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Congrats for doing the first one ! And I thought the same thing as well. The second time i did the run it was a little harder . But nothing like ' I cant do this " . I start week 2 tomorrow. was not feeling well today again . We are all passing something around our house i think.

Mindy

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I finished week one last night!!! Thanks, Mindy for turning me on to this--I love it, and I've gotten my nerdy boyfriend off the computer to join me! Sweet! I, unlike some others of you, have kind of had a hard time with this so far. I have NEVER been a runner, even when I was on drill team in high school working out 30 hours a week! The most I've run at one time in my WHOLE LIFE is one mile. I'm nervous about the 90 seconds for week two, but I'm just going to keep pushing and see what happens!

Good news----I weighed myself this morning and I'm BACK down to 209! Horray! I think a week of running has something to do with it!

I have a fill on Friday--if I can keep running, Onederland will be here sooner than later!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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HOWDY Girly ! Oh and I have ever run in my life besides School PE Class when I had to !!!!

Glad you found the thread ! I start week 2 today, should have done it yesterday I think but im not feeling well again . Sick to my stomach YUCK .

But i'll do it this evening.

Congrats on getting the Boyfriend off the puter long enough to do it. Wonder if I can get my DH off WOW long enough to do it ? Prolly not .

WELCOME

Love ya

Mindy

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Hey, is it true that WOW is going to cost like $25 a month in '08? I heard that. I've wondered this for a long time now----what the H3LL does "DH" mean?

Regarding my man--I walked in the house after work yesterday and said, "I'm going to the gym to run unless you want to come with me." He said, "I'm not going to the gym just to get on the treadmill." So I said, "fine. Let's go outside. Get your shoes on!" After that, there was a couple minutes of whining and making excuses (I won't bore you with the details). Finally, I said, "Okay. I'm going to play Guitar Hero III for 10 minutes and then we're going." (Guitar Hero III is my new obsession. I had GHII for the PS2, and on Sunday, I sold my PS2 with GHII and DDR so that I could go buy GHIII for the 360. It's SUPER AWESOME and FUN!!!!

So that was that. He got his lazy butt up, put his lazy feet in his lazy shoes and we went running around the neighborhood. It was actually kinda romantic. He was blabbing about nonsense, I was listening to my podcast and occasionally blurting out, "Okay, Go!"

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Got my workout in - I hate that I forget how good I feel after a good workout. I don't know how it is for others, but when I get out of the routine, get a little (or a lot) lazy, then I am scared to get back to the gym because I think it will hurt, I will not be able to do what I wanted, etc.

When I finally get back on the wagon, I find myself almost skipping out of teh gym I feel so good. If I could just keep that feeling in my brain and recall it when that lazy feeling creeps in.

At any rate, we are back home safe and sound and the C25K has begun. Thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement.

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"Okay. I'm going to play Guitar Hero III for 10 minutes and then we're going." (Guitar Hero III is my new obsession. I had GHII for the PS2, and on Sunday, I sold my PS2 with GHII and DDR so that I could go buy GHIII for the 360. It's SUPER AWESOME and FUN!!!!

So that was that. He got his lazy butt up, put his lazy feet in his lazy shoes and we went running around the neighborhood. It was actually kinda romantic. He was blabbing about nonsense, I was listening to my podcast and occasionally blurting out, "Okay, Go!"

I too love Guitar hero on my 360!

I have an online gametag if your ever interested in a little challange

I m reall bad though. i cant even do medium very well. I watched those 2 girls do expert and i about fainted when they hit every note.

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A few posts ago some of you were chatting about podcasts for C25K. It occurs tome that there is another great tool if you are an Ipod Nano user. I bought a Nike+ for my Ipod last year sometime. I love it.

It does a ton of stuff for you:

  • Tracks your distance and time for each run/walk
  • Tells you how far into your workout/how much is left when you set a goal
  • Tracks your calories burned
  • Tells you the pace you are running/walking - ie: 15 min/mile
  • Links you to Nikeplus.com and keeps track of all your run/walks over time (I have mine from last year)

When you are using it, you can still use whatever playlist (or podcast I am sure) that you wish to run to.

It is worth the $30. Well, it is really $60 as you will have to also buy the Nike armband to fit the ipod nano with the Nike+ insert.

And my favorite little feature, when you hit a personal record of some sort like your fastest run, Lance Armstrong pipes in to your ears and congratulates you. Lance is a fellow Texan, so this was like a supreme surprise for me personally.

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I too love Guitar hero on my 360!

I have an online gametag if your ever interested in a little challange

I m reall bad though. i cant even do medium very well. I watched those 2 girls do expert and i about fainted when they hit every note.

Holy Moly--the expert level eludes me. I was through the medium career on the PS2, but it's a little harder on the 360...plus I just got it 2 days ago! We'll see how it goes.

I need to get a long tutorial from my boyfriend on how to use XBOX Live, plus I really think I want to change my gamer tag.....but what's yours? I'll add you when I figure out how!!!!!

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HEY HEY HEY Listen you Game Geeks ! NO GAME TALK On this Running thread! I come here to ESCAPE my DH ( DH is Dear Husband ) and is Damn WOW Obsession he has ! SO ZIP IT !!! LMAO

Going my run in the pm Or as much of it as i can get it.

TX What is the Nike thing your talking about ? I have a nano .

And im from TX ( Austin , my husband actually worked on Lances House and met him a few times )

So i would like to check into that !

mindy

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The reason we run . So we dont /cant eat this crap anymore

10 Worst Foods of 2007

Mindy

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well since i was banded half way through last yr , I have had the starbucks, the pzone, the KFC Bowl, not the biscuit one though , A Denny's Grand Slam ,

Ughh , im glad i dont eat like that anymore !

Mindy

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i guess i'm just weird, i can eat, but i don't know that i could have ever eaten a baconater. i don't know though, i never tried. even prior to banding, i always opted for happy meals. but, i could eat another an hour later. i could never eat a 12 inch sub...but i could eat 4 or 5 pieces of pizza..yum..however, i usually only average 3.

i can't wait to start RUNNING with you guys. i'm back at work today, no fever, so i'm hoping tomorrow will be the day i start.

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