Bored!

I'm bored with the treadmill. I'm sick of staring out the window. The same red truck is there everyday. The trash truck comes on Wednesday. Unlike ya'll, I don't have friends here who do anything but drink beer. I was thinking this morning while I was running about how nice it would be to have friends to workout with and how I could mix things up when a thought came to me ...

...we should exchange addresses and mail each other mixed CDs with some music that we like to run to on it. You might be surprised what my favorite songs to run to are. If we each sent one out, we'd have 5 new CDs full of new music! Mixed CDs are still legal, right?

What do you think?

benched

Hello my lovely and fit ladies!

Yes, I am still injured. My knee has been in a kind of achey limbo for about two weeks now. Just when I think it's feeling better, I go running and then it feels bad all over again. So I'm taking a full week off from running and doing anything high impact in hopes that it will finally heal itself. I'm also looking into buying stock in Ibuprofen and some kind of knee brace (a stylish one, of course). In the meantime, I have been doing stomach crunches and push-ups every morning (I can do 12 without stopping!), and I've been going to yoga 2 times a week, and I still ride my bike everywhere. I wish I knew what triggered my knee twinge, but it's a mystery. A frustrating mystery. I just want to run like the wind! Or at least like a slow moving breeze!

I'm glad to hear the rest of y'all have been running for five minutes without stopping. That's very impressive and I hope to be alongside you again soon. In the meantime, keep training and take care of your knees!

<3 Chrissy

Good excuse this time

This week has been strange. Illness, snowstorms, babies. We didn't have school on Monday due to the snow, so I put in at least one good session that day. Tuesday I went in the morning, but my knee was hurting so I stuck to the eliptical and crunches. Last night I left for Portland and only slept a few hours.

Tomorrow is a new day! I'm going to the gym in the morning. I'm running for 3 minutes and walking for 2 minutes. I can and will do this. Watch out gym ... I just saw a baby being born and I think I can take on the world! I hope I never come down off this high.

Rawr!

I had met up with Mary last night at the campus' rec center. We were all like eye of the tiger and shit and totally kicked running's butt...

Jogged: 3 min
Walked: 90 seconds
Jogged: 5 min
Walked: 2 1/2 minutes

and we d0-si-do'ed and did it again a second time.

Moanday

Monday:

Elliptical Trainer: 1 hour

The End.

Pause

Friday is my day off from the gym, so I didn't go on Friday. Saturday I felt like do-do. My throat hurt and I was achy, so I skipped another day. I stayed home and drank a ton of emergen-C and woke up today feeling much better, but ... it the yard was covered with snow! I did drive to my friend's house to make snowpeople, but by the time I was done it was dark and I didn't feel safe driving in the freezing slush to the gym and back.

Excuses, excuses!

This is the first time that I've gone this long without working out since around the holidays. I'm hoping that we'll have no school tomorrow and I can make up for lost time.

weekend feats

Saturday:

Met up with Chrissy and Mary at the rec center and this is what we did:

30 minutes: 90 second jog/90 second walk; 3 minute jog/3 minute walk
30 minutes: weight training

When I got home I walked/jogged the dogs for about 25 minutes.

I was pooped.

Sunday:

Met with Mary at the rec center...

30 minutes: elliptical trainer
30 minutes: weight training (lower body)