Posts by cfeltontufty

Go into your marathon knowing that you trained the best you could and cut yourself some slack if you have to walk or run slower than you had planned on.  You will have no problem finishing your marathon you trained enough to get you to the finish line.  My last marathon I trained well going into it but my lower back and hips started to really bother me around mile 15.  Got so bad I had to walk several miles.  But I still finished, I still made it across the finish line and you can too.

I see some new people in here, and a few I know.

Vicki~ congrats on being a grandma!!  I'm sure you will be dropin that weight in no time.  Jazzercise sounds fun, I keep joking that when I get health insurance again that I will try out for the roller derby girls in town.  Hope your daughter doesn't end up with swine flu.

Sherry~ come on woman you can do it!!!

Joan~ Sorry you have gained your weight back, but you are still welcome here.  I'm sitting at 156 right now and if it wasn't for the marathon and all the running I'm sure I would be a lot heavier.  My kids are doing good, my boyz are in 1st grade....I  can't believe it.  My daughter is in 4th grade and been able to prove she can stay home alone for a short time here and there.  No new tats.....with the daycare we have lost about 8 kids since last fall, so the hubby had to go get a job out of the house.  Have you thought about doing lean cuisines or something.....I know they aren't the healthiest for you but they are pre-portioned and heat up quick.  I eat to many of them since I don't want to eat the junk I make for the daycare kids but don't have the energy to cook 2 full meals.

I ran my full marathon last weekend.  A PR was not in the cards for me.  I was really strong thru the half but i had to stop to use the bathroom at mile 11 and then from mile 15 on I had horrible hip and leg pain.  But I kept moving with one foot in front of the other and I finished.  So now I'm officially in my off season and I can focus on losing the extra 15+ pounds I want/need to lose before training season starts in Jan.  Starting next week I'm going to hit the gym 3 days per week and run 3 days per week.  For running I'm going to focus on my speed, a sub 4 marathon would be awesome.

Good luck everyone with your goals, the support here is awesome.

Cassy

Sophie~ you must be very small boned.  I'm 5' 7" and my goal is to be in the 140 range.  Sounds like you have some good healthy habits.  The hard part is food is our addiction and we can't just stop eating. You can do it, this is a great group of ladies that are very supportive.

I am so proud of myself.  Last night we went to Golden Coral (hubby's choice), if you don't know what it is it's a huge all you can eat buffet.  Well the first plate I had, I covered 2/3 of it with lettuce and healthy salad stuff and just a small scoop of pasta salad.  My 2nd plate was grilled chicken (about 3-4oz), some spicy orange chicken (about 2.5oz), about 1/3 C of white rice, and a small serving (1/4 C) of fried okra.  Then I just had a very small scoop of ice cream and tiny scoop of apple cobbler and a tiny lemon bar (they both fit on the small desert plate without touching).  It's still a lot of food, but I did good about limiting myself and not going back for more.  After eating we went to a movie and I just had a pop, no popcorn or treats at all.  Today besides the 4 pieces of Twizzlers and the small chunk of carmel roll, lol, I have had a good food day.  Tonight we drive down and get our kids.  It's going to be a tough food weekend with a bridal shower, a graduation party and 10 hours of driving....I am going to do my best.  One thing that will help is the 16 mile run I have tomorrow.

Brigitte~ good save with the blizzard....good thing you didn't like it, lol.  I do have other kids to take care of 6:45a-5:45p but at least hubby and I get some quality time in the evening.  The italian was really good, ended up having it again on Friday night.

Sherry~ you're right we all know what we SHOULD be doing and eating....it's the exacution we all seem to be having issues with.  I know I just eat too much food...and lately drink too much alcohol.

Finally got my official time for the 5K, 27:55.  Over the weekend I ran 13 miles and biked 13, would have biked more but I ended up with a flat tire.  I had an extremely busy weekend, my eating was pretty good...the amount of alcohol on the other wasn't so good.  But today is a new day and I don't have plans for going out this coming weekend.  Four and a half more days without my kids, then we drive down to my mom's to spend the weekend and then starting next week it's back to normal summer.  I will miss being able to go for bike rides/runs with the hubby.  It was really nice Sat morning going for my run with the hubby riding along on his bike.

Brigette~ I'm addicted to the energy drinks too, I have limited myself to 1 at lunch every day.  Hope you were able to keep with the subsitute last night.  It's tough to stay active when you have a housefull of kids.  I'm lucky this week and next my own kids are on vacation with grandma so I'm hoping to get a good workout schedule I can stick with down.

