After yesterday I was a bit unmotivated. I still made myself go up and workout. I didn't use the treadmill because they just hurt my knees, hips and ankle. I decided to really push myself on the recumbent bike. I did 9.11 miles in 35 minutes. I new personal best.
When I got up there I felt really sluggish, but I just decided that I was going to go and go hard. I knew that I had gone 8.5 miles before and I really wanted to hit 9 today. Of course it helped that the book I'm reading hit an exciting fight scene. I find that I push faster when I come to parts like that. LOL.
I have a meet this weekend so I'm going to try to get one run outside between now and next Tuesday. It may or may not happen. I'm going to take some running clothes with me and I may be able to get out between sessions for a quick run. I'm really hoping that I can.
April 9th is my next race. I want to be on or drop a little bit of time since March 12th. But I have to remember that that course was mostly downhill. Its hard to compare the two races, but we'll see.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
They all can't be good workouts
Today I just wasn't feeling it at all. I really wanted to workout, but when I started I felt like I was moving through pudding. It was a slow sluggish start and I just never got the rythm. I did 20 minutes on the treadmill and it hurt the entire time. My knee was sore and my muscles were just revolting the whole time.
After the treadmill I went to the bike. I did 25 minutes there and it was the same thing. I just felt like I was trying to push bricks that weighed at least 20 pounds. It just sucked. I still got in 8 miles total, but it wasn't a good 8 miles.
I was glad to be done and heading home. I just wasn't feeling it today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
I did get 3 boxes of books ready to be mailed to my friend in Georgia. I send her books when I'm done reading them. It's a great system. Plus I register them all on bookcrossing.com and get to follow them. I'm such a geek that way. I love seeing where the books have travelled. It's kind of cool. Not everyone will log on and record that they "caught" a "wild" book, but eventually someone might and when that happens I get all excited. Once agin, I know I'm a geek. LOL.
Now I'm off to rest a bit. I am sleeping, but I'm still trying to catch up from when I wasn't. I think I'll relax and read for a bit. Like I said, hopefully tomorrow's workout will be better.
After the treadmill I went to the bike. I did 25 minutes there and it was the same thing. I just felt like I was trying to push bricks that weighed at least 20 pounds. It just sucked. I still got in 8 miles total, but it wasn't a good 8 miles.
I was glad to be done and heading home. I just wasn't feeling it today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
I did get 3 boxes of books ready to be mailed to my friend in Georgia. I send her books when I'm done reading them. It's a great system. Plus I register them all on bookcrossing.com and get to follow them. I'm such a geek that way. I love seeing where the books have travelled. It's kind of cool. Not everyone will log on and record that they "caught" a "wild" book, but eventually someone might and when that happens I get all excited. Once agin, I know I'm a geek. LOL.
Now I'm off to rest a bit. I am sleeping, but I'm still trying to catch up from when I wasn't. I think I'll relax and read for a bit. Like I said, hopefully tomorrow's workout will be better.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Planning Meals
So I'm the type that I plan the meals for the month. I put together weekly shopping lists and do my grocery shopping every Monday morning. The weeks we have James I usually plan for casseroles and crock pot meals. That way when Mike and James get home they can pop it in the oven or serve it up when they are ready to eat. The other weeks I plan meals that I cook when I get home from practice and that Mike and I will like, but James probably wouldn't. I also make a dessert every Monday to last throughout the week.
I'm finding that in planning these meals I am using a lot more fresh fruits and veggies and a lot less processed foods. I have been feeling better about our eating and I get to enjoy the leftovers for lunch the next day. That's always a good thing.
