12 minutes. A 12 min mile...not super fast...but I wouldn't have been able to do it a couple of months ago. So it's an accomplishment. And I'm proud of it...oh yeah, and it's my birthday.

another day

I had to talk myself out of bed this morning. I almost didn't get up to go for a bike ride. I so wanted to sleep for just a bit longer. But then I remembered the chips I ate last night and how they made me feel ill and I told myself that I'd be sure to get up and go for a bike ride to make it up to my body. So I dragged myself out of bed. I don't know why it's so hard to get out of bed. Once I am up and out the door I am always glad that I'm up and doing it. But the actual getting out of bed part is a killer. I love my sleep and I am not a natural morning person.
Now that I am starting to see some progress on the scale, I have a renewed desire to keep this up and to be even better than I have been. I want to keep seeing that number go down. I have goals to reach. I'm starting to see that maybe I'll be able to reach them after all.