Weeks 3 & 4 - Not what I would have hoped for.

(And Yes, I know this is actually week 5, trying to get caught up at the moment. Check back tomorrow for the Week 5 update)

But when your father is in town visiting from Arizona and you come down with a horrible cold, I will take just maintaining any day.

Not only was my Dad in town during this time period, which we went out to dinner on several occasions, Crave is fantastic, but we also had 3 get togethers/parties. The Superbowl, my niece Michaela's 3rd birthday party and a Olympic opening ceremony party. A lot of food was around during this two weeks and I did my best to eat as good as I could but at times I was not as successful as I would have liked.

Week 3
Current Weight - 184.0 lbs.
Weight lost this week - 0 lbs.
Total weight lost - 8.0 lbs.

Week 4
Current Weight - 184.5 lbs.
Weight lost this week - +.5 lbs.
Total weight lost - 7.5 lbs.

Throwing a monkey wrench in the works was the cold that Kris gave me and I held onto for several days. Not only did it make the diet hard, decided to eat more to make sure I was getting enough nutrition to get better, but it wrecked havoc with the race/event schedule.

2/6 Yukon Days - The original plan was to run the 1 mile and the 3 mile snowshoe race, but when we cold not locate running snowshoes for rent we fell back on plan B. Run the 1 mile race and the 3 mile race. What was a little bit of a surprise was that the races, all of them, were on the snow covered White Bear Lake. OK, something differant, we wanted to try trail running and we did something similar in December at the Winter Waddle.

So we lined up for the 1 mile and off we went. Once again I started out way to fast, I was in the lead from almost the beginning and held onto it until just before the turn around at half mile. OK, I let two get past me in the next quarter mile so if I could just hold on I could still take 3rd place and get a medal?? Nope, not today. In quick succession, I was passed by 3 more runners letting me finish in 6th place. My time was 7:51 but 3rd place was 7:41 so we were very close. Running through the snow on the ice was so hard, I know I am in not in shape at the moment but I have run two sub-6:00 minute miles if that gives you an idea how hard this race was. The winning time was 7:11. I would love to have know what my 1/2 mile split was.

After the one mile I was spent! I could not even catch my breath and had horrible coughing fits. (Foreshadowing of my cold?) We decided to skip the 3 mile on the same snow covered ice terrain. No thanks! First and last time for that event. At least we got a hooded sweatshirt, modeled in the picture below, which is a new swag that I have not seen before.

2/13 - We originally planned on running in the TC Valentine's Day 5K, but when online registration closed on the Tuesday before the race and the price went from $50 per couple to $35 per person we said NO THANK YOU!

2/14 - We hoped to attend the Charities Challenge - Challenge Hearts indoor track meet, but due to my stupid cold we decided to stay home and get some additional rest. So no early season 1 mile benchmark. :(

Hopefully now that life has gotten back to normal, all the big celebration events are over and my Dad has gone back to Arizona we can get back on track. I am hoping to show a little weight loss in this coming week.