Monthly Archives: March 2011

Spring Break Quest

This week is Spring Break for me and my kiddos.  Oldest son is actively seeking a job in his particular field and has made great progress on that this week.  I think he is actually at the point where they are just waiting on his drug test results…which will not be a problem.  Younger son is in Hawaii with the band.  He is having a fantastic time and staying very busy in that most beautiful of places.  And my daughter is playing on his XBox while he is gone! heheh  She misses him very much and is pretty bored without him here…I miss him too :(  

It’s also Spring Break for my trainer.  And he stated at the beginning of the week that he wanted to try to run 50 miles this week.  YIKES!  8-|  Almost every Sunday morning he runs 10 miles.  My church starts earlier than his, so darn shucks, I don’t get to run with him on those days. hehehe  I don’t think I am going to make 50 miles this week, but I am going to run as much as I can.  So far I have 20 miles. Maybe I’ll get 30 which wouldn’t be bad at all for me. 

I have worked super hard this week.  Monday I did kickboxing and ran. Tuesday I ran.  Wednesday I did kickboxing, 3o minutes of lunges, ran and did another kickboxing class. Today I lifted weights for about two hours then ran.  The frustrating part of it all? I’ve only lost half a pound! UGH! I want to get 3.5 more off.  *SIGH*  But sometimes when I’m working really hard like this it is on a time delay and a couple of days later I will drop a pound or two unexpectedly.  I will never understand how my body works! 

Another frustrating part? My trainer had wanted to lose 10 pounds this week.  And he has dropped 7.  :-P   ARGH! His metabolism runs about 100 miles an hour all the time anyway, so when he does anything extra he can drop weight fast.  Plus he’s a man…enough said. 

I will let you know how the “quest” ends.  The weight quest….and the 50 mile quest!


Told you it was brutal

Lost another pound yesterday! Four to go!!  I knew that workout was a killer~~

My trainer said “we’ll get the other four off this week”.  EEEEKKK!!! What does he have in mind for me?? More death apparently! BRING IT ON! :D


Faster and farther

Well ok…just a couple of days after I wrote that last post, I dropped two more pounds! So I am at 95 gone now.  And I may have killed off another one or two today.  BRUTAL would describe my workout again today! He made me run 3 miles first and then head to the dojo for an hour of kickboxing, lunges, pushups, bounce drill, situps etc etc.   During the three mile run, I got two 30 second breaks, but then he would make me speed up to compensate for that rest~~whew!

But…ya know what? I ran three miles.  Very little break.  Pushes right past that mental block of only being able to run a mile without stopping.  AND I ran the last bit at 8.0! That is fast for my short little legs! :D    He is pushing me past all the barriers and limitations that I have set up in my mind.  I am so grateful to have him!! Today when he was pushing me so hard right up to the very end of our hour, making me do all of the things I hate the most, I said “we are still friends right?” And he said “Oh yeah”.  I said “Good.  I thought maybe you were mad at me or something!!” =^D  

Five more pounds to go.  I can do this!


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