Week 5 Monday, July 15th Nada…I don’t know what it is about Mondays that make it so hard to do anything. Tuesday, July 16th 4.04 miles – 60.35 minutes – 14:56 average pace I might as well have been running through hell with Satan chasing me with a flamethrower. At one point, I actually pondered if I could boil my insides from the heat outside, … Continue reading Half Marathon Training Round 5 & 6
Half Marathon Training Round 4 Starting measurements for the week: 130lbs with a 36 bustline, 31.5 chest, 38 hips Monday, July 8th Nothing Tuesday, July 9th 2.34 miles – 29.25 mins – 12.34m pace Best pace in my training and my knees nor the Texas size blister on my heels didn’t bother. Felt invincible. Wednesday, July 10th Jillian Michaels – Body Shred – … Continue reading Half Marathon Training Round 4
Half Marathon Training Round 2 Starting measurements for the week: 130lb with a 35 bustline, 31 chest, 31 waist, 37.5 hips. Monday, June 24th Ran 2.34 miles in 29:36 minutes and hated every step because it was so freaking hot. It was like running in a sauna in hell. June 25th-June 30th The rest of the week for Round 2 training…well, sucked giant testicles. I … Continue reading Half Marathon Training Round 2 & 3
Technically, my half training doesn’t start until July, but I’m taking the 3 weeks prior to that as pre-training. I’m going to need all the extra help I can get. Half Marathon Training Round 1 Starting measurements: 130lb with a 36 bustline, 31 chest, 31 waist, 38 hips. Friday, June 14th I had sorted taken a break from working out from May 25th until today. … Continue reading Half Marathon Training Round 1
I like to personally throw giant monkey wrenches into my life. Apparently the ones life throws at me sometimes aren’t just enough. What are these two monkey wrenches? #1 – returning to being a vegetarian. For many years, I was a vegetarian that sometimes at seafood until November 2011. I returned to being a full blown carnivore because I was heading to Australia and wanted … Continue reading Running on Veggies
Let there be no mistake, I dislike running. It’s not my idea of fun. I don’t ever think to myself, I will go run a 5k for fun. I hate the gym as much as I hate running. Gyms smell of sweat, overly testosterone dudes going “huah” after every rep, and princesses running on tread mills while talking on the phone. Having said that, I have … Continue reading Best $19.99 I Ever Spent
Geez freaking Louise, my triceps feel like jelly and my chest is feeling muscles that it didn’t even knew it had. After being awakened at 2:30 in the morning by my apartment flooding (upstairs neighbor’s washing machine never turned off and just kept on running and running like the Energizer Bunny, flooding three apartments below him), I did not want to work out as scheduled. … Continue reading Beast Mode Muscle Build Day One
On August 5, 2012, I weighed in at 153 pounds. On April 7, 2013, I weighed in at 130 pounds. I find it hard to believe that I have actually lost 23 pounds over eight months. I still get on and off the scale just to look at the number and make sure I’m not seeing things. I know I have lost weight because I … Continue reading Beast Mode Goal: Trading Fat for Muscle
In 2012, I did a 12 week workout program that I set up myself entitled Beast Mode. I did relatively well on it and saw results. AND THEN I STOPPED WORKING OUT. Fast forward to now, I set up a Beast Mode 2013. Knowing what I did in 2012, I made this just as equally hard, pushing myself to the max and then the realization … Continue reading Beast Mode 2013
So I wrote in Beast Mode Updates that I needed to make some life changes, rethink myself going vegetarian/pescatarian, and find a way to work out that makes me want to work versus me having that forced feeling of working out. So today, in the ah-ha moment in life that I sometimes I get, I figured out a general time line of things. November 19, 2012 … Continue reading Rebooting My Life in 26 Days