From 203 pounds to 1 Fit Chick!

Last night was a beautiful evening. Around 8pm I took off on my bike. At 9:30 I rode in the yard. I even had to stop and get rid of my hooded jacket, that’s how mild it was out! A tank top in October…after dark…on my bike! I had my flashing tail light fired up and a new Schwinn headlight which threw good light. Turned that off after traffic died down, all of maybe 8 vehicles, and I rode by the moonlight,or should that be ‘by the light of the moon’. Me, my bike and some great tunes. Ah, what more can there be? Read on…

This morning I got up to a rainy day and I thought “I feel like going for a run” So, I did! 11 MILES!!! I still can hardly believe it! I have no idea what happened. I was at mile 5, soaking ringing wet, and passing by home when I decided to try and push it for mile 6. Next thing I knew I’d started feeling really good. The tiredness and heavy feeling in my legs disappeared. Poof…gone…magic! I cruised through my 7th mile and just into the 8th when I got to thinking that if I could run just 1/2 mile more to the corner post of the graveyard then running home would make 11 miles. I could hardy believe that this might become a reality for me. Well, by God I tagged the corner post, had to run into the ditch to do it and leaped back onto the road. I did an arms overhead WHOOHOO circle dance and waved like a mad woman at somebody I realized was looking out their window at me. Big smiles all around and I was off! 2.5 miles and I did it all. Every step In all honesty, mile # 11 was getting tough, but I felt so damned high happy from it all that I barely noticed. I’m just so amazed. What a rush! I still can’t believe it.

Why is it that a person can slowly build up their mileage, then it’s all you can do to barely squeeze out two or three miles and then ya go out one day and run like ya got bionic legs? What the fart is that all about?

Little sore tonight, so I’m going to pop a couple of Tylenol and rub these bionic legs of mine with a little A5-35.

“Good night all!” she cried, still grinning so hard it was hard to look upon.

I ate goldarned healthy yesterday! I ran 6 miles last night and I better keep this up ’til my b-day, or else all kinds of sheeeeets gonna hit the fan! I honestly believe that this is the time of year our bodies try to pack on insulating layers of fat for the winter months. I mean, well jumpings, what other reason could there be for these insanely, irresistibly strong urges to oink out? I shall fight this to the death now that I’ve figured out what the devil is up! This ain’t gonna be easy. Grrrrrr!

It’s sunny out there and I want to get an early bike ride in. After that I guess it wouldn’t kill me to to some weights ‘n abs. maybe throw in a few mellow circuits on the old dreadmill. Mellow as in not anything over 10 mph….

Hee hee…Did that make the eyes pop outta your head, or what! How does 5 mph sound?…….Yup, me too!

Damn germs! I’ve been a tad bit under the weather these past few days. Yay, so much fun. I am so thankful to ‘whoeverthehellitwas’ for spreading their germs all about.  Finally managed to get myself off the couch and out ‘n about to pawn this mess off on somebody else. Mwah ha ha ha! The cycle continues. A girlz gotta do what a girlz gotta do.

Oh, and that workout I mentioned the other day? My gawd!!! Highly recommend it or any thing like it. I was running at 9 miles per hour. FREAKING 9!!! LOLOL…for almost 1 minute ha ha ha.  I didn’t go the whole 3 minutes on that one though because my stupid lazy ‘did nothing since forever’ dreadmill shut down on me twice. Dust? Two darned times it turned on me, and both just after I finished the minute walk and started into a run part. Weird though because you would think that at 7 mph. I’d plow right into the console with it stopping like that, but that didn’t happen. Still I wasn’t about to trust it at 9 mph, so I chickened out. Did I mention 9 mph?  What a great way to get the old ticker pumping and sweat OMG the sweat that ran off of me was a frigging lot! The circuits of weights with all of those squats, and lunges etc. wasn’t nothing to sneeze at either.  A great circuit training routine and I’m adding it to my weekly routine. I’ve used this type of program before with my treadmill, but never running like that! I’ve never pushed myself through any weighted exercises so quickly either. “go go go” “Last Chance W/O” I am so going to be a biggest loser with this one!

Going for some b-fast and see after that what I ‘got under the hood’. Feeling good so fingers crossed! X

That’s all I could run yesterday. Started out with the slightest whisper of a headache and it  only got worse.  Allergy headache I’m guessing what with all of the fall weeds and pollen blowing around. Can’t believe I had to take an allergy pill in October!!!  Man, that just sucked because it was a perfect run day. Cool morning breeze, slightly overcast with fog lingering just off shore. Awwww man!!! That 3 hour nap while it kicked in was nothing to complain about. Wanted to run last night but could still feel a hint of a pounding sensation, so that was a  no go.

Today we got rain. I’m going to do my bootcamp program. I got this from the Biggest Loser site. It’s Bob Harpers bootcamp so ya gotta know it’s not easy! I don’t have the link anymore, so here’s a taste.  It consists of 30 full minutes of run like hell/walk circuits on the ‘dreadmill’. The run segments start at 5 mph and progress to 9 mph @ 3 min. each.. With my short legs probably not going to happen, but I must try! (help me) Next comes 30 minutes of 10 exercises, one minute each. Here’s how it goes:Push ups. Squats. Shoulder press(heavy on the weights). Shoulder press(same weights) with squats. Same weights-bicep curls. Keep the weights and alternating lunges. Tricep dips and into alt. lunges. Heavy up the weights and do lat. rows 30 sec ea. side and then back into lunges. Repeat circuit!!! Use remaining time to do crunches and stretch.

Holy smokes, do ya think this routine will kick my butt?

Will I survive?

Yesterday three young boys were outside our local store doing a little rough housing, chasing each other around, and whooping and hollering like all get out. Right when I was going by them one broke away from the rest and said with a huge grin, “I’m coming to see YOU on Halloween”. I knew right away what he meant, so naturally I acted puzzled, “Why’rya coming to see me, I won’t be home”? 
“Yoooou knoooooow…the witch”! he grinned like mad at me and then he was gone! I guess it’s time for the witch to dust off her broom handle. Company’s a coming! Eeeeee Heee heee hee…gag…hack…choke…darned broom stick exhaust!

Happy October 1st y’all!