Saturday is Caleb’s Crusade training day, and yesterday was no different. We had an *easy 6 mile run planned. (*I don’t consider ANY run to be easy, let alone a 6 mile run. I only labeled it that way because 6 miles compared to the 9.3 I ran last week seems like it SHOULD be [...]
This is going to be a fairly anti-climactic weigh-in, since I already blogged about my glorious entry into Onederland on Saturday. However, because I’m OCD, I wanted to at least record my results from my ‘official’ weigh-in this morning: I weighed in this morning at 199.4 lbs which is a 3.4 lb loss for the week. [...]
THANK YOU I just want to thank each and every one of you who commented on my last blog post. It was very difficult for me to post the pictures I did – it left me feeling very vulnerable the next morning. So much so, that I came online to delete them out of my [...]
This may be the understatement of the year, but these morning workouts with Michelle are brutal. She had me doing things this morning I would have never even thought of, so I thought I’d share them here. The most creative thing she had me do this morning was on the treadmill. With it unplugged. And [...]
Today was such a whirlwind, I hardly know where to start. I showed up at the gym this morning with my list of exercises from my workout pledge ready to go. My sister was there to join me but what I didn’t know was that Michelle, the owner of the gym, would also be there [...]
So, here’s my final tally for tomorrow’s workout pledge: 13.5 minutes of running at 4.5 mph 1 minute walking at 3.5 mph 8 minutes on elliptical 40 crunches 80 squats 20 reps on weight machine 6 minutes on exercise bike 9 minutes on stairmaster I will also do a circuit of all of them (a [...]
If you missed my workout pledge, you can participate by clicking here. You can help determine my workout on Wednesday! So far, if I’ve tallied correctly, my routine is as follows: 100 squats 3 minutes stairmaster 40 crunches 4.5 minutes running (4.5 mph) 1 minute walking (3.5 mph) 1 minute elliptical 20 reps on weight [...]
Calories burned? 532 Time spent on treadmill? 1 Hour, 45 minutes Total distance? 6.01 miles (Farthest EVER for me at once!) Leaving the gym looking like this: and this: PRICELESS!!! Oh hell yes! What an awesome workout! My face gets SOOO red, doesn’t it? So, now I’m less than 5 miles from reaching my perfect [...]
I was scanning some old photos tonight and came across a couple gems I wanted to share, I hope you don’t mind. As you can see, my love of pasta began at a very early age! Of course there was also this picture: Yes, that’s me sitting on my dad’s weight bench (those are my [...]