No...not a quarterback calling the play...but some significant numbers to me!
5 ~ When last we met on this blog, I was "in training" for my first 5K. Well, my first 5K has come and gone...my personal goal was to walk my 5K in under an hour. I made it in 58 minutes 7 seconds! It was actually fun...walked with my hubby Tim, our daughters, Lauren and Jessica, Lauren's husband John, our grandson Trindon (Trindon strolled!), our adopted kids, Chaz and Caitlyn and a sweet friend, Tina. They were all great cheerleaders! It was a sweltering hot day in south Louisiana, but we all made it!
49 ~ The day of my first 5K was also my 49th birthday. I've NEVER celebrated a birthday with so much physical exercise...with any physical exercise! So this was a first for me. We walked our 5K, then came back to the house, grilled hamburgers with all the fixings and celebrated my day with a divine chocolate cake...it was an awesome day! I'm looking forward to my 50th birthday next year!
73 & 9,777 ~ By now you know I'm on a health/fitness journey. These two numbers represent two pieces of information from my favorite iPhone app, RunKeeper. This app is awesome...tracks all kinds of stuff about your activity/exercise. For me, these two numbers represent the number of miles I've walked since April 16 (when I started using my RunKeeper app) and the number of calories burned walking those 73 miles! Seriously, almost 10,000 calories burned! Which leads me to my last number...
36 ~ The progress this Weight Watcher has made since January 7...the day I walked into Weight Watchers and faced the scale. 36.2 pounds to be exact and 17.5 inches. I'm starting to feel like I can actually win this battle! I've still got a long way to go, but progress is being made. I've had such great support along the way...I think that will be the topic of my next blog post...
I'm sure this is pretty boring stuff to most of you reading this...thanks for hanging in there with me! It's becoming important to me to set goals and challenge myself in this health/fitness journey. Walking another 5K this fall doesn't seem like much of a challenge...I've walked a few more 5K's since my first one. I started cycling this morning. It's a new activity, but it's more to keep me interested in exercising than anything else. So, I'm open to suggestions...what should be my next goal? What's your fitness goal?
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