March 2012
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so much rain
it is seriously down pouring right now and i am pondering skipping the brick outside today - in favor of spin class followed by treadmill run. now i am not usually one to run inside when it rains - i mean i live in the pacific northwest after all - it gets wet here, we tend to get some rain - but this is a down pour and we usually get like misty drizzly rain, that i would be totally cool...
morning sunshine
well actually it is still dark here in seattle :/ i totally didn’t set my alarm last night like i thought i did, but i apparently don’t sleep past 6am anymore so there’s that….
today i was going to run, but now that i am awake i think a rest day is in order. my right calf was cramping last night and i have a weird pain in my left foot - i think taking a day off will be...
Back to normal
Went to apple store got new phone all is right with the world - now to find something to eat before peak performance tonight since I ran out of work and left my snack there :(
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”
– David Viscott (via kari-shma)
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March Madness: Day 29 (shoulder still hurts)
it’s just annoying and frustrating and i stepped on the scale today and was a bit alarmed that it was down another 2lbs - i’m all for weight loss, but it needs to be healthy - i don’t think i am eating enough right now and need to remedy that.
other than that i just keep doing my thing with the spinning and the running and the lifting and it makes me happy. it’s weird i...
everything hurts
seriously like everything hurts right now! my ass and hamstrings from all the deadlifts and my sides like by my ribs and my pecs and shoulders and back from all the push-ups and then my shoulder cause well it’s my shoulder and it hurts…oh yeah and my quads they hurt too….so much with the hurt!
why oh why did i think doing a speed workout on the treadmill this morning was a...
Oh man...
I totally just f’d up my phone! Suppose I will be going to the AT&T store tomorrow and hoping they just give me a new one - lets all keep out fingers crossed
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March Madness: Day 27 (stupid shoulder)
i currently am icing and waiting for my dixie cups to freeze so that i can ice massage it. other than the shoulder thing i had an awesome workout this morning - after spin class with T i then got to get my ass kicked by T - i brought him a muffin, but that only seems to make him work me harder :/ nah, i’m kidding i love the ass kicking so very much!
the whole 1% down thing has made me so...
what up 1% down
and another reason why the scale is stupid.
we did body fat % today and i am down one whole % from two weeks ago. apparently that means i am down 2lbs of fat and up 1lb of muscle! woot! i am super f’n stoked about this! it is so awesome to be able to see the progression happening. now if my shoulder would stop hurting and just get better already that would be nice - i...
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March Madness: Day 26 (hey muffin, muffin)
due to the complete lack of sleep i came home early from work and have been a super lazy ass all day - aside from doing some work emails all i have managed to do is cook some eggs and then make some muffins and the muffins were tiring - whew. i decided to split the batter and make the usual boring blueberry muffins as they have become a staple and then i decided to make apple cinnamon and damn...
about an hour sleep
seriously! i am so tired, but am so awake all at the same time - i think my mind has stopped fully functioning. i don’t want to sleep now, since i have to be up at 5:30am for a pretty solid 2hr ass kicking at the gym and if i sleep now it will mess up my sleep tonight. i got down to Davis, CA and went straight to the mondavi center for the show then ended up at the irish pub for that...
And this is the unhealthy part
I may of gotten my workout in this morning - but I am now sitting at an Irish up in David, CA all by my lonesome with a book and I may or may not be drinking a Guinness and just ordered a grilled cheese sandwich ;) everywhere else liked weird and this seemed to work out ok. Oh yeah and everyone is college age or in their 50s in this town - I feel old and young all at the same time. I so wish I was...
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an...”
– (via turbogirl)
So bored
You guys I got through airport security in like 2 minutes and now my flight is delayed - I am so bored right now! I really wish I didn’t have to go down to CA to see a show today. It is actually a beautiful day here in SEA and it’s apparently raining in sacramento :(
I’m not sure why I even bother painting my nails sometimes - did it last night and they are already all chipped...
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jalapeno and eyes don't mix
so right before typing this i rubbed my eye with my finger and i just cut up some jalapenos - so ouch, very, very ouch!!
so i am a cooking godess today. i made some zucchini with some super tiny diced up jalapenos and a tiny bit of olive oil and cilantro. then i cook up some sole in the same pan served on top of a bit of quinoa and had a side salad of baby greens and baby spinach with avocado...
riding and lifting
so i had this grand plan that i would go for a ride and then lift weights. i did go for a ride about an hour where the end was all up hill for like 25 blocks - it was cold but sunny and i am happy and feel good that we rode. it wasn’t my hardest workout but they can’t all kick my ass completely to exhaustion - i get that 2-3x a week as it is i think some do actually need to be...
well that's annoying...
it’s 6am and i was supposed to go on a ride with my friend @ 7am this morning nothing huge just an hour long ride - then i was going to go the gym and lift weights. i woke up before my alarm and leaned over to turn it off before it went off and hey look two texts from my friend that say she is not getting up to ride with me. now she did pick the 7am time - she said she could do this...
can't swim so...
i ran!!!
i figured that since trainer said i am not allowed to swim for a bit until the shoulder feels better and since it is finally FINALLY!!!! nice and sunny and warm-ish out today i would run and run i did. the dog is now exhausted ;) we did 4 miles and there were some serious stairs at the end of it and the pup was dragging a bit - i felt bad for him, but he made it and is now sleeping :)
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and...”
