Why is it that every pair of athleticish capri pants are made of that windbreaker material right now? I want some cotton capri pants, because shorts tend to ride up between my somewhat less than slender thighs, and pants get all sweaty and bunched around my ankles. I want COTTON. I do not want something that is going to shush me every time I take a step. Shush! Shush! Shush! If I wanted that, I would call Zachary, who shushed me last time I saw him.

So excited about our first merchandise purchase... I checked the report and it's certified, Mills is insane. You just better post some photos of MacDuff in his superhot outfit, though, and you can pick which of your 25 shirts you would look most fabulous in, and post that one.

Today's running was a little harder for me; I'm not sure why, but I'm laying blame on the cool weather. I hardly knew how to dress, let alone focus on my running! Today's assignment, so we can keep track for the future when we look back on this and ask ourselves how we got to be so crazy, was the same as Tuesday's:

Run 1 minute, walk 3 minutes, repeat 6 times

We get tomorrow off, although I will be back with Peyton (again! every day this week! there is no justice in the world) so I'll probably lose five pounds just from the sheer pain of listening to her fuss.

Here's a question for you girlies: should we set some milestones? Like, should I say I want to start this by losing 10 pounds, and if I do, I will get myself new running shoes? A, I need new running shoes like I can't tell you (Kate - I'm still using the pink ones from Hilton Head) and B, maybe a short-term goal is a good idea. What do you think?

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Slap bracelets!

I went to Wal-Mart today to get a stopwatch, which was fun - I must have been in front of the Super Awesome Stuff for Runners and People Who Want to Be Runners for like, 20 minutes. The one thing I didn't understand AT ALL was the belt bag with the reflective strips. You're apparently supposed to wear this over your butt, and put important stuff in it, like your keys or a piano. The thing was huge, and it allegedly makes you visible from like, 30 miles away. Ha. Because what I want over MY backside is a beaming beacon of a butt bag!

Anyway. Deep amidst the reflective vests and ankle weights, I found this, the GoWalking Giant Sportimer Model 240:



It is in fact giant, and has a fancy whistle attached, in case some crazy person jumps out from behind a bush and tries to steal my butt bag.

But getting back to the slap bracelets - they are reflective, and yes, I bought them. All this reflective panic stems from my walk this morning, which took me out on that big road that runs by our wee little street... Thinking that perhaps there would be no one out at 5:30 AM, I marched my sassy self out there and proceeded to be honked at and swerved around by no less than 15 cars in the first five minutes. Tomorrow morning I'm driving to a nearby subdivision with sidewalks and streetlights.

Just so we (and the thousands of interneters who are following this) know, here's tomorrow's activity:

Run 1 minute, walk 3 minutes, repeat 6 times

Completely unrelated to anything, Norah got her Halloween costume today - she is the most beautiful butterfly in the land, all the way down to her neon green Crocs, which she refuses to take off when she has her black tights on. I tried to get her to dress as the St. Pauli Girl so she could trick or treat with Max in his frankfurter outfit, but she staged a boycott and I'm lucky to be alive. Butterfly it is.

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... do y'all like the logo? If we're all good with it, I can get it printed soon, which means (uh-oh) you have to send me your current t-shirt size so we can train in them. I think before and after t-shirts would be way more fun than before and after photos... not only will we not have to look at pictures of my butt in a swimsuit and/or underwear, we can take the big before ones and make them into lovely little throw pillows or something. I'm a mostly at-home mother, I come up with some really cracked ideas.

Anyone whose name is not Mills, Kate, or me can order one of these t-shirts too, and wear it around on April 26, 2008, race day. And you can wear it around your house, and out to dinner with some pearls and a good pair of heels, and hey! belt it and wear it as a dress! I'll post the link to the online store as soon as we approve the logo as a group.

So since day one of training is tomorrow (!!), I thought I'd put the day one assignment on here, which is this big, scary thing:

Walk 30 minutes.

I think we can handle this, girls. Way to go Kate for coming up with a plan that caters to the lazy and sleep-loving, a.k.a. me! Your current assignment is to send me links and stuff that we can put in the sidebar - I put in a few, but you should get to pick some too.

Gee, Internet, look at us get this thing organized! Man, I hope I can run with this much energy.

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