Man, I'm tired

Add. 30 miles to this. Long story.

Also: Shred Day 26 done.

Back on tthe treadmill

Crappy. I told Jess about the Seattle race, & she said she'd come down for it if we could both start s training program for it by September ... Ack! !

So ...

4 miles on the treadmill tonight - 2 of those running. And not slowly (for me).

Cheers. Hope I can still walk & do the Shred tomorrow. I feel like I'm gambling here ...

Five frickin' days left ...

Shred Day 25 is out of the way.

Seriously, even though Level 3 hurts (a lot), I don't hate it as much as I hated (HATED) level 2. If I do this again, I may still do ten days of Level 1, do Level 2 for about five days, and then blast Level 3 for 15. I want to be able to do the full versions of some of these plank exercises and the plyometrics. Can't do that right now. Eesh.

Anyway.

Five days left. Then vacation. Huzzah.

Gotta say, though: My abs and obliques - if they weren't covered by this flab - I think they'd look pretty rockin' awesome right now. I can feel the muscles. They feel like good muscles. (yay!)

Oh, the park: I heart you

Fourth of July meanderings: 1.5 miles
4.25 miles Tuesday around the lake
1 mile back to the lake to enjoy the clear, perfect night and hope to see some leftover fireworks (yeah ... that didn't happen).

So ...

6.75 miles this week
7.75 miles this month
279.15 miles this year

220.85 mile remaining

Level 3

Shred Day 21 is done, and I only doubled over in breathless pain twice. Maybe three times. All during the rock star jumps. And I was doing the modified versions. I think "modified" will define my Level 3 experience.

Also: I've gained weight. And not a little bit. Effing pizza. And wine. And licorice ... ice cream, half n' half, Wheat Thins, almonds, hearty chicken-noodle soup, caramel-filled chocolate bar, hot cocoa ...

*sigh* 

I excel at self-sabotage.

Need to write this down before I space it out ...

I'm calling my toodles around St. Helens at least two miles. (June)

And I'm calling my toodles around the lake for the Cardboard Boat Regatta at least 1 mile. (July)

And I've finished through Day 20 on the 30-Day Shred. Tonight will begin Level 3, and I previewed it last night while partaking of a celebratory glass of wine.

*whimper*

So.

11.4 miles last week
37.4 mile for June
1 mile for July so far
272.4 miles for the year (still haven't figure out how much/if I should add for the missed mileage around the lake ...)

227.6 miles remaining.

Shred Day 18

... is done. *phew!*

The bee in my bonnet

Shred Day 17 is done. Thirteen days left. Fourteen days till I leave for the East Coast.

And now:

This workout is killing me. I crawl to the fan each day and die for about 15 minutes after I'm done. I feel like I lose about an hour of ultra-fine motor skill function each time.

But.

I can do this. I know I can. I know I'm capable of powering through this and finishing strong in time for my vacation. I won't be bikini ready. I never hoped for that. But I'll be strong. I'll be able to walk the beach, pound the pavement in New York, dance the night away and fearlessly face down a lobster roll. That's my goal.

And since I know I can do this, it's got me wondering: What else can I do if I put my mind to it?

A friend in London is considering starting P90X. Ninety days is just thirty days three times over. I can do that. (*gasp* *wheeze*)

My cousin has invited me to run the Seattle half-marathon in November. I've never run a race in my life. But Runner's World has a nine-week training program.

If I start P90X the week after I get back from vacation and start the serious half-marathon training nine weeks out from the race, there would be 27 days of overlap in the training. I'd be exhausted.

But I think I could do it.

I think I'd feel like a ...

Tough Mudder.

Which is what I want to be able to do next year in Seattle.

This may be the jumpstart I need to kick my butt into gear to tackle something hard, something worth bragging about.

I'll let you know what I decide.

I've got a bunch of beach time and lobster to tackle first.

Shred Day 16 & 4.2 miles

Done

8.4 miles this week

35.4 miles this month

269.4 this year

walk

I haven't done today's Shred yet, but I will. Did day 14 yesterday. Walked around the lake today & discovered, with the help of my handy new GPS-enabled phone, that I've been short-chanhing my mileage by a fifth of a mile ea h timeout walk the lake. This may mean a re-tallying of the year's mileage. I haven't decided on that yet ...

