I digress... And I use a lot of... so be warned!
I need to start a little further back then today but not so far back as my last blog. My mom at a work Christmas party won a fitbit charge 2. She is someone who likes gadgets but not technology gadgets so after explaining somewhat how they work and offering it up to my brother I got to claim it for myself! Now the technology aspect of this little gadget has me typing in how much water I drink, challenging friends to walking competitions, and tracking steps. I made my daily goal 10,000 and have only hit it twice.
With that being said... I have been watching this little character on my wrist to see if it really does track steps correctly. The first day it told me I was creeping up to 70 steps while I was merely standing in place combing my hair, putting it in the traditional pony tail, and brushing my teeth. I literally took not a single step. My next tracking challenge was to run four miles. I put my GPS on and the fitbit and they came within a few steps of each other which was probably user error trying to start two things at the same time. Today I put the fitbit to the test again and it was a full quarter mile off -too short from the two mile distance I ran. So after three tests of this piece of technology I'm going to take it with a grain of salt so to speak because it appears to only be correct 33% of the time after three trials.
I do like the ability to tack multiple things and I'm sure as I spend the next five months working on my goal I'll talk more about it.
So as you can see my half marathon is going to be the Pro Football Hall of Fame half. My husband gave me the official training shirt and the log book and a training plan for my Christmas gift. Now being who we are we tend to edit those training plans so it's not worth posting that in a picture. I'm not following the plan to a T and will be making edits at least weekly!
The training log is a tried and true because I can't log online. I've tried to be modern and every time I try to track something online it gets lost, I get tired of the time it takes to get to the correct spot, and I can't just easily flip through years and years of logbooks to compare easily. I'll be the logbook keeper when technology no longer has them available in paper format. That old lady that just won't get with the times that staples some three ring binder paper together, spills some beverages on a corner or two, uses white out here and there... yep that will be me! Again I digress...
I've never purchased an official in training shirt for an upcoming event. I tend to be low key. Josh is scoping out the video for the course, checking out the pictures of the mile markers on the course, memorizing the elevation chart... I on the other hand have asked him do I need to train in town, our Hilloween Half Marathon course, the Greenway Trail, or Mill Creek Park. I just need to know what type of course the race will take place on so I run accordingly. I don't like knowing what is ahead of me and maybe that would help but the mind game of right now is hard enough to tackle let alone adding the mind game of knowing what is yet up ahead!
I'm not entirely unfamiliar with this particular course. A handful of years back a friend and I race-walked the 10k course. Our husbands ran the half and since she isn't a runner she asked if I wanted to walk it with her. She could have out walked me any day... I probably slowed her down. But it was fun to come into the stadium hearing your names called over the speaker system.
Anyhow, the race is paid for. The hotel is booked. Apparently the necessary start your training motivational gear is in place. So all I need now is a pair of shoes. I'm horrible with shoes. I run in shoes that are like 300 plus miles over their lifespan. I do retire them to my coaching shoes but face it, I'm not exactly rolling in the dough so slapping $160-$200 down for a pair of shoes is basically my entire week's pay. And I'll need two pairs of shoes between now and race day. So I have to make these work for the month of January. Don't get me wrong these New Balance are a great pair of shoes...two half marathons and two PRs ago!
This past week I had a cold so I was lazy. Didn't hit up the gym. Didn't go out to run. I was annoyed enough with my cold that having the fitbit on bothered me so I plopped it onto the charger until New Year's Eve at 12:15 in the morning. I wanted to start the year out holding myself accountable. It is after all why I'm trying to blog. So again...here I am day one and I put my time in.
Day two I promise myself to eat healthier. Right now I'm starving and the leftovers are calling my name. Give me a break! I'm a work in progress. :)
