From Athena to Aphrodite

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Athena

Yesterday I finished my first 10 mile race. Today I'm uber sore, think I have a stress fracture in my foot, am retaining about 5 pounds of  fluid (leave it to me to GAIN weight after running 10 miles) and am pretty upset with how I look in the pictures from the race.  How fitting is it that a couple weeks ago my close friend G and I decided to run our weight off, this 10 miler as the starting point.

In runner's lingo, Athena is a woman runner over 150 pounds. Ding, ding, ding, that's me! Now, being referred to as a Greek goddess is quite flattering, but Athena was the androgynous goddess. Yikes, after having said that sentence out loud and  looking at my pic, Athena is a pretty dead on description. Ouch! Any who, I want to be Aphrodite. She's the prettier one.



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Aphrodite

Our Athena to Aphrodite plan is to
1. not focus on weight loss
2. focus on healthy training for the 1/2 marathon in October
3. Document our progress along the way. 

My goals are 2 pound weight loss per week, live a healthy lifestyle of physical fitness, nutrition, self-image, AND 13.1 miles in 2:45:00!

Oh, and still be referred to as a goddess.