It was a long and interesting weekend for me and yesterday was a day that saw me in bed all day long. I caught some sort of bug Saturday during the day but tried to ignore it. I did for as long as I could. Well, by Monday, I had to stay in. I’m okay now as I think it has done something else for me. Fixed my workout times. I was up at 5 am this morning ready to go so I did. I only had 4.5 miles to do today which is never really ONLY. I have to say I am a little weak and only one other person knew I was under the weather until the rest of you seven read this but I think I will be okay. Speaking of seven, counting this week I have seven weeks until race day. I will be good and ready and it will be fun. I look forward to the race and I want to feel super confident when i get out there. I’m just racing against myself so that is the best part. Well, today has been a long one so far and I will probably get to bed quite early tonight, we will see. Tomorrow we get up and do it again, I will add a little more speed to tomorrow’s run. Be great!!!

So today was a weights day but lets talk about yesterday. So yesterday the plan was to do a little bit of speed work, not much by any stretch of the imagination but just a couple things differently. Let’s say 30 seconds can seem like quite a long time in certain situations, an extremely long time. So I will tell you in certain laps of my run I was supposed to go all out for 30 seconds. Well, I thought I would be okay and just a little more tired. Let’s just say it’s been a while since I have done anything like that. I thought my chest was going to explode. Then it seemed to make my legs a little (a lot) more useless over the run. Now, I had 10 laps, I started this 30 second run like I am crazy deal on the 4th lap and went every other lap. Now,  Every other lap means do it again on the 6th lap. I have to admit, I felt totally useless on the 5th lap, it was awesome. My sprint was not much of a sprint after while but I am sure it will get better. On Friday I have to just pick up my pace by about 20 seconds per lap, now it doesn’t seem to difficult but I think it is going to be. We will see. I will say this, if I can get comfortable with these Wednesday runs with this run like a maniac deals then I will be really comfortable going into May 16th. Be great!!!

Wheeeeew!!!!!! It is starting to get hot out here. The weather said it was going to be low 70’s around the time I went out today, I think someone lied to me. I should have checked to see the actual temperature. Now, I want to toughen myself up by running in a little warmer weather but I don’t know,I may need to back to the early mornings for a bit. The bad thing is, it was probably low 70’s, it was just the humidity that was slapping me in the face. It wasn’t a long one today as it was 4.5 miles, tomorrow I have 6. Not only do I have six but I will be putting a little more speed into the run. It’s going to hurt a little(a lot) but I am not in this for things to come easy, I am in it to get better and I think tomorrow I take that next step. It will be awesome. Be great!!!

Another long run in the bag. Today, however, you probably couldn’t have paid me to go another 3 miles. It was just one of those days. You almost couldn’t have paid me anything to do any of it but I understand that without doing what I am supposed to be doing I won’t get where I am trying to go. As Friday was my birthday and I went out I will have to admit I did not get my four miles in on Saturday. This is the reason I do not go out, I know it would mess up my workout routine. I am pleased though with how things are coming along. Green bay is about seven weeks out now and it should be really fun. I bet I will have some serious butterflies right before the race starts, just because. On another note, I have been doing pushups everyday. I swear they help with my running. New week tomorrow, be great!!!

Long, long day today. It started out with weights at the gym. Weights went well, I love the way they make me feel and I can definitely feel their help on the runs. On weight day it is hard to really write anything but I do need to make sure I am checking in with you guys every day. Things the last couple of days have gone as planned I am feeling pretty good about the near future. I’m taking this stuff one day at a time and bit by bit, it has really worked for me doing it this way. If I continue down this path I should reach every goal I have set for myself. Tomorrow six miles and I finally have my watch sitting with my IPOD, I’ve gotta start getting these times in. I will have no excuse tomorrow if I don’t keep my time. Well, it’s late and past my bedtime. Be great!!!

