treadmill desk day 3

Day 3 on the Treadmill Desk!

It is exhausting- it’s also 33 degrees celsius . This is only for dedicated people. I mean, the idea of having a treadmill desk is to force yourself to exercise. It’s hard to just move a treadmill out of the way. After an hour, an hour and a bit, I had to get down. The constant movement is activating my bowels a lot so I have to let my stomach sit for a bit. Also my feet hurt! As a fat person undergoing this experiment my experience would be a bit different from others I think.

At least the people I’ve seen on the net doing their treadmill desk are not overweight or I haven’t seen one that is obese so I’m putting my hand up saying here I am! Obese guinea pig going through the paces.

 

I’ve definitely adjusted to typing and working while walking. Still need more space for my mouse but moving as I walk doesn’t hinder me so much.

 

I’ll be round out to about 3 hours which is roughly 7.5 kms. I’m very happy with that. And I am high on an endorphin rush!

MM photos

Photos from the MM. I’m seeing the difference in my face from my weight loss, and I feel confident enough to be in photos again which makes me feel good about myself. Sorry for the general same-ness of them all I just had a good day, and wanted to share.

At the back of the start line while the losers do aerobics at the front.

Me contemplating taking off my "coolrunner Scarlett" sign

Being generally smiley for the camera.

 

Me just after the start

 

Out on the route

 

Our celebratory cuddle + photo after crossing the finish line.

 

Grinning from ear to ear, happy I survived and my body did ok!

Later on. A strange photo, I don't really look like myself. Exhausted + loving Melbourne

Recovery. Seriously | MM Time- PB

Ankle’s bung. Body is buggered. By the end of last night at the end of the birthday thing at Strike bowling Mike and I were soooo exhausted.Might need to ice it today.

I can’t get my results off the site. I don’t know if they’ve put up the 5.7kms yet.

I want to knoooooooow.

*Edit: Finally! I got my time! Time is 1:07:23. Yeeeeeha! Wow I’m so happy with that. That’s a 3 minute PB.

Melbourne Marathon 10.10.10

I can’t confirm as yet but I believe I broke my last MM PB- which is 1.10. I’m sure I crossed the line at 1.08- but my mapmyrun says 1.12 and that includes me being way back at the back of the crowd before we actually crossed the line and then me not stopping the clock after I crossed the finish line.

Can you believe it if I actually did a new PB for that? I ran maybe 3 out of the 5.7km, including a long haul of 1.5km at the end . I shouldn’t have but I did anyways. How does my body feel? It feels okay but I know I pushed it, a lot. I was not listening to my body like I could have, and I got dizzy for a good part there. Also near the end when I refused to walk I felt the ache in my stomach, which funnily enough felt the same as if I had gallstone pain.

I feel great, my legs did well after they warmed up. Initially they felt soo tight but I kept on keeping on.

But I expect tonight I’ll be so buggered. I have a birthday party to go to. But yesterday I had an exhibit of my work at an exhibition in Collingwood which went really well. Would you like to see the work I had up?

Check it out here!

I met up with some Cool Runners afterward but was too nervous to keep moving around the group and introduce myself. I did meet some people, and finally met Cilla, Sarah and Kat and Stella at Transport [is that you Kat? I'm sorry if I've confused you with someone else there are a couple of Kat's on my blog list]! I missed out on meeting Andrew and Andrew which was a shame, they were some of my highest candidates for meeting! I mean, I’ve met AJ but I do like to catch up again. Also saw TigerBoy and Frankie, and met Dizzey and…. oh I met a lot of people and I’ve forgotten their names already! *sigh* Just means I have to go and attend more events they’re at!

I am so so proud of my Michael. He crossed the line at an amazing 1hr12mins- walking. We sort of did a tag team thing where he would go ahead and I’d try and keep up with him and then when I’d break into a run and get ahead he’d try and keep up with me until I walked and would fall behind again. But near the end I just tried to keep up with the running until I got really dizzy. And in the last 1.5k I ran cos, well, you have to run when you’re entering the MCG!