4.2 miles today.

4.2 miles this week

31.2 miles this month

265.2 miles this year

Shred Days 13 & 14

Are done. I really despise how chipper Jillian Michaela is. Conversely, I've been eating myself out of house and home .... No matter how much I eat, I'm still hungry. Dang ...

shred day 12

Done.

Also: since I for back from vacation, I have lost 2.4 pounds. From my super-high freak weight spike in April, I'm down 12.2 pounds. Still nowhere near what I was last spring, but considering where I was a couple short months ago, I'll take it ...

shred, walk

I took my break in the Shred workouts a day sooner than I had planned, & Tuesday just turned into a big "comfy," lazy blessing, complete with birthday cake & ice cream on the back patio, in fellowship with neighbors, in the perfume of a very flowery back yard.

I did Day 10, Level 1 of the Shred yesterday, & I began Level 2 today. Ouch. *whimper*

I started walking again yesterday, too - 4 miles around the lake, & then a mile or so in an unintended late-night jaunt to the grocery store ... so 5 miles. I'll do the tallies later. Gotta get ready for work. If I can raise my arms over my head.

*LATER*

5 miles this week
27 miles this month
261 miles this year

239 miles remaining

Shredding

Days 8 and 9 are on the books. That break after Day 10 is looking ever-more appealing ... we'll see. Still no walking or running this week. I'm beginning to think that this afternoon's mixing of meds was a bad idea.

Day 7

Shredded. Boom. I'm getting the knack of these push-ups ...

Shred, Day 6

is done. I'm considering taking a one-day break after Day 10. I almost took a break today, and afterward, I kinda wished I had ... it was a rough sprint to get ready for work and to get to the office in time ...

Shred Day 5

... is done.

Unfortunately, I'm high as a kite on cold pills, cough syrup and nasal spray (none of which will interact. I know what you were thinking), and when those things wear off, I'm miserable as heck. Can't wait for this mess to clear up. I want to get back to running and not feeling loopy/wobbly/dizzy. Gosh, that'll be a great day.

Not much walking (but still Shredding)

I'm down with a funky allergy attack, which is leaving me feeling pretty much spent, though I'm making a point to stick to the Shred workouts. I hurt less, so that's good. I didn't take breaks during pushups. Even better. I plan to walk tonight after work ... we'll see.

Days 2,3 and 4 are on the books and done. (yay!)

I did go to Portland yesterday, where I meandered around the Pearl District some more and then happily lost myself in the International Rose Test Gardens. Beautiful. I'm going on the conservative side and calling the day 3 miles.

3 miles this week.
22 miles this month.
256 miles this year.

244 miles remaining.

And thanks to Eric, a mentor from the UW/CV days, for possibly being this blogs sole reader. :) I'm glad to hear about G. As soon as my body quits getting exhausted at the slightest flap of a butterfly's wings and my lungs quit feeling like they've been scrubbed with steel wool, I'll get back on the running wagon.

Foot-sore and heart-happy

I keep forgetting to add the distances I walked in the airport(s), too ...

We'll say, between the two trips, it was about a half-mile. (.5)
Saturday night in Portland, I got about 4 miles in, walking in the Pearl District before settling in at the Deschutes brewery/pub and having a very interesting conversation over a couple glasses of very good beer ...

So.

4.5 miles.

19 miles last week
19 miles this month
253 miles this year

I'M MORE THAN HALF-WAY THERE!!

247 miles remaining


Also: I'm in the midst of renewed determination to get back on the healthy eating weight-loss wagon, which (for me) means a return to the OLD Weight Watchers POINTS system. It's how I lost 50 pounds; it's how I plan to bring things back under control. That began today. I'm armed with two new Hungry Girl cookbooks to help me along the way.

AND

I began Jillian Michaels' 30-Day Shred today. I have 33 days 'til I see my family in Rhode Island. Bring on the smaller clothes.

So: 30-Day Shred, Day 1, Level 1.

Oh, boy ...

Crap. I knew this was going to happen - that I'd forget to keep track while I'm on vacation.

