Another 5k done

Another 5k day and another medal on my board :)

I recently started following PumpkintoPrincess on twitter, and I must confess I'm a little jealous of her, as she does Disney races, and the medals are awesome. If I lived closer I would so be taking part on a regular basis. Maybe one day I'll get to participate in one.

Anyway...  Amy is currently raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (great job Amy) and is training to run the Nike Half Marathon in DC next April. As part of her fundraising she is hosting a virtual Turkey Trot - you get to choose the distance you want to run and for a small donation ($20) you get a medal. I've just checked and she still has some medals left so it's not too late to sign up and help a great cause, you can sign up here http://www.pumpkintoprincess.com/2012/11/virtual-turkey-trot-to-benefit-leukemia.html

I decided to make my a virtual 5k, so I got up early this morning and decided to do three laps of my neighborhood. What I was expecting was it to be so cold today - it was 8/46 degrees out, at first I thought this was good and would make me walk (yes im still not jogging) faster, how wrong I was. My body was too shocked by the cold and my lungs weren't too impressed. You would think being an asthmatic I was prepared, but alas no I left my inhaler at home. So the first lap of the neighborhood I was wheezing away and felt like I was dying, I thought about quitting and going home but instead I changed my route and stuck to the flat streets instead of the planned hills, it took me about 30 minutes to get my breathing back to normal, but I did it and I completed the 5k, and by the time I was home I didn't even need my inhaler.

It took me a whole hour to complete the 5k with a 19.21minute mile, so no records broken today, but I did also burn off 523 calories. Not sure what the scales will be showing tomorrow as I ate lots of food on the go again the last few days!

 












My medal rack is looking good now with 4 medals, and I look forward to adding my Awesome 80's one to it next weekend. Although not looking forward to the early morning start, I will definitely be wrapping up warm and taking my inhaler. Maybe I should have made my first ever 10k in the warmer months! I guess it's all training for my trip back home to England at the end of the month.

For those of you who haven't yet entered you still have 1 day left to enter my Tropical Traditions Coconut Oil giveaway.

Week 38

It's time to stop this faffing around and get back on track!!

My week started so well, I even did day 1 of boot camp (which my arms felt everyday for the rest of the week!!), but gradually as the week went on I stopped tracking and working out. That STOPS HERE.

I ended up with a gain of 1.2 this week, which I wasn't surprised at, but that is now a gain two weeks in a row :( My total loss is now back to 19.4 and I'm 22.8lbs away from my 250lb goal.

Plans for this week are to track 100% and workout at least 4 times. I know I can do it.

Last week I got an email to say I had become a Sweat Pink Ambassador (notice the cool badge >>) and that has also got me a few new blog readers (hello everyone) and I have found a few new blogs to follow too, all of which are added extra inspiration for me.

Sorry there is no pretty pictures or anything this week, promise there will be next week :)

In the meantime if you like Pop Chips Tracey is having a giveaway on here blog, so go check it out. She also has tons of yummy recipes on her blog too.

http://tjstestkitchen.blogspot.com/2012/10/popchips-giveaway.html