Monday, monday. la laa la laa laa laaaa

Not sure if you all know that song but it sure is something you can hum along too…since I don’t know any words but Monday and La.  🙂

Janathon…Janathon…Janathon.  I didn’t get my Saturday post in within 24 hours, but that’s because I didn’t do any “exercise“.  Did a bunch of walking around the house and ran some errands – but nothing you would define as “exercise” for the day.  Bleah.

Sunday, January 13th: Ran 5.5 treadmill miles.

Push up challenge:  10 FU’s and a bunch of planks.

Who out there as an iFit enabled piece of exercise equipment?  Well ever since iFit changed their website my treadmill has not communicated at all with my iFit website.  So annoying when you pay for a service that no longer works.  I sent an email with my issues a bit ago and am waiting for the response.  I have another issue to write in about – “Unable to download workout – Error” that I got on my machine this weekend.  ARGH!

Monday, January 14th: A.M. free weights for the arms.

Push up challenge: 10 FU’s and a few chaturanga’s too.

I’m going to take a run/walk up to the Starbucks at lunch time to get 2 miles in and hitting up Vinyasa Flow this evening.

This weekend HunBun and I are headed to Disneyland so I can run the 5K and Half-Marathon.  We’re hoping the weather stays clear so the Grapevine (I5 route’s through the mountains) is easy to drive.  Last weekend they closed it down for 20 hours…and people were stuck!  No thanks!

Enjoy your Monday!

See ya later.

Cathy

 

Janathon Day 10 update…and Day 11 start

What up Janathoners!  So long as you’re getting active for this first month in 2013…that’s the best thing.  🙂

Thursday, January 10th: 5-6pm Muscle & Flow

Push Up Challenge:  9 FU style!

Friday, January 11th: …nothing yet…

Push Up Challenge: 10 FU style and 20 Knees!

I’m making sure to do a little something every day.  This weekend I’m going to mentally prepare for those 2 little races noted on the right side of this post.  You see those?  Yeah, the NeverLand 5K and Tinkerbell Half are next weekend!  I will freely admit that I have not maintained my training plan.  Did not complete near the number of distance miles that I should have.  I have maintained levels of fitness by yoga’ing and circuit training – so I am hopeful that I will be carried by that and the excitement of running with thousands of others.  I will prepare myself not to be disappointed with my time…but plan on pushing myself to accomplish my goals.  No giving in here!

I enjoyed the green smoothie starter for every meal.  Certainly kept me filled up and hydrated at the same time.  I’ve been using water in the smoothies to keep them light.  Although yesterday I made a batch of date balls…must have had 25 finished balls….this morning I only had 2 balls left.  Whoops!  Guess they are a little too tasty.  🙂

See ya later

Cathy

 

Janathon Day 9…starting off on a new foot for Day 10

Yesterday I was lame on the exercise and eating front.  Boo!  😦

 Wednesday, January 9th: Firm Your Butt workout.

Push up challenge: 8 FU Push ups.  I totally forgot to do the knee ones, since I procrastinated on those and said I was doing them “later”.  Boo, #2!

I went into the office yesterday because I needed to switch out my work Blackberry.  Yes, I am still on a Blackberry for work.  It works for me – in fact works very well – when I don’t have one that sucks battery juice like it’s the sweet sweet nectar of the gods.  Well the first replacement BB could not be registered…the second replacement BB was an extremely old model that sucked battery juice like it was that sort of sweet & sour drink that you want to chug but can’t.  So yesterday’s visit to the office was to work with the super awesome ladies who always get it right.  Now I’m just waiting for the Helpdesk to call me back to set up my corporate email account so I can be productive when I’m away from my desk.

All that busyness went on past the time I wanted to leave – so I missed my Vinyasa Flex class.  Boo, #3!

I need to just face the simple fact that I am a morning exerciser.

Yesterday morning, or Janathon Day 9 – I did this Firm Your Butt workout from Self magazine.  I would love to have this workout give me this butt.  Seriously.