Let's see:

Friday: Took the dog for a walk. I think that was about a mile (1)
Saturday: Took the dog on a much longer walk, and it took a while for him to forgive me. Two miles (2)
Saturday: Ran my 5-mile route around my parents' place. (5)
Sunday: I don't think I did any walking this day.
Monday: I know I walked to Hastings (we'll call that ... um ... .5 total, round trip). Had lunch with Brooke. Went to Dad's wound therapy appointment with him. Went for pie with Mom. Watched a thunder storm on the back deck and got an AMAZING picture of the lightning forking across the sky. So. Beautiful. (.5)
Tuesday: Birthday! I decided to take a walking tour of the neighborhood where I grew up. Either I've become the Jolly Green Giant since I left, or everything there shrank. It (all) used to be much larger. What happened? The hill that used to terrify me when I was on my bicycle? It's barely and incline now. The rock wall in my neighbor's yard where we used to hide when we played Hide and Seek with the neighborhood kids? It's shrunk down to the point that it wouldn't hide a Yorkie now. the only things that got bigger were the trees. Goodness. The tree Mom and Dad planted for Matt is absolutely enormous. I wandered through the park where I used to play, around the subdivision where we used to deliver newspapers, up the hill past the public elementary school where I went for one year and past the junior high school that's home to the Terrifying Sledding Hill where Matt almost broke his nose one Christmas Day. I'm going to call that hour-long meandering two miles. (2)
Wednesday: Laramie! EM and I walked all over downtown Laramie, toward Washington Park, and almost once completely around before my altitude exhaustion caught up with me, and I begged to spend the rest of the time just sitting on the (beautiful) grass while we chatted about various things, including my neuroses about various ex-boyfriends. I'm calling that day's wanderings about two and a half miles. (2.5)
Thursday: Laramie! More downtown wandering and some reconnecting with the UW campus, but not as much. I think I'll call the whole day about one and a half miles. (1.5)
Friday: No walking (yet) today. I've had a wonderful morning with KJW and have been working on updating photos and blogs and such while Mom naps. Shopping and visiting is in the forecast for this afternoon, as is an appointment with Dad's wound therapy people.

OK. So tally time. 14.5 miles since I've been on vacation. That's not a bad vacay, I guess.

I haven't gained any weight, but I certainly haven't been shy about eating, either. It IS vacation, after all ... :)

14.5 miles this week
14.5 miles this month
248.5 miles this year

251.5 miles remaining.

Something's still wrong (I still hurt)

I knew why my legs were lead-weight tired (the toning workout I did just before hitting the treadmill; but it was good that I did it before instead of after, because I never would have done it otherwise, and I theorize that running after will minimize the pain in my legs that usually follows that workout ... anyway ...). But my feet are still painful, and the blisters aren't healing. I keep taping them, so they don't get rubbed/irritated nearly as much, but ... owie.

Due to very, very tired legs, I could only run 2 miles last night. The rest was walking (logged 4.75 miles total on the treadmill).

9.75 miles this week
70.75 miles for the month (FINAL)
234 miles for the year

266 miles remaining

Five more miles

Existing blisters are still giving me fits. Last night was a bit painful, but I managed to run 4 miles (almost) straight, got in 5 miles total. I had a sensation that my left toes were going numb, so I stepped off to the side to assess what the problem was.

Anyway.

5 miles this week
66 miles this month
229.25 miles this year

270.75 miles remaining

Walking (and a new reason to hate the old shoes)

Walked on the treadmill last night. Forgot to tape the back of my heel. Have a blister that stands a full quarter-inch out from the back of said heel. Swore profusely at shoes (and at self for not taping the heel) ... Damn.

4.25 miles last night.
16.25 miles this week
61 miles this month
224.25 miles this year

275.75 miles remaining

Also: since yesterday was a "walking day" (I'm trying to be smart and not run every day), I decided it should also be "toning day," which meant 20 minutes with that Southern twit on my "Firm" DVD. It also meant walking with a jerky, painful, bow-legged gait today. And this is a "running day." Crap. Stupid, stupd, stupid ...

