I only have a 10km run tomorrow for my long run, at race pace, so it needs to be 1.12:59...seriously. But the mileage ramps up next week, until the half. I need to make time in the next few weeks to be somewhat familiar with the course, as it's just out of town, it makes me feel a bit more comfortable knowing that before race day!
I got a fair bit done today, even with a sleep in. I went and checked out my local market which has been running for a while, and is very close to my place. I don't know if it was because of the weather, or what but it was tiny, and there wasn't much choice for produce or price for that matter. I did pick up a few things, including two wholemeal loaves of bread (one of which I froze), and some eggs, and vegies. I'll still be heading to the waterfront one tomorrow after my long run, to get more supplies. I also got my gym session in, and went to the library.
So far the no supermarket shopping experience has gone well, I have come to realise though I buy alot of processed stuff, tinned chickpeas, bread, crackers, things like that. I guess I thought I really didn't buy anything processed, but I do, not alot compared to some folks I guess, but enough to go ohhh. I might have to pop into the supermarket though...for toilet paper, and milk, umm and vegemite...i've run out! I did end up buying, soaking and cooking dried chickpeas though, which was not as hard as I thought, plus they taste so much better! So i'm on board for keeping that up!
I've also signed up for a spinathon in few weeks! It runs for 6 hours in total, and you can do at least a one hour session. I checked with my trainer to see what was okay seeing as I have a scheduled 19km run the day after...umm that would be 3 sessions are fine, as long as I rest the rest of the day :-) So three hours of straight spinning classes in a row my legs and more importantly my rear hurt just thinking about it!
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Saturday, August 7, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Camping!
I'm off to a wedding this weekend, the first one I've been to in years. I left it really late to get something to wear, and whilst I don't love what I bought, it will be perfectly fine for a relaxed country wedding, first at the church, then at a garden for the reception. But yes, there was angst in the change room, even after my waist reappeared after years being MIA. But yeah, I have something.
And we are camping...due to the reception being quite far out of town, so most of the guests will be doing this.
I have not done this since school, not that my partner in crime knows this, so here is hoping both of our heads together, and some common sense and we will be all good. We've even packed the car up with quilts, fluffy pillows, my beautician offered to lend me her air mattress today whilst waxing my eyebrows into shape. So if all goes well, it should be great fun. If not, yeah we'll just have a bit more bubbles.
Book club went really well, we read the lovely bones for this months meeting, which I didn't think I would like, but liked very much. Next month, the secret life of bees! None of us have read it, so it seemed a good choice.
Nutrition wise all is going good, some hiccups, mainly when I don't have enough protein at lunch, that makes a HUGE difference. Now I just need to get back into le gym!
Have a good weekend everyone xx
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Oh no you didn't!
I passed two people during little boot.
Mwhahaha!
To be honest, maybe they were having a lazy day, they were chatting and walking at this point, but even when they were running I could still pretty much keep pace. Pull ups, not so much. I am shite shite at pull ups, ugh! Quite funny really, unless you are ME.
Anyway it was interesting, because as soon as I passed these two people, I slowed down. Because I didn't think I should have been ahead of them, they should have been faster than me. Strange.
At the moment my current thoughts are that little boot is nowhere as hard as camp boot, I am yet to work out whether this will be good for me or not.
Will try harder tomorrow, especially if pull ups are involved!
Mwhahaha!
To be honest, maybe they were having a lazy day, they were chatting and walking at this point, but even when they were running I could still pretty much keep pace. Pull ups, not so much. I am shite shite at pull ups, ugh! Quite funny really, unless you are ME.
Anyway it was interesting, because as soon as I passed these two people, I slowed down. Because I didn't think I should have been ahead of them, they should have been faster than me. Strange.
At the moment my current thoughts are that little boot is nowhere as hard as camp boot, I am yet to work out whether this will be good for me or not.
Will try harder tomorrow, especially if pull ups are involved!
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Numbers and Planning
I've had nearly over a month of not going to ww. I went back today, and happy with my 700g gain, considering I went awol with cupcake making, and more wine than normal over the pre christmas period - I don't normally drink that much, so points wise its never been something I have had to actively count.
