In just a few short hours from now I will be running in my first 1/2 marathon! I’m actually running in two events (simultaneousness) – the 2-person relay and the 1/2 Marathon. For the first leg of the race, I have to carry a drum stick (clever – its the Rock-N-Roll Marathon – so instead of baton its drum sticks). At about mile 8, my wife will join me as the second leg of our relay – and I will finish out the 1/2.
I’m excited!!!
Not a lot to say tonight but my son Zander turned 7 yrs old yesterday. I want to be a thinner healthier dad for him when he turns 8, 9, 10, and beyond.
I ate crap the last two nights and again yesterday. I realized that staying fat is a series of exceptions… I would eat t healthy today EXCEPT my brother is in town. I would eat healthy today EXCEPT its my son’s birthday… I would eat healthy today EXCEPT its already the middle of the week so I’ll start over on Monday…
I would like to change this around a bit… I would eat that EXCEPT I’m training for a marathon… I would stay home instead of working out EXCEPT I want to be at my son’s graduation…
I’m in a meeting with about 2 dozen cookies on the table… If it were not for my co-work and friend Scott – I would have eaten at least two of those bad boys which I’m sure are 250 or 300 calories a piece! Two minutes to eat 600 calories that would take me almost an hour to run off… Thanks Scott.
What I did notice today when the vendor tried to push the cookies on me with “com’on I brought cookies!”, I was able to easily push back with this statement: Oh, I would love a cookie – but I don’t want to carry that with me for the 13 miles I’m running this Sunday! SIDENOTE: When I say “easily” I mean in the way my push back was received not in the amount of self discipline it took to do so.
That felt way better to say than “oh, I can’t I’m trying to lose weight!” People usually follow that statement up with “have you been loosing weight? You look great!”… Even if you have just put on 10 lbs and feel like a bloated cow. But I’m running a half marathon is more often followed by “Wow – really! That’s amazing! I could never do that!” I’d say the latter is much more genuine and more enjoyable…