My promise to start re-blogging again…

SOOOOOO much has happened this past year!  I finally ran a full marathon, I got engaged to my best friend and a great running buddy during a half marathon about a month after that, and now i’m all signed up to repeat the full marathon that I did last year.

I never posted about my marathon experience but i can say that the training and preparation, which i thought would suck, was not bad at all.  Luckily I had an enthusiastic partner in crime that is soon to be my sister in law’ sister (you do the relation math there) that joined me for the ride.  I do have to say that if I didn’t have to meet Erica at the dunkin donuts between our houses at 6am all those saturday mornings last summer, i probably would have bailed on the marathon again.  We trained together on Thursdays with an 8mile tempo run after work along the river by my house, and met up for Saturday morning long slow distances on a flattish neighborhood between our houses.  She repeatedly got texts from people that saw us running and said we looked great, so that was encouraging.  (i have no friends in the suburbs so I got no texts haha) She developed planter fasciitis which definitely made it tough for her, but she was a champ.  By the time we ran our 22 mile training run I knew we would be just fine for the marathon.  We were greeted with marathon morning of 40 degrees and rain.  Looking back on it only one of our training runs had even a drizzle.  Are bodies probably would have dealt better with the 90 degrees and humidity that they were used to.  So that being said I am doing the same marathon this year, solo training effort this time, unless my fiance decides to bite the bullet.  I hope to break the 4 hour mark!

Since the marathon, when i weighed in at about 125lbs I packed on some winter weight and am closing in on 140lbs, not such a good number for my 5’4″ body.  I wish all my excess weight from pizza and chips would go to my boobs, but alas it lands on my midsection and gives em the dreaded love handles and muffin top that just don’t go so well with a bikini.

I have been hitting the gym pretty regularly again, but I set a goal to myself to try my best to run at least 1 mile a day even on my rest days So that I wouldn’t got three days with slacking off.  I also decided to give up chips for the rest of the summer.  A true test to my willpower.  Nothing is better than chips and dip for me.  So here goes another body experiment and running test.  I’m following the same plan i used for last year which starts next Saturday but I am going to actually do the Wednesday runs that are optional and the cross training that is prescribed.  After all I need to fit into a body hugging wedding dress on the beach in Jamaica in less than 9 months!!!

I am tracking all of my food and workouts on a iphone app called “lose it” i have been measuring out my portions of nuts and keeping tabs on the size of chicken breast i have been eating as to not cheat on the calorie counts.  I took some before pictures and home to post great after pictures in 9 months at my wedding in my thong string bikini  (jk about the thong)

I also love this inspiration blog: http://reasonstobefit.tumblr.com/