See Amanda Run

Sunday 7am - See Jane Run 1/2 Marathon... let's kick it!

Breakfast Silly

Raspberry Fingers!

How many pairs do I have now?

This is pair #5.  Pairs 1 & 2 are out to pasture, only used for playing outside or grocery shopping.  Pair #3 will continue on, assuming it performs, through November.  Come December I will exclusively use pairs 4 and 5, and pair #5 will go to the marathon.

Running shoes last 200-500 miles depending on the shoe, how you run and how heavy you are.  I keep 2 pairs in rotation to reduce wear and make sure each pair is fully dry before wearing again.  I learned that it is good to have a dark pair and a light pair so that you can tell them apart at 5:10am when the lights are off.  Brooks Adrenaline have been good to me for many years and I love the new purple colors.

Time Waste # 432 Pinterest

If you use Pinterest, you already know it is a huge, fun, time suck.  Worse than Facebook or Twitter.  If you don't use it, email me and I'll send you an invite.

I found this, this, and this today, all while I should be curled up in bed sleeping.  But no, instead I'm thinking how cute it would be to make a sandwich shaped like a piggy, and that I should really try steel cut oatmeal again - for real!  And creating a new pin board for travel ideas for our next road trip.

Damn you Pinterest!

I am way to into this

Well, the format doesn't make it easy to read pasting it in here, but this is every race I have ever signed up for.  The 1/2 next weekend will be my 58th race 5th 13.1.  There are some gaps here and there after I had Gwen in 2006 and the twins in 2008.  One race I did not make it to (SHOCKER).  I also have a load of race t-shirts that I love dearly.

Race Name	Date	Distance	Time
DashDown Greenville 5K	3/15/2003	5K	28:53
SusanGKomen 5K	11/2/2003	5K	27:53
Capitol 10,000	3/28/2004	10K	1:03:19
Texas Round Up	4/17/2004	10K	1:04:53
Chuy's Hot To Trot 5k	5/8/2004	5K	28:46
Keep Austin Weird 5k	8/28/2004	5K	30:56
Cedar Perk 5 Miler	10/10/2004	5M	43:35
Pervasive 10 Miler	10/24/2004	10M	1:43:42
SusanGKomen 5K	11/7/2004	5K	26:45
Trukey Trot	11/25/2004	5M	42:07
Dallas White Rock Half Marathon	12/12/2004	13.11M	2:05:27
Capitol 10,000	4/3/2005	10K	52:30
OKC Memorial Half Marathon	4/24/2005	13.1M	1:56:52
Chuy's Hot To Trot 5k	5/7/2005	5K	41:43
Silicon Labs Marathon Relay	6/5/2005	12K	1:07:18
Moonlight Margarita Run	8/4/2005	5K	25:17
Cedar Perk 5 Miler	10/9/2005	5M	42:11
SusanGKomen 5K	11/6/2005	5K	27:28
SusanGKomen 5K	11/5/2006	5K	28:20
Trukey Trot	11/23/2006	5M	45:35
3M 1/2 Marathon	1/28/2007	13.11	2:04:12
Mardi Gras 5k	2/10/2007	5K	27:08.70
Hawk Hustle 5K (3.06mi)	2/2/2007	5K	24:30
Capitol 10,000	3/25/2007	10K	51:10.2
Texas Round Up	4/28/2007	10K	51:11.3
Chuy's Hot To Trot 5k (bruised up)	5/12/2007	5K	25:15
Freedom 5k	7/4/2007	5K	23:36
Cedar Perk 5 Miler	10/7/2007	5M	38:15.4
Detroit Marathon	10/21/2007	26.2M	4:11:30
Jingle Bell 5k	12/16/2007	5K	25:00.35
Mardi Gras 5k (course 2.94)	2/2/2008	5k	24:59:00
Hawk Hustle 5K			volunteer
SusanGKomen 5K	11/1/2008		untimed
Statesman Capitol 10K (w/ Jenna)	3/29/2009	10k	1:02:11.0
Schlotzsky's Bun Run 5K	5/3/2009	5k	25:54
Detchenfest Pfun Run 5k (w/ Gwen)	5/17/2009	5k	26:51
Livestrong =		5k
SusanGKomen 5K	11/1/2009		DNS
Statesman Capitol 10K	4/11/2010	10k	59:46
Detchenfest Pfun Run 5k (w/ Gwen)	5/16/2010	5k	26:46
Ignite 5K and Family Fun Mile (w/ Gwen)	6/12/2010	5k	29:21
Nelson Scholarship 5K Run Georgetown	7/3/2010	5k	25:06
Caleb 5k	7/17/2010	5k (3.15)	24:35
Casa Superhero 5k	9/19/2010	5k* (3.04)	23:21
Pflugerville Mom's Group	10/10/2010	5k (3.15)	24:08
SusanGKomen 5K	11/7/2010	5.k (3.19)	23:45
Jingle Bell 5k (w/ Gwen in stroller)	12/12/2010	5k	25:14
3M 1/2 Marathon RELAY individual	1/30/2011	6.79m	52:50
3M 1/2 Marathon RELAY w/ Jennifer	1/30/2011	13.10	1:46:48
10k pace	1/30/2011	6.20	47:48
Austin 1/2 Marathon	2/20/2011	13.22	1:50:05
Diva 5K Pflugerville	3/5/2011	3.17	23.32
Capitol 10,000	3/27/2011	6.28	48:34
Georgetown Red Poppy 5k	4/17/2011	3.14	23:18
Deutschen Pfest Pfun Run	5/22/2011	3.10	23:27
Moonlight Margarita Run	6/16/2011	3.12	23:43
Casa Superhero 5k	9/25/2011	3.19	22:52

