Boo-Ya!:A New Personal Best

   This past Saturday I ran a 10k race in Oka national park.  The trail was beautiful and luckily the weather was perfect, not too cold and nice and sunny (although I could not keep my sunglasses on because my face was so sweaty).  All I wanted was to beat my last 10k race time of an hour and eight minutes and guess what!?  I did it in 1:05:07 THREE WHOLE MINUTES FASTER!  WOOHOO!  I was so excited.  This Saturday and I am doing another 10K race and I am aiming to get the same time or better. 
     In hot yoga news, today I am on day 7 and I have been going everyday (yes, even after the 10K race on Saturday).  I am noticing improvements in my possess and I am able to hold posses that I was not able to do a few months ago.  I am also noticing that I am not finding the room as hot as I used to.


I hope that everyone is having a great week and take care!

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*Sigh*

     Today I was bad, real bad Micheal Jackson, I went on a cookie binge.  I ate a whole row of Oreos. A WHOLE ROW!  What the f&*k is wrong with me? ARRRGGGGHHHHH!  Now that that is over, tomorrow is a new day.  I really need to get this eating in check.  My eating is what is going to make or break me and my weight loss and since I would rather make than break, I need to get my head in the game.

  I was so tired today.  The Grade 7's came for their first day, so I was running around giving them a tour of the school. I didn`t want to go to running tonight.  I really did not want to go, but since I ate a whole row of Oreos I figured I might as well do something right today.   I am happy that I went.  I felt great after.  It was really hard.  I am not going to lie, this clinic is a real challenge, but I am up for it I like to be challenged, it is in my character. When I encounter something that I may not be able to do it forcesme to work harder to get the job done.  Garms was with me (that is my nickname for the Garmin watch) and she is FANTASTIC!  I set it to alert after 30 minutes and when I have reached 5K.  Our instructor is no joke, she pushes us to the limit and I like that. On Sunday we will be running 6K.  I think that I am only going to add one more day of running and that will be Friday and I will do a 8K then, at the gym I will stick to an hour of "other" cardio such as stairstepper or reverse escalotor, I am stepping up the cardio, I need to.  Here are today's running stats:

Total time: 45:42

Calories: 573

Distance: 5.74K

Average pace: 7:58 km/min

Avg Heart Rate: 152

Max pace: 4:59

Max HR: 180

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10K Clinic

Tonight was the first meeting and it wasn't bad. There are 25 people in the group and the skills vary tremendously, I was happy that I wasn't at the back all the time and that I kept up with our 4K run.  I am the only one that has gone from the Learn to Run to the 10K, so I am proud of myself.  I was so anxious last night that I had trouble sleeping.  After the run today I felt much better and I think that I am going to be fine.  Tomorrow we are running 5K and we are working on speed next week.

As for eating I have been craving sugar like a mofo.  I had 2 Fudgeeos, which I REALLY didn't need.

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5K Numero Trois

I am running my third 5K tomorrow.  I am aiming for a time of 31 minutes, the race is in my area, so I am used to the terrain.  Thankfully there are no hills in this race.  Wish me luck!  Next race is on Sunday (I am a machine, I KNOW!).  Starting to look at my September calender and start to sign up for races, so far I have one on Sept.11.

I start my 10K clinic next week, I am doing it with the Running Room again, the clinic is 10 weeks and it will prep me to run the 10K.  I like the Running R  can you believe that only a few months ago, I had never really run and now I am going to start training for a 10K.  Our goal race for this clinic will be at the beginning of Nov., but I am going to try and run a 10K before, so that I can see what I am in for.  I like to be prepared.

Could the next step be a half marathon?  The thought blows my mind.  What about a marathon? 46K....Whoa, Whoa...One thing race at a time.

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