Go Becky Go

Not for like, New Years, this is another set of goals. Specifically, the goals my trainer has for me for the month of January. He has high hopes for me. Definitely.

Goals for January by Trainer Matt:

Lose 8 pounds

Squat 95 lbs for a set of 10

Deadlift 115 lbs for a set of 10.

All stuff I’ve done before, but this time I’m doing things right.

Feasible? Yeah. Am I going to do it? Well, time will only tell!

You know, it’s been like, 4 days now, since the marathon?

I’m still slightly sore. I’m kinda worried about the side of my knee. The pain seems IT band like, but it’s like a twinge right there on the knee. It got pretty bad during the marathon and I still feel it going up and down the stairs. I hope it’s not anything.

So what I want to do once I am recovered is get back to my weightlifting and other non running activites. And I’m going to work on my cooking more because even though I’ve been pretty good (besides at Chicago), I know I haven’t eaten enough veggies and they are what fill me up.

And since I’m talking about goals and stuff I might as well bring up my weight issues. I’m back in the 160s. Could be just from Chicago and it will go away, but still. That bothered me. But what I want before I become an idiot again and sign up for another endurance race, I want to drop some pounds to improve my speed. And so my running clothes can fit again too. Plus with my EMT training I need to lift more anyway so I could be able to, you know, move patients.

Ugh I have so many goals all the time. Blehhhhh. I just want to be the best athlete/EMT/Becky I can be. I know. Cheesy as hell. Whatever.

tl;dr: I want to like, lift weights and lose weight and stuff.

I’ve been doing pretty great with my working out the last week, I’m exhausted. 

But the one thing that hasn’t been great- my sleeping habits. 

I’ve been going to sleep at like 3 in the morning then waking up at like 11 or 12 the next day. Not good. And I end up still being tired throughout the day and taking naps.

So my goal this week is to try to be in bed before 12:30am (hopefully earlier than that, but that way it’s a modest goal), and to be awake by 8am, 9am the latest. Though since I’m trying to run most days I’m going to have to be up much earlier than that. Which means going to sleep earlier. 

AND- avoid naps at all cost. Those really mess with me when it comes to my sleeping habits. 

That plus run 6 days in the week (around 20 miles over that span) are my goals this week.

First of July. 

Well, it’s past midnight so it’s now the second.

Week goals:

1. Go to capoeira. Every day*.

2. Run 4 times.

3. Swim? I’m not sure where I am with my gym situation right now but we’ll see. Mostly depends on time and gas money. And I have to take care of my mom because she was in surgery on Friday and since it was on both her feet I have to help her walk all over the house. She takes priority.

4. Do ALL my homework. No, for real. I’m on the fourth week now. HALFWAY through the semester. Fuck. 

*Provided there’s class and I don’t have to catch up on schoolwork.

Month goals:

Batizado for capoeira is at the end of this month. I’m gonna devise a mini daily workout revolving around my dive-bomber pushups for handstand pushups that will make me better. 

Build up to 13 mile runs? I don’t think I’ll have too much problem with this but since I’m supposed to be ultra training I’m super behind. That’s like a minimum distance. And at this rate I won’t be ready by September..

Ideally I’d like to be at least to 150 pounds by the end of this month. Not sure what I weigh today but it should be close to 156 pounds or so. Will take progress pictures at the beginning and end of each week to see progress, especially due to capoeira since that’s my primary objective right now and that will probably what I will see the most results from. I would say lifting but at this time I just can’t balance school, running, capoeira, swimming, weight loss, and taking care of my mom every day all while trying to find another job and stuff. And be able to do everything well. So yeah. This is happening. 

Katy just reminded me of it. 

Handstand pushups.

I want to do them.

They would be extremely beneficial for my capoeira training, and just core strength in general. Plus it would help me actually keep a handstand in the air with that kind of strength. 

I’ve already started working on how I’m going to try and get there.

Pushups all day every day! No not really. 

But yeah pushups. particularly dive-bomber pushups, since those are the closest to transition into them. And just other pushups too. 

