I was just looking over to the side of my training log and noticed where I typed in my new training plan for the 60K ultra.  It starts next Monday! WOW...that came fast.  I know I will have to switch some days around due to teaching class and having to come into work so will depend on how much time I have.  Right now Im just teaching MWF and wont start back on T or TH until after the 1st of the year so I can do my longer runs on T and Th mornings cause I wont have to be to work until 11am.  I can run from the time I take Tanner to school 7:30-about 10:15 shower and head to work...sounds like a plan!

Taught class and lifted.  Got on scale and lost 3pounds and I should be happy but I want more!  After my shower I talked to myself as I was drying my hair and reminded myself it wont come off overnight and that was a great week.  It will be off before you know it and you will look back and say...see that wasnt so bad.  The frustrating part is I was 166-168 just 3 weeks before the Ironman and was down to 161 in the summer so I then get down on myself for letting me get carried away with bad eating habits.

Nutrition
protein shake 400cal
Healthy choice steamers 260cal
WW Ziti  320
salmon 375cal
roasted red potatoes with jalepenos-found this low cal recipe and they were great!

Woke up to a nice snow....even was sticking to the patio some and then we headed to pick up Tanner from the Leadership Conference he's been attending and did some shopping.  Tanner desperatly needed a new coat and I couldnt pass up these cute shoes.  ;) It alittle after 7 and we just got home...am gonna see if my mind can hold out on the dreadmill for atleast 30 minutes.

Went ahead and got on the dreadmill and got off right at 30 min!  My legs actually felt tired today.  I picked up the pace from 1.5 to 2.0 and stayed at 7.2mph then walked it off a few then went on an incline for a few and just played around.  Glad I didnt talk myself out of it. Thing Im gonna miss about having to do some training on the dreadmill is I wont be able to use my garmin and upload my splits.  I kinda like taking a peak at each mile to see if I stay steady and which days I am faster in the beginning of my run or faster at the ends of my run.

Nutrition
southern style chicken biscuit
Large Cafe Mocha
sicilian pizza from Cal Pizza
Apple

5pm
Got home from work and decided to get on the dreadmill and it actually felt really good.  I started out at just a 5.5 min mile pace cause usually the dreadmill gets me down and I go slower but after about a half mile my feet was hitting the front of it so I jumped up to 6.0 thinking ok that is 10min miles....so I stayed there for a few still felt good and thought...last two times outside I have gotten a 9.2 min mile pace for a mile so lets pick it up and atleast average this run out to be a 10 min miles....so i kept picking it up and up and up and got to where i was at a 8:20 pace but didnt hold it long because of my breathing and decided to stop at 3.5 miles.  So it averaged just about 10 min pace. I then came upstairs and was emailing Tammy and as I was typing I told her about getting up to a 8:20 and said I have a new goal and it is to run a mile non stop at a 8:20 pace...then I said maybe less....then my OCD kicked in and I put my shoes back on and went at it since I was already warmed up!  I pulled off a mile in 8:09.  So now I know what I am capable of I need to do this each run workout.  I would think in time then my lungs would be able to handle it cause that was all that was bothering me.

1:30pm
And since Im in such a terrific mood I must add that I think Some people are so full of shit it is ridiculous....get real

11:00am

...feeling sorry for myself yesterday and today.  I have decided the fastest way to lost weight is to not even eat.  I have been really good this week and on Weds the scales showed I was down 2 pounds now yesterday it was only 1.  So what gives...when does your body decide to lose...what the heck do you have to eat or not eat.  How much more do you have to exercise.  People talk about your body going into starvation mode and how it then holds onto fat and such....I start to think about that and think to shows like survivor and these little itty bitty things are into starvation mode and their bodies just get thinner and thinner same with the heavier people.....so I really dont believe in a starvation mode...it is just another excuse as to why the weight doesnt come off.  Just like people use to say...well you have big bones...bull shit....My wrist and ankles are tiny!  I know I dont eat the right things all the time....I will do good for awhile then when I blow it I blow it good.  SO when I get back on track and dont lose what I think I should be losing I get down on myself.  Cause how can you eat like a freakin pig with all the junk and not really gain much but when you really tighten the rope you stay the same?  I know it just takes time and it eventually will fall off but I want it off now. 

