Starting over...again

The start of 2011 has been a rough one for me. We have had a TON of sickness in our house with the kids and us. My fitness and nutrition has suffered greatly.

This last week I started tracking my food again and getting workouts in like I should be. I started a fitness challenge at the first of the year at my local gym. I have two other ladies on my team to see how much weight we can loose in 10 weeks as a group. The three of us do not have a lot of weight to loose, compared to what I had a year ago...but it helps keep motivation going. So far I am only down a few pounds. I hope to really get more by the end of our journey. I want to be at my goal weight before the summer. Starting in June I will be starting the 18 week marathon training program for a Full Marathon in October. Last October I had planned to run a full marathon in Kansas City for my birthday. Life happened and I had to stop training and focus on family issues.

Marathon Training is extremely time consuming...we are talking over 600 miles in 18 weeks. When you are not a fast runner, it REALLY takes a lot of time! My one and only goal is to reach the finish line. I finished my first half marathon last fall in Lincoln NE with my friend Ashley. I made it at the time I wanted to and was on a "high" for a week. I received my first finishers medal and carried that hunk of metal around for a week in my pocket. :)

I hope that this starting over of tracking my foods again and trying some new workouts will get me loosing a 2 lb a week average again. I have lost 50 lbs since October 2009...I have only 23 more to go. We bought a Wii recently and I am going to do my Wii Fit program when I can't get out of the house and get back to running now that the weather is looking better this week.

I hope to try some new recipes that I read on my other friends blog sites and as I do I will share them with you. Thanks for reading my first Blog on here!