I've worked out a little chart below that has me on average aiming to loose 600g a week. I'll be happy with 500g though. It's just that the 600g will get me to ww goal by the end of the year :-) it's more for my reference. But I will put one up to update either at the end of each month, or beginning of the next depending on when I weigh in.
Jan - 1.2kg = 102.9
Feb - 2.4kg = 100.5
Mar - 2.4kg = 98.1
Apr - 3 kg = 95.1
May - 2.4kg = 92.7
Jun- 2.4 = 90.3
Jul 3 = 87.3
Aug 2.4 = 84.9
Sept 3 = 81.9
Oct 2.4 = 79.5
Nov 2.4 = 77.1
Dec 3 = 74
Looking back on the past week, I've been keeping a food, water and exercise diary since monday. Some interesting things have popped up.
If I do not bring my breakfast into work, my choices go south. Prime example was yesterday, when I didn't bring my oats in and ended up going for a coffee around ten, and discovering toasted banana bread. I used to bring a ration of oats into work for the week, but we are had a mouse about...and now i'd rather just bring it in on the day. Not that I leave oats out or anything, but gross! This problem could be solved by prepping my oats the night before as at the moment, I do it just before I leave for work. And keeping and emergency stash in a container inside a container at work.
I've had lunch out twice this week, once was a vegie salad with no dressing and a little bit of feta and avocado. The other one was this amazing sounding turkish vegie sandwich, it was HUGE, but more to the point it was packed with all the fresh vegies as listed, but along with the swiss cheese (which was advertised) there was additional cheese. Argh!
I've only had one meal out this week. And this was hilarious. I don't ever drink wine during the week, so I stuck to water whilst a group of us waited for a friend who was running late, four bottles of water between us and still waiting for the friend, we caved and got hummus and turkish bread and dived in. When the friend did finally arrive, we ordered our meals, mine came with turkish garlic bread (if I had been smart, I would have asked for it without). And then it came down to the sweet menu, which again I try not to have so much anymore, but that night I had the chocolate pudding with icecream, it was worth it taste wise just for the sauce! But it was a huge meal.
So there you go!
Exercise this week, it hasn't been as consistent as I would have liked, only swimming and spin. Boxing got pulled on Tuesday because dinner came up. And yesterday, I'm not sure...which would conclude that I was a lazy tool. I will admit I am loving my mini sleep ins this week.
My aim along with tracking and consistent exercise is to have water when I get home, and a glass before I leave in the morning. I'm hitting 6 glasses at work, and then I don't think about it at home. I'd be happy with 8.
The next few weeks I have social things, and trips on, so I'm going to have to show more restraint so I can still enjoy things whilst I'm away and not feel guilty!
I've worked out a little chart below that has me on average aiming to loose 600g a week. I'll be happy with 500g though. It's just that the 600g will get me to ww goal by the end of the year :-) it's more for my reference. But I will put one up to update either at the end of each month, or beginning of the next depending on when I weigh in.
Jan - 1.2kg = 102.9
Feb - 2.4kg = 100.5
Mar - 2.4kg = 98.1
Apr - 3 kg = 95.1
May - 2.4kg = 92.7
Jun- 2.4 = 90.3
Jul 3 = 87.3
Aug 2.4 = 84.9
Sept 3 = 81.9
Oct 2.4 = 79.5
Nov 2.4 = 77.1
Dec 3 = 74
Looking back on the past week, I've been keeping a food, water and exercise diary since monday. Some interesting things have popped up.
If I do not bring my breakfast into work, my choices go south. Prime example was yesterday, when I didn't bring my oats in and ended up going for a coffee around ten, and discovering toasted banana bread. I used to bring a ration of oats into work for the week, but we are had a mouse about...and now i'd rather just bring it in on the day. Not that I leave oats out or anything, but gross! This problem could be solved by prepping my oats the night before as at the moment, I do it just before I leave for work. And keeping and emergency stash in a container inside a container at work.
I've had lunch out twice this week, once was a vegie salad with no dressing and a little bit of feta and avocado. The other one was this amazing sounding turkish vegie sandwich, it was HUGE, but more to the point it was packed with all the fresh vegies as listed, but along with the swiss cheese (which was advertised) there was additional cheese. Argh!
