6 months

I have been a blogging slacker.  I will get better.  I am feeling all better and I even went out on another date tonight (first dates suck btw!)  Anyways...

Yesterday was 4th of July.  I started the morning out with a easy 15 mile bike ride with Sophie.  I did not push myself hard....just enjoyed the wind blowing through my hair and being out. After the bike ride I headed into SF to go for a run with Hannah.  One of my dreams has been to run the Golden Gate bridge with Hannah.  I was sure I could do it.  I was under the impression over and back was only 3 miles (what a scam....its really 4+ a little more.)  Hannah was game so we started out.  As we drove closer and closer to the bridge we started laughing.  It was COLD and very windy!  There was a lot of fog rolling in.  We even talked about aborting the mission.  It has been 90+ degrees in Walnut Creek where I had been bike riding so I was in shorts and a tshirt!  But alas we started.  For those of you that have not ever gone across the bridge.....its curved a bit.  The first mile was really a killer.  It was all uphill and super windy and cold.  I prayed to Jesus pretty much the whole way!  We took a quick stop at half way and Hannah (my cheerleader) assured me it was downhill now and it would be easier.  Easier it was indeed!  I felt great from that point on out.  We over and back.  Here is the amazing thing.  I did 5 miles in 1 hour.  I did 12 min miles!  I have not done that before!!!  I assure you that I was not doing 12 min miles on the 2 uphill parts but I think I made up for it on my downhills.  We ran down the hill that goes down to the waters edge so I could get all the way to 5 miles.  It was spectacular and I have to say I am proud of myself.  Hannah was amazing.  She was cheering me on the whole way.  At one point she kept saying...."Murn....you have run the bridge!  You have run almost 5 miles"  I had to tell her to stop....I was going to cry and not be able to finish the little bit if I stopped to think about it.  

When I run I think.  I think thats something most runners love about running.  Solitude and thinking.   I realized that July 4th marked my 6 month mark exactly from when I started this life changing journey.  On my 6 month anniversary on Independence day I was running 5 miles across the Golden Gate Bridge!  ROCK ON!  When I started exercising in Jan I would walk 2 miles at 3.2 mph on the treadmill.  I was wiped out at the end of that.  I've come a long way baby!  I recognize that I still have a long way to go in my journey but I am going to enjoy the road along the way and it feels great.

Today I went to WW.  Sadly I was up 0.8 lbs.  I am not sure what that is all about....perhaps sore muscles hold on to water?  I am not sure but for the first time it did not kill me to not of lost.  I think I was still riding on the high from my run.  I wrote everything down I ate all week...even my binge on Monday night and I was still in my points for the week.  Who knows!  I am not going to stress out about it.  I am doing everything I can do and I feel good so I am just going to keep on keeping on. 

Here is a picture of me (after a shower) after running my 5 miles.  

Hope all of you had a great 4th of July as well.  

Murn