Photos to come.

Spring Into Shape: 4.3km completed.

phew.

What a day.

Up at 6.30am. Leave at 7. Great traffic meant we got there nice and early. Mike took lots of photos of me, made me feel pretty self conscious but I love the fact he was there for me, to support me and cheer me on, and document my fun achievement. As self conscious as I get I wouldn’t ask him to be any other way. I love him so much!

I wanted to run for 20 minutes. Walk for 3 minutes. And run for 20. If I kept up  my pace above a 5km p/h speed I would balance out the 4.3ks nicely. I balanced it out to running for 2kms, which was more then 20 minutes, then walked 3 minutes and then ran for the next 2km. I believe I ran for the majority of it except for maybe 200 meters but I am so very happy with what I did.

Time: 48.22.

I didn’t see Cilla which was disappointing, I kept an eye out for anyone I thought I might recognize. Apparently a friend of mine who I go to school with saw me as I crossed over St Kilda Rd Bridge as she was on the tram going to work.

As to my weight goal for today, being 137 flat. I was about .2-.3 off. So all in all I think I would consider today a great success with my goals.

Here, have some photos!

Pre-race race eve.

Tomorrow morning is the SIS run at 8.30 for the 4.3kers. I’m a little bit excited.

Look out for the big woman, brown hair, red t-shirt, tights and of course sneakers. However I will have my headphones in so you’ll need to tap me on the shoulder if you think you see me. I hope I see someone I know, however how I would know them I can’t say. Look, this is me! Looking totally excited etc etc.

No exercise today, going to treat tomorrows run as a regular one, but with just a little bit more awareness and care. Having protein tonight, had some stuffed mushrooms for lunch today. We’ll see how we go. I’m also hoping to hit the 137kg that I have written down as a goal. I’m .5kg off. Lets see if it works out.

Thanks for the suggestions as to what might be going on with my body. I think it’s just the concoction of ingredients that are going on in my body right now. I’m changing everything, I’m changing this body into something completely new so yeah, things are going to happen. The combination of TOM, and this vegetarian eating, increased activity and exercise and sudden weight loss would all come together in some mish mash recipe. My body is letting a lot of stuff go, I don’t think the irregular TOM will continue, it was over as quickly as it was to begin with. Just got to let whatever happen happen, even if that means letting go of control of my goals. Sometimes I hold so tightly to them, fearful anything might go wrong in case I don’t get to my goal. Especially since the 10-10-10 event MM has a sort of yumminess about it to me. When I did it last, I was happy and it gives me fond memories and it is something I would like to keep being a sort of anniversary for hope, pride, new achievements and success.

That’s me for the 11th of September 2010. I’ll be back tomorrow!

Slowly but surely. Spring into Shape.

I did it! I entered the September 12 Spring into Shape race- 4.4km at Birrarung Marr.

This morning I did a run, I find it odd that the two tracks I follow aren’t equally as long. I take one, I do my 5 and a half k, I take the other and for some reason I only come to about 4.4k. That makes no sense, and pisses me off no end just cos I go out to run the same route, two parallel paths and I go what feels like the same distance but it’s obviously not.

So what I ran this morning, couldn’t take the normal path- the longer route- because it dips in the middle and gets flooded when its raining so I can’t cross. When I got back, an hour later, I realised I’d gone mega slow. I took more walking breaks but I still thought I’d kept up the pace. How I can possibly go slower than what I usually do I don’t understand since I mostly run and regular walking pace.

Anyways, feel like I’m peeling away from the structure of the shakes a little bit and that annoys me. But I’m not being so strict, I just had a Vegemite sandwich and will have the last of my pork and noodles that I had last night.

Mostly I stick to the days no problem. Two shakes and everything. But at dinner time I have meat or something extra I shouldn’t have. So long as I keep to it though, I figure, without overdoing it with anything, just moderation or keep it as close to the shakes diet as I can then I think it’s okay. And I’m still exercising, so just gotta keep at it.

Just gotta keep at it.

Just gotta keep at it.

