Author Archives: The Yellow Forest

12.19.11
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Conquered

I conquered Miramar Lake – and by conquer, I mean that I ran it all the way around non-stop at a pretty good pace even if I say so myself.  I was really debating whether I should try to make it around the lake or not.  I think the longest run I’ve done prior to today is about 4 miles.  I really wanted to make it around the lake – it would be much better than just stopping at one point and turning around.  Miramar Lake is also not flat – there aren’t any major hills but it does have some short spurts of ups and downs pretty frequently.  My goal was to run it under 52 minutes without stopping.  The loop, while most people say is 5 miles is really 4.92 – so just a bit shy.  Most of the time I’ve been running – I run at about a 10 minute pace and add on to that when there are hills involved.  Recently I’ve been trying to speed up.  I was doing pretty well throughout most of the run – always checking at each half mile and mile to make sure I was going under 10 minutes/mile.  I must have been going pretty fast early on – I think these were the splits (is that what it’s called?)  1 mile / 9:16; 2 miles / 19:10; 3 miles 29:15; 4 miles 39:30; 4.92 miles; 48:48.  I also remember getting kinda tired near the end but really trying to push through.

I felt so accomplished.  =D  This is the longest run I’ve done yet and I beat my goal by about 3 minutes!  Yay!  Now that I’ve been able to do it – I’m not afraid to try again.  Though it did take a lot of work and I really had to push myself to keep chugging along.  It wasn’t easy – but it’s doable.  :)

12.17.11
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Principle

Things that make me mad…

When people don’t keep their word.

When I explicitly tell people not to tell something to someone and they tell it – I guess that goes with the previous item.

Trust is huge for me – it takes a long time to build and a second to lose.

Under promise – over deliver.

12.01.11
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Thoughts of Late

Here are some things and thoughts of late:

  • Been thinking a lot about how to be a better leader
  • Been thinking a lot about football ministry
  • Want to write about the two turkey bowls we played in
  • Really wish I played college basketball
  • Still on track for the weight loss competition
  • Some days are good and some days are bad at the O – still trying to figure things out
  • Not sure if I gave money to a real homeless person or not at panera
  • LA’s going to be in the states in Dec – yay!
  • Parentals want to go to Taiwan next year
  • I want to make a trip to China to visit LA at some point
  • PTL my brother found a job – hope he likes it
  • Definitely have a lot of mixed feelings at the O
  • Don’t know what to get anyone for Christmas
  • I’m going to be a maid of honor!
  • Had a nice time visiting E and C and just talking about life
  • Started playing guitar again – it’s fun – I think I’m improving – hopefully
That’s it for now.
11.10.11
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Effort

Morning workout FTW :)  It’s actually not that bad.  We’ll see how long I keep thinking that.  C. wanted to run her trail running loop today so we did that.  She said it was 3.5 miles but I don’t think it was because it took about 36 minutes and since we weren’t running on flat land and we were on trails, it was probably shorter – maybe close to 3 or even a little less.  Gah, I hate those hills.  So freaking hard.  It always sucks while running it.  It sucks quite a bit actually.  I run so slow!

I think running in the trails triggered my allergies because my nose has been running non-stop since this morning and it now freaking hurts.  I’ve blown it so much it’s completely raw.  It’s so annoying and painful.  I have to blow my nose like every 2 minutes.  I took a claritin this morning that didn’t work.  I took an allegra about 1.5 hours ago, seems to be working a tad better but man..a runny nose hinders productivity by so much.

I also didn’t eat very well today.  I’ve been pretty conscious about what I’ve been eating since I’ve been working out and trying to lose weight.  I think today was the worst this whole week.  Funny though because while it seems bad to me today, before, I would totally eat this stuff but more of it and not even think twice.  Breakfast I was just going to have coffee and a banana but my coworker offered me half of his breakfast burrito so I had that and coffee.  For lunch I brought 2 leftover pieces of pizza – but they were so greasy and had so much dough that I barely ate it.  So I tried to eat a chicken caesar salad I bought but the lettuce looked nasty and I’m pretty picky about the way lettuce looks so I just ate the like tiny pieces of chicken and tossed it.  I also had a diet coke with lime – man those are so good.  Still unhealthy but at least its 0 calories.  Then I had some fruit for a snack.  For dinner I had a vietnamese sandwich and two eggrolls.  Dang, that sounds like a lot of food but really its not because I could have easily eaten a whole burrito for breakfast, eaten probably 3-4 slices of pizza for lunch and then eaten the same for dinner.

I’m kinda anxious about weighing in on Saturday!

Trying to lose weight takes a lot of sacrifice and a lot of effort and conscious decisions.  It’s hard work.