Upcoming Events

My calendar is filling up with races and I'm all sorts of excited to run and hopefully the lose rest of this weight.

TGIM took my measurements last night and I never really realized how oddly misproportioned I am between my waist and my hips. There's a good 11 inches difference. I know I got some junk in the trunk but I thought it was getting to be more the size of a cross-over vehicle than a large size SUV.

Can you hear the GOBBLES??? Well, on Thanksgiving day the Blue Marble and I will be running the 32nd Annual Turkey Trot in Cape Coral. This is a large 5k that seems like everyone in or around Cape Coral has run at one time or another. This will be our first year running this event. The event raises money for the pediatric ward of the Cape Coral Hospital and I'm all about helping sick babies since Blue Marble was once a sick baby.

December 3rd is WARRIOR DASH!!! The geek that I am has been looking forward to this race for months. TGIM and I are running it together and I have been teasing him that I am going to beat him on this race. It's all in good fun, but I am really going to try to beat him. Like seriously try to kick his ass. Wish me luck. I booked a room for the family overlooking the Atlantic Ocean so we are going to take the weekend of Warrior Dash to run, relax and maybe splash around in the Atlantic Ocean. Well, they'll splash I will be having anxiety over being in the sun and sand. The Marble's haven't been on that coast and seen the Atlantic Ocean. It will be a nice little weekend getaway.

The Monday after Warrior Dash I will start training for my half marathon. I was having some anxiety on how I'd keep myself hydrated since the water bottle thingamajig just wasn't happy around my waist (remember how I mentioned early how unproportioned I am??). Luckily, Michael over at Michaeldoeslife offered me a few suggestions that eased my mind and made me relax a little on the water issue. I am still trying to recruit someone to do this half marathon with me, but I am not a salesperson and I am not good at convincing people of things so basically I'm a loner. But, this isn't something new. My old run buddy has taken to basking on his couch posting on gun forums, eating Dorito's and drinking Diet Coke. I can't rely on him to get motivated and he used to make fun of how I run anyway so maybe it's best that I do this on my own.

So with these three races ahead of me, I am going to be determined to record what I eat, stay within my caloric intake (Yesterday i went over by 524 calories but Autumn said that was better than she did so I don't feel so bad) and get my runs in as I work my way up to training for the half marathon.

I feel out of breath just thinking about all this......