PrincessMickey
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- Jan 27, 2009
So I have finally decided to jump on the training journal bandwagon. I need to add another step of accountability for the year so why not. First things first though. My name is Sarah and am a happily divorced mom of 2 boys from Colorado.
I first started running in January of 2017. A coworker and I decided to get ours butts in gear and came up with a few fitness challenges for the year with a little weight loss mixed in. The first goal was to run a 5k. I did a couch25k program and we ran a St. Patrick's Day 5k with free beer at the end. I wasn't sure where I wanted to go from there until my brother found out I started running and convinced me to run in the marathon weekend with him. So before I knew it I was signed up for the half marathon. Then after looking at pictures and such I wanted more so then I was signed up for the 5k and 10k, my Happy challenge. I did a 10k in May to get a proof of time and also completed fitness challenge number 2. The Manitou Springs Incline. My coworker bailed on me due to a back injury so my dad filled in. Hindsight, it was probably not smart to bring him but we did it. This trail is only a mile long but gains 2000 feet in elevation and is super tough. While on the trail I ran into a different coworker and friend so we all helped each other make it to the top. While doing the Incline it brought me back to my hiking days so I added another challenge in the summer by hiking a 14er, a mountain with an elevation over 14,000. After I did that I was talking with the coworker I dd the Incline with and found out she did the same mountain the day before me. I'm now trying to get her to do a 5k with me. Then it was onto Disney, I had so much fun in Disney that I wanted to keep going, which brings me to my year full of challenges.
As soon as I got back from Disney it was off to the graveyard shift for the whole year. I was last on graves 5 years ago and that was when I really let myself go. I gained weight and lost any bit of exercise and activity I had going. It didn't help that this time frame was also my divorce but graves was the start to a unhealthy lifestyle for me. I knew going into this year I needed a lot of goals, motivation and positive thinking to survive. I have a tentative goal for a marathon and possibly, dare I say, ??Dopey?? But first I would need a proof of time so I have my eyes set on a 10 miler in May. And thanks to @DopeyBadger I have myself a training plan to help me get there!! I'm only a little over a month into the year and I can already see the struggles beginning, ugh. The first is sleep. I told myself I didn't want to completely flip my schedule on my weekend but so far, I have done it every weekend. Too many things get scheduled for mornings and days that I can't help but flip my sleep times. The result is I haven't been able to sleep more than 3-4 hours at a time at can't go back to sleep so then after a few hours awake I need a nap. I finally broke down this weekend and took some tylenol pm. I slept for 10 hours, oops it was the best sleep I've had in more than a month though but maybe next time only 1 instead of 2. The other struggle is food. What better way to help stay awake in the middle of the night when you hit your wall then to snack, trying to eat healthy snacks but it's hard when there are always donuts, cookies and cupcakes calling your name. Also, by flipping my schedule my body wants to stay on graves so even if I'm sleeping at night I wake up at 3 am because I'm hungry and that's when I eat my dinner. Doesn't matter if I eat before bed I can never go back to bed until I eat something. So, being only a month in, I can already see myself slipping in a few ways so I wanted to add another step of accountability to keep me on the right path. So here goes to a year of challenges and hopefully a year of successes!
Here are a few of my successes from 2017. One of my goals for this year is to add to these!!
Not a great picture but this is at the top of the Incline looking down.
Mt. Bierstadt, elevation 14,065 ft.
Half Marathon!
I first started running in January of 2017. A coworker and I decided to get ours butts in gear and came up with a few fitness challenges for the year with a little weight loss mixed in. The first goal was to run a 5k. I did a couch25k program and we ran a St. Patrick's Day 5k with free beer at the end. I wasn't sure where I wanted to go from there until my brother found out I started running and convinced me to run in the marathon weekend with him. So before I knew it I was signed up for the half marathon. Then after looking at pictures and such I wanted more so then I was signed up for the 5k and 10k, my Happy challenge. I did a 10k in May to get a proof of time and also completed fitness challenge number 2. The Manitou Springs Incline. My coworker bailed on me due to a back injury so my dad filled in. Hindsight, it was probably not smart to bring him but we did it. This trail is only a mile long but gains 2000 feet in elevation and is super tough. While on the trail I ran into a different coworker and friend so we all helped each other make it to the top. While doing the Incline it brought me back to my hiking days so I added another challenge in the summer by hiking a 14er, a mountain with an elevation over 14,000. After I did that I was talking with the coworker I dd the Incline with and found out she did the same mountain the day before me. I'm now trying to get her to do a 5k with me. Then it was onto Disney, I had so much fun in Disney that I wanted to keep going, which brings me to my year full of challenges.
As soon as I got back from Disney it was off to the graveyard shift for the whole year. I was last on graves 5 years ago and that was when I really let myself go. I gained weight and lost any bit of exercise and activity I had going. It didn't help that this time frame was also my divorce but graves was the start to a unhealthy lifestyle for me. I knew going into this year I needed a lot of goals, motivation and positive thinking to survive. I have a tentative goal for a marathon and possibly, dare I say, ??Dopey?? But first I would need a proof of time so I have my eyes set on a 10 miler in May. And thanks to @DopeyBadger I have myself a training plan to help me get there!! I'm only a little over a month into the year and I can already see the struggles beginning, ugh. The first is sleep. I told myself I didn't want to completely flip my schedule on my weekend but so far, I have done it every weekend. Too many things get scheduled for mornings and days that I can't help but flip my sleep times. The result is I haven't been able to sleep more than 3-4 hours at a time at can't go back to sleep so then after a few hours awake I need a nap. I finally broke down this weekend and took some tylenol pm. I slept for 10 hours, oops it was the best sleep I've had in more than a month though but maybe next time only 1 instead of 2. The other struggle is food. What better way to help stay awake in the middle of the night when you hit your wall then to snack, trying to eat healthy snacks but it's hard when there are always donuts, cookies and cupcakes calling your name. Also, by flipping my schedule my body wants to stay on graves so even if I'm sleeping at night I wake up at 3 am because I'm hungry and that's when I eat my dinner. Doesn't matter if I eat before bed I can never go back to bed until I eat something. So, being only a month in, I can already see myself slipping in a few ways so I wanted to add another step of accountability to keep me on the right path. So here goes to a year of challenges and hopefully a year of successes!
Here are a few of my successes from 2017. One of my goals for this year is to add to these!!
Not a great picture but this is at the top of the Incline looking down.
Mt. Bierstadt, elevation 14,065 ft.
Half Marathon!