The third elliptical was free!!

This made my day :) I could basically do whatever I wanted on the third elliptical knowing nothing would creak or pop out of socket!

So first off there was a man working out with sunglasses on, I have never seen this before, but now I'm semi-jealous. I think I'm going to bring my sunglasses next time. That way I can stare at wherever or whomever (cough cute guys) and no one will know where I'm looking. On the flip side, I would look retarded. Sorry man who wears the sunglasses, you look retarded as well.

So I had the entire elliptical area to myself (the bright side of working out during the work day)... and this woman comes and gets right next to me.. invasion of personal space as I've said before, but maybe she knows how bad the first elliptical is, so I decide to let her slide. She however, after maybe 10 minutes is fully staring at my machine. I don't know if she decided we were in competition or what, but I tried my best to ignore her. Then the TV watching started. So there we are both watching Gilmore Girls together, although I wasn't getting the same warm and cozy feeling as if I were watching it with someone like, I dunno, that I knew?? So I kept glancing at her screen like look you have one too! And finally about 5 minutes later I glanced over and she had actually changed it! I was impressed to the point that I thought about how I should bring stickers to the gym. Jess always gets stickers "when she goes potty".. same concept... So this lady was almost rewarded a sticker, until she started watching my TV again...

4 Miles Today!!

Summary so far...

So the actual "3 day training" begins this Saturday, but I am doing my weeks Sunday-Saturday b/c if I'm behind that week I know ahead of time to catch up on Saturday (I'm clever like that) ;)

1st week total miles: 27.5
2nd week total miles: 24
3rd week total miles: Saturday (2), Sunday (1), Tuesday (1) = 4 miles so far
(I have an excuse though I am either highly allergic to tree pollen, or I have a cold, I think it's the first of the two) Either way, I have taken over most the characteristics of the 7 dwarfs --Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Sleepy... if I would go see the Doc, I would probably be Happy (haha)

Anyways, I am shooting for 40 miles next week. And even though I have been slacking off this week, I fully intend to still try to get in at least 20 miles. :)

And Thanks everyone who has been telling me they have been reading... :D

3 Day Summary

So if you haven't noticed I haven't written in a few days, that would be because nothing exciting has really happened and I didn't want to be a bore :)

Wednesday: 6 miles
Thursday: I only did 2 miles... but I also did personal training and an abs class, so there was no going back to try to walk after that :)
Today (Friday): I did 6 miles outside (it was in the upper 80's!).

Tomorrow, I am going to do sums of the past two weeks to get the totals of my mileage... Then I will boost it next week by attaching 10 more miles to the weekly total.

I also wanted to send out a few Thank You's...

To:

Annie, Kelly, & Becky for already donating or getting ready to donate things for the yard sale...

Kenny for giving me information on shakes and things to drink afterward to avoid the soreness the next day...

Daniel for reading every single one of these right after they are posted to make sure I don't need to fix things in them...

Lauren for going with me to purchase cheap body glide (and listening to my stories) even though you were not interested in the sports store :D


Anyone else who is interested in donating anything to the yard sale I am having in May, 100% of the proceeds will go towards the amount I need to raise to do the 3day!

The trainer

So I felt like I needed to add some more pictures to make this blog more interesting... so I figured I should give Body Glide the attention it needs.. I can't work out without it, I love this stuff! And when I googled it, I found out they make it in 4 different kinds now... I'm so excited!

So today I woke up and took some advil thinking that would take away most of the pain from my legs before heading to the gym, which I think it did... I have a very fond love of Advil, it relieves all my pains :)

So I got to the gym, did a mile on the treadmill, and told my trainer about my pains. What did she do? Had me do wall sits.... apparently she found it entertaining to watch me almost cry. Then this lady walked by and goes, "your going to be feeling that tomorrow!!" I wanted to growl at her...