I've only had one meal out this week. And this was hilarious. I don't ever drink wine during the week, so I stuck to water whilst a group of us waited for a friend who was running late, four bottles of water between us and still waiting for the friend, we caved and got hummus and turkish bread and dived in. When the friend did finally arrive, we ordered our meals, mine came with turkish garlic bread (if I had been smart, I would have asked for it without). And then it came down to the sweet menu, which again I try not to have so much anymore, but that night I had the chocolate pudding with icecream, it was worth it taste wise just for the sauce! But it was a huge meal.
So there you go!
Exercise this week, it hasn't been as consistent as I would have liked, only swimming and spin. Boxing got pulled on Tuesday because dinner came up. And yesterday, I'm not sure...which would conclude that I was a lazy tool. I will admit I am loving my mini sleep ins this week.
My aim along with tracking and consistent exercise is to have water when I get home, and a glass before I leave in the morning. I'm hitting 6 glasses at work, and then I don't think about it at home. I'd be happy with 8.
The next few weeks I have social things, and trips on, so I'm going to have to show more restraint so I can still enjoy things whilst I'm away and not feel guilty!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Demoted
Before it started I got demoted from campboot part three.
I was crushed for a good ten minutes, looking blankly at the computer screen, and muttered under my breath 'noooooo'. I say ten minutes, because then I actually re read the email, yes I was still demoted. But my pt suggested I go to the beginner-esque one - it's kind of a prep one to the camp boot i've been going too.
Mainly because I feel that you will get more from that intensity, at this stage....and I feel it's the right direction for your improving fitness levels at this stage.
It was a very gentle email, as crushed as I was, my pt is awesome, and I'll still be seeing them whilst I go to the other camp boot (little boot?). Plus I hope to go back into camp boot when it runs again during this year sometime and CRUSH them ;-)
I think the demotion may do more good than I will care to admit at this point.
-I'm fitter than I've ever been, but I'm not fast, at all. If I had less weight to carry about, shit people, I would be fast.
-Must loose fat in order to become fast. Period.
-I want to become fast.
-It's not the same camp boot as when I started - there is nothing wrong with that at all, but it keeps building upon the previous sessions, and I'm not fast enough to keep up, even though I give 150%.
-Snacking after dinner won't happen anymore, little boot is around 530pm or so, it'll be dinner and bed folks.
- No more 5am starts - kind of...I have to change my swimming squad around now, and that will mean at least one early start a week.
Not so cool stuff
-I'm going to have to have lunch later, nooo! Noon and I'm ready, that's going to be fun.
-I really don't like being demoted, I almost cried at my desk and work! Thanks to ANNE for twittering me back to the land of common sense :-)
-I liked the early morning starts.
-What do I say when people ask why I'm not doing camp boot this time around?
-It's twice a week, not three.
At lunch I went and got a salad (yeah two lunches out this week already!) and a journal, so I can start writing down some things just for me and maybe for you guys later.
I was crushed for a good ten minutes, looking blankly at the computer screen, and muttered under my breath 'noooooo'. I say ten minutes, because then I actually re read the email, yes I was still demoted. But my pt suggested I go to the beginner-esque one - it's kind of a prep one to the camp boot i've been going too.
Mainly because I feel that you will get more from that intensity, at this stage....and I feel it's the right direction for your improving fitness levels at this stage.
It was a very gentle email, as crushed as I was, my pt is awesome, and I'll still be seeing them whilst I go to the other camp boot (little boot?). Plus I hope to go back into camp boot when it runs again during this year sometime and CRUSH them ;-)
I think the demotion may do more good than I will care to admit at this point.
-I'm fitter than I've ever been, but I'm not fast, at all. If I had less weight to carry about, shit people, I would be fast.
-Must loose fat in order to become fast. Period.
-I want to become fast.
-It's not the same camp boot as when I started - there is nothing wrong with that at all, but it keeps building upon the previous sessions, and I'm not fast enough to keep up, even though I give 150%.
-Snacking after dinner won't happen anymore, little boot is around 530pm or so, it'll be dinner and bed folks.
