We're running the Race for the Cure!

Race for the Cure has a soft spot in my heart as last year it was my first 5K. I used it not only as a way to raise money for a great and worthy cause but a celebration of losing weight and getting healthy.
Join us for Komen Race for the Cure to be held on November 2nd, 2008. One in seven women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime join our team to start raising funds to support the search for a cure!
PLUS when you show up in your Austin Adventure Boot Camp Tee you have a chance to win!!
Everyone that wears their Austin Adventure Boot Camp t-shirt to the race, will be registered to win a Columbia Pink Digital Sports Watch!!!

A 5K is a great way to show how far you've come! Sure we do the mile during camp but how about 3.2 miles? It is doable come run with me!!

Gooooooaaaal!

So I've figured it out. After much searching and pros and cons lists I have decided on my next fitness goal.
For those of you joining us late, I had accomplished all of my fitness goals. Mile under 9 minutes, run my first 5k, lost 60 pounds, yadda yadda I got kinda stuck. But no longer.
My new goal: To look and feel more like a rockstar. More specifically this rockstar.

I'm setting up a show with my hoot night band and the Hooting and hollering is going to be all Tina Turner. So I am going to have to de-flab my legs (lunge-a-palooza here I come) to get ready for the short and shredded look. So we are going for the Lean Mean Tina look and if we in fact get down to the smallest size of jeans I have in my closet then so be it.

To prepare for that I'm researching a kick off Master Cleanse doing some reading about it (I'll report back if I decide to do it or not). Following that up with a revised nutrition plan, admittedly I've gone astray, and back to adding my ever other afternoon extra cardio bonanza.

So, that's my goal. Did you guys figure out yours? Have you done the master cleanse and have tips for me?

I am a goalless drifter.

It's Wednesday. The middle of the week, and right now my only serious goal is to get to 5pm Friday unscathed.
Having run the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure 5K I have completed my goals for 2007:

1. Lose weight for the reunion
2. Get medical insurance
   
3. Get my mile time under 9 minutes
4. Find out what I'm allergic to
5. Run a 5K without having a heart attack mid sprint
6. Make a significant dent in the writing/planning of my recording project.

Missions Accomplished. Now what?! I need more goals, new plans. Unfortunately it is not like I can put up a craigslist ad looking for goals.

"Motivated achiever seeks goals of the personal and attainable variety. Previous goals were wonderfully fulfilling but alas, have been, fulfilled. Please make yourself known ASAP so I can beat the New Year's rush."

Seriously though, setting goals is very important to your success. For me, having goals to push towards keep me in line. Stops me from zipping into the drive through and eating an entire loaf of bread's worth of toast.

Tips for setting goals.

• Pick something you care about. Something that means something to you directly.
• Make sure its attainable in a reasonable amount of time. Its cool to plan things that will take a year or more, just be sure there are milestone markers along the way to keep you from getting discouraged.
  
• Make it VISIBLE. Write it down. Put it in a journal. Put it on a card in your wallet, put it in a frame by your bed or on your desk. Hang the skinny jeans outside of the closet so you have to look at them every day.
• Visualize yourself achieving your goal. Keep the feeling of how wonderful it is in your mind at all times.
• Tell someone. Tell a lot of people. Blog about it. After all, you are going to need people to celebrate with when you cross it off the list!

I'm off to find some new goals, drop me a line and let me know what your goals are.

Race For the Cure

This Sunday the Austin Adventure Boot Camp participated in Austin's ninth Susan G Komen Race for Cure 5k. Thanks to the wonderful members of our team we were able to surpass our original goal as well as our secondary goal and raise $1,010.00 for the cause. Many thanks to the Campers and Coaches that participated!

Austin Adventures in Blogging?

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Austin Adventure Boot Camp Blog. Let's get some of the formalities out of the way. My name is Stephanie Delk and I am the business operations manager of Austin Adventure Boot Camp and also a Southwest Boot Camper. This is a forum where we can informally introduce you to our trainers, as many of our campers as possible, and offer advice on nutrition, fitness and staying motivated! On alternating Mondays I will be interviewing some of our campers to give you more perspective on what can be achieved at camp. I am happy to count myself as one of the achievers, here is an excerpt of my story:

Name: Stephanie Delk
Age: 28
Occupation: Rock Star
Height: 5’ 11”
Starting Weight: 253
Lowest Weight: 153- a billion years ago
Current Weight 193 and still losing!
Boot Camper Since: Oct 2006

My first class was challenging but Stephanie and the other women were very supportive. I was tired--no—I was exhausted. (Keep in mind I had been leading a pretty sedentary lifestyle until about a week before my first ATX class, I was a champion couch surfer.) After that first class I was in all kinds of pain, but I felt empowered. I knew that if I kept going there was nothing that could stop me from losing the weight.

The first time I “ran” the mile was miserable. I got shin splints. I got cramps. I couldn’t breathe. I don’t know what I was thinking--I couldn’t even run the mile when I was in elementary school doing the President’s Challenge. I maybe ran about a tenth of a mile before I slowed to a jog. By the time I was three quarters of the way through, my legs were aching so badly I started to cry. I snuffled across the finish line, aching and crying and disappointed in myself for letting my weight get so out of control. Stephanie was there at the finish line, 16 minutes and 37 seconds later, assuring me that it would get better. The women in class were supportive and made sure that I knew that the first mile time is just a starting point. It would improve. I would feel better. I just had to keep moving. At the end of my first camp I had cut almost five minutes off my run time and I had lost 7 pounds. A month later…(click here for more)

This past year has led to some huge changes in my life and those changes are part of what made me begin working with Austin Adventure Boot Camp a little over three months ago.

As my story says, this past year I lost 60 pounds. Boot camp helped me get my ducks in a row, fitness and nutrition-wise and here I am nearly on the other side of it.

I will not lie. This has not been easy. But it definitely has been more empowering than I could’ve imagined and strangely enough some days I have more fun before 6:30am than I ever thought.

The culmination of my year of work is coming up. I promised McD that I would run a 5K and on November 4th I am going to participate in the Susan G Komen Race for the Cure. I’ve got an adorable Race for the Cure page y’all should check out and if you are interested in running with me you should sign up to be a part of our team. I believe that you can also ‘sleep in for the cure’ on our team as well.

We will be handing out Pink Prizes so please do join us and help us support the fight against breast cancer!

Now I’m headed off to the Central Camp tomorrow so I better get off to bed.