Kevin, Kristian and Seth
Kevin and Abby and Kevin's giant hand. I don't know why his hand looks so big there.
Dan and Amy
Kristian, Greg and Nicole
Me, Amy and Abby
Me and Nicole.I never did take a picture of Seth and I for some reason. Now that I try to take pictures whenever we go out, my friends are calling me Paparazzi. That's ok. It's nice to go back and remember our fun times.
I'm very much looking forward to another good year. I'm not looking forward to getting back into the full swing of work, but I think this will be a good one. Particularly our trip to Disney in June!
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Friday was my first day back at work and I had planned to wake up at 5 a.m. to get my first back-to-work workout in. What I didn't plan on was Adam getting sick again with a high fever and not sleeping all night. So I didn't get up at 5. But I did go to the gym after work and ran 4 miles! I was quite proud of myself.
Saturday morning, I planned to meet Jennifer at the gym. At 7:30 a.m. I usually don't work out that early on a Saturday and it didn't help that Adam again had a rough night of sleep. (His fever is a bit lower tonight so hopefully he's getting better). I told her I had 2.5 miles left to meet my goal of 12 miles for the week. She said we were going to do a 5K (3.1 miles). I said, "You do realize that 3.1is more than 2.5?" She did.
But what I really liked about her being there is there was someone watching me and I felt like I didn't want to disappoint her so it made me go harder. We did interval running. You run one speed for a half-mile (for me, it was 5.0) and then for 1/10 of a mile you bump up your speed (for me, to 5.5). and then go back down to your base speed again for the rest of the half mile. Then you spend the next little bit recovering from that "push" until you reach the next half-mile marker and do it again. It really helped me run farther. I did the whole 3.1 without stopping, which had not been the case in any of my previous runs this week.
Then we did some weights where she just showed me some stuff I can do on my own and the right way to do some things I had been doing. I'm going to keep doing my same routine for another 3-4 weeks and then have her adjust it from there. Hopefully I start to see results since I've been eating nothing but healthy, low-cal foods like brown rice and turkey burgers! I'm also writing down everything I eat and the calories and fat grams in a journal. It helps to be conscious of what I am eating, but also it's nice to go back and look at how well I've done so far.
So, hopefully I can reach my running goal of a 5K road race by April 5 and my weight loss goal by Disney (June 12). So far, I'm on the right track. Oh yeah - since I Tivo Oprah every day, I'm also looking forward to her shows next week, which are all focused on her weight issues and what she's doing to "Live Her Best Life." Should be worthwhile if you want to watch. Yes, I love Oprah and find that I get a lot out of some of the information and motivating things they have on the show. Whatever works, right. :)
Saturday morning, I planned to meet Jennifer at the gym. At 7:30 a.m. I usually don't work out that early on a Saturday and it didn't help that Adam again had a rough night of sleep. (His fever is a bit lower tonight so hopefully he's getting better). I told her I had 2.5 miles left to meet my goal of 12 miles for the week. She said we were going to do a 5K (3.1 miles). I said, "You do realize that 3.1is more than 2.5?" She did.
But what I really liked about her being there is there was someone watching me and I felt like I didn't want to disappoint her so it made me go harder. We did interval running. You run one speed for a half-mile (for me, it was 5.0) and then for 1/10 of a mile you bump up your speed (for me, to 5.5). and then go back down to your base speed again for the rest of the half mile. Then you spend the next little bit recovering from that "push" until you reach the next half-mile marker and do it again. It really helped me run farther. I did the whole 3.1 without stopping, which had not been the case in any of my previous runs this week.
Then we did some weights where she just showed me some stuff I can do on my own and the right way to do some things I had been doing. I'm going to keep doing my same routine for another 3-4 weeks and then have her adjust it from there. Hopefully I start to see results since I've been eating nothing but healthy, low-cal foods like brown rice and turkey burgers! I'm also writing down everything I eat and the calories and fat grams in a journal. It helps to be conscious of what I am eating, but also it's nice to go back and look at how well I've done so far.
So, hopefully I can reach my running goal of a 5K road race by April 5 and my weight loss goal by Disney (June 12). So far, I'm on the right track. Oh yeah - since I Tivo Oprah every day, I'm also looking forward to her shows next week, which are all focused on her weight issues and what she's doing to "Live Her Best Life." Should be worthwhile if you want to watch. Yes, I love Oprah and find that I get a lot out of some of the information and motivating things they have on the show. Whatever works, right. :)
Happy New Year!
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