Recap

Sorry I did not get a chance to post Monday on my runs and weight loss. I had a bad week during the Christmas holidays. I know that I am weak when it comes to good food but I am learning. My cravings are strong sometimes and I cant help myself. I set myself up for a big loss last week when I put my weight back on that I had lost.

Yes, all of it!!!!

I have been working hard this week and now I am about 1 pound from being back to where I was at before Christmas. YAHHHHHH.

My 20 miler on Sunday turned into a 14.5 miler with an average mile at 12:57. That is not fast to a lot of people but for me, that was just a training run. My goal is still to break my PR and a sub 5 marathon.

Be safe and have a great week with a Happy New Year.

3 weeks to go

I have 3 weeks to go before the aviation marathon. Yesterday with the help of Mellisa Cowart and Kevin Newell, I was able to log in another 20 mile practice run. Through out most of the run we were playing around and telling jokes to try and pass the time.
We ran into some issues around mile 10 with Mellisa having problems with her knee, Kevin complaining about this IT band and I was problems again with my left foot hurting on the top around my big toe. When we hit mile 13.1, Mellisa said she was going to call it a day and went home. Kevin and I puddled along knowing we had to get 20 in today. We noticed that the sun was going down pretty quick so we stayed downtown around our vehicles. The closer it got to the 20 mile mark, the more we started to pick up the pace. At the end, we had a 20 mile practice run with a sub 5 time. I was happy with this and still pondering if I am going to run a 2:1 or a 1:1 at Aviation Marathon.

Also, I had my weigh in yesterday and I am down to 263.5 which brings my total for 3 weeks to 5.5 pounds. It probably would have been better if my wife would not have made some candies for the kids at school. I kinda got into them. Have a great day.

My bucket list

I have been going over things that I was able to do in the past year and I was happy to be able to break PR's in my 5 and 10K's with the help of the POD coach, members and friends of the MTRC. I will always be happy for that but for some reason I feel not content.

I have decided to put out my bucket list for 2010. I have done 2 of my marathons that I went out to finish. They were Chickamauga and Bartram Forrest Trial Marathon. I now have 5 more that I want to do before the end of April.

Aviation Marathon WRAFB Jan 16
Mercedes Marathons Feb 14
26.2 with Donna Feb 21
Snickers Marathon Mar ????
Country Music Marathon April 24?

Augusta 70.3 Sept. 27?

I wanted to go ahead now and post this to see if there is anyone out there who might be willing to join me in some or all of these races. I would love some company along the way because it truly goes along way.

Dedicated

DONE.......SIGNED..........ELECTRONICALLY SIGNED

What have I done????????????

What was I thinking?????????

I have lost my mind??????????

1.2 miles swimming

56 miles miles on a bike

13.1 miles of running

All of this with no breaks and all within an 8 hour time limit.



I JUST SIGNED UP FOR THE AUGUSTA HALF-IRONMAN IN SEPTEMBER 2010


I think I need to get some training in.

My foot hurts

After taking today off from yesterday's 20 miler, my left foot is still somewhat sore. I think it is a flare up of the PF which I have had troulble with before. It feels like a knife through the top of my foot. A day or two of rest and ice and it will be fine.

I forgot also when I go out on my long runs to check my toenails. Once again like at Chickamauga, I went out and did not trim my toenails. I know that this might sound nasty but if it helps at least one person I will be happy. Keep them trim and short. When I got home and took off my shoes, I had a blood stain that covered my 3 little toes. It was from 1 small little spot that I did not trim. OUCH but it is fixed now.

4 weeks to go and training is looking good. Have a great day....

20 miler done

Yes, it is done. I got my 20 miler. I really did not want to but I know I needed too.

A BIG thank you to Roscoe for running and pushing me. It was nice to have someone out there to keep my company for that long distance. I will have a recap later but I needed to post this morning to update my weight loss for a total of 4 pounds in 2 weeks. It is not as fast as I wanted it to be, but it is an improvement.

Have a great day....

Meeting with Jeff Galloway

Here are some of the photos from our meeting with Olympian Jeff Galloway.

Jeff was answering questions from the group.

Jeff trying to figure out what someone was talking about. He had an answer for question asked.

Jeff and I were talking about running together at Disney Marathon 2009. I got some more information from him for my next marathon which is in 4 weeks.

I had to get one more photo. It is not everyday you get to talk to an Olympic Marathoner.