In typical Procrastinating Miranda fashion, I’m ending up writing about Week 1 of the Biggest Loser program I joined at the gym when I’m almost halfway through Week 2. My health club, The Works, is having their own version of the Biggest Loser, although no one gets voted off, so I decided to join it.
The major upside for me was that the program involves 12 sessions with a trainer in a small group (4 people) for much much less than I would pay for just 12 sessions with a trainer outside the program. I’ve never worked out with a trainer before, so I thought this would be a good way to kickstart my weight loss and get in shape, and try out the whole trainer thing before I invested money into sessions of my own. » Read the rest of this entry «
It’s hard to believe that another decade is already starting. It seems like it was just yesterday that it was 2000! I always thought grownups were crazy when I was a kid, saying that time was moving so fast. Too me it felt like everything took an eternity, but now I’m old, and I suppose I’m technically a grownup, and it feels like time is just flying by now.
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I have a hard time remembering what I ate for dinner last night, but 24:03 is still hanging around there in my subconscious. It’s my 5K PR from my high school cross country days. I even remember it was junior year, at an away meet at Alvirne HS in Hudson, NH. I really feel like I would have been able to bring that down another few minutes my senior year. Maybe even become a scoring runner! But unfortunately, I tore my ACL during basketball season of my junior year. My knee rehab didn’t even end until June, and cross country started in August. To top it off, I had to run the whole year with a giant carbon fiber knee brace. To say that my times never approached 24:03 in my senior year would be an understatement.
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Well, technically we’ve been back for almost two months now! It’s been a pretty irritating summer overall, although we had a great time on our road trip. I started getting sick with a cold just as we were heading home, and then that just would not go away. I had an awful cough for about a month, and that really threw a wrench in my grand workout plans, which I’d been doing pretty good on before we left!
On top of that, the weather has been mostly crappy all summer, we’ve had some really LOUD and annoying painters working on our building for the past two weeks (which makes it hard to get work done!), our friend has been living with us for the past month until he moves to Phoenix, and our furnace needs to be put out to pasture.
Thankfully, the painters finished on our building on Friday (although they’re now sanding the one next door, but at least it’s not as loud as when it’s your building). Our friend will be moving out in a few days, too. It hasn’t been that bad with him living here. We really hardly ever see him, but our place is kinda small and it’s just weird having another person living in it. Hopefully the weather improves so we can turn off the AC and open up the windows! Between the insane heat and humidity the past two weeks, plus the painters needing us to keep the screens out of the windows, we’ve had the house all shut up with the AC running. Ben and I both hate AC for the most part, but it’s been really necessary.
I started back on my Couch to 5K plan two weeks ago, and I’m going to start Week 2 again today. I usually end up doing several iterations of Week 1. This is my fourth attempt now to do this plan! The first two times, I never made it past Week 1. Back in June, before we left for vacation, I made it to Week 2, and was hoping to be able to do it a few more times when we got back, but since I was sick for so long, I really got out of the gym habit. As in not going at all, so I had to start over again. I had hoped to do the Great Bay 5K at the end of October, but I just don’t know if I will be ready by then.