Updating

Monday: 4 miles around the lake (walk)
Tuesday: At least 3 miles in Long Beach (walk. On the sand. The backs of my legs hate me)
Wednesday night: 5 miles on the treadmill (3 miles — nonstop — running)

12 miles this week
56.75 miles this month
220 miles this year

280 miles remaining

Saturday night

Managed to run 3 miles straight, with no breaks in between. (yay!)

Five miles total on the treadmill.

27.75 miles for the week
44.75 miles this month
208 miles this year

292 miles remaining.

Legs are tired. Good tired.

Didn't run as far or as consecutively as I wanted last night, but I sitll got in 4.75 miles. Yay.

22.75 miles this week
49.75 miles this month
203 miles this year

297 miles remaining

♫ So this is love, mm-mm-mm-mmm, so this is love ....♪

I'd had it.

I'd had it with feeling like something had been gnawing on my feet every time I ran. I'd had it with being in agonizing pain the morning after a run - after EVERY run. I'd had it with having to brace my hands on my legs to bend over and pick something up because my lower back hurt so much; with having to shuffle into the kitchen because every inch of my feet — bones, tendons, etc. — was in misery; with feeling like an 80-year-old woman for the simple crime of trying to be fit.

I'd had it.

So I decided it was time to seek counsel and to spend the big bucks.

I packed up my horrible shoes in a Safeway bag and trucked on down to Portland in search of a store that specializes in running shoes — preferably one that specializes in women's running shoes.

I found it - poured out my tale of painful woe to a patient sales girl, showed her my shoes; showed her the blisters on my feet, and got my advice. Told her what I wanted to spend, and I got it.

Runnning shoes, it turns out, are a lot like cars. The "models" change every year, and within a brand, they go by initials and numbers, and it's all very confusing.

She recommended a very nice Asics shoe with extra arch support to keep me from overpronating (which was what had been causing the instep blistering). I asked her my dumb questions, got my feet fitted for the right size, tried them on ... and bought them. In last year's model ($ave!).

I ran 2½ miles straight last night. Put in 5 miles total. And my feet felt AMAZING afterward. No chewed-up foot feeling. No aching in the bridge of my foot. No feeling like my outer ankle tendon was about to snap.

AMAZING.

This morning: No foot pain. No back pain. No leg pain. No tendon pain.

I felt amazing.

I'm in love with a blue-and-white shoe. I could write sonnets.

Anyway. 5 miles last night.

18 miles this week.
45 miles this month.
198.25 miles this year.

301.75 miles remaining

Holy hell, my feet hurt

I'm at a critical decision point. I taped up the blisters on Monday and did a test run around the block to see how good my feet felt after that (pretty good) (about a quarter-mile).

Tried to run the lake. Barely lasted a mile and a half of running (broken up with periods of walking). Made it around the lake, but limping toward the end. The tape adheres so tightly to my feet that it's like skin — skin that can be rubbed and irritated on top of my blisters. Crap. (four miles)

I did discover that, as terrible as my "cross-trainer" shoes are for running, they're decent walking shoes. Take what you can get, figure out what to do for what you don't have, I guess.

In the midst of putting laundry away, discovered that STILL nothing really fits, and whether I'm PMSing or just eating too much salt and retaining water or eating too much peanut butter (the evil-est love in my life at the moment), I'd gained back about three pounds. Damn.

Hit the gym for an hour and a half on the treadmill. (Just under 6.5 miles)

I'm calling the day 10.5 miles for Monday.

Tuesday was spent shopping and dragging my aching feet around Portland in shoes that aren't usually deemed worth of walking, but I spent the cash on some night orthotic inserts, and they wound up being actually very comfortable. I was still tired and very sore at the end of the day, but considering the 10.5 miles the day before, I think that would have been expected anyway. I'm calling the walking in Portland/Vancouver (Costco, IKEA, Lloyd Center, St. Johns) at least 2.5 miles. At least. But I was wearing a dress that isn't conducive to clipping on a pedometer, so I'll never really know.

ALSO (very important): I splurged and went to Lady Foot Locker and got fitted for running shoes that will theoretically not cripple me. My bank account, maybe. But after consulting with the girl and getting my feet measured and showing her my current shoes and my blisters and explaining what I do, I walked out with what should be an $80 solution to my problem. I think I'll still have to tape the blisters that I have right now, but the hope is that these will prevent future damage. I hope. Gosh, I hope ...

