My newest goal

Thanks to facebook for putting this as an ad on my sidebar. I found a new goal to work for. Like I can't even tell you how excited for this I am, even more than I was about the half marathon.
Which by the way might not be happening cause it's a big possibility Alex will be doing Airborne then, he is supposed to be doing it shortly after he gets back so I'm not going to sign up till I know for sure if he'll be here or not.
But I showed this to the husband and he said it looks way fun. So hopefully if he is not deployed we will be doing this. Either way I AM doing it! I am going to make friends at Bragg and then force one of them to do it with me haha

Anyway without further ado here it is

I am going to do the Spartan Race Sooo excited!!

Oh big P.S. because I know your dying to see my bruised up legs I was talking about here it is

You can't see all of them but there are about 12. Its weird, it's like every time I look more seem to pop up haha

Marathon Monday Week 4. Suggestions

This week I don't really have any runs, because as you know I was in the middle of a lake for 5 days.

I did run 2.5 miles on Monday but that's about it. But this week is gonna be good!

But I do have a question for any of you runners out there.

I consider myself a fairly solid runner, and have pretty good stamina when it comes to running.. on flat ground. We went up sand hill at powell and I found it a lot tougher than I should have considering how much I work out. And I found that going up hills or anything steep kinda kills me. I thing I need to start doing stairs more cause I'm so bad at them but I read somewhere that when marathon training you should avoid doing stairs or anything that will bulk up your quads.

What do you guys think about this? Should I not do then while training or do you think it really matters that much?

Powell

I'm back from our family reunion at Lake Powell. I loaded all my pictures up, and turns out, I'm really horrible at taking pictures. Not the quality of them, more like the quantity haha. I got a few good pictures of scenery but luckily there were like 20 other cameras there. Can't wait to get the pictures back of those! And remember my cousin Chelsea who does these awesome videos , and especially this one. Well she's gonna be making another video(or a few, not sure) of this trip. I'm so excited to see those!!

But for now, here's a few of the pictures I took.

These are all from my first morning there. I woke up way early, like 5:15 and was too restless to go back to sleep so two of my aunts and me went our boating first thing in the morning. It was so beautiful

I had no idea that was being taken haha

Our house boat

Sand hill, this thing is crazy steep, such a good workout and so much fun to run down!

haha had to put this up my uncle Kevin. He just got done skiing and I told him he looked like some sort of crazy bird, that's why he's making this face

Saturday we took all five boats and all of us went on a day trip to Rainbow Bridge, then went to Cathedral Rock or Mountain or something and had lunch that we pack such a fun day!

This trip was so much fun, but could have been about ten times better. I can't even tell you how much I miss my husband and wish he was there. I really thought the longer without him being here the easier it would get to the end but it just feels like it's getting harder.

The first day we were here my aunt tried to scare me and I almost got tossed off the boat. It was the most hilarious and terrifying thing of my life. My whole lower half of my body is completely covered in bruises and welts, and it hurts pretty bad. I am so insanely sore. Sadly the incident left me with a slight case of PTSD and being on boats going fast the rest of the week freaked me out. Like, it really stressed me out.

In other better news, our family goes boating all the time. Which means I've tried a ton to get up wakeboarding but my fat butt has never been able to get up. Until now woot woot!! I finally got up a few times!! It was the coolest thing ever! Glad I've been working out so much haha

But tomorrow it's back to reality. I start back at school tomorrow, I'm gonna be job looking, and it's time to start kicking my butt with workouts again. That 5 days without running was hard! Turns out it's harder than I thought it would be to find time to run in the middle of the lake haha. But luckily I still worked out with hiking, swimming and other lake activities.

How was everyone's weekend?!

Marathon Monday Week 3

This week was not so good. I have a few excuses. Even though excuses are bad.

1. I've been running outside in the heat all week. (still getting used to running outside)

2. I'm still kinda breaking in my shoes a little and have a couple painful blisters on the bottoms of my feet.

3. I'm really trying to better my distance, like how long I can actually run for without taking a break. So most of these I ran the whole way through.

August 15th-21st

Monday 15th- 2..35 miles 27:00

Tuesday 16th- hike up camelback mnt

Wednesday 17th- 2.00 miles upper body

Thursday 18th- 2.20 miles

Friday 19th- 2.11 miles lower body

Saturday 20th 1.82 miles

Sunday 21st- 1.84 miles

Now you'll notice don't have times for any of these. That would be because I went running with my dogs and didn't wanna tote along my water bottle, hold the leashes, and have my phone. So I didn't watch what time I left and what time I came back.

But I am in the market for a watch currently. Did you guys know all the cool stuff watches can do these days?! They can get your heart rate, your pace, mileage, and your calories burned. How freakin cool right?! So hopefully I'll be buying that this week or next.

I can't promise this week to be any better cause starting Wednesday for the next 5 days I'll will be relaxing here

Family Reunion this week on a freakin fab houseboat at Lake Powell. So Excited!!