**This is also why I’m starting off the day with a green smoothie – because no matter how much you exercise it is really what you eat that matters.  Anyhoo…

So yesterday morning I grabbed my exercise ball and told my butt to get lost.  Let me tell you something, it is not easy to get your balance on those exercise balls.

The first exercise was not too difficult because you had really 3 touchpoints with the ground, your knee, your foot and the ball you were leaning on.  But the rest all have just 2 touchpoints – which means you have got to go slow and focus.  Your core is essential to maintaining your balance on these balls.  The “easiest” one?  Booty pop for sure.  I can booty pop my brains out – but good gravy the others required much more concentration.

Janathon Day 10 started off with 9 FU push ups.  I’m planning on going to my Muscle & Flow class tonight – then going to do the Tone Your Gut workout from the same Self magazine if you’ve got the physical copy – or just clickety-click on that link up there for free.

Breakfast started with a green smoothie…and a hot cup of cinnamon & honey.

I’ve been reading about the benefits of cinnamon & honey so started to drink a “hot toddy” with those two delights in the morning.  Looks like you’re drinking reddish brown water – but tastes pretty nice.

Now I’m ready to start the day.  Only 3 conference calls on the docket today – but I’ve got a lot of thinking and writing to do so I can finish up my strategy document.  I expect some staring into space will occur.

See ya later

Cathy

So unmotivated…..UGH!

I’m hoping that as I do my Janathon Day 7 update it will motivate me to do my exercise for Janathon Day 8.  Still hoping……

Monday, January 7th: 5-6pm Vinyasa Flow class at XploreYoga

Push Up Challenge:  7 FU’s (full-on style, just so you know I’m not swearing at you acronym style) and 20 Knees.  My yoga instructor may have chaturanga’d my arms to fatigue in class because it took me a while to get my 7 FU’s in and then to maintain my baseline of 20 Knees.  Eeesh.

I watched the Biggest Loser Sunday night and Monday night.  While I love Jillian Michaels…she sure turned on the beast factor this season.  I mean I get the need to motivate people – but it became apparent that these folks were not responding to her “in your face/drill sergeant” style of motivation.  On Monday when they had their little pow-wow and she agreed to modify her approach to better suit the needs of her team I was quite surprised.  Although it didn’t help as she is now down to 2 in just 2 shows.  Super Yikes!

Sooooo… I haven’t gotten motivated yet for more exercise on Janathon Day 8.  The only thing I have done is a ton of squats while on a conference call (otherwise I’d feel like a total slug) and 8 FU pushups at around 430pm.

I really need to NOT hit the snooze bar in the morning and just get my butt into that freezing cold garage and run or circuit my way to a warm sweaty state.  I’m so lame.

Tomorrow…Day 9 I predict will be much more sweaty than Day 8.  Count on it!

See ya later

Cathy

Janathon – Day 6 (quick update)

Supposed to do 8…did 4.  BLEAH!

Sunday, January 6th: Treadmill 4 miles (SSSSLLLLLLOOOOOWWWW) and my PU (push up) challenge.  I did 7 FU (full on) PU’s and 20 knee PU’s!

Whoopie!  I did 2 more FU PU’s  than I completed Saturday so I am super jazzed about that.

I keep my arms close to the side of my body – similar to a yoga chaturanga (I posted a Lululemon link for reference).  I feel more confident in my form when I keep my arms close, it allows me to move slowly through the move and not just collapse down and then wobble my way back up.

How to Chaturanga

I do my FU push ups first because that allows me to go until fatigue – or my form gets all janky.  Plus this is what I want to improve so I’d rather have my full arm strength (what little I have) available to do these.

Once my FU form is lost I transition to my knees to do as many knee style push ups as I can (trying to maintain at least 20 since that was my baseline).

Once I get super strong…maybe I’ll do these…  Heck Yeah!

See ya later…with my Janathon Day 7 update.

Cathy

 

Oh yeah…it’s Freedom Friday!!!

Another chilly start to a Bay Area morning.  Brrrr.  38° at 8:10am?  Bleah!