So.

13 miles this week
40 miles this month
193.25 miles this year

306.75 miles remaining

Treadmill Friday night. Moleskin fail.

According to package directions, moleskin should not be placed ON a blister; rather, surround the blistered area with the moleskin that is guaranteed to adhere all day.

All day my ass.

I'm still tinkering with ways to not blister my entire instep again. I've got a few square inches of foot space left to cede before I have to confess failure. I've had everything from moleskin to athletic tape to KY jelly recommended. We'll see ...

Anyway. I limped my way to three miles Friday night, a half-mile of that logged in limp/jog mode. Effing shoes. (I'm working on that)

15 miles this week
27 miles this month
180.25 miles this year

319.75 miles remaining

Treadmill and foot death

Dear shoes: I HATE YOU.

4 miles on the treadmill last night, two of those running.

'Til the blisters. And 'til the near-faint. Oops.

Anyway.

12 miles this week
24 miles this month
177.25 miles this year

322.75 miles remaining

Bee-yoo-tee-ful!

I spent Monday afternoon walking around the civic center circle, returning library books and dropping off mail and almost gettin run over by an asshole who thinks it's hilarious to try running over people when they have the "walk" signal. I didn't act fast enough to key his car. This time, at least.

So that was at least one mile.

Then I spent the twilight of that gorgeous evening walking the lake.

Four miles.

And then ...

Ecola State Park. Oh, my goodness. I've found Middle Earth.

Hiked to the Hiker's Camp and the lighthouse overlook there and then back, along the Clatsop Loop Trail.

Roughly three miles.


8 miles this week.
20 miles this month.
173.25 miles this year.

326.75 miles remaining

The Lake

Have I mentioned today how much I love that I live mere blocks from a beautiful lake in a beautifully landscaped park that has a path that is beutifully maintained?

Well. I do.

4 miles today.

12 miles this week.
12 miles this month.
165.25 miles this year.

334.75 miles remaining.

Days off and the lake

First, my decision:

I'm revising the goal.

500 miles for the year. I can do that. That's attainable. A thousand isn't ...

* * * * *

Holy crimeny, I was tired after that weekend.

Thank goodness for days off, and for the handy trail around the lake.

Monday: 4 miles
Tuesday: 4 miles

8 miles this week
8 miles this month
161.25 miles this year

338.75 miles remaining.

Treadmill after an absence

2.75 on the treadmill Friday night, in a sudden fit of guilt over my out-of-shapedness combined with absolute dread that I was seeing Joe the Muscle Man the next day.

Funny, though, how when I'm around him, I never really worry about my body. It's (usually, but not always) before and after that the paranoia over how much I out of shape I am and how I look takes over ...

Stupid paranoia.

So.

2.75 miles this week.
30.75 miles this month (final)
153.25 miles this year

846.75 miles remaining.

HOWEVER

*wimp alert*

I'm thinking of revising the challenge. Cutting it in half.

To 500 miles instead.

Because at this rate, that's all I'm going to get, and I refuse to spend the rest of the year beating myself up (mentally and physically) for not reaching this goal. I've got eight months left of this year, and I want to enjoy them and be (realistically) healthy and active in them. I don't want to spend them under a cloud of shame over not reaching what was already a high number at the beginning of the year.

I'll decide by the time I come back on Wednesday.

Oh, what a beautiful ... early evening ...

Walked around the lake today, and despite the lure of overtime, I really, REALLY wanted to just sit there 'till the sun had gone away.

Alas:

4 miles. Then work.

4 miles this week
28 miles this month
150.5 miles this year

849.5 miles remaining

April 14 (MORE!)

Back on the treadmill after work, because I felt like I ate too many little Easter candies (Sugar! Damn you!)

5.5 miles
10 miles today
15.5 miles this week
24 miles this month
146.5 miles this year

853.5 miles remaining

Treadmill April 14

4.5 on Amy's treadmill. Taped the blisters, but I still kept this one to just interval walking. No running today. I'm afraid.