Sherry~ Remember to increase you mileage slowly and if you are truely sick then give yourbody a chance to recover before hitting it hard.  Trust me it will take longer to recover if you are pushing yourself.  I use runnerworld website for my running plans.

Last night the hubby and I went for a 24.75 mile bike ride.  This morning I wanted to run 6 miles but my calf was really tight, so I cut it at 3 miles.  I figure with the 5k I'm running tonight it's not worth pushing.  Still trying to figure out what pace I should run my race tonight, kinda thinking just running it at my marathon pace (that I want to run) in Oct. or slightly faster.  This week so far I have kept my calories in check, even with eating out last night.  We stopped by a pita shop in town I had a chicken breast with wheat pita and a ton of veggies.  I even stopped myself and only ate 1/2 the bag of chips.  Tomorrow will be a chalenge, a group of us runners are getting together at an Italian restuarant that has free bread....it will be a chalenge.

Sherry~ we can do this, hope your hair turned out just how you wanted and you got that gym/walking in.

Ugh, I can tell it's getting to be summer, boy is it getting busy!!!!  I really need to start doing my full training plan, I haven't even gotten all my runs in this week, no gym, no biking this week.  Won't make it up to the gym tonight cause it's my boyz sleep over party, not gonna leave my hubby alone with up to 12 kindergarten boyz.  Going to run 9 miles tomorrow, I will get back on track next week, while getting ready for our garager sale on June 13....it's going to be a long summer.  This weekend will be sorting, pricing and bringing stuff out of the basement....so I'll burn a lot of calories.

Sherry~ how frustrating.....so glad I go to snap fitness, they are open 24/365 they are just not staffed that whole time.  You get a card that lets you in and out of the building and they hacve video camera's all over inside.

I did not have a very healthy weekend.  Friday my daughter had a sleep over and I ate too much pizza and ice cream cake.  Saturday food wise in the morning wasn't to bad but then it was the Zombie pub crawl so I did a fair amount of drinking and ate not so great.  And yesterday I didn't get back on track either.  Right now I have no will power because TTOM started and I have really bad sinus cold.  Really going to get my runs in this week, but if I'm feeling to run down I'm going to skip them and hopefully by next week I'll be healthy enough to start training full board.

Saraya~ WTG, you are so awesome, keep up the great work.

Sherry~ glad your keeping yourself on track.  As for the knee, if it's a dull ache maybe try icing it after your workouts, it might be inflamed or something.  Is it the knee itself or a spot around the knee?  Good job keeping your weekend under better control, work on it slowly.  Awesome idea about the fruit and frozen grapes.  I know how you feel about the weight thing, it's partially defeting to me that I'm 10 pounds heavier then I was a year ago.  Keep thinking if I was that 10 pounds lighter how much faster I could have been for my marathon. 

I allowed myself a guilt free weekend.  Figured after a marathon I deserved it.  Yesterday I started counting my calories agian.  Tomorrow I will start back into running, very slowly.  Going to take it really easy over the next couple weeks and work back into everything.  I already have my training/running program done through my October marathon.  Next week I run 4 days and bike 2 days, the follwoing week I start weight training again.  No speed work until the first week in June, That should be enough time to recover.  I will get some of this extra 10 pounds off though, I have a bunch of cute summer cothes I want to look sexy in ;)

Thx Sherry.......Keep up the good work thru the weekend.

All my training is in the bag and I have a positive attitude that I am going to do great.  I'm a little worried about the weahter, I picked out shorts and a tank to wear and now they are taking cooler weather.  I might just wear my arm sleeves for the whole race since I wrote on the tank.  Maybe I can wear a compression under it or something......I'll figure it out.

Hope everyone has a great weekend....I know I will

Sherry~ you can get yourself back on track, remember each day is a new day.  My marathon is in 8 days....May 9.  Only have 4 runs between now and then.

Lisa~ welcome back.  You can do it, you know what you need to do.  Sherry and I are still here....Joan is still in and out too.

I am still doing pretty good.  Had a couple days where I didn't do as well as I would have liked for food but everyday I start over and try to do better.  Weekends are of course my biggest down fall.  Why is it that when I'm trying to keep myself on the straight and narrow is when all the big plans come up for the weekend????  This weekend is a bachelorette party and a friend's birthday.... guess I'll just do the best I can and start back to square one on Monday.  Guess I should be happy, I haven't gained any weight.

Karey~ sounds like had an awesome time on the cruise and stayed pretty active.  Waiting a few days to weigh is probably a good thing.

