I’ve been a busy girl the last few days. Let me give you a quick run down of my year thus far:
1 Jan – 17.14km run with @runnergrl
2 Jan – sore calves so easy 35min spin and upper body + core strength session
3 Jan – 50mins of indoor soccer and possibly broke my finger.
4 Jan – two hours of doctor’s office and xray visits. One splinted finger.
I’m cursing words with f, t, g, v, b, and r in them today.
In the words of Aerosmith: “I’m back! I’m back in the saddle again!” And boy does it hurt so good.
first the activity for the week:
monday
distance: 4.5M
time: ~43min
pace: 9:34/M
calories: ~400
notes: ran with HE. just a nice regular run. no pain, no issues. so glad to have HE to run with. she keeps me motivated. she’d also mentioned that she wanted to pick up the pace for our runs a bit b/c she was concerend about going too slow. so we went from 10:10/M to 9:34/M.
tuesday
indoor volleyball. no subs, low-med effort game. I was tired and my lower back was bothering me so I didn’t play very hard. went out and had beers after = all benefits of playing erased.
wednesday
distance: 4.5M
time: ~43min
pace: 9:34/M
calories: ~400
notes: HE and I kept exactly the same pace as monday. (note: I estimated the time and distance b/c I don’t have my log with me at the moment to know exactly but I do know we were exactly the same pace 2 days in a row!) again, uneventful run – no issues.
indoor soccer
distance: 4M
time: 50mins
subs: 2 female subs… cuts down playing time significantly!
calories: ~400
notes: strained my left calf. ankles felt like they were as strong as spaghetti noodles. right ankle rolled but no pain or swelling. played one of the best teams in the leg and lost 4-2. I scored one of the goals off a free kick.
thursday – rest. slept in.
friday
gym with KT. did Jillian Michaels Making the Cut day 2 workout before work. remembered to eat before the gym this morning so had a much better workout than last week. didn’t push hard enough though b/c at no point did I ever feel like puking. which is unusual. did feel very weak though. definitely out of shape!
today was the first Operation Witchy Wednesday Telephone Pole meeting. KT and I are trying to avoid the pitfalls of Whopper Wednesdays and have scheduled a healthy lunchtime replacement. came out of it feeling really motivated and now I have to be accountable to someone. also discuss a Biggest Loser competition to start in the new year to coincide with the new BL season starting 4 Jan.
last weekend ME and I got our christmas tree. it’s my first real tree since I was about 5. very exciting! so we picked it up on sunday. monday night we get home from work and ME is in the living room when the tree falls over. randomly. Miss Allie-cat was not in the room and cannot be blamed. I was upstairs changing out of work clothes when I hear “DISASTER! TREE! TOWELS!” repeatedly. ME loses his words when there is a crisis apparently… anyways many needles and “Very full, lots of sap” comments later, the tree is back up and that fucker is tied to the wall. last night, almost a week later, we started decorating. note “started”… as in not finished yet. so far it’s looking pretty awesome. it smells pretty awesome too. yay christmas!
pictures to come all before and after. I know. I’m awesome.
hamster wheel 4 miler – no pain folks!
wednesday night after work I ran 4miles with a normal feeling knee! how great is that?! admittedly it was a bit slow (40:20) but I walked for the first .25 of a mile and the last .25 of a mile. ran the first mile at 8:20ish pace and the 2nd and 3rd between 9:40 and 10:10/mile. not too shabby considering how little I’ve been able to run as of late.
yesterday I got an arms and abs workout in before work. it really helped me stay alert during the day but didn’t save me from making some bad decisions in order to stave off some really bad decisions. wait… maybe it did sort of save me… anyways, I feel asleep on the couch for 2.5 hours last night and slept another 7 in bed as well. it’s a sign: I don’t sleep enough.
need to get another 3M in tonight, after work before my date with ME! :o)
this weekend has Christmas shopping and a 7 miler on the schedule.
hoodieruns 