A Sneak Preview

Interesting to see that my weight the last few days has been in the "65's" - 65.6 this am in fact! - Think I might make my weekly goal! Its also interesting to see that even though I've been having frequent (low point) snacks - my weight is actually dropping faster than normal - there's food for thought - I'm sure I've probably been over points a few days - but then I don't account for bonus points for exercise - maybe I've been eating too little previously? its such a complicated balancing act!
I got an email the other day about a 4 km fun run next weekend. And I've decided that it would be good for me to do it in preparation for the City Bay. Its only 4 kms and the City Bay's 12, but even so I'm scared to death! In my head I know I should be able to do it, but I've been concentrating my running efforts on interval training (you know, run for 10 mins, walk for 5 type of thing over 60 - 90 minutes) to build endurance, and I've only ever run 1 km on the road, and it was hard! (i'm a treadmill runner)
Silly I know - I'm going to have to make the transition some time if I'm serious about my City Bay goal - so it will be very good for me. Thought I would do a straight 4km run on the treadmill this Sunday instead of the normal endurance run - just to proved to myself that I can do it. Should only take half an hour...
I think one of the things about it that has worried me is that I watched my youngest daughter in a cross country race yesterday. She did a fantastic job - 2km in 10 mins (much faster than me), but the run looked ooohhh soooo faaaarrrrr! I guess when you run on a treadmill you're not aware of travelling any distance. But I loved watching the running techniques of the leading older runners - looking to see which was more efficicient/smooth/how much bounce/stride length etc, and picking up tips for my technique, and my quads were actually firing in anticipation of "that running feeling" - don't think I've ever felt that before - now I'm itching to run again on Sunday.
I'm off to Brisbane on Monday for work, and my boss asked me what I'll do about exercise whilst I'm away. A work friend butted in and said - "dont you worry - she'll have already checked out all the gym facilities at the hotel!" and its oh so true. (I've said I won't stay anywhere now without a decent gym). But my bosses pensive response (and he's been watching my weightloss journey with great interest) was - "what happened, what was the trigger that changed your from the old Lisa, to the new (health and fitness obsessed) one?" And to be honest, I couldn't answer him. I can think of lots of different triggers - but what has made it different this time? How have I become such a fitness fanatic - I really don't know at this point in time - I will need to give it more thought. But it was really nice that others are recognising me as a different person now.....