At the Run For Tina they had news cameras there. I didn't even know they were there until at the end when my friends mentioned it.
I am in it at 1.09 minutes behind the two gals my number 2652!
http://lakewood.komonews.com/content/run-tina-raises-money-scholarships?tab=video
Sunday, January 30, 2011
1st 5K Run For Tina Memorial Scholarship Run
The day finally came the day of my 1st 5K!!! January 29th, 2011 was the day that I have been anxiously awaiting for and training for since Graduating from the Couch To 5K program!
Woke up bright and early a little after 5 a.m., even before my alarm went off which was set for 5:30 a.m., feeling pretty good and rested. Of course first things first....Coffee! Made my usual breakfast which was oatmeal without the usual frozen blueberries, my friends mom psyched me out the day before by mentioning the bathroom part, I have heard stories about runners having to go #2 with no bathrooms around! Also I had to be careful about not drinking too much coffee for a couple reasons 1. dehydrates you, 2. it also causes one to have to go to the bathroom. Running is mental, so you don't want to have a full bladder in the middle of your run it is just one more excuse to stop! Back to breakfast-could only eat half of my oatmeal due to being too excited!
Took a shower, got dressed, threw the hair in a pony, grabbed my hat, my ipod, my Garmin, 4 bananas, almonds, 4 meal replacement drinks (the mom in me brought enough for everybody) and of course chap stick! Hopped in the car and headed down the road to meet my friend at the Safeway parking lot. Picked up the boys at the grandparenets and off we were! There were 4 of us running the race my friend Jamie of over 20 years, her son Andrew, his friend Christian and myself.
We were making good time this made us very happy since we knew that around 650 people had pre-registered for this event. Getting up there in plenty of time was really important Christian still needed to register. And of course we got lost trying to find the park! We had no GPS good thing Jamie and I were born before GPS units, because she was smart enough to ask directions at the gas station.
Woo Hoo, we made it to our destination!! First stop is the bathroom, of course! Grabbed our bibs, Yay my first bib, and our t-shirts, Yay my first race t-shirt! I realize that I am going to have to find storage for my bibs, medals, ribbons, shirts, and maybe even a trophy someday! After getting all our gear we hopped in the car to get warm it was raining and it was cold! In reality it was perfect weather for me to run in since I am a new runner, just starting in October, so this is the only weather I am used to. Even on the few sunny days I have ran it still has only been a high of 50. 20 minutes in the car and it is time to get out and warm our bodies up with some sprinting. Yep we sprinted and yes you got it, to the bathroom! It was sprinting to me not to the others who are experienced and faster.
We gather at the staring line and the energy is electric! Ready or not it is time to run! I start my Garmin watch so I can see my pace, it is crucial that I don't start out too fast which is really easy to do with the buzz of the other runners. Runners are passing me at an alarming rate, which is not surprising I am not a fast runner (yet), I just don't want to be in their way. I keep to the side as much as I can to make it easier for the faster ones to get by me, when lo and behold I pass someone, he may have stopped running to answer his cell phone, but who cares I have one more runner behind me! Keeping a steady pace round the corner and here is the small hill they said was on the course, wasn't small to me and it was 1/4 long, it was also a narrow trail! Proud of myself made it up running half way or more, then got stuck behind a gal who decided to walk, people are passing me on the left, the middle is getting slippery from being wet and trampled on, looked like a good time to walk and catch my breath. I haven't trained on any type of hill yet, if I had to walk for a few minutes it is O.K. just gives me a new goal to work on.
Like Jamie said what goes up must come down and at the bottom of the hill was a lake that we got to run around. This had a wider path easier for people to get around me and also for me to get around others, yes it is true I am now starting to pass a few people. Keeping my pace steady is what was saving me! By now the course is a little over half over! Yippee! Along the course they have people directing us on where to go, even though it was marked clearly, these volunteers helped in keeping us motivated by cheering us on! At the end of the race the volunteers were kids this was fun, not only was I coming to the end, these kids were cute and as I ran by we were high fiving!
Around the corner around the barn and voila THE FINISH LINE! So cool to see the time clock with the time in the low 30 minute range still and all the racers who already finished, and everyones family there to show support! Off to the left I see my best friend Jamie cheering me on, she had been there for over 10 minutes already, she finish at 20 minutes or so. I see the time clock raise my arms in the air, with both hands making the peace sign, and cross the finish line at 00.33.40! Beat my normal time by around -5 minutes or so!!