So a Janathon update is in order!  If you don’t know what Janathon is, click on that handy hyperlink up there and check it out.  It’s a super fun way to keep you moving and help with the accountability part (yeah the sucky part).    What you do is you blog (or FB post or Tweet) within 24 hours of completing your daily exercise.  So like I said yesterday I kinda bombed on the 24 hour update on January 1st…but then caught right back up with yesterday’s update.  So I’m here again to be accountable for not sucking.  😀

Last night I headed to XploreYoga for my normal 5-6pm Muscle & Flow class…unfortunately my instructor was out sick so I did another 5-6pm Vinyasa Flex with Elise.  I love the flex class but was hoping for some core and super sweating.  So Elise nicely added in some power yoga sequences to her normal flow.  I’m getting much more confident in my Wheel poses – not as worried I’m going to snap my neck because of my weak arms.  So bonus for me.  😀

Then this morning I dragged myself out of my warm bed…for which I shall thank my overheating body.  I don’t know what’s the deal but I get so hot when I sleep so it’s either on with the covers or off with the covers.  Drives HunBun absolutely nuts.  So I was too hot to stay in bed – which means I got dressed in my warm work out clothes to go freeze in the garage.  At least freeze until I got all warmed up from jumping around.  I did my 30 minute circuit (12 cycles of 1 min on and 10 sec rest for 2 circuits.  I did a bunch of old school calisthenics for the first circuit and focused on arms and squats (lift that butt up!) in the second circuit.  I held my forearm plank for the very last minute – WHOO WHEE!  That was a nice finish!

So Janathon report – Complete!

Thursday, January 3: 1 hour Vinyasa Flex class with Elise

Friday, January 4: 30 minute circuit in the garage!

For breakfast I ate some gluten free overnight oats I made up yesterday.  Super simple: 1/4 cup Oikos greek yogurt, 1/4 cup GF steel cut oats, chopped up apple, chopped up pecans and some pumpkin pie spice.  Stir it up and put in the fridge until you’re ready to eat.  I put it in canning jars with the screw lid to make it easy.   I prefer the GF steel cut oats – gives it more chew.

So that’s it for my Friday morning.  I must say I’m off to a great start!

See ya later!

Cathy

 

Life 10. Blog 0.

A knockout can be characterized by temporary unconsciousness. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Yes.  Life won…even with bonus rounds, overtime and extra innings.   I can’t believe, well actually I can believe, that my last post was waaaaaaaay back on Friday the 16th of November.  She-oot!  That was a long time ago.  And no, I was not unconscious as the free image next to this introductory paragraph indicate.  Rather I was caught up in the rush of a 3 day work week before the Thanksgiving holiday followed by a planned 5 day stay-cation.  Of course in those 3 days before the holiday a whole bunch of work stuff had to get taken care of – both anticipated and unanticipated.  Which resulted in no yoga attendance for the last week and a half.  😦  Boot!  In addition to no bloggedy blog posting.  Double Boot! 😦  😦   It’s not like I didn’t want to (yoga or blog) – but after spending all day in front of a computer for long work hours I took great pleasure in turning off both computers (the work one and the home one) after I stopped working.  Plus the boys were out of school for the holiday week and I wanted to spend some time with them before I said “you can stay up if you want but I’m going to bed” everynight at 9pm.  Super killjoy I know.  10yo usually responded by going to bed too…while 12yo put himself to bed around 930-10pm.  He doesn’t stay up too late – lucky for me.

Circuit Training Mix Master Style

I know my last post said something about blogging about the circuit workouts that I’ve been doing.  Hope you weren’t holding your breath or anything – otherwise I’d be feeling pretty terribly about myself right about now.  I’ll try to whip up a graphic with the circuits I’ve been doing because I’d like to repeat a couple of them myself.  I make it super easy for me to remember and also completely different every time so I don’t get bored AND my muscles pay attention.  🙂

A couple essentials.

• An interval timer.  I use a free one on my iPad that lets me set up whatever amounts of time I want for Warm Ups, High/Low Interval Cycles, Repeats, Number of Cycles, Rest Times (between cycles) and Cool Downs.

