Our Married Life

Oh. I’m still going to make it a personal goal to run 9 miles straight this weekend. If I can accomplish that, then I’ll be for sure ready for the half marathon!

On days like this, I wish I had rain boots or some good solid Uggs. I should go try some on this weekend.

Yesterday was a good day in terms of fitness.

I stopped by the grocery store to pick up fixins for pizza. Got home, changed, walked the dogs, and then went out for a 2 mile run. It was already dark by the time I started running, otherwise I would have extended the run to 3 miles.

I started on dinner, and then went upstairs and did 30 minutes of the Nike Training workout, called The Shedder. It’s basically a combination of lunges, sides lunges, and butt busting moves. Surprised I’m not sore today.

Despite the pizza I ate, my net calorie intake was 1000. Not too shabby.

Even though it is too cold to run outside today, here’s to another solid evening, hopefully.

I’m somewhat back on track, somewhat…

Finally went to the gym yesterday and jumped on the treadmill. I only had the energy to do 1.5 miles before I started getting side stitches. I guess that’s what one week off does to you. I tried to go further but couldn’t because it was so painful. Instead I snuck into the turbokickboxing class and did that for about 30 minutes. It’s nice to change it up a bit. I’m surprise I still remember some of the moves and was able to keep up. I suppose my weakness really isn’t cardio, but rather with the total body workouts. Yesterday’s total net calories came out to be 971. I followed my eating plan pretty well during the day, stuffing my face with an organic frozen meal for lunch and fruits and veggie juice throughout the day. I even managed to have time to cook a nice dinner of steak with green beans and potatoes.

I hope I can keep it up today.

I am disappointed in myself. I did not run a single mile last week. I’ll blame it on the extremely cold and damp weather. I got in 2 solid workouts though which is better than nothing.

Despite not wanting to run or having the motivation, I actually miss it. It’s a very therapeutic workout. I can just go and focus on nothing but my stride, breathing and the music I’m listening to. I’ll occasionally see another runner here or there and that would actually keep me going when I want to stop. I saw several runners out this weekend and it made me want to go out there.
I have my bags packed, but I was planning on hitting the gym this evening. Perhaps I’ll put in 2-3 miles on the treadmill to get myself moving again. I may even sign up for the 15K race this Saturday. That is if I didn’t hurt myself by not running all week.

As much as I want to run the half marathon (I’m already halfway through), I did a circuit training workout yesterday using the new Nike app and despite it being only 30 minutes long and not as intense as Insanity, it completely kicked my butt. I was out of breath during the workout, and this morning my entire body is sore. It’s a wonderful feeling. I think I miss the true workout routines. Unfortunately though I only have time to do one or the other. Since my goal is really to lose weight and tone up, I may have to get back into this form of workout instead of training for the half marathon. I still want to run though…

I wish I have the time to both. We’ll see how it goes.

I have done NO physical activity this week. I had planned to go run with a coworker yesterday, but it was too darn cold. I’m hoping to find some time to get down to the gym at lunchtime. I have a fairly short window, so I might not be able to run…because that requires showering and whatnot, so I might just do weights…

I need to get motivated!

I am no doctor or vet. But over the last several weeks we
noticed some cloudy coloration forming in Reesey’s right eye. I’ve
worked at an opthomologist long enough to recognize them as
cataracts, but we were both in denial and kept saying its old age.
After examining them again tonight and comparing it to online
images they do look like cataracts. :( They must have formed
fairly quickly because the vet didn’t mention anything six months
ago during her last visit. Let’s hope I’m wrong…I suppose we
should take her in soon.

I finished my 7 mile run on Saturday though, so I at least accomplished something. Of my training that is the biggest accomplishment. Although each run, be it 1 mile or 7 is a challenge. I struggled during the last mile, only because I was near the end of my route and had to run a second lap around a park to finish out the mileage. I was also VERY thirsty and my lips were starting to dry out. I can see now why people wear the water belts. I may need to get one of those for myself. By the time I got home, I had a hard time stretching because my entire body was so worn out. On top of my run, I had a busy day planned, so by the time I got into bed at 1am, my body was worn out. I watched TWO movies on Saturday, Blue Valentine and True Grit. We went to the late showing of True Grit, and I was sooo uncomfortable during the movie. My legs were still sore, and I just wanted to stretch out. I fell asleep within 5 minutes of the movie starting so I missed the first third of the movie. :-p

My diet was fine Saturday morning, but I blew my calories at Chuys during dinner with chips and queso and even twinkies (because it was Elvis’ birthday, we got free cake and twinkies). I think my dinner came out to be over 1300 calories which is pretty much my days worth. Thank goodness I ran. My net calories for Saturday came out to be 1306 which is below my target of 1400; however, I’m not sure that’s any good because of all the fat I consumed. In hindsight my ordering choice was fine. I ordered a cup of soup and one taco. It was the chips and queso and twinkies that did me in.

I woke up the next day feeling fine and my legs were no longer sore. Thank goodness for the short recovery!

I had no plans to do anything or go anywhere yesterday. But somehow being locked in the house because of the snow made me all grumpy.

I didn’t have much to cook with at home so I made pasta for dinner. Also, since I didn’t have anything to do, I made homemade cheese crackers with wheat and organic cheese. It was only a small batch, but it definitely met my snack cravings. Total net calories for Sunday was 1623…over my target… Before bed, I did a set of 30-40 pushups only because I felt the need to do something physical to end the day.

Let’s hope the rest of the week is better.

I have to run an 8 miler sometime this weekend. Yikes!

By the way, here’s the recipe for the cheese crackers. I substituted the white flour with whole wheat flour and added in 1 tbs of red pepper flakes.