by Jaime

It didn't happen after the Half Marathon in Olathe.

It didn't happen after the 4-mile race last week.

And it shouldn't have had to happen at all.

I'm talking about my comeback, which is finally here.  Since my last blog entry, I've had a couple great accomplishments - a 13.25 mile half marathon, followed 3 weeks later by the 4 mile Trolley Run in Kansas City's Plaza.  But I missed a lot of little accomplishments - all the workouts that should have happened in between.  Let me help you catch up.

The last time I posted was near the end of March.  Adriene and I ended our fitness challenge with a whimper - we'd done great, but we were burned out.  Total, I lost 45 pounds, and thankfully only gained 5 back during the "off" month Adriene and I gave ourselves.  Now it's May, and we're back on the horse.  But even that didn't motivate me like it should have.  No, it took the complementary copy of Runner's World that showed up in the mail this week.  It was part of a special offer through the Olathe half marathon, and it was a life preserver.  Even when I woke up this morning, I didn't think anything of it, but I opened the magazine and started reading, and it all came back to me.  I love running.  And I love what it did for me over the last few months.  So, I ran my first non-race run in a month, and it felt great.

I started this journey January 3rd, with Adriene.  I started out dancing dangerously close to the 300 pound mark - 294 to be exact.  I had 120 pounds to lose.  Over three months, I dropped to just under 250.  Now it's time for round two.

Stay tuned for the Bellmyer Fitness Challenge #2.  I'll be wiping the site clean, and restarting a lot of the charts and such.  In fact, I'm planning to build our own blog that we'll host on my own leased server (I'm a web developer by trade), and hopefully it will be even better.  MSN has some limitations that I'm not crazy about.  My charts, for instance, have maximum size limits I've been fighting since day one.

Anyway, I just wanted to say it's good to be back!  I can't wait to bring you more, and shed the next 40 pounds.