I'm A Loser....

...And I hope to be an even bigger loser by the end of the month!

To help get into "wedding shape" I joined the Biggest Loser challenge at school.  I'm pretty competitive by nature so I figured having the people I work with everyday as my competitors would help motivate me not to cheat while at school.  We weighed in last week and I am happy to say I've lost 4 lbs!  

I've been eating better and running in the evenings.  It's weird because I've always wanted to be a "runner" but I used my heart issues as an excuse.  I won't lie, the first two days were HORRIBLE.  I downloaded the Couch-2-5K app and use RunKeeper to track my miles.  Every time that girls says, "begin running" I curse her and take off.  I can definitely say that it's getting easier but the shin-splints...oh.em.gee!!  I've googled every remedy and nothing seems to work.  One website said it could be my shoes and I am ALL about buying new shoes but decent running shoes are expensive.  

My goal is to complete a 10 mile race this October at Disney World.  I've already signed up so that was my first step of motivation.  I'm definitely not signing up/paying and not participating!  The race requires you to have a 16-min mile (at least) so I have a ways to go but once I complete Couch-2-5k, I'll start entering some more races and see how I do.  Summer heat will be an issue but I'll conquer that when it decides to show it's ugly face!