June Challenge

Anyone up for a little June Challenge?? I'm doing this with another group and thought I'd see if any of you were interested. Its pretty easy. You pick a sport (up to 3) that you are good at and we post our goals for the month. Example: I want to run X miles in June. Anyone interested??

You can use whatever sport you like, be it walking, jogging, biking, swimming, workout DVDs.... anything. What ever you are into.

If we have enough people interested we could even form two teams and have a mini competition. Anyone interested???

We can have a weekly posting of our week's progress. The format would be as follows:

BIKE GOAL = X miles
Miles/time to date = Y
Perent complete = Z

WALKING GOAL = X
Distance/time to date = Y
Percent Complete = Z

WORKOUT DVD = X
time to date = Y
Percent Complete = Z

The best thing about this, is you are really only competing with yourself! Unless we form teams, then we have friends relying on us, and that will only help push us out the door to workout.

My goals for June are:

SWIM - 5 miles

BIKE - 150 miles

RUN - 75 miles

I DID IT! (We did it actually)

After work I met Joanie, Billy and the kids up at Lake Dale. We were going to attempt a swim. We got there and found that mom and dad weren't home. So we tried the doors and they were all locked. What's gives!? Growing up I don't think we ever locked a door. So by the time they got home and we got down to the lake I think it was about 7:30p.m. Am I right Joanie? We really should have timed it. Next time.

Anyway, I got in the water first - Joanie made me. And you know what? It wasn't that bad! Chilly at first (maybe) but within a minute it was comfortable. Until more of us got wet. So after a few minutes of us standing there, walking in deeper, screaming like girls, and a few cuss words thrown out for good measure, we were fine. It was on to swimming. We decided to walk out a ways to where it was deeper to start the swim. Then we realized we were already half way across the lake and it was still only up to our thighs (or waist? i don't recall). We figured we'd better start.

We swam from our dock (pretty much) to the other side and back. Then from the dock to the boat lift and back, then down a ways and of course - back again. I mapped it out and we appeared to have gone .37 miles. I know that doesn't sound like a whole heck of a lot, but it was for us. sorta. It was a good start. For the race we only have to swim .46. Not too bad.

biking

i'm hoping to re-kindle my love affair with exercise by biking. i like walking, but it does get a little boring after awhile. and frankly, i'm tired of getting up early. i think part of that is because i'm feeling a bit under the weather. but still, i need something new to do for exercise. so i bought a bike. i hope my legs are sore in the morning. that'd rock.

Doing okay

I'm doing okay on weight watchers. in three weeks i lost 8.6 lbs. i'm really encouraged about that...but i have a feeling i didn't do so well this week.....we shall see on thursday at my meeing. I went to a baseball game and ate the things that normal people eat at baseball games...yeah....but the nachos were really good. and then on sunday after my church's last service, a bunch of us went out for pizza...and that was oh so good!!! we shall see how it goes.......

Day One

I joined Weight watchers. So far so good. Today was my first day and it's bed time and I have 1 point to spare. Here's hoping finally a diet will work.

What's the story

I know some of us aren't eating 2 hours or so before bed... but what are the rules on that? If you eat past your allotted time can you just stay up later to make it 2 hours again, or does it not work like that? I usually stay up till 10:30 (usually later, but I would like it to be 10:30) so I try to not eat after 8:30, but if I want ice cream or something I want to wait till the girls are in bed so if I don't get done till 9:00 can I just stay up till 11:00 to make up for it?