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Well hello guys. I am back for my 11th challenge here at Nerd Fitness, and it might just be my most ambitious challenge yet. So last challenge ended up being a bust for me. A few things happened and I let things steamroll into bigger problems. Despite that, I did have some success. In my quest to get healthier, I find I am finding more ways to try to push my limits. Things that seem impossible, I sudden want to see if I can do them. Like the first 5k I ran. I still have only one official 5k, but I have run a few 5k in my last challenge. So before this challenge started, I signed up to race a 15k. I have never even ran a 10k. So honestly, this might be too much for me to handle. Damn if this isn't some motivation to light a fire under my ass though I signed up for the Hot Chocolate 5k/15k race. http://www.hotchocolate15k.com/sanfrancisco/ Sunday January 11th. Walking is fine here, they just want you to be able to do a 15 minute pace, which I think I can. My goal will be to run it all if I can. So my main motivation is to push my training to get as ready as I can for the race. I would love to be able to completely run it all, but I don't know how possible that might be for me to do. Plus, there is chocolate at the end of the race Of course, I might not really partake in that part. Now this next year (2015), I really want to do a few things. I want to run the 3 different lengths of Spartan Races so I can get the trifecta badge. Maybe a few others in there as well. There will be obstacles for me this challenge. The first week, I am on a family vacation. Posting from there now There will be Thanksgiving (which I did fine last year), and of course we will have Christmas after the challenge. So I think I need to make sure I plan for each event best I can. Goal 1: Get Your Run On! I am going to follow a training program to help get my mileage up, and hopefully, get faster as well. I haven't decided which program to use though. I was thinking I would follow the 10k plan from RunDouble. The last week is the week of the race though. The other option is to follow one of the programs on RunKeeper. There are also plans on the garmin site, but I think I might go with runkeeper or rundouble. The question is do I follow a 10k training, or go for half marathon type training. I can start with either one, and adjust if need be. Goal 2: Time to refocus on food. So I have been doing great in the last couple of challenges with tracking. Now I need to continue with that, but really get back to eating healthier foods. I am way too much into convenience. I need to make eating healthier more convenient for me. I am going to get back into bulk cooking. Normally done on a weekend, but hell, if I need to do it on a Tuesday, why wait for the weekend I've also gotten back into the habit of snacking too much. Even healthy foods. So I am going to limit my snacking to once a day. This will most likely mean no more night time snacking, which I need to quit. Goal 3: Get your butt to bed! Once again, my sleep goal returns. I am too much of a night owl This time i will change it a bit. During the weekdays, I will be in bed at 12. I will allow the weekends to extend a bit to 1 or 2am if I really need. The target will be to get use to the midnight bed time again, then each night I will just get to bed. Side goal: Goal 4: BW or weight exercises So my side goal I want to focus on getting back into a good exercise routine. I think I will try the ramp up method in this challenge. Week 1 i am out of town, so maybe just one body weight exercise workout this week. Next week is two days. The week three, I should be up to three days total. If all is good after that week, then I will start adding in more things to do. Measurements: Since I am out of town for the first week, i will added in measurements on day 1 of week 2. Weight I can add from my last weigh in on Friday. 11/7 - Date - 12/21 272 - Weight - Grading: still working it out, but will probably just going point system like last time Weekly summary:

This weekend I ran what my wife and I call our Anniversary race, because its the first race we ever ran, the Hill Country Trail Race. This is the 3rd year I've run this race, second time doing the 15K (I was the race photographer last year). My previous 15K PR was at this race with a 1:38:03, Saturday I did it in 1:18:09 ... so almost 30 minutes faster! I did a happy dance afterwards!