• Dumb bells in a range of weights.  I have a set of 3lb’ers, 5lb’ers and 15lb’ers.  If I want to bust it all Mr. America style I can always use HunBuns 25lb’ers (Uh, never).
• Kettle bells.  I have a 5lb one and a 10lb one I got in a Jillian Michaels workout set I bought a while back.
• A towel.  I work out in the garage so I like to put a towel down on the rubber mat for me to lie on or put my hands/elbows on when I do planks.  Otherwise I’d have to sweep every morning – bleah!
• A bench.  I do bent over tricep rows on the wooden bench we have in the garage so that we can sit down while putting on our shoes.
• A weight bench.  I do chest presses lying on HunBun’s weight bench.
• A step.  I use the steps that go from the garage to the laundry room to do toe taps or “box jumps” (or rather “step jumps” HA! )
• A big space.  I move around a lot so I make sure there’s nothing I can fall over or step on as I “plyo” my way to healthy living.  🙂
• Randoms: Jump rope and stretchy bands (I can’t remember what their real name is, but it’s those rubber tubes that sometimes come with handles on the end that you can stand on or tie to door knobs to increase resistance)

So once you’ve got your slick little home gym set up you can start making up a circuit for the morning/afternoon/night or whenever you feel like getting a little (a lot) sweaty.

I start with whatever warm up time I want – depending on how I feel.  That can be 1 minute of jumping jacks to 10 minutes on the treadmill or stationary bike.  You can do whatever you want to get your body warmed up.   Then I usually do 2 repeats of 12 (high/low) intervals with 1 minute (high) and 10 seconds (low) and a 30 second rest between repeats.  That’s a 29:30 circuit work out that I end with 1 minute of cool down.  You can change the time for any of these to suit your needs – be creative to keep your excitement up!

I do as many of the exercise as I can within the 1 minute high interval time frame and use the 10 seconds to grab dumb bells or position my towel on the ground or get whatever extra doo-dah or space I need.  I try to plan out what I want to work – legs, arms, core, a mix and then select exercises that work those areas.  So now you know where I spend my time, here’s what I use to fill it up with.  Use your DJ skills and mix-master your way to a totally unique circuit:

Pick whatever you want from:

• Jumping Jacks, High Knees, Butt Kicks, Toe Taps (on the step), Skaters, Box Jumps (on the step), Jump Squats
• Planks, Side Planks (each side gets 1 minute), Elbow Planks, Up/Down Planks, One-legged Plans (each side gets 1 minute), Side Planks with “Thread the Needle” or rib grab or whatever call it when you grab your side rib with the opposite hand (each side gets 1 minute).
• Dumb bells or Kettle Bells: Bicep curls (each side gets 1 minute), Deadlifts, Shoulder Raises, Chest Press, Hammer Curl to Shoulder Press, Shoulder Press, Single Arm Row (each side gets 1 minute), Bent Over Row, Weighted Squat, Weighted Lunges, Push Ups
• Squats, Lunges (each side gets 1 minute), Walking Lunges, Side Lunges, Jump Lunges, Single Leg Deadlifts, Mountain Climbers, Burpees, Plank Jacks
• Whatever exercise you see in a magazine, on a tv show, on a fitness video, or read on a blog.

And that’s how I keep it interesting and fit a really nice workout into a 30-50 minute window.   Hope that was worth the wait.  🙂

So how’d life get 10 and this little bloggedy blog get a big fat goose egg?  Well here’s a photo montage for the past 10 days (or why life scored a perfect 10).

Random Eats over the last 10 days…

Can you believe I didn’t take any photos of Thanksgiving dinner?  Super Fail.

Nitro Turkey 10K Thanksgiving Morning!

I did a 10K the morning of Thanksgiving up at Point Pinole near Richmond.  It was so cold I couldn’t feel my toes for the first mile or so…then my fingers felt numb I was freaking out.  I need to invest in some pocket warmers for next year.  Brazen Racing is awesome!  Check them out if you’re in the Bay Area!  Of course I had to eat my It’s It Cappucino ice cream sandwich – even after I told myself not to.  Oh well.  🙂    Maybe our energetic Scrabble rounds at Thanksgiving dinner wore off the calories in that tasty treat!