This week the menu is as follows:
Monday-Pork Chop Parm w/ bococcini salad and Angel Lush w/pineapple for dessert
Tuesday-Italian Style Chicken Combo w/leftover salad
Wednesday-Mike and James go to his parent's house
Thursday-Beef Provicial Stew
Friday-Homemade pizzas
We also started having James plan and cook a meal once a week when he's with us. This Saturday will be his day to plan and cook. He loves doing this and it has gotten him to try new things and eat more vegetables. He's made chicken fingers, peanut soup, 15 bean soup, pasta and sauce, and Indian food. I never know what he's going to make until Saturday afternoon. He helps with the shopping and the cooking. He is always really proud of his dinners.
Sundays we go to Mike's parents' house for dinner. It's nice to have a meal with his parents and James gets to see his grandparents when he's with us. He likes going there and it's nice to have a day off from cooking.
I love to cook and try new things. Mike is also a wonderful cook so he gets the Saturdays that James isn't cooking. I love it when Mike cooks because he likes to try new things and they always turn out great!
Now I'm off to have some leftover chili for lunch. I love the leftovers!
I'm finding that in planning these meals I am using a lot more fresh fruits and veggies and a lot less processed foods. I have been feeling better about our eating and I get to enjoy the leftovers for lunch the next day. That's always a good thing.
This week the menu is as follows:
Monday-Pork Chop Parm w/ bococcini salad and Angel Lush w/pineapple for dessert
Tuesday-Italian Style Chicken Combo w/leftover salad
Wednesday-Mike and James go to his parent's house
Thursday-Beef Provicial Stew
Friday-Homemade pizzas
We also started having James plan and cook a meal once a week when he's with us. This Saturday will be his day to plan and cook. He loves doing this and it has gotten him to try new things and eat more vegetables. He's made chicken fingers, peanut soup, 15 bean soup, pasta and sauce, and Indian food. I never know what he's going to make until Saturday afternoon. He helps with the shopping and the cooking. He is always really proud of his dinners.
Sundays we go to Mike's parents' house for dinner. It's nice to have a meal with his parents and James gets to see his grandparents when he's with us. He likes going there and it's nice to have a day off from cooking.
I love to cook and try new things. Mike is also a wonderful cook so he gets the Saturdays that James isn't cooking. I love it when Mike cooks because he likes to try new things and they always turn out great!
Now I'm off to have some leftover chili for lunch. I love the leftovers!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
The Unexpected
Yesterday I had a plan of running and biking after swim practice. I was ready to do some work since I was at the University all day. Well, all that changed. I had to help with a camp that was going on. Not a problem. I thought I could get a short workout in a some point. Well, I didn't get the exact workout I wanted.
We had a dryland component to this camp. The woman that ran it did a bootcamp style workout with the kids. At first they weren't super excited about it but once I said I would do it with them they got more excited. They seemed to have a good time working hard and moving. It was a wonderful hour and a half. The kids did a pretty good job. I know it had me sweating and working hard. I may have to look into something like this in the area. It was fun and it was hard and I loved it!
It's amazing how sometimes the unexpected works out in the end.
We had a dryland component to this camp. The woman that ran it did a bootcamp style workout with the kids. At first they weren't super excited about it but once I said I would do it with them they got more excited. They seemed to have a good time working hard and moving. It was a wonderful hour and a half. The kids did a pretty good job. I know it had me sweating and working hard. I may have to look into something like this in the area. It was fun and it was hard and I loved it!
It's amazing how sometimes the unexpected works out in the end.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Hello Friday!
I am so glad it's Friday! Although the week went by quickly, it seemed like Friday would never get here.
Last night we went and saw an illusionist. James absolutely loved it! He was fascinated by the magic and how people disappeared and reappeared. When I asked him what his favorite part was, he said, "The floating lady at the very end!" It was a lot of fun, but a bit of late night for a Thursday.
I had another night of not sleeping. It's not fair to keep Mike up so I headed down to the couch to read. I did fall asleep reading, but woke up when I heard the cat knock something over. Then I read again to fall back asleep and woke up again when Anya needed to go out. Third time I read and never fell back to sleep. I got to practice a few minutes before 5:00am since I was up and moving. I was hoping that getting back on my exercise schedule would help the sleep, but it hasn't so far.
I did get on the recumbent bike for 35 minutes today. For 30 of those minutes I was peddaling as hard as I could. The last 5 minutes was a cool down. Tomorrow I will see if I can do a split run/bike workout like I did Wednesday. I have 16 days until my next 5K.
I got to start reading a new "workout book" today. I keep a book in my bag and read it while I'm on the bike. It makes the time go faster and I find that I go really fast when there are exciting parts. I just finished Tainted by Julie Kenner. I love her books and I really like this one. It's the first book in a triology. I had to remind myself of that when I wasn't too keen on the ending. Now I'm reading the second book in the Black Sun's Daughter series by M. L. N. Hanover. It's called Darker Angels. I loved the first book Unclean Spirits so I'm hoping this one is just as good. I like reading these Urban Fantasy books while I workout. They are full ofi fights with demons and like I said earlier, it makes me peddal faster.
Now I have to buckle down and get some work done. I really just want to take a nap, but that's not in the cards today or tomorrow for that matter. Oh well...sleep is overrated anyway. Right?????
Last night we went and saw an illusionist. James absolutely loved it! He was fascinated by the magic and how people disappeared and reappeared. When I asked him what his favorite part was, he said, "The floating lady at the very end!" It was a lot of fun, but a bit of late night for a Thursday.
I had another night of not sleeping. It's not fair to keep Mike up so I headed down to the couch to read. I did fall asleep reading, but woke up when I heard the cat knock something over. Then I read again to fall back asleep and woke up again when Anya needed to go out. Third time I read and never fell back to sleep. I got to practice a few minutes before 5:00am since I was up and moving. I was hoping that getting back on my exercise schedule would help the sleep, but it hasn't so far.
I did get on the recumbent bike for 35 minutes today. For 30 of those minutes I was peddaling as hard as I could. The last 5 minutes was a cool down. Tomorrow I will see if I can do a split run/bike workout like I did Wednesday. I have 16 days until my next 5K.
I got to start reading a new "workout book" today. I keep a book in my bag and read it while I'm on the bike. It makes the time go faster and I find that I go really fast when there are exciting parts. I just finished Tainted by Julie Kenner. I love her books and I really like this one. It's the first book in a triology. I had to remind myself of that when I wasn't too keen on the ending. Now I'm reading the second book in the Black Sun's Daughter series by M. L. N. Hanover. It's called Darker Angels. I loved the first book Unclean Spirits so I'm hoping this one is just as good. I like reading these Urban Fantasy books while I workout. They are full ofi fights with demons and like I said earlier, it makes me peddal faster.
Now I have to buckle down and get some work done. I really just want to take a nap, but that's not in the cards today or tomorrow for that matter. Oh well...sleep is overrated anyway. Right?????
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
It's Snowing...Ugh
Yep..woke up this morning for morning practice and there was a good 3-4 inches on the ground. Not something I wanted to see at this point in March. Driving to the University was a pain in the butt as the plows would clear a road and the snow would blow right back over it.
I have been at the University all day now and it's still snowing. Grrrrrrrrr....
There was an upside to all this snow. When I went to workout all the treadmills were open and there was no one in the cardio room at all. I got 20 minutes on the treadmill and 20 minutes on the bike before I had to come down for a coaches meeting. It was great!
Now I have to head out to grab a salad for lunch and get a few errands done before my afternoon practice. I don't want to go out in the snow again. I'm so done with it all.
It doesn't look its going to warm up in the next week so it will probably stick around too. Sigh...
I have been at the University all day now and it's still snowing. Grrrrrrrrr....
There was an upside to all this snow. When I went to workout all the treadmills were open and there was no one in the cardio room at all. I got 20 minutes on the treadmill and 20 minutes on the bike before I had to come down for a coaches meeting. It was great!
Now I have to head out to grab a salad for lunch and get a few errands done before my afternoon practice. I don't want to go out in the snow again. I'm so done with it all.
It doesn't look its going to warm up in the next week so it will probably stick around too. Sigh...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Busy morning and finally back on schedule
I had to get up and go to practice this morning after only sleeping about 3 1/2 hours. I have not been able to sleep at all lately. I am working on it though.
Practice went well. Kids did pretty good this morning. I then went and rode the recumbent bike for 35 minutes and went 8 miles. I would have gone 10 minutes longer but Mike had emailed me that one of the animals had gotten sick. I then started to think about who it could have been and what did they get into. I remembered that I had had a piece of chocolate the other night. I tried to remember if I left the bag where they could get it or not. I couldn't remember so guilt and fear brought me home.
They hadn't gotten into the chocolate so all was good. I felt better seeing that.
James had asked to bring in a treat since he's Star of the Day tomorrow. Star of the Day is kind of like Show and Tell when we were growing up. He gets to bring in something special to him and share it with the class. He also let us know that he can bring in a treat to share. He looked through his cookbooks and picked out a recipe for As You Wish Muffins. They are a healthy breakfast muffin made with whole wheat flour, very very very little sugar and some of my homemade jam. I am making 36 muffins today. I will put them in little bags that I picked up and add a pencil and a stencil that I found in the dollar section.
When I'm done with that I have to get dinner ready so all Mike has to do is pop it in the oven when he gets home. We have found that doing that or using the crockpot works best. James is usually hungry so all he has to do is wait about half an hour for dinner. Mike doesn't have to cook and they can eat and it will still be warm when I get home from practice. Tonight I'm making Rustic Chicken and Mushroom Stew.
I feel like I'm finally back on my schedule. I have the meals planned out for the rest of the month. The grocery lists for each week done and ready to be added too. I am on schedule to work out tomorrow and Friday and possibly even Saturday. I'm getting the house cleaned slowly. Very very slowly, but it is getting done. I have my workouts written for the week and am working on the newsletter tomorrow. I feel like I'm back in the groove. Finally. Now I just have to maintain that groove and get my sleep back on schedule and life will be good.
Practice went well. Kids did pretty good this morning. I then went and rode the recumbent bike for 35 minutes and went 8 miles. I would have gone 10 minutes longer but Mike had emailed me that one of the animals had gotten sick. I then started to think about who it could have been and what did they get into. I remembered that I had had a piece of chocolate the other night. I tried to remember if I left the bag where they could get it or not. I couldn't remember so guilt and fear brought me home.
They hadn't gotten into the chocolate so all was good. I felt better seeing that.
James had asked to bring in a treat since he's Star of the Day tomorrow. Star of the Day is kind of like Show and Tell when we were growing up. He gets to bring in something special to him and share it with the class. He also let us know that he can bring in a treat to share. He looked through his cookbooks and picked out a recipe for As You Wish Muffins. They are a healthy breakfast muffin made with whole wheat flour, very very very little sugar and some of my homemade jam. I am making 36 muffins today. I will put them in little bags that I picked up and add a pencil and a stencil that I found in the dollar section.
When I'm done with that I have to get dinner ready so all Mike has to do is pop it in the oven when he gets home. We have found that doing that or using the crockpot works best. James is usually hungry so all he has to do is wait about half an hour for dinner. Mike doesn't have to cook and they can eat and it will still be warm when I get home from practice. Tonight I'm making Rustic Chicken and Mushroom Stew.
I feel like I'm finally back on my schedule. I have the meals planned out for the rest of the month. The grocery lists for each week done and ready to be added too. I am on schedule to work out tomorrow and Friday and possibly even Saturday. I'm getting the house cleaned slowly. Very very slowly, but it is getting done. I have my workouts written for the week and am working on the newsletter tomorrow. I feel like I'm back in the groove. Finally. Now I just have to maintain that groove and get my sleep back on schedule and life will be good.
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