I am a runner

So super excited that I need to share my fb status from last night ..... 'tonight I super exceeded my w2d3. At one point during a 15 min non-stop run, I even forgot I was running. Oh my shit, I AM A RUNNER!!!!!'

A friend and I did w2d3 and it felt pretty good, really good actually....which in turn made me nervous for w3d1. We started back on our regular walking route and decided because it was getting so late and dark maybe we'd run some of that too. So we walked/ran and then got to the top of a hill (we run a college campus and it's a loop) So we decided to run down the entire hill....and then I don't know how it happened when we reached the end I just kept going....it felt so good. I kept saying okay I'll stop at x. Then I'd pass x and say, I'll stop at Y. Y came and went and before I knew it I knew I didn't stop until I had come back to the beginning of our route. My friend said, 'OMG, I thought you were going to run home, you just kept going.' We ran just a tad more after that and then did a nice walk back to the house to cool down.

I went yesterday afternoon and was fitted for a pair of running shoes at Charm City Run. When I took the first 'running' steps in them, I couldn't believe it...they felt like I was running on air....with springs in the front. (I should've gotten these shoes months ago....LOL)

On my way to work this morning I drove through the campus. I was looking at my 'run route' and I was AMAZED.

I know I'm rambling but I just can't contain my excitement. I AM A RUNNER!!!!! and I can so do this Baltimore Running Festival 5K on October 16!!!"

Yep, you read rght

Last week while sitting in my comfy desk chair, listening to some pandora radio, in the a/c may I add, I decided that I, Kim Cugle Blair, was so totally motivated that I was signing up for the Baltimore Running Festival's 5K on Saturday, October 16 (of this year :) No I didn't leave out the part where I was smoking crack either. I paid my $45 plus $3 processing fee to RUN 3.1 miles.

Now that I'm registered and have committed with my registration fee (did I mention you get an Under Armour shirt and TWO free beers after the race, motivating I know) I figured I better start more than just walking and ellipticalling (PS, the little E and I are officially dating. We weren't such great pals in the beginning but we are really a good couple now) So I found a Couch to 5K program and a FREE podcast to go with it. I can't even begin to tell you how the first day was....wanting to pee my pants and throw up at the same time just listening to the guy to tell me to run and walk ...and this was while I was driving to the route. Only once did I say I wanted my money back during the run. Not for the podcast but for the 5K. The second day of training I ran in the OCMD Convention Center parking lot. I wasn't mentally ready for Coastal Highway and while in the parking lot running in circles I honestly envisioned myself as Rocky running up all those steps. The last night of week one I honestly thought I was going to die. It was freakin' HOT!!! I saw those black dots that Christine saw so many months ago walking up the UMBC hill and I swear I had blurry, double vision. Crying wasn't an option because you have to breath to cry and I wasn't doing that so well. Tonight began week 2. 90 sec run/2 min walk intervals. Not so bad, better than I expected. (I still get so anxious) My second interval was up a decently steep hill. At just about the top, going so slow I thought I was going backward and then the "techno" type music that plays during the podcast said STOP and I was all about it, not realizing for a moment that it was the music not the guy and I should still be running...oooops!!

I just set my alarm clock for 5:30am because I told a friend I'd do UMBC with her at 5:45 tomorrow morning. Please someone tell me wtf is happening to me. If it makes you feel any better, so you feel like you still know me, I did eat 3 mini doughnuts tonight...duh, they were calling my name. Thank God we didn't have any Doritos or my keyboard might be covered in nacho cheese :)

3.5 months ago I said I needed a change because I was disgusted....27 pounds down and registered for a 5K. Who would have thought? Crazy and amazing all at the same time!!!

Training has really begun...

Almost the 3 month mark...almost!

