So, lesson learned - run hilly trails for close to an hour with a bad cold and it is possible to get dramatically sicker the next day. Cest La Vie. I run the half marathon in less than a week. I have been too sick to get my ten miles in and now its too late. I am going to focus on healing my craptastic lungs so I don't expire mid-race next Sunday.
Woohooo!! Going to Austin!! Of course, I am already looking at my next race- I think a full marathon next Fall- probably the Nike Women's.
Despite feeling hellish I got a great trail run in the Leggy Architect on Saturday and then hiked up a steep trail with Glowing Film Maker on Sunday with the kid strapped to me -both felt great while doing them. Both made me exhausted as I think I am flu/cold weak.
I feel hopeful about my life in general right now. Its made all the difference in the world to not be the sole income earner. There was a whole lot of stuff going on around that beyond the blogging boundary that made life incredibly, insanely, unfathomably difficult. Unfortunately, its off limits. But suffice is to say, I surprised to find myself where I am right now. I had prepared for a far different scenario than the one I am living come mid-February. So it is with gratitude I find myself here in this spot - happy and hopeful.
I have not been very focused on my nutrition and with my cult meeting ending- its shaky turf on which I tread. So I had my one week off and must get back to weighing in and focusing on losing this last fifteen pounds... I did a major closet clean out this weekend and handed off a bunch of stuff to Pretty Nurse. I hated to get rid of some of the clothes as they were beautiful, chic and expensive- but they were just too big. I am starting to realize that there is a huge size gap between the sixes that I mostly wear now and the 16s and 18s and even 12s and 14s of yesteryear. So, I packed them up (this batch was big 8s, 10s and small 12s) and handed them off. It was fun though. She is going to the Image Awards doing the VIP thing so she has a bunch of events to attend and now has lots of new fun clothes for her fantastically evolving and changing body.
I figure with the loss of fifteen more pounds- I will be handing off another few bags of clothes and then the journey of getting smaller turns into the process of maintaining. I am actually curious to see what another fifteen pounds off will look like? I am going to my doctor to talk about ideal weight ranges for me... I am just on the edge of the healthy BMI now. Fifteen pounds gone puts me squarely in the middle of the 'healthy' range- however, I know that BMI charts don't account for athletes. That said, I needed to hit the healthy BMI as it makes it way easier to "buy up" life insurance - a major goal right now.
I am super curious to see what my doctor has to say on the matter. I have not been to the doctor for almost 18 months and in that time have dropped seventy pounds... should be an interesting physical.
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