Quarry Turkey 10K the Saturday after Thanksgiving!

Early Saturday morning I was back in the cold for the Quarry Turkey 10K over in Quarry Lakes, Fremont CA.  I again wished I had some pocket warmers for my toes as those digits were like ice cubes when I started running.  I kept my pace up and didn’t stop running!  I was super stoked that I kept my legs moving even when my brain was trying to figure out ways to convince them to slow down or take a break.  I was greeted at the end with a high five from the dad pushing the running stoller (wha???) and with HunBun’s parents meeting me at the finish line.  Super awesome surprise!  So after another It’s It Cappucino ice cream sandwich (what can I do they’re there all the time) they drove me home where I took a hot shower….AAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhh!  🙂

After all that busy’ness, HunBun and I are taking the week off to putz around.

How we started the first 2 days of vacation…mmmmm!

Tomorrow some super storm is supposed to roll into or ONto the Bay Area so we’ll see what HunBun and I get done around the house.  I’ll have to photo the front landscaping project we accomplished yesterday and post it up.  I have to say it looks down right lovely.  🙂

See ya later!

Cathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starting Saturday off with some Brisky Behavior.

Brrr…it’s chilly beans out there!

That’s at 8am!

Let me finish off my Friday before I get to the brisky behavior.  Get it?  ‘Cause it’s brisk out there?  He he he

Every other Friday I pick up 10yo from school.  He lives with his dad and it’s about a 40-50 min drive over to where they live, depending on traffic.  Lucky for me that on Friday’s 10yo’s school gets out at 1:30pm so that means less traffic that I have to deal with.

I usually eat lunch before I drive out there, but since they just opened a new outlet mall halfway between our house and the school the news has been showing the ridiculousness that is people trying to get there to spend money!

Parking lot to get to the parking lot

So being the smarty that I am I figured I’d leave 40 minutes earlier than normal just in case…which meant I needed a to go lunch.

They make some fancy boxes now

 

Open sesame

I put together a whole wheat wrap with roast beef slices (the new healthy version from Oscar Mayer), hummus, arugula, goat cheese and olive tapenade (I love that stuff).  On the side I had baby carrots and a mix of gluten free crunchy stuff – Blue Diamond Almond crackers, GF pretzels and some cinnamon almonds.  Well the traffic didn’t even exist, so I got to 10yo’s school an hour earlier and sat in front of it like a creepy person eating my lunch.  I did bring my work computer so I got a bunch of stuff I needed to get done – done.  Hoorah for multi-tasking!

10yo and I picked up 12yo from school and we booked it home so I could finish up my work day.  Then while the 2 boys plyaed XBox, HunBun and I dropped my car off at the dealership for a 5K mile service appointment.  It gets so dark now!  It’s like we were on a date – but actually just driving home from Toyota.

I was lazy so for dinner I made everyone GF pancakes.  Wheee!  I used Pure Pantry’s all purpose GF flour and added some vanilla and cinnamon.  This mix makes really nice pancakes that hold their shape – although I am the worst flipper ever.  Kept slapping them against the side of the pan or on the pancake next to it.  Utter ridiculousness.

I like jelly on my cakes

After dinner I spent the rest of the night reading all my bloggedy blogs I subscribe to and cleaning up my email bins.  Since I can’t just sit there, I was also “watching” Tattoo Nightmare followed by InkMaster.  Those tattoo artists are SO TALENTED!!!!  Tattoo Nightmare is one I’d watch again.  They help people who have janky tattoos and turn them into beautiful new ink.  It was crazy how they made the old tattoo just disappear.  Check it out on your boob tube when you get the chance!

Saturday’s brisky behavior

So last night I tell HunBun, “hey lets walk to Starbucks tomorrow morning”.  Well he tells me that he was already going to wake up early and do that since he had more work to get done.  So I, being committed and all, said “oh, well maybe I’ll just run on up there and meet you”.  So that’s what I did.

