A step in the right direction this week!
Monday: rest
Tuesday: Ran 5.31 miles in 61 minutes.
Wednesday: Ran 5.31 miles in 59:13.
Thursday: had a bike ride planned, but didn't get to go. We had to keep Ava home from day care after she woke up throwing up. Such are the days ....
Friday: rest
Saturday: What a beautiful fall day! Ran 7.49 miles in 1:29.48. I was happy with the time overall, though at times I felt like I should have been able to push it more. This was my longest run since my half-marathon.
Sunday: Another great fall day, although it was windy! If I ever complain about running in the wind again, I am going to remind myself what it was like biking into the wind. Wow, it was not easy. I did end up biking 11.99 miles though! Took 1 hour, 15 minutes.
Totals for the week were 18.11 running, and 11.99 biking.
Much better than weeks prior! Still dreading the transition from fall into winter, but enjoying the nice days we do have left and trying to make the best of the altered schedule!
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
Weekly Wrap-Up - October 1-7
A week in to the new month already .....
Monday: I had five miles on the agenda, but found out Chad came home sick at 8:30 in the morning. It wouldn't have been worth the grumbles to try and go out. Instead, I hung out with Ava and we tried to let Daddy get some rest.
Tuesday: Chad was home sick again, so instead of trying to make up yesterdays run, I took Ava with me on a bike ride. 9.25 miles in 55 minutes we biked. After a disappointing start to the month on Monday, I wasn't going to complain about that.
Wednesday: With Chad feeling a bit better, I did head out on a run. I even took a semi-new route to try to avoid a case of the running blues. I ended up with 5.25 miles in 60 minutes. The run felt great!
Thursday: It was a bit blustery. I can tell you, I am not ready for winter. Regardless, I wasn't going to let cooler temperatures and wind (boy, it was windy) stop me. I needed to get the month off to a good start! I did approximately 4 miles of speed intervals. It had been a few weeks since I had done some intervals, and I was just as impressed as last time. I finished 3- half mile repeats in 4:45, 4:25, and 4:45. I walked 1/4 mile after each one. With the 1 mile warm-up and a .79 mile cool-down, it was a good effort! Feels good to push the pace!
Friday: rest
Saturday: was so hoping to get out in the morning for a long run. I slept until almost 7:30, and knew the overnight low had been cold! I just wasn't willing to do it. Plus we left for a wedding in the Twin Cities, and had I gone for a run, we would've been running late! I did do some dancing with my 2 year old dancing queen ... does that count?
Sunday: We got home from the wedding extravaganza just before the Packer game. Turns out I wouldn't have missed much had I gone running during the second half, but I didn't. My hope was that I would be able to go afterwards during the Vikings game, but I also needed to do the grocery shopping. The schedule was just off from a typical Sunday ... plus I was extremely tired (almost missed most of the first half of the Packers because I couldn't keep my eyes open!) So, I chalked one up for the weekend and started to plan for the week ahead.
Generally speaking, I was happy with how the week and month started. I am not thrilled with how the weekend went. Hoping for some better results this week!
Monday: I had five miles on the agenda, but found out Chad came home sick at 8:30 in the morning. It wouldn't have been worth the grumbles to try and go out. Instead, I hung out with Ava and we tried to let Daddy get some rest.
Tuesday: Chad was home sick again, so instead of trying to make up yesterdays run, I took Ava with me on a bike ride. 9.25 miles in 55 minutes we biked. After a disappointing start to the month on Monday, I wasn't going to complain about that.
Wednesday: With Chad feeling a bit better, I did head out on a run. I even took a semi-new route to try to avoid a case of the running blues. I ended up with 5.25 miles in 60 minutes. The run felt great!
Thursday: It was a bit blustery. I can tell you, I am not ready for winter. Regardless, I wasn't going to let cooler temperatures and wind (boy, it was windy) stop me. I needed to get the month off to a good start! I did approximately 4 miles of speed intervals. It had been a few weeks since I had done some intervals, and I was just as impressed as last time. I finished 3- half mile repeats in 4:45, 4:25, and 4:45. I walked 1/4 mile after each one. With the 1 mile warm-up and a .79 mile cool-down, it was a good effort! Feels good to push the pace!
Friday: rest
Saturday: was so hoping to get out in the morning for a long run. I slept until almost 7:30, and knew the overnight low had been cold! I just wasn't willing to do it. Plus we left for a wedding in the Twin Cities, and had I gone for a run, we would've been running late! I did do some dancing with my 2 year old dancing queen ... does that count?