Vaca was great and then the reality of being with my kids and husband for 12 days set in...ugh! On Sunday we became all-Blair, all the time. Sometimes you need a vacation from a vacation but this time we just needed a vacation from each other. All in all we had a good time. It truly was a relaxing, expensive, but relaxing time. We fished a lot, did Jolly Rogers Water Park, golfed, swam, and ATE. OMG did we eat. We ate like we were on a cruise!!! Thank God for the Big E (OC elliptical). Like I said, I ate and drank like a glutton but I also had a morning date each day and that I truly believed helped me quite a bit. I did gain 4 pounds while away but big Chris gained 8 and he never had an a.m. date. (well, once but I thought and he thought he was gonna die, so his dating life was over -- drama king!!) I'm proud to say that as soon as we arrived back in Arbutus, WW and I were reunited and at my weigh in today I was down the 4 and an additional 1.5....so 24.5# down!!! SUPER EXCITED!!

I've kept my end of the exercise bargain with my body, I just wish it would be a little nicer to me. Of course it could be feeling like, "In your face big girl....look what you've put me through all these years and seriously, you're not 29 anymore." I'm sure that's what it's saying -- what a bitch!! On Sunday morning, Stewie and I walked our 4 miles in the 972 degree/99.9% humidity. If I was on a treadmill and felt like that, I'd have fallen off the back but a girl and her dog have got to get home. So we walked some more. Stewie laid his little ass right in front of his water bowl when he got home, taking drinks and napping simultaneously! I swear I thought we were on a survivor series show : One Girl, One Dog! Oh well, that's old news....we're still alive and kickin'.

My black toe nail is healing up nicely (still attached) but apparently my baby toe nail on the same foot felt like it didn't want to participate anymore and decided to fall right off. So as I type, I have skin painted in place of a toe nail.

Yesterday it was so hot, again, that I decided I needed to throw some strength training into my mix. More muscle burns more calories (even when just typing). Bob and I reunited for a nice boot camp workout and then I reluctantly got on my 1.5 yr old, almost never used, home elliptical and started to form a relationship. Just so you know, I will never (at least I don't think) feel the same love for Little E as I do OC's Big E!

Next week will be 3 months, a nice 25 down or more would be awesome!!!

It's been a while

I know, it's been a while. I haven't had much extra time...don't ask what I've been doing, 'cuz I have no idea :)

Let's take it back to July 4th weekend....ugh. Great Saturday (7/3) not such a great night after 8:30pm --- mind you my walking partner and I, we're not giving that person/dog a name because it changes so frequently, so partner and I had just completed a 4mile walk that morning (in an hour). I had just upped my walk to a 4 mile hour. Anyhow, 8:30pm --- jumped into pool and BOOM!!!!! there went my ankle/foot.....holy shit!!!! Needless to say, xrays the following day and loads of swelling I was back to walking 4 miles (just not as quickly) on Wednesday 7/7. So I've been religiously walking my 4 miles and speeding my time back up. Yesterday I skipped all together because I am almost to the point that I can't walk at all in the morning and my shins and ankles ache (hurt ache) all day long. Last night I applied an Icy Hot wrap and watched TV instead.....don't get mad yet....my OC elliptical and I will be reunited this evening for 12 days and I'll stay on track!!! (hopefully my entirely black toe nail will stay in place until I can wear socks and shoes in the winter -- thanks long toe nail that banged into my shoe) Oh, 23 pounds down!!!

We are getting ready to leave for vaca this afternoon....ahhh!!! Anyhow we are planning a deep sea fishing trip while there. So I ask Chris a "dumb" question...."What do I wear?" He responds, duh "Shorts and a shirt." Now most people would have known the answer to that but I however do NOT own shorts. So yesterday I went in search of a pair of "fishing shorts." If I had wanted to wear capris I wouldn't have gone shopping. If I had wanted to wear long, black pants or jean capris, I could have bought plenty. 3 pairs, not 3 styles but THREE PAIRS of shorts were to be found in Kohl's. One in my size (which isn't my size anymore ....nice) and one pair 2 sizes smaller (might be my size next month, I could squeeze into them) and one lots of sizes smaller. So no shorts! (mind you I was suppose to be at work so I couldn't shop all day) But I have decided people don't want fat chicks to wear shorts so they don't freakin' make them!!!! Yep, I'll be the only one deep sea fishing in a sundress :) Not really but don't think it didn't cross my mind.