- No more 5am starts - kind of...I have to change my swimming squad around now, and that will mean at least one early start a week.
Not so cool stuff
-I'm going to have to have lunch later, nooo! Noon and I'm ready, that's going to be fun.
-I really don't like being demoted, I almost cried at my desk and work! Thanks to ANNE for twittering me back to the land of common sense :-)
-I liked the early morning starts.
-What do I say when people ask why I'm not doing camp boot this time around?
-It's twice a week, not three.
At lunch I went and got a salad (yeah two lunches out this week already!) and a journal, so I can start writing down some things just for me and maybe for you guys later.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Like a fish
image from thom999manson
I went back to swim squad today, I say go back because when I was 15/16 I used to go to a swim squad 2-3 times a week. I loved it. So I hadn't been to a formal squad setting in a while you could say.
I'm slow! Edurance good, sprinting, bad. I'm not that bothered, it was my first one and so I'm going to work on building up my speed. At the moment, I can only go one day a week, I've got too much other stuff on, run training, boxing, my beloved spin class, plus interval/circuit work and strength. I'll be glad when my fun run is done! But then after that is camp boot part three.
and no, I have not used the juicer, yet...
But i'm still making my bed!
Sunday, January 10, 2010
To bed I say
I ended up taking the whole week of any sort of structured exercise. I didn't get anymore worked up about it. More importantly I kept and eye on what I ate, whereas normally I would just eat more than I would if I was exercising. Progress!
I also have a new queen size bed, which I bought from a friend of a friend moving away. It's very comfortable, and as my old bed was a double, I'll need to get onto some new linen for it this week, and a new duvet. Getting it made me wonder why on earth I hadn't done this before. My bedroom since I've move here has been very very basic, and not very personal. Now I want to make it a little sanctuary. I'm going to go with a green theme, and that is about as far as I've got.
I heart this
In keeping with one of my resolutions, I'm all booked in for swim squad tomorrow. It excited and nervous at the same time. I must remember to pack my bathers!
I also have a new queen size bed, which I bought from a friend of a friend moving away. It's very comfortable, and as my old bed was a double, I'll need to get onto some new linen for it this week, and a new duvet. Getting it made me wonder why on earth I hadn't done this before. My bedroom since I've move here has been very very basic, and not very personal. Now I want to make it a little sanctuary. I'm going to go with a green theme, and that is about as far as I've got.
I heart this
In keeping with one of my resolutions, I'm all booked in for swim squad tomorrow. It excited and nervous at the same time. I must remember to pack my bathers!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
List For Play
Thank you to Carla for giving the hint to post my running playlist. I've never really had one. I used to just shuffle about what I had loaded. So it was fun yesterday (yeah it's almost 1am, and I'm still wired!) at the gym (rain, major rain!), I survived on the treadmill and clocked 4.22km in 30 minutes. I was going quite hard out for the first 20 then realised it was supposed to be an EASY run, and slowed down!
So I'm ready, I have protection, here is my playlist in random order, feel free to add suggestions, comments, throw fruit!
Straight Lines - Silverchair
Feelin Alright - Joe Cocker
Electric Feel-MGMT
Unbelievable - EMF
Children - Robert Miles
I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters
Tonight Tonight Tonight - Genesis
Invisible Touch - Genesis
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
Big Love - Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
Say You Will - Fleetwood Mac
My Obsession - Icehouse
Miley Cyrus - The Climb
Relentless 7 - Shimmer & Shine
Mysterious Ways - U2
So I'm ready, I have protection, here is my playlist in random order, feel free to add suggestions, comments, throw fruit!
Straight Lines - Silverchair
Feelin Alright - Joe Cocker
Electric Feel-MGMT
Unbelievable - EMF
Children - Robert Miles
I Don't Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters
Tonight Tonight Tonight - Genesis
Invisible Touch - Genesis
You Get What You Give - New Radicals
Big Love - Fleetwood Mac
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
Say You Will - Fleetwood Mac
My Obsession - Icehouse
Miley Cyrus - The Climb
Relentless 7 - Shimmer & Shine
Mysterious Ways - U2
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