My husband, my inlaws, my daughter and my son were all there to congratulate me and I felt loved and proud! What a great support system I have, considering after I got runners knee (in both knees) it was never really said, but I could tell that it was hard for them to understand why I went back out to run as soon as I could. My son told me "Words can not say, It is unbelievable how much I love you!"
Woke up bright and early a little after 5 a.m., even before my alarm went off which was set for 5:30 a.m., feeling pretty good and rested. Of course first things first....Coffee! Made my usual breakfast which was oatmeal without the usual frozen blueberries, my friends mom psyched me out the day before by mentioning the bathroom part, I have heard stories about runners having to go #2 with no bathrooms around! Also I had to be careful about not drinking too much coffee for a couple reasons 1. dehydrates you, 2. it also causes one to have to go to the bathroom. Running is mental, so you don't want to have a full bladder in the middle of your run it is just one more excuse to stop! Back to breakfast-could only eat half of my oatmeal due to being too excited!
Took a shower, got dressed, threw the hair in a pony, grabbed my hat, my ipod, my Garmin, 4 bananas, almonds, 4 meal replacement drinks (the mom in me brought enough for everybody) and of course chap stick! Hopped in the car and headed down the road to meet my friend at the Safeway parking lot. Picked up the boys at the grandparenets and off we were! There were 4 of us running the race my friend Jamie of over 20 years, her son Andrew, his friend Christian and myself.
We were making good time this made us very happy since we knew that around 650 people had pre-registered for this event. Getting up there in plenty of time was really important Christian still needed to register. And of course we got lost trying to find the park! We had no GPS good thing Jamie and I were born before GPS units, because she was smart enough to ask directions at the gas station.
Woo Hoo, we made it to our destination!! First stop is the bathroom, of course! Grabbed our bibs, Yay my first bib, and our t-shirts, Yay my first race t-shirt! I realize that I am going to have to find storage for my bibs, medals, ribbons, shirts, and maybe even a trophy someday! After getting all our gear we hopped in the car to get warm it was raining and it was cold! In reality it was perfect weather for me to run in since I am a new runner, just starting in October, so this is the only weather I am used to. Even on the few sunny days I have ran it still has only been a high of 50. 20 minutes in the car and it is time to get out and warm our bodies up with some sprinting. Yep we sprinted and yes you got it, to the bathroom! It was sprinting to me not to the others who are experienced and faster.
We gather at the staring line and the energy is electric! Ready or not it is time to run! I start my Garmin watch so I can see my pace, it is crucial that I don't start out too fast which is really easy to do with the buzz of the other runners. Runners are passing me at an alarming rate, which is not surprising I am not a fast runner (yet), I just don't want to be in their way. I keep to the side as much as I can to make it easier for the faster ones to get by me, when lo and behold I pass someone, he may have stopped running to answer his cell phone, but who cares I have one more runner behind me! Keeping a steady pace round the corner and here is the small hill they said was on the course, wasn't small to me and it was 1/4 long, it was also a narrow trail! Proud of myself made it up running half way or more, then got stuck behind a gal who decided to walk, people are passing me on the left, the middle is getting slippery from being wet and trampled on, looked like a good time to walk and catch my breath. I haven't trained on any type of hill yet, if I had to walk for a few minutes it is O.K. just gives me a new goal to work on.
Like Jamie said what goes up must come down and at the bottom of the hill was a lake that we got to run around. This had a wider path easier for people to get around me and also for me to get around others, yes it is true I am now starting to pass a few people. Keeping my pace steady is what was saving me! By now the course is a little over half over! Yippee! Along the course they have people directing us on where to go, even though it was marked clearly, these volunteers helped in keeping us motivated by cheering us on! At the end of the race the volunteers were kids this was fun, not only was I coming to the end, these kids were cute and as I ran by we were high fiving!
Around the corner around the barn and voila THE FINISH LINE! So cool to see the time clock with the time in the low 30 minute range still and all the racers who already finished, and everyones family there to show support! Off to the left I see my best friend Jamie cheering me on, she had been there for over 10 minutes already, she finish at 20 minutes or so. I see the time clock raise my arms in the air, with both hands making the peace sign, and cross the finish line at 00.33.40! Beat my normal time by around -5 minutes or so!!
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Am I a runner?
