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My Week in Bullets

By on September 10, 2010 in blogging, clothing, emotional stuff, fear, hcg, R1P4, running
  • Monday off…ahhhhhhh.
  • Tuesday – Friday?
    • 40+ hours of work.
    • Two hearings.
    • 8 meetings.
    • Awesome, sweaty workout with my trainer.
    • Pretty great 3 mile run.
    • Not enough sleep.
    • Pretty sound nutrition.
    • Met with my N.D., got set up for Round 2 of HCG which start Monday.
    • Did I mention sleep deprivation?
    • Twitter deprivation, too.
    • Behind on blogs.
    • Thinking of taking a mental health day or 8 to recover from 3 weeks of working too much!
  • Totally freaking out about my 10K…as in, standing my closet having a mental breakdown over what to wear (soooo not about what I’m going to wear, ya feel me??).
  • Great conversation with my sister who I love to pieces and wish I could move in with her sometimes.
  • My niece started kindergarten. I remember when this child came out of the womb and she is already 5.  Seriously?!
  • I had to shop for new clothes AGAIN because I just can’t show up to work in the same three outfits over and over again. And I’ve dropped another size since my first round of HCG, even though my weight hasn’t changed.
  • Life is crazy and busy and overwhelming and fast-paced and sometimesijustwanttotakeatimeout.
  • Also?
  • Life is good.

I miss y’all and plan to be back to a more normal posting “schedule” sometime soon.  Thanks for being here and waiting around for me to get back!

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Countdown to 10K

By on September 1, 2010 in running, training, training schedule

Okay, it’s a double-post kinda day, just cuz I’m feelin’ it!

Actually, I just flexed my ankle and realized that for the first time since Sunday, it’s feeling pretty good!  My first thought was, let’s go running!  My second was, I will stay off it (in terms of running or other high impact activity) for one more day to be sure.

So that got me thinking…there are only 11 days until my 10K!  And I so want to run, but I also want to be smart about my training.  So I’m putting together a tentative plan for the days between now and September 12, and I’d really appreciate your feedback on it.  Am I doing too much?  Not enough?  Should I switch things around?  Or is it perfect just like me hahaha kidding?

Here goes:

Click on it to view the full-size schedule.  Lay it on me peeps – what do I need to change?  Am I over-thinking-to-the-point-of-obsession on this??!

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I did it

By on March 25, 2010 in Uncategorized

I just registered for the 10K. Eek! I’m totally excited and completely freaked out. Guess I gotta go do my training run, huh?

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Updated 10K Training Program & Other Random Stuff

By on March 24, 2010 in Uncategorized

Hello again!

Y’all are so great – thanks for the wonderful comments on my 10K training and on being so busy this week!  I will have time to respond to you all this afternoon, but I wanted to get this post up first.

I’ve got an updated training plan to share with you, and many of the adjustments are in response to your comments.  Some of the changes I’ve made include:

  • Adding an option second rest day – Mondays will be cross-training OR active rest, based on how my body feels.  Active rest for me includes walking, a leisurely bike ride, yoga, stretching – anything where I’m moving but  not doing strength training or high-impact cardio.
  • I’ve moved the run days around so I don’t have two run days in a row.  This should allow my body to recover more completely from each run before the next.
  • I’m considering, but haven’t done it yet, adding a few taper weeks where I run a shorter distance on my long run day, to allow for extra recovery that week.  I don’t know if I’ll formally add this in to the written plan or just take it as it comes and adjust, again, based on how my body feels.  I might also taper a bit in the 2 weeks before the race, and run 5.5 the Sunday before instead of the full 6 miles.  We’ll see.
  • Zumba is still in the mix!  But I decided that Zumba is not really a part of my 10K training.  It’s something that I LOVE and will likely do more often than not.  But I had to take it out of the “training” mix in order to set up my week properly with all the elements of a good training plan.  So I’ll still be doing Zumba most weeks, but it’s not on this schedule.

Without further ado, here it is:

Again, it looks very small so click on it to enlarge if you want the details.

Baby Stuff

In other news, my new nephew is as adorable can be, and we got the best surprise yesterday when my grandmother flew in from Detroit so she could meet him!  I am super close to my entire family and love my grandmother to death, so needless to say I’m happy she’s here.  It will make my workouts a challenge for a while, but it’s well worth it!

