March 2011
2 posts
Ahh, the beginning of Lent. Yet another time to make resolutions I may or may not keep in the next 40 days. I just want to be “good,” meaning I want to come out of the next 40 days feeling as if I gave my diet and exercise regimens a good run for their money. I’ve been doing the 5:45 am spin class the last two days, and other then actually rolling out of bed when the alarm...
“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to...”
– Love, love, love that quote today. Every day is a storm - every day has challenges and trials and problems in one form or another. I’ve gone back to my 10- and 12-hour days, so today was my first morning of 5:45 am spin class. Does it suck? Yes. But it’s my way of dancing in the...
February 2011
11 posts
Finally got the chance tonight to catch up on some Tumblr reading, and E’s post really got me thinking. It must be really hard to be friends with someone like me – someone who is always concerned about losing weight, someone whose diet dictates where we eat, someone who is always comparing themselves to others. I do all the things she (and others) mention – including that wishing people saw the...
Blar! Too much time at work means NOT enough time at the gym. Decided to go back on my diet to at least keep my weight in check (if not falling) while I’m booking 70 hour weeks. Still need to get back to the training program though - 10K in June I’d like to be really ready for! And the goal of being in a single digit size swimsuit doesn’t hurt either! ;-)
Blar. Hate being a downer. Despite my 16-hour days this week, my eating has been decent (until today) and I haven’t put on any weight. Crossing my fingers that this work thing lets up soon and I get my life back!
I hate failing, but I’ve failed at my weight loss.
I love people, but I don’t know how to deal with them.
I need more patience, more determination and more faith.
Not a good week. Did my Monday run and Tuesday spin class.
Worked 16 hours, skipped my Wednesday run.
Spent more hours at work, skipped the Friday run.
Went to the bar and hung with friends instead.
Some days, I...
Prelim results from the 5K = 34:36! My GPS watch time was shorter, but hey, still a PR. Good weekend.
So, week 3 of my training plan has begun. I’ve only missed one workout - the power outage one - so I’m feeling pretty good about it. I’ve had a lot of opportunities to give up, walk away, or make excuses, but I haven’t. I think it does have a lot to do with owning up here (even though no one knows this exists!), but also that my mindset has changed a little bit. I will...
Had big aspirations for this Monday, but instead ended up with another 12-hour workday, an hour homeowner’s association meeting, and a 3-mile run. I’m out of hours. :-P
“People killin’, people dyin’
Children hurt and you hear them...”
– ~ Black Eyed Peas (love them, though the halftime show was rough!)
Feeling much better after yesterday’s cathartic post and freeing myself of the weight of school that was sitting on my shoulders. I still think to myself, “You could have done one of the classes…” and then I tell that voice - resoundingly - to shut up. Today is a good day. I worked ~10 hours, did a 2 mile run, and still feel pretty good about the day. The fact that I...
Choose Happy
So can one have a perfectionist and pessimistic attitude all at once? If I can’t be perfect, I don’t want to do it at all. I’m having a hard time writing this down, because this is about 15 seconds after I decided to drop my two masters degree classes. I can’t do it until tomorrow, but the decision - in my head - is made. But why? Because I can’t be perfect at...
Blah - my blogs are BORING. Ran this, spin that, work this, sleep that. Kinda dull. Let’s just say Tuesday = done.
I wonder some days if I will ever be one of “those girls.” The kind of girl for whom exercise is cathartic, who doesn’t feel as if the day is complete without a run. The one who runs in snow and sleet, the one who runs to relieve stress and gets “in the zone” so they lose track of the mileage. Most days I never think I would be that girl, but it doesn’t dim...
January 2011
19 posts
I was laying in bed tonight at 9 pm ready to make an early night of it, thinking to myself that after an 11-hour day (5:30 to 4:30) and a lot of stress, I deserved the pizza I ate for dinner and skipping my run. Logic apparently was not applying to me this evening. I haven’t even been back at it a week, and I was already giving up! How dumb am I?!? Granted, I was forced to abandon...
Snow = like. Power outage = dislike. Treadmill with no power = dislike. Shoveling heavy wet snow = decent workout. Eh, it evens out. ;-)
Day 2
Done. 60 minutes of spin class that kicked my a$$. Chicken and mushrooms for dinner, likely yogurt for dessert, and off to be early for another 5 am day. Gonna be a long week! =)
What's too fast?
So I’ve never been a person known for my patience, and running is no exception. I picked out a 15K training plan a while back (half-marathon was too hard, 10K seemed too easy) and I gave up on it around Christmas. At that time where I should have been making New Year’s resolutions, I was blissfully ignoring the new year. So I pulled out the old 15K plan, dusted it off and posted it...
“It may help to remember this - the cookie tray does not love you. You gotta love...”
– Shark59, Spark People website
Roller coasters
Not literally of course, just figuratively the journey required to lose weight. There can be seriously good days (scale -3 the other morning) and bad ones too (+1.5 today). I can’t make excuses for it though, because I know I ate horribly yesterday. Natural weight fluctuations aside, I did all the things I said I wouldn’t do… I slid downhill and never put on the brakes. Cake,...
Scale loved me this morning (yay!) but I slid a little with 3 Hershey’s minis (Mr. Goodbar of course) at work. I’m definitely a stress / comfort eater. Since I missed spinning due to the stressful long workday, and today is technically cross-training day, I’m planning to do Zumba on the Wii. Time to get my groove on!
