Happy Monday!!!
I am so happy that it is a 4 day work week for me!!! I hope you have a short work week as well!
Monday- training apointment at the gym
Tuesday- run and bike at home
Wednesday-OFF
Thursday- walk and bike at home
Friday- Christmas!!! 2 mile run
Saturday- spinning class and maybe a swim after
Sunday- yoga and maybe zumba or a swim after
What are your workout plans for his holiday week?
Well Saturday has come to an end, at least for me, there is still about 2 hours left for the rest of the pacific standard time zone.
I ran my 5k this morning
I bested my August 5k time by about 7 minutes!!! Woot woot! New 5k PR for me!
Then i was surfing the internet and found these cute medal/bib displays that i like and I’m going to (at some point in the next few months) try and piece together my favorite parts into me own creation.
Once i get it figured out and built I’ll show you.
One day i would love something like this too:
I relaxed on the couch the rest of the day while my roommate made hudreds of cookies that i sampled and ate some cookie dough.
Then i knew it was time to workout again since i ate so much crap!
I did 20 minutes on the bike and 25 walking on the treadmill on an incline.
Then it was dinner time!
My roommate and i have decided to go out and party New Year’s Eve and i have decided that i have earned a night of not giving a shit. In the last 6 months my mom got remarried, though I’m happy for her and only want her to be happy, it was very difficult for me, and in the last 2 months i have had surgery, been sick now 3 times, been basically dumped my my best friend of 13 years, my other great friend that i had a ‘ dinner date’ with weekly moved to Indiana and as of Friday night am now single. I have also come to the realization that my old running partner and I’s friendship was irrevocably changed when i moved back to Nevada and i don’t believe it will ever be the same. Life has sucked recently.
And i seem to be falling back into this i dont want to let myself cry, push all my feelings down pattern which has never lead to good things. It generally leads to self-damaging actions. Thankfully i seem to be using excercise as a crutch which is good.
Whew sorry to get heavy on you!
How do you deal with the difficult things?
How was your Saturday?
FYI, it is sunday morning and i am feeling much less pity party this morning. Still sad but working on moving on.
Happy Thursday!!!!
Though i am writing this Wednesday night. It’s 8:20pm and i am in bed getting ready to pass out. I have a 5:30am training session in the pool. Oh the things we do to train. I am only doing blue apron every 2-3 weeks now so it is time to start meal planning again. It was time anyways if i want to lose some weight and start gearing up my training for an epic race year…..well epic for me Hahahaha.
Here is my meal plan for tomorrow.
Protien bar before my pool workout. They are easy to digest and are light.
Hitting Starbucks after my workout because ill have plenty of time to kill between workout and work.
Morning snack, all cut up and ready to go.
Lunch: a leftover blue apron dinner that i froze. North African shrimp cous cous.
Afternoon snack: energy balls. Found the recipe on pintrest today. Though i made something a lot like it for the trail as well. So simple. Peanut butter, chocolate protein powder (vega for me), oats, honey, and mini chocolate chips (vegan for me) mix and enjoy!
I might have part of a naked juice blueberry protien smoothie if I’m still hungry.
Dinner will be what i have been gobbling up lately. Egg, cheese and veggie sandwich on a whole wheat english muffin. Though i picked up some salsa today so it will be extra yummy!
I usually leave the tv to fall alseep too. Generally a movie i have watched a millions before. Just for some background noise. Tonight choice is
Don’t judge lol.
I just bought this!
And am excited to watch it tomorrow night and compare it to the book!
Also while drifting off i am flipping through this:
Seeing of anything is nearby that i can do in 2016.
Do you plan your meals?
Do you want tv to go to sleep? Or listen to music? Or do you like silence?
Hi all!!!
I am still working on getting all my strength back since surgery.
Today was a good strength workout, difficult and got me sweating but i can feel the strength and stamina coming back! Yay!!!
I was tempted at work today lol. But i chose a brownie with no frosting and a small scoop of vanilla.
Dinner!!!! I love food!!!! The workout hunger is starting!!!
Lunch was leftover mac and cheese from a blue apron meal.
Last early to bed for me because after 4 days of hard training i was exhausted!!!! And i am so excited that today is a rest day!!!! I think i might read tonight 
How is your week going so far?
Hi everyone!!!!!
So I’m am starting the very beginning basics of training for a triathalon. My goal is a duathalon in August then a triathalon in September.
The Portland tri-sprint is an 800 meter swim and today i swam a total of 950 meters!!!! Now don’t get too excited yet there were breaks and some rounds i used flippers and paddles and all that stuff but i swam the distance and in less than 50 minutes including my breaks. I still have a LONG way to go but this was seriously inspiring to me today.
Post workout waiting for dinner to cook.
My workout hunger is starting to come back. I need to start planning snacks in between my meals.
Lunch was leftover veggie lasagna that my awesome roomie made for me. It may not look that pretty but it was DELICIOUS!!!!
My vitamin D just arrived from amazon. Here in Oregon we dont see the sun in the winter, pretty much at all and i am already deficienct in vitamin D so yea.
