I forgot to post week 11, oops?  I followed the schedule semi-loosely as I had some allergies and weather difficulties to overcome.  Despite not hitting all the goals/miles I had for the week, I did log 20 miles at the gym in the course of 5 days, which I am happy about (not including the runs with the dog). 

Week 12 —

Monday:  swim/cross-training

Tuesday: 3 miles elliptical

Wednesday: 5 miles (2 miles treadmill, 2 elliptical, 1 running with dog)

Thursday: 3 miles treadmill, 30 minutes bike

Friday: rest

Saturday: 12 miles (ugh the hottttttt weather)

Sunday: cross-training/rest

Life stuff:

- get car serviced (DONE)

- laundry (zero clean gym clothes as of Monday, so I better get to it!)

- dump info from Garmin and upload it to dailymile & Garmin (a month behind again, ugh)

- clean room

- organize yarn (wind yarn for projects, get projects set out for roadtrip, find all future patterns and figure out yarn yardage)

- job applications out the wazoo

- back up computer data

Monday: 3 miles ; wash car

Tuesday: rest

Wednesday: 4 miles

Thursday: 3 miles, 6 miles biking

Friday: Weights

Saturday: 10 miles OR 10K race pace

Sunday: rest

I moved my run Tuesday to Monday because we are suppose to be getting bad weather.  I ended up pushing it out on the treadmill this morning and will finish the remainder this afternoon with the furry creature.  In between I washed my car.  Now let me tell you.  One of those cool ‘I wonder how many calories I burn doing this activity’ is finally measurable by my Bodymedia Core device.  And let me tell you — I am SHOCKED!  Washed, waxed, vacuumed, and cleaned the inside of my car.

Now one of these days I’ll have to push myself through a 30 Day Shred workout to see how many calories I burn doing that.  One day…

Monday: REST

Tuesday: 3 easy miles; 6 bike miles; some time on the rowing machine

Wednesday: 4 miles

Thursday: 3 miles, elliptical, weights

Friday: weights

Saturday: 8 miles

Sunday: video workout/elliptical & bike

Other stuff:

Sometime this week my new meds will get here so I’ve been experimenting the last few days with dipping as close as I can to 1200 calories while still trying to satisfying my hunger.  Thus far I’ve only landed on nibbling on peanuts to get me through the day when I’m hungry (drinking water does nothing for me these days as I drink so much anyway).  Going to try to incorporate more cooking for lunch (protein and vegetables) instead of making a sandwich and grabbing some processed carbs. Hopefully that’ll work for the time being.

Got a few job applications due end of the week and beginning of next, so I’ll be cranking those out.  Also started two new knitting projects which are exciting (1 is long-term and I already have another semi-long term that needs to be finished plus two short-term ones).

Me time was a huge success!  Finally got around to seeing a Netflix movie I’ve had out for a few days — Glory Road.  I <3 sports history movies.  Although I have a feeling certain UK fans might not have liked how this movie ended….Finished Caught by Harlen Coban (huge fan of his work!)…and had a really relaxing morning.

I’ve been craving carbs allllll day, so I gave into temptation a bit with a bagel for breakfast.  I haven’t had a bagel for breakfast in over a year, and now I know why because I felt hungry just a few hours later.  I think yesterday I didn’t consume enough carbs for my workout so my body was craving them today.  Definitely a struggle still for fueling my body, I got the vitamins, protein, sodium, calcium, and calories in check but certainly not the carbs.

I finished 3 job applications today that needed to get done before the end of the week.  Not getting my hopes up on any of ‘em, although one I might have a chance since I’m a gender minority and all.  Because who knew that being female is considered a minority?

 P.M. Workout:

RWRunStreak Day 17 — 1.01 miles @ 13:01 minutes

Stationary Bike — 6.83 miles @ 30 minutes

Treadmill post-biking — 0.50 miles @ 6:50 minutes

Rowing Machine — 0.56 miles @ 5 minutes

Stair Climber — 0.50 miles @ 11 minutes

Certainly not my all time high or best workouts, but some days a workout is just a workout.  Today was one of those days.  

All in all, pretty accomplishing day for the most part.  I needed a day like today to realize just how much I can get done when I’m left to my own devices.  Makes me miss my freedom a whole lot.  But nothing I can do except keep on plucking away at job applications.

Hmm, so it’s the end of Week 10, and I feel like I did nothing towards this week’s challenge.  But I guess I did focus on me and my hobbies this week.

+ I tinkered around more with my piano, something I haven’t done in years.