I have a new love (yes, I'm having an affair) My new love is not only super cute but tasty too. Mini Baby Bell light cheese and light cheese spreadable wedges. YUMMO!!! Bestest ever and so stinking cute! Lots of varieties to keep me happy :)

I didn't forget...

...I've just been dumb busy!!! And now that I have two minutes (okay really like 30) I am not loving the song that is on Pandora radio but because I've been so picky today and skipping so many songs it won't let me skip another. Ahhh, here comes some Tainted Love...BETTER!!!

So the girls' weekend (not really a weekend because it was Monday to Wednesday) ROCKED!! We had a great time. Nothing so spectacular happened unless you want to hear about how we were part of a robbery situation in the Russian mafia run sex shop on 130th street. It was truly something out of Pulp Fiction -- some crazy shit, seriously. Needless to say...go online and buy that shit or be sure to bring it to OC with you. DO NOT ENTER THE STORE!!! Other than that and some guy thinking he'd be nice and tell Christine and I we only looked about 35 (which means he thought we looked 40) nothing so terribly exciting happened except NO KIDS and NO HUSBANDS! Oh yeah! Then I came home and was raising my voice (notice, I did not say "yelling" because "raising my voice" sounds better...lol) within an hour...gotta love Blair paradise.

I'm feeling sort of really crappy! If the scale is gonna be up, it should be because I ate a cow. I think I might break down and buy a new scale -- or not. I can't decide. I just need to sit down and have a talk with him. (the scale is so a him, if it were a her it wouldn't find humor in doing what it does. Unless it's some bitch her scale!!!) I'm sure it could be hormonal. It's not that I've eaten a cow or even part of one. Do you know I had to go to bed early on Saturday night at the beach so I didn't run over to Dough Roller and eat all their pizza?! I've written down everything that has gone in my mouth since May 6...WOW!! (I know, great!) and the scale is still only down 11pounds. And how it thinks I can weigh the same in the night as I do in the morning is beyond me....damn man scale!!! But Chris told me in a very nice way and not in these words that my back fat is getting smaller. Let's face it, who doesn't want smaller back fat! Hopefully when the scale stops being such an ass it will go down a few.

And yes, I've been taking profile pix of myself...LOL. I think it's so funny to look back at the pix in the camera and see all of the self shots!

Damn Fatness!!!

Ugh...so everything I plan for gets jacked up. That being said, I am getting even more super excited for the "unofficial" start of Summer 2010 tomorrow!!!! I can't believe it's finally here. I don't even care that tomorrow's weather forecast just about sucks!! Yummy alcoholic beverages are calling my name. Super calling it, ever so loudly. For some reason to me yummy adult drinks = awesome fun. Just like last night after SATC 2, I came home and made a "wanna be" cosmo. That would be vodka and some cranberry/apple crystal light pack. Even as "wanna be" as it was, it was delicious!! (and yes, I counted the 3 pts for vodka) I told you I am ALL about this WW thing. At least until I am down another 20 pounds or so. And that is where my dilemma lies....Geez, I want to drink...not just a drink but several. So tomorrow I am going to eat lots of LOW point food so I can get my alcohol points in!!! I haven't used any of my 35 flex points this week and they will be divided up for the weekend alcohol as well. I have a plan...here goes....Saturday -- DRINKS and lots of them. Sunday -- just a few. Monday (day) -- I am laying off. Driving to OC for that girls' quick get together on Monday afternoon -- might have a celebratory beverage when we get there....idk. Then comes Tuesday night -- and a fresh 35 flex points -- thank GOD. They might be all used by Wednesday when I return to good ol' A Town but at least I have a plan!!

Did I mention how super stoked I am about SUMMER 2010!!! YIPPEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!