Rambling Post

I listed to a podcast called Get-Fit Quick Guy's Quick and Dirty Tips to Slim Down Shape UP and.... yada yada yada.  It's pretty good and the podcast are short and easy to listen to on the ride to work.  He had done several podcast about running, one in particular about how to run faster.  #1 was Lose Weight.  Sounds harsh, but if you are carrying less weight you exert less effort, so you can go faster.  One benefit of the Biggest Loser competition was losing 5-7 vanity pounds and also getting faster.  Another benefit is that I have somehow managed to drop a lot of body fat - according to my scale at home anyway.  A few months ago the magic body fat scale put me consistently between 25-29% body fat.  I was annoyed by this, so I decided to tell the scale it was stupid and ignored it.  2 weeks ago, I noticed that my body fat now comes up at 12.5%.  Which is insane.  I figured it was one day and the scale is known to be stupid.  But it has always been consistent at least.  My fat% has stayed around 12.5%, so I sort of want to believe the stupid scale now, cause I like what it says.

If it's accurate, I can attribute this to two things.

1. Adding weight training into my workouts.  I have been trying to do weights or a Jillian Michaels video at least twice a week since Biggest Loser.  This helped me lose those vanity pounds, and has made my core and arms feel stronger.
2. Changing my diet.  I do have bad eating days (see Saturday and Sunday).  But I have been making a huge effort to eat more fruits and vegetables, pay attention to what I eat, eat more organic and less processed foods.  I am still tracking my calories in My Fitness Pal and that keeps me honest.  I skipped the Diet Soda for 5 days last week, which sucked big balls but was able to eat less afternoon candy - I still ate the candy, just not 10 pieces.  I'm reading Jillian Michaels  Master Your Metabolism, and gotten both scared and inspired to make some changes. 

Workout Recap for Week of 9/26 - 10/2

Monday - Rest (after Casa 5k)
Tuesday - 5.7 miles 52:53, 9:17/mile
Wednesday - J.M. Ripped in 30 #3 (killer on the legs).  Had a sports massage today too.
Thursday - 5.57 miles 51:42, 9:17/mile very sore from massage and Ripped in 30
Friday - 3.21 miles 30:00, 9:21/mile
Saturday - rest and bad eating
Sunday - ~12.50 ~1:54:31, 9:07/mile avg, total is estimated because I turned my watch off for about 1.5 miles at the end

I ate totally terrible on Saturday, banana milk shakes and wings for dinner, but I actually had a great run on Sunday.  The weather was perfect and the whole thing felt easy.  I followed the long run up with Mexican food and a huge margarita for lunch, then promptly passed out for 2-3 hours.  Gwen was watching The Princess Bride for the first time and asked about 100 questions.  I found I could answer almost all of them without even cracking an eye to see the movie. 

Next Sunday is the See Jane Run 1/2 Marathon.  I'm excited for a big race and hoping to break my PR of 1:50:05 set at the Austin last February.