Every time I’ve tried to do a handstand pushup, my head hits the floor and I can’t get myself back up. 

My goal is to be able to get there by end of August. 

Do ALL the pushups!

I’ve been less than awesome at training since last week. I worked out on Monday and Tuesday, then did the mountain on Friday but that’s it.

No outdoors stuff though this week with the fire going. Most of the trails are closed.

But I’ve also decided to be more weight loss focused for the time being. WIll still run, but I want to lose some more pounds before I get any more serious. My running times since I’ve started again have been much slower than usual, and I think it’s at least partially from the weight I’ve gained.

If I can at least get back to where I was at the end of summer last year I’d be happy.

I was on this website that helps you calculate what weight you want to lose and what day it could happen by if you lose it safely, and if I start now, by August I could be back where I was.

Weighed in at 157.6 today. At least it’s still down from where I was starting June 11th.

It SAYS that if I were to lose 2 pounds per week all the way through August that I could get to 139. Which has been one of my goals since forever. I doubt that will happen, but to get to the lower half of the 140s would be nice. So if anyone wants to join me that would be cool. Not gonna make it a “challenge” or anything because I tend to drop off on those, but still a goal.

And in honor of that and my vacation ending, I’m setting up some goals.

School Goals:

Stay on track with homework

Avoid procrastinating

Do at least an hour of school related work a day.

Training Goals:

Gonna start New Rules of Lifting for Women again.

Run at least 3x a week, and try to follow the training plan as close as possible because my running needs to catch up to where my training is supposed to be.

At least one run a week has to be on a difficult-ish trail.

I want to try the 100 pushups thing. Not go through the entire program, but I want to get 20 real pushups in a row again.

It might be a lot, but maybe 0 to 1650 again? Now that we have the outdoor pool going it might be more fun.

Finally, weight loss. It’d be nice to lose some pounds/inches. I weighed in today. Post vacation weight: 159 lbs. Not as much as I thought I had gained, but crap that makes like 15 pounds gained over just a few months.

Social life goals:

No more alcohol for the rest of June. At least. I don’t foresee that to be a problem because I won’t be having much of a life for quite awhile.

And..that’s pretty much it.

We get a free “FitPoint” assessment where you meet with a trainer and discuss your goals and stuff and how the gym can help us meet our goals. 

She conducted a 5 minute cardio fitness something test where my results were above average. No surprise there!

She also performed a skin fold body fat measurement thing, where my body fat was said to be at 32% (sad face), the measurement isn’t totally accurate but its a starting point. 

So I’m going to work on losing weight right now while I build my running base up again for ultra training. 

The trainer and I decided my goal is to lose about 20 pounds, which would put me in the mid 130’s. I would LOVE that!

I didn’t learn too much from the assessment, it was just discussing what I want to do, but she did look at my overhead squat form to see where I’m tight and not so flexible- apparently, it’s everywhere! I should go to yoga more. Or stretch once in awhile. 

A few things, actually.

1. Before my marathon this weekend, I was pretty set on just doing the half. It wasn’t til I got to the expo that I decided I wanted to wear that shirt that said marathon with pride, and decided I’d just do the full even though it wasn’t the best idea.

2. I weighed in today for the first time in who knows how long. The verdict: 153 pounds. I hadn’t seen that weight in…almost a year and a half. This is not good.

3. I’m still hanging around Wes even though we’re pretty clear that we’re not in a relationship. We just spend a lot of time together.

4. Last night was the first time sleeping in my bed in well over a month.

5. I have 20 weeks until my 50k ultra. Scary.

6. I really have not liked what I see in the mirror for awhile. Nothing really fits anymore.

7. I’m 10 pounds up from my lowest weight but it makes such a difference being so short.

8. Once my tattoo is healed enough I’m going to start running, and join that overpriced gym. It just has everything I love in it! Hopefully I’ll be looking better by the end of the month, because I’m going to Miami for 2 weeks starting the 31st.

