**Days 268 & 269**

I completed my third official 5k yesterday!  I was hoping to finish it in under 45 min., but I came in at 45:54 -

97 142 F Shannon 39 45:54

However, I did improve time from my last race, which was 48:21, so I'm happy with my time.  And, to be honest, I hadn't been training, nearly enough, so I'm surprised I was able to better my time, at all!  I had to walk quite a few times, but that's okay.  I did the race, and that's what matters.

Oh, and I didn't have to run in a torrential downpour!  It was only drizzling a bit, so it WAS, kind of, a refreshing run!  My mom decided to do the race with me at the last minute, and she did really good, considering she didn't train, at all.  Her time was 50:23 - impressive!  Here's a pic of us before the race:

                                                   Will my extra chin ever go away?!  Seriously!!


My dad and my girls came along to offer support!

I want to send out a big congrats to Colleen!!  She did her first ever 5k on Saturday, and she ran it in 39:45!  Awesome!! (I can't get the link to work right, so when you get to Colleen's site, click on her Home tab, and you'll be able to read about her race!)

**Day 267**

I picked up my race packet for the 5k I'm running tomorrow!  Here's my shirt and bib:

It's suppose to rain, and, right now, running in the rain doesn't sound that fun.   I like running, but I don't know if I'm hardcore enough about it (yet) to run in the rain, so I'm going to wait and see what tomorrow morning brings - if it's only raining a little bit, I'll do the race, but if it's a torrential downpour, well, I don't know about that!!

**Days 265 & 266**

Weight today - 215:

2 pounds lost this week - yay!  Jeez, I can't wait to be out of the 200's.  I should have been out of the 200's a long time ago!  I'm 266 days into my journey, and I know that I could have done better.  Yes, losing 33.5 pounds is great, but that number could have been much higher if I hadn't allowed myself to get off track so many times, so I'm not happy about that, but I am proud of myself for not throwing in the towel, and giving up.  I will not give up - it's not an option.  I WILL succeed, and I will reach my goal!

I'm doing my third official 5K on Sunday - wish me luck!

Have a great weekend!

**Days 263 & 264**

I didn't do any exercising yesterday because I was so sore from the burst workout I attended on Monday!  I'm still sore, but I did get on my treadmill today.  Unfortunately, I was struggling from the start, and I only made it 1.5 miles, and it took me forever!  I ran all but 5 min. of it, and, as you can see, I'm still very slow!
 
I will get faster...someday!  I will not give up!

I'm really slacking on the Shred challenge!  I didn't get 10 days of Level 1 in, but, hey, Rochelle, I saw your post about moving onto Level 2 - I'll move on with you!  I'll do it tomorrow (Thursday) - I'll let you know how I do!

**Day 262**

I had to share this post by Tara - she's amazing!  Check out her blog!

I just got back from the burst workout that my dad's chiropractor is hosting - I really loved the workout.  It was similar to the Shred workouts, but it was an hour long.  I was sweating my butt of through the whole thing, and I can already tell I'm going to be sore tomorrow.  We did each exercise for 15 or 20 seconds, quickly moving onto the next one.  It was a great workout, and I can't wait to go back on Thursday!

**Days 260 & 261**

We had a nice, relaxing weekend at our cabin - so relaxing that I didn't do the Shred yesterday or today, but I'll get back to it tomorrow!

I, finally, bought some new running shoes:

I'm hoping they will work out much better than the Asics did!  It's raining here so I can't do an outside run, but I'm going to try them out on the treadmill, in a minute, to see how they feel.

My dad just started going to a new chiropractor who is offering burst training classes two times a week for one month, and it's FREE!  I can't beat free, so I'm going to try it out.  I'm not sure what it's all about, but I start tomorrow night- I'll let you know how it goes!

**Still Day 259**

I received a blog award from Taryn - thank you so much!!!  I love her blog!  Anyway, this is the award:



"Liebster" means "favorite" or "beloved" in German.  And the award is given to bloggers with under 200 followers, and, yup, that's me!  I have way under 200 followers - I have 32!!  And I love and appreciate them all!  And now I'm supposed to send the award out to 5 other bloggers that have under 200 followers.  A few bloggers I was going to pick already received the award, so I won't reward you, but you gals are awesome.  So, here's my picks:

Jacqui
Deb (I'm not sure how many followers Deb has - I can't see her blog right now because of the Malware virus thing, but, I think, she has below 200)
Finding a Path
Hope
Chubby (I'm cheating on this one because she has 226 followers, but I can't skip Chubby because I love her blog, and I would give her an award every day, if I could!)

So, there's my list.  A few of the blogs have been around for awhile, and a couple are just starting out, but I enjoy reading all of them!