Late Walk

1.3 - 30:30

Worked late and but still managed to get a walk in tonight. I need to figure out the best way to make the timing work out. I got home at 7:30pm, ate at 8:00pm, started my walk at 9:00pm. I'm not as productive in the morning, but I hate walking this late. I think it will be easier when I'm not working so late, and when it stay light out after work. Or if I get my butt outta bed!

I found a 48-week half-marathon challenge.training schedule on the Weight Watchers website yesterday. It looks like a great plan if I decide to do the 1/2 marathon. Here is the link to it

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?art_id=38261&tabnum=1&sc=3039&subnav=More+Ways+to+Be+Active

I am going to add that walking schedule to my Google calendar as well.

Walking still was sore from the fall down the stairs, still feeling lots of aches and pains. Hopefully I'll walk thru that.

Calendar

Added my Google calendar to the bottom of the page. The numbers in red are my expected/scheduled walk times, the numbers in green are my mileage and actual walk times. I have only put in my schedule for February so far but hopefully this weekend I'll update the rest of the year with my scheduled walks.

Wow - I did it!

Wow! Wow! Wow! I did it, I signed up for the marathon. Well, actually I signed up for the 1/2 marathon. The WDW 1/2 marathon was at 65% full so I bit the bullet and signed up for it even though, as I mentioned, my goal is to walk the marathon. If I end up being not ready for the full next year, I want to still do the 1/2 and would hate to miss out! I hope I have until June or so to sign up for the full, by then I'll have a better idea where I'm at.

754 Miles

754 Miles from our house to Disney World.

I've been toying with the idea of seeing if I can walk that many miles before the Marathon in July. Walk the distance to the marathon basically. It works out to roughly 2.3 miles per day until the end of the year (I didn't count the 10 days in January 2009). That sounds doable to me since I'll definitely have days where I will be walking more than that, I just wonder how my early walking in February of just about a mile a day will effect that. Thinking about making a rough flexible goal and I'll work toward it but to not be disappointed in myself if I cannot do it.

So far from starting this on January 14 I have walked 9.0 miles. Not much compared to people in shape, but huge progress for me!

Thursday AM

3/4 mile in 16.53

That pace won't get me to the finish line in time, but it's a good start. From what I have been reading I'll need to have a 16 minute mile to avoid being swept.

Trying to decide if it is worth packing my walking stuff for our trip to CA this weekend. Yes, I Want to walk, but will it happen?!? And the fact that Gadgetboy's parent live in the development built into the side of a mountain. I have only been doing flats so far so that might kick my butt. And no sports bra yet. Making excuses? Probably.

Wednesday AM

.5 - 13:00

Well I got up, although a little later than I had hoped. Going to be hard to get into a morning routine. It helps that Gadgetboy has to leave earlier than I do for work, but I still need to get out from under the covers, lol. So today was half-mile in 13:00, clearly I am very slow in the morning! But I did it, I got my ass outta bed! Score one for me!

Quick half mile before dinner

.5 miles in 11:03

Got home, changed real quick, threw some fish in the over to cook, and hit the treadmill for a quick half-mile. Would have never imagined it. Laundry to do tonight before heading to California for the week, but still hoping to get my other half-mile in tonight.

The Plan!

Thanks to PBS's website and the information from the show America's Walking I have my year walking schedule planned out. I started with their 18 weeks to walking a marathon plan and worked backwards from there. I then added to 2 walk throughs of their Walking Weight Loss plan and then finally I plan on starting with their Walking for Health Plan. yes, that is all listed backwards but that is how I planned it. I started with the Marathon date (January 11, 2009) and subtracted backwards.

Wow, seems like a lot of work, but I hope I can still to the schedule. I hope at least to get in all the time in the week, even if it doesn't fall on the planned days. I know there will be weekends away in there plus work travel, but here's hoping I can do it!

Here are the links to the above referenced items:
America's Walking - http://www.pbs.org/americaswalking/index.html

18 Week Marathon Walking Plan - http://www.pbs.org/americaswalking/health/health18week.html

Walking for Weight Loss - http://www.pbs.org/americaswalking/health/scorewalk3.html

Walking for Health - http://www.pbs.org/americaswalking/health/scorewalk2.html

Neverland

I have never been to Disneyworld, truthfully, it never held any interest for me. But my husband loves Disneyworld and has wanted to go for vacation there since we met. Well, I think this will be the thing to get me there.

Here is what we'll be running http://disneyworldsports.disney.go.com/dwws/en_US/marathon/events/detail?name=MarathonRaceDetailPage

It will be January 11, 2009 - hopefully I'll be able to get my act together by then! Another great site I have found is http://www.disneyrunning.com/

I'll be posting more walking and marathon links as I find them!

This is my Marathin! This is my journal, my thoughts, my tracker, my recorder of vicotory and my record of challenges (don't want to say defeats!). A bunch of girlfriend's got together this past weekend for an annual women's weekend. On Sunday when starting to say our goodbyes we started talking about trips, getting in shape - something that led us to decide to walk the Disneyworld Marathon in January 2009. Yeah, that is the kind of women we are, not deciding on dinner somewhere but to do a marathon!

I have the feeling some will drop some will be added, but it will work out. I am going to start my training tomorrow. We have a treadmill that has been collecting dust for the last year, except for the occassional use by Gadgetboy.

I decided to call this journal, this blog, my Marathin because that is what I feel this whole thing will be for me. It started out as a typo whenever I would type marathon my crazy fingers would type marathin instead. And that just stuck in my head. I am walking to get healthy , to get thin. I need to do this for me, to get my life back, to get moving again, to give me purpose to show I can do it! My clothes don't fit anymore, I am out of breath walking upstairs. I need to do this, I need the goal of the marathon, I need the help of good friends.