Burned and feeling like jello

We went to the Twins game today! It was pretty awesome, as usual. :) This time it was perfect weather! I even attempted to be sun responsible and put on sunscreen. Apparently I missed 3 places: the backside of my left shoulder and the tops of my knees. So I have 3 areas of sun burn. The ones on the knees hurt the most but they're small so I can suffer through.

Then after getting home, I took care of my 30 minute cross training session today and went for a bike ride. I've never really cared much for bike riding. I'm slow on hills, in fact I had to bail on one midway today. I don't feel like I get that good of workout but I know I definitely got a workout today! Every direction you go from my house is somehow down a hill which means the only way to get to my house is up hills. I circled the neighborhoods a few times doing hill after hill after hill. It's great for running, murder when you're doing something you don't enjoy all that much.... like riding a bike. But from what I've read biking is an excellent way to cross train for running so i'll give it a whirl.

Now off to make dinner or say forget it and try to eat responsibly at Sea Salt Eatery in Minnehaha Falls park with my book club peeps...

Day 2: Strength and Stretching

Most people would look forward to this day, look at it as an easy day. I would, except I strongly dislike strength training and stretching. I hate stretching because it hurts and I'm super inflexible. I hate strength training because it always seems to end up being an "add on", something I try to squeeze into the end of my intense workout. I'm really hoping this program will force me to work on this element because weak, un-stretched muscles will only do more damage while training for this distance.

Diet day 2 is going better than yesterday! Why? I worked 6:30-3, didn't really have breakfast and didn't really do much extraneous nibbling at work. Diet will always be a work in progress....

Wedding planning on hold, so 10K project starts!

Aside from figuring out my ceremony -reception time gap quandry (do I find a different ceremony site so I can have a later ceremony thus eliminating the gap, etc), wedding planning is pretty much on hold until my income stabilizes. :(

Instead, I'll be turning my focus to my health. Mainly my diet and my revelation that I would like to aim for a 10K. Crazy? Maybe. Was this plan induced under a post running high? Yes. But I found a fairly reasonable looking program which I posted about in the last one. Today will be the official start!

Monday is supposed to be stretching and strength. But I'll be altering it and switching and running today, stretching/strength tomorrow. I work 8.5 hours tomorrow so I know there's no way in hell I'll be getting out and running 2.5 miles after that. I'll be lucky if I can even move by the end of a long day like that(a sign I'm probably not in very good shape!), let alone run!!

The good news is that today is overcast, breezy and WAY cooler than yesterday so running should be substantially easier.

Other things to do today:

1. Go to the banks (Pampered Chef Check deposits and my personal tips deposit)
2. Close out my mystery host winner's party
3. LAUNDRY -- I need work clothes
4. general straightening up of the house
5. Fiance's softball game

So I should probably stop being on the internet and get stuff done, right?

3rd 5K -- check!

I ran my 3rd 5K today! 40 minutes! So slower than the Lake Calhoun one and way slower than my first one. But I still ran the whole thing despite wanting to stop even before I crossed the start line.

Things working against me this time:

1. complete lack of training
2. the race was delayed by over 1/2 an hour due to a downed tree from the storms the previous day. I drank a bottle of water at 8:15 to be hydrated. At about 9:05 when we were lined up and waiting for things to start at any moment: I had to pee. 

The complete lack of training is because I've done the 5K's before. Aside from trying to get a better time, there's no driving force in me to get out and train. Especially now that I've done 2 of them with out even really training. I think It may be time to up my goal to a 10K to get me back out there training. I miss running 3 days a week. This could have been happening for a 5K of course, but the spark was missing! New goal, an aggressive one at that = spark!

I found this program which I may try to do. I have weights and resources for strength training. I have the space and the hills and lakes to do some amazing training. The biggest obstacle is the increased commitment. When I trained for the 5K I trained 3 days a week and by the end was losing motivation. It also involved intervals. This one starts out running 2.5 miles. and training 6 days a week..... No cushion there! It also stresses strength training which has been definitely absent from my life. Of course 6.2 miles requires a bit more in shape muscles than 3.1!

Hopefully my new plan will be the thing I need to get motivated!

Hooray-- I don't look psycho

I finally figured out how to "unfollow" myself. It looked kind of weird having me following myself. I mean it gives me points in the anonymity column because what kind of freak does that, right? It was a snafu between google reader and blogger. This meant, of course, every time I posted something in blogger, google reader would say I had new entries to read.

It only took me like a month to figure this out......

What happened to June?

June 21st???/ Really????? I'm supposed to run a 5k in 5 days.....

I did managed to drag my lazy butt downstairs and run for 15 minutes! YAY! I don't really necessarily enjoy running on treadmills so the fact I made it 15 minutes is pretty good. I watched the last parts of Drop Dead Gorgeous so that helped the time go by.

As usual, I am bound and determined to start trying to get rid of this flabbyness specifically my pudgy legs, tummy and back....I'm pondering starting another challenge. Instead of 90 days, maybe I'll bust it into 3- 1 month segments: 1 goal a month. Build on each month. Heck, if it goes well, maybe I'll turn it into 1 challenge a month with no end date....

From my previous challenge I successfully stopped adding sugar to my coffee and cut back significantly on my sugary drinks. I've reintegrated pop into my life but it's very seldom. So I'll plan to build on that....

Possible challenges:

• work out 2x a week for at least 20 minutes
• Increase water consumption 
• weight train 2x a week
• Floss daily (no, I like many americans, do not do this. I'm sure I need to).
• Up for suggestions.....

Anyone with me on this? I'm thinking if I make the focus 1 challenge it'll be easier than 3....

Calmed down a bit

As predicted, I've calmed down a bit.

I have 100 days to make a decision on the ceremony and still get my money back. So before I on a whim cancel and have no ceremony place, I think I'll spend the next month or so shopping around for a ceremony site that could accommodate a later ceremony. If I find one, we'll cancel on Noerenberg. If we don't find one, then we'll start figuring out what to do about the gap.

Then I made the mistake of looking at this and my brain went to having a destination wedding on the North Shore..... @ this point I'd only be out $500 deposit on my venue and it'd be all in one. Hrm.