Sunday: We got home from the wedding extravaganza just before the Packer game. Turns out I wouldn't have missed much had I gone running during the second half, but I didn't. My hope was that I would be able to go afterwards during the Vikings game, but I also needed to do the grocery shopping. The schedule was just off from a typical Sunday ... plus I was extremely tired (almost missed most of the first half of the Packers because I couldn't keep my eyes open!) So, I chalked one up for the weekend and started to plan for the week ahead.
Generally speaking, I was happy with how the week and month started. I am not thrilled with how the weekend went. Hoping for some better results this week!
Sunday, October 7, 2012
October Goals
I was almost ready to post these the middle of last week; but then had the hardest time coming up with some goals. I suppose I could have just went with fewer goals, but somehow that didn't seem right!
Considering it is better to be late than never; here are the goals for this month:
1. Work out. Period. I am not setting a specific mileage goal. I am not stating how many times I want to cross-train. I just want to rebuild the consistency I didn't have last month. That's it.
2. Lost 3 pounds. After losing nothing more last month, I don't know how this one will turn out. I just want to hit the -30 pounds mark. Is that really to much to ask?
3. Save $100. For whatever reason, I am feeling the pressure to tighten up on our budget. We spend more than we realize on the weekends, and it is time to monitor where our money is going a bit better. With that said, I am hoping to put $100 into savings.
4. Pick one area of the house to completely declutter. As I was going through the house tonight room by room picking up, I was once again reminded how much the little piles of clutter drive be bonkers! I am not a neat freak, and I am not good at cleaning religiously. But when I do clean, I strive for perfection. (leads to a lot of unnecessary conflict!) And these piles ... they keep me from that!
5. Go to bed earlier, get up earlier. Hoping if I can get into a habit of giving myself even 15-30 minutes in the morning to get something done, I won't feel so pressed for time in the evening. Which will then help me with goal number one. For this to happen, I need to stop staying up until after 11. So, seeing as though it is 10:20 right now, I am off to bed after this is posted!
What about you? What is on your agenda for this beautiful month?
Considering it is better to be late than never; here are the goals for this month:
1. Work out. Period. I am not setting a specific mileage goal. I am not stating how many times I want to cross-train. I just want to rebuild the consistency I didn't have last month. That's it.
2. Lost 3 pounds. After losing nothing more last month, I don't know how this one will turn out. I just want to hit the -30 pounds mark. Is that really to much to ask?
3. Save $100. For whatever reason, I am feeling the pressure to tighten up on our budget. We spend more than we realize on the weekends, and it is time to monitor where our money is going a bit better. With that said, I am hoping to put $100 into savings.
4. Pick one area of the house to completely declutter. As I was going through the house tonight room by room picking up, I was once again reminded how much the little piles of clutter drive be bonkers! I am not a neat freak, and I am not good at cleaning religiously. But when I do clean, I strive for perfection. (leads to a lot of unnecessary conflict!) And these piles ... they keep me from that!
5. Go to bed earlier, get up earlier. Hoping if I can get into a habit of giving myself even 15-30 minutes in the morning to get something done, I won't feel so pressed for time in the evening. Which will then help me with goal number one. For this to happen, I need to stop staying up until after 11. So, seeing as though it is 10:20 right now, I am off to bed after this is posted!
What about you? What is on your agenda for this beautiful month?
Monday, October 1, 2012
Weekly Wrap-Up and September Re-Cap
Since it is another short weekly wrap-up, I figured I would also include September's goal recap at the same time.
For the week of 9/24-9/30:
Monday: went on a bike ride; my Garmin died some time between miles 5 and 6. I biked for about an hour, so I assume I biked about 10 miles. Love that biking feels so easy compared to last summer and fall. Hate that that makes me feel like I don't get much of a workout.
Tuesday: I planned to go for a run, but it was one of those evenings that time just got away from me.
Wednesday: Ran my go-to route, which was 4.91 miles. In my typical time of roughly 58 minutes.
Sadly enough - that's it. Thursday I took care of some phone calls that needed to be made, which between having to make several of them and sit on hold took the majority of my evening. Friday is my usual off day and, even on a bad week, that doesn't typically get changed just because its what works for our family. Saturday I did do some hiking as we went to Quarry Hill Nature Center in Rochester. I just don't know that I really burned that many calories. Sunday was one of those days that, between cleaning, church, laundry, and football, running just didn't make the cut.
Totals on the week: 4.91 miles of running and 10 miles of biking.
With that, I'll move on to the September Goal Recap. Not a pretty picture this month.
1. My goal was to run 87 miles, plus fit in 6 cross training workouts. Clearly I set the bar high this month, probably in hopes of avoiding the post-race plateau. Well, it didn't work. I ended up with 35.71 miles. Super pathetic considering in August I had one week that I ran 30 alone. I did bike 3 times for a total of 26.59 miles. It did feel good to do some cross training, but the consistency with workouts in general was just not there.
