I want to first start out with my weekly weigh in. I went in on Thursday morning before we left town for Wichita. My weigh in was not good, I posted a 1.4 pound weight gain and Ericka did not come in for her last day of work so I was handed of to someone I had not ever been seen by. Changes are difficult, I am not comfortable with this new consultant, but I will give her a chance. So my number for this week is 173.4. I did get food for this week and I am still doing two days on my own. This week I will do three day while I am traveling on my own, two days from the end of last week and one of this week's days on my own. Today (Monday) I got back on plan. I did jump on the scale and it was not a pretty sight. I did my best to try and keep a record of what I ate and to control the sizes of my servings, but I don't think I did as well as I could have. I will go into the center on Friday for another weigh in and if I post a no loss, no gain for this week, I will be happy. So as of today I am back on track and I still have one more day to do on my own. I think I need to plan my days off the program a little bit more, but I can work on that. I was dropped down to a 1200 calorie plan again for this week and will probably stay there for a couple weeks. So enough about the program, weight, and food.
This week I went home for my second attempt at a 10K race. One of my New Year's goals was to run a race with my cousin. We got together and decided to run the River Run in Wichita, this is a yearly race, run during the Riverfest in the spring. Years ago I had done the "fun run", (a mile run) and I wanted to run the real race back then, but knew I could never finish, because I had not trained. I was going to the gym back then, but mostly doing step classes and bike classes. So this was my chance, I had tried a 10K in July of 2011 but did not finish. I stopped at mile 5 with heat exhaustion. Chris said she would pace me and would make sure I finished. I have trained at a 2 to 1 ratio and that Saturday morning Chris ran me at a 4 to 1 ratio. My pace was just a little faster, but not by much. All I can say is that I finished and I finished with a PR and a baseline for future races. I am so totally happy with my time and with the 4 to 1 ratio. My cousin proved to me in many ways this past weekend that I am stronger than I think I am and I am thinner than I think I am. Now don't get me wrong, it was not all a walk in the garden and I'm not saying I didn't struggle a little bit. But I didn't struggle as much as I thought I would and mile 5 and 6 were not as bad as I had imagined them to be. So I want to again give a great big THANK YOU to my cousin for pushing me so hard on Saturday and not letting me wimp out when I wanted to! I was fun!
So what's next? Well, I'm going to take this week to get serious again about my JC program and get under my weight into the 160 range. AND I'm seriously thinking I want to run a 1/2 marathon, so I will begin to see what I will have to do to work it into my schedule and how I can work the training into my schedule. I think I do better when I have a goal to plan and reach for. So that's this week and yes I'm happy with my time and so proud of the fact that I finished!!!! I want to do it again! Till next time, keep moving! ~ Darcy
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