Day 116-119 (3/26/09- 3/29/09)

Wow I haven’t updated in a while. I just needed a break this weekend.

Exercise this week

• Thursday: 6 miles in 1:04
• Saturday: 10 miles in 1:46:45. With this pace, I’d run the Mini in 2:20ish, which would be a fifteen minute improvement (I think I can handle that )
• Sunday: 1 mile in 10; 10 minutes on the stair machine; upper body and heavy ab weight training

Food this week

• Thursday:
  • B: oatmeal
  • L: wrap
  • D: steak quesadilla and chips and salsa
• Friday:
  • B: oatmeal and a bagel (no good)
  • L: wrap
  • D: sushi! and edamame (great night, generally)
• Saturday:
  • B: donuts (as M pointed out, this is probably not the best fuel I could have pre-long run, but, nonetheless, I felt great during the run and ran it at a pretty quick pace)
  • S: G2 and protein shake
  • D: chicken queso wrap and homemade chips and 2 Miller Lites. That’s right, I ended the no alcohol streak. The good news is that the world didn’t end, I didn’t have a hangover (that would be embarrassing if 2 beers gave me a hangover), and I only drank 2. They were pretty good, but I’m still not sure how much beer I’ll be drinking
• Sunday:
  • B: oatmeal
  • L: delicious cobb salad from When Eddie Met Salad. They have the best salads ever, and, because he’s friends with M, I met Eddie last night. I’m going to make it my mission to get him to open a location downtown (right now there is one about a mile outside of downtown. I think one downtown would do really well)
  • S: sherbert and ice cream bar
  • D: 3 bread sticks with cheese and 2 pieces of mushroom pizza from Hot Box Pizza

I am sure I also ate some more Weight Watcher Ice Cream bars in there, I just don’t remember. I did not eat well this week and it showed when I stepped on the scale for my weigh in this week: I lost and gained nothing. I guess that’s better than gaining anything. This week I’m going to concentrate on eating out less (although tomorrow I have a free lunch at McCormick & Schmicks so I won’t be succeeding at this until at least Tuesday).

I contemplated this weekend/last Friday discontinuing doing food on my blog. This was only after I ate the bagel for my second breakfast of the day. However, I realized that the reason I wanted to quit blogging my food is so that I wouldn’t be embarrassed to post my food, but that’s foolish. I need to post my food for the accountability. I don’t post it so that you all can analyze what I eat. I post it so that I have to own up to what I eat, so I don’t anticipate I’ll stop doing this for quite some time.

While we were at Costco today I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize and I didn’t answer it in time. However, it was great news. My bike is in! M and I are going to get it tomorrow (unless I decide to upgrade and they don’t have the upgrade). I’m totally excited!! I’m planning on getting a few longer rides in on the bike between now and the Mini, but after the Mini I’m going to switch to a Triathlon training plan. I’ll post it when we get sooner to the start of it. The only problem I’m seeing is that the triathlon plans I’ve seen (including the ones in the training book I bought Friday) have the longest runs at 30 minutes. I want to keep my running endurance up so I might increase one of the weekend runs to 60-90 minutes while I’m training for the Triathlon so that I can more easily shift back to half marathon training after the tri. My second half marathon of the year is 2 months after the tri so I won’t have the full 12-16 weeks to do a training program. Besides, I want to really push for a great time at that second half so I don’t want to lose the endurance and speed.

One more thing. I have completely slacked on the Shred front. I made a mistake in the day I started it by doing a really hard lower body weight lifting work out and therefore was really hurting every time I did Shred. I’m going to restart it tomorrow and do either Shred or a gym weight lifting every day (in other words, if I don’t lift at the gym I am going to make myself do Shred at night). M and I are going strong on our pushups. I am definitely starting to see more definition in my arms which I’m positive is from the push ups. I’m still not looking forward to redoing the program though with regular push ups because push ups are HARD!