Intro
As I approach the big 40, I am increasingly motivated to get healthy and get moving. I participated in my first Run Disney event last November, completing the Wine and Dine 5k. I was slow and it was hard. But when I came home and weighed myself, I realized I had lost weight even while on vacation. This was a big motivator. Since last November, I have lost about 40 lbs and a total of 60 lbs since last July. I am going through a rough patch right now and my weight is fluctuating up and down a bit, but I am determined to get it under control and keep making progress.
To keep motivated, I have signed up for Star Wars Rival Weekend. Not the 5K, but the 10K. This is a crazy, big, hairy, ambitious, goal. I am not sure that I can make it, but if I don't train and try, I know I never will. I have no doubt that I could finish the distance....but I am slow, oh so slow. Like 18 minute per mile (at my best), slow. And I know that they sweep for 10K, so I have lots of work to do.
So I will use this journal to track my training and progress. Along with training for the 10k, I will be tracking my weight loss. I would like to lose at least 50 more lbs by April. I know, this is ambitious. Along with signing up for the 10K (Darkside ), I am also planning to cross over to the darkside and go to Universal Orlando for the first time next April. A secondary goal is to lose enough weight to ride HP rides, which I could not do with my family last year at Universal Hollywood.
So I have a loong way to go to achieve my goals, but I have made some progress.
Here is me last November:
and here is me last Sunday:
As I approach the big 40, I am increasingly motivated to get healthy and get moving. I participated in my first Run Disney event last November, completing the Wine and Dine 5k. I was slow and it was hard. But when I came home and weighed myself, I realized I had lost weight even while on vacation. This was a big motivator. Since last November, I have lost about 40 lbs and a total of 60 lbs since last July. I am going through a rough patch right now and my weight is fluctuating up and down a bit, but I am determined to get it under control and keep making progress.
To keep motivated, I have signed up for Star Wars Rival Weekend. Not the 5K, but the 10K. This is a crazy, big, hairy, ambitious, goal. I am not sure that I can make it, but if I don't train and try, I know I never will. I have no doubt that I could finish the distance....but I am slow, oh so slow. Like 18 minute per mile (at my best), slow. And I know that they sweep for 10K, so I have lots of work to do.
So I will use this journal to track my training and progress. Along with training for the 10k, I will be tracking my weight loss. I would like to lose at least 50 more lbs by April. I know, this is ambitious. Along with signing up for the 10K (Darkside ), I am also planning to cross over to the darkside and go to Universal Orlando for the first time next April. A secondary goal is to lose enough weight to ride HP rides, which I could not do with my family last year at Universal Hollywood.
So I have a loong way to go to achieve my goals, but I have made some progress.
Here is me last November:
and here is me last Sunday: