Busy Week

I had a busy week and only ran once. I managed to drop another pound to 203. I am hoping to break the 200 mark soon. I can identify with Cameron's eating. I have been eating 4-5 times a day for sometime now. I make sure I get a good breakfast, eat a snack of 200 calories about 10:30, lunch about 12:30 and dinner between 4-6 if all possible. This keeps me from over eating if I get home late. If I go for a run in the evening, I may eat another small snack when I get back.

I noticed the other day that Rebecca is looking thin in the face which is a good indicator of overall weight loss. Happy early birthday.

THE END OF ANOTHER WEEK

I don't know about the rest of you but the weeks are flying by. Two more weeks of school for us and the kids and Bec will be enjoying summer vacation.
This week I was a bit sore from the long run last Saturday so we walked more than ran. We ran two days. We didn't do a run this morning either. I tried something that seemed to work really well for me this week. I tried not eating if it got very late in the evening. I was also eating a really good lunch so I wasn't very hungry for dinner. I would eat some carrots or something like that and then eat in the morning. It seemed to work pretty good. The scale started moving in a positive direction again. Friday morning weigh-in was as follows:

Cameron - 235.8 lbs
Rebecca - 162.? lbs

I need to plan another long run very soon. It is tough to come up with 2 hrs. that you can just run. Next Saturday is Bec's Birthday. She is going to be 37 yrs. young! Everyone make sure you wish her Happy Birthday. As you have seen on her Face Book page she is looking very good! I will try and add a picture of us on here as well. Good luck everyone! Keep up the posts and getting in shape! It really helps to see what each of you are doing.

Later,
Cameron & Rebecca

Better Late than Never!

We have been camping over Memorial Day Weekend so I didn't post for Friday. On Friday I weighed in at 166.6 and Rhett was 209. We didn't get any exercise in this weekend, so I am ready to get up in the morning and get back to it! I did pass up a lot of sweets - even homemade pippin' hot glazed doughnuts!!!! Not Easy!!!
I can't believe you guys are running a half marathon! That is awesome!!!! I haven't ran since the race last week, I did more weights and spinning this week. But I plan to get back to running this week. We are wanting to find another 5k to run soon.
I don't blame you for changing to Fridays to weigh in, it helps knowing you worked out all week before weighing in!

Still Learning!

Well Claudine, this should make you happy. Bec said the other day while we were walking that she didn't want to post our weight on Monday anymore. She would like to start doing our weigh-in's on Friday mornings. So now we will be on your schedule and closer to Earl. Great job Earl on the run. We are also going to get ready to run a half marathon. We have wanted to for awhile but have never done it and we need something new to motivate us. We have to find one but we are going to start. I didn't know if I could do it before but last Friday I ran with Bec at her pace. She is very steady all the time. I felt really great after about 2.5 miles and thought I maybe could run a half marathon. Saturday morning we got up and met Laura, Earl's wife, at 6:15 for a run. I decided that today was going to be the day I would try to run for a long run, mostly to see how long I could run. I didn't tell Bec and her and Laura turned a different way and left me after two blocks. They ran for about an hour and I ended up going for about 1 hr. and 45 min.! I felt great until about the last 10 min or so and had to walk for about a min. My thighs felt like jello! I ended up going 10.35 miles. I was very happy to see that and now feel pretty confident that I can do a half marathon. I did learn another thing from my run on Saturday. You have to let your wife know where and how long you plan on being gone. They tend to worry if they don't know these things. Sorry Bec!!!! Here is our weigh-in for Friday the 22nd:


Cameron - 237.2 lbs

Bec - 160.2 lbs


The race was fun last weekend but now we have to find another one. It is so much easier to run when you are training for something. Here is a link to the run I did on Saturday.


http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/ca/marysville/925124323676815645


Happy getting in Shape everyone! Congrats Rhett and Claudine on your race! That is great that your family did that together! I am glad that Rhett is healing up so well!

Later Everyone!
Cameron

Long Runs

So I am working on my next goal which will be a half-marathon. This is very intimidating to me. I have adjusted my training program after my race on the 16th. I did not finish like I would have liked.

I have been running 5 miles twice a week. One run will incorporate hills and the other will be more of speed work. I may do this at a shorter distance. On Saturday, I do my long run. This week it was 8 miles. Since I know that I can do 6.2, going up to 7 didn't seem like enough mental and physical challenge. To ease my mind a little, I decided to run down a road for 4 and turn around. I just didn't feel comfortable doing a loop in case something happened and I was far from home. I ran with 12 oz of G2 for hydration and GU for my half way point. I dropped off the bottle at 3 miles and took the GU at 4. I had enough energy to finish the race and drank about 6 to 8 oz. Of course bottoms up at the end.

I was thinking about mile 5 that I might be able to do the run in 1 hr 15 min. I was not worried about time, just trying to keep a steady 9:20 mile. I actually finished at 1:14:14, 9:15 miles. I was surprised at how my energy level was sustained as I focused on form and pace.

My IPOD recording the mile markers - 9:17, 10:14, 9:09, 9:02, 9:13, 9:13, 9:15, 9:19

I weighed in at 204 before my run and 201 after. That is a lot of sweat!

Survived!!

Well I survived my first 5k! Very excited!
My time was 33:32 and Rhett's was 33:34 (I think he let me beat him).

I was pretty happy with that, I only walked for a minute a couple times!!! It feels great!!! I told Rhett we need to find another to do soon.

Rhett has been back at the gym all of last week and is feeling pretty good. He wants to be back down to 207 by the end of May.

I weighed in last Friday at 168.2 - getting closer!!!!!

Good job on the 10k guys, that is amazing!!!! I can't imagine going double what we did, maybe someday! Baby steps!!!


Claudine

We did it!

I hit the scale at 203 this morning. Cameron, Rebecca, Ron and I started off this morning with our 10K race. It was a beautiful trail course tucked in the foothills of Folsom, CA. Ron serenaded "Ring of Fire" by John Cash for us while we passed the Folsom Prison.

The race started at 8:25 which was not early enough since we were probably in the mid 70's by race time. We were told there were 8 water stations, but we only had them at mile 1, 2 something and mile 5. Miles 1-3 I ran according to plan. I got thirsty 4-6 and since a lot of it was in the sun and only had 1 water station, I struggled. I did not get the time I wanted, but can feel the improvement from a year to even 5 months ago. A race like that use to wipe me out for the rest of the day. I think I am going to train for a half marathon. I need to find a race and set a new goal. I can't even imagine going twice the distance right now.