Friday, November 29, 2013

changes

It has been a while since my last post. Mainly because I have been confused, confused about my health and my training. Yes I did complete the Half Marathon in St. Augustine. No I didn't make my goal time of 2:30:00... it was actually 2:32:50.... I know you are thinking. 2 minutes and 50 seconds too slow and you are disappointed? Yes I am disappointed and concerned.. Not because I didn't make my time but because of the pain I felt afterwards, and the amount of time it took me to recover. after a week I was still hurting in my ankle and the lack of energy, and the foggy feeling I had all of the time. After doing some research I came to get the feeling that I was showing all of the signs of being anemic, which I found out happens to some vegans. So I had a decision to make: Do I try to tweak my diet or do I re-evaluate my long term goals and determine what direction to go.

After thinking about this and doing more research and sitting down and really trying to determine what I want to do, I decided that I wanted to stop living the vegan lifestyle. I decided that my long term goals are to put on muscle, get much stronger, and to shape my body and get healthy. So starting this past Tuesday I have slowly been easing back into eating meat. so after 2.5 months and 30 lbs shredded I have changed back.

WHAT IS MY PLAN??
I am going to hit the gym as hard as I can. I am going to do 20 minutes of cardio 2 times per day. I am going to eat every 3 hours. I am going to become the best that I can be. I am starting a 12 week program and I will not cheat, I will not skip a workout, and I will not falter. I want more for me and my family.

BABY BROWN UPDATE:
Baby Brown is growing and growing and growing. I am getting to the point now that I am so ready to meet the munchkin. I feel like I am being tortured, it is literally like waiting for Christmas. I feel like I have a present under the tree but I can't open it. let me rephrase that it is like have a present under the tree that you know what it is and you have wanted for a long time but you have to wait. I know it will be worth the wait.

That is all for now. I promise to keep you posted. Tonight is my first workout and it is legs day. it is going to be good!

Sunday, November 3, 2013

This week was a wash.

This past week was a waste of a training week. Mainly because I DIDN'T TRAIN. I ran 1 mile all week and that was on my lunch break on Friday. I just didn't feel up to it. It was one of those weeks that you wish that you could just erase. After getting some bad news on Sunday, the week began in a downward exhausting spiral. Monday I had class until 8:30 at night, Tuesday I has a deacon's meeting, Wednesday I had church, Thursday I had Trunk-o-Treat at the church, Friday consisted of cleaning the house top to bottom since we had company coming, Saturday I played golf with friends and family, and today we have had church. so basically I have been very busy. I have not had the drive to go run. I have to get a 12 mile run in sometime at the beginning of the week and then I have another one on Saturday.

I am just not feeling motivated. Tuesday we are going to the doctor for our scheduled baby check up and we are going to be asking the doctor if it is okay for Juliet to travel to St. Augustine fl for the half marathon. I really hope we can go. I am not going to go without her. I really hope we get to go. If not I will absolutely be doing a half marathon on thanksgiving in Atlanta.

Though I have been feeling a bit down lately, we had a great church service this morning. I could feel the spirit moving at multiple times during the service I had goose bumps. I guess a big issue I am currently having is stress. I am stressed out about making sure everything is in order when baby Brown decides to make an appearance. It is difficult to streamline operation of the audio/visual team when I am used to taking care of the entire thing. I have a good friend of mine that is going to take care of it while I am gone but I just want to make sure there are no surprises for him while I am gone.  I am used to troubleshooting on the fly and I feel very comfortable with the system we use and with electronics so it is not a big deal for me to run into a snag, but he is new to all of these things and the process. I know this is God teaching me to be faithful and trust that he will take care of things. I just need to stop being stubborn and to let him take care of it. You would think that after all of this time I wouldn't work about things but every once in a while I just get caught up in trying to make things perfect. I am going to try to stop worrying about it and go read my Runner's World Magazine and relax. Have a good one.