Weekend Recap...COMING!

Olivia has done her race recap so now I can do my spectating recap :o) but that won't be happening til tomorrow. I've had two great days of working out but oh my geesh, I'm tired and I'm guessing that tomorrow I'll be sore.

Tuesday Swim - 1400 meters took about 45 minutes
Wednesday Track - Ran 50 minutes total and did lots and lots of drills in between all the running

I'll post updates on both tomorrow, I go to sleepy night night now.

Weight in Pictures & Numbers

There is a whole long story about my day yesterday and about how I could have cancelled because I forgot all my swim gear but I'll just get over it and move on. I was a good girl and instead of cancelling on Amy & Phil I headed over to Big 5 and got a new swimsuit, goggles & swim cap and I made my way to poopy lake Shadow Cliffs. It was freezing once again and we had originally decided to do 5 laps but for some weird reason I had lots of energry and did 8 laps :o) YAY! I was very tired and frozen by the end but I was proud of us. Phil got 6 laps done which is super great considering it was his first time out since he did it with Rocky 2 years ago. YAY PHIL!

We are San Diego bound this weekend to watch/cheer/support our friends at the San Diego Rock & Roll Marathon, Ms. Olivia will be doing the half marathon. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! and GOOD LUCK to Ms. Amy whose doing a half here in Alameda tomorrow.

Now on to the weight issue. As you can see from my ticker I've lost 12lbs. I started WW AGAIN back in December at it's taken me that long to lose the weight and not gain it all back. I have been good during the week at work but of course not so good on my weekends but the good news is I'm still down the 12lbs and that's all that matters. I have 17 more pounds to lose and when I tell this to people I get the response - NO YOU DON'T YOU LOOK GREAT! I may not look fat to most of you but I feel fat and as you will see in pictures I used to be much much skinnier. In fact my goal weight is 110-115. I used to be 95-100 until I was about 25 years old :o( The nice thing about my body is that even at 95lbs I still looked okay and not anorexic because I've got a big bottom half of my body :o) so it makes up for the top smaller part.

So let's take a look back.

aaww, Chunky Monkey :o) here everything is chunky but look at them legs! (1976, I think)

1994 Senior in High School (95lbs and again look at them legs, not so skinny)

1999 (I think) Concert at the Concord Pavillion (95lbs)

2003 Las Vegas for the Half Marathon (100lbs)

2004 or 2005 I can't remember at all what season this is and what we were training for, Cynthia do you remember? (105lbs and already freaking out about my weight going up, the cute outfit now just sits all alone in the closet :o( )

2005 w/hubby at Track Workout (110-115lbs, again I thought I was huge and now looking back I look fine and this is my ideal weight that I'm trying to get back to)

Now at 132lbs (at my highest I was at 144 which was back in December, not so good when the maximum weight for my height is 128, yikes)

So see, I will not disappear and look sickly if I lose another 17lbs. I will be just right and I'll be a happy camper.

Now that training is starting my plan is to be as strict as I can with my weight watchers points and of course workout like a crazy girl during training. I'm hoping those two things together will help me with the last bit of weight that I need to lose. It's frustrating that weight lose is such a constant struggle for not just me but many people. It seems to be the issue for everyone. Wish we could just eat the foods we like and go on our merry skinny ways. Oh well, we keep plugging along and make it work, right?

Remember Chilly?

Chilly Willy is what Amy and I felt like last night. We went to Shadow Clifs, we got in the water and swam 5 laps even though really we just wanted to run and sit under a heat lamp. It was very cold last night, even colder than the first time we swam at Shadow Cliffs. I thought for a minute that we would actually chicken out and leave but we didn't and we were good girls and although we were frozen we still swam 5 laps and then we got the heck out of there and into Amy's nice warm car :o)

THANK YOU

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who's donated :o) you guys are awesome and I really appreciate all of your support.

This weekend was filled with lots and lots and lots of food and drinks and fun and this week is detox week because starting Tuesday, June 3rd offical training begins.....YIKES!

Friday night Rocky and I had dinner with my friend Debbie and her new BF :o)

Saturday was a BBQ at Brandy's house (what happened to the nice weather?) with lots of yummy food and a lot of fun with friends.

Sunday we headed up to Granite Bay, with Olivia and the doggies and we spent Sunday and Monday at my brother/sister-in-laws house. The whole family went up and we were not lacking any food or drinks. Weather was a little better, at least it wasn't raining, although not good enough to go swimming so we just hung around and chatted with everyone and relaxed. It was a nice time up there THANK YOU CHRIS & HIDEKO for having us :o)

For some weird reason I didn't take many pictures this weekend :o(

Anyway, this week should be fairly mellow. Amy and I will be swimming Tuesday and Thursday and on Saturday Rocky and I head down to San Diego to watch Olivia, Lael and a few of our TNT friends run the Rock & Roll Half/Full Marathon.

