Wake up!

I did not workout this morning. I don't feel right. I feel weird. Really weird.. I can say.. I liked sleeping in! Love it! Needed it!!!

I'll surely workout later on today.. it's not completely out.. plenty of time.

I did have a very good reason for not running. I'll write it later when I can explain..

off to school I go....

I never did go workout today. Well, my job is a workout! I am tired and my ribs hurt for some weird reason. I'm thinking I stretched wrong? I hope the pain feeling goes away soon.

It's only 4:45pm.. I could still workout but I need some down time and then I'll think about it.

Okay.. on to important stuff. What did I do at school today to leave a cliff hanger.. I'll explain in the next post.. because it deserves it's own page.

Week 49

Here we are again, the beginning of a new week. Week #49 of working out and recording it daily.
Last week I my total miles were 46.9. Not too bad, since I added in 3 days of running an extra 2 miles per day. I need to get back to doing that once again. Or try some other type of exercise, like swimming. I still need to find an appropriate swim suit for laps and call to see if the swim school still offers their $3 per time swim in the afternoons.

Tomorrow is the big day. It's the day where I find out my VT1 & VT2 thresh-hold and at what point I start burning fats and how many calories I can consume per day. This test will have me on a treadmill, measuring the CO2 from my breathing. I will run like a fool till exhaustion. Sounds like fun.. I've really been looking forward to all this new data to add to my running information. It's like candy for a runner.

Back to today's workout. I slept like crap last night. I think I was awake for most of the night. I do know, I finally felt like I was sleeping come 4:15am.. until 4:32.. when I realized the new alarm clock, did not go off at 4:30am. Thankfully, Steve was up and I woke up hearing him make a ton of noise. Now I feel like I could go back to bed.. or at least shut my eyes for 30 minutes which I just might do!

Today is another day off. We are shopping at Ikea.. doing the big free breakfast so I'm waiting to eat the rest of my b-fast calories, potatoes, weird scrambled eggs, 2 thin slices of bacon and their cinnamon roll with white frosting. I had 2 banana's to hold me over. Oh, and I will bring some low cal 20 per package and add it to the free coffee to get some caffeine in me to shop. The rest of the day will be spent finishing up homework for my psych class so I have time to write a paper for another class and finish up my workout plan for yet another class tomorrow. Never a dull moment.. 3 weeks left of class and I'm done... Well, not exactly but close and it won't nearly be as much to do..

2012 Accomplishments & Memories

Ta Da.. Here is my 2012 Accomplishments List..

What did I accomplish this year?

• Kept off 50 pounds of weight loss
• Exercised.. cardio, resistance training daily (almost 365 days of the year.. (total TBD)
• Went back to college to get a personal training certificate
• Getting all A's in all 3 classes
• Ran my first half marathon and did it in under 2 hours!
• Ran outside all summer long and loved it.. 7+ miles per day
• Entered races, 3, 2, 1 & 4 miles.. Placed 1st in all, but one I took 2nd in age group (the 3 mile). 
• Won many 1st, 2nd and 3rd place ribbons at the Dakota County Fair for my baking
• Helped Steve re-finish our wood floors. 

The memories of 2012...

• Kendra and Paul's Wedding
• Family Camping at Sauk Lake
• Family Camping in Grand Marais 
• Trip to Duluth and staying at the waterpark
• Down hill Skiing in Duluth
• Running the Rugged Manaic and volunteering with Steve
• Wine Tasting around MN & Wisconsin winery's
• Hikes in the woods
• Running every where.. 
• Jet skiing and boating on the St. Croix river
• Dakota County & State Fair
• Get together's with neighbors and friends
• Sunday family dinners
• Bonfires out back
• Motorcycle rides.. 
• Explore Sunday with the family.. 
• Taking photos
• Dressing up in costumes for Halloween
• The Color Run with friends.. 
• Volunteering at the kitchen in the market with Steve
• Working out at the Fitness 19 with Steve

Re-Thinking...

Today's notice at the gym was a big surprise. They are going to be doing some remodeling. I have no idea of what the new changes will be, but I'm looking forward to seeing the results. The bad news..  I'll have to re-think my plans for next weekend. The gym is closing down Friday after 3pm until Monday morning. This means both Saturday and Sunday I will need to run outside. I'm a huge baby when it comes to running in the cold. I think this will be good for me. If it snows.. all the better as I can ski (if we get 3" or more), but I think the forecast for next weekend is suppose to be back in the 40's, unfortunately that's the high for the day. I'll be  running when it's more like 20's or 30's? Burrrr.... I'll have to get past this....

No not re-thinking my Fit for Life book.. I did write a sort of rough draft or a list of what I want to include in my fit book. I even started creating a daily journal page. I still have a lot of writing.. A lot of editing. It's just the beginning but a good start to something I want to do and accomplish for 2012.. That's all together another post which... will be post #2 for today..