After training, I walked 3 more miles outside, because it was beautiful out and my legs were starting to feel less pain!! The only downside is spring makes me sneeze, and I realized when I sneezed that apparently my stomach was sore as well. Which then resulted in me spending approx. a mile and a half trying not to sneeze so it wouldn't hurt my stomach...

note to self: self-- buy some icy hot

Thank you for the yard sale donations so far!!! I appreciate it so much!!

S weekend

That's my clever name for this weekend, it was S weekend... Saturday was slacker day because I failed to work out at all. And Sunday was softball day, because I played two games and felt that was enough workout for one day... which we are now 1-1! But more importantly, my team is a lot of fun to play with!

So today is a whiny day, due to the double header, I woke up with sore upper legs but decided I could "walk" it out. Not the best idea... (which I believe the idea came from my mother...) :) I went straight to the gym after work and should have just turned around when I looked for the handicap ramp because it hurt to step onto the sidewalk. If I didn't get the clue then, I should have taken it when I tried to climb up the stairs to get to the front door. After signing in, I had to go up more stairs which was even more tricky because there were people all around so I couldn't show my "I'm in pain face"... yeah if you have ever worked out different muscles.. you know the face.

I made it up the stairs and the 3rd elliptical was taken... so since I'm not a creeper I got on the 1st one to give the other person their space. I did 4 miles... then 3 walking, and was feeling good. By the time I was out the gym door I know I was walking funny, my knees felt like they wouldn't bend. To top it off I had a guy walking out at the same time on my heels. When I got home it took me about 5 minutes to get out of the car...

The best part of this story... I have personal training in about 15 hours... so if anyone has any terrific tips on how to make this pain go away, before I am driven to more pain by my trainer... please share your wisdom :D

8 Miles!

I hit my 8 miles today! This made me especially excited when I got an e-mail from the 3day organization that said we would start training on May 2nd with 4-6 miles a day the first week. I'm ahead in the game! :)

So today I went back to the gym, but I timed it so that I could watch Rachael Ray & Gilmore Girls in the event I got sick of listening to music. So I walked in the gym, ipod already on... and the front desk guy stops me to ask if I'm planning on enjoying the day today (75 & sunny)... I wasn't really sure if he was trying to kick me out or tell me I was an idiot for not working outside, but either way I responded with, "It's supposed to be 80 and sunny tomorrow". Dumb move Stacie. I see the look appear in his eyes. It's the same look I saw the other day when a lady randomly started telling me about how 20 years ago she gave her nephews from Switzerland Krispy Kreme donuts at midnight and they weren't aloud to have sugar ever. I kid you not. I'm also the girl who is always asked to take random pictures of strangers or to listen to life stories in the grocery line. Not that I don't love listening to strangers stories... I learn lots of random facts, like that same Switzerland nephew, also had a parasite at boy scout camp one year. Anyways, you get the point... so the guys eyes locked in, and out came the story of how his best friend is getting married tomorrow and so on...

So I finally broke away and started working out, and nothing excited happened for a while... I watched Rachael Ray while listening to my ipod (multitasking at it's best) :) Oh, and by this point, I have found my favorite elliptical (I intertwine the elliptical and the treadmill so that I don't become bored with using just one to get my mileage in) So out of the 4 of the kind I like... the first one, no matter how much you weigh makes a weird creaky noise which draws attention to whoever is on it, it's not enough to hear through your ipod but other people can hear it so I try to avoid it. The second ones TV area shakes some especially if you don't want to put your hands on the arm rests which makes you feel like your watching a movie on your computer in an airplane with turbulence. Since I would like to avoid a stomachache from working out I try not to get that one. The last ones right arm is out of socket and likes to move if you are holding onto the arm rest. Which leaves the third one. Thankfully, no one else has figured out all the quirks in the different ones, so typically the third is always left open because it's in the middle.

So there I am, completely empty gym on my third machine, and my favorite thing happens... the random creeper that is way older than me that always has to get on the machine right beside me. I thought it was like a secret gym law that you always take a machine at least one away from another person, but no. And on top of that, he has an interest in my TV as well. I think one of these days I might turn the station just to see what they do.