Swam with the Ducks/Geese

I did it I got back in the water yesterday and did my darn workout :o( yuck lots of geese in the water which I'm sure meant more poop in the water :o( We STUNK really bad when we got out. I did 7 laps last night and felt pretty good but because of my "issues" with looking down and seeing fish I've noticed that my form is a bit off. I'm not keeping my head in the water the way I should. All in all it went well and I only had one freak out moment when I saw a couple of fish. We'll be back there next week I think for our last two days of swimming there on our own. The following week we start official training with the team.....YIPEE!

Today I'm enjoying my extra day off hanging out with the doggies, shopping and catching up on TV.

Have a great and safe holiday weekend!

Why to Donate

Yesterday I sent out a bunch of emails to friends, family and people I work with because as you know I'll be fundraising for Pac Grove. I joined TNT the winter of 2002 and one of our team honorees was Rich Brooks who was in remission from Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia. Rich was on Gleevac, a medicine whose research was funded by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Rich is a police office in San Jose and has a wife and two children. Rich was honoree for several of our teams and Kim, his wife, was on several of our teams as well and has done quite a few races. Olivia and I became good friends with them and have spent time with them outside of the TNT stuff. We keep in touch and when I fundraise they always donate. They are really grateful for what LLS has done for their family.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. Here is part of an email I received from his wife today and it's why I continue to raise money.

Good news.... Bad news. First the bad: unfortunately, the Gleevec ran its course with Rich and stopped working. About 3 months ago, they put him on another one called, Sprycel..... another drug that the LLS helped fund. Good news: After a rocky start, the drug kicked in and he's better now then he's ever been - even when he was on the Gleevec. He's considered in remission and feeling great!

I'm sure it was scary for them to find out that the Gleevac wasn't working anymore but because of LLS and the research it funds they were able to find another medicine. This makes me happy.

w/Rich at the Nike Pasta Party 2003

If you are interested in donating you can do so on the link posted on the left hand side of my page :o) THANK YOU!

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Now to the events that unfolded at Shadow Cliffs last night :o(

Amy and I headed to Shadow Cliffs for our swim even though we both weren't really wanting to, it was cold and windy :o( but we drove out there like the good little girls that we are. We were getting ready and had a chat with the other people who've been swimming out there, one of the ladies is also doing Pac Grove. Anyway, we started to get into the water which actually seemed a bit warmer than last week, maybe it was the 100+ degree weather, as I'm walking in I see a shadow and FREAK OUT. I then realize that there are several BIG shadows swimming along, THEY WERE VERY BIG FISH not minnow size ones like Amy is trying to make you believe. If they were that small people wouldn't be fishing in these waters. I hightailed it out of the water screaming like a little kid and I DID NOT go back in :o(


I know the fish are there, I have always known the fish are there and I've seen them do their little dance on top of the water from far away but I have never seen them right at my feet that close to the shore. I have no idea why I have this weird phobia of fish. My parents used to take me to lakes, I like swimming in the ocean when we go on vacation but I have this weird thing about what is unde the water. I've been snorkeling plenty of times and have swam with dolphins twice but I've noticed that when I do it takes me a good 10 minutes to relax, not hyperventilate and not drown because I'm freaked out about what is under me, near me or around me. Writing about it is giving me anxiety :o( I have today and tomorrow to talk myself into getting back into that water. Amy and I are suppose to swim again. This ought to be interesting.


Yes Amy got a good laugh and so did my hubby. I called him while I sat on the shore and waited for Amy to swim. Which by the way she did an awesome job. Last week we did 5 laps and this week she got 8 laps done.....YAY AMY! I was proud of her. I called my hubby and although he tried to be understanding I'm sure he was laughing inside. I also called Olivia because she has the same phobia but worse. She won't even get in the water. She had a good chuckle to but understood, thanks Olivia for listening to me whine.


Here is the picture of the ugly fish :o(

House Work

I had been avoiding cleaning my house because it has been so darn hot. I hadn't even done laundry because I didn't want to have to turn on the dryer. Anyway it's now cold at night. Someone tell me why we can't just have enjoyable weather, please? Why does it have to be 100+ or 40 degrees? How rude. Anyway it has gotten cool enough at night that I can actually clean our house and not sweat into a puddle. I went grocery shopping on my way home so when I got home I cleaned out the fridge of all the old leftovers and filled it with new yummy fresh food. I did laundry, put away dishes, dusted, windexed, cleaned the bathrooms and vacuumed. I had dinner with the hubby and by the time we went to bed it was way past my bed time and I'm pooped today. The good thing is our house is nice and clean again :o) YAY!

Tonight I am going to swim at Shadowcliffs against my will because I need to. Our mini triathlon is in exactly one month.