BACK! Jenn

WOW!!! 5 days I have had this blog up to write and I haven't gotten to it and then Kelly beats me to it!
I am not promising anything on how far I will get today b/c I have to get ready for work....HA!!
But one thing is I am very proud of Kelly! She is my inspiration! She ran 5 miles yesterday and did an awesome job!! Even though her ankles were hurting her!
My goal this week is to run 5 miles by Friday! B is night work so i will have no excuses on why i can't run when he gets up from sleeping! NO EXCUSES!!!! that is what i am going to tell myself everyday!
(continued 12 hours later)
Had work all weekend and think that I did very good with my eating! I got a little laid back and haven't been counting or writing down my food! I swear writing everything down is like a HUGE reality check! With the weather also I have not been running that much ether! Started up last week and man my legs were sore! I am not giving up though! I am back on track!
I actually started to fall back into my depression a little bit for a couple days I could feel myself going down! I knew I had to snap out of it and fast! I noticed that working out and not eating junk make a huge difference. I feel like I did something good when I workout! I know that this is going to sound weird but it make me feel happy!
Let me just say that holiday season is the hardest time to stay on your diet! And as much as I love snow storms it sucked b/c I couldnt run in 2 feet of snow! And idiot people who don't shovel their walks! WTF!
So as you can see we are just normal people who fall and get right back on and keep going!
NO EXCUSES!!!!

Sunday is anything but lazy....and I miss my toys =( (kelly)

I always try and make Sunday my lazy day but because I'm such a procrastinator I always end up doing homework.  This sunday was no different except I had a paper due on tax - YUCK !!   I knew I wasn't planning on working out or running since I did 5 miles yesterday so I wasn't worried about getting that in but I did have this tax paper that I had been putting off all week - - gee I wonder why? Taxes are so fun and writing about codes and regs and tax rules is even more fun. 

So.......I got up early to start my paper because I knew I had to go watch the girls (Abby and Marissa) from 10:30 to 5:00 but I just sat around until 10am because god damn it Dirty Dancing was on and NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER!!!!!  (Ok I've seen DD 1000 times but I hadn't seen it lately). 

I have to say the girls were great they let me do my homework while they watched movies and of course I watched a little too.  I did not know that Toy Story 3 was going to be so damn sad - I literally cried my eyes out from the time they were at the trash place about to get burned up till the very end.  I hide my tears from the girls because I didn't want them to get sad because I was sad.  I started to think about my old toys and how I wished I was still a kid playing with toys instead of writing a paper  on taxes.

Remember these guys?

 I loved the Wuzzles especially bumblebee-lion ( because he reminded me of my fav puppet Leary the Lion that my parents threw away on me- still hurts)

And

Rainbow Brite!!!!



My first my little pony - cotton candy

Jem is totally outrageous!!

I MISS MY TOYS!!!!!  I hope they were somehow picked up by some little kid that loved them as much as I did and that they knew I loved them.....at least that's what the kid inside me wants to believe!

Lost and Found....(Kelly)

Okay so it's been over a month since my last post hmmmmmmm what has happened???!!!  Laziness that's what  - oh and some nasty storms.   So since my trip to Florida I decided to do what I think a lot of people do during cold winters - STAY INSIDE.  My membership expired at the gym, my bootcamps have been over, and it was either too cold or too much snow and ice to really run more than a mile or two a week.  Yes these are excuses but it is what it is.  

Now I did sign up for Broad Street!! Yep 10 mile run May 1st so I can't allow myself to be lazy any longer.  I haven't ever run more than 5 miles yet and now I only have 2 months to train to get up to 10 miles ---- ahhh!!!!!  So starting more seriously this week ( I have run a few times since Jan 11th) I've logged about 16 miles of running (Sun - Sat)