Round one of exercise done this morning - breaking up and clearing all the ice at my own house and two of my neighbor’s!! My arms are gonna be sore (good sore tho!). Now off to get ready for work and hopefully can still leave early for spinning. Else it will be another run tonight. Have a good day world! =)
Fessing up
So… here goes. I’m a bendoeslife and one-twenty-five stalker. Saw a link to Ben’s blog on a friend’s Facebook page last October, and I’ve been following (on and off) ever since. And then one day I happened to click a link on Ben’s page that took me to Elizabeth/Liz/E’s page ;-), and I was hooked. Though I have yet to read the entire history of her...
Runs gone bad
You know those runs where everything about it from minute one feels off? Yah, that was my run today. I strapped on my new Garmin forerunner, and I think mistake #1 was adding the heart rate monitor. Either I had it too tight or I can’t take another thing around my chest like that. Short of breath, runny nose from cold, toenails hitting my shoe, side cramps, ice, almost getting hit by a...
Oh! And a V-day race is on the books - hope it doesn’t get snowed out again!!
Hrmm, hasn’t been the best start to New Year’s resolutions I’ve ever had. Long… long… work weeks have been taking their toll, though the trip last weekend to Whole Foods helped. The ‘rents are due down this weekend (depending on the snow forecast), so that will keep me busy. Today I’ve been working on my food (only snuck one Nutter Butter and some sweet...
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone...”
– Eat Pray Love — Elizabeth Gilbert
7.5 slow miles on the bike this morning in deference to the altitude. And due to the fact that it was the only deal other than another hour in bed that my body would accept this morning! ;-)
OMG nobody told me how hard altitude makes running! After 2 days on the slopes, I hit the treadmill this morning. It was so hard - I could only do 30 mins with run/walk intervals. At least I know it’s not just me - my running friend said she could not do as much either. So tired but time for work!
Hrmm… How many calories do you burn falling?!? Lol. Snowboarding was a blast today, though my quads are killing me. Hitting the slopes again tomorrow!
December 2010
10 posts
Uh oh, better go run and change my Tumblr name, it might be mistaken for a prison sentence. ::rolls eyes:: (Reference bendoeslife for background.) It’s just sad that people are so judgmental. This isn’t specifically a fitness or health blog site, but this reminded me of a post that’s worth reblogging here…
Read a blog yesterday that just depressed me. I know everyone...
“Life’s real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to...”
– Robert H. Schuller
Ready for 2011!!
So, I’m ready to join half the world and make some New Year’s resolutions! I didn’t get into the 10-miler =( so that’s… not discouraging, just unmotivational. Is that a word?!? I am still signed up for a 10K (6.2 miles) in June, so I have to remember I still have to work towards that. I’m starting off the year right — skiing!! Can’t wait, and I...
Didn’t make it back on track. Instead I skipped two more workouts, and then made up for only one today by running a 5K on my treadmill in 32:38. However, I think that really only makes up for the Mickey D’s I ate this afternoon. =( Tomorrow is another very early morning at work, so hoping it’s not another 19-hour day. We find out Tuesday if we got into the 10-miler —...
Not been a good week. Utter failure on the diet and got interrupted by a work phone call in the middle of Monday’s run (yet another reason to run outside, but it’s cold and dark here!). Monday ended up being a 19-hour workday, and needless to say I missed cross-training on Tuesday. Back on track Wednesday though.
So, so much to do in the next week with just work, a baby shower to...
5K complete
So… it is a PR but certainly not my fastest run ever. I feel like I took it easy, but I really, really wanted to complete the whole thing running. I did, at around 36:30. The course has got a lot of hills, but I think what I’ve learned is that I just need to start running outside. I don’t wanna. :-P
5K tomorrow. 34 degrees. Let’s do it.
“to be nobody but yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and...”
– e. e. cummings
Technically day 3 of the new training plan - done! 2 miles with a 6 minute run, 2 minute walk pace. Since I can already do two miles normally, I stretched myself by doing the 6 minute runs at 6.0 mph, which is fast for me!
However, I must admit to eating cake today. Birthday cake for me, at the office, which I bought for myself since I got no cake at home. I know, I know… fail. But it...
Got awesome new Mizuno shoes yesterday and did an hour of kick-my-butt cycling as cross-training today. I also found a new 15K training plan that might be a little more doable than my half-marathon program. ;-) I shortened it to an 11-week plan since I already can run 2 miles with no issue, but 3 still stresses me. Saturday is the Jingle Bell Run though, so I’m gonna see what my new 5K...
November 2010
8 posts
Need a new training program!
LOL. Day 1 of the half-marathon training and I didn’t make it. =( Granted, it had me resting yesterday, which I didn’t do since I was just starting this program, but I still should have made it. It was 2 miles walking, 1 mile running, and 2 miles speed-walking — I made it to mile 4 in 59 minutes. Tomorrow hopefully is cycling day, but it has to work around work and a vet...
“Live. Give. Run.”
– Charm City Run motto
Need a training schedule...
Only 6.3 miles this week. =( Feel like it should be way more, but the injury didn’t help things. I’m thinking of starting a half-marathon training program next week, but I know that’s reaching. Shouldn’t I try to find an 8- or 10-mile one first? But I never find those. So, maybe I’ll do what I did with the couch-to-5K program — just repeat weeks until I...
Happy Birthday to me! =)
No running today, not because it’s my birthday and I was spoiling myself though. I unfortunately took a bad fall on a slippery wet floor and did a number on my back / shoulder / rib. I think it’s getting better, since it doesn’t hurt as much to breathe anymore, but dang did it hurt at the time and made me feel quite yucky today. It still hurts to move my arm though, so I may...
Been away...
…on a business trip, but back now! Did actually run while I was away, only twice in the hotel — the third day the gym was full! Between plane flights and hangovers, that’s all I managed. =) Though really, we did walk every day 2-5 miles, so that’s better than nothing!
Today was my first day back in full swing (yesterday was a wash!). I didn’t want to run…...