Jessica~ good job on the run, even if it wasn't far you're right, it's something.  Funny that you didn't have pants in your gym bag...at least you found out before you needed them.

As for me.....had a 15 mile run today.  It started out slow and I thought it was going to be one of those runs I was just going to struggle thru, but about mile 10 I picked up the pace and it felt really good.  I finished the run ahead of my half marathon pace.  I think I'm still going to start the marathon with the 4:30:00 group and if I'm feeling great about mile 15 I will kick up the pace and finish out the race ahead.  I still don't have a lot of marathon race experience to feel confident starting out to fast.  I did really good with food all week, logged everything everyday.  The hubby wants to go out to dinner and the bar, we are getting rid of all of our kids for the night.  We need the date but I'm going to try really hard to keep everything in check.

Hope everyone has a great, and healthy weekend!!

Rachel~ don't fret the little bit of weight gain, you look awesome in your photo's.  Just keep doing what you were doing and you will get there.  The closer you get the slower the weight should come off, best way to keep it off.

Sherry~ Get to that gym and get yourself on track, you can do it.  Afternoon and evening snacking is the killer, it's my biggest problem.

Well I have made it 3 days this week eating really well, and of course got my runs in.  Ran 8 miles this morning, felt good.  I have a few extra calories I should burn so I can get a full pound lose this week, in theory anyways.  I would really like to get back under 150 before the marathon.  Then after the marathon I'm going to hit the weight lose into full gear so I can drop down to 140 for my October marathon.  Maybe then I can drop another 10-20 min off my marathon time.

Karey~ Hope you have a blast on your cruise!!!!

Sherry~ keep up the good work!!

So you know how I said I wasn't going to push that hard during my race on Saturday.....well after 6 miles I gave up on that thought and just ran it "comfortably fast."  I felt awesome and didn't push to hard but I pushed hard enough to feel really good about my marathon in 18 days!!!  My time was 2:08:34, which is 3 minutes slower then last year.  When I plugged in my time to the calculator on runnersworld, it says 4:28:00 for my marathon time and since I didn't run all out I think a 4:30:00 marathon is very obtainable.  So Now I'm into my taper and recovery period of my training.  I feel very confident about running the marathon and know that I will be able to SHATTER my old marathon time.

Just gotta watch my food intake since I'm cutting back the miles....I'm already up in weight don't want to go up any more.

Hope everyone had a great easter....

Karey~ yes...running 15 miles did make sense but it doesn't, lol.  Hope you get to that low end of maintenance so you have a nice cushion for your cruise.  Otherwise you'll just have to worry about it when you get back.  Remember vacation calories are like birthday calories...they don't count.

Sherry~ Sorry the scale is going the wrong way on you.  Maybe it's muscle or something???  You have been doing the right things so don't get discouraged just keep up the good work.

I did end up running the 22 miles on saturday and really glad I did.  I am completely confident about running my full marathon now, can't believe it's only a couple weeks away (May 9).  I even did three of the miles at a faster pace then I plan on running the marathon and felt really good and strong.  Eating I did pretty good, considering I burned over 2600 calories on Saturday during my run I shouldn't feel guilty about the 2 servings of glorified rice I had for Easter, YUMMY stuff, LOL.  This week is an easy week since I have my first half marathon of the season, don't think I'm going to PR it this year.  I haven't been able to do a lot of speed training with all the ice we have had.  I'll probably run it at my marathon pace or slightly faster and feel really good going into my first full.  I also will be signing up for my 2nd full marahton for this year on this coming Friday.

Sherry~ Glad you had a good birthday, don't you know birthday calories dont' count, LOL.

Karey~hope your tummy feels better and doesn't get worse on you.  I'm sure your eyes being all dialated didn't help any.

Kristine~ I feel your pain, I'm having a heck of a time getting my weight off.  Trying really hard to stay positive and focus on the fact that I'm not gaining.

As far as weather goes for us, the river is well down to a safe level, BUT.....they aren't sure how long it's going to stay down.  They are forecasting a 75% chance the Red River will hit 41' (which is .5' higher then the last crest).  So all the dikes are just sitting there until we are out of the woods.

I had a blast over the weekend at my convention (posted 1 pic).  I did eat crappy food all weekend, didn't drink as much as I figured I was going to and I ran 14 miles on Sat. morning.  I also ran 9 miles this morning.  Getting really excited my first half marathon is next saturday.  Not sure if I'll get a PR for it since the last few weeks my running has been off.  Anyway you look at it I'll have fun.

Gotta keep on track this week, I will do it!!