sunday fun day!

took a nice 2 mile walk to dollar store and back with the dogs and kids....fun times. We explored the old roundhouse too.

cat's in the cradle...

My boy is just like me...and it scares the hell out of me. He's whip smart...not a great athlete, but loves sports and listens to his coaches and understands the game he's playing, be it football, hoops or baseball. He can also be lazy with a capital L...and doesn't work hard at school or sports unless my size 9 is strategically placed. I am determined that he not go on the 15 year college plan like i was on...and it's causing some duress in FATboy land.

I did make him go on my run today...we went 2.93 miles...just shy of the 3 mile goal, and he finished strong, outsprinting me the last two blocks.

wacky wednesday

This is my confession...( tip of the New Jersey Nets cap to Ursher) I wimped. Pussed. caved. could only complete half of the bodyweight 200 on tuesday....cut all the reps in half. but that was enough to get the pulse racing and the sweat flowing...

I went 2.74 (or 2.79 depending on which mapping software you chose to believe!) miles this morning...inching closer to the mythical 3 mile benchmark. took a tour of McCoy subdivision and Mrs. Coombes was the only other fool on the streets at 6:30 am....

I thought the Illini repped decently last night. OSU will beat just about anybody when they're shooting that well. We HAVE to beat the frickin' squawkeyes this weekend.

Tomorrow brings another shot at the BW200. we shall see.

Blue Monday...

How does it feel...to run 2.6 miles in the rain. (Tip of the T Bayne NASCAR cap to New Order)

It feels pretty good, actually. the run/walk splits are glacially inching together. I still walk more than i run, but not by nearly as much as before. I can do this. and so can you.

Mama is doing the wii fit, even as i type this. We're making changes, although I ate criminally too much of Mama Romy's dip at the Daytona party yesterday. Speaking of Trevor Bayne..he looks young enough to be my son. Oh wait, I have a daughter that's his age? She has my permission to marry. :-)

here i go again, on my own....

(tip of the old cap to David Coverdale) Went 2.06 miles according to mapmyrun.com. #1 son got up when i was doing my postrun stretches and joined in.

Slowly but surely he's warming up to this exercise with the old man thing.

workout partners

wussed out this morning, so i did the bw 200 on my own. I'll coerce them into giving me some excercise tonight....maybe an abridged version of the 200.

I am not getting my wind back as quickly as i would like, but that's probably because OMW has been wreaking havoc with my running for 6 weeks....the bastard.

whoa, nellie!

went for a slipping and sliding 2.17 miles this morning. About lost it 3 times....incorporated some different types of stretches into my post run cool down. my hips and hammies are SO tight.

Happy valentine's day to all.

shave my legs...

and call me Nancy, but there was no way I was running in this weather.

I did shovel snow and push two vehicles out of my driveway along with taking the littles sledding. all in all, a decent cardio workout.