The last 5 miles were run today at the Frostbite 5 miler in Ambler.  I waited till Thrusday to sign up and was put on the waitlist secretly hoping that I wouldn't get in but low and behold I got an email Friday morning saying I was in.  It was 70 deg on Friday so I was all for it and since it was nice I decided to go for a walk/run at VF park.  Big Mistake - HUGE .... see I'm a believer in the take the day off before a race but sometimes I like to think I can do more than I should so I went out because I just had to enjoy 70 deg in Feb while my poor little ankles and legs were hurting this morning.  I said to myself while I watched people's lawn items and trash cans fly down the street in 50mph wind gusts that I'm NOT doing this run. It wasn't worth it - I hurt and it was too windy to run 5 miles.  Race started at 9am and it was 7:45am and I thought well I already picked up my packet and bib and I did take someone else's spot on the wait list so let me just soak my feet and ankles in some epsom salt and see how I feel.  So at 8:10am I decided I'm doing this! It's days when you don't want to do it that it's even more important to follow through and do it.  Got to the race at 8:45 and made it through the 5 miles in 46:20 - less then a minute off my last 5 mile time - not bad!

So I've signed up for a few more runs  to get me ready for Broad Street. You might be thinking running is free why sign up and pay for all these runs?  Well 2 reasons for me - 1 the runs are for charities so my money is helping out and 2 it makes me accountable and keeps me running.  So you got to find your motivation and do what works for you.

Well I've babbled enough tonight - I promise to keep up with this blog as I journey towards my goal of 10 miles of running!

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Leaving on a jet plane.....(Kelly)

Well it's less than 2 days till we are off to Universal Studios Orlando and yes I said we...meaning Me and Jenn and Laura!  I'm so excited that Jenn is going...she needs and deserves a vacation. I know she has mixed feelings about going but in the end I know it's the right decision.  Sometimes in life we need to get away and recharge - that time can make us better.  Life is what you make it and this little vac with my two bestest is going to be great!!!!

Yesterday was weigh in at FA and lets just say 2 weeks away during the holidays did not lead to positive results.  2.2lbs gain - but I can't be mad because I didn't workout nowhere near as much and I ate whatever I wanted and didn't think about it.  It was the holidays and I wanted to enjoy...it's important to enjoy and not be hard on yourself all the time.  Now with that being said that doesn't mean you can keep up the bad habits and besides i do feel much better when i'm working out and eating better. After FA Jenn and I went to Ballys and caught a powerflex class - it was tough!!!! but good and i'm paying for it today.  This morning (Sunday) we went running in the park by jenn's house for a quick 1.7 miles which was long enough - it was frigging freezing out there!!!!!!
   This week might be hard with being away with the girls and at an amusement park but I plan on running in the morning in the nice weather and all that walking all day at the parks should be good.   Picked up a book to read on the plane and at night too - it's by Patrica Cornwell - I like her writing. The Scarpetta Factor


Hope everyone enjoys the snow and cold this week - I'll be in Florida where the weather is going to be in the 60's and 70's.   =)

Countdown to warmer weather....(Kelly)

I would just like to say I HATE SNOW!!!   Actually I hate winter - I could be perfectly happy with 3 season - spring, summer, and fall.   There is nothing good about winter except christmas. It's cold and dark and just miserable.  But on the bright side I'm going to Universal Studios Orlando(Universal Orlando, 2010 Edition: The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Theme Park Adventure) in 4 days and I can't wait.  It was a last minute thing (always been something I wanted to do was just go on a really last minute trip).   My friend Laura had planned a surprise trip for her and her husband but he couldn't make it so she needed a backup and last week I ask for the details and decided it was too good an offer to pass up.  I can't wait to get to the Harry Potter park - I know I'm a dork but I love Harry Potter!!! Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)Also I can't wait to get to some warmer weather - its currently been in the mid to lower 70's down in Orlando so that's going to feel like 90degrees coming from here.   I can't wait to leave behind this latest snow and maybe dip my feet in a heated pool.
I'm planning on doing some running in the morning down there too but we'll see how that pans out - I might be too tired from walking around all day but I don't want to pass up a run in nice weather. 

Oh and for those of you that want to keep track of your running but don't have nike shoes like me there is this pouch you can put on your shoe to hold the nike sensor that works great. Jenn got it for me for xmas....