If you would of asked me 6 months ago if i would ever become a runner my reply would be something similar to "Only if I was being chased by something out to kill me".
My journey to running started out as this: my dog needed out of the house, I needed to lose some weight, I hated to run and ....well....that is pretty much it. Running is not easy, yes I know, I thought the same things how hard can running be? Didn't God make us with the ability to run, don't kids run naturally? Well come to think of it as much as we are born with this God given talent, if not used it goes away!
First PART was easy I bought some new running shoes, loaded some new songs on my really cheap ipod, then set a day to start. The first DAY started out easy I got dressed, put the leash on my dog and headed out to the destination I planned on running, how hard can it be right? Wrong! Got to the road where I planned on conquering this simple feat people call running and started running. My program my friend gave me for beginning runners said to run 3 minutes straight, YIKES! A minute and a half into it I thought I was going to suffocate, I was panting so hard I was totally out of breath! My poor goofy dog was looking at me like "Really is that all you got?" O.K. I knew this was not going to work I needed a new plan!
Once home I got on the internet logged onto most's favorite social networking site and cried for help on the SHMC (Smokin Hot Mama Club) page. Some nice ladies suggested for me to check out the "Couch To 5K" plan, so I did just that. The CT5K plan is a 9 week interval program to literally get one of the couch to running 5K (3.1 mile) or 30 minutes straight which everone comes first. This is a 3 day a week program or every other day, it is not good on your body to run everyday as a beginner, you need to allow your body to build up to the impact.
First day of CT5K was to start out with a 5 min. brisk warm up walk, 60 sec jog, 90 minute walk, do this for 20 minutes. O.K. doable right? Right! Just not as easy as it looks on paper. So I get my 5 minute warm up "brisk" walk out of the way and start jogging for the first 60 second jog, turns out not so bad, walk 90 seconds, then time to do my 2nd 60 second jog it is doable, but getting really hard. I am starting to feel like the Huge Marshmellow man on Ghost Busters and my feet hitting the pavement is like "boom, boom, boom" I feel really heavy, but what is one to expect once gaining almost 40 pounds. Needles to say I finished day one with my head held high and with pride.
There is a 'Couch to 5K' facebook page, as well as a link off of that page that leads to a forum of new runners that I frequently visited to keep up motivation and to motivate others. Needles to say after a set back of 3 weeks to recover from runners knee, I graduated the program! I even advanced from week 7 to week 9!
Today a few weeks after graduating the CT5K program I ran 3.1 miles in 37.36.99 minutes and 388 calories burned! Can I say I love to run now? Hmmmm.....only after my run is done! I love the challenge and the accomplishment! And now I belong to the "C25K Grads" facebook page!!!
My journey to running started out as this: my dog needed out of the house, I needed to lose some weight, I hated to run and ....well....that is pretty much it. Running is not easy, yes I know, I thought the same things how hard can running be? Didn't God make us with the ability to run, don't kids run naturally? Well come to think of it as much as we are born with this God given talent, if not used it goes away!
First PART was easy I bought some new running shoes, loaded some new songs on my really cheap ipod, then set a day to start. The first DAY started out easy I got dressed, put the leash on my dog and headed out to the destination I planned on running, how hard can it be right? Wrong! Got to the road where I planned on conquering this simple feat people call running and started running. My program my friend gave me for beginning runners said to run 3 minutes straight, YIKES! A minute and a half into it I thought I was going to suffocate, I was panting so hard I was totally out of breath! My poor goofy dog was looking at me like "Really is that all you got?" O.K. I knew this was not going to work I needed a new plan!
Once home I got on the internet logged onto most's favorite social networking site and cried for help on the SHMC (Smokin Hot Mama Club) page. Some nice ladies suggested for me to check out the "Couch To 5K" plan, so I did just that. The CT5K plan is a 9 week interval program to literally get one of the couch to running 5K (3.1 mile) or 30 minutes straight which everone comes first. This is a 3 day a week program or every other day, it is not good on your body to run everyday as a beginner, you need to allow your body to build up to the impact.
First day of CT5K was to start out with a 5 min. brisk warm up walk, 60 sec jog, 90 minute walk, do this for 20 minutes. O.K. doable right? Right! Just not as easy as it looks on paper. So I get my 5 minute warm up "brisk" walk out of the way and start jogging for the first 60 second jog, turns out not so bad, walk 90 seconds, then time to do my 2nd 60 second jog it is doable, but getting really hard. I am starting to feel like the Huge Marshmellow man on Ghost Busters and my feet hitting the pavement is like "boom, boom, boom" I feel really heavy, but what is one to expect once gaining almost 40 pounds. Needles to say I finished day one with my head held high and with pride.
