I'm a dork....

I guess I got a little side tracked on my last post and forgot to tell the part of the story that made me want to share it in the first place!! ha ha! WHOOPS! - and that's HOW I started up running again.

The program I have now that Elaine designed for me alternates between work out days supplemented by a cardio program, and walking days. With one day off mixed somewhere in there for some much needed recovery time. Usually Mondays for me - and let me tell you, there is no better day for rest than a Monday!! By the time Sunday comes around I am SO VERY VERY ready for my day of rest!!! On my walking days I began to notice that the pace that I could comfortably walk at was no longer getting my heart rate to where it should be, something had to be done. Going WAY back now as a kid I was shown how to do a proper speed walk. Let me make it clear first of all that speed walking is very challenging and make no mistake that those folks that do it are indeed getting a fantastic work out - but don't they look a little dorky??? ha ha!! Maybe my vanity is kicking in already but I really didn't want to look like a speed walker!! So I kicked it up a notch and started a wee trot down the path and so it goes.. the rest of the story precedes this one. A side note too - my knee has still been hurting me. Now that I actually pay attention and listen to my body it was telling me that my quad muscle was pulling on a ligament that was throwing things off a bit in my knee, and I could help it along by doing some extra stretches... I was telling Elaine last Friday that is has been hurting me occasionally - (she had asked because my knees are ridiculously cracky and she was making me do sumo squats) - and wouldn't you know... she said the EXACT explanation that my body told me?? While it was nice to have the confirmation from a professional - I know I can trust my body to tell me what is right and what is wrong. Not ONCE has my knee hurt during any exercises - its always after the fact, and every now and then when I'm jogging - but I think that might just be a 'growing pain' - still a little bit too much weight on my joints, and that's OK, cause the weight is going!!

I also wanted to mention that Elaine did not miss a beat when I told her I had kicked things up to a jog by saying "didn't you tell me you hate to run?????"... ha ha!... I said "YYEESSSSSSS!!!  BAH!" ha ha ha! Crow tastes good. MMmmmm real good.

SO the wee bitty of info that I have been leaving out is that these last little updates of inches lost have only been based on 4 out of 9 different measurements!! So tomorrow marks my 6th week of competition so we will be doing the full set of measurements, as well as the fitness test. I will have lots of really great news to report after the weekend!! I am VERY excited!!!