I think the sprinting has really helped with expanding my lung capacity. Because I can run a lot farther now without stopping. Which is kind of shocking considering I just came to grips with the fact that I thought I was just going to be a interval runner forever. Here's a couple tricks I use that seem to help me.

1. chewing gum while running helps the dry mouth

2. turning my music way up helps drown out my breathing, so I can push myself harder.

3. setting in my mind a specific spot I want to run to and running to it, rather than watching the stop watch for an allotted about of time.

I think that's it.

I shaved off another 20 seconds from my 2 mile run yesterday! I'm both shocked and amazed! So I think I run about a 12 minute 21 second mile now! I know in the "running world" it's not that amazing, but in mine it is!!

Progress!

I clobbered my previous best time for 2 miles today! I knocked off 1 minute and 49 seconds! Which doesn't sound like much but it really is.

I'm psyched!

Sprint Status:

Fun!!! Really and truly! Tomorrow it's back to distance though...I need some new running music.

Still Stuck

I've been doing absolutely horrible lately. But luckily the scale hasn't been reflecting it. I think I'm just bored...and lazy. I need to kick my own butt a little. Tomorrow's plan: sprints. I'll let you know how it goes.

I've been stuck at the same weight (varies by 3 lbs) for a long time now. I'm kind of discouraged and kind of not. I don't know. I haven't been as careful with the dieting and I haven't been running except once a week. We went camping a few weeks ago and that combined with school letting out has totally destroyed our schedule. I think if I can just get everyone back on track then I'll see results again.

I've started doing crunches and push-ups. The crunches because my Dr. told me that I'd see a big difference with the running by doing them. And the push-ups to tone my arms because....they're scary.

I just made up a new running mix for my ipod and I can't wait to see if I like it or not. I get bored with my running music really fast so I'm hoping this will help shake things up a bit.

New Course of Action

So I've finally settled on a weight loss goal. I'm about 25 lbs from it, so it might still take awhile to get there, but I think it's a weight I can be happy with. I've also decided to switch back to phase 1 for a couple weeks since I sort of feel like I'm going off track.  It's not going to be very dramatic this time since I dont' really eat very different from it anyway. But I'm hoping that I'll notice a difference on the scale.  

While shopping this week I was thinking about how far I've come. It hasn't really been that long that I've been on SB. So here's the dirt:

I've been on South Beach since December 27th, I've lost 26#, gone down 4 pants sizes and 2 shirt sizes. That's pretty remarkable if I do say so myself.