Damn That Oz

This morning I had a little bit of a hissy fit about that Stupid Dr. Oz. He gets up there on Oprah and talks about partially hydrogenated this, and refined, enriched that...Blah blah. But then I get home and watch my pre-recorded You:On a Diet and realize...eh...maybe it won't be that hard. Maybe it is the best way...Maybe being so fat is NOT where its at (ok, so, he didnt really make me realize that last one.)

I hate thinking about food.

I especially hate thinking about it when I have no money. Because now I'm just sitting here thinking about all the terrible things I eat and not really in a place where i can do anything about it. Nice. I tried to make something healthy that didnt contain anything they said not to eat and I ended up eating some weird mushroom soup concoction that did little more than make me feel icky. Watching the surviorman eat a rat he caught made me feel better about the soup.
See, now I have no idea what I was writing as I got entirely distracted by the IronMan Lake Placid on Tv...Marathon training really does only serve one purpose.....preparing someday for an ironman.






sorry,


Just got distracted again daydreaming about all the ways my life needs to change in order to make an ironman happen. That was a lot of change. Not sure if I can make that many at once...Just going to stick to my regular lifestyle with this running thing...
BACK TO WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT...

Today was a pretty good day..>Checking in with my tots, all of whom now have signed up. (way to go Deb!) Somehow having all of them doing it too takes the pressure off a bit. I know that doesnt make sense. I guess somehow I think, if they're all signing up then its possible to do..because they're all smart, totally not crazy, and would never sign up for something that was impossible. (if you guys arent confident in that, dont tell me) (and Darly, don't think I didn't see the twinkle in your eye when we started talking about the ironman. I saw that. No worries. We'll do it. ;) )

So lets talk goals. If I were forced to make a goal right now about times for this next big race, I would really love to think that I could finish in 3 hours. That seems pretty uh..lofty for me since today it might feasibly take me 4:20...But thats without running....What I would like to do, and what I am going to shoot for is to run at least half and when I run to do at least a 12 minute mile. That seems really really fast to me right now, but i would really like something to shoot for that goes beyond what I think I can do. The higher the goal, the harder I'll have to work every day.

I've got a lot of time in front of me...I dont want to waste any of it.

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