Holiday Booty Buster Challenge

Join me as I try to keep off the excess booty over the holidays. This challenge runs from November 19, 2011 (Thanksgiving week) through January 6, 2012 (just past New Year's). There's a points system, so you'll have to track it (I'll post my tracking sheet up here soon so you can use it) and lots of great prizes. It's run by my friend and co-worker, Amanda Brooks McLatchie, who's a very motivated and motivational runner. Check out her blog post on it then sign up - we can all use the challenge, the accountability and the booty-busting! :)

HBBC Details   |   HBBC Sign-Up Form
I've also signed up to take part (virtually) in the Resolution Run that Amanda helps put together. It's a fun run on New Year's day in Miami, Florida BUT you don't have to live in Miami to take part. As much as I'd rather be in Florida to do it, I'll be taking part in KC virtually (and potentially indoors...). If there are other KC peeps doing this, I'd love to make plans to get together and run it somewhere in the cold! :)

Resolution Run Details   |   Resolution Run Sign-Up

Runner's Tool

Are you a runner who listens to music while running? Do you wonder how fast your favorite song is or if it's really the right beat for what you're trying to do?

Here's a great website I just found where you just have to tap along to the song's beat and it will tell you average beats per minute:

http://www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm

Pretty cool! Unless you don't know how to keep a beat. Then it might suck. ;-)

Jingle Bell Run Update

My 2nd race was today. Read about it here:

http://2008accountability.blogspot.com/2008/11/jingle-bell-run-update.html

Running update

Please read an update on my running in the other blog:

http://2008accountability.blogspot.com/2008/11/running-update.html

Pumpkin Run Results

The Pumpkin Run was last Saturday and the results are in...

My official race time was 51:17 with a shot gun start. For those of you who are non-runners or newbies like me, this means that everyone's time is based off the shotgun (start) but not unnecessarily a specific indicator of how fast each individual actually ran, since it takes some time for each runner to actually cross the finish line!

Since I had my iPod and handy Nike+attached, I was able to get my "actual" time as well. For me, this was 41:04. My goal was to finish in less than 45 minutes and I DID IT! Yea me!

I didn't get an "official" race photo, so you don't get to see me in my pretty BRIGHT orange t-shirt. But, I was there and it was fun.

Next race...Jingle Bell 5k on November 16 (other than cold...it's supposed to be very cold...we'll see how THAT works!)