That's all for today! Now that it's been about 10 hours since I did those 8 miles... I'm having a little bit of trouble walking, but hopefully that will work itself out by tomorrow mornings workout :D haha

Outside!!

I finally got outside today to do 4 miles, and it wasn't as exciting as the gym!! Other than a student driver who stopped at a stop sign and mom started to walk and then the S.D. hit the gas again. It was okay though, I managed to pull mom back, I figured I should keep her safe so that she could at least make it to her big 5-5 birthday Sunday :D

My goal was to do 8 miles today, but this morning I did personal training followed by practicing softball so that my team wouldn't yell at me this weekend for not touching a softball in 3 years :) So, I have moved my 8 mile goal to tomorrow... :)


If anyone is interested... I am looking for a few friends to do some of this milage with especially when it gets higher up... My mom is a great walking partner, but after training for the half marathon last year, she was having to eat half gallon ice creams at night to not disappear :P

So def. let me know if you want to walk a few miles with me! I'm ipod and talking friendly :) Although, if you do something stupid,crazy,etc while out walking... this is your forewarning it will end up on here :D

No Name Tags

So.. for those of you keeping track, I didn't post yesterday. That was because I didn't work out yesterday, yes I know I'm a slacker. So I have a big zero for Tuesday.

Today was less exciting at the gym, I feel this was due to the lack of name tags. Apparently someone actually gave them grief to their face rather than talking about it on a blog..

So I walked in today, and my favorite trainer was training himself, which was great entertainment for me for over 30 minutes. Especially the point where one of the trainers was working him so hard, he kind of fell over and curled up in fetal position. That was when I decided I needed to find a more masculine trainer to be my favorite.

Then I stared out the window for a while listening to music, trying to figure out why people were running on the outside of the gym. I could only come up with 3 conclusions.

1. It looked like a great piece of concrete to run on, which if that's the case, I really hope they aren't paying the membership fee when they aren't even coming inside.

2. They felt left out and would like to be part of the gym, but weren't aloud inside.

3. They didn't realize their were treadmills inside and were warming up.

Lastly, I was stretching on one of the closest machines to the front desk and suddenly realized there were 4 police officers standing there. I figured someone REALLY over reacted about the name tags and decided to finish my workout and leave before whatever was going on broke out.

Oh yeah, and I got in 4.5 miles today :)

Loving the members week...

Today I ventured to the gym after work to do 5 miles (that was my goal) before heading home. A little background information about my relationship with the gym and people at the gym. Unless you are already my friend outside the gym, I'm not going to make friends with you. I smile when smiled at, and I'm polite, but I don't strike up conversations with the person on the treadmill beside of me. It goes along with the whole dazed out thing, if I'm talking to someone I can't daze out therefore my gym time is less enjoyable. If you are already my friend and you go to my gym, I still love you and will not ignore you :)

So today, I walk into the gym with my headphones on before I even got inside, because I was honestly pumped to get right on a machine.. but instead of swiping my card like I usually do, I'm waiting in line behind someone who is filling out a "Hello my name is" card. I smiled because I realized it was invite a friend week and they had to wear a nametag. Nope, wrong. Apparently it was, "We want to get to know all our members by name week, so everyone has to wear a nametag". So the lady hands me a nametag and asks me to write my name and my hometown. Seriously? Talk about a loaded question... I was born in one town, grew up in another, went to school in another, and lived here for a few years. I decided the pen tip was too fat to write all that so I put the one I live in now... I figured that made me the most boring person in the gym and no one would bother me while I was dazed out with my music. :)


I then came across these things in the next hour...

A guy who looked like he stepped off the production of Grease... right down to the short shorts and tight shirt... gross.

There were actually two trainers I was missing out on... one had a necklace on, so he received the name of jewelry trainer... the other (that I always forget about) I decided looks like a boyfriend from college, so he gets the name of ex-boyfriend look-alike trainer.

I went through a number of people on the machine beside of me today, apparently they couldn't keep up with my endurance ;) The first person was normal, they listened to music didn't look over too many times, but then they walked off without cleaning the machine. Okay first off that's gross, but not my point. They were wearing a nametag! Way to make yourself be remembered as the gross person who didn't clean off the machine, by name & hometown!

