Now that I have 2 blogs, this is tough to keep up with. After work, I hit the gym, get home and try to quickly eat. My days are LONG. After I'm home I hop on to my online running journal and log everything I did. Then I post on my Julie Runs Bostong blog with my training status.

I try to check on my personal email, click through facebook and see if anything is going on with my fitness group. So finally getting on to this site is tough. But here I am!

Sticking with January's healthy habits still, 5 days in a row. I have kept a notebook on my coffee table that every night I write down what I've spent for the day. It has been really easy to this point. On the first I had lunch. Since then I paid my rent. No other money spent this week. I'm just at the gym every day. SO I don't spend. I don't have anywhere to spend.

And I have been doing plank position every day too. I started on the 1st at 1 minute and today I was up to 1 minute 30 seconds. I'm hoping by mid week next week I will be at 2 minutes. After that I'll get off my forarms and up on my hands. Then I can start playing with other variations too.

I've been good at the gym too. I got back to weight training this week and so far so good. I did legs on Monday and boy oh boy could I feel them when I woke up this morning! My legs were so sore! But I did some stretching in the morning and again throughout the day.

Today I did arms and I already know that my arms are going to be hurting. But it was good. And it will be good.

Here's where I get, well, different. I grabbed some hand weights to do arms instead of the machines. Just easier and felt better. I was in an area with some lighter hand weights and it has mirrors on 2 walls, sort of tucked in a corner. I was watching my form and watching in the mirror. My shoulders looked SO good! And when I was doing bicep curls, I really had biceps!

I knew that running, losing weight and swimming were all building muscles as well, but today I really saw it. I haven't ever really watched me exercise in a mirror since I did bootcamp classes which ended last March. My body has completely changed since then. But today? I have muscle defination in my arms! And I was stronger than I have ever been!

I still can't believe you could see bicep defination while I was doing curls. And I did tricept dips off of a bunch and I could do a bunch of them, and that was after I did the tricept press machine, and tricept push backs with the hand weights.

I'm kind of excited about the summer now! And I don't even care of I am being vain. My body has never looked like this in my entire life! When summer comes along, I will look completely different in a bathing suit and in tank tops. I want to do a little more for defination over all and I still really need to firm up my legs, hips and butt, but with all the running, swimming and weight training, I'm sure it will come.

Hmm... what else.

OH! I got an email today. Through the fitness group. Here's what she wrote (with some info removed).
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Hi Julie:
My name is Meg and I am a freelance writer for the Community Newspaper Company. I am currently writing a story for the Health and Fitness Section called "Ready to Run: Five Steps to Train for a 5K." I was given your group as a possible source for some information for my article.

I am hoping you can help me. You can call me at xxx-xxx-xxxx so we can set up a phone interview. I would only need about 15 minutes of your time. My story is due on Jan. 11, 2011, so I need to speak with you at your earliest convenience.

I appreciate any information you can give me.

Thanking you in advance,

Sincerely,

Meg
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I am pretty excited about it! I emailed her with a couple of times that would work for me. We'll see what will come of it. I love the couch to 5K training and I love it being done in a group setting. The bonding that occurs is great. It is so inspriring to see people work together, encourage each other and support each other in their progress along the way.

I'm just really excited that I could be interviewed for this article! How cool is that? I might be quoted in a newspaper article? Ok, so its a communtiy newspaper, but SO WHAT! Someone is seeking ME out for an article on training for a 5k! How did this happen! WOW!!!