It started simply enough…

Mary of A Merry Life had made a comment on Twitter yesterday about maybe wanting to do a workout pledge.  She was considering doing 30 seconds on the treadmill per comment.  I told her to be careful, because she tends to get A LOT of comments, but then nonchalantly said I’d match whatever the pledge was in a workout.

And so it began…

By the time commenting closed at 2:30pm CST, there were 180 comments, which equates to 90 minutes on the treadmill.  Holy shit!  But that isn’t even the best part!  What I thought was going to be a small challenge involving Mary and I, became SO MUCH MORE.

As of this writing, there were at a TON of other people doing the pledge as well!

• Mary
• Jen
• Lauren
• Josie
• Tina
• Tania
• Meegan
• Kepa
• DCKate
• Beej
• Jodi
• Andrew
• Shelli
• Amber
• Jess
• Sean
• Karen
• Kat
• Lynne
• Michelle
• Lynn
• Gina
• Rachel
• Mary’s Mom

The coolest part about that is that I don’t even think that is a complete list!  That is what I pulled from Mary’s posting, but more and more people are joining the fold in the post comments!  I find it absolutely fascinating that this pledge became just as much a community exercise as it did actual, well, exercise!!  This blogging community truly is awesome, there is just no other way to say it.

Anywho, so about the run.

Ninety minutes on the treadmill, right?  Easy peasy.  Oh wait, I want to actually try to run all of that?  That may be a different story…

…or maybe not…kinda…

7.91 miles in 90 minutes!!!!  BOOYAH!

The longest I’ve spent on the treadmill in one session, and the farther I’ve ran in one sitting.  WooHoo!  Now, I did have to walk for a few brief moments (sidestitch sucks), but whatever.  I also tried to maintain a slower running pace than usual.  Generally, speaking, I don’t really like  to go below 6.0mph, but I’ve never tried running for this long before, and I wanted to conserve my energy, so for the most part was running was kept at about 5.5mph.  I did run one full mile at 6.0mph though, and I even had a couple of brief flirtations with 7.0mph, so WooT!

Once I got an idea of how my pace was, I told myself, and the tweeps, that I wanted to get at least 7.5mph under my belt.  Seeing as how I got .41miles over that, I’d say I did okay. 

ALSO, for the past couple of weeks I’ve been running my treadmill runs on a 1% incline…this was true today…mostly.  For the last 10 minutes I ran at 2%.  It actually wasn’t that bad.

And check this out…I even got a shout out on YouTube!  Thanks Kepa!

Haha..yeah…I don’t think he REALLY hates me though…hehe

Last but not least…Beej suggested we post pics of ourselves after the workout, so here you go, me in all my sweaty, grody, glory:

Sexy, right?

That’s all I got for now.  Be sure to follow the progress of the fellow runners.  Most are livetweeting the run, and you can track ‘em with the hastag #amerryworkoutpledge.

Have a great evening, everyone!

Quick post, it’s Friday (WooT) and I’m chillaxin’!

As of about 10 minutes ago, I now have 300 followers on twitter!

WooT!

Originally just used as a tool to track my meals (hahaha…that lasted long…), it has since become SO. MUCH. MORE!  It’s a great way to connect with people, get your thoughts out there (when it’s not handy to sit down and write a blog post), get a little (okay, a lot) silly, etc…etc…etc…  I love it!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

According to dailymile, I also recently reached a benchmark in my year to date running.  100 miles! 

WooT x 2!

As in, 90-95 more miles than I have probably EVER run…E V E R !  And it’s only March!  And I plan to run A LOT more this year! WooT!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

Oh, wait, there actually isn’t.  That’s all I got.  I lied.  I’m sorry.  Forgive me?  Please?  You do?  Yay!

Now I just need to finish losing this 100(ish…give or take) pounds and we’ll be good to go!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE!

Hi there!

If you are reading this, then that means that I AM BACK!

WooT!

Okay, well, I’ve still been here for the most part…I’ve been tweetin’ and I’ve been Dailymilin’, but the blog has been out of commission so I haven’t been able to post (not anything that could be read, anyway).

So what happened?  Apparently the fuckheads at my former webhost, Justhost (who I won’t link to because they suck), decided that I was using too much CPU space, so my account was suspended…without warning.  And yes, the bill was paid . I didn’t know what was going on until I tried to check my email and couldn’t get in, then I saw the suspension notice in my hotmail inbox.  I don’t know how I was using too much CPU space (all I have is Wordpress running), and I don’t know how in the hell it matters when everything is “supposedly” unlimited, but it happened.

I spent several days playing email tag with Justhost trying to get the latest backup of my site, sending freaked out emails to a ton of people for help, trying to get everything situated on a new (and so far much better) webhost, Dreamhost, trying to get my domain name transferred (which took forever), and trying to reassure people on twitter that I haven’t left town.

It’s been fun (that was sarcasm).  It was really touchy for awhile, and I was afraid that I was going to lose EVERYTHING, but thankfully it’s all worked out.

I want to take a minute to thank everyone for your support, suggestions, for not ditchin’ me, etc…etc…especially Brandon for his help in trying to get me back on track (and for answering every stupid question I had), and SUPER ESPECIALLY Dreamhost customer support, who got sick of my stupid questions after awhile and did all the hard stuff for me.  WooT!  Seriously, they rock.

And to Justhost?  Fuck you…just, fuck you.

So welcome back to the show, my friends!  I’ve missed you all.  I knew this blog and you guys meant alot to me, but I didn’t realize just HOW MUCH until I lost it.  This past week has been hell, but you are all beyond awesome.

And since you are here, if you happen to come across anything that isn’t working correctly, please let me know and I’ll get it squared away (or make Dreamhost support do it, YAY!).   Everything should be good to go, but shit happens sometimes.  I also may be tweaking some things on the blog over the next few days, so some screwiness might be seen.  I meant to get alot of the work done before I came back online, but I got a little lazy (boo!).

That is all (I think). How in the hell have you all been?  Anything new and exciting go down while I was gone?

Hope you have a great day!