I was down 2.2 pounds at last Thursday's weigh in, but with my pizza binge on Saturday, I'm hoping to just maintain this week.
Running is coming along great. I did 1.4 miles on Friday morning and Juli and I did 2.04 miles yesterday in 24:32, for a pace of 12:02 per mile. For me, this is awesome! I haven't done a pace that fast in over a year. To say I'm feeling good about my running would be an understatement. I love the way I feel and love how I feel when I get done with a run.
On my walk with Windy today I was telling her about my plans for my workouts and running for the next couple of months, and she made the comment that they were great goals, realistic and doable. I hadn't thought of it as a goal, just a plan to get me moving. I like the goal approach better. Sound more concrete than a plan.
My activity goals for the next couple of months:
My goal for my walks is to slowly increase my daily steps. Last week I worked on reaching 10,000 steps per day, this week I've increased that to 10,500 per day. I will continue to increase my daily step goal every week by 500 steps until I get back to my pre-op daily step goal of 14,300 steps.
My goal for my workouts is to continue with the Weight Watcher 15 minute Express DVD's until after my 6-week post-op check, then I will move onto the "main" workouts, which are about 35 to 40 minutes per DVD. I will do the lower intensity version and work on doing the advanced version over time. Once I'm comfortable with that, I will once again try the T25 workouts. I had started on the T25 workouts last year about this time, but then strained a muscle in my leg (from not stretching enough after running) and couldn't do anything but walk for three or four months.
My running goal is to slowly increase my distance between 1/4 to a half mile each time I run until I get up to 5 or 6 miles on my long runs, then I will increase by a mile each run. As for races, I have quite a few planned between now and the end of year. Not sure how many I will actually do or what lengths, but I like having races on my calendar because it keeps me focused on my running.
I am registered to for the Salt Lake City Half Marathon in April (Hubby and I have been signed up since completing it last year) and I am undecided as to what to do. Being able to run 13 miles is definitely not going to happen in the next 5 weeks, but I am thinking I may be able to do a walk/run (such as 3 min of walking/1 min of running). Is it realistic to think I can walk (with occasional running) 13.1 miles just 9 1/2 weeks after major surgery? For me, maybe. I still have a couple of weeks to contemplate the pros and cons, but as of today, I feel I could walk that distance. The key will be to listen to my body and not push it. If I can't finish the race, no biggie. At least I will have tried, and any distance I go on the race would be a triumph.
Tomorrow the registration opens for the Walt Disney World Wine and Dine Half Marathon. RunDisney events sell out fast (though I think the Wine & Dine doesn't sell out as fast as the others) so Hubby is going to jump on line and get us registered when it opens. This will be our last RunDisney event for awhile. We're going to take a break from Disney races and focus on doing races in other states. My bucket list is to run a Half Marathon in each state and we can't afford to do that if all our money goes to the RunDisney events.
Juli is more than happy to help with my bucket list and is already looking into races in states around Montana for a half marathon we can do together.
I feel like this is kind of boring, rambling post, but I'm hoping that by writing out my goals I will be more likely to follow through. This gives me an accountability of sorts.
I was dreading the recovery process of my surgery and the having to start from scratch with my exercise, but it's turning out to be a blessing in disguise. I'm eager to get moving again. It's giving me a reset, a reboot. I'm starting fresh, and everything feels exciting and new. Only now I have the experience, I know what I capable of, my limits, and how much I can handle.
Now... if I could only feel that way about the weight loss and food...
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