– Jack Kerouac (via kari-shma)
shoulder, shoulder...
so my left shoulder is a bit messed up and trainer has said to take a break from the swimming :( i really, really wanted to go this morning, but i have been listening to him on everything else and it is working so i am listening to him about my shoulder too. he was very unhappy that it was bothering me - it just makes my arm feel all weak right now and actually, perhaps ironically, felt better...
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March Madness: Day 22 (keeping it real)
woo! it has been a week…started with an ass kicking on sunday night from trainer. monday no work out…tuesday morning, spin and followed by ass kicking by trainer…wednesday 1hour in the pool…so far thursday spin and then tonight peak performance ass kicking. i am feeling good and my eating has been so on track it is crazy! i kept track of my food all last week and trainer...
a decision
so things have been a bit - well off in my life of late and i have decided to start a personal separate passworded blog to deal with that all. you are invited to read if you wish…it will be honest and not about fitness - oh sure it may creep in every now and then. i feel like i need to do this to help me get somethings out of my head as i have a problem with being in my head to much and...
Um - huh? wha? really!!?!?! →
yes i am still going away for a bit to sort some stuff out - but really read this and had to share it…can’t say i have ever had this experience happen to me…
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March Madness: Day 19 (m.i.a.)
so i may be M.I.A for a bit - got some shit to sort out in my life.
but have no fear food and exercise will be all ok - actually it is all helping me keep myself together and stuff like that - so that’s a good change - instead of wallowing and eating my feelings i am working out harder and sweating more and eating better :)
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
– Dalai Lama
“Don’t let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life...”
– Joy Page (via kari-shma)
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So hungry
Guy just called and said he has BBQ pulled pork - I love pork - but nothing about it sounds good right now - smoothie it is :)
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March Madness: Day 15 (halfway there)
well not really - i mean halfway to what…this is a rest of my life thing and the february challenge that so nicely lead into the march madness challenge is just a nice way to take 30 days to make a change in life and have it stick - they say it takes 20 days to make a habit so these 30 days help to cement it in!
anywho, just got back from spin and i think either it was raining over my head...
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paleo (almost) chocolate chip cookies
Here ya go Katy :)
3 cups almond flour
1tsp baking soda
1tsp sea salt
1tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup honey*
1/4 cup coconut crystals*
*you could also do a 1/2 cup honey or a 1/2 cup coconut crystals or 1/2 cup maple syrup
2 large eggs
1/2 cup either olive oil or coconut oil (melted)
1 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips or chunks (i used chunks)
so yeah you are supposed to do the...
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things i've learned
so i got really bummed about the whole body fat thing that happened on sunday (see this post for reference) and i have had a really hard time sleeping the last few nights so i’ve had a lot of tossing and turning and awake time to think about it.
here is what i’ve figured out. despite having a higher body fat than anticipated by either myself or my trainer - i can still run longer,...
bikes and bed
so i am looking at bikes and i went to a couple of bike shops around town today to see what they have. since i truly love my masi i searched on their site for dealers in the area for an aluminum frame as opposed to my heavy steel cx uno. now i don’t know how you all feel about your bikes shops in town, but we have, well we have a lot of them and some are just not the vibe i like. the type...
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March Madness: Day 13 (2hrs is a long time)
so got up at 5:30am - got to the gym by 5:50am - did my stretches as told by tommy to do before spin class - then spin class - it was so hard at like 75%-85% for most of the class i was beat afterwards - but no rest for me off to the weights i get to go after the spin class. i did the same workout that kicked my ass on sunday night and yeah it kicked my ass again, but i felt like i did some of it...
bike shopping
so i kinda really do love the bike i have right now - it is a masi cx uno, but it is a steel frame and damn that sucker is f’n heavy!! so i kinda really want another masi and the one i want is around $1200 - which for a bike is fine and all, but i need to sell my current bike in order to be able to afford a new bike…i am hoping i can get like $800 out of my old bike - looks like i...
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March Madness: Day 11 (ass has been sufficiently...
so you guys i don’t know how well i am going to walk tomorrow - my legs are already hurting and it has only been about two hours since the trainer date with tommy. it was pretty awesome though and i was sweating buckets which always feels great! we did a ton of stuff and tommy wrote it all down and i have to do it again on tuesday. the last thing we did was these short box jumps where you...
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March Madness: Day 10 (biking!!!!)
I got our for my first ride on a bike outside in a long time. after lavaman last year my hip flexor was so messed up from not having a proper (or efficient) pedal stroke that i had to get off my bike for the summer and work on strengthening my legs (and butt) and working on getting a more efficient pedal stroke that used the big strong let muscles and stopped using my hip flexor - it has taken...
Good luck to rach and robin and runlong :) have a good time and safe running!!!
oh the pool...
how i love the pool - i can just keep swimming and swimming…after yesterday the best thing was getting in the pool this morning and getting my body and muscles stretched out. i still feel stiff and a bit sore, but better than when i work up this morning :)
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March Madness: Day 8 (that's gonna hurt tomorrow)
oh damn today kicked my ass to new levels of kickedness (well, that’s a new word)…this morning 6am spin class and i so can’t remember what we did all i know is there was lots of sweat and it was hard!
then off to worky-work i went and actually got a lot done - got most of next season booked and done today and that is pretty awesome! of course i did have a tension headache by the...