I’ve really fallen off the wagon big time. 

Letting a boy take up all my time, my valuable training and studying time. No bueno.

So today I get my shit together.

I have a couple of big days coming up.

Kalamazoo marathon May 6th, Colfax marathon May 20th. 

And the one where looks matter the most to me: I’m flying to Miami on May 29th. 

Even though I know weight loss is not a big thing to expect while marathon training, I know there are ways to do it, it’s just about being smart. And FOCUSED. Just to get on the lower end of the 140s again.

Today’s weigh in. 148.2. Actually surprisingly good considering all the facts. But my body has really lost a lot of muscle.

Not sure what plan i’ll be doing involving weights and stuff, but I’ll work on it tonight.

Today’s plan. Jack Quinn’s run with my team and then no dilly dallying and I go to capoeira afterward. 

62 days. 62 days to look hotter than I already do.

Also, I think I’m going to go brunette again!

And hopefully keep up forever, but you know, baby steps. 

I need to work on my dental hygiene like, hardcore. My teeth are not all that pretty. I’m lucky they’re perfectly straight, and I know I have a pretty smile, but my teeth could look nicer and healthier. 

So I’m gonna work on flossing at least once a day and brushing my teeth twice a day. Wes is always brushing his teeth and it makes me feel like I’m gross when I see him doing it and I’m not. 

Also, don’t want to get drunk or even close to drunk for awhile. St. Patty’s wasn’t bad and I wasn’t even drunk, but I did feel slightly dizzy so that was enough to slow me down a bit the next day. If it will impair my abilities the next day, don’t drink it. Side note: I don’t understand how people forget everything on nights they drink, especially when they didn’t seem all that drunk the night before, it is weird to me that they forget. I don’t forget no matter how sick I get (which sometimes is a curse because I remember everything everyone says and everything I say and then sometimes things get awkward). 

Which I totally forgot existed. 

I kept my profile because of the pictures and some old messages I don’t want to discard.

I checked out my profile, which from the looks of it I last edited it freshman year of college, so like 3 years ago?

This was part of my profile:

I have my future basically planned out: go to college, get jobs as a bartender, masseuse,EMT,lifeguard, mechanic, body piercer,translator, and learn learn Arabic, Russian, Italian, and Greek. I want to get into medical school (I’m not completely sure for what though), fall in love and get married around the age of 25, have a job that I’m okay with, and have a few kids. I also want to try jet skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing, learn to dance (hip hop, jazz, tap, ballet, ballroom, etc.),learn to write calligraphy, and I want to go white water rafting. I also want to walk a marathon and climb Pike’s Peak, even if I just walk it. I don’t really want to plan anything after that, so I’ll stop now. 

Lol times and plans change. THOUGH, I did say I wanted to walk a marathon someday! Which is weird considering I don’t think I was aware exactly of what a marathon was at the time. 

Man I had a lot of aspirations. Now I’m a little more realistic, but still love that I mentioned a marathon even back then. 

I skipped my “long” run today, it was a cut down week and I was supposed to run 6 today but I slept over at someone’s house last night, and then later spent a big chunk of the day grocery shopping with my mom. Since I got home I’ve just been organizing for the week and stuff so no running. 

This week is also batizado week in capoeira! I only went the first week of the month and haven’t been since but this week it’s happening again because it’s a very important event and lots of workshops and stuff will be going on. Which means I have to be super vigilant of my training this week and especially and more importantly, staying on top of school work. Also I’ve been half a flake about my running. I’ve been skipping about a run a week out of 5, which isn’t bad, I figured that would happen, but I want a perfect week.

SO. Goals.

1. Perfect running week. 

2. Don’t freak out about the batizado.

3. Get all my homework done BEFORE the weekend.

4. Lift at least twice this week. 

5. No more than 4 drinks in one sitting on the weekend, and during the week no more than one drink in a sitting.

6. Try to be in bed at an hour where I’ll get 7-8 hours of sleep.

Oh yeah- I might be getting new shoes this week! I’m excited.