So the second person gets on, and she is lacking headphones, which always makes for an interesting time because I am well aware you can hear my music if you are standing next to me... I typically turn it down if the person next to me doesn't have headphones but there were more machines around and she chose to stand next to me, so she chose to listen to my music. Apparently she wasn't a fan of "Hannah Montana's Hoedown" song... because after staring at me about 50 times, she left.

Next was a guy in about his 30's who got on the machine, and after about 2 minutes, starting leaning over watching my tv. So, this is what I don't get... every tv gets the same station, if you don't like what you are watching, you are allowed to change the station, it would be much more appreciated than you falling on top of me from leaning too far watching my tv. At this point, I feel really strange watching my tv together with this stranger so I glance around the gym... Then I noticed the guy in front of me had written his name really big on his name tag, pretty bold if you ask me. Then I read his name, "TROUBLE", now I'm jealous that I wasn't that clever. So for the next 18 minutes of what I had left I spent the time trying to come up with some other names for myself this week for my nametags. I haven't thought of anything clever yet, so if you do, let me know. :)

So lastly, and my 2 favorite parts, I am waiting on my trainer before I leave so I can schedule a session, and I am staring out into space (ipod still on) and this guy walks up beside me and asks me what happened. I look in the direction he is looking and realized he is staring at a large tv on the wall across the room. From what I can see it says "Breaking News" with a truck upside down. I really want to look at this guy and say, I believe there is a truck upside down and it's breaking news... but because I feel he wouldn't appreciate my scarcasim, I just smile and shrug my shoulders and say, "Don't know".

The last part was my absolute favorite because it was we love members week, they had a huge food spread out for all the members. I was asked by 5-6 trainers to stay and enjoy some food, which I make a run for it saying I have to be somewhere. The only thing I could picture was all those sweaty people, working out on all those machines, not cleaning them, and then digging into that food...hello community of germs.

Stay tuned for more of Stacie's Training Adventures... :D

First Day Training

Happy Easter!!

So I conquered 6 miles today, two with my dad this morning walking around the neighborhood and four at the gym this afternoon, because yes my gym was open on Easter. I discovered the ups and downs of going to the gym on a holiday.... it was completely empty which was awesome, because I have a tendency to stare into space when I'm walking (or running) for a long time. I try to zone out so I'm not concentrating on what I'm actually doing, this works great for outside but not necessarily for the gym. Typically someone climbs on a weight machine right below where I am staring and then feels I am staring at them, which then they either conclude that they are amazingly pretty or I am strange, either way I can guarantee I will receive funny looks from them in the future.

Now on the downside, with it being a holiday, there were no trainers present. This equals no cute guys to stare at when I come out of my daze and can't find anything on the TV in front of me either. I have even given them names... The ridiculously hot one that knows he's ridiculously hot. The one that is graying way too early but is still cute. The shy one that's new (he's my favorite). The one with glasses that is really friendly. And the one I always forget about until he's there and then (in my head) I go, "oh yeah, I forgot about you" :-)

Now that training is official & everyone has the names down of the trainers that will keep me going the next 6 months ;) I'll leave with saying, I would like to give a shout out "Thank You!" for the contribution today!! I'm at 4% now!!

Thank you!

*So I have been told there is a paragraph that is invisable unless you highlight the entire area for the first post and then click off of it, then you will be able to see all 3 paragraphs... hopefully that's the only time it will mess up like that!!

Thank you so much for all the encouraging e-mails so far!! :)

The First Post

Hi!! Thanks so much for visiting my blog as I start fundraising for the 3day as well as training for it!

There is a link on the right side if you want to check out how much has been donated/earned through fundraisers and if you are interested in donating.

The first fundraiser I am setting up is a yard/bake sale for the end of May. If anyone is interested in donating anything towards the sale, 100% of the proceeds will be going toward the $2,300. Please just send me an e-mail and we can discuss!!