Sooooo! Looks like I had a week worthy of a recap this past week! YAY! Let’s get this ball rollin’!!!
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Saturday: ran the Orange Leaf Half Marathon with my friend Kirsten. It
went okay. Nowhere near as well I was hoping it would. I gave up goal A
about 1/3 of the way in.
Goal B got shot out of the sky a mile after that. Goal C died a couple
miles later. Goal D where all I wanted to do was finish is all that
happened. Haha. Stay tuned in the next week or so (after I get the
official pics I will post it) for my race recap
for the full story.
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Sunday: since I was most definitely NOT trained properly for running a
half marathon, I was pretty sore all over the place from the half
marathon. Seriously…all over the
place. Kirsten had recommended post-race that I go for a walk to break
up the lactic acid in my muscles. I had originally planned on hitting
the gym, but decided it best to follow her advice. So, I went for a 5.3
mile walk! Got a little sun in the process.
About ¼ of a mile into the walk, I realized that I forgot to slather
myself with sunscreen. Did I turn around and go put some one? Nope.
I’m stubborn like that. Weird thing is, if I had been running at the
same time of day for the same amount of time I
was walking, I would not have gotten burned at all.
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Monday: I had an early morning dentist appointment that isn’t all that
far from my house. So, Sunday evening I decided that instead of driving
to my appointment, I would
ride my bike and then after my appointment, I would take the long way
home and get a nice long bike ride in. Turns out the dentist office is 6
miles almost exactly from the front of my apartment building. The
appointment took about 50 minutes. My teeth
are fabulous, by the way, according to the dentist. YAY! The long way
home consisted of 12 miles! Whoa! So, a total of 18 miles with a LOT
of hills included were ridden. I got to use the cycling setting on my
Polar M400 activity tracker. I also got to
use my Garmin Edge cycling computer/GPS for the first time! I got up
to 26 mph at one point…going downhill, of course.
• Tuesday:
REST DAY! Also, I worked overtime on the night shift Monday night, so no choice in the matter really.
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Wednesday: so, I set up this post at the beginning of the week and put
notes like “did I go to the gym as planned?” and such. This day had
such a note and I would like
to report that YES I did go to the gym as planned this day! I had set
my alarm for 8:15 but hit snooze until 8:30. I slept great. You know
you’ve had a great night’s sleep when it feels like you’ve been asleep
for a really long time. I got up, got dressed
for working out and then promptly sat down at the computer. This was
payday, so before I did anything else, I had to pay my bills. And while
I was online, I ordered my official photos from the Orange Leaf Half,
paid registration fees for a couple 5Ks, ordered
a couple more of the toe spacer bunion thingies because there was a
Groupon deal for them going on. Then, I had to go to 3 different stores
to get my vitamins, jugs of water, and some other grocery items. THEN I
could go to the gym. At this point it was
almost 10:45 before I got to the gym. I have to leave for work at
12:40. That SOUNDS like plenty of time to workout, go home, shower and
then go to work. However, I worked a double (16 hr) shift this day, so I
had to make sure I had ALL of my food for the
entire day, my evening vitamins, enough bottles of water filled up,
then I also had to cook my eggs. I was 1 minute late leaving. Whew!
Anyway, I kicked it into overdrive at the gym and got a good calorie
burn going. I got everything except my 10 minutes
on the stair climber done.
• Thursday: another
REST DAY due to working overtime the night before. I did call
and make my first appointment with the EMDR therapist for next Tuesday
before work. So, next week I’ll be telling you about how that went!
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Friday: we’ll start this day off with I was originally looking to work
overtime on the morning shift this day. However, after partially failed
sleep Thursday morning due
to my neighbor moving out of her apartment and then doing kitchen
upgrades in it before the next person moves in and there was a lot of
banging about going on and I missed out on about an hour of quality
sleep as a result, I opted to not get just 4.5-5 hours
of sleep and skip the overtime even though I did really want the money
from it. I did, in fact, make it to the gym after getting a fantastic
full night of sleep! Going into this workout, I was planning to do 10
minutes on the stair climber, do my strength
training circuit of 90% of the machines, then hit the stair climber for
another 10 minutes. However, I upped the weight I was using on most of
the machines so by the time I got done with my strength training, I was
done and ready to go. So I did.
