Bootcamp

I am doing a bootcamp class with my boxing trainer the second week in August and I am really excited about it! I have the gloves I posted here, but mine are pink :)

The Bootcamp will be from 5-7am, I am taking that week off from work to focus on that, plus just have a little time off. I may do the afternoon classes as well, as long as I feel up to it (2-a-days!!). We will see.

My trainer is Sammie "Sosa" Milhouse (see picture from the Iron Clutch Fitness website). He is really good. He is a Golden Glove Champion in Georgia (he won another fight today as a matter of fact!!). He really cares about the people in his class, and I can't wait to spend 2 hours a day working out with him!!

Chickens Anyone?

I just got done reading "Coop: A Family, A Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg" and it was really good. The author is Michael Perry. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and two girls, and they have a small farm. The book is about how he gets started raising chickens and pigs. They have laying chickens and chickens that they raise to eat, and they eat the pigs as well.

The laying chickens sounded like they were so much fun! Plus they give you fresh eggs!

Someday, I want to have a flock of chickens. I want to raise them from babies and have them living in my backyard! Not where I currently live, of course...I don't think we are zoned for livestock (haha!!!), and as Emily said, "Mom, when would you have time for this flock of chickens, between work, school, working out, and keeping track of Alex?". She has a point.

But someday...it might be fun!

I Am Back

I have been reading other people's blogs about healthy eating and running, and it is really inspiring. I have been trying to eat "intuitively" myself, and I am getting some really good ideas from these other blogs about what to eat. It is all fresh and not processed food, and looks so yummy - they take pictures of their food, so I think I will try it all...the eating and the pictures, and oh yes, the running. I got a new digital camera, so this is something I can easily do now! It will spice up this blog a little.

I have not been exercising as I should. I am going through some personal stuff that has paralyzed me, and sometimes it feels like a herculean effort to get to the gym. I guess I have been averaging one time per week. Pretty lame. Then I read my Runner's World, or read these blogs, and feel so MUCH like I want to run a half marathon. I REALLY.WANT.TO. So, I need a plan.

I have made a copy of a half marathon training plan that is 17 weeks long. I also need to come up with a plan for continuous running for 30 minutes/3 miles. This is part of my problem with "spinning my wheels". I feel in my mind as if I am farther along than I really am, and get discouraged. So, I will start off slow and build from there. I also need to just get my head in the right place. And run even if I don't feel like it - those are actually the days I need and benefit from it most.

So, pushing through the crap of my past rushing back at me (and not the good things from my past) and healthy eating will do me good. And hopefully I can finally move on from what is weighing me down and rid myself of the toxin that is plaguing me.

I promise a more upbeat post next time. :)