Rise and Shine

I used my new Timex GPS watch and apparently need to go back and read the manual again.  I kept pressing all the buttons on the side and FINALLY got the GPS on along with the run feature so I could get a move on.  Then off I went….then back home I came after realizing I forgot to take my medicine (I have a hard time remembering I need to take on an empty stomach)…then off I went (take 2).

I should have taken a picture of my cold weather running outfit – fail.  I don’t have long tights, just mid-calf length.  I wore a pair of those with my long sleeve “thumb-hole” Lululemon jacket’y thing and my awesome new Champion beanie I got from Target.  I looked so cute – you’ll just have to take my word for it. 🙂  That hat was the best $10 I ever spent on running clothes.  Kept my ears nice and warm which helped control the speed my nose ran.  HA!

Even with the chilly air wooshing in & out I kept a nice pace of 8:45.  Sweet!  I could see HunBun sitting at a table drinking his Starbucks and pecking away on his laptop.  It was warm when I got in there so I got a cool drink to start.

Chilling with my lady friend

I just read that caption I wrote.  I meant the ‘Bucks mermaid, not the banana.

HunBun and I sat there for a while and then walked back home together.  Grabbed a tall Soy Misto for the road since I had cooled down quite a bit.  Thank goodness I did because it was hecka chilly outside!  Round trip its about 2.5 miles from home to the ‘Bucks.  Nice walk for him and nice run/walk for me (not the true application of Galloway‘s run/walk method 🙂  ).

To close out the morning Sweats I did a bunch of planking….

Not this kind

I started with some Chaturanga then a quick plank flow to engage my abs.

Click the link above to see in action

Here’s my quickie ab routine

Now I’m off to feed my belly as a girl can not live on a banana alone.  🙂

Engage in some “brisky” behavior yourself today!

See ya later

Cathy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday Morning Wake Up

I will say that when that alarm went off at 5am and it was hecka cold outside of the blanket I needed to take 4 or 5 deep breaths before I stepped out of bed.  But I got into the garage/gym at 5:09am and jumped right on the stationary bike for a quick 5 min warm up.

Why is that riding the stationary bike for 5 min seems like so much less effort and excitement than warming up for that same amount of time on the treadmill?  Could it be that in the 5 min I rode 2.15 miles but only burned 23 calories?!?  Probably.

After the 5 min warm up I did a circuit work out made up of a bunch of different circuits that I’ve been doing…with a few random things thrown in to mix it up.

I used: Fitness Magazine‘s Fierce & Fab in 14 days and pieces of  Tone It Up’s gym free circuits.

Use that 1 minute breather to get your dumbells in easy grabbing position.

I try to focus on form and balance first.  Once it starts feeling too easy I’ll add more reps or change the weight of the dumbell or kettlebell I am using.

After that sweat-fest, I came in to whip up some breakfast.  While my green smoothie (see recipe in yesterday’s post) was whirring away in the blender I made an egg-less protein pancake.  Or attempted to make it into a pancake may be a better way to say it. It was delicious, but in no way would you call it a pancake.  It was more like warmed banana flavored stuff you hoped didn’t fall off your fork.  🙂  I should have used coconut flour or GF flour instead of the ground flax – to offer some binding opportunity.  Oh well.  That’s the nice thing about food experimenting, most of the fails you can still eat.

To make the pancake I replaced my egg whites with 1/2 a cup of unsweetened applesauce, kept in the 1/2 a banana, protein powder, ground flax meal, chia seeds and cinnamon.

The pictures still make it worthwhile.  Drool away…

That’s 2 cups of spinach!

Warmed banana “stuff”

It is so chilly today but the sky is blue and clear.  So here’s to hoping for a warm up in a bit.  Come on Sun!  You can do it.  🙂

See ya later

Cathy

 

 

 

Weekend Wrap-up

Monday already???  October already????   Jeesh!  Time sure flies.

We had an extra little person this weekend.  Nephew came over so the boys played XBox all night Friday and all day Saturday until he got picked up.   They only took breaks for food and to handle their “business”.  Must be nice to be a kid.

Weekend Eats

Balls of Wonder!

