Tuesday Swimming 1 hour

10 minutes breaststroke
10 minutes freestyle
10 minutes backstroke
5 minutes freestyle
10 minutes backstroke
5 minutes freestyle
10 minutes kick board

Also-Walked with the kids while pushing the double stroller 1 hour total. I also played with the kids at the park for 1 1/2 hours. Another freaking gorgeous day! Loving it!

Tuesday

I'm still at it. The diet is feeling a bit easier. I've stayed well in a decent range for two whole days in a row without feeling like I was killing myself.

Today I ran hills with the group. I got there a little bit late, so I had to drive to catch everybody else. They were about 1/2 mile into the run when I got there. We got a cool new Garmin (for Christmas), so here is the read out of our hill run - well all of it except the first and last 1/2 miles, because I missed that part getting there late.

Check it out! The green line is the elevation and the yellow line is the grade. Now you can see why this run SUCKS!

Monday Weigh-In

Okay, so last week's diet didn't go as well as the week before. I think I'm about to go into my girlie time, so I'm craving carbs and chocolate and salt. Anyway, so I had not much hope for my weigh-in this morning, but I was pleasantly surprised! I lost two pounds! I'm sub one-fifty, woot!! I'm hoping to work out tonight, but for some reason I've been really really tired lately. Like, falling asleep at eight o'clock and sleeping twelve hours tired. Weeeeeeird....
Did get out and get a little sun today. GREAT freaking weather!!!
Oh, also, Erik is sick. The doctor is not sure if it's strep, or an abscess in/behind one of his tonsils. It's the biggest tonsil I've EVER seen, and Erik gets strep a lot, so I know me some big tonsils!! Even the doctor today was impressed. He has no fever, and very little other strep symptoms, but we are giving antibiotics just in case. (and me too) If he's not better in a couple of days (by which I mean if his tonsil is not shrinking), the doc wants us back in, and ct-scans and possibly surgery will ensue. I never thought I'd HOPE for it to be strep, lol! Anyway, the point is, exercise for this week might be dicey depending on how Erik is doing. :P
The Almighty Liz

Monday Running 1 hour (4 miles or so while pushing the jogging stroller)

I hope I got at least 4 miles, but I felt like I got more since I did not have to stop as much as usual. I rigged the jogging stroller so S could sit up a lot more and she liked that MUCH better. Plus, she seems to like the wooded Watershed trail as compared to the Lock and Dam trail that goes by the river. Either way, I only had to stop twice to give her things to make her happy, as opposed to stopping like 20 times last Monday when she was a major crank. It was so nice out today too! Yay for sunshine and warmth!

ETA- Plus, 30 minutes big shovel yard work double digging in my garden.

Monday

I just finished yet another session with Jillian. Ripped in 30 week 3. I'm afraid I'm going to have to advance to week 4 soon. I DON'T WANNA! Here is the question: What do I do once I'm through all the Ripped in 30s? I guess I'm in the market for a new routine. I'll have to find a few favorites and rotate through them. I think I'll start looking at Insanity or P90X. I don't know if I can afford either one of those. I wonder if I can find a used copy cheap.

The diet is still hanging in there. I'm down to 155.5 today (which is still a couple of lbs over what I was BEFORE I started working out again after my 2 month sabbatical.) Still, progress is progress. That is 2.5 lbs down from 2 weeks ago. I'm off to hit the shower.

I think I might buy some kettlebells and try that route. Any input? I saw some at Aldi. I have no money at present, but maybe by the time I'm done with Ripped in 30 week 4?

Saturday

Well after thinking about it, I decided that I just didn't care about the diet yesterday. I was planning on doing a 13 mile run today. From past experience, I can tell you that dieting + being on your period + running 13 miles for the first time in several months = BAD THINGS. So I gave up and ate.

I did do a 13 mile run this morning, and it was hard. I'm off to take a hot shower and then to sit and be lazy for a while.

p.s. I just entered my run at spark people. According to their calculations, I burned 1521 calories. I wonder how accurate that is. So HA on the diet! Take THAT!!

Friday Trail Running 55 minutes

Big E took the day off, so I decided to get TWO trail runs in one week. It was fun, but it hurt towards the end as I was pushing myself. I think I pushed myself too hard. I went swimming with the kids tonight for 1 1/2 hours, and while I was in the deep end, I got a massive charley horse in my right calf. I was at the very bottom of the 11 foot water showing V how I can touch the bottom when it decided to cramp too! I was thinking, really? Could there be a worse place to get a horrible leg cramp? I made it out okay, but
I think this was my body's way of telling me to take a few days off exercise!

I also might take Liz's advice and take a few days off dieting to try and re-set my metabolism. I've been really tired this week too :P