Day 9:  Yesterday was hard!!!  It was raining in the morning (or at least I thought it was raining) so I slept in until 7:00.  I grabbed my gym bag and some clothes and went to work after the usual morning of helping the kids and Shelley…  I went to the gym at work at around 1:30pm and got on the the treadmill.  I did 45 minutes but the first few minutes were just figuring out how the damn thing worked.  It was very awkward and I felt like I was going to fall off the thing almost the entire time…  The good part about it was that you can make the “hill” as steep as you want.  So, I never really jogged at all (I was sure I would wipe out if I tried) and I worked very hard just walking uphill the entire time.  I got my heart rate up over 140 and it would go between 140 and 155 depending on the steepness…  I admit that I really don’t like doing cardio in the Gym and sweating profusely in front of a bunch of other people…  😉  It did not feel very good and I got a little sleepy later in the afternoon.

Today was good.  I did the same 3.5 miles this morning as last week but jogged the entire trip with the exception of the first 2 blocks and the last 2 blocks.  Warm up and warm down is important…  I felt the calves and the lower back talking to me again but with much softer voices.  I also admit that I didn’t listen so well near the end of the run because I wanted to finish the whole distance.  I felt very good again driving to work.  Water is heavy….!  I weighed myself before my run and after my run and I was 2.2 lbs lighter afterward.  This means I sweated over 1/4 of a gallon of water! (a little more than a quart)  WOW!

Weight before run: 260.2 lbs – Weight after run: 258.0 lbs  My weight has been fluctuating a lot depending on when I weigh myself so I’m not paying much attention to these numbers yet…