9 weeks to go

So it's been a long time since I wrote a fitness post. I don't even know what week I'm on anymore. All I do know is there are only 9 weeks left until the Monster Dash Half Marathon that I registered for way back when. I've been doing pretty good over the last couple of weeks. I went for a 5 mile run yesterday. It took me about an hour, but that included a quick pit stop at mile 3. I've been hovering right around 161 lbs for the last couple of weeks. My original goal was to be under 150 lbs by race day. I think it's still possible, I just need to be better about what I eat. I always have an excuse for what I eat. When it's too hot I don't want to cook so we eat crap. Now that it's a tolerable temperature in the kitchen with the oven on I cook cheesy delicious rich things and eat way too much of them. Oh well. I'm still getting smaller and fitting into more of my old clothes so I'm not too concerned about the actual number the scale says. What I really need to do is start some strength training again. My arms are so weak and I keep thinking about how much easier it would be to run if my core were stronger but I never do anything about it. I broke our set of weights at home a few months back and they're really expensive to replace. They're just hunks of metal, why do they cost so much? I just need to suck it up and do some good old fashioned calisthenics. I'll get back to posting weekly updates on this, but from now on the weekly count will go down to race day. Happy training!