Won't you Join me?

I was planning on waiting till next weeks marathon monday but I'm bored and wanna blog about this now.

I always run on the treadmill. I am fully capable of setting a pace and keeping it. Today I decided to run outside because I need to start REALLY training and knowing what it feels like and how well I do running outside. Let me tell you, it is soooo much harder! First of all, in case you haven't heard, AZ is HOT! I need to start waking up early, and I though 7:45 would be early enough. It was still 95 degrees, and half way through my run my water bottle got so hot it was disgusting drinking anymore water(still did, but it was gross). Its not only harder running in the elements, but it's also tougher to set a good pace when you don't really know how fast you are running. (even though I have the most awesome app in the history of ever, map my run.) My two mile time last week on the treadmill was 20:26. And today I did 2.35 miles is 27:00. thats an 11:37 mile. Yikes not so good. Seriously though, from now on I NEED to train outside because my first race is coming up soon!! Which brings me to the main topic of this post

I'm running my first 10k on October 1st!

I already have 1 maybe 2 people joining me, and I'm wondering if anyone else wants to.
I have been looking at doing a race before I do my half. And finally I found this one.

I'm all about this cause. And after reading the story I knew I had to do this one

So anyone is Phoenix wanna join me is this 10k?!

I'm really excited if you can't tell. Exactly 6 weeks till race day!!

Marathon Monday Week 2

I can not believe how fast this week went by. Actually how fast time is going by altogether. Only 71 more days till my babe comes home! I can't wait to actually live with him for the first time in 20 months of marriage. It has been too long.

August 8th-13th

Monday 8th- 2 miles 20:26 1 hour yoga

Tuesday 9th- .48 mile 5:00 Upper body

Wednesday 10th- 3 miles 32:20

Thursday 11th- Rest

Friday 12th- 4 miles 44:30 45 min yoga

Saturday 13th- .60 mile to gym lower body .60 from gym

This week was alright. When I did the 4 mile on friday that was the like the farthest I have ever run at a time so far and so I just cared about finishing, not about time :/ I wanted an 11 min mile but I did a little over. Oh well I'll do better next time. But other than that I feel pretty good about my workouts.

Can't wait for this week though. I'm planning on doing a sunrise hike at camelback! If anyone is in the Phoenix area and wants to join let me know!

How is everyone one doing with their fitness/weight goals?

Weigh in Wednesday and What your song Thursday

Ya I know, no need to tell me Weigh in Wednesday was yesterday. But my doctors appointment was today. So is my next one in 4 weeks ps, in case you were wondering.

But on with todays numbers. I wasn't totally satisfied, but my doctor was amazed at how well I'm doing. So that game me a little more confidence about my numbers.

I lost 4 lbs since my last appointment.

But the cool part is, I got hooked up to the machine(she says the name every time, but every time I forget what it's called) and since the last time I was hooked up I have...

Lost 9lbs

Lost 13lbs of fat

Gone down 3 points on the BMI scales

And have lost of good percent of body fat or something. Ha I guess I should listen better in my appointments.

But after hearing that I'm pretty happy with where I am now.

She said that you should be loosing a pound a week and that is like normal/where I should be.

Butttt...By the time my next appointment comes around (4weeks) I wanna lose 10 lbs. Which may or may not be reasonable. Especially since I'll be on a house boat at Lake Powell for a week. But I'm gonna try my hardest to make that goal.

Now onto the Link up!

I was just really feeling these two songs today.

I can't decide between them, and I love them both, so here they are

Mumford and Sons

Marathon Monday Week 1

I decided I'm gonna be doing marathon Monday while I'm doing my half marathon training, just to kind of keep track of my training.

August 1st-6th.

Monday 1st- 2 miles. 21:00

Tuesday 2nd- Rest

Wednesday 3rd- 2.5 miles 26:30

Thursday 4th- upper body. .53 miles run 5:00

Friday 5th- 3 miles 32:00

Saturday 6th- lower body. 15 min elliptical. .54 run 5:21

This week was alright. I was generally just going by my training schedule which doesn't have any strength or any other training. And I need to do other stuff every day as well as running. I felt awesome after my runs, but I want every day, every workout to feel like I'm killing it. And I just didn't feel that way this week.

I want my run times to remain under a 11 min mile because when race time come around I want no more than a 12 min mile, but my ultimate goal would be 11. We'll see how that goes.

Side note to this all. Last night I hid the scale in my bathroom under the counter. I had this really bad habit of weighing myself every time I went in the bathroom, and it was really stressing me out. I decided I'm only gonna weigh when I go into the doctor, and after first line therapy is over, I'm only going to weigh once every other week.

P.S. thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions from my last post! I decided I'm definitely gonna change the name(just the name, not the url). Brea at Utterly Chaotic Designs is doing the the design and I am so excited for the change!!

True Life: I'm a general blogger

Today, I’m linking up with Tara of fabulous but evil and Mrs. Monologues in the True Life Link Up!






I started blogging 3 years ago next month.

When I started blogging I blogged about fun dates with my boyfriend

Our many Spontaneous trips to California and other places, but mostly Cali

And our puppies

Then in December 2009 we got married, then he joined the army and I started blogging about being sad and missin my man

The First Day

Sad time

But then I started to get over that (a little) and now I blog about happier thing (sometimes) haha

I still blog about fun trips

Dates with my love

And our not so little anymore dogs

And something new I blog about frequently is my weight loss journey

40lbs down and counting!