Speaking of Workouts

You know how I said I’d start doing morning workouts here?  Well it turns out, working out in the mornings is easier than I thought it would be!  Now, don’t get all excited on me – after all, this report is after exactly one day of waking up at 6am to work out before work!  And I was working myself up into a tizzy about it all, too.  Then my friend (who is a hotass and happens to be uber-smart) smacked me upside the head (figuratively) and told me to suck it up and get over myself.  So I did.  And it feels good!  I won’t make any promises to you, but I am making this promise to myself – I’ll be getting up at 6am tomorrow again.  My workouts suffered for about 10 days after I sprained my ankle and my sister went and had a baby, but it feels great to be back in the saddle!

The Elephant in the Room

And that would be…eating.  I’ll be honest and say I’m still struggling here.  I’m not gaining weight, but when you burn nearly 3K calories per day on average, not gaining weight is cold comfort.  My calories are ranging from about 2K per day to 3K at the high end, so I should be losing something, even if it’s ever so slowly.  I have super good days (like yesterday) when I avoid sugar almost completely, or choose one indulgence and let that be that.  I also had one day where I ate an entire pint of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.  So, back to not keeping that in the freezer.

I know it might get old to read about the food struggles here, but the truth is I’m writing this blog for me and not you.  And it’s working, actually, in keeping me accountable – even if only to myself.  (Read that last sentence with a slight hint of disbelief in your voice…because there’s a part of me that’s surprised that it works that way!)  For example, after lunch today, I was considering not tracking because I knew my lunch was high cal.  Then I came here to start writing this post and it just felt wrong to be posting all this honesty to all the world if I couldn’t even look my lunch in the eye (something about that sentence is so wrong but I love it!) and be honest with myself.

Conclusion

So the bottom line is multi-dimensional and comes in bullet form:

  • I’m scared and excited to start my 10K training;
  • I love my new nephew;
  • I’m still struggling with food but will keep struggling instead of giving up;
  • I know one day all of this will feel a teeny, tiny bit easier and that gives me hope;
  • Tough love from a friend is a blessing and really helps me out!

I hope you’re all great!  What have you been up to?  What are your challenges this week?  How are you PLANNING to work around them?

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My 10K Training Program

By on March 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

Earlier this week I posted about my concerns regarding signing up for a 10K with a time limit.  Y’all commented with lots of encouragement and some prodding to JUST DO IT.

So I will.

I am going to sign up for the Iron Girl 10K around Greenlake in Seattle, WA.  Anyone want to join me?

I’ve put together a tentative training schedule and I’d love your comments on it.  Here it is:

I know it’s awfully small, but if you click on it it’ll enlarge and you can see what I’ve come up with.

Here are my foundations for this program:

  • Non-negotiable rest day every week.
  • Strength training twice/week.
  • 3 runs/week.
  • Keeping my Zumba class, which I love!
  • Longer runs on Sundays, which works well because the event is on a Sunday.
  • Not going crazy (mentally or with regard to my training!).

I haven’t thought about my diet (and I use that work to describe what I’m eating, NOT as in “diet” like I’m on a diet…hangup much??) yet, but I’m pretty sure that where I’m at now is just fine.  I usually come in around 2,000 calories/day, with a good balance of protein, carbs, and fiber.

I’m also saying out loud (okay, stop, you know what I mean!) that in order for any of this to work, I need to make 8 hours sleep/night a priority.  I really struggle with that, as I do with morning workouts.  I think the two might maybe possibly be related.  Call me Captain Obvious.

At the same time, Prior Fat Girl Jen is having a 10+3 Action Plan that she invited her readers to join.  Because it fits well with what I want to do right now, I agreed and commited to the following for the next 3 months:

1. 5+ workouts/week
2. 5+ days of PLANNING and tracking my food.
3. 3+ morning workouts/week.

So, y’all have to do your thing.  You know, hold me accountable.  Cheer me on when I’m doing well.  Bug me if I’m not posting.  Kick me in the asterisk when I’m not doing so hot.  You know the drill.  And I promise I’ll do the same for you, too.

What do y’all think?  I welcome all comments, of course, but specifically would love to hear your thoughts on my training schedule!

Happy Saturday!  This post brought to you by the burst of motivation I experienced Friday afternoon while procrastinating at work thinking about how much I’m going to want to be outdoors in the sunshine on Saturday when it’s 67 degrees in Seattle!

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