2. My goal was to lose 1.8 pounds to bring me to an even 30 pounds lost this year. It should come as no surprise that this goal was not met either. I had one good week that I dropped to around 164; but I quickly yo-yo'd back up. As of this morning the scale read 166.6; a net gain on the month of 1.2 pounds. That is the first time I have had a net gain since January. I am still down 27 pounds on the year, and I guess a plateau was bound to happen. But, that is not much of an excuse either.
3. For the third month in a row, I had join the YMCA on my list. But given financial statuses, schedules, and busy evenings - I just haven't done it.. I know I will end up joining; just waiting for the right time. Not sure there will be a "right" time, but waiting none-the-less.
4. Buy a moisturizer. This was my feel good, take care of yourself goal for the month. I ended up buying Garnier Moisture Rescue Fresh Cleansing Foam. Mainly because I recognize the brand name from having used their shampoo line at one point. Generally speaking, I've been happy with it and it doesn't cost a fortune like Oil of Olay!
5. Track one week of calories in and calories out. I never did a full week, but you can read about what I did track here.
6. Call the eye doctor. I added a sixth goal for the month of September, because I know this really needs to get done. And yet, I procrastinated one more time. I don't even have good reason for it. At least nothing I haven't already mentioned (money, schedules - who wants to leave work to go to the eye doctor? - etc.). I know what is going to happen, I am going to lose a contact and not have a choice. I should just get in before that happens.
So, not my most stellar month by any measurement. I suppose those weeks are bound to happen. I will roll with it, and not let it bring me down.
For the week of 9/24-9/30:
Monday: went on a bike ride; my Garmin died some time between miles 5 and 6. I biked for about an hour, so I assume I biked about 10 miles. Love that biking feels so easy compared to last summer and fall. Hate that that makes me feel like I don't get much of a workout.
Tuesday: I planned to go for a run, but it was one of those evenings that time just got away from me.
Wednesday: Ran my go-to route, which was 4.91 miles. In my typical time of roughly 58 minutes.
Sadly enough - that's it. Thursday I took care of some phone calls that needed to be made, which between having to make several of them and sit on hold took the majority of my evening. Friday is my usual off day and, even on a bad week, that doesn't typically get changed just because its what works for our family. Saturday I did do some hiking as we went to Quarry Hill Nature Center in Rochester. I just don't know that I really burned that many calories. Sunday was one of those days that, between cleaning, church, laundry, and football, running just didn't make the cut.
Totals on the week: 4.91 miles of running and 10 miles of biking.
With that, I'll move on to the September Goal Recap. Not a pretty picture this month.
1. My goal was to run 87 miles, plus fit in 6 cross training workouts. Clearly I set the bar high this month, probably in hopes of avoiding the post-race plateau. Well, it didn't work. I ended up with 35.71 miles. Super pathetic considering in August I had one week that I ran 30 alone. I did bike 3 times for a total of 26.59 miles. It did feel good to do some cross training, but the consistency with workouts in general was just not there.
2. My goal was to lose 1.8 pounds to bring me to an even 30 pounds lost this year. It should come as no surprise that this goal was not met either. I had one good week that I dropped to around 164; but I quickly yo-yo'd back up. As of this morning the scale read 166.6; a net gain on the month of 1.2 pounds. That is the first time I have had a net gain since January. I am still down 27 pounds on the year, and I guess a plateau was bound to happen. But, that is not much of an excuse either.
3. For the third month in a row, I had join the YMCA on my list. But given financial statuses, schedules, and busy evenings - I just haven't done it.. I know I will end up joining; just waiting for the right time. Not sure there will be a "right" time, but waiting none-the-less.
4. Buy a moisturizer. This was my feel good, take care of yourself goal for the month. I ended up buying Garnier Moisture Rescue Fresh Cleansing Foam. Mainly because I recognize the brand name from having used their shampoo line at one point. Generally speaking, I've been happy with it and it doesn't cost a fortune like Oil of Olay!
5. Track one week of calories in and calories out. I never did a full week, but you can read about what I did track here.
6. Call the eye doctor. I added a sixth goal for the month of September, because I know this really needs to get done. And yet, I procrastinated one more time. I don't even have good reason for it. At least nothing I haven't already mentioned (money, schedules - who wants to leave work to go to the eye doctor? - etc.). I know what is going to happen, I am going to lose a contact and not have a choice. I should just get in before that happens.
So, not my most stellar month by any measurement. I suppose those weeks are bound to happen. I will roll with it, and not let it bring me down.
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