Marathon Mom

Weight: 163.8 (eh, could be worse, right?! Has been worse, definitely!)

I RAN 9 MILES THIS MORNING!!! You can read more about that HERE.

Suffice it to say, I feel fantastic! Paris is ON! I can and will run a full marathon in 14 weeks.

In fact, I’m signing up to run a half-mary in February through Golden Gate Park. That’s only 4.1 miles further than I ran today (only 4 miles, I know right?! Like that is nothing. And yet, I’ve gotten to the point where I know I can do that!!)

This is my year! I have approx. 40 lbs left to lose. The same 40 lbs I needed to lose last year. Well, they are outta here. I’m done. This is it.

My training schedule is full board and that combined with some yoga I need to do for my knees and quads more than takes care of the exercise portion of my program.

Gluten is gone. Eliminated. I’m a Celiac, which means I’m allergic. I can’t ever have it again. Ever. And I’m ok with that. It’s bad for me, makes me literally very sick. I hate feeling like that. So this is a positive.

I’m toying with the idea of vegan. Just because I eat vegetarian frequently anyway. But I do like meat, especially chicken. And bacon!!! YUM!!! (yes, I’d be the world’s worst vegan!!)

However, since I live in Marin County, California - the land of hippies, granola and all that is tofu, becoming a gluten-free vegan seems soooooo cliche!! And I do hate cliche!

Tomorrow is cross-training day. That’ll be an hour and a half on the elliptical, followed by squats, crunches and some arm work.

I bought brown rice and mixed frozen veggies to have for lunch tomorrow. I have a big bag of clementines for breakfast. Dinner will be oven roasted acorn squash (I do love that stuff!!) See, I’m practically vegan without even trying!

Posted on January 3rd, 2010 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering