suzysunshine’s BodyBlog

Well suppose to be nice all week end and of course it will be as i am working nights. Will go do a spinn class and then have a PT session with my trainer a few hours later. What to workout that is not sore. hmmm. Did spinn and group power yesterday. Need to get back on a regular eating routine here soon. So a new contest i am looing forward to as i think i didnt do well in the last one. Holidays get in the way of those contests.

These will be my last night shifts until christmas break i hope. As i am going to try to stay on a regular day schedule. Much easier on the body. Dont really know what to expect from my school work for the last year in the nursing program will be interesting. I still have my cold lingering around. My youngest still has it. They are off to their dads house till wednesday and then for this month we will try a week on and a week off and see how that goes. My youngest is in grade seven. The photos you see are of my neices. They are my little sisters kids. They are geourgeous blondies with blue eyes. 3 years old. she has a pile of energy because holy cow she needs it. She is also training for a marathon in new york, set for november. She is my younger taller athletic sister. Not sure how i wound up being the short one in the pac of 3 girls.

My oldest sister lives in australia. She has lived there for a while. So one day i will do ironman Australia after Canada.Why not set your goals high. I would love you to come do ironman canada anytime frogprincess72. Your always welcome. Come here and i will go there. Or meet me for the half ironman next year???? before then???

Sometimes its to long without seeing them, but this year my two oldest have classes across the street from my house so if i am home at 4sh i tend to see them as well. Well i better get out of my pjs now and into my gym clothes i see the sun trying to peakout which is always nice. Hope you guys have a good weekend. Me i will be sleeping in the daytime…..sigh…

Today was spinn in the morning and weights in the afternoon with my personal trainer. Yes, man my arms are sore we ran the rack doing bicep curls and hammers.Also did a back routine. Yep can feel it now. Yesterday did a spinn class and group power class.

Kids first day back at school mind you only a half day. Tomorrow full day. My shopping for new school gear is expensive.

I havent even finished up for the 2 youngest yet. Did buy myself some new running shoes..ok two pairs. Mine are getting worn out. The bounce is gone for running. Cant risk injury.

Was talking to a lady that was my first motivator back in 1999.She was the one that started me and got me hooked on this cardio and weight craze. she was diagnosed with bowel cancer and survived and is cancer free. She wanted to do a figure comp but states she cant because of her lymph edema. She would be unable to deplete the water she states. She is back to teaching and had undergone radiation and is still in excellent shape. She impresses me. She was wondering what to do next as she always needs a goal to keep her motivated. She also is in her 50’s. I told her about my ironman weekend. How stoked i am about starting to train for doing triathlons. I told her they have training and fundraising for iron man as well through cops for cancer. She was so excited by the end of our conversation. I told her next year we should split up a half ironman in Osoyoos and find another person to do the swim leg of it. So we will see. Think it gave her such a good thing to think about. I also gave her a t-shirt. I always buy her small treats when i go on vacation. She is so much one of my idols in the fitness world. She also menetioned she would be selling her bike. She has a road bike she has only used a few times before she got sick. Her son is building her one.

My workout today with the personal trainer made me have such a hardtime thinking of letting her go as well. So much to think about….

I am going to try and upload a few photos and see if it will work..never had yet. Sigh….always a first time….

There is no way i could keep up on writing my workouts i have done since that time. I have been good up until my holidays.Then i was in beautiful penticton for the Canada Ironman number 26.

All i can say is it was simply amazing. My holiday with my man was out of this world. It was a blast and i think i caught a bit of his craze and fever in why he likes to do iron man. My man is amazing.

He is the best thing in this world that has happened for me. The more i get to know him the more i fall in love with him. He is not your average type A personality but one that is so easy going. Ok im sure you get tired of listening to me go on about him.

I worked so many shift before my vacation 9 to be exact bouncing from one day to a night and back to days. I dont recommend it a whole lot.All for some spending money. We rented a 30 foot camper with some supplies in there for 5 nights. Our first night we spent in a small camper with my little sister and hubby and triplet girls. They are so beautiful and 3 years old. Well that was so nice to see them. When we arrived to their campground they were sleeping. We started the vacation by going to a pre iron man dinner and ended it with a post ironman dinner. The before was quite interesting. We met some of the people that had lost so much weight while training. One gentleman lost over 100lbs with his training and the girl close behind him with over 75lbs.Not all in one training of ironman. Leading up to this ironman. Incredible the age group varied so much of course. Lots in the 30 to 40 age group. The youngest was 2 kids age 18, one boy and one girl.

The boy was asked how come he did it. He said he did it as his whole family was involved and when they asked his what he did last year. He said he baby sat all the neices and nephews …lol reason enough to do iron man, much easier. lol

I loved the atmosphere of the whole weekend. Before this weekend i thought there was no way i could do iron man. After this weekend I was so astonished by the participants size an shapes and ages. I came out of it with i can do it and i want to do it. At least once in my life i will do it. The amazing effort of madonna breuder at 2 minutes after minute confirmed my effort that if she and another 75 year old male could do it then i would try it as well. So like pixis statement "I want my own bike " LOL. OK PERHAPS NOT THE SAME KIND, but still  i spotted a pretty pink bike. mmm price tag of 2,400. humming and hawwing on it. Will look at the bike shops in town here over the next couple of weeks.

A little insert about madonna. She had my heart in my throat and my whole hearted compassion and could see the love she had for this sport simply amazing."Since that time, she has raced in nearly every Ford Ironman World Championship, as well as 17 Ironman Canada Triathlons. In 2005 she became the first female age 75 or older to ever complete an Ironman distance race. Last year’s World Championship may have been her most epic finish. With less than one minute to the 17-hour cut-off, Sister Madonna Buder crossed the finish line (16:59:03) and became the oldest female finisher in the most grueling of all endurance events – at the age of 76!
So i figure if the older population can do this then iwill give it a whirl and start out slowly. I hear it is one way to drop a lot of weight as well. I am also entered in a half marathon and an 18 k peak to beak nice little hill run ending at a winery little challenge oh my god better get going on doing longer distances coming up. Last night i ran the look out and felt good running it all the way. Was a great little run. I beleive it is only between 12k to 14k

So i must increase the milage before end of september as well try and add some more kal lake park hill runs in there. No pressure felt. LOL

Also there are 3 concerts i am so looking forward to so i am enjoying my free time for sure. I have next weekend of working 2 more night shifts then i am done work for a bit as school starts the following week. For some reason lucked out with an extra week off. This week i am doing some more spinn classes and doing 2 session with my personal trainer. I have picked up a bit of a cold so i was not able to do my last night shift. I am going to try to get on your sites and see how all you guys have made out in your babys got back contest. I dont think my working and holidays helped me any but i am so stoked to keep at it now. Will let you guys know when i have my pretty little pink bike.

PS sorry no bikini photos it poured rain towards the end of the day..sigh it rained and rained.

Rory did well not his personal best but he did it in 15 hrs 1:55 which was the 2 minute photo shoot he endured with mysister taking photos of us. He is so good though and i am proud of him no matter what time he had.

PSS hi ex did not finish and dropped out at the bike part..it was to cold on the swim part apparantly. HMMM

I thought a true ironman never quit..She was told to perhaps do it on the odd years.

Let me see what have i been up too..To many nightshifts. number 3 tonight.

I also did the first job of 2 days and 2 nights.. !2 hours.

So 2 more dayshifts left wed and thur..then it is 8 days off and a whole lot of fun packed in that week. Last week off before school starts. My kids are in camp this week so i will pick them up next tuesday and go camping and visiting my little sister who is camping where my parents live. She has triplet 3 year old girls. Blond hair and blue eyes..precious.

You think i am amazing she is unbelievable. She works and is training for a marathon in new york for november. wow.

