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I'm so excited to find out my end results!

Only trained two times this week

Most of this week I've been attending an ITIL bootcamp training class in Lake Park, and that took up most of my time. I was in class all day from Tues to Thur and then I had to take the certification on Friday. With that said, I hardly had time to exercise. I only got the chance to run on Monday before the course started and then Friday after I took the certification and that's all I did. My brain is still recovering from all the studying I've been doing.

It felt really good running on Friday though, an AWESOME stress reliever. Wow, I can't believe our challenge ends next week. I can't wait for the final results. Good luck everybody!

Preparing for the 5k

I can run on the treadmill on my injured ankle for 30minutes without it hurting, but when I try it on the road; I can last 20-25 minutes before my ankle starts hurting. This week I'm going to do my long runs on the road instead of the treadmill and I'll try on wife's other ankle brace which has a lot more support than the one I've been using.

We'll see how that plays out. I guess we'll find out after my run tomorrow! I really want to do well on the 5k. Good luck to everybody on their training this week and next week.

Yay! ran for 30 mins without my ankles hurting

On Friday, I used my wife's old ankle brace for my injured ankle and I actually ran for 30 minutes strainght.
Then yesturday my wife had me go get some running shoes from the 26.6 running store for my birthday. It was pretty cool. First they did a free evaluation of how I ran, and then they had me try on three different shoes for running. In the end, I bought the shoes that had the most support for my fat feet!
I'm excited to run in my new shoes. I'm gonna take them for a test drive on Monday. Thanks to my wife for the new shoes.

I can't beleive that we had our last nutrition class on Thursday. I'm kind of sad knowing that the challenge is coming to an end, but also excited at the same time to complete this challenge that has had an amazing impact in my life and others as well.

Come on team, lets' give it our all!!!

Started running again

I used my other sport shoes for running on Friday. The shoes are more for skating than running, but I ran for 14 1/2 mins before my right ankle started hurting, so I stopped at 15 mins. I then jumped on the elliptical for the other 15 mins for my cardio workout. It felt great!!!

This means my ankle is healing up, I just need to take it easy. Maybe, do elliptical for two days and run for one day. I'll try that out and I'll see how it goes.

I've got to say that our nutrition class last Thursday was awesome. It was just a fun class. I really liked the breakfast burrito and the lettuce wrap was the bomb.

No running for a week now

I have not ran for a week now and I feel guilty not doing it. It almost feels like I've started from square one again. No running! I can't wait to get new shoes or inserts for my shoes, so that I can try running again and see how my ankles feel. I think for now the elliptical and long walks are sufficient.

Wrong type of running shoes

Lately my angles having been hurting. I can't even run for 2 minutes without them hurting, especially my right angle. I found out from Traci that I was wearing the wrong type of running shoes. I got the over pronate ones that would support the inside more than the outside. I will have to go to the shoe store to either get some new shoes or some inserts. I really didn't know the difference. I learned something new :-)

As a result, I'll be on the elyptical for about a week to give my angles sometime to heal. I can't wait to start running again. I prefer running on the road or on the treadmill than the elyptical.

Is everybody coming in the mornings now? I hardly see anybody at the gym anymore at the times that I go. If you are coming at a different time, keep it up. If you have not been slacking off, get back in the gym; we're almost there!