I feel like this week was a total dud, but it wasn’t. I just did not get to exercise enough this week! What I am finding now, is that I am enjoying what I am doing. I am pushing myself in the area of running. At this point I still don’t know if you could call it RUNNING, because my 15yo daughter sure doesn’t think so, but for me it’s a good thing.
I went to the Y on Thursday, Monday, and Tuesday this past week. I missed the Ladies Workout at the church because early Saturday morning E decided we had to tear the house apart. He’d sold the entertainment center that he built back in 1987, so we had to clear everything out of it. We ended up shifting a lot of furniture between three rooms, moved TVs around to different rooms, and I only just this morning got the kitchen counter cleared of all of the old music (see yesterday’s Wordless Wednesday for a small taste of that). From morning till night, plus a few more days, we were reorganizing and rearranging. 
Suffice it to say, I’m not too happy with myself for not going to work out.
But what did I accomplish this week? Well, I changed my running goal just a little bit, and rather than striving for a certain distance, I decided to strive for a length of time. Now I can run for half an hour without stopping! This is huge, you guys! On Tuesday I did 2.17 miles in 30 minutes. It isn’t a marathon, and definitely not a sprint, but I did it. I ran 10 min. @ 4.2mph, 16 min. @ 4.4 mph, and 4 min. @ 4.8 mph. E came up to tell me he was taking D2 home and that I had D1, when I was in the last two minutes of my run… I answered him but just barely. I was working hard!! Then I glanced over to the treadmill next to me, and the 17 year old girl who was there was running at 6.8 mph… Yeah… well…. I just won’t look at other people’s treadmills any more!
I am proud of myself. I am gradually working up to where what I am doing could be called running, and I actually feel really good about it too. I mean, I work really hard when I increase the speed, but it’s still very do-able, and I feel good afterward. Maybe I will do Bloomsday. I’ll have to do some outdoor training for that though, and I probably won’t be able to run/jog the entire thing. Still, I have always wanted to do Bloomsday, and I have never even tried. Lots of people just walk it! It’s a thought anyway.
Oh, look for a new graphic in my sidebar. I am going to create one for my dropping jeans sizes! The ones I bought at Christmas time are too big for me now. Oh darn.
I went over my points nearly every day this past week, but not over my weekly bonus allowance, so it still worked out. If you think of me today through Saturday, please pray for me. I’m on my way out of town to our A.G. ministry network’s Leadership Summit (for youth pastors & youth leaders) and we will be eating out 6 meals. I’m bringing my WW Dining Out Guide, but it’s an old one and I am afraid I will need to guess and ballpark my points. Yikes!
Oh, and I lost 1.5# this week, for a total loss since starting with iWatchr, of 7.4#. Actually, this is confusing the crud out of me, because if I count from Jan. 1, 2010 I have lost 10.4#!!! I just didn’t start using the iWatchr app until 4 weeks ago, so that’s when I started counting this way. I’m not cheating, because I HAVE lost over TEN POUNDS. So I think from here on out I will just count it as it is, rather than from where I began with the app. What say you? 
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