Welcome to Oklahoma!

Well, it certainly took quite a while, but we arrived in the Sooner state finally!  Our tenth state. 

We've now gone just over 1500 miles on our journey, and our new projected finish date is 6/20/2011.  We are slipping everyone!

Let's take a look at our weekly totals:


 

Week 1	176.5
Week 2	182.5
Week 3	169
Week 4	158
Week 5	204
Week 6	182
Week 7	213.5
Week 8	67.5
Week 9	65.9
Week 10	40
Week 11	41.5

We've gone 214.9 miles in the last 4 weeks, and I did 100 of those.  Let's get going everyone!

A Scranton excursion!

This morning Lynn and I woke up early and took a jog/walk around Lake Scranton.  Here are some of the sites:

With just a quick search I found this picture from the summer as a before picture:

Almost in Oklahoma!

Slowly but surely we are getting there, with just 37.7 miles to go until we reach the state of Oklahoma!  Let's get their this week!

Ending a streak

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days.  With the playoffs, and a trip to Hershey Park I've been busy and haven't gotten a chance to update the totals. 

With a late and disappointing night last night because of the playoffs this morning was rough.  With it raining outside, I hit the snooze alarm a couple of extra times and really just wanted to climb back in bed.  Staying up late hurts when you are trying to get up early, but I decided to get out of bed and continue my streak, which now stands at 80 days in a row.

I know that it will eventually end, but I was happy to extend it for another day, and get some more miles in!  Today I completed week 4/day 1 of the couch to 5K plan and did this:

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:

• Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
• Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
• Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
• Walk 1/4 mile (or 2-1/2 minutes)
• Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
• Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
• Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)

I've been using a podcast and going by time, and things went well.  When I weighed in this morning I was down 54 since my starting weight, and logged my 318th mile of the year today.  I set a goal of reaching 500 for the year, and have been going 3 per day, but need to average just 2.5 to reach 500 for the year.  I don't think it'll be a problem!

How are we doing?  Well - we've got just under 70 miles until we reach Oklahoma!  Let's get it done soon!

How is everyone doing? 

104 miles to Oklahoma

We are getting closer and closer to reaching Oklahoma, although still have a little bit over 100 miles to go.  Let's all get moving and get to Oklahoma!

A little update

Well, we've slowed down considerably over the past week, and we are now 131.85 miles outside of Oklahoma.  Our projected finish date is now 4/28/2011, so make sure you get your miles entered if you've done them, or get out there and get moving if you aren't!

Not only does it seem like we are taking the longest time to get to a state, after passing Little Rock we are now on the longest leg of our journey - 906 miles from Little Rock to Albuquerque.  From Albuquerque we head west to Phoenix (404 miles) and then on to Oceanside, California (368 miles).  So we are making progress, and we'll get to California, and then start coming back!

Any predictions on when we reach California?  I'm going to go out on a limb and predict December 21st.

I saw this the other day, current Yankee manager, and former Pittsfield Cub Joe Girardi, and though I would share:

And now some more Flaming Lips until we make it to Oklahoma!  Sooner or later you'll get sick of me playing the Flaming Lips and get moving, and we'll make it to the Sooner state!

My new toy

Last night I found a new little free program that I downloaded to my phone, and it tracks your distance, speed, and after your workout it uploads it to your account.  Pretty cool stuff!

So here is my normal morning route with just one loop around the park:

Almost in Little Rock

We are just 10.6 miles away from Little Rock, but 170.6 miles away from our goal of making it to Oklahoma this week.

Our weekly total so far this week is just 46.5, our lowest total yet.  If you've been walking make sure and get your miles entered!  So far this week I've put in 63% of the miles. 

And until we get until Oklahoma, some more Flaming Lips - this time doing a Who medley.

No excuses!

Watch this video all the way to the end, and then get moving!  Let's get to Oklahoma everyone!

Finally - No Rain this morning!

I hope everyone is out there and walking on our way to Oklahoma.  Don't forget to keep logging your miles!

Rain

Hopefully the rain isn't keeping everyone inside, and from working out.  I hope everyone is getting out there and making the best of it!  Let's get to Oklahoma this week!

And until we get to Oklahoma, more Flaming Lips.  This time with a cover of Purple Rain -

Congratulations to Lynn!

I wanted to say congratulations to Lynn for becoming the four person to reach 100 miles!  Lynn has been on a role lately, putting in miles for 10 straight days, so keep up the good work Lynn!

