Karen Wants to Kill Me

Apparently, my friend, Karen, decided that doing a 100 Pushup Challenge wasn't enough. So I've now joined her on the 200 Pushup Challenge. For the record, both challenges are kickin' my tail.

After 2 weeks I can barely do 10 pushups and 35 situps. Oh where, oh where have my muscles gone!?!

I'm repeating Week 2 of the pushups, and continuing with week 3 of the situps.

Wonder how many weeks it'll take before I can actually do it...

As a side note: I swam a mile this morning. Also kicking my butt!

I'm thinking I should just go back to running!

A Race Bucket List

I made a list of just a few races that I'd really like to do some day.

All you runners out there: Any others I should add?

VA is for Lovers 14K

Cherry Blossom 10-Miler

Shamrock 1/2 Marathon

Peachtree 10K

Bay to Breakers 12K

The Great Urban Race

The Muddy Buddy

Expedition Everest Challenge

Ragnar Relay

Turtle Crawl Triathlon

Krispy Kreme Challenge

The Next Challenge: Who's In?

It's hard to believe that 11 years ago I could do more push-ups than my sister! I was a dancer and cheerleader and actually had some muscles. My gymnastics coach would make us do handstand push-ups and wide arm pull-ups on the uneven bars. When I did Junior Miss we did them on stage while smiling at the audience.

And then...I went to college. I broke my elbow. I stopped dancing. I stopped cheering. And I stopped any kind of activity that required upper body strength. (And my sister joined the Army, went to boot camp, and can now kick my butt!)

I always whine about my puny stick arms. So when I made my 30 Before 30 list I decided to add the 100 Push-up Challenge. And I'm starting today. It might take a few months. I might even have to do some girl push-ups first. But I am going to do this. How hard can it be? (Don't answer that!)

Who else is in?

(PS-I do promise to post about the marathon with pictures sometime soon.)