My Life in Review
Today was the first time in a while that I have done a long run by myself. Kenny is gone in Florida taking care of grandpa and I didn't run with a friend since it was only 8 miles. I will save my phone a friends for the super long ones.
This meant that I had a lot of time to think. Normally I am all chatty or at least listening to my ipod but today I had neither. I decided to focus on counting down the number of running intervals that I needed to do.
That also meant that from the 27th interval and down, I compared each interval to that year in my life. It was actually really fun so I thought I would share the highlights with you. (My birthday is in June so it just happens to coincide with the academic year which is convenient) :) I won't recount every year and every memory just some cool milestones.
Stefanie's Life in 300 words or less
(237 to be exact!)
12- I made the choice to go to Public school after being in Private school my entire life because I wanted to be in Band.
17- Finally got my drivers license a few days before the beginning of my senior year. Graduated High School. Go Plant City High!
18- Decided to go to the University of South Florida and met the best friends in the world through RHA. Also met a crazy girl named Cristal who sat in the back of RHA meetings and asked too many questions
19- Joined Sigma ALpha Iota and became friends with Cristal because she was my Big Sister!
21- My good friend Colin decided to kick my ass in the gym and made me his gym partner for some odd reason. That is when I finally realized that I could be athletic if I tried. Graduated College and decided to go to Grad school at the University of Central Florida
23- I decided to join a social sorority and went through recruitment. Ended up joining my top Choice Kappa Alpha Theta. Graduated from Graduate School and accepted my first professional job.
24- Moved to Georgia and then Got Married :)
25- Started Running in March (This was March 2007 for those keeping record)
26- We made the move over to Warner Robins and bought a house. I also ran 4 Half Marathons.
27- The year of my first marathon. (Results TBA)
Also I was trying to find a good "Before" picture of me and this is what I came up with. This picture was taken in November of 2007 right after my first Half Marathon but before I started losing weight. It is definitely not me at my highest weight but my most recent highest weight. It is the best pic I could find with what is on this computer!
Look at my chubby cheeks! :)I have uploaded a few more pictures that might grace the blog as I near my first mini weight loss goal. Just trying to be dramatic folks LOL
OH BTW. Run went well today. I really wanted to hit the 8 mile mark in under 2 hours but knew it would be almost impossible. I hit it in 2:00:03 and couldn't be more pleased. I hit some killer fast intervals in the second half of the run (killer fast for me!)
8 miler- 12/20/2008
2r/2.5w interval
Overall Time- 2:00:03
15:00 average pace
156 average HR
182 max HR
11:24- Fastest Run Interval (An hour and 34 minutes into the run!)
This meant that I had a lot of time to think. Normally I am all chatty or at least listening to my ipod but today I had neither. I decided to focus on counting down the number of running intervals that I needed to do.
That also meant that from the 27th interval and down, I compared each interval to that year in my life. It was actually really fun so I thought I would share the highlights with you. (My birthday is in June so it just happens to coincide with the academic year which is convenient) :) I won't recount every year and every memory just some cool milestones.
Stefanie's Life in 300 words or less
(237 to be exact!)
12- I made the choice to go to Public school after being in Private school my entire life because I wanted to be in Band.
17- Finally got my drivers license a few days before the beginning of my senior year. Graduated High School. Go Plant City High!
18- Decided to go to the University of South Florida and met the best friends in the world through RHA. Also met a crazy girl named Cristal who sat in the back of RHA meetings and asked too many questions
19- Joined Sigma ALpha Iota and became friends with Cristal because she was my Big Sister!
21- My good friend Colin decided to kick my ass in the gym and made me his gym partner for some odd reason. That is when I finally realized that I could be athletic if I tried. Graduated College and decided to go to Grad school at the University of Central Florida
23- I decided to join a social sorority and went through recruitment. Ended up joining my top Choice Kappa Alpha Theta. Graduated from Graduate School and accepted my first professional job.
24- Moved to Georgia and then Got Married :)
25- Started Running in March (This was March 2007 for those keeping record)
26- We made the move over to Warner Robins and bought a house. I also ran 4 Half Marathons.
27- The year of my first marathon. (Results TBA)
Also I was trying to find a good "Before" picture of me and this is what I came up with. This picture was taken in November of 2007 right after my first Half Marathon but before I started losing weight. It is definitely not me at my highest weight but my most recent highest weight. It is the best pic I could find with what is on this computer!
Look at my chubby cheeks! :)I have uploaded a few more pictures that might grace the blog as I near my first mini weight loss goal. Just trying to be dramatic folks LOL
OH BTW. Run went well today. I really wanted to hit the 8 mile mark in under 2 hours but knew it would be almost impossible. I hit it in 2:00:03 and couldn't be more pleased. I hit some killer fast intervals in the second half of the run (killer fast for me!)
8 miler- 12/20/2008
2r/2.5w interval
Overall Time- 2:00:03
15:00 average pace
156 average HR
182 max HR
11:24- Fastest Run Interval (An hour and 34 minutes into the run!)