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I explained to my dogs that I do not want to see an Easter Bunny bearing baskets of candy anywhere near our house and that they are free to use whatever means necessary, up to and including eating the bunny - so that I don't have to do battle with my candy weakness!

Challenge update this week:

Wt  no gain/ loss = 5 point

workouts  643.998 minutes = 21.4666 points

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        total  26.466 points

need to figure out why I am not losing weight--think there are too many carb heavy meals and may have to drop a serving or two....

update for the challenge.

0 for wt loss

5 for no weight gain

21 pts training

26 total.

I am with you Judi, I know what I need to do to lose the pounds, I just need to remember it each evening as well. I WILL get this weight off, I WILL!

Hi...I've been traveling for a variety of reasons.  All good for the most part.  None of them work related.  Training has fallen by the wayside.  Was hoping to get back on track this week but work events have conspired to make it unlikely to do much until Thursday.  Also, I'm a bit tired and feel a under the weather.  So no swim today.

Will catch up on postings later today.

no weight change +5
216 minutes workout +7

total of 12 points for the week

thanks for sharing.

Weight loss - 2.7 pounds - 27 points

No gain - 5 points

Workout 341 minutes - 11.4 points

Total - 43.4 points

Ran in the Sea World 5K/Fun Run this past weekend.  While it was timed, it was more of a fun run than a true 5K.  The course was through the park.  That was kind of cool to see Sea World with very few people, but it was kind of tight in some spots and a LOT of turns as the course looped back on itself time and time again - there was at least a dozen 180* turns and I think the longest straight was only a hundred yards or so.  I have no idea how much time that cost, but I suspect it was significant.  Anyway, I set a PR (which, given my time last year was not terribly hard to do) of 28:42.  For anyone interested, that took about 24 minutes off of my time last July.  YES, it absolutely pays to have a masochistic running coach!  My pace was almost where it needs to be, of course that was for a 5K.  I have the Half-Marathon in just under a month, which will be a better indicator of my marathon pace.  I have to say, it is kind of nice to see all the hard work beginning to pay off!  Not sure I am a runner yet, but at least now I have hope that maybe I will be some day.

I was beginning to think I should just have somebody take me out into a field and shoot me until I read the part that says, "Declines can be slowed, and even halted altogether . . ."

I'm just gonna hang my hat on that!

Thanks Steve.

Coach said that the 'easy' improvements are now behind me and that every second from here on is going to be earned with pain and sweat.  I think the biggest factors in the improvement are a) my form has improved dramatically - thanks to having a coach that has often been right beside me as I ran, and b) he has had me doing hills once a week.  The hill is roughly a quarter mile to the top and about a 300 foot elevation gain so something like a 25% grade.  Accumulating miles has certainly helped, but the hills have increased strength, VO2 max and LT.  Normally the hill training is 1-2 mile easy run to warm up, then 5 hill reps descending splits, easy jog back down then 2 minutes walking before the next rep, followed by 2 mile easy cool-down.  Doesn't sound like much, but that is what has been the magic bullet for me.

I am trying not to have a goal time in mind for the half.  I don't want to be disappointed.  The plan is to start at a 10:30 pace for the first 4 miles, then go to 10:20 for the next 4, then 10:15 for 4, then suck it up and just go for the last mile.  Of course, that is assuming I am not completely overwhelmed actually being on the track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway!

We will see what we will see.

Originally posted by lutzman If I can just drop 10 lbs between now and Memorial Day, I might catch Judi. Of course, that would put me at about my high school weight, which is kind of scary. Right now, I put the chances of that happening at exactly zero. Steve

I find this amusing   Thanks for the laugh.

---off topic---

I talk to people from a lot of different hospitals all the time.  This morning I talked to a nurse in northern VA.  The case had been previously denied and she was giving me more clinical to send it back to the Dr.  He overturned his initial decision....no big deal, happens all the time that we get more information and change things for the people.....As luck turned out I picked up the phone an hour or so after that case was called back to her and she told me I had done something for her that no man had done in many years--made her a happy woman.  I about fell off my fit ball (I don't use a chair at home)  

That too was a good giggle for my day.