I have Shaun T to thank for realizing that I am neither fast nor agile. I completed the first four days of The Asylum, with yesterday being the first rest day. Today I had to go back into Speed and Agility. I feel confident that when this month is over, I'll be fairly well prepared for the obstacles of the Tough Mudder. Hopefully I'll be more prepared to start running too. These workouts are ridiculous.
Sorry I don't have pretty pictures or interesting things to say today. :-/
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Training
Ok, I'm here. Mostly. I'm trying to get back into a routine, but it hasn't happened quite yet. I just sort of go with the flow of each day. It will probably get better when Chad goes back to work.
I'm getting prepared for the Tough Mudder coming up in October. Chad and I have started Insanity: The Asylum. It's pretty hard core. It's harder than Insanity. I would say it's the hardest workout I've ever done. Each workout is 45 minutes to an hour and when it's done I'm ready to keel over. We've gotten pretty strict about our diets. We pretty much eat what the program suggests for each meal and make sure we get enough calories and protein.
Once these 30 days of The Asylum are over, we'll start running pretty hard core. I have a friend who wants to do the mudder with us and I'll need to help her train too, because she doesn't have any training experience. I'm getting really excited though. It's going to be such a great experience and such a challenge!
Well, I don't want to bore you and I don't have much more to say. Keep checking in for adventures in Tough Mudder training!
I'm getting prepared for the Tough Mudder coming up in October. Chad and I have started Insanity: The Asylum. It's pretty hard core. It's harder than Insanity. I would say it's the hardest workout I've ever done. Each workout is 45 minutes to an hour and when it's done I'm ready to keel over. We've gotten pretty strict about our diets. We pretty much eat what the program suggests for each meal and make sure we get enough calories and protein.
Once these 30 days of The Asylum are over, we'll start running pretty hard core. I have a friend who wants to do the mudder with us and I'll need to help her train too, because she doesn't have any training experience. I'm getting really excited though. It's going to be such a great experience and such a challenge!
Well, I don't want to bore you and I don't have much more to say. Keep checking in for adventures in Tough Mudder training!
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Normalizing
Hello friends. I apologize for my prolonged absence from the blogging world. We went on vacation to visit my family in California and I was too busy catching up with them to do much blogging. If you want to catch some highlights, visit Chad's blog here. He blogged pretty consistently while we were there.
Being there made me realize how much I missed it. It was pretty hard to come back to West Virginia. I still feel like I haven't settled back into life here. It also doesn't help that work has been very slow and I've only been working a few hours a day, if at all. I'm getting over the jet lag and I feel very lethargic most of the time.
I've been staying up late and waking up late. It's certainly not helping me get back on track. My blogging might be a little sporadic for a while. Please bear with me as I try to get back to normal.
Being there made me realize how much I missed it. It was pretty hard to come back to West Virginia. I still feel like I haven't settled back into life here. It also doesn't help that work has been very slow and I've only been working a few hours a day, if at all. I'm getting over the jet lag and I feel very lethargic most of the time.
I've been staying up late and waking up late. It's certainly not helping me get back on track. My blogging might be a little sporadic for a while. Please bear with me as I try to get back to normal.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Preparing for Vacation
I don't think I'll have much time to blog later today, so I need to bust out a quick one before I go to work (for the last time for two weeks, huzzah!). I've been slacking on my blog all week because it's been SO INSANE at work. I've had a minimum of 6 appointments in a day all this week. I've been totally fried after that every day.
Today I need to get packed and ready to go to California for TWO WEEKS! I also need to finish up some cleaning around the apartment. Then, tomorrow, we head out to Columbus, OH. Chad has a friend who lives there with his wife and we'll be spending the day and night with them. They're going to take us to the airport Monday morning and let us leave our car at their place. That will be a big money saver for us. It's nice to have cool friends.
Monday (July 4th), we'll get to CA around 10am and go straight from there to my grandparents' house, where all my mom's side of the family will have a big get-together. I can't wait to see my family and spend the day swimming, lounging, and eating. I can't promise that everything I eat that day will be healthy since I'll have no control over it but, hey, sometimes that happens. I can't wait for the day when we can go back there for good. If only I had infinite money. :-P
So, between tomorrow and Monday be expecting plenty of tweets and twitpics. I probably won't get to blog again until Tuesday. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and happy Fourth of July!
Today I need to get packed and ready to go to California for TWO WEEKS! I also need to finish up some cleaning around the apartment. Then, tomorrow, we head out to Columbus, OH. Chad has a friend who lives there with his wife and we'll be spending the day and night with them. They're going to take us to the airport Monday morning and let us leave our car at their place. That will be a big money saver for us. It's nice to have cool friends.
Monday (July 4th), we'll get to CA around 10am and go straight from there to my grandparents' house, where all my mom's side of the family will have a big get-together. I can't wait to see my family and spend the day swimming, lounging, and eating. I can't promise that everything I eat that day will be healthy since I'll have no control over it but, hey, sometimes that happens. I can't wait for the day when we can go back there for good. If only I had infinite money. :-P
So, between tomorrow and Monday be expecting plenty of tweets and twitpics. I probably won't get to blog again until Tuesday. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and happy Fourth of July!
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Fireflies and Last Minute Lunch
My favorite part of summer in West Virginia is fireflies. For real. We don't have fireflies in California. I was driving home from my friend's house tonight and the sides of the road were completely lit up with fireflies. It's like they're putting on a show. I can't even explain how much I love them. I gives me this deep down happy feeling and I feel like my heart is going to burst. I know, that's kind of lame, but I really can't help it. I just love fireflies.
I honestly don't have much to talk about today. I will tell you that my lunch consisted of a Think Thin bar, Pop Chips, and Amy's mac and cheese. When we're out of town, we avoid fast food by hitting the grocery store and grabbing any array of things we like. I'm a little bit addicted to Pop Chips, so those are pretