London Bridge Is Falling Down

Dear Friends,

I know that it has been a while since you have heard from me. I am sorry. My life has been fairly crazy the last few weeks and getting up at 5:15 to be at the gym by 5:45 just has not been feasible. I would like to report though that I have been very active in my social life... I have not been hiking or biking or running marathons... (let's not get a head of ourselves here) but playing at the park and jumping on the trampoline. I went to the tumbling gym (PPT) and the next day just existing was incredibly difficult. I can't tell you how much weight I have lost because I have been pretty scared to step on a scale, but I know I am getting thinner because well... yesterday I had a really embarrassing moment when I was a BBQ playing a little keep away and my shorts decided that was the opportune moment to fall down. It was horrible... There I was stuck in the middle of a keep away game the ratio of people was... 5 attractive boys. 4 girls... and my shorts fall down... please keep laughing, that is why we tell the story... anyway...

I'll keep you posted and hopefully I will get my lazy in the morning bum out of bed and to the gym.

Love,
A

Captain Spandex

Dear Captain Spandex,

Congratulations on your amazing weight loss. Only people on the biggest loser could have pulled it off but since you spend the whole freakin day at the gym I understand how you are also a biggest loser. I know you have some new found confidence but being so openly obvious while checking out girls will not result in the response you are looking for. It may also have something to do with the homemade unitard you like to don at the gym. I am however happy that you have chosen not to wear the KISS make-up any longer. This was a step in the right direction. Just so you know it’s not you, it’s me. I am just not ready for that kind of a “relationship”.

Love,

K

Day 1 of Iron Man (or woman) Week

WHAT WAS I THINKING! I woke up this morning and headed to the gym thinking OK I have to bike for 19 miles and run/walk for almost 5miles. Well I am just going to go crazy on the bike and do it really fast so that tonight I can do the run/walk. WRONG! I only went 5 miles on the bike before I wanted to "try something else" Really! My buns were hurting so bad before they went numb. Why do they make seats so hard. OK well I got to 10 miles before I realized that I was going to be late for work. So off the bike I went and ran to the locker room to get ready only to realize I left my gym bag in the car. So out to the car I went and back to the locker room to get ready. Too bad that does not count as my running for the day. So tonight I will be at the gym in AF working out in the cardio cinema for a few hrs. THANK GOODNESS for cardio cinemas! Tomorrows work out will be starting much earlier.

Love,

K

Wait March is over?

Well as you can tell we have been very bad at blogging. I hope life runs away for you as fast as it does for us.

First to clear up the last post. I said " not like WE can hide it." Just so you know I am not as rude as I sound. However I have been more blunt lately. I think it is because of the working out. OK maybe its because I am a rude person and am just finding this out.

Ok now on to the good stuff. Work outs have been a little different. The early mornings have been really hard. So we are mixing things up. I have been doing some up in my room before bed or may not at all. Gosh darn it. Let me be really honest with you all right now. Working out is fun, I love eating healthy food but I seem to make bad choices in both areas. Why is it that once I start doing great I kick myself in the butt and mess it all up. I think something is wrong with me. I really want to be healthy and thinner. But I feel like I am my own worst enemy in this department.

I was watching the biggest loser last night (YAY for Melissa going home! I hate that skinny bittie. OK hate is a strong word so I really really really don't like her. ( yes this is a song)) and was so excited to work out. So I set my alarm early to go and texted A to say we were going to the gym. Well A had a rough night and it was just not going to happen for her. So I set my alarm anyways and was so excited to go. Well 6am rolls around and the alarm goes off. I hit the snooze. So then after a little while I get up and do some half hearted yoga moves and then call it good. I KNOW that was not a good workout. So I am going to have to do something tonight to make up for it.

Ok ok ok enough with the complaining. Tomorrow is a new day and a new chance to do better. I know my results will not be as fast as the biggest losers results but eventually I will have the same results. My sister J is doing an "Iron man in a week" (she does the whole iron man just has a week to do it) I am sure that this is something I can do. I am however not doing the swim yet. I am not comfortable in a swim suite yet and I know if I tell myself I have to do it I will not do any of it. This is really sad because I love swimming. I was a swimmer for most of my life. I just lost it some where. I think I left it in New Mexico. So I need suggestions on what I should do instead. So let me hear it!!! I need to do 2.4 miles of it. It can be anything. So here is the break down.

112 miles of bike riding

26 miles of running/ walking

2.4 miles of ... you have to let me know.

I am going to start this on Monday. So I will have from Monday the 12th till Monday the 19th. That means I will be biking 19 miles a day and running/ walking 4.5 miles a day. Wow that is a lot. However when I finish this and have done it all I am going to go buy myself brand new running shoes!!! YAY!!

So I am going to keep track of my time on each day so that in the end I can tell you all how much time I spent doing my extended time iron man. Then in 3 months I am going to do it again. This way we can all see if I am making progress. Maybe by then I will feel fine with the swim suite thing.

Wish me luck. I will need it.

K