After several months of almost daily rain and very little opportunity to go bike riding the weather since Christmas has been great and we are cross training with one day walk-running and then the next day biking. We are resting one day in seven and thus getting three runs and three bike rides in each week. Today we decided to kick it up a notch on the biking and did a two hour bike ride from our house in Red Bay east out to Moon Bay. The almost 20 mile ride really pushed us but as we finished we were both pleased to note that we were not exhausted and that building up slowly to this longer ride had been successful. We both came out of Christmas overweight and feeling sluggish but in the last three weeks have both dropped weight with Katie dropping almost 6 pounds and Scott (who had ballooned up to 215, dropping 8 pounds). Our goal is not so much weight loss as it is getting into shape, though the weight loss that comes with it is happily accepted. We would both like to drop 10-15 more pounds each. We were very proud to finish the half marathon in December but distressed at how much it took out of us particularly considering we walked it at a pretty slow pace. We want to do another half marathon this year and shave at least 45 minutes off our time and also do our bike around the east end of the Island. Both of those goals require us getting into shape so we are hard at work on that with daily exercise.
Mother's Day and Week 16 ultrasound
13 years ago
