May the training begin....................

I finished my PT sessions but was still not without pain.  So my therapist sent me back to my doctor, Dr. R, for evaluation.  Dr. R. recommended me to a specialist, Dr. N, who happens to be the specialist who treated one of the elite female runners of Arkansas.  He is a great guy and has ungrounded me from running.  I am on special medication and will report back for re-evaluation in early January but until then I am free to run as I feel up to.  I managed to get one run in since he said that and then fell ill with the flu.

I am working on setting some run goals for this year.  One goal is easy: finish one 10k and one 15k.  I was ready for the 10k just prior to the injury so I think it won't take much to get back ready for the 10k.

I did run the jiggle bell run 5k Dec 6th and had a good experience.  Didn't set a PR because I didn't run it all the way.  But I didn't hurt much afterwards.  Which I am really glad I did well because Dr. N asked when I ran last and I didn't want to lie to him.  I did a 4 mile group run in the cold the day I was release and was really surprised at how well I did.  My biggest problem was how cold I got.  I have got to get some more weather appropriate clothing.

I am looking at running the Little Rock Marathon 10k on March 1st.  At the moment, I am looking for a running partner since Erin and Marty will be running the half marathon together.

Little Rock Marathon

Went with Marty today to pick up his race packet for the 1/2 marathon tomorrow and ran into so many of the running ladies from the Women Can Run clinic.  It was so very cool and now I'm watching them post photos of their bib numbers.  I'm so excited for all of them but I'm feeling a bit like I'm an impostor.  I have found that I really do love to run but I set here now wondering why I didn't at least sign up for the 5k that was today.  I could have done it and it would have been a good day for it.  At least it wasn't raining.  I've been even studying the 10k route and really want to try it.   My goal for this year is to do 4 more 5k's and by the end of the year doing a 10k, but I think I need to just go ahead and decide now that I'm doing to sign up for the Little Rock 10k for 2015.

I want to look like this.  How many miles would it take to get that waist?

Get serious

I am so struggling with my weight!  It really makes no sense.  I am more active and still gaining weight.  I'm not as consistent as I should be but hey I'm far more active than a lot of people.  Yet I am, as of this morning, at the highest weight I have ever been!!!!

I'm not depressed about it but I am feeling a bit discouraged.  I'm not wanting to be 100 pound super model but I'd like to not have a double chin in every stinking photo I take. I've been running for almost a year, again not with great consistency, but I can run 35 mins without dying or at least thinking I'm dying.  This is a HUGE improvement over a year ago. 

I want to do this for me.  There really is no other reason because my wonderful husband and fabulous daughters love me and tell me this all the time. 

So why can't I succeed in losing 40 pounds?

1.44 miles but they don't count...

Went and ran today with Erin.  Managed to get 1.44 miles in.  It doesn't count toward my goal of 5 miles per week in 2014 since it's not 2014 but hey it's a move in the right direction.

I'm excited because one of my co-workers and I devised a plan to work out together after work in the gym in our building.  I am really hoping this will help keep me motivated.  I'm good with planning but I do tend to get bored easy if I don't see results.

Just have to persevere.

One step at at time.  Yeah me!

Running for God

The author of the book got so into running that he was spending all his time running.  He would still make church but God really wasn't a priority.  A dear friend and he were talking and his friend said to him, "Don't let this (running) become your God."  Too often we let other things become our God, our idols.  We put our priorities into sports, our kids sports, our homes, our jobs.......  The list is, unfortunately, endless.

BUT, when we take our passion for other things and add God, abundance over flows.  That is what this man did.  He put God into his running and created Run for God.

There are some similarities to faith and running.  New runners start out doing short runs so not to overwhelm the body and the gradually work up to long runs.  In our faith we start with small parts of the Bible and work our way into deeper learning.  Running takes endurance and strength.  In running, as in our faith, sometimes we fall or get hurt and we must pick ourselves up and start over.   We must seek to heal ourselves and to grow stronger.  Through scripture and prayer, we gain the strength in our faith to heal and to grow.

I am suppose to plan to train for three days each week and to plan to run a 5K in about 12 to 13 weeks.  I have done a 5K but I have NEVER ran the entire 3.1 miles.  This is my goal for me in 12 to 13 weeks, to run the entire 3.1 miles.

So, like I have unofficially started this study, I unofficially did my first training today.  After church, I had +Marty Bowie  go "run" with me.  We went to Magness Creek and after a 5 min warm up ran for about 12 minutes.  I haven't ran since Thanksgiving Day when we did the Turkey Trot that Go Running put on.  So 12 minutes wasn't too bad.  I think Marty's watch said it was about 3/4 mile.  It was good for me but I feel bad for him.  He was just getting warmed up.  :(  I wish I could find him someone to run with but then I would loose my running buddy.

I have now read week 1 of the study and I'm not sure how the Bible study part works but maybe in week 2 I shall.

Prayers are most appreciated.

+Briggs Lyons +Andrette Prather

Run For God

Why am I reading this book?

Well the cheesy quick answer is, "I want to get in shape." But I that is too easy.  I can get into shape without reading this book.  But I want to do more then just get into shape.  I want to be inline with God's will: spiritually, physically and financially. Since we have decided that this is the year to get right financially, I am feeling that I need to work on the physical aspect too.  Why not do it all once?

I know that God doesn't want me to be wonder woman but He does want me to be able to do His work in this world.  And to do that I need to be able to physically go about the challenge of His work.  And to do that I need to take care of myself while growing deeper in my faith with God.  I really want to get where I can go on a international mission trip and I don't feel that is something I can do physically right now.  So, here I start this challenge.

With any luck I can persuade my darling husband and a few others along on this journey. +Marty Bowie, +Briggs Lyons

Running

Considering I didn't run all of December, I didn't loose as much ground as I would have thought. I had got to week 5 day 3, though never completed it, but starting back at week 4 hasn't been too difficult. We ran and completed day 2 last night and now for this week I just have to do day 3. I can then move back to week 5. I'm rather proud of myself. I would never have pictured me as a runner and I am only interested in 5Ks but running for my health isn't too bad.

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Couch to 5K

Back in June Marty and I started doing the Couch to 5K running plan.  Not really to get ready for a 5K but to get us off the couch and back to being active and healthy.  This is a 9 week program where you run 3 days of each week, so you would think we would be done by now.  LOL.  Well we're not.  Marty is way farther then me but he is going at my pace so I will keep doing it.  We are on Week 5 Day 3.  Day 3 is 5 minutes of warm up, 20 minutes of running and 5 minutes of cool down.  When we started, I could barely run for 1 minute and I could hardly imagine that I would run for 30 minutes straight.  We did Day 3 Week 5 on Sunday and I was able to run 14 minutes of the 20 minutes and travel 5 laps around the football field.  This is just amazing to me.  I have NEVER in my life ran 14 minutes for any reason.

I will let you know if I actually make it to 20 minutes.