Check-in!

Well, it is done! I have checked-in! I have Theresa my tentmate! I ordered the towel service. I commited to pay the last $355 if I don't get it by event day. I got butterflies in my stomach when I thought about how close the 3Day is! Yikes! I am excited and scared at the same time!

Oh I got my new shoes, so I have two pair now. If I could only find the time to get all the other things I need. Maybe this weekend...hopefully!

5 weeks left!!

It has been over a month since I have posted. Crazy how fast time passes! I have been doing okay with my training. I managed to get about 73 miles since I last posted (about 4 weeks). Last week was my longest week yet, I logged about 22 miles. I have been walking in the mornings and during lunch time. Still not getting many miles on the weekends. I still haven't found the time to get in any really long walks. Gonna have to do that sometime soon, since we only have 5 weeks left! Kind makes my tummy hurt to think about how close it is! Hope I make it through the event weekend! Fingers crossed....

I did my first 5K event yesterday. The Go Run to benefit USA Cancer Center. It was fun. I walked with a couple of my friends. Could have walked faster but we decide just to enjoy the walk. There were over 600 participants. It was cool.

Then the family went to the Coca-Cola Club Summer party at Presley's Lake. It was good food and friends. The water was great and the girls had a fanastic time. I was so tired by the time we got home. But it was a good tired! lol!

So week five training starts, hopefully my results will be good! Oh I have logged over 200 miles total! While that is way short of the training it is still a HUGE accomplishment for me! yay!

I'm back...hopefully....

Wow can't believe it has been a month since I have posted. I have been so busy. Getting everything ready for K3 and getting through the first week of school. She did great [and so did I]. Ha! My uncle passed very unexpectly this month. My Mom's only brother. It was such a shock. We have been trying to get through that. It takes time...

We just got back from a mini-vacay this weekend to Vicksburg [bottle show]. It was really nice to get away after a stressful few weeks but it wasn't long enough of course.

I have been trying to get walks in when I can. I haven't been keeping up with the training schedule. It has been really hard to find the time and energy.

My fundraising has been good. I have less than $500 to go! I think I should make goal before check-in! I just hope I can get my body ready too!

I am going to 'start' again with my training & hope that I can keep up with it. I have logged about 130 miles which is great but that is less than half of where I should be. I hope I will be ready in 10 weeks. I guess all I can do it keep trying and hope for the best.

Oh and my team mate got married this weekend!! Congrats, T!! So happy for y'all!

Back injury and slow recovery

A week ago I started my week 15 training. Did a 3 mile walk as scheduled. The next day, Zoe slipped off the bed and was going head first toward the floor. Out of instinct I reached out and grabbed her with my left hand, I was holding Fiona in my right arm. Well, I kept her from falling but in the processes pulled my back. Zoe weighs about 40 pounds so that was 40 pounds of dead weight pulling straight down. She pulled me forward and I actually heard and felt my back pop! I let her gently down to the floor but then I couldn't stand back up right. It took me a few minutes to straighten up. Needless to say, it hurt really bad! It was a strange injury. It went from my left lower back down to about half way of my thigh but also went across the front from my lower back to my groin. Then after about 2 days it started to hurt on the opposite side in the middle of my back and around to the right groin. Very strange. So for the last week I can been taking care of that. Trying to get better and not make it worse which isn't easy when you have a 3 years and a 7 month old.

So anyway, I have felt pretty good for the last couple of days so I decided to try for a walk today. It started out fine. I took the pace slow at around 2.5mph. It felt good to walk again but at about a half a mile I started to feel it in my back. Both left lower back and groin. I keep going for a few but it only continued to get worse so I decide not to press my luck. I didn't want to make it worse. I'll try again tomorrow.

Maybe I can add a 1/4 to a 1/2 a mile to each walk this week until I am back up to speed. Then hopefully next week I can get back on schedule. Keep your fingers crossed.

Haven't posted in a while!

Wow! It has been nearly two weeks since I have posted! I just have't been feeling it! My motivation has been laxed to say the least. It has just been one thing or another. I have been increasing on my weekly miles but not my daily walks. I seem to be stuck at 6 miles! I should have already increased to 7s and 8s by now & this week calls for a 10! Man I am so far behind schedule! I hope I can get moving and get back on track or I may not be ready! Ugghhh!

Good news is my fundraising went really well for June! I am more than half way and I just mailed out 20 more letters! I am hopefully that I will at least make that goal. It is looking good so far!

Well, only 15 weeks to go! Gotta 'Move it, move it!'

End of week 18

Wow, another week gone by. These weeks are starting to go by too quickly. Again I didn't have a great training week. I only got in about 10 miles. I really have to ramp this up. I guess I am just gonna write June off as a slow month and try to have an amazing July!

I finally got some relief from my contact dermatitis (go into something when doing yard work at Granny Alma's a few weeks ago). I had to give in a actually go to the doctor. I couldn't stand it anymore. It had gotten to the point that I felt like things were crawling on me and I was scratching my skin off. It was keeping me up nights too. It had taken over! So I went on Friday and got some steroids, antihistmines & cream. I finally had some relief. I am not completely rid of it but at least I can function now. So that will hopefully not be an excuse for not training any longer.

My fundraising finally picked up. My letters have started to pay off. I am now at about 54%! I have a few more letters to mail and still have plenty of people promising donations that haven't come through yet. Hopefully, things will continue to come in and I will reach and surpass my goal soon!

So my agenda for this week is to get back to walking every day even if it is only 2 or 3 miles at a time. Every step counts....

Wrap up of training week 19

Well it was a slow week training wise. I did manage to get in 12 miles but that is 7 miles short of goal. I walked the 4 days as suggested but the mileage for each walk was below suggested. I also didn't get any cross-training in. It was a busy week but I'm not gonna try to make excuses. I just didn't do what I should have done this week. Maybe this coming week will be better. Dad found me a used treadmill so maybe if I can get it I can bring my mileage up. Hopefully!

Good news is I had a great weekend with family, celebrating all the great dads in our family. I am very lucky to have a amazing hubby who is a fantastic daddy too, a wonderful father who is still making us laugh and a great father-in-law unlike any other. Our family is very blessed!

Tomorrow is a new week so I am going to go into it with optimism and hopefully it will produce a great training week.