Sunday, June 12 - Liberation

Thanks, everyone, for letting me know you care. It is great and very motivating to have an audience or, better yet, to have friends who want to take part. And posting regularly is good for me, it seems--people actually read this so I better stick with it! The definition of "regularly" is, of course, fluid.

The Boilermaker is fast approaching and I would rather have waited to sign up. Then I could have simply said, "Oops, oh well, maybe next year!" when it filled up in record time. Instead, I'm one of the lucky 13,000. If I had really wrapped my head around that number, I might have skipped it in favor of a 5k or something.

No worries, though. I'll be at the back of the pack and a good 12,000 people will have crossed the finish line before me, so I'm thinking I won't have much of a crowd to bother me. ;)  I have no illusions about what it will probably be like. I'll be going ten miles in what may very well be hot and humid weather. I will need to be well set-up beforehand, well hydrated, and maintain hydration with whatever people hand to me as I plod along.

Besides that, if I hadn't signed up I'd have probably kept slacking off diet-wise and gone nowhere for another few months. I really do want to bust my butt for the Copper Wire Run in October, and give my son Brad (who does cross-country at Camden High) a scare for a few minutes anyway. If I run the Boilermaker and lose a few more pounds in the interim, I might be able to do that. Heck, I might show him and his teammates a thing or two about real fitness.

Through CrossFit I am liberated from traditional training, traditional perspectives on eating, and a scale-centric view. The girl at Fleet Feet fitting me for good running footwear grilled me on training, and I knew what lies to tell--I didn't need to hear anything contrary to what I know is right for this hardcore idiot. I have no intention of training in any way other than what John at CrossFit says to do. Which is to say, I miss dairy!

I'll go into things more as the time goes by. I'll be posting daily menus but not necessarily every day. I'll also post my workouts. It'll be annoyingly time consuming but fun! Expect it at end-of-day, if at all, for that day.

Until then, I press on.

Kev