To Run or Not to Run...Not to Run...Bummer

Greetings fellow fitness friends. I suppose I should write an update about the Hot Chocolate Run from Sunday. Well, I would love to write about this run except, I didn't go. I was out of town last week at a conference and somewhere between the time I left and the time I got back, I got sick. I'll spare you the gorey details, but I'll just say it was in my lungs. Yuck! I did however go to the Expo and I have some pictures from that. I was a fun expo, but I was really bummed that I could not make it to the run. It wouldn't have been all that fun anyway since I couldn't breathe, but I did hear from a friend of mine who ran it that the run was really cold.

I got an email last week while I was at the conference regarding the run stating that the run marshal was issuing a severe weather warning. The warning stated that the wind chill temp was going to be 5 degrees F! That's cold! The email warned about frostbite and risk of hypothermia. For these reasons I was considering not running, but then I got sick. Still, I wish I could have run. I am now going to work on continuing to get healthy and get back to training for this 5K of mine in April.

Of note, in my last post I wrote about how I gained weight and was hoping that the scale would go in the downward direction to 264. I did not get that close, but I weighed myself before I left for the conference and I weighed in at 265! I was super excited. One of the perks from last week was that I did a lot of walking. I wore my wife's pedometer and I clocked 20 miles in the week and averaged about 3-4 miles per day. All in all it was a good week...till I got sick that is. Enjoy the pictures from the Hot Chocolate Expo and keep training.

Merry Christmas!

Got Chocolate Milk After Video

I just applied to be apart of Got Chocolate Milk Team Refuel. In order to apply, I had to submit a video about why chocolate milk is apart of my after workout routine. I wanted the video to be very similar to the commercials they make. Here it is. I hope that I make it and if I do I am going to ask for each of my readers to vote for me once a day to go from a finalist to a team member. For now, I hope you enjoy the video.

Race and Training update

I wanted to give you all an update about my race schedule and where I am on my training. My training has been going well. I have been running/walking using the Zombies, Run! 5K Training app and have just finished with week 2. I am moving on to week 2.5. Basically I have created a 5K training program that takes almost 50 weeks instead of 8 weeks. I wanted to do this because of my history of injury. So week 2.5 is using another app to move from 30 sec of running to 45 seconds of running.

I had an awesome goal hit last month. During the month of November, I ran, swam and biked 100.8 miles and last night I started the month off with a Kettlebell workout. My legs are SORE! I am looking forward to the move up in run time though and have a race upcoming. It will still fall into my 5K training, but it'll feel good to finally get back out there and race again. I will be running/walking in the Hot Chocolate 5K. It will be Saturday, December 15th. I am looking forward to it and will do a race recap after the race is over.

As far as my weight loss goes, I believe that I am having a harder time with Thanksgiving and too much turkey and salty foods. I have not lost a single pound. In fact I think I have gained a couple of pounds back. I last weighed in at 266, but I think that I am nearer to 268. I would love to go the other direction to 264 by the end of this week. I am going to have to be much more disciplined to get there but I know that I can do it.

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