Exercise update: Today was a lot of fun. Our little city has a large 5k/10K race called the Chileda Classic that has about 1400 runners in it annually. Much to my surprise, my 9 year old daughter led a push to get our family to enter and encouraged her friends to run too.
If you know my daughter you know she tends to get what she wants (particularly from me), so we ended up with both of my kids running along with me, 3 of Hannah's friends and one of her friends' mom. Hannah had actually completed a 5K last November so I didn't doubt her ability to finish, although today was far hotter. I do have to admit that I was unsure about my 6 year old's ability to do the race. I was pleasantly surprised that he did the whole darn thing with me. We "ran" at a turtle's pace and with multiple walk breaks, but we never stopped moving. That had been our deal, you can walk but you just can't stop.
The payoff for young Cameron was having tons of people cheering for him at the finish and having his name announced over the PA system to the crowd. All pain seemed to be forgotten and the experience will be remembered positively, which is always my goal.
If you know my daughter you know she tends to get what she wants (particularly from me), so we ended up with both of my kids running along with me, 3 of Hannah's friends and one of her friends' mom. Hannah had actually completed a 5K last November so I didn't doubt her ability to finish, although today was far hotter. I do have to admit that I was unsure about my 6 year old's ability to do the race. I was pleasantly surprised that he did the whole darn thing with me. We "ran" at a turtle's pace and with multiple walk breaks, but we never stopped moving. That had been our deal, you can walk but you just can't stop.
The payoff for young Cameron was having tons of people cheering for him at the finish and having his name announced over the PA system to the crowd. All pain seemed to be forgotten and the experience will be remembered positively, which is always my goal.
My daughter ran the whole way with her friend Rachel and they finished about 10 minutes ahead of us. Hannah's other friend, Alice (not pictured above) finished 10 minutes ahead of that: I've encouraged her parents to solicit scholarships:). And Rachel's brother ran with his Mom, so our whole little group pictured above finished.
As a middle aged man looking for meaningful experiences, days like this are right up there.
I didn't get a big workout from the 5K so I'll run on my own for 20 minutes later.
Nutrition update: Solid so far today. I didn't track it online, but I've really only eaten healthful food. The amount might be a bit high because the pancake breakfast after the race was just so good. A solid day so far and worth building on.
My big nutrition decision today is to give up soda immediately. After reading the most recent of many articles talking about the connection between diet soda and obesity and diabetes, I give up. I'll fight the headaches with Excedrin, but I am off soda, I will not drink it again, which should be fairly miserable for a week or so. Here is the fact that got me "Frequent users (yeah that's me), who said they consumed two or more diet sodas a day, experienced waist circumference increases that were 500 percent greater than those of non-users. " Yikes!
So I'll try to report on my progress. If I can beat French Fries, I can beat soda.
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