10 miles this week
18.5 miles this month
141 miles this year

859 miles remaining.

Treadmill April 12

Bonus of where I'm house-sitting this week: Treadmill.

5.5 miles tonight; ran about 2.25 of that, but not all together. Blisters are hell.

5.5 miles this week
14.25 miles this month
136.5 miles this year

863.5 miles remaining

Treadmill April 8

2.75 miles on the treadmill, most of it run (again). My feet despise me, and I refreshed some blisters that thought they were getting off easy. Hah, blisters. Hah.

8.75 miles this week
8.75 miles this month
131 miles this year

869 miles left

Seattle and treadmill (April 5 and 7)

I'm calling my ramble through Seattle with Rachel about three miles. I keep forgetting to take that stupid pedometer with me when I travel.

2.5 miles on the treadmill last night, most of which was run (simultaneous yay and boo for me, but I did it).

So.

5.5 miles this week
5.5 miles this month
128.25 miles this year

871.75 miles remaining

Gym last night (March 31)

Man I was tired.

6.5 miles in one place, reading the closed captioning for Cold Case and Numbers.

23.75 miles this week
78 miles for March (end)
122.75 miles this year

877.25 miles remaining

Treadmill Wednesday night

After almost making it through my "Firm" workout DVD without pauses (I did have to take a couple heart rate-lowering breaks toward the end ... sad), I decided to haul my sweaty self to the gym for a nice, hour-long interval walk, which yielded 4.25 miles. (This works pretty well as a calorie-burner; I walk for two minutes at a brisk pace, on an incline, then one minute even faster, on no incline).

17.25 miles this week
71.5 miles this month
116.25 miles this year

883.75 miles remaining

The Lake

4 miles Monday around the lake.

4 miles Tuesday around the lake.

Haven't done anything today (yet).

So.

13 miles this week.
67.25 miles this month
112 miles this year

888 miles remaining

Just leave me dying in the forest, please ...

We went snowshoeing today in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

Amy thought "let's go snowshoeing" meant "let's walk on a flat surface in snowshoes for an hour or so."

Tom thought: "let's go snowshoeing" mean "I'll bet none of these people have ever hiked, skied or snowshoed to June Lake. Let's do it."

Four hours and a really strenuous excursion (especially for those who'd never been before) later, we limped back to our four-wheel drive vehicles: Blistered, soggy, chilled, foggy spectacled, twisted footed, and (in some cases) swearing under our breath.

But it was a pretty day. It snowed the whole time - beautiful, fat snowflakes that clung to us and slowly melted, seeping through the vest I found out is NOT waterproof and through my fleecy shell thing ... and then through my long-john shirt. Through my hat. Through my gloves. For a time, through my sense of humor. Huh. But not through my boots or socks, it needs to be noted. Those horrible snowboots that aren't fit for hiking (they really, really aren't) and those wonderfully woolly (they really, really are) alpacy wool socks Mom gave me for Christmas a couple years ago. As long as your feet are dry and warm and you can slap some HotHands into your soggy gloves, you can make it back to the parking lot.

Anyway.

I'm calling it 4.5 miles today. I wish I could earn double mileage for this trip, since those 4.5 miles were waddled, climbed, crawled and, in two very fun instances, unintentionally sledded on my backside.

4.5 miles this week
58.75 this month
103.5 this year

896.5 remaining

MODIFICATION:
Amy got my hope up when she estimated the trip was a 6-miler, but ... not so. Tom estimates 5. So:

5 miles this week
59.25 miles this month
104 miles this year

896 miles remaining

Gym Thursday night

6.25 miles on the treadmill. An hour and a half. The guy lifting weights behind me probably thought I was crazy.

15.75 miles this week
54.25 miles this month
99 miles this year

991 miles remaining

Productive time off (Portland, the lake)

I'm calling my afternoon in Portland 3.5 miles, since it was a mile and a half just to get to the restaurant and then back to my car. And I walked a lot before that.

Walked four miles yesterday around the lake.

Walked 2 miles today around part of the lake.

I gotta say - walking outside is a (very, very) nice break from the treadmill. But I still won't do it at night (in case you talk to my mom and she's still worried about that). I'm not as clueless as my family sometimes thinks I am.

