• Saturday: this was the day of my very first trail
race! I opted to do all events
offered. So I ran a 5K (that was
actually 3.6 miles), a 10K (since it was the 5K loop twice, it was 7.2 miles)
and a half marathon (that was actually fairly accurate at 13.2 miles). The promised total distance was 22.4 miles. According to my Garmin AND my FitBit (which
piggybacks off the GPS on my phone), I ran 23.78 miles. For the most part, I had an amazing time and
look forward to doing more trail races in the future, with less mud and flood
preferably, though. (stay tuned for my
race recap in the next couple weeks)
• Sunday: everything hurts. Haha. I
was going to go to the gym and do my machines workout and the elliptical,
however I am so sore that I decided against that workout. After I got up and got moving around, I discovered
I was more stiff than I was sore so the more I moved, the better I felt. I took a 2.5 mile walk around my apartment
complex in the evening and made sure I got my 10K steps!
• Monday: still recovering from Saturday, so
continuing to keep it light. Went to the
gym and did my time on the elliptical.
• Tuesday: since I was still in recovery mode on Monday,
I did my PI day run on 3.15 instead of 3.14.
They’re doing construction down the street from my apartments and had
BOTH sidewalks closed off, so I had to get on MapMyRun and figure something out
in the opposite direction.
• Wednesday: worked overtime Tuesday night so no run
or workout.
• Thursday: worked overtime again on Wednesday night
so no run or workout again.
• Friday: I slept in due to poor sleep over the
previous couple days and then just didn’t go to the gym to even do the
elliptical. Days like this is where
having my own elliptical in my apartment would be great because then it doesn’t
matter if I have the time to drive to and from the gym so long as I have the
hour for the time I like to put in on the elliptical. I’ll be revisiting the whole buying my own
elliptical after my trip to Oregon next month.
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I’ve got to do something different. I’ve been desperately trying to regain what I achieved
last fall where intermittent fasting clicked completely and I felt fantastic
and I wasn’t missing any workouts and everything was just great. I’ve come to the sad and disappointing
realization this week that I’m not going to regain that…not with how I’ve been
going about it, anyway. I’m beyond bored
with the food I’ve been eating and therefore I’ll lose 2-5 pounds one week just
to gain it all back and sometimes more the following week to 2 weeks. So, I’ve really got to do something different
because, while I love being told I’m insane I don’t want to do things that are
the Albert Einstein definition of insane (doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results). However,
that’s the time warp I’m stuck in right now.
Soooo…to take a little stress off of me, I’m going to go with
prepackaged foods next week. Yea, I know,
I’m not exactly happy about it either, but I need to do SOMETHING
different. I’m probably also going to go
back to cereal for breakfast for next week and the week after at least. I just want to remove the stress of food prep
for a couple weeks and rethink things in that time. Also, with prepackaged foods, the nutrition
info isn’t part guesswork.
I'm still going strong with my #22for22 challenge, however I'm not sure what day I'm on anymore. Haha. But the plan was to just keep going with it after the challenge was over anyway.
With that said, I’m back where I was 2 weeks ago. Just like last week didn’t happen at
all. Ugh.
How do I feel about this?
Frustrated. Disappointed. Annoyed.
Done. Like I need a change. So let’s change things up, shall we?
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