Hi friends! Runaway Bride here... Haven't been running away too much lately, it's just so darn hot in the South and my true half training doesn't start for another 4 weeks or so. Spinning though, I've been doing a lot of! I got back into it at the end of May when my MOH (Megarama) and her hubbie (El Padre) were in town.
See, Megarama and I are running the Rock n Roll together with my dad so I thought we should start working out together even if we're across the country from each other. So we signed up for spin on a Saturday morning and I got hooked back in. I've been going 3 times a week for 7 weeks and have no doubt that's aided in my weight loss. That's right, I've lost 10.2 pounds in the last 6 weeks! Weight Watchers is just one of those things that works. For me, at least. I've noticed that my problem what not what I was eating, but how much and when I was I eating. Don't get me wrong, I haven't become one of those people that measures and weighs everything I put into my body (who has time for that, plus I'm half Mexican and we never measure anything when cooking!) but I have paid closer attention to how many and how big the servings I get are. I'm sure if I did get all crazy about measuring and weighing I probably would have been further along in my weight loss, but I'm really quite satisfied with where I'm at. I put my skinny jeans on this morning and they were loose. Which is 1. GREAT, but 2. Kinda sad because I love my skinny jeans. They still look pretty good (probably even better because I've lost a bit around the hips) but I know one day I'll have to retire them and just get a new pair!
Another fun thing that happened this week was the booking of our honeymoon! We had been looking for the perfect vacay since we basically got engaged. There's so much we want to experience together, narrowing it down to one trip for our first married trip together was super hard. We didn't want a completely beachy destination (totally not our thing, anyone who knows me knows I cannot just sit on a beach and relax) nor did we want a place where we had to move around too much when we wanted to do something. So we decided a cruise would be best, but to where? We've both been to the Bahamas so that was out. Europe was way too expensive. Alaska doesn't work in November. So I looked on websites and found a cruise to Honduras, Belize, Costa Maya and Cozumel. Sounded pretty cool since it wasn't all about the beaches and had some cool "teaser" excursions. After doing lots of research (again, if you know me, you know I can't do something without thoroughly researching all possible options) I realized this was it. Our honeymoon. Of course, I was keeping Sir Fianco informed of all this and he was just very excited to be on a boat where we could eat 24 hours a day and go to 4 different places in one week. I have to admit, that sounds pretty exciting to me, too!
That's pretty much it from here in the muggy, sweaty, and hot Savannah. Hope everyone is staying cool!
Keep on running,
Runaway Bride
Friday, July 15, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
I'm baaaaack
I read someone's running blog today and it made me nostalgic. So, here it is. I haven't updated this thing since September 30th of last year which is quite ridiculous. A lot has happened in that time. Including me not running the Marine Corps Marathon.
But!
I did run the MCM 10K which was pretty awesome. It allowed me to finish my race and watch my dad run the marathon pretty much from mile 16 on. Why didn't I run the marathon you ask? Well, turns out plantar fasciitis sucks. A lot. I got the diagnosis around the time of my last post. The doctor even told me not to do the 10K, but I felt pretty good the whole time during the run. As soon as I finished, I got my medal, got my clothes and ran to the metro to get to the 16th mile marker to cheer on my dad. Thanks to mobile websites, I was able to track him pretty easily and cheer my little heart out. By the end, he was pretty tired (who wouldn't be after 26.2 miles?!) but super pumped that he was done and had completed a marathon! I've never been so proud of my dad and even though we weren't able to do it together, I felt like it was an experience we'll always have to look back on.
Fast forward to today. We're about 4 months out from the wedding. Everything is very ready to go and I have become so anxious (in a good way) to get to our date. On the exercise front, I have been doing spinning since May and started running again this past week. One of my Matrons of Honor and my dad are planning on doing the inaugural Rock and Roll Marathon Savannah on November 5th, 2011. I really excited about this because I've heard great things about the Rock and Roll races and it helps that it's in Savannah! I love that I'm going to be a part of the inaugural run. We plan on making obnoxious shirts about me getting married and just having fun in general.
I hope I can be better about this over the next 4 months, I think since my training is picking up and I'm sure wedding stuff will pick up as time goes on this will keep me accountable on all ends. :)
Keep on running,
Runaway Bride
But!
I did run the MCM 10K which was pretty awesome. It allowed me to finish my race and watch my dad run the marathon pretty much from mile 16 on. Why didn't I run the marathon you ask? Well, turns out plantar fasciitis sucks. A lot. I got the diagnosis around the time of my last post. The doctor even told me not to do the 10K, but I felt pretty good the whole time during the run. As soon as I finished, I got my medal, got my clothes and ran to the metro to get to the 16th mile marker to cheer on my dad. Thanks to mobile websites, I was able to track him pretty easily and cheer my little heart out. By the end, he was pretty tired (who wouldn't be after 26.2 miles?!) but super pumped that he was done and had completed a marathon! I've never been so proud of my dad and even though we weren't able to do it together, I felt like it was an experience we'll always have to look back on.
Fast forward to today. We're about 4 months out from the wedding. Everything is very ready to go and I have become so anxious (in a good way) to get to our date. On the exercise front, I have been doing spinning since May and started running again this past week. One of my Matrons of Honor and my dad are planning on doing the inaugural Rock and Roll Marathon Savannah on November 5th, 2011. I really excited about this because I've heard great things about the Rock and Roll races and it helps that it's in Savannah! I love that I'm going to be a part of the inaugural run. We plan on making obnoxious shirts about me getting married and just having fun in general.
I hope I can be better about this over the next 4 months, I think since my training is picking up and I'm sure wedding stuff will pick up as time goes on this will keep me accountable on all ends. :)
Keep on running,
Runaway Bride
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