Fitness Friday

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In honor of Fitness Friday, I am..... taking a rest day.   What? You know you wanna do it, too!

I actually will probably do some light core/strength work later today, but right now it's all I can do to keep my eyeballs open.  We are having some issues with our dog keeping us up all night long - she's getting old and I think she may be getting a little dotty.  Last night/this morning, I wanted to lock her in the basement, she was driving me so crazy.  I didn't.  But I thought about it!

I bought a scale last night, and when I took it out of the box, it was broken.  I'm going to take this as a sign that I need to just get over myself.   I can continue to use the scale that we have - once a week - and as long as the numbers are getting smaller, it doesn't matter what the exact number is.  Right?  Right.

Went for a 3 mile run last night and now I'm considering finding another 5K to sign up for.  Half Marathon training starts in a little over 2 weeks (ahhh!!!), but I'm hoping my coach wouldn't mind if I threw in a 5K in September.  I really would like a new 5K PR this year.  It's actually on my "2013 Goals" list.  Considering my run last night was my 5K PR exactly, I'm thinking that if I actually tried, I could beat that fairly handily, even with the extra .1 tacked on.  I found a local, very small, race that I think is on fairly flat ground.  It's run by a church, so I'm hoping no one would boo me even if I were the last across the finish line (which, in a race of 50 people or so, is a strong possibility).

So we'll see.  I'm feeling a lot better about my running lately, and putting aside all the negative thoughts that I had earlier this year while I was sick and not running.  I may not be where I could be, in terms of my running, but things happen.  Training gets stalled, injuries occur, it's just life.  I'm 34.  I'm hoping to be running when I'm 64.  I literally just have to take it one step at a time.

So.  What are you doing on this lovely Friday?

Fitness Friday Fun!

It's Friday! It's Friday!

Granted, Fridays have different meaning to me now that I'm a stay-at-home-mom, but still.  Fridays are inherently magical, aren't they?  Ok, no, they're not.  But I'm trying here, people!

Today is day 3 of my "Stop being such a lazy fatass!" campaign.  I just finished 20 minutes of core/strength work with my lovely daughter.  Being 4, she doesn't quite have all the moves down, but man, does she have pep!  Though, I will admit, she flat out told me she would NOT be doing planks today.  I laughed so hard I nearly peed myself.  She is so cute. Turns out, I didn't do any planks, either.  (The plank police on Twitter are going to get me!  Eek!)

But back to my campaign.  What is my plan to "stop being such a lazy fatass," you wonder.  Well, I'll tell you!

1. Run and/or exercise 6-7 days a week. 
2. Write down everything that I eat and drink. 
3. Play with my kids more. 
4. Stop eating so many bagels (this is so hard!). 

Basically it's nothing drastic, since I already run 4 days a week, I'm just adding extra non-running workouts in on my "off" days.  Paying attention to what I eat helped me lose weight before, so I'm back at it - not dieting, per se, but paying more attention to how much/how often I eat.  It helps.   

Playing with my kids more seems like a no brainer, but you'd be amazed at how often the Internet becomes a huge time suck.  (Or maybe you wouldn't, if you're here reading this!)   

The bagels.  That's the hardest part.  The damn Panera bagels that are so yummy they make me want to cry. Asiago cheese bagel, sliced, toasted, and spread with Laughing Cow cheese.  All totalled?  430 calories.  It's not worth it.  Yet it's so worth it.  OMG.  I need an intervention.   Cheese bagel + cheese.  Obviously I have a problem.   

*drool*

Ok.  Moving on. 

Um....... where was I?  

Bagels. Dammit. 

Oh! Right!  Guess who hasn't had a soda in 2 days?  It's unreal, people.  I switched to the mini cans of Coke for a week, then when they were gone, that was it.  I just didn't get any more.  I know that was my plan a few weeks ago, but please, that did not happen.  But now, it has!  Awesomesauce.  LOL   (Um, my spell check recognizes "awesomesauce."  When did THAT happen??)  

So what are you doing this lovely Friday?  If it involves bagels, don't tell me.  Please. I beg of you.

Fitness Friday

Fitness Friday

For the past two days, I've been madly scouring the internet for other bloggers, trying to build up more of a community - not only to foster some readership for my own blog, but to find other blogs that I'm interested in, and to see what's out there on the Wild Wild Web.  

What I've found has amazed and delighted me - but also left me realizing that while I may be a runner, I am quite possibly the laziest runner out there.  Yes, I finally started doing some core/strength workouts this week, but it's all  baby-step stuff, and certainly not anywhere near as hardcore as what the rest of the running world seems to be doing.  Ya'll are amazing - and inspirational.  

So help me out.  What's your favorite non-running work out?  What do you absolutely hate to do, but love the results it gives you?  What have you found to be totally useless?  I need your knowledge, oh wise ones.