So:

9.5 miles this week
48 miles this month
92.75 miles this year

907.25 miles remaining.

Wednesday night treadmill

According to my wellness coach, this is a "great way" to keep track of my activity.

Yay, me.

68 minutes on the treadmill (lightheadedness kept me from reaching my 90-minute target):

5 miles


5 miles this week
38.5 miles this month
83.25 miles this year


916.75 miles remaining

Friday night treadmill

E and D were texting me from the bar. I was sweating it out in the gym. That's my Friday night.

5.75 miles. On a night when I had planned 4. I call that good.

20.5 miles this week
33.5 miles this month
78.25 miles this year

921.75 miles remaining.

Treadmill Wednesday night

4.75 miles on the treadmill. Ran for about 15 minutes of that. (Ran = jogged. Badly. Painfully.)

So -

14.75 miles this week
27.75 miles this month
72.5 miles this year

927.5 miles remaining

Treadmill and Vancouver (not the exciting Vancouver)

7 miles on the treadmill (I'm running a little bit again!), and then I clipped on the pedometer for my day buying a camera and my night at the circus: 2.25 miles.

9.25 this week
23 miles this month
67.75 miles this year

932.25 miles remaining

Saturday night treadmill

5 miles on the ol' treadmill. *sigh* Glad I didn't do another hour-and-a-half thing. Seventy minutes about drove me batty.

13.75 miles this week
13.75 miles this month
58.5 miles this year

941.5 miles remaining

Tuesday. Astoria. Gym. Ouch.

2 miles toodling around Astoria, Fort Stevens State Park and sundry points in between.
6.75 miles on the treadmill at the gym.

Plus lunges, squats, crunches, leg lifts and plank.

On this side of things, that might have been a bad idea.

But:

This week: 8.75 miles
March : 8.75 miles
This year: 53.5 miles
946.5 miles remaining

I need to get on this thing ... I should have been over 100 by now ...

I'm not keeping very good track of this ...

Feb. 7 - 5.5 miles walking around Portland's Pearl District (!!)
Feb. 11 - 2.25 miles on the treadmill
Feb. 13 - 1 mile walking around town
Feb. 20 - 1 mile walking around town
Feb. 21 - 2 miles on the treadmill
Feb. 22 - 4 miles on the treadmill


This week: 7 miles
February: 15.75 miles
This year: 44.75 miles
955.25 miles remaining

On the treadmill

Sunday night - 4.25 miles at the gym.

This week: 4.25 miles
January: 29 miles
This year: 29 miles

971 miles remaining

January 18, 2011

4.25 miles on the treadmill, made all the more painful by the breaking-in of new shoes. Ouch.

This week: 4.25 miles
This month: 24.75 miles
This year: 24.75 miles

975.25 miles remaining

Jan. 15, 2011

4.5 miles on the treadmill.

This week: 12 miles
This month: 20.5 miles
This year: 20.5 miles

979.5 miles left

Before I reached the brink of death

Sunday, before the vomiting set in, I logged 7.5 miles.

I spent the rest of the week up 'til today in cloistered, nearly dehydrated lethargy (except for when I nearly fainted in Safeway - that wasn't fun). Food poisoning'll do that to you.

This week: 7. 5 miles
This month: 16 miles
This year: 16 mies

Remaining: 984 miles

Jan. 4, 2011

4.5 miles on the treadmill.

I hate walking/running on a treadmill, but I hate the thought of being raped and/or murdered while walking/running around the lake at 2 in the morning even more, so ...

Treadmill it is, then.

This week: 8.5 miles
This month: 8.5 miles
This year: 8.5 miles

Remaining: 991.5 miles

A thousand miles

A woman I don't know and will likely never meet has challenged me - by way of my friend Ingrid - to walk, run, bike, swim, bear crawl, pick-a-verb my way through 2011.

So I'm gonna do it.

And I'll bore you all to tears here with my progress.

Jan. 3: 3.5 miles.

(Jan. 5 addendum: I'm changing this to 4 miles - the walk around the lake is 3.5 miles; add in the walk from/to my home, and it gets up dang near 4 miles)