Another pretty good week was put in the books today. It is weird I am starting to feel myself really tighten up from the inside out. What does that mean? Just that, it is the best way I can explain it. My body seems to get stronger and stronger and with 8 weeks before the half in Green Bay I am liking how everything is going. It’s weird because I am very comfortable with my surroundings here and that is why I haven’t made any changes to my running scenery. I think it has been something I needed since I started back up and going to Green Bay for the half will be somewhat familiar to me since Idid it before. I will do it a little quicker this time though and that is kind of a good feeling. Including today I have been doing 10 miles every Sunday for some time now. I have really taken it easy on them because I wanted to get through the mileage. I think I can test myself a little more and I will do so starting with next Sunday’s run. I think my body can take a little more pounding now. I won’t say I am great at what I am doing now but am getting good at it. Signing up for the race was somewhat a spur of the moment thing but I had it in my mind for quite some time. I want to get at least two halves in before the big race in October, I am going to be doing these miles anyway may as well make a few of them official. The reason why it was spur of the moment was because I wanted to make sure I was ready for it. Well the day I signed up, I knew I was ready again. For me personally there is a lot riding on this race for me. It is going to tell me if this is for me. I believe it is so why be afraid to get out there? Not sure if I said it before but I should be about 100 lbs or more lighter than when I did this race the first time. If that doesn’t make me confident then nothing will. I am rambling tonight but I knew I would get in this mood sooner or later today so I waited for it. Every day from here on out I focus on getting better with a microscope. Pressure? No pressure. Pressure is not knowing where you next meal is coming from. I’ve been there too, it didn’t break me either. Be great!!!

The week so far has been good so I am pleased with it. Saturday and Sunday are always the big days. I think it is just because it is the weekend. I do absolutely nothing on the weekends but I think just because it is the weekend I want to stay up later than normal so I sleep in a little longer. It is starting to get hot out here again so I don’t necessarily want to be running in the mid 80’s weather with all this humidity, at least not yet. I would like to test it after while, I figure if I can run in the Miami heat then I can run anywhere. It isn’t anything to play around with though. I can’t just make the jump from mid 60’s to mid 80’s because it just wouldn’t work, trust me.

Well, I’ve made a decision. I have decided to do the Cellcom half marathon in Green Bay, WI on May 16th. It was the first race I completed, I was 380 lbs and I didn’t really stand a chance at finishing it but I did. It came at a time when I wasn’t too far removed from getting tired walking from the parking lot of a store into the store. the feeling I had when I finished was one of the most amazing feelings I have ever had. My journey at that time in 2008 began well, things happened and the train came off the tracks and I had to dust myself off and get back up. Well, this time I won’t even be in the 300’s when I begin the race on May 16th. I look forward to going back to where it all started and continuing on to finish my mission of losing this weight and running all these races. I’m excited and extremely confident I will do well. I am going to make it a road trip and get a couple of runs in on my way up to Green Bay so who knows what town I will be getting a run in before I begin driving in the morning, it should be interesting and I know it will be very calming for me as the road trip I took last September was one of the most amazing things I have ever done. If I had the time and the money I would probably road trip to every race, there is no better form of relaxation than being on the road seeing the country.

I’m excited, be great!!!

Weights today and yes this blog is a little late, it’s almost 11:30pm. I came into the room right after I got out of the shower to blog but when I got on the computer something else must have come up (probably Facebook) and I forgot. Oh well, nothing special today except that for whatever reason I feel fantastic. I feel really, really good. I’m good and tight after today’s session. I have to say doing the back exercises seem to get me extremely tired. It’s weird, they get me more tired than my leg exercises which used to be the ones that got me tired the most. It is a struggle to do biceps and triceps afterwards. From the looks of what happens at the gym it seems like all people want to do is biceps and triceps but I would love to skip them every time when I finally get to them. Oh well, I guess that means I am working. Be great!!!

Ten miles today. I can do it in relative peace because on Sunday no one wakes up before 8am it seems. By that time, I am almost back in, showered, and in bed like I never left the house (if I get up on time). Nothing to write home about today. It was just a few miles longer than the other runs during the week. It is working, slowly but surely it is. In six months it will be cool to look back at this blog and remember where I was. I won’t be in the same place, that is for sure. The week was good, I’m tired, all is well. Be great!!!

Okay seriously, I could have sworn I have been blogging all week but then I get on here and there hasn’t been anything since Sunday. Oh well, I know I’m not crazy, or am I? Seriously though, I am really upset that my blogs are nowhere to be found. Well here is the week in review, weights, run, run, weights. That brings us through today and tomorrow another good run coming up and I would say it is about time to do a video. Things are good and I am beginning to look to make them better. I’m not doing anything drastic because I think what I am doing has me on the right path. I’m being great, sorry for the the blogs. Tomorrow will be awesome just for the simple fact that it is tomorrow. Be great!!!