HOLY COW!!!!! (jenn)

Good Morning! Happy New year! And Hello 4 pounds.....yes that is right...it is not WWofficial...but I weighed my self yesterday morning and I gain 4 pounds.....HOLY COW! Of course I wanted to say another word on here but I don't think i am allowed.
Well I can't do anything about the past but learn from it and that is the Holiday's suck when it comes time to watch your weight! LOL! I could have been worse I know that. I did go to the gym and work out so I think that was my only saving grace! So I am self motivating again! I have no choice....I ran 4 miles yesterday! My 3rd time ever! Whenever I run I am not doing any less the 3 miles but if i have the time will do 4. Not running today, too much to do. I am going to be moving my Living room around so that will be my workout for today! not to mention I got my period and it is so heavy......So tomorrow I will be back out at the park running my laps! There is a new 5k Kelly and  I are going to do and it is for the Phillies. You get 2 pre-season tickets with registration. While everyone I tell is all "Oh it is only preseason, who care". "why are you paying to run 3 miles when you can do it outside for free?" .....these people are called downers.....I try not to listen to them b/c I did my whole life as a teenager and had the worst self esteem ever!! And when u hear the same thing over and over again you start believing what u r hearing! I have come a long way with my self esteem. I know that it is still low! Even with my awesome Husband telling me otherwise.  When you have a low self esteem it affects everything, your mood, you emotions, the way you eat/workout. . For me getting on that scale yesterday made me mad at myself. I don't ever want to be where I was 3 months ago! I want to be better...so i pushed myself and ran 4.1 miles. I was going to the park and thought I will do one lap, which is 1.7miles and then the run to and from my house makes it 2 miles. Well all i thought about was all the crappy food I ate and how I know I can do at least three. So I said...3 mile...well two times around the park is 3.4 miles and then to and from my house was .3 miles. So as I did my second lap around the park(which i rocked that dam hill 2x's) I came out of the park and said I will walk home, then i thought...hmmmi just run home it isn't that far. Then I saw the next block down and said I will run to the stop sign...next thing I knew I was running another .4miles. So total run was 4.1 miles, I was so proud of myself that when that someone said that running was dumb and 5k's were a waste..I just sat there and said to myself that I did 4 miles, I did 4 miles and after this week I am going to do 4.5 miles. And NO ONE is going to stop me! Sometime we need downers in our life just to remind us that we don't want to listen to them, but listen to your body!
I am making little goals for myself.....my first goal is to run 5 miles......once I get there I will set a new one. But for now...I just want to prove it to people that I can do it and I am going to look DAMM good doing it too!!!  So another new quest since B got a job is that I have to find a good workout dvd to do at home. I like myEA Sports Activeworkout andThe Firm: Total Body Makeover but I get bored! I am going to steal Kelly'Jillian Michaels - 30 Day Shred sdvds and copy them and do them. I am also going to get a Yoga For Families: Connect With Your Kids dvd b/c Abby likes doing yoga so that is something me and the girls can do together!!!
I am hoping to jump on our blog a little more now the holidays are over. SEE YOU SOON!

Back to reality....(Kelly)

Time to get back to the normal routines now that the holidays are over.  No more running around for the perfect gift or making desserts for parties.  It's Jan and I have to say it's one of the worst months of the year because it's just blah.....it's winter and it's cold and dark.   I really really want spring to come sooner this year - hopefully the winter won't be too bad. 
Our New Year's Eve run was great - over 200 runners and they had a good spread of food and drinks.  The sweatshirt is cool too and it was a warm night for Dec 31st at midnight.  Got to watch the fireworks going off in the backround as we ran around the Linc so that was cool.  Afterwards was a long drive to the mountains with a quick stop off at the reststop where Roy Rodgers and Starbucks were CLOSED!!!!!!  Open 24 hours my ass!!!! I don't care that it was New years's eve/ day....I wanted some damn ckn and a hot choc.  Anyway go the mountains about 3:40am ish and crashed.  It was a good weekend with nice weather.  It was still nice out Sunday night so I had to get a quick 2mile run in and today it wasn't bad out so I took my lunchtime and ran 3.5 miles.  Can't let the winter blues slow me down.