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Happy Cinco de Mayo

(This entry crossposted between Sweets&Sweats and Happiness Awaits)

I say that like I’m going to celebrate or something.  I’ve gotten too old to go celebrate mid-week pseudo-holidays.  I do have dinner plans tonight with Missy, so that sort of counts like I’m going out! :)   I may or may not drink.  I am leaning towards not drink.  I have really been trying to only drink on weekends but I do enjoy having a cocktail with my girlfriends when I see them, which isn’t as often as I would like.  Ahhh, decisions.

I don’t think I have a single picture to add to this post today.  My camera stayed firmly placed in my bag all day yesterday.  Don’t know what I was thinking.  I guess my day was just pretty boring.  Which it was.  I worked, went to the gym, worked, went home, made dinner, fought some ants, watched the Caps game, went to bed and read for a bit.  And that was it.

My workout yesterday was a 50 minute run. I am slightly annoyed.  Apparently Nike+ won’t upload 2 different runs in the same day.

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My workout was a 10 minute run, then I did intervals for 35 minutes.  These consisted of 3 minute run, 1 minute sprint, 1 minute walk: repeat 7 times.  Here is the first part of my run.  45 minutes, 4.54 miles at an average of 9:54.  I told my IPOD to stop and started it over for my 5 minute cool down walk, so that it wouldn’t kill my per mile average pace.  But for some reason I can’t upload the information.  Anyway, I walked for 5 minutes at 13:56 pace and covered 0.36 miles.

Total: 50 minutes, 4.9 miles

Today I am going to do some strength training.  I have started a new set of workouts from Women’s Health.  Today will be “No-Gear Here“.  I am hoping that it will leave me as sore and spent as the last few strength sessions I have been doing from this magazine.

Here is where we are standing with the 10 Week Challenge.  We are starting week 6 this week, so we are already half way there!!

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Half way point, the standings are:

Brooke: Lose weight every week except 1!
Justin: Done abs at least 3 times every week
Holly:Averaged strength training 3 times a week and abs 2 a week
Running Duff: No update since after 1st week
Sweet & Fit: You have a lot going on, want to change your goal for the next 5 weeks?

And I have changed my goal because as you all know, I am not weighing myself.  I figured I would aim to eat crap-free for at least 4 days a week.

Here is what I am avoiding with my crap-free days:

White bread, artificial sweetener, alcohol, no soda, deli meat, processed foods, avoid refined carbs, no mindless snacking, avoid high fructose corn syrup

And if you want to join us for the last 5 weeks, let me know!




Summary



About Me: 28-year old, fairly newlywed (Spring 2007) that lives in Northern VA. Work full time, love my job, have an unfortunately long daily commute.

While an obsessive long distance runner, I am still trying to recover from 2 major knee surgeries. Atleast I am able to (semi) run again.

In the past, I definitely have not always fed my body correctly to support all the running I did. Simply put, my aim was to be the smallest weight/size possible. Now, my aim is to eat healthy, well rounded and simply to enjoy as much of life without worry about the calorie content and what the tenth of a pound the scale is showing me.

 

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