Today's blog may be short or weird, I'm a bit tired. Out too late last night!! Went up to see Maddy, took her a surprise friend, Orion, ate dinner, colored her hair, and then sat in Orion's driveway chatting until very late!! Had Fun!! All of this was of course, AFTER the {stupid ass} walk!!! I've decided that I may want to share tidbits from the walks and progress reports! This could get very boring!!!
After walking several times I think I have made some decisions about the walk. First, that I might not want to walk alone. The reason, mostly someone to say hey, let's go for that walk! A motivator. The problem, the schedule {or complete lack there of} at our house doesn't really allow for me to have a walking partner. So I decide to take the dog! Alex Marie {we usually just call her Ali, but she has a whole slew of silly names too!!} the 5year old black lab.Yup! That was my first big walk decision, don't go alone, take the dog. Every day she will be very excited to go. She, like me, has not yet gotten her post-baby figure back {Although she is only a bit chubby where as I fall under the category of fat/ bordering on obese}. On the off chance that there is a chubby chaser rapist out there, she can protect me, OR when I get super model hot from all this exercise she can protect me! Oh and when I am singing out loud people will just think I am talking to the dog! The only downfall with the dog is, she is not big enough to drag me home if I have a heart attack along the way, and she has no thumbs to dial 911. Second big decision, what music I like to walk to. I have decided {for now}, I am going to walk to Apocalyptica. I've tried other music and I have decided I like walking to music with no words. It allows me to think about things and kinda clear my head. So I skip most of the songs with lyrics and walk. I think this music will be good once I actually run too, it seems that any pace will work with it. But who knows I may just change my mind in 2 days! SOOOO
I write Ryan a note{which reads: went for the {stupid ass} walk -took ali. left at 4:15 if we are not back by 5ish please come look for us, I may have had a heart attack}, I put the collar on Ali, and off we go! She is a good walker, not too fast. She gets a bit distracted by the dead squirrel and some unknown odd thing in the road she thinks she needs to eat and the occasional movement in the tall grass along the road. At this point I start to wonder would she protect me?? she is such a scaredy cat!!! But on we go. I take a few pictures from the road. {someday I will figure out how to post them} and we make it about 2 miles or so. I got a bit of a tummy ache today, but I think that may have been from the pre-walk snack of Lays potato chips, peanut butter cups, and ice tea! Enter Third big decision, stop eating so much junk food or I'm never going to make it!!! And Forth and final decision, set some minor goals, nothing serious yet!! So goal for this week ~Harrison Rd. and back. By end of week, step up the pace from a mosey to an actual walk. Go from there!! This weekend I will make a drive to figure out exactly how far 5k{3.1 miles}is from the house and back. I would hate to over train. And I found a couple web sites that talk about training for these {stupid ass} 5k walk/runs... this is serious business now! Oh and some good news, we have a new member on the 5k team~ Miss Aly Brecht, thank you for joining!!! I will see you at the starting line, then I will watch as you speed off and I won't see you again until I finish the race {either on foot or gurney} Of course by that time you will have had a short nap while waiting!!!LOL!!!! Maybe we should think of a name for this team, I see matching t-shirts...
Fun things happening today~ Work, maybe a trip to Valley Motocross track with the boys, Tallon and Ryan, and of course the {stupid ass} walk
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