There is a 'Couch to 5K' facebook page, as well as a link off of that page that leads to a forum of new runners that I frequently visited to keep up motivation and to motivate others. Needles to say after a set back of 3 weeks to recover from runners knee, I graduated the program! I even advanced from week 7 to week 9!
Today a few weeks after graduating the CT5K program I ran 3.1 miles in 37.36.99 minutes and 388 calories burned! Can I say I love to run now? Hmmmm.....only after my run is done! I love the challenge and the accomplishment! And now I belong to the "C25K Grads" facebook page!!!
Friday, January 7, 2011
Ready Set Goal!
Goal setting is something that I need to work on, so as I set my goals I will put that at #1. Keeping on track with my goals will be something that I will ask Google to help me with. Do I put sticky notes all around my house to look at all day? No that would drive me nuts. Well, that is the only thing I know people do to keep on track with their goals besides making a dream board, which won't work because all it would have on it is pictures of cute designer jeans, not enough to keep on track for me. First lets make some goals!
Goals for 2011:
#1. Make some Goals.
#2. Google to find out how better to stay on track with my goals.
#3. Change my diet to Clean healthy foods.
#4. Run my 1st 5K
#5. After first 5K move on to one hour running program.
#6. Alternate strength training with my cardio workouts. (I am a weeny don't like to lift weights)
#7. Keep on track with above goals and the extra 40lbs I am carrying will come off!
That is a good start on setting goals, as the year goes on I will add more goals to the list especially after I accomplish goal #2.
Back to getting healthy, yesterdays workout had to be quick only had 30 minutes to get-er-done. At the gym I did the elliptical for 30 minutes, went 2.6 miles and burned 308 calories at least that is what the machine said.
Today I ran for 3.2 miles it took about 45 minutes, but a nice couple walking stopped me to chat for a couple minutes about what houses were the meth heads and what house was where the state patrolman lives. They also advised me to not run alone without my dog and not to run in the dark!!! Advice taken! Getting back to my run, today I burned approximately 200-400 calories not sure, but good news is I ordered my Garmin Gps watch that will help me keep track of all that!
Yesterday I weighed in at 172.8 if I can get under 170 this week I will be happy!
Goals for 2011:
#1. Make some Goals.
#2. Google to find out how better to stay on track with my goals.
#3. Change my diet to Clean healthy foods.
#4. Run my 1st 5K
#5. After first 5K move on to one hour running program.
#6. Alternate strength training with my cardio workouts. (I am a weeny don't like to lift weights)
#7. Keep on track with above goals and the extra 40lbs I am carrying will come off!
That is a good start on setting goals, as the year goes on I will add more goals to the list especially after I accomplish goal #2.
Back to getting healthy, yesterdays workout had to be quick only had 30 minutes to get-er-done. At the gym I did the elliptical for 30 minutes, went 2.6 miles and burned 308 calories at least that is what the machine said.
Today I ran for 3.2 miles it took about 45 minutes, but a nice couple walking stopped me to chat for a couple minutes about what houses were the meth heads and what house was where the state patrolman lives. They also advised me to not run alone without my dog and not to run in the dark!!! Advice taken! Getting back to my run, today I burned approximately 200-400 calories not sure, but good news is I ordered my Garmin Gps watch that will help me keep track of all that!
Yesterday I weighed in at 172.8 if I can get under 170 this week I will be happy!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Happy New Year Happy New You
Well, my plan for starting on my journey to good health is delayed a few days,my original plan was to start on the 1st, but a few days away with just the husband was a much needed break! Left for Ocean Shores on Saturday the 1st and came back today! The sun was out and shining all 3 days,which in all my years I am not sure I have ever seen blues skies at Ocean Shores for a whole day let alone 3 whole days!! Needless to say I ate and drank way too much, now my body is aching for some "Clean Food" and some muscle burn!
Tomorrow will be day #1 on getting serious about getting fit in 2011! I will make sure to weigh myself and start the journey!!!
Here is to a happy you in 2011!
Tomorrow will be day #1 on getting serious about getting fit in 2011! I will make sure to weigh myself and start the journey!!!
Here is to a happy you in 2011!
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