Friday night we had Annie’s Gluten Free Mac & Cheese and hotdogs.  I should clarify that we does not include me.  I scored left over Cobb salad – Whee (said sarcastically)…I love love hotdogs with JUST MUSTARD.  Slurp!  The kids go ape over Mac & Cheese and HunBun gets to enjoy it too now that they have the GF version.  Saturday morning I made scrambled eggs, Open Nature Turkey Bacon and these Balls of Wonder – Trader Joe’s Danish Pancakes.  Simply warm up in microwave and sprinkle with powdered sugar.  Those kids ate these up likedy split.  I had a thin sliced wheat round with Trader’s Speculous Cookie Butter (Oh Man that stuff’s good), since I was going to do my circuit workout and didn’t want a pile of food jouncing around my belly.  I don’t know if any of you have tried this stuff but I highly recommend you get some.  At 90 calories a TBSP it’s actually got less calories than other nut butters…but I haven’t read the rest of the nutrition facts so am not sure how “good for you” this nut butter is.  I can imagine using this to make PB Balls at Christmas time…with the gingerbread taste it would be perfect.  Except HunBun couldn’t eat it because of the biscuit bits inside…I’ll have to come up with an alternative GF version for him.

Saturday Lunch was Turkey, Cheese and Spinach sandwiches or Cookie Butter & Jelly Sandwich (I take orders around here don’t you know), Ruffles Sour Cream & Cheddar chips and apple slices.  Nephew pulled out his spinach, 10yo didn’t eat his apples, 12yo ate it all.  I can’t even remember what I ate..boot. 😦

Saturday Dinner was Sausage & Peppers, Red Potatoes and Zuchinni rounds.  HunBun said “hotdogs again?”,  12yo said “no it’s sausage”  🙂  I had the veggies from the dish and spinach and goat cheese on top.

Sunday Breakfast was “help yourself” as I was in Campbell running with my MeetUp group.  Sunday Lunch was “what’s in the kitchen” as I have been procrastinating the grocery store visit.  Sunday Dinner was crockpot salsa chicken and rice – because I had to come up with something.  I had the chicken on spinach greens, that was tasty.  12yo tried goat cheese and LOVED it…so he put that on his corn tortillas.  Also ate a fruit salad, oranges were super sweet!

Weekend Sweats

I’m clean again…

So after my Trail Hog run my new shoes were like Cinderella…covered in dust with random grass pieces sticking out of the mesh.  So I took a brush and cleaned those kicks till they looked almost new.  I like to use these New Balance sneaks when I do the circuit workouts at home.  The Brooks almost have too much padding or weight that I feel like I lose my balance when I do certain circuit moves.  From this view it looks like I’m totally bow-legged…weird how the camera can put those optical illusions out.  Had my low rider socks on, you can barely see them peeking over the edge of the shoe.  I don’t get how people can wear sneakers with no socks, ick!   I did a lot of body-weight moves on my Saturday workout…felt it in my thighs and calves – BURN!

I wish I had one of those Body Bugs to measure my calorie usage during circuit training – now it looks like I didn’t use any calories when I enter it onto MyFitnessPal.  Fail.  I’m working on those pudgy spots – not to lose weight but more to tighten and tone.  I can feel those ab muscles when I poke my fingers into my tummy…I’d rather see them then have to go on an expedition to find them though.  Am I preaching to the choir or what?!?

Sunday morning I met up with my MeetUp group, Go Far Run over in Campbell for a 6 miler.  Met a new grouper and ran with her as it was her first time in the “real world” and not on a treadmill.  Didn’t meet my pace goals but she really appreciated me sticking with her and pushing her to run a little further.  The one thing about running at Campbell is that you need to decide how far you’re going to run when you start because it’s a “there & back” track – meaning you go half the distance you want to finish at then turn around.  So if you start off wanting to do 6 miles it’s too late to do less after you’ve ran to the 3 mile turn around point.  You’re doing 6 miles no matter what.  🙂

To finish out the weekend I worked in the yard with HunBun then lounged around to decompress before the work week started up again.

See ya later!

Cathy