Since ponderous is doing it and so is atomblonde, I guess I can join in? Right? Right.

I missed Monday but I am going to try to blog every other day except yesterday (since I don’t have a time machine or anything…yet) until July 26th. We’ll see how long it takes until I’m superduper bored or boring…

Today I was up at 0356 to go to the gym. I just started training for my half-marathon. I am planning to run the Lost Dutchman Half-Marathon out in Apache Junction on February 14th, 2010. Yeah, 2010. I have 7 months or so to train for it, which is likely overkill but as it’s an outdoor trail running kind of deal with hills and cold temperatures, I prefer to be OVER ready rather than UNDER prepared like I was for the 5k mentioned below. I ran 3.5 miles today at my maintenance pace (which, right now, is 6.0mph or a 31 minute 5k). That’s how fast I run when I’m not in a hurry and when I’m not doing a long run.

I’m planning to run on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuesdays will be the maintenance run, Thursdays the fartlek (which I have to figure out how to do safely on a treadmill) and Sundays will be my long run. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I have bootcamp most of the time – except during our occasional breaks. I am in bootcamp until November when I will be discontinuing my bootcamp subscription, with the hope of getting into the CLS program at Phoenix College. That will be 15 months of a very busy Kelly, indeed! I will still be running 3 days a week though and strength training/circuit training 3 days a week. That leaves me with Saturdays as a free day – I suppose I might go to the gym on some of those days and cross train but mostly, I do yardwork and housework and count that as my mild exercise for the day.

I guess I had a little more to say today than I thought. I also got poked for a varicella titer and a TB test. My arm hurts on the arm where the did the TB test, so I’m off to google to see if that is normal….

Pics from the Camp Whitley 5k that I ran on June 13th, 2009.

Me, Karen (my sister), Wendy (my sister’s friend)

Me at the finish – 33:59

Karen, an unknown runner, Me and the unknown runner who passed Karen right at the end. Her time, just under 40 minutes

Post race Gatorade while we wait for Wendy

Wendy finishes! Yay! Her time was around 50 minutes.

Me getting my medal for 1st place in my division (women ages 20 to 29). I was a bit surprised that a 33:59 was the first place finisher in that category but hey, I like recognition! So I still have my medal sitting on my desk here.

I’ve been back home from Indiana for nearly a week. And just now find the gumption to post. I’m a slacker but that’s okay. Bored at work leads one to actually make blog posts, eh?

So…

let’s review Indiana.

I got in on Wednesday – it was raining. I ran 4.2 miles with Karen. Luckily it was only humid as all crap by the time we started running. Went to bed early to get up to do mini-bootcamp – but it was POURING. So I went back to sleep until the rain stopped then did some working out (which is dull, dull, dull alone!). Went to the running store with Karen, Colleen and Kristy and got everyone new shoes except me. I got socks though.

Friday we tie-dyed – by we I mean –  me, Karen, Kristy, Kimberly, Darcy, Sloane and Nolan. Fun but MESSY. And that shit doesn’t wash off easily. I hope Darcy’s knees are finally done with being green now.

Saturday was the 5k with Karen and Wendy. It was wet, muddy and humid. Lots of mosquitos!! There were about 200 people in the race. I came in 63rd overall with my sucktastic time of 33:59 (slowest 5k race I’ve ever run!) and still managed to come in first in my age/sex division. I was a bit shocked to receive a medal for that time but hey, I’ll take it! After the 5k was the open house and I won’t even try to list all the people who came because there were A LOT.

Sunday I spent the night at Colleen’s and then we worked out together at the gym on Monday.

And then on Tuesday I left to come back to AZ.

In between all of this was a lot of rain and a whole lotta meatballs.

And some Jimmy John’s.

Good times.

Man – trying to get all prepared for the annual family visit back to Indiana is a lot of work!

Especially since I’m uber-paranoid about exercise and eating right now (bootcamp helps with that – no fast food allowed until July 11th!!! and then there is only a week break! I’m actually kind of hoping that by the time I’m “allowed” to have fast food whenever I want – December – that I won’t WANT it anymore!).

So, I’ve got three bootcamp style workouts planned, two 4 mile runs around the block and one 5k which my older sister will be running with me (and maybe other folks, she’s the only confirmed person right now!). I’m really excited about the 5k – I find having races pushes me way harder than just coasting along on my own (hence my planned half marathon for my 30th birthday next year).

Food will be harder – the garden that my mom has won’t be ready by the time I get there (stupid Indiana in June weather!) so I will have to buy produce (and I eat A LOT of produce – about 3lbs a day, every single day!). I also like to eat things that I know they won’t have in the house (spaghetti squash, egg whites, and basil just to name a few right off the top of my head). I also eat salad (which they WILL have!) and a whole, whole lot of beans (yeah, they’re a staple in my diet – lately I’m obsessed with my knock-off Taco Bell bean burritos – 1 8″ flour tortilla shell warmed up on the stove, 1/2c or so of fat free refried beans flavored with onion powder and garlic powder, 2T of so of 2% mexican cheese, 2T of finely chopped onions and a generous splash of Taco Bell sauce which is hard to find for me but entirely worth the effort! I’ve had the bean burrito about 5 times in the last two weeks – it is actually fairly close but requires more work than going to Taco Bell).

Wow. This is entirely full of rambling and not terribly interesting. That is what happens when it is 1745 and I am just sitting here, watching my stupid machine run precision studies….blah…

Since I’m just watching my machine run, I went back in time a bit on my Xanga.

I have three different time points from three different years (not quite exact time line but good enough) where there are measurements of my person (bust, waist, hips, thigh, arm and weight). It is VEEERY interesting. Mostly because of what it doesn’t tell you — at all! From the numbers, you can’t tell how many miles I can run, how many pushups I can do or how often I go to the gym each week. They don’t give an accurate representation of my muscles, what I look like (which, frankly, is pretty hot!) or what my true health is…

But, check’em out anyway:

March 16, 2007                              January 31, 2008                            May 31, 2009
Bust – 41″                                                43″                                                 37.5″
Waist – 36″                                              39″                                                 34.5″
Hips – 42″                                                47″                                                 40.5″
Thigh – 25″                                              28″                                                 25.25″
Arm – 12.5″                                             13″                                                 12.75″
Weight – 168lbs                                      192.6lbs                                          153.6lbs

I am a little over fascinated by data I think, perhaps.
I track my shoe mileage (on this new pair of awesome running shoes, it’s 16.5miles right now I think), I track my calories (462 burned this morning, last week more than 1700 — and I translate all of that into actual pounds lost)…

I suppose of all the little OCD things to have, it’s not THAT bad but it isn’t really that useful.

Do yourself a favor – Go see UP!

I’m typically a relatively big Pixar fan to begin with but this sucker far, FAR exceeded my expectations (which were already high).

I also bawled through the entire first 15 minutes or so. So bring your tissues because I don’t really cry all that easily.

I am thinking that I will go see it again too.

It’s really that good.

And if nothing else, the talking dogs are good for a helluva laugh.