Awwwww...

It's good to be done with my workout today. Most days when I'm done, I say "Awwwww" because I'm done, I'm sweaty and I feel spent, but good.. It's good to be done.. Awwwww.

I had an Awwww, Ha.. moment the other day. I realized that my "I will get fit" book is not exactly perfect. I'm not going to re-create the wheel (book) but I want to make some changes. I want to write my own fitness book. When I was looking for a fitness book I didn't find any that really fit what I wanted to record. I also realized once I found the book I liked, there was no volume 1, 2, 3 etc.. I think once you find a system that works. I keep buying it. I do want other info in the book.. new daily updates to give me inspiration. Maybe new fitness tips, ideas..? I'm not exactly sure what my book will look like when finished. I know I do want to try and do this for me. I might never sell a copy but I will use it for me. So while I work on finishing my personal training certificate, I will work on my fitness book. After all.. I might as well use some of this knowledge I've acquired and put it to some good use. If you don't use it.. you are sure to lose it! Right!

My goal.. write a page a day or at least have a out-line... sort of a rough draft of my ideas.

Day After the T-day

More leftovers.. I had stuffing and gravy for breakfast and for dinner. What I did on my Black Friday? I started my day off just like every other day.. I ran.. ran for an hour and lifted some weights.. did some ab crunches and burned, burned those calories.

Black Friday would not be complete without some good old shopping. We hit up Walmart, Old Navy, TJ Maxx and topped it off with a stop to Taco Bell..

Funny thing.. Got on the scale.. just like I do every day I visit the gym, and I lost weight. Weird how that works, eat bad, lose weight! Or maybe just maybe it was from the extra calories I burned by running just 20 minutes extra every day? I'm guessing that helped!

8 miles..

It's day 3 of running 8 miles.... I read that as long as you do 10 minutes or more of cardio you can break up the time you spend doing it. So, I spend an hour every morning running 6+ miles... in the afternoon, (before I eat) I run another 2 miles.. I should do this before dinner too? There is a thing as too much.. Good enough for now until we get some snow.. Then I'll be skiing 4 miles..

I have to laugh when people tell me they are too busy to exercise. Exercise time is the best time of the day. It's 100% for you. Plus, what's 10 or 20 minutes of your 24 hour day to run/walk/bike.. ? Not too much time ..

Run to eat...turkey...

It's the day where the normal person eats 3000 calories.. or more.. I ran today just so I could eat. Well, I do that every day. Today, I really wanted to NOT run... but like most days.. I ran. I just ran 4 miles. I wanted to do 2 more at the park but Steve talked me into skipping it. It's so nice out.. 60+F and it's only going to get colder out in the next few days. I would have liked to run the lakes but I gave in. I'll probably regret that later when I'm eating my 3000 calories and I step on the scale come Monday.

Here comes the pumpkin, sweet potato and pecan pies.. oh... and my favorite Stuffing with all that fatty gravy. The best stuff!!

Well, at least I did something for cardio/exercise today.. It took 37 minutes to run those 4 miles. I cleaned the house.. burned off more calories and now.. sitting around, reading the paper and sitting on the Internet. How fun.. waiting for the family to arrive around 1 today.

I'm so very grateful.. for not having to cook the food today... I'll leave that to Steve and his mother. .They enjoy it.. while I'd rather enjoy eating it.

More Miles..Please

I'm trying to control my weight.. or rather trying to lose what I've gained. Yesterday was a beautiful November day, 60*F. I needed to get out of a cloud that I was in.. not sure why I was feeling blah? After I was done working around noon, I ran the lakes. Just 2 miles but those miles felt great! To be outside.. to run hard and enjoy the nice weather and the woods. It made all the difference today.

I had a great morning run, I cranked up the resistance to 10. I usually do 8 or 9 and hardly ever do 10 and never for 30 minutes. I feel so much better today. While the scale showed no signs of losing weight it at least held steady. I will continue to run my 6.1 miles in the morning, adding 2 miles or more in the afternoon.

I think since I had been running 7+ miles all summer long outside, then going down in miles that's one of the reason's my weight has been creeping up. 100 calories a day less adds up over 7 days.. 700 calories I was not burning for the week.. Time to get back to burning more.. doing more for me and feel good again.

Thanksgiving

 What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? 

Thanksgiving day we host the family meal. I just clean before and after, while my husband cooks.  I have many Thanksgiving day favorites, but the top of my list is my father's wild rice stuffing covered in gravy. He died almost 10 years ago, so the recipe for his stuffing is one thing I really enjoy and will pass it on to my children one day.   My least favorite would be green beans with the creamy soup and little onion things on top. I just can't seem to eat that stuff and it's probably a good thing because I don't need the extra calories. 
I am grateful for my husband and my 3 children.