I also started taking this. Gotta keep those joints happy with all this swimming, running, walking, biking and yoga.
I am also alternating taking these. I swear by essential oils. I’ve started taking oregano every night and am not getting sick anymore, knock on wood.
Do you take any supplements? If so what, and why?
Monday: swim workout with trainer
Tuesday: rest day!!!!!
Wednesday: swim workout with trainer
Thursday: gym workout with trainer
Friday: walk/bike at home
Saturday: 5k race
Sunday: yoga class/active rest day
And another weekend comes to a close. This morning my roommate C and i went to yoga at 24 hour fitness. Today was a good class i got really meditative and realized i need to do yoga every week to stretch everything put with all my training.
I made myself a delicious breakfast
Then relaxed a bit.
After the relaxation on went downstairs to our mini ‘home’ gym and ran 2 miles, walked a bit then biked for 40 minutes while watching the movie Taken.
I really should not be attracted to a man who could be my dad lol.
While working out i got a text from the BF he is safe in India lol. He found a little cafe with Wi-Fi so he was able to text me for a few.
Tonight the roomies and i did a little Christmas decorating
And snacking
While listening to Christmas music.
This Christmas will be very bitter sweet for me. I always felt like my mom’s house was still home but that is gone and i don’t really feel like where i am now is home and i feel in-between familes. I have grown up and my ‘family’ from childhood doesn’t really exist anymore but i have created my own family yet.
Christmas is what 12 days away and i still have no idea what I’ll be doing. No idea if I’ll be chilling at home alone like thanksgiving, if the bf and i will be spending it together, if we will try the meet the parents again, if I’ll go to my roommates family Christmas…….no clue.
What are your holiday plans?
How was your weekend?
Hi all!!!!
I hope you had a great Saturday! I actually feel like i accomplished a good amount. I set my alarm for 7 am sp i could get up and make it to an 8am spin class….my first. My alarm went off and I said “yea, no” and rolled back over. But then i was awake so i figured ok ill get up and go. Then my sweet sweet puppy crawled up and put her head in the crook of my shoulder cuddle. It was soooo precious! So i laid there and cuddled with her for about 15 min until she moved. Then i got my butt up and made it to class just time to figure the seat amd peddles out and hear the instructor say “today we are doing hills”………may i just say spinning is a freaking workout! Damn!
This is me afterwards exhausted trying to show you i drank 3/4 of my liter water bottle in that hour spin class.
24 hour fitness is also having a clearance on my favorite protein bars so i am slowly stocking up as long as the sale is on.
I came home got ready andy roommates and i went to E’s parents house which is a farm and cut down outlr Christmas tree!!! A first for me.
It was actully quite fun!
I also fell in love with the house and land and now want to buy it for my farm and Inn LOL.
Came home and relaxed the tonight i went to the movies with E and saw Christmas with the coopers….actually quite a cute movie.
How was your Saturday?
So anything fun?
Happy Thursday!!!! Or as it used to be refered to in college thirsty Thursday. All college bars have deals on drinks tonight just an fyi hahaha.
My thirsty thursday consisted of lota od water everywhere
And a little hail at some point according to my coworkers.
I hit the gym and remembered to finally take a pic of the spinning class schedule so i can start training for next years triathalon!!!
Todays training session became half weights have swimming when we realized there was a swim class from 6:30-7:30. So i got a double workout woot woot!!! Swimming felt better today and i am getting in the pool twice next week!
Yay!!! A freshly made bed with clean sheets!!! Take a look now, between me and the dog by tomorrow it will be a tangled mess of sheets.
I love her to death but sometimes she kills me with the way she sleeps.
Speaking of Ms Artemis ……..sometimes she is so cute!!!!
Quick selfie before bed!!! Yep Harry Potter is on in the background
At 3:50ish tomorrow morning the boyfriend boards 1 of 3 flights it will take him to get to India for work and he will be gone for a week.
I cannot wait for his work to slow down, it is really stressing our relationship.
Goddess help us get through the next 4 weeks!!!!
Goodnight and swetlet dreams to all!!!
How was your thirsty Thursday? Did you partake in something stronger than water?
My cheap replacement for my morning Starbucks. I get 4 bottles for the price of a grande. Not as strong but it’s something to help the budget now and then.
Got this water bottle at the airport and it’s a quart. 2 of these a day and i am set! Yes i refill and reuse plastic water bottles for like a month.
I have been drinking more and more tea lately.
Leftover delicious lentil Bolognese for lunch!
Next years calendar for my desk at work!!! I am such a dork i love to go through and write the years stuff on a calendar. Holidays, birthdays, full moons, new moons, paydays, and races. New years eve at work should be really slow so I’ll do it then
Artemis likes to surprise me every once and a while by eating one of my socks. And she always picks the good ones……
I got in a good workout today so that helped improve my day.
Took the dog for a walk. Did 40 min on the recombent bike and 40 minutes on the treadmill.
How was your Wednesday?
Trailing the blonde 