The times with we have together are a less often then when we were dating

But that just means we have more fun when we are together :)

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And we always have our sweet reunions

Sasha & Alex from chelsea tolman on Vimeo.

Thanks for following along with my life

And if you're not following, try it! There might be something you like in here!

Winner and Link Up

Forgive me for being totally internet deficient

I promise it's legit! I just couldn't figure out how to get it on here so I took a picture :/

And the winner is Fran!! Congrats girl!! Email me your address and I'll get the gift card out!

Thanks everyone for playing along!

Now for the Link Up

I'm linking up with Goodnight Moon To do What's Your Song Thursday!

I am currently obsessed with this song!

Everyone go over and link it up!

Weigh in Wednesday. Week, this doesn't count

Long time since a weigh in Wednesday. The whole month of July was nothin but vacations, which everyone knows is not a good time for dieting. I tried...some of the time..

But since my last appointment as of today I have lost 2 more lbs.

Butttt. I'm not counting this haha. I'm on my lady business today and I feel fatter than fat. Super bloated and Yucckk.

Thanks everyone so much for your nice words from my last post

Just reading that actually made me feel a lot more positive :)

Remember to enter the giveaway! It'll end tonight at midnight. MST

A little sad

I was all excited that it's August. But I really didn't even think about what that meant.

I have been living in a tiny room, with most of my belongings in storage, in my parents house, without my husband, dying for my own space, with my husband, with our dogs, and with all of our stuff, for a whole year now. (yes that was an incredibly long run-on sentence)

And the saddest bit of all of this is I won't get any of that until November.

Yes, you read that right. 15 months.

New here? Confused? Here allow me to catch you up.

Alex left for BCT end of December 2009. He graduated middle of March 2010. I decided to join him at AIT, even though I wasn't on his orders cause it wasn't long enough. So I lived alone. He lived in the barracks. 10 weeks in he got to spend the night on weekends. Then at 19 weeks he graduated and I left back to Arizona to get ready for our big move to our first duty station, Korea. But week after week his orders kept getting messed up, and he couldn't leave Fort Gordon. Finally he got his orders in October. But they canceled command sponsorship to Korea, and I had to stay home, and Alex was off on an unaccompanied tour to Korea for a year.

About the time he comes home it will have almost been 2 years since we've really been together. Gahhh I still feel so bitter, I hate it.

It's really hard not too look in the now of things.

I know I just need to think we have the rest of our life to spend time together.

And looking back it will seem like nothing.

Sometimes it's just hard to see things that way, but I'm trying!

Just under 3 more months!

And P.S. If you haven't already. Enter my Giveaway!

August, 200th, and a GIVEAWAY!!

Finally August! Just another month closer to finally being with my love!

Also today was the start of my marathon training.

Today I had to do 2 miles and did it in 21 min even. Not too bad, not too great.

This is my 200th post, as well as my first giveaway.

No one fancy is sponsoring it haha just me

25$ Visa Gift Card!

who doesn't want that?

To enter the giveaway you have to be a follower and then just leave a comment

saying you want it or your a follower, whatever haha

If you want a second entry just mention this in a blog post and comment again.

I'll probably announce the winner on Thursday morning. So you have until then

Happy August everyone! :)

For our two year

Alex and I talked today and decided for our two year wedding anniversary this year we'll be running a half marathon together!

It started when I was looking on line today for races to do. Then I found a half marathon on Dec 11th in North Carolina! Our anniversary is on the 14th so I thought that would be something fun we could do together. Alex has always been a big runner and done races and whatnot. I have not. I always though it was cause of my legs, or cause I got shin splints and cause my knees and hips hurt when I ran just a little bit. Turns out it was just cause I was fat and overweight haha.

I am actually pretty good at running now, I guess I just needed to get in shape.

I'm mostly just way happy that I will get to do something with Alex that he loves. It'll be fun to bond this way.

Alex custom made me Nike's a couple weeks ago. And I was really excited about getting them in soon, but turns out he never totally checked out online boo. So I made me some today and just purchased them so they should be here in 4 weeks, hopefully sooner!

I bought the Free Run id2 because I want to ease into barefoot running. I be in these for a while then switch to fives.

The shoes I love the colors I picked cause I love everything bright and fun!

I went online and looked at a bunch of different training schedules and am between two right now. The first one is a ten week. Has 3 rest days a week and has a little higher miles a day.

The next is a twelve week one has 2 rest days a week and has lower miles a day.

I think I might just end up merging the two to make my ownish.

If anyone has done any races and has any tips on training it would be much appreciated!

Jerome

We go to Sedona ever year, and we also take a day and go up to Jerome every year.

We stayed for a few hours, not too long though cause gpa was done. So done he ended the trip by yelling at me so loud that our cousins pretty far away could hear haha

us at lunch at the Haunted Hamburger

Saw a playground so of course we all stopped to played haha I insisted and went down the slide first

Grandpa loved it! haha

mom biffed it at the end and slid in the dirt haha

creepy pig at the old brothel haha and of course we went in

Around Sedona

Here are some pictures of the fam and me in Sedona

us with our pal mike rowe

love life is good stuff!

Maranda and Ashley

ignore my gross nails

me and dad

mom and ash

me and roo

ash and gpa

aw he's so cute

Had fun on our vacation but glad to be back home with my baby dogs!

I missed them!

Next up pictures from Jerome!