I also wanted to congratulate Mike, Michelle, and Betty Ann for all putting in at least 5 days last week!  It's nice to see everyone working harder on our journey across the country!  I know we'll get there, in fact, our projected finish date is now 4/5!  We'll have to start adding on miles soon!

With just 200.6 miles to Oklahoma I think that we can get there this week!  Until we do I'm going to keep playing the Flaming Lips!

Setting Goals (and making them!)

Congratulations everyone on reaching state number 9 - Arkansas!

More importantly, we've made it to Forrest City, Arkansas!

 

There really is nothing significant about Forrest City, except  last week I challenged everyone to do 3 things:

1. Get to Tennessee
2. Get to Forrest City, AR
3. Reach the 200 mile barrier

Not only did we complete all 3 goals, but we went above and beyond going 208.5 miles so far!  I'm not sure if everyone has entered all of their miles for the week yet, but I have a feeling we will be going up by at least a little bit. 

Everyone should be really pleased with our progress this week, and for reaching all three of our goals!  I talked to most of you last week and several of you committed to going a certain distance, and I know everyone pushed hard this week and did what they said they would do.  Great job everyone!  Not to mention, it isn't every week that you get pounded by the remnants of a tropical storm, but we managed to make it through it, and reach our goals.

Earlier today I said I thought that we wouldn't reach a new state next week, but I'm thinking maybe, just maybe we can do it.  We would need to travel 222.1 miles to reach Muse, Oklahoma, and I think if everyone pushes really hard we can make it there!  So that's my challenge to everyone this week, let's get to Oklahoma!

I'm going to shoot for a little bit more than the 35 I went this week and see what happens.  It may not be much more, but I'll see what I can do.

Week 8 - Our journey ahead

I know that week 7 hasn't been completed yet, so we'll have some more miles that we will enter so the final totals will go up.  Here is what we've done per week so far:

Week 1	176.5
Week 2	182.5
Week 3	169
Week 4	158
Week 5	198
Week 6	182
Week 7	133.5

I'm pretty sure we are going to be in Arkansas all week, as we head across towards Oklahoma, our next state (after we officially hate Arkansas). 

Here is where things stand right now:

• Forrest City, AR - 43.9
• Little Rock, AR - 93.2
• Mena, AR - 127
• Muse, OK - 33

We can add that all up and see that we are 297.1 miles away from Oklahoma!  So I don't think we'll make it to the Sooner state, but we'll get pretty close.

I've been to Oklahoma once, and saw perhaps the worst thunderstorm I ever have in my life, and definitely the biggest hail.  Oklahoma is also home to one of my favorite bands, The Flaming Lips. 

Welcome to Memphis!

We have just 50.9 miles to go until we reach our goal destination for the week, Forrest City, Arkansas! 

While I think that we'll meet our goal for the week, one thing I didn't share is that we'll be crossing this today:

That's the Mississippi River, which will lead us to our next state of Arkansas.  So we'll get to Arkansas today, even if we don't make our goal, but let's make our goal!


I couldn't decide on today's video, since a couple songs came to mind - Walking in Memphis, or Memphis, Tennessee, since both came to mind, so I'll include them both, although I'm not too crazy about either of them.

Welcome to Tennessee!

Congratulations to everyone!  We've now made it to Tennessee, and we now sit at 53.9 miles away from our goal this week of Forrest City, Arkansas!

I think that we can make it there!  If you haven't entered your miles for the week make sure that you do so, and let's all get out there and give our all tomorrow, and I think we'll make it! 

I plan on taking a 4 mile walk in the morning, then I'm going to walk down to a fall festival with the kids tomorrow, so you can mark us down as 10 total! 

A couple upcoming milestones

• Dad needs just 12.5 miles to reach 600
• I need 5 more to reach 200, and I'm getting it tomorrow!
• Lynn needs 14 more to reach triple digits

And last but not least, Mom needs just 1 more mile to reach 1!  I'm just kidding on the last one, but since she doesn't read the blog I can do that!  She does owe me four for the week though, and I expect her to get it!

Tennessee Tomorrow!!!

We've got just 29.4 miles to go until we hit Tennessee, so if you haven't logged your miles yet for the week make sure to do so, because I know we are going to reach Tennessee tomorrow!

We've got 95.4 miles to go until we hit Forrest City, Arkansas, so let's all give our best effort this weekend, and reach them both!!  We can do it!