Thursday randoms

Gooood morning! That is me trying to be enthusiastic that it’s only Thursday, ha!

I’m feeling good about my runs and workouts so far this week.  Though I’ve been stuck on the treadmill, I got in three 3-milers, and I do feel like I’ve been able to go a little faster than usual, so that’s a nice feeling. Having the pace shown on the treadmill screen is a nice motivator.

Kickboxing yesterday was awesome. The instructor told me that I can start working on speed because my form is there, and wow that felt good! Kickboxing is totally out of my comfort zone and for a while I would even get nervous before class. But I feel like I’m really starting to get it now, and my muscle memory is getting better, so much so that I don’t even have to think about it much to do the combinations.

I did have to miss Zumba Tuesday night, but for good reason. I got to see Chris Powell talk! If you haven’t heard about him, he is the trainer on Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition. He was totally inspirational, and I’m working on getting a post together to share what he had to say.

In other random news, I made a pretty awesome smoothie this morning.

Yes it’s half gone. I don’t pretend to be a good photographer, or have much patience.

My standby concoction is usually peanut butter + vanilla protein powder + spinach + ground flaxseed + Almond milk. But today I decided to mix it up. I was sort of craving some fruit after my run. So I took spinach + frozen pineapple + frozen strawberries + vanilla protein powder + ground flaxseed + Almond milk (I use original unsweetened). It took me a few tries to get it to blend well in the magic blender, I think because of all the  frozen stuff. But I just kept adding Almond milk and it came out deeelicious! It almost tastes tropical which is a nice since it’s 19 degrees outside.

That’s all I’ve got. Have a good Thursday!

 

Monday Randoms

Happy Monday!

I hope your weekend was fabulous!

We spent our weekend getting a lot of stuff done… including our taxes…. super exciting, I know, but I’m glad to just have them done. When you total all of what we owe and are owed together we come out about $50 bucks richer, which I guess is good but isn’t very exciting.

During the last week you may (or may not) have noticed that I never mentioned running. Well, I’m going to give a generic excuse. Life got in the way. It just… did. and I know I’m being vague here but it just happened. So my first run in about a week and a half was yesterday.

4 miles done and done.

You know what sucked though? my legs felt heavy and my shins started aching within the first mile. So I trudged through the four miles and got them done. But I seriously have to figure out what is making my legs feel so heavy lately. I thought taking some time off would help but it didn’t. so now I’m suspecting its my shoes. They have about 350 miles on them which is usually around when I have to switch them out. Luckily I have a new bright pink pair waiting in my closet. Here’s to a better run next time!

In other news, I have now tried all of the new Chobani flavors, and I’ve got to admit I’m not really a fan of any of them.

Apple Cinnamon

Blood Orange

Passion Fruit

I wanted to like them, I really did. But for some reason the apple cinnamon tasted weird to me when mixed with the flavor of greek yogurt, the blood orange seemed a little sweet and the passion fruit was too sweet for me (though I didn’t mind the seeds to be honest).

Oh well, you win some you lose some I guess.

I’ll probably be sticking with pineapple, mango, blueberry, strawberry and raspberry.

Here’s this weeks workout schedule:

Monday – Hot power yoga
Tuesday – Zumba
Wednesday – 3 miles
Thursday – rest
Friday – Speedwork: 4 Mi, inc Warm; 2×1600 w/800 jogs; Cool
Saturday – rest
Sunday – 5 miles

Have a good Monday. and if you’re off for presidents day today I am super jealous!

we need a sugar intervention

Okay. seriously.

Things are getting out of hand.

Last weekend was the hubby and my moms birthdays. That means my grandma made cookies, pie and cake. We ended up with some of the leftovers.

Tuesday was Valentines day. My mom bought the hubby and I some valentines treats.

I like to bake, and in hinesight I STUPIDLY made some “smores bars” last weekend – they’re like rice krispie treats but with golden grahams, mini marshmellows and chocolate chips.

And my mom just texted me to tell me that our girl scout cookies came in.

This is just insane.

The current stockpile of sugar in our apartment consists of:
- 1 box chocolate covered macadamia nuts (from my brother in Hawaii)
- 1 peanut butter meltaway candy bar
- half a dozen chocolate chip cookies
- a few brownies
- a couple mint chocolate cookies
- maybe a dozen or so smores bars
- 2 slices of blueberry pie
- 3 pieces of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting
- a heart-shaped box of Russel Stover’s chocolates – luckily this is a small box, only 2 pieces are left.
- heart-shaped marshmallow peeps
- a bag of reeses hearts

and frankly, I’m sure there’s more than that.

and we’re going to get 3 boxes of girl scout cookies in the next few days.

Seriously, I think we need to stage an intervention or something.

I hate wasting food so I don’t want to throw it out, and it’s such a random conglomeration of sweets I’m not sure taking it into work would be appropriate.

but seriously, the hubby and I can’t eat all of that, and frankly we shouldn’t.