June 2012
74 posts
eggs
i cannot express how much i love eggs - scrambled, over easy, sunny side up, in an omelette, runny yolks and all….i just love eggs. yeah i just had some eggs for dinner :) mmm…eggs…..
oh class, class was good i think T was trying to kill me with the amount of tension he put on my bike though - i mean i did it and all, but i thought we were stopping at one point and stopped...
2nd to last class
so tonight is the 2nd to last peak performance class on thursday nights with dave :( i’m saddened by this, but alas time to move on. the class is being cancelled and will most likely come back in the fall - until then he is going to do a more strength focused class. i’m on the fence as if i should do that class - i do like lifting heavy things - or do the tuesday peak performance...
May 2012
77 posts
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all the work is finally paying off
ok that isn’t really true all the work has been paying off for a while - but today when i was doing my speed work out on the treadmill - yes i do them on the treadmill, i find when i go to a track i start out too fast and then die super fast. so on a treadmill i can find and keep a good pace for the distance i am aiming for. today i ran the fastest i have EVER run on a treadmill.
the...
all the foods
so for the past week or so i have been making a concerted effort to eat more per T’s prodding…apparently i wasn’t eating enough or he thought i wasn’t - i don’t know really which it was, but i have been eating like a champ for the last two weeks!
the rough breakdown goes something like this
meal 1 - 3 eggs and spinach
meal 2 - paleo protein pancakes with almond...
“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better...”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
the over thinking
i’ve been thinking about swimming a lot recently and how it is the one thing that i truly feel comfortable doing - i feel comfortable in the water - it feels like home. T and i were once talking about training and i was saying how swimming is the one and only thing i can do where i don’t think and can completely shut my mind off and just swim. i hardly think about my stroke anymore...
“But it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
– Alice in Wonderland (via theangrytherapist)
prep is done
I am getting so much better at this whole food prep thing. i promised T that i would set aside one day for rest and food prep. since i was at a festival on my rest day and then yesterday i was just lazy for most of the day - i used today my normal rest/prep day as my food prep for the week day. I have made lunch for the next four days, have an easy dinner sitting waiting for me, cooked up some...
yes is a great thing
i had fun last night and laughed so hard! i am so happy that i said yes and got in my car and drove to the pub to see my friends. there were people there that i hadn’t seen in a really long time - like possibly close to a year. two of my friends said they didn’t even recognize me i had changed so much. i didn’t realize it had been so long since i had seen these people - what...
working on saying yes
so in my not single days i would say no to A LOT of invitations from friends that i wanted to say yes to, but the guy would never want to go anywhere and i got tired of the same questions “where is…?” so today when my friend says a few of us are going out for a drink and some food you should stop by, i hesitated for a moment and then said yes…i mean why not - what else am i...
and then there were two
seriously there were two of us again in my peak performance class, honestly it is nice for me and the other person, but i know it bums out the trainers a bit when no one shows up for class since the number of people and what they get paid goes hand in hand. they are however both awesome and give us a kick ass workout and like to do new things when it is a smaller class. tonight was apparently...
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
– Max De Pree (via tylerknott)
i totally just realized
that this morning after spin class my shirt was completely soaked and i had a sweatshirt with me so after i changed my shoes and while i was talking to two of my friends - i just took my shirt off (don’t worry had a sports bra on) while standing in the middle of the spin room and put my sweatshirt on. umm - yeah, seriously two years ago - heck two months i go i would of never done that and...
wish i had short sleeves
cause i would totally participate in gun show thursday - they are starting to get nice - but alas i am in 3/4 sleeves and a jacket since i am FREEZING…yes, it’s been crappy all week. i had a track workout planned for last night, but it was rainy and windy and cold so i ran on the treadmill. i do love seattle for it’s outdoorsyness and when it is nice here it is so amazingly...
and then the thought ended
so i can’t to the 1/2 ironman that i was looking at…i knew there was something on that day and there is a friend is getting married and well that trumps signing up for a race. i also talked to a friend who said it was a really small race and not really that well supported - she did the full ironman distance last year and said for about 45minutes she didn’t see another person at...
“Hope is holding on
to yourself when there’s nothing
left to hold onto.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Well that was nice
Before leaving work today an IM popped up from one of the trainers at my gym, i had taken a few sessions with him over a year ago and still talk to him and see him frequently around the gym. He just wanted to tell me to keep up the good work and that I was kicking ass. It was so awesome and nice and it totally made my day!
and then she had a thought
so i’m doing all this training and am doing really well with it and it is all for an olympic distance tri in July - but what, what after that…i mean i don’t want to just stop training, cause i really enjoy it and where i am at now i could pretty easily finish and do pretty well on the olympic - i mean i could just keep training and do a 70.3 in September…oh crap i just put...
rest and a reminder
it’s monday and therefore rest day - rest days kinda kill me mentally - it is hard for me to not do something, not go for a run or swim or bike (well it’s raining still so it’s not hard today to not bike). after my awesome 10k yesterday, i ended up not biking - which i kinda feel like i should of at the very least put my bike on the trainer and pedaled away while watching the...
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redemption
so i don’t know if you all remember how last weekend was just shitty, i ditched out on my brick workout after having the worst bike ride EVER and then had another shitty bike that next day and only did 16miles instead of the 20-25 i had planned on. i took monday off as a rest day, then had a good conversation with T on tuesday and this week i have been working on getting into a better...
awesomeness
went out for a bike with a friend - was a little nervous due to how last weekend sucked so much with the biking for me. today was a total 180 from last weekend and i couldn’t be happier. it was a great day to ride in the mid-60s and sunny, i was a little chilly when we started, but once i warmed up all was good. we decided 40miles was on the plan - T had me down for doing 30-50miles today...
summer of ironman
one of my friends is doing his first ironman today in TX - it has been a dream of his and he is currently living it out.
next month another friend is doing her first ironman in ID
and then in August i have a couple of friends doing Ironman Canada
it is the summer of ironman for a bunch of my friends. these people amaze me and inspire me on a daily basis - i am so proud and amazed by them and i...
to run or not to run
usually i say just run - but ugh i am just not feeling it…i’m tired, my body is sore. tomorrow i have a 40ish mile bike ride and then sunday is 6miles (maybe another one or two if i feel like it after the 6) and then 10-20mile bike a little later in the day. i kinda just want to chill and get some groceries and read a book…my workout plan for the week has me running today, but i...
“Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no...”
– Louise Erdrich (via kari-shma)
I hope to meet that person someday, who i am inevitably supposed to be with.
hi new friends
i’ve gotten a fair amount of new followers recently - not really sure where you all came from, but hello and welcome to my little corner of the internet.
it was so nice to be in the pool today - my body felt so much better and i feel like i got some of the aches worked out. i did cut my workout a tiny bit short was supposed to do 5x100 and repeat 3x, but i only did it 2x :/ so 2000yards as...
two a day #3
it’s thursday and i have successfully made it through the last three days and two-a-days. today was a killer spin class followed by the peak performance class in which there were only two of us and two trainers - yeah there was some serious one on one ass kicking time! it was awesome though, but pushing a tire and then getting on a spin bike and then pushing a tire and then back on the...
muffins are made
and now to sleep :) see y’all tomorrow
who needs a microwave!
ok it would be handy - but i just warmed up some quinoa with almond milk and some honey and almond butter and threw in a cut up banana for dinner…i just had and have no ambition to cook today and figured i couldn’t go too wrong with the quinoa i had left over in the fridge. i also sprinkled a tiny bit of cacao powder into it and it tastes super yummy!!
i have to bake some muffins...
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“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut...”
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