+ I crotcheted about 5 inches of my friend’s afghan blanket that I’m working on

+ I got more quality sleep this week than in past weeks

+ I managed to run all but 1 mile of what I needed to this week for my final full week of half marathon training.

+ I spent time with members of my Temple congregation at services and today at the Temple’s annual festival, made me realize how great it is to have so many older people in the community that have seen me grow up over the years.

4 Things

Monday & Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday:

1. Did not indulge at the annual food festival at Temple. 1 hot dog, 3 latkes, and tons of water.  There were TONS of sweets but I touched none of it.

2. Slept 4 hours and am still functioning.  Darn daylight savings time.

3. Checking things off my lengthy to do list before I leave bright and early Thursday morning.

4. OMG I’M RUNNING IN NYC CENTRAL PARK ON FRIDAY WHEN I GET INTO NYC!  My friend told me he’s dragging me out because it’ll be “perfect weather“ (I’ve been eyeing the weather all last week and 20 degrees cooler is definitely perfect weather).  I’m like whoa awesome.  And super excited because only FIVE DAYS STAND BETWEEN ME AND NEW YORK!!!! (and super nervous about being able to make the time cut off on Sunday and all the hills in Central Park—hence the dry run Friday)

Weekly Miles: 28 miles

Weekly Workout Minutes: 573 minutes

Jumping Jacks: 275/180

1. Ran 3 miles.  I RAN 3 MILES!  Yeah, this deserves it.  Finally knocked out a run that was on schedule.  It was slow. But got it done.

2. Tried a new park’s trail for running.  Dislike it very much.  How much is very much?  I wrote a letter to the county parks & recreation, that’s how much.  The trail is uneven the WHOLE ENTIRE LENGTH (which is less than half a mile, despite saying it was 6/10 of a mile trail).  We’re talking I was running/walking at a slant the entire time.  And I thought it hurt when I did that on the streets, it’s about 100 times worse.  I almost gave up and went home, but I told myself 3 miles had to get logged before my 10.5 miler on Saturday.  Therefore, 3 miles were logged.

3. Tried eggplant.  It’s alright.  I fried it up with some olive oil and combined it with onion, yellow squash, zucchini, and carrots. Nothing too special.  Have a few slices left that I’m going to bread tomorrow and fry up some portabello mushrooms and make into a sandwich.  The recipe looked delicious, so I’m enthusiastic to try it.

4. Finalized NYC flight plans.  I’d been waiting for a bit, you know me and procrastination, and realized that the end of February is fast approaching and I needed to get the plane tickets purchased so my friend knew when I was coming and going.  The procrastination paid off.  In the end, I paid less for the tickets than when I first looked at them—the difference is the 4 days of long term parking at ATL’s airport.  Definitely a win!

Daily miles: 4 miles

Daily workout minutes: 90 minutes

Weekly miles: 13 miles

Weekly workout minutes: 291 minutes

Jumping Jacks: 180/180

runenvy replied to your post: NYC Flight booked!

I would just wear my medal on display. don’t hide it lest they think you’re being shady. You may want to wear all the medals you have, just to show you’re on the up and up, you know. That’s what I would do. Yeah, wear them all at once. And take pics!

Not even all my medals are on display in my room.  I know I know, I earned them they should be up.  But my room is cluttered with so much stuff from my childhood and combining that with college…I’m waiting until a place of my own where I can display the awesomeness of running medals.  Although, my Soaring Wings medal is right next to my bed—and in a little over a month when I’m back home, my NYC half medal will be there, too!

 puka2018 replied to your post: NYC Flight booked!

Ny so cool…why you going to new York??

NYC = NYC Half Marathon March 18th.  I got in via the lottery on a whim (because tons of people on my dash were applying and I figured why not).  So I got a place to stay with a college friend, all I needed was the tickets for a flight.  I have thesis research to do in ATL and any flight that I were to take from Florida to NYC had a layover in ATL anyway.  It’s just a lot easier.

 lifechangeneededaisle3 replied to your post: NYC Flight booked!

Everything is good! When I flew from Ottawa to Phoenix, I had 48 gels, 2 medals, garmin, bodyglyde etc.. all on my carry on. I had no problems. I even had a ziplock bag full of Hammer Heed powder..

Thanks a ton! Definitely answered my questions! :)  Last time I flew there weren’t nearly as many restrictions and I didn’t pay too much attention because everything was going into checked luggage rather than carry-on.  For 3 nights I don’t need enough stuff to make up checked luggage, so now I’m paying attention to all of the carry-on details.