justalittlesnarky

Anti-Niche= good at many things, not an expert at any of them but having a great time all the same.

justalittlesnarky - Anti-Niche= good at many things, not an expert at any of them but having a great time all the same.

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Starting over again! 900th time is the charm?

New Running Shoes

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I am back to trying to run. I was a runner not very good one but a runner all the same. The end game is to be able to run 5 miles with my son on November 11 of this year. While I have covered well over that distant, when I say run mean run for real, see DS runs cross-country so he is what I would call a real runner. I am almost 40 with adult onset athleticism. It is safe to say that we are not at the same pace any of the time. This time I want to be able to run really run that will give him a bit of a challenge. At this point he can skip backwards up hill and still be faster than me.

So I am afraid that there will be a whole lot of tweets about running and posts about running. I am sorry here in advance for that.

***9675 steps for today

Interesting…something to think about.

 

book over

Again there was some down time at work today (shocking I know). The link below came across my Twitter feed, so I decided to see what it was all about. It one of the “AtGoogleTalks” series on YouTube. This I think is the second or third one of these that I have watched on a variety of topics. Due to the fact that I fall in the “weighs more than what I should” category I was interested in what Dr. Kessler had to say about why “we” overeat.

He has some interesting insight in to how the food industry, manipulates us in to “craving” foods that are not so good for us. There is a lot of people think that if you are fat then you have no will power, lazy and don’t care about ourselves. While that may be true for some, but from Dr. Kessler’s research it sounds like we are more like the goldfish who has an owner who is careless and puts too much food in the bowl. It it is there we will eat it, and we will eat all of it, even if we explode in the process.

The video is long but if you have an hour to kill and want to learn something I think you may find it as interesting as I did. It makes me think about what I put in my pie hole at least for a little while. I may get the book at some point, but the video is food for thought as it where.

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Guess what I found out…

That I have a waist. Now this may not be that exciting for some of you but for me this is some of the most exciting news that I have gotten in a while now. I am pretty sure that most of you who have been around for a while will know that I am what I call unsvelte which means that I am fat. I have been for most of my life. That is not to say that I don’t have womanly curves, but they are not as defined as some. With the discovery of my waist they are getting to be more that way. I am loving the fact that I need to wear a belt to keep my pants up.

I am not really doing anything in the way of diet, no counting or excluding foods. What my DS pointed out to me is that sure while I am on a “diet” I will lose wait, but if I ever go back to eating “normally” it will all come back. He is very smart for 15, maybe I should get him to write a book. So what I have done is to eat normally but watch my portions and make sure I get some exercise. I am sure there will be updated on this as I move forward.

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Race day, fast approaching.

Aerial view of today's Golden Gate Park, which...

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On Super Bowl Sunday, I am going to be running in Golden Gate Park. It will be my first race in three years. I had developed some chronic injuries, from running and pretty much life. I am going to see if I can run the whole race, this will be something that I have struggled with in the past. I tend to start out to fast and it kills me for the rest of the race, so this time I am going to run with a play list that is full of music that is all 119 beats per min. This seems to a conformable pace for me to be able to run the whole 3.2 miles, at least I was able to do just that last Sunday so I am sure hoping that I am able to do the same thing this time too.

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Work it out

I have stated before that I have been overweight my whole life. I have tried a ton of different strategies for losing the weight. They all seem to be good for a little while but I can only handle eating foods that begin with the letter z for so long before I am looking for chocolate cake. So I slowly get back to where I started. I am not looking to be a size 2, I know that is that not a realistic goal. So, my goal is not really centered around a number. That said I do weigh myself everyday, I know that most people will think that I’m crazy but here is why I have been doing that, to find out what has an effect on the number on the scale. So far I have noted that when I am running a few pints low on water I can gain up to 4 pounds over night. This plays in to how much of my food intake is in the salty food group.

Back to my goal, it is to run a half marathon. When I say run I mean really run it, not limp my way to the finish line, cussing the whole way. That was my first and only one so far. It was not a lot of fun, but being all stubborn and stuff I want to prove to myself that I can complete one with out it be some sort of hell on earth. I seriously was thinking about just falling down, they would have sent an ambulance for the fat girl who has “collapsed” on the course. I did finish, by sure will power, and the fact that it would embarrassing for me to take the ambulance ride.

I am going to apologize now, because I have a feeling that most of my posts are going to be all about running for a while. I tend to get obsessed when I am training for an event. I have 3 coming in the next few months. The first of which is a 5K on Super Bowl Sunday. That is my first race in 3 years, I’m excited and a bit scared as well.

In the past I have raced badly, I start to fast, I tend to run to fast, I don’t pace myself to be able to finish the race without wishing for death. So this race I am going to put together a play list of songs that are all at 119 beats per minute, that is a pace that I can maintain for 3.2 miles. Well at least I was able to last night.

The other two races that I have coming up are both in March. One is a 12K the other is an other 5K. I am not sure that the 12K will be anything more then a really long walk for me, I need to add 4 mile in two months I am pretty sure that is going to be something near an impossibility for me, but I’m sure as hell going to give it a shot. I have to just get out that and run. There is a fine line that I am walking as it where, to train but not mess up my knee.

I am also doing the EA Sports Active NFL Training Camp for the Wii, it works your legs as well so I hope to strengthening the knee will keep it injury free. I don’t want to go back to not wearing my high heels and walking like I am 90 years old. So the knee is the first priority in all of this training that is about to happen.

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