Cerner Slim Down weight out!

This morning I checked out of my Cerner Slim Down weight challenge.

WOW this 10 weeks went fast.
I'm so pleased with the outcome.

so here it is by the numbers.....

I weighted out at 14 pounds lighter
at a weight of 168.2!

chest -1.5"
Waist -1.25"
Hip -1.0"
thigh .75"

it was 7.7% of a weight loss.

Rockin' workout #2 for ROCKTOBER!

This month I'm going to ROCK my health, by taking my diet up a level and making every workout ROCK! it's so easy to get into a rut, and I'm bustin' out this month of ROCKTOBER!

The first 30 minute workout today was this .....

from the FitChicks' Blog

I love these girls and they have some great workouts

that I'm excited to try!

Next I headed to a quiet corner of the Y for a GREAt KettleBall workout out that I've already raved about from ...Womens Health Magazine.
(Sorry I can't get the link to work!)

WOW it really wore out my shoulders, must mean that I needed it!

then I head back to the treadmill for another 30 minutes. This time I followed the Couch to 5k treadmill training. I know I've already conquered the 5k, but there is always room to improve!

After a Month of this kind of workout, this body will be ROCKin'

10k training ....

I've decided that there won't be anymore Y5k there will only be Y10ks on Saturday! I mean business about getting ready for this 1/2 marathon in April and sticking to a Y5k just wasn't going to get there.

So today I ROCK a 10k training at the Y.

1st 5k 41.36 minutes wogging at a 3.5 incline
2nd 5k 43.11 minutes just walking but used the interval training button on the treadmill to go from a 1 incline at 4.5 mph to a 3 incline at 4.3 mph.

I was getting tired for the second and my arms/shoulders were aching. I just wanted to hang on to the treadmill arms, then I would hear the Biggest Loser trainers screaming at me "Let go of MY treadmill" that was hard, I was tired!

I can now see how walking at this pace is a whole body workout. I thought about how if I'd strengthen my core and my shoulders this 10k would become easier. That's what I'll work at in this month!

Monday's Motivation!

Taking it facebook ....

A couple of weeks ago I moved this blog to Facebook. I'll still post here so you don't need to move but I'm there everyday! Just search for "Body Don't Fail Me Now"

Kade Meyers Celebration Run 5k ~ literally from the Couch to this 5k!

There is a fitness/running program that helps you go from sitting on the couch to running a 5k called obviously "Couch to 5k" hey go check it out here. But this week I was sick! So sick that I would just move from the bed, get my youngest son out the door to meet the bus, watch to make sure he got on the bus and lay down on the couch for my morning nap! Which for a couple of days it would turn into an afternoon nap. AND then turn in around 8:30pm. It was a mess in my head that was horrible and pounding.

When I started to recover I recovered quickly, each day was so much better than the day before that I was beginning to think that could actually be able to keep with my challenge of doing a 5k every Saturday.

It was late last night that I decided that if I simply needed to 'do' a 5k to keep with my challenge then why not go to the race and simply just 'do' a 5k vs going to the Y and doing a 5k there. I didn't need to over do this 5k, I just need to finish it!

So I got my things ready .....

Pinned my bib on

(which had my chip attached, a first for me!)

and got my old wogging shoes.

They are the most comfortable,

it was like taking my favorite blanket with me!

Got my arm band for my phone ready and went to bed.

I got there early

Got a stranger in the parking lot to take my 'before' picture.

Oh and wait, let chat about the shirt.

When I went to get my race packet and shirt, they handed me my shirt.

as I walked to the car I was checking the shirt out and immediately thought, "Oh, this is WAY too small, I'll have to pass it down to my youngest son" tossed it in the seat and drove home.

When I got home it was laying across the back of a chair, so I paused to look at it again and decided to slip it on. I'm a fool for trying on the impossibly small things then finding that I can't get back out of them. Oh, don't laugh you've done it too!

But when I slipped this on, it FIT! perfectly!

Something else I realized was that I've always hated to wear crew neck anything, they just choked me ... well, that was because my neck was too fat! a couple of weeks ago I realized that crew necks were just fine. Isn't it funny how and where our bodies store FAT!??

Ok back to the race ... sorry got side tracked there.

this was family oriented event,

it was the Kade Meyer Celebration run

Kade Meyer was a little boy (2nd grade) that was tragically killed last September when he ran out in front of car. He was just getting out of school, walking to his Dad's office (asst HS principal) when he was stuck and killed. Even though this was not our school district (it is the one just north of us) we, as mother's knew the pain. Boy we were a basket case of emotion this week.

They are doing scholarships for Kade's memorial through the year he would have graduated. The receiptant must emcompass compassion, because in 1st grade Kade had earned the Compassion Award for his class.

"If you want others to be Happy,

Practice Compassion,

If you want to be Happy,

Practice Compassion"

(see emotional, huh?)
Oh and look I had friends there, too!

this is my workout partner from this summer and her son.

as well as others that we couldn't always find

(there were 1000 participants in the 1st annual, Yay!)


and another Personal Record for me!

so it was really a Couch to 5k for me this week...

chip time was 38.22.7

that's 23 seconds off last week's time

hey, I'm old, I'll take every second I can shave off!

September's 5k "Dot to Dot"

This morning I was up early and left early for

Paulina Cooper Dot to Dot 5k

There weren't too many cars out with me this early on a Saturday morning!

All of my races are attached to a charity,

but this one was the first where they talked about their experience.

Paulina Cooper died 7 years ago from a brain tumor.

(before race pic)

This race is to raise funds for pediatric brain tumor research. Paulina's mother spoke, then they awarded a couple of families that have been effected by brain tumors. It was emotional for me. New experience for me at a race.





Always a pleasurable first stop for me!










course was a mixture of tall buildings and tree lined streets....

there was even a fountain!

I finished with a new personal best

Official time ...

chip time 38.45.9 Under 40 minutes.

UPDATED now that I know what gun time is and chip time.

Chip time is what really counts, but the gun time should be longer than the chip time

sooo, I rechecked and they are backwards ... I did much better than I thought!

The weather was chilly

55ish, cloudy but the rain held off!

no breeze!

I really could have pulled off a better time.

I decided to try a new phone app that worked off my phone's GPS

to track my progress, time and speed.

it also had a music feature.

in the last 1/2 miles my music tuned down,

so I thought it would be a quick adjustment

to just turn it back up.... no the volume shot up to full blast!

I didn't stop wogging, but I was distracted with trying to get it fixed.

Looking back there was just 1/2 mile left! goodness I should have just yanked my

ear phones out and wogged on!

I'll know next time!