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Running

Singing, I mean Running in the Rain…

May 5, 2010

So far I have managed to live in the Puget Sound area and avoid running in the rain, are you shocked yet?  The first 3 months I ran on a treadmill then I just got REALLY lucky, well today the luck ran out…  I went out for my run which I was sort of dreading, [...]

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The Weekly Round up 4/24-4/30

May 1, 2010

I got in 7 workouts this week, I ran four times this week including running a 10k on Sunday and  7 miles on Friday.  I also managed to get at least a mile in every day for my Mile A Day in April Challenge. Summary I used 25/35 Weekly Points and I earned 43 Activity [...]

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April, Month in Brief

May 1, 2010

Days in April that I counted all my points 30 Number of Days I did High Intensity Activity  26 (ie worked up a sweat) Number of Days I did moderate or Low intensity Activity 29 Number of Days I did some form of organized Activity 29 Number of Days I reached my 30 minute activity [...]

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7 miles!

April 30, 2010

You read that right.  I did indeed run seven miles today!  I woke up early, well the normal time but I didn’t have to drive Ben to work so I got to run early.  I headed to the Soos Creek Trail and ran three and a half miles south then headed back the way I [...]

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I ran a 10k race

April 25, 2010

I RAN a 10k race, that’s right ran the whole thing and I didn’t even finish last   It took me an hour 17 minutes (including a pitstop )  It felt awesome, the course was flat right along the puget sound, it was out and back twice with views of the space needle and puget [...]

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Happy Weigh in!

April 24, 2010

Today was my weigh in. I lost 1.4 pounds!  seems like I’m on a great trend 4.6 pounds in the last 4 weeks.  A little less than I would like but still solid losses.  I had yogurt and granola for breakfast at my meeting.  When I came home we had pita pizzas for lunch.  I [...]

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Boring Day for the Dogs

April 23, 2010

The morning felt crazy.  I had an appointment to take my car in at 9:45 AM, I figured no big deal I could get a run in first.  BUT for some reason I seem to have been running late, perhaps it was the desire to read just a few blogs before my run… So I [...]

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Another 5 miler!

April 18, 2010

I started the day with another 5 mile run!  I found a new trail for my runs, the Soos Creek Trail runs from Renton to Covington and one of the access points is about a mile away so I drove down and ran this mostly flat (there were some rolling very mini hills) trail.  I [...]

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The Weekly Round up 4/10-4/16

April 18, 2010

I got in 7 workouts this week, I ran five times this week including 5 miles last Sunday.  I also managed to get at least a mile in every day for my Mile A Day in April Challenge. Summary I used 23/35 Weekly Points and I earned 36 Activity Points I lost 0.8 pounds. Saturday [...]

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Mother Nature is a B*tch

April 16, 2010

Mother Nature really likes to screw with me.  My first 5k race back in January, oh yeah it was that time of the month, nice.  Today I really wanted a nice relaxing 2 mile run, no chance.  A bit less than half a mile in I got killer cramps, I kept going to the half [...]

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