I am
so beyond proud of myself for this week. Every day that I was able to
and had the time to workout (aka – not working a double shift) , I
actually did!!! This might
seem like a small thing to some of you, but right now, with how sketchy
my motivation and drive to go workout and then the complete lack of
follow thru that I’ve been suffering from as far as my workouts is
concerned, this is huge for me. Also, I went back
to eating according to a structured eating plan and stayed within my
calories all week as well.
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Something
else I would like to recap from this week is that I decided it was time
to start actually tracking what I put in my mouth everyday instead of
just logging into
MyFitnessPal every day so I can keep up my log in streak. My weight
has creeped back up over 190 and that is just plain unacceptable. I
need to lose 20 lbs. I need to lose more, but I’m just going to focus
on 20 instead of 28. Seems like a much more manageable
number, don’t you agree? That last 8 is pretty much just a vanity 8
lbs anyway. But I seriously need to drop the 20. I want to lose this
20 lbs by the time of the renaissance festival, mid-October. I want to
look good in my costumes and not have to worry
about if I will fit into them. So, 3 months to lose 20 lbs. I can do
this!
Tuesday,
since I had worked overtime Monday night and got off work at 6am and
had to wake back up shortly after noon to be back at work by 1:45pm, I
usually pack my cereal
and eat it in my car in the parking garage at work. Well, about 2
miles from my apartment on my way to work I realized I didn’t pack my
cereal. I had to stop at the gas station for gas anyway so I figured
I’d go in and see what healthy options that weren’t
expensive (day before payday, you know) that I could get to eat. I
ended up with 2 of those single-serve portioned out things of Cherrio’s
and a 2 cup bottle of 2% milk. I would have really preferred to have
almond milk. That 2 cups of 2% milk was 260 calories
all by itself! The cereal was 300 by itself. Oh well, I still stayed
within my calories for the day. Not as much within my calories as I
would have been had I remembered my own cereal, but it worked out in the
end.
I said
on Wednesday that I registered for a couple 5Ks. For the past couple
years, I have ran the Schlotzsky’s BunRun. 2 years ago, before it moved
to its current time
of the year and physical location, and when they also still had the 10K
option, I ran the 10K. Last year, I ran it at its new time of year and
location as a 5K (that’s the only option they have for it now). I
found out about a smaller local 5K early last
month that benefits a fund for people with melanoma cancer called Fight
Like a Girl 5K. I found out this past week that the BunRun is
scheduled for the same day as the Fight 5K is. So, I had to decide
which one I wanted to do more. I decided to go with
the Fight 5K. I also registered for the Run With the Heroes 5K that I
have done the last 2 years. This year we are running in honor of Travis
County Sheriff’s Deputy Hollis that was killed in the line of duty
during heavy flooding last year. Since I’m a
member of Team Sheriff, I’ll be getting a tech shirt that is being made
in memoranda of Deputy Hollis. I plan to wear the shirt when I run the
race.
So, I
randomly stepped on the scale last week on Friday, I think. I had no
particular purpose or reason other than I was just curious. I hadn’t
stepped on the scale in
quite a while…probably about a month, maybe a little more. I was a
little disappointed to see that all the weight I had lost during my 90
day challenge that ran from mid-December to mid-March was back. Plus a
couple pounds. Ugh. That mixed with me actually
making an effort this week with getting my workouts done and I think
I’m going to start doing my weekly weighins and Omron measurements. I was going to do my different inches measurements, but I forgot to do that when I go up this morning. I'll do them tomorrow morning if I remember and post them tomorrow by themselves.
I have lost 2 lbs since I stepped on the scale last week on Friday out of curiosity. So, while I had hoped my efforts had garnered a little more of a drop than 2 lbs, I'll take what I can get.
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