Too cold outside

It is SOO cold outside (pic of my daughter waiting at the bus stop for proof) but I still got a sub 15 min mile in today :-). I walked one min than ran 2 minutes until I started getting bad side cramps so I'd walk until that passed, but I still squeaked in under 15 mins.  :-) progress

Running Play List (between 160 and 180 bpm)

OK, I mentioned I was going to try to post my running playlist.  I use Spotify Premium so I don't have ads, and you can download for offline play and I just shuffle this before each run so its always a little different.  So some of these songs are slower and some are faster, but either way its a running tempo, if you're SUPER into running, some of these are probably too slow for you, but if you've got short legs (like me), the slow ones are a light jog and the faster ones are at a pretty good clip, just take shorter steps. :-)

Irreplaceable - Beyonce
Umbrella - Rihanna, Jay-Z
Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
The Boys are Back in Town - Thin Lizzy
Head Over Feet - Alanis Morissette (2015 remastered version)
Bye Bye Bye - *Nsync
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
Helpless - OBC of Hamilton
Farmer Refuted- OBC of Hamilton
Roar - Katy Perry
Firework - Katy Perry
Shake It Off (Radio Edit)- Shara Caldwell and the LA exchange (T Swift doesn't allow her songs on spotify)
Chandelier - Sia
Everlong - Foo Fighters
The Climb - Miley Cyrus
Holiday (Live) - Green Day
Everybody Talks - Neon Trees
Jump- Rihanna
Under my Umbrella - Incubus
Breakin' Up - Gwen Stefani
The Beautiful People - Marilyn Manson
My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic- The Police
Livin' La Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show
Wonderwall (remastered) - Oasis
Story of a Lonley Guy - Blink 182
Give me One Good Reason - Blink 182

Woah its December!

Holy cow time is going faster and faster... g0t outside to run last week, but today between the kiddos and the weather I'm on the treadmill again, though I managed a 15 min mile, which is good for me!  Hopefully I can get on here on my computer at home and post my running playlist, cause music at the right tempo helps SOOO MUCH.  My favorites today we're the time warp from Rocky horror, helpless from Hamilton and beautiful people by Marilyn Manson.

173 days for Couch to Half Marathon---Day 1

So this last year I ran the Indy Mini Marathon for the first time, I didn't post about it because I didn't have time. I had won entrance from a local tv station and would up with 4 weeks to train, I'd been exercising, but not really running, so I went into panic training mode.  Running a half had always been on my bucket list, but I never though it would happen.  So I survived, I kissed the bricks and then i plopped back on the couch.  Though I did pay for the 2018 race, I barely kept exercising, let alone running.  So when I wrote an essay to be a part of the Indy Mini Marathon Ambassador program I didn't really think to much about it. I thought it'd be great to get some upgrades and some gear, but they wouldn't take me, I'd only run it once and have never really trained, but I guess that unique perspective is what drew them to me.

 So I can officially announce that I am a 2018 Indy Mini Ambassador!  Guess i need to get off the couch...

So today is Day one of my journey to (hopefully) a 3:00 mini marathon on May 5th

Notice, less than a mile in 19 minutes... got some work to do

I'm going to start with an aggressive couch to 5k program, with a weights workout afterwards. and meal planning based on the 21 day fix (I've previously posted about my 21 day faux which has alot of the same information) and instead of shakeology (which costs $130 per month) I'm using Slim Fast (which costs about $10 per month) though I do count that as a red container and a yellow container, since its made with milk.

I probably won't be posting everyday, but I'll post at least once a week, hopefully 2 to 3 times a week.

If people are interested I can share my recipes and meal planning information about how I lose weight and still feed a family of 4 without cooking 2 meals at the same time or making them miserable.

If you are interested in running (or walking) the Mini Please let me know I'd be happy to talk to you about it, my experiences, and discuss if its the right race for you!