October Rain

It's been awhile since I've posted, my sincere apologies. We have been busy doing our program and transitioning into the fall season. Although it's been hot these first few days of October. This past Saturday was probably the worst training day I've had. It was in the upper 80's and it was very, very humid. I haven't sweat that much since my days playing baseball in high school. Peter continues to excel. He runs faster than any of us keeping a rigid, military like running gait. My calves have stopped burning so badly when I run. Now it's a dull burn which I can push through easier on run days. Jonathan and dad are keeping on as well.

I've found over this last week that I struggled to watch my nutrition as well as the first several weeks we started this journey. A lack in motivation and will is to blame on my part. After a good week of working out, I didn't feel quite as well as I had on the past weeks. I could only surmise that it was due to my poor eating habits. Mulling this over the weekend, I realized what's the point of working out so hard but wasting it on bad eating? My goodness. It makes no sense.

Kicking myself, I promised to stick to my eating plan more securely this week. I think it will help me to have shorter goals leading up to the half marathon as well. I'm gonna think about what kind of goals I can set for myself and possibly everyone else to keep us on track. Today has been good, we had a strong workout in the cool evening and I have done a fine job of watching what I eat. I hope to carry the momentum into the rest of the week.

I'm also considering starting a lifting routine on our days off. I've been meaning to start lifting again and I think that building muscle can only help with the runs. Stronger muscles last longer right?

The Tower of Terror 10-Miler was this past weekend as well. It was a lot of fun to see the tweets coming from those running the race. It seems as though everyone had a great time and the race went off without a hitch. It did seem intimidating to hear of people running ten miles in so little time. But I must remember that we've given ourselves more than a year to get in shape. Seeing that we've done a little over a month of training, we've come quite a ways. The Wine and Dine Half Marathon is the next Disney race on the schedule. It also marks one year until our planned take over of our first (of many) Disney race.

Will we be ready? You better believe it.

Tim