New goals.

On my goals list is a triathlon. I would love to do it, and realised at the moment I have the ability to complete a mini tri if I wanted to. The one thing that would stop me though is swimming in the ocean- that’s something that really freaks me out. How do you get over that? Also no idea where I can find out where they’re held.

I’d also loooove some more money right now, I’d get so many things for myself. The rewards for the goals I’ve achieved for one- primarily the Garmin 405. I’d have entered the September Yarra Boulevard Sri Chinmoy 5k run, a new pair of shoes just for a second pair, a new workout outfit and a couple more pairs of the tights I use for running in, a headband for the sweat and the hair that gets in my face, and some of the cool running gear so that I can be identified as a CR at the MM- probably the visor and the buff, I think would be best. I’d love to also buy some stuff for Mike, new workout clothes or something just as a pep and a congratulations to how hard he’s worked.

*sigh* Somethings to plan for!

*Edit:

Oh! I just think I found the perfect triathlon for me for my first one! It’s a short one- and you swim at MSAC, it’s all done at Albert Park. And it’s a day before my next birthday in January! I’m totally excited about this! Check it out here: The Triathlon Pink

Obsessive and broke.

The more I experience this journey the more I find myself obsessed with it. I don’t think obsession is a bad thing if it’s what I need to fuel me forward to get to my goals.

This also means this sort of stuff is always on my mind. All the way home I was trying to calculate how well, or not well, I’d eaten today. But right now anything over what my Optifast diet is allowed is considered ‘not well’. I even had a delicious lamb, cous cous, lettuce and feta salad for lunch with a side of chips that I gave to Mike after I’d had about a third of them. I had mineral water, an apple cider beer thing, a vodka and lemonade drink and then finished with some nice English Breakfast. I think I did very well considering I said yesterday I’ll pace myself and have a salad, then today when I got to the pub I basically wiped all of that out of my mind and said yes I want a steak sandwich. The thing that stopped me was seeing a steak sandwich at the next table and not being very impressed about it. So I did have the salad, at $18 a plate (eep).

We walked a bit too, I walked about 5km today- or as Mike’s pedometer stated, almost 5000 steps which is a great count for us.

Either way, I have a great inner conflict. Impulsive eating vs Wanting to fuel my body and make it work to the best it can. All other times, except when it comes to moments of eating and making a choice, I am ready to do good for my body and give it what it needs. I want to do everything I can to stick to the three shakes a day and veggies. I want to be clear in the head at the moments of eating. Just make the decision and do it.

I really, really want some Coolrunning gear but I’m so broke. I’d love the new buff they have offered, and also one of those visors but all together it’s $50. Also I’d love to do the Sri Chinmoy in September at Yarra Boulevard but that’s another $20. I didn’t want to do it but that was before I could run 5km. Now I just want to do it all the time! Having a short term goal before the MM I think is good, but I don’t know if I’ll get the money before hand.

Anyway enough of my money whinging! I think if I’m determined enough I can try and find some money somewhere… we’ll have to wait and see. Maybe I’m not ready for the Sri Chinmoy race.

So after 12 solid hours of sleep…

Two things I forgot to post:

1. I think I’m more intergrated into ‘official runner’ status since I got myself some bra chafing. Like, wtf? I’ve heard of it plenty of times but never thought I’d manage to do it but it was successful, so there you have it.

2. People who waved at me as they passed me, I realised they might have been Ausrunners… I would like to know who they are so I can thank them personally because it was really really good having people cheering me on though I’ve never seen them before.

3. I wonder if/when the Sri Chinmoy times are posted? I’m so new to all this stuff. I wondered if this morning I just turned up and ran with my number on the front, or if I had to register or something. Last time at Run Melbourne didn’t even cross my mind. I stuffed my clothes at the baggage area and ran to the starting line and got straight into it cos I was late. This time it was nice, and nerve wracking, to have that bit of time before hand.

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Also, pictures! Hazzah!

Pre run [freezing cold, wind, post rain]:

Post run with AJ: