Sunday – 7000 steps
Monday – walked 1 mile and did 1/4 of an ab workout hahaha
Tuesday – ran 1.5 miles
Wednesday -7000 steps
Thursday – 7000 steps
Friday- Arm workout and 7000 steps
Saturday – 7000 steps
3 workouts total this week with 10 min of treadmill walking at the end of any night I didn’t run to hit my step goal. Slowly but surely I am getting back to it. Next week my goal is 4 workouts.
Monday- ran 1.5 miles (1 mile for time, .5 of walk run intervals)
Tuesday – off but hit 7000 steps
Wednesday – 1 set of strength workout for legs and walked on the treadmill for 20 min
Thursday – ran 1 mile for time
Friday- off but hit 7000 steps
Saturday – 1 set of strength workout for arms (gotta get my stamina back after this sickness. I am still coughing up phlegm)
Still easing back in but finally feel like I’m starting to get back to it.
Stay healthy! The colds and flus this year are no joke!
We are all still hacking and coughing over here though we are on the mend.
I did some small workouts
Monday – run 1 mile without stopping
Wednesday – run 1.5 miles ( 1 mile without stopping then run/walk)
Friday – walked 1 mile at a level 3 incline
Saturday – walked 1 mile at a level 3 incline
Hopefully we continue to improve and I can add more in.
It has taken some time and reflection to realize how selfish it was for me to sign up for a marathon at this point in my life without fully thinking through the repercussions for my family.
I am not saying running races is selfish, or being a wife and running marathons is selfish or even being a mom and running marathons is selfish. Simply that for me, at this time in my life, it was.
I didn’t really discuss it with my husband before I signed up….oops, I’ve been married for 5 years and sometimes still forget I’m in a partnership now.
Running a marathon is a HUGE time commitment and can be a large financial one as well. Both of these were/are true for me. Currently I am a slow runner so my long runs took a LONG time. Meaning, we lost most of our Saturdays (during my training) to my long run, especially when you add in that my youngest (and sometimes my oldest) still needs to nap. This means we had no opportunities to camp or do any overnight trips this last summer.
Financially it was a big commitment as well since I chose a marathon in another state (my home state). I did use this as an opportunity/excuse to spend time with my family there but this meant plane tickets, days of extra food costs, and all those miscellaneous costs that come with traveling.
I am not saying I regret doing it. My husband was pretty gracious about it all. My kids got to see family and we as a family got to do an awesome Disneyland trip and make lots of memories.
Also, doing something for me is not selfish (that is not what I am saying) but doing something that impacted my whole family for a big part of the year…….was pretty selfish…..in MY case.
I love to run and will keep running, I love doing races too, but this isn’t my time for racing. That time will come again. For me and my family, this is the time for healthy fitness for me…..and lots of family fun together.
This coming year I look forward to lots of family camping and fun family weekend trips.
What are you looking forward to in 2024?
The best laid plans..as they say.
I ran 3 miles on Tuesday and walked an additional 1.5 while the kids napped.
I was hoping to keep increasing my workouts and getting back to normal and guess what? Now I have an ear infection. It took 2 weeks of off and on pain getting worse for me to make a Dr appt. With 2 littles I just don’t have time to make superfluous Dr appointments, you know?
But when I couldn’t ignore the pain anymore I caved and yep! There’s an infection in my ear. So now after the colds we all had a few weeks ago, 3 out of the 4 in my little family have gotten ear infections, tell me they are not contagious again? Actually I am thinking whatever strain that cold was must really open you up to an ear infection. I’ve been on antibiotics for 48 hours and am just now starting to feel a reduction in ear pain. We will see how I feel come Monday for workouts. I’m also super tired though, don’t know if it’s the infection or the antibiotics or both.
Here’s to next week!!
How have your workouts been?
I’m back!!!!
Ugh it feels like we had the cold that never ended. The kids got slight colds coming back from California, no surprise. They were starting to get better so we went out to some indoor play places, like those indoor playgrounds and we ALL got sick, worse this time. And then once the colds started to clear both kids got double ear infections. Yep, double ear infections.
Then for about a week after I stopped coughing up enough stuff that I would have been comfortable working out. I was still so exhausted from recovering from being sick and taking care of two little kids while being sick that I just had no energy to work out. My goal this week was three workouts and I hit it.
Tuesday – upper body burn from mbf on beachbody
Thursday – full body burn from mbf on beachbody
Friday – Lower body burn from mbf on beachbody
It looks like next week should be mostly dry for us so my goal will be 3 strength workouts and 1 run.
Star Wars land is freaking cool! Very immersive feeling….but! Only 2 rides and the rest is all shops……seems gimmicky for a whole land….but 100% worth exploring…..if you are there.
As if I wasn’t crazy enough to sign up for a long race with 2 kids under 3 I then decided that with only 1 day of rest we would spend 4 days at Disneyland.
Don’t know how but we picked a great time to go. During the day, we were almost always able to find a ride that had less than a 20 minute wait. I can tell you anything longer than that and your kids are going to freak out. Even the 20 minutes my daughter would get really fidgety by the end. Snacks are key.
Sunday OFF
Monday- dirty 30 (21 day fix beachbody workout) and 2 miles
Tuesday- Yoga and extra stretching
Wednesday – upper body workout and stretching
Thursday – Pilates and 2 miles
Friday – lower body strength workout
Saturday – 1.75 mile walk ‘hike’ with the kids. Our first of many, hopefully, this season. This is mostly to get the kids used to it again. My toddler walked about half of it and my baby walked about 1/3
Total miles – 5.75 miles
Sunday- Easter, we were at my in-laws all day
Monday- off letting my back rest after tweaking it
Tuesday- upper body workout and ran 1.3 miles
Wednesday- Pilates
Thursday- stretching and ran 3.13 miles
Friday- Off
Saturday- ran 2 miles to meet the family at the park then when they left I ran 2 miles home for a total of 4 miles
Totally milage this week- 8.43 miles.
Trailing the blonde 