Nutrition
Protein Shake 400cal 
yogurt 100cal 
healthy choice country veggie soup 200cal

Taught 20/20/20 to a FULL class! Yeah all the bikes were taken.  I didnt split eveyone up into groups for the bootcamp we did it all together and that let me participate alittle as well......they kept telling me I needed to do it also but like I said this is YOUR workout and I need to keep you moving fast!  I did some weights after class and then got my little critter carrier to start making my house of pain box.  I have it decorated on the outside now to put all the torture cards on the inside. :)  I really wanted to run today but didnt have the time this morning, if I dont go out to dinner with Kevin then I may jump on the dreadmill.  When I left the gym it was 60 degrees and the sun was out...it is still warm but not sunny right now and tomorrow they are saying low 33 and high 46 so its gonna get cold for a couple days again. This warm and cold just teases you...not fair! 
Its free popcorn friday at the toystore today.......wonder how much popcorn I will eat ;) 

nutrition
protein shake 400cal
turkey on wheat 275 cal
popcorn ? 200cal
WW Ziti  320cal

Subbed for the bright and early spin and then ab class....when I finished teaching and I got out of the group fitness room I was like dang...its still freakin dark outside!  This is nuts.  So I went home, took a shower, dried my hair and was back in bed by 7:30 and laid till 10am! Yeah.... Now Im on my way to work and hope we are busy today.  It is very gloomy outside but like 50 degrees so not supper cold.  I had planned on running today but with subbing the class that is all I am going to do.  I am going to a church function tonite so wont be home till after 9 and then wont want to run outside or get on the dreadmill.  Tomorrow is the new class and then weight training so I will run on Saturday and Sunday.  i think I can go alittle farther then the 3 miles in the Newtons....although I have only ran in them twice this time I dont have any calf problems at all so I think I will try for 5 or 6 miles.

nutrition
blueberry bagel with crunchy pb  400cal (boy thats alot for a bagel and pb-prolly more cause I didnt measure out my PB)
WW ziti  320 cal
LC pizza 340cal
WW Beans n Rice  300cal
Bertoni shrimp/pasta 510cal
granola 110 cal

Taught class then did my weights.  Now have been busy at work today.

nutrition
protein shake 400 cal
2 pork tenderloins and rice (leftovers) 350cal
granola bar 140cal
large tim hortons mocha-? cal guessingg 300
pizza 870 cal

Why am I so freakin hungry still?

What have I done?  I was planning on taking next year off from Ironman and doing only the 60K run in March and the Triple T in May then biking and more marathons for the year. I didnt sign up for Floirda again because I am hoping to get into the Nike Womens Marathon and they are too close together.  Since IM FL  I have been thinking alot about Socks and the Janus Charity and also a good friend of mine Steven A Hunter who pasted away 2 years ago suddenly while he was practicing on his college tennis team at Milligan College.  He was a wonderful Christian young man.  I use to try to talk him into doing a tri but he wanted to do one by himself or just he and I leaving the gym before he would do one in the real world.  He wanted to be prepared!  So I thought next year I will do Florida again and do it for Steven with Janus. The pastor of our church called me to meet with her this morning and was wanting me to help with a new ministry they are wanting to start and it got me thinking....I need to also do another Ironman for Steven now!  I called his father and we spoke and he said it couldnt have come at a better time because he was feeling really gloom this year.  We did a fund raiser 2 years ago with the Columbus Marathon and I raised money then and this year they were doing it with the Huntington WV marathon but it got off to a slow start and it didnt do too well.  He said I was feeling like I failed this year.  I am so looking forward to this journey this year.

Had alot of cramping in my feet lastnite while I was trying to sleep....had to keep getting up and standing on my tip toes to stretch it out.
Ran this morning and was the opposite....my slowest mile was my last.  Newtons are still feeling good and no calf pain yet.  I am very sore in my upper body today from lifting yesterday.

nutrition
2 eggs 1 honey wheat english muffin  270 cal
turkey on wheat  210 cal
apple  80cal
salmon  350cal
rice 200cal
1.5 pork tenderloins 250cal
granola bar  100cal
lite popcorn
weight watchers desert 170.....times 2  :)
was really hungry tonite?