Today:

- gym

- thesis  (only 3 pages)

- Skype

- attempting to win a Words with Friends game (still working on it)

Yup, lofty goals.  And guess what? I tackled them!  Yes, some were more successful than others, but at least I got to the significant things.   Although thesis needs to be a lot more.

And even snagged a 3 hour nap in there right after breakfast.  I honestly tried to get started on my thesis but my eyes were closing and I knew better than to try to work on a page or two before sleeping.  In the past I’ve done that and ended up deleting the page anyway, so it’s best to just go for the sleep and get back to it later.

I definitely feel energized and accomplished today.  But today has to happen again tomorrow as thesis chapters are due at the end of the week and I’m behind by at least 10-15 pages for both chapters combined (I have pages here and there for both chapters), it’s going to be a long next few days.

Also red velvet froyo for the win.  Delicious!

Tomorrow — repeat of today sans frozen yogurt, an additional half mile running, and main goal of thesis writing.  Maybe even 5:30 A.M. at the gym if I go to bed early enough.

After yesterday I am quickly realizing that I rely to much on to do lists and time schedules.  So I guess it’s a good thing part of this week’s SOA is just to have goals instead of a list of things to do!

Tuesday Goals:

- I will run 1 mile (whether outside in the morning, with the dog, or at the gym).

- I will enjoy hanging out with my friend regardless of food consumed.

- I will not focus on the extremely lengthy list of things to get done within the next week.

- I will not think twice about how I could be spending my time elsewhere instead of with my friend.

- I will not, under any circumstances, criticize myself for the time and effort I put in working out today.

How’d I do?

- RWRunStreak Day 37 (Day 9) — 1.01 miles @ 13:30 minutes

- Stationary bike level 3 rolling hills course — 7.13 miles @ 30 minutes

- Rowing, resistance level 3 — 0.55 miles @ 5 minutes

- Treadmill to stretch legs — 0.51 miles @ 6 minutes

- Had a blast hanging with my friend, walked 4 miles around the mall, consumed only a froyo (which was delicious!), and was almost entirely focused on just hanging out and having fun.  Conversation did focus on working out some, but when you have personal trainers as friends and both of ya’ll are losing weight, well, it’s bound to happen.

True recap:

I left my house at 9, got back at 1 after hanging with a friend, turned right back around at 2 to go volunteer at Temple, and then at 5 went to the gym straight from Temple.  Got home at 7.  While I was at the gym I felt my eyes closing because of how tired I was.  It’s not the “I didn’t sleep, I’m stressed out” type of tired.  It’s more along the lines of how productive I’ve been just getting out and being active type of tired.  It’s the tired that I looked forward to feeling at the end of a long work week — because I would know how productive I had been and how much I had accomplished.  I miss that tired.  And I’m glad it’s returning because it makes me feel better.

There is a lot of in-transition things going on with me right now that I wouldn’t have imagined would all happen at once, but that seems to be the case.  A lot of it is social and fitness related, I’m glad I am able to hang out with this new friend (met through a 10K back in February but he hasn’t been available until now really to hang) and it looks like I’ll be able to cross “learn tennis” off of my lengthy long-term goals.  He’s looking for a tennis partner and I’ve wanted to learn, so why not?  

So it’s definitely a change of scenery around here, and it’s for the better. Get me out and about more instead of in front of the computer all day.

Oh!  And me and my stick and foam roller are going to be close friends tonight…my legs are SORE!

Monday’s goals:

- I will go to the gym and run 1-2 miles at race pace.

- I will not sleep in past 9.

- I will not raid the fridge between breakfast and lunch.

- I will get all my SOA posts for the day queued up instead of posting directly.

How’d I do?

- RWRunStreak Day 36 (Day 8) — 1.56 miles @ 20:01 minutes (12:49 pace ya’ll!)

- Stationary bike, level 3 fat burner course — 7.34 miles @ 30 minutes

- Woke up at 8 and got out of bed by 8:30

- Ate breakfast at 9, lunch at 2, and no snacks whatsoever.

- First SOA post was queued up last night, got the recipe post queued up this morning before doing errands.

Magically today got entirely way too busy for me with some unexpected news (totally great, temporary, but still great!) and required a multitude of errands and things requiring me to leave the confines of the internet for the majority of the day.  Same goes for tomorrow and probably the majority of the week.  

I also pushed myself today while running and it felt great.  I signed up for a free 5K for next Saturday and the most I’ve run distance in awhile is close to 2 miles.  I’m not overly concerned about finishing (it’s only 3.1 miles…oh I’ve seriously become THAT person), but I would like to be able to knock a few minutes off of my 5K race pace if at all possible.  Hence today’s main goal while running was at race pace speed — 12:30-12:45 minute/miles.  I really knocked it out as the treadmill said 0.51 miles at 6:02 minutes, but the minute I slowed down right after it was just hard to pick back up the speed again.  Although I have to say my 5:1 run/walk has really been helping me push through because it’s the fastest I’ve gone in awhile.  My pace might not be speeding up by much, but I’m doing a lot more steady running than I am running fast until I’m out of breath and then walking.  It makes for my run to be a bit more uplifting by seeing how much further I can push a steady run before telling myself to back off.

How’d ya’ll do today?

Umm Week 7?  Really?  Seriously?  Only one week left of 10K training!  I feel confident that this week will go a lot smoother than most weeks just because of rearranging my schedule to make everything fit.

First things first—Weigh-In.

SW: 255

LW: 237.6

CW: 238.6

Difference: +1.0

I knew this was going to happen, water weight and all.  But, after doing my measurements and all, I’m not certain that pound is completely water weight.  I think at least some of it is muscle.  I lost another inch in both my waist and hips, and an inch in both thighs.  Definitely pluses—almost 10 inches from the hip since starting this journey!  

Although I was disappointed, I knew this week’s weigh-in wasn’t going to be the greatest, and next week will also linger, but I know that it’s not anything I’m doing, it’s just my body being a girl.

So did I accomplish the goals I set forth yesterday, today? Yes and no.  I didn’t get up for my 3.1 miles this morning.  I went to sleep early but didn’t get a complete night’s sleep and kept getting up in the middle of the night (seriously, my body needs to LET ME SLEEP!), but I did manage 3.1 miles this afternoon after work—I wasn’t going to let the 75 degree weather deter me from getting in the mileage.  And major plus was my time :)

Finished my ab workout before work instead of after because of the flipflop with running schedule. And am currently treating my precious feet to a foot massage in the foot spa that I have.  The last goal will occur in about an hour when I go over to my friend’s place to order Chinese food—again, sensibly.

All in all, today was a major win in my book.  Even though I didn’t lose the weight, for the first time in awhile I wasn’t obsessing over putting on a pound.  Instead, I let the day take me where it wanted to, and was able to get a solid 3.1 miles in on my schedule.

How’s everyone else’s Tuesday been?