She is very active as well..my older sister is as well.When i was little i was the one that wasnt very athletic. come to think of it not a good student either Boy age sure makes a difference. …

My boyfriend is getting all ready to do his ironman in penticton this coming weekend. We have rented a 30 foot trailer and will have it pulled to a campground. hennce me working a few extra shifts. my madness is for a reason called money for holidays. It is suppose to be an amazing event to watch. I am so excited as well to spend alone time with my honey.

I have takend 2 days off the gym this week but am going back in there today until wednesday. Not sure what my plans for when i am gone involve probably some swimming and a lot of running. No weights i suppose unless i find a gym i can manage to find time to sneak into. My kids will join me in a couple days of camping next week as well. Well the summer is winding down i am hoping that the weather is nice still. It has cooled down the past 2 days here. Will post some photos soon…I think i promised a bikini photo lol…..

Hope all is well with all you guys. thanks for the cheerio hi and will visit some of your blogs and see who is still eating clean. High 5 to these girls…

Hmm what to report..had my yard sale ..on saturday..

would have preferred to go the gym but anyways that is done. More work then it is worth…got stuff still on my deck.

Went for some runs over the weekend 5k and 10 k hills…today did an hour in the gym. So still keeping on with the workouts. Going to be working lots here so i might be absent for a bit…but will visit some posts and leave some sunny messages for all…egad it rained here pretty much all day on saturday. Working 2 days and 2 nights and then doing 3 nights on my days off at another facility..then back to 2 days then i am off for a few days.. summer is almost over sigh…almost back to school time…

I am still keepin on with the excercise. Yesterday i did my workout with the personal trainer..yowsee it was chest and triceps with so many tricep pushups ..yes i am sore today..This evening i did one group power class and yes yesterdays workout was very apparent. I also included a spinn class in the morning and one this evening. As well will do one tomorrow at noon. Getting ready for a garage sale this weekend.. Trying to clean my basement up a bit before school starts. Yes i also got my sons room finally done. Actuelly he did most of the laminate. i just cleaned up and did the painting. Its like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. The pieces were all cut already. It will be nice to get my house all cleaned up and organized a bit before my school starts. Not much else new here….

Yep the man and the alcohol bad combination. LOL think i know somebody else that ended the clean eat this way.LOL

I ended up going for a dinner with the man after my 12 hr shift. Well it is a walk of about 6ks to make it to the pub on the lake and tha tmuch back. I had only a salAD BUT IT WAS THE CAESARS THAT WE DRANK THAT BOOTED ME OUT. Mind you i only had one and a half since i dont drink much. Something about the water and the drink sounding yummy after he ordered one. It did have celery in it.      well i did work 2 12 hr shifts and got asmall workout in on saturday evening and the long walk to the pub on sunday. Monday was a long run around kal lake park. Mind you it was a walk run as we ended up going in the middle of the day. Couldnt make it out of bed earlier. Could that be the Caesars LOL. So it was hotter then heck and the hills are unbelievable in some areas. so of cours i told the man to run ahead….after all why hold somebody back. He has to run in the heat in 3 weeks anyways. So for him im sure it is good training, for me its insanity lol. Well i took the day off yesterday as i worked out all week and thought i better which ended up with me spending the day eating. Lesson learned get the butt to the gym. Hope you all are doing well with the clean eating that one is worse then doing the workouts or any cardio…..will still do the cardio and the weights and try to eat clean the best this girl can on her crazy schedule.                 

Well today i had my cheat day item. It was potato salad with a couple slices of cheese with my can of tuna and spinach…mmmmmm yummy LOL I also survived a week of spinn..every day times 5 days as well some weights were done each day. Next week i will get serious with doing the weights for my body. 2 broken down each day. I painted my sons room but the man didnt come to help me lay the laminate. Yesterday was not a good day… Found out there are no perfect men around. So i guess i have to reevaluate a few things in my life. It was not a sunny thurseday to say the least. I did ok diet wise but did not lose weight. hmmm what is going on. I weighed in a 149 lbs this morning. Oh well its only a number on a scale. onward i go….

I am off for a walk with a grilfriend and we are having food and drinks on the patio…with cloudy weather all week it will be ok wont get to carried away… Hope your girls are doing well…