This one's for the Cookies!

So after feasting on sugar cookies from the neighbor for lunch, a little workout was in order.
40 minutes on the treadmill

• warm up
• arm weights while walking
• 20 intervals @ 4.5 jog (40sec) 3.5 walk (40 sec)
• cool down
• 2.5 miles
• 386 calories

Minimal workout

22 minutes on the treadmill - did arm weights while walking.

• 13 minute warm up
• 5 intervals @ 4.0 jog (40sec) 3.0 walk (40 sec)
• cool down
• 1.2 miles
• 173 calories

Jogging to CNN & thinking about cookies

Alyce, you'd be proud I'm watching a news channel besides FOX news.  lol. CNN seems pretty fair so I'll bounce back and forth for now.  

Can I just say how annoyed I am (not at the males this time) that I'm working out, eating healthy and I'm not seeing the weight loss like I thought.  I've actually gain a pound or two the past couple weeks.  Couldn't have anything to do with the cookies Bethany dropped off ;)  or the bounty of candies and cookies at work ;)  Speaking of which....  mom, where are grandma's date cookies? 
 
21 minutes on the treadmill

• warm up
• 10 intervals @ 4.5 jog (40sec) 3.5 walk (40 sec)
• cool down
• 1.31 miles
• 197 calories

Sans toddler

Haven't put in a workout since Wednesday.  Just when I think I'm motivated - toddlerdom happens and I'm exhausted by 8:00.  I'm going to take a survey at the Firecracker to see how many of the entrants are FT single parents.  It's going to get even trickier as my "helper" moves out.  No more 6am workouts at the Y to swim and bike.  I'm going to have to come up with another plan. I'll figure it out.  I'm sans Ceci this week until Christmas Day so no excuses!!!

Upped the run time, lowered the walk time.  I tried to do straight running and only made it a couple minutes.
45 minutes on the treadmill

• 13 minute warm up while I found something to watch on TV
• 20 intervals @ 4.5 jog (40sec) 3.5 walk (40 sec)
• cool down
• 2.8 miles
• 480 calories

Clementines and choices

I know, I know!  Third workout in two days.  Making up for lost time.  And I opted for a clementine last night, BTW.  Ceci and I go through at least a box of clementines a week.  We have really turned into healthy eaters.  I've even coordinated a Trader Joes run to Chicago with a co-workers wife.  I need access to more choices.  Plus, who can pass up a trip to Chicago?  Mom, if I don't get that bread maker for Chirstmas can you get me one for my birthday?  (Needed to get that random thought in there.)

13 minutes on the treadmill

• warm up
• 6 intervals @ 4.5 jog (30sec) 3.5 walk (45 sec)
• cool down
• 0.8 miles
• 116 calories

Enough calories for a blizzard

Check me out.... two workouts in one day.  ( I can take the next week off, right?)

23 minutes on the treadmill

• warm up
• 12 intervals @ 4.5 jog (30sec) 3.5 walk (45 sec)
• cool down
• 1.39 miles
• 207 calories

25 minute power walk with Christy at work this morning.  I think I burned enough calories today to offset a blizzard from DQ.  Be right back......

That workout Sunday never happened.  Never happened yesterday either.  And when I finallly got my fat ass on the treadmill this morning it was slow going.  But I did it.  I decrease my walk time (per my training schedule) to 45 seconds.  And although I walked and ran slower, I did go further.  (Is it further or farther?)  Mom got a kick out my Sunday blog, but then agian we share a brain, so she gets me.  Either that or she's my mom and she has to support me.

27 minutes on the treadmill

• warm up
• 17 intervals @ 4.3 jog (30sec) 3.5 walk (45 sec)
• cool down
• 1.7 miles
• 253 calories

 

WARNING

I'm having my period, so this blog entry may be hazardous to my health but who gives a shit?  Three of my dearest friends and my mom are the only ones reading this....  (Why is it I always grow balls when I'm hormonal?) No workout the past two days I blame my period.  Bloating, severe body aches.  It's like having the flu for five to seven days every four weeks.  I'm getting spayed.  I've been getting ready for my dysfunctional dinner party this morning.  I swear I'll get on the treadmill and do my time before getting in the shower.  Otherwise it's not happening again today.  Shit, I need to be ready in 45 minutes.  I can do it.  Skip the hair and make up. Working out today is a must. BTW - men are irritating.  Yes, the entire gender.  That statement should be great for my dating life.  I should make a link from my match profile, what do you think?  

Let's hear some chatter

I just want to re-emphasize how much of a runner I am not.  I look back over the progress I've made and I know I can do this. I still need all the motivation I can get. I've gotten a couple comments this week from people on the weight loss.  Very motivating to have people notice.  One of the moms at daycare, the monica lewinsky look-alike and Ceci's future mother-in-law, went out of her way to say something to me and she only knows me as Ceci's mom.  :)

25 minutes on the treadmill

• warm up
• 16 intervals @ 3.7 walk (50 sec)/4.4 jog (30sec)
• cool down
• 1.636 miles
• 242 calories

More motivation:  avoid family history of type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol

 

Feeling good!

20 minutes on the treadmill

• warm up
• 12 intervals @ 3.5 walk (50 sec)/4.3 jog (30sec)
• 1 minute cool down
• 1.25 miles
• 210 calories

Christy and I also did a 25 minute power walk at work today.

Weighed in last week, lost another pound for the month of November!!

Not a good sign

It's not  a good sign that I haven't been able to motivate my ass to workout since swimming Wednesday.  Mom, you need to call me at 7:30 (after Ceci is fast asleep) and yell at me to get on the treadmill.  I need that trainer from Biggest Loser, the mean one.  What's her name?  Jillian!  That's what I need.

Decreased walk time on intervals from 55 to 50 seconds
15 minutes on the treadmill

• 3 minute warmup
• 7 intervals @ 3.5 walk (50 sec)/4.3 jog (30sec)
•  1 minute cool down
• 0.9 miles
• 132 calories

I need to plan ahead to make sure my training program is going to get me to tri ready by July.

 

 

 

If at first you don't succeed, swim, swim again.

Got my ass out of bed this morning and got to the Y for my weekly swim/bike workout. (Too many people on Wednesday mornings - must get up on Mondays and go when there are fewer people.)

Swam for 30 minutes
~16 laps freestyle
~6 laps with kick board
Biked for 18 minutes

Jogger and hunger don't mix

So I decided to go the cheap route and bought a jogging stroller off craigslist for $10. Break doesn't work but besides that it's in good shape. Ceci and I picked it up after work yesterday then went for a jog. Now, this child had already eaten a full dinner when we headed out but decides once we get on our second interval that she's hungry. "Eat, eat, eat." "You've got to be kidding me?" I said in response to her pleas. "Eat, eat!" When this kid gets something in her head, there's no turning back. So I started back and took a left onto a side street to get a couple more laps in. Ceci promptly reminded me which way to go by pointing towards our house and chanting, "Ceci home." So much for getting one over on the 21 month old.

4 intervals with warm up about 12 minutes :-e (had to look that up - it's disappointed)