I love going here definitely one of my favorite places

Then the day I come back I go back to school.

I probably won't be blogging again until I come back, so everyone have a fantastic next week!

I know I will and will be back with tons of pictures!

The most awful dream

I had to most terrible dream last night and I can't stop thinking about it, so here I am blogging about it. And it's gonna be all over the place cause lets face it. Explaining dreams is the hardest thing ever.

It started out I was on my way to pick up my two kids from Alex's friends house. Apparently me and Alex had to girls a two year old and a 6 month old. (about I didn't really know haha) So Alex's friend and his fiance were watching them and I go pick them up and they didn't wanna give them back almost like they were worried and just kept kissing them and saying how much they loved them.

I finally got them and me and Alex went to my friends brothers wedding. It was the night before the wedding and they had this pre surf party, everyone was out surfing then we went to a water park, then me and alex went shopping for a dress for the wedding.

We went back to the hotel room(the kids were left there, don't know why) And all of a sudden Alex was like "I can't take this anymore. I know you can't see it but you need to open your eyes and see who you really are" And I was like what do you mean and he said "just look!"

There was this giant mirror along the wall and I looked and I was like the fattest person ever(with kim kardashians face?)(I was skinny but in the mirror I was fat) And I saw this clip of us dress shopping earlier and was just like buy me this dress and this one. And I was just demanding and mean and selfish.

But this is the worst part, I looked at our girls who before were perfect, and they were covered in burn scars. And Alex said, "you did that! Don't you remember you burned our girls!"

And I was like nooo! And he took them and left and I was alone.

Do you see why this is the worst dream ever?! I can't stop thinking about it. And I can't stop thinking about why I am such a psycho in my dream what the heck!?! Ahhh. Definitely the most disturbing thing I've ever dreamed. So effed up right?!

New Kicks and Link up

My new NikeiD's came in today!! Yay! I am so loving them! They literally weigh probably 3 oz. They're supposed to feel like barefoot running, which I am trying to get into. A little while after these I'll get Five's then go to totally barefoot. But anyway. I love them! They're nike free run 3.0 if you're wondering

We had an awesome dust storm in the valley this evening. Which always makes for a beautiful sky.

Fun fact #352 about me: I literally go outside every night for at least 3 min just to look at the sky/sunset. Every night. Arizona sunsets are the best.

Moving on to Goodnight moon's link up!

I decided in honor of my new running shoes. I wanted to do my guaranteed get pumped running song, (actually ANY song by them will do the trick for me) I only listen to pandora when I run(well mostly) and anytime this song comes on I get so excited (and its usually the live version)

If anyone knows me, they know this is my number one all time favorite band, has been since I was in 9th grade. I've seen them live a few times and they are incredible!

So here it is LG FUAD by Motion City Soundtrack. (ps. the F is the F word so if you're super offended by profanity don't listen, doesn't say it a ton, but still)

Silly

A year ago(ish I honestly don't totally remember the exact date) Alex and I got fake married.. That's where you're already married but you invite everyone to see you pretend to get married and have a reception. It was good times. I've seen a bunch of blogs where people try on their wedding dresses a year later to see if they still fit. I wanted to do that, except I wanted to make sure it didn't fit hahaa cause I was a bit bigger.

Gross right. Yeah that's what I said when I looked through these. I was just telling Alex the other day how much it sucks the happiest pictures I have are the ones I'm supposed to love. My fake wedding and pictures of the time I lived in Korea with my hubs for 6 weeks. Yet those are the pictures that I can't even look at without being grossed out at myself. Grrr

Here I am a year later

Why yes, I am doing weird faces cause I'm totally awkward whilst taking self photos

Wanna know why I'm sad faccing? Cause the biggest part of the dress is the chest. Oh noess!! I'm losing all my boobs! :(

Pictures Just don't do it justice just how much room is in the chest.

I knows its not just my boobs getting smaller, even though you can see a significant difference, boo. Its my back, arm, and stomach fat too. So yay!

Gotta say, this dress just looks silly on me now. I gotta do a trash this dress sesh.

Sad part of this all is this was in August and I didn't even try to start losing weight till March. That like 7 more months of gaining. Ya this wasn't even t he biggest I got. Ewe.

Sunrise and New Design!

I've always preferred sunsets over sunrises. Actually, I didn't even think sunrises were that nice. I guess I never watched the sunrise over a mountain on a mountain. I hiked Camelback Mountain at 5:30 this morning so I could watch the sunrise. It was so beautiful. There is no better setting, or hiking than Arizona. I love the desert.

Favorite Picture from the morning

Of course I had to take a couple picture of me sweating my face off

And my hugely swollen hand haha

It's weird, I've done this hike a couple time before(not in a couple years) but I remember this being like the hardest thing in the world and it about killing me. So I was pretty surprised when I got the the top and was like "that was it, serious" Ya I showed that mountain who's boss haha

And in case you did not realize I got a new blog design! I love it soooo much!! I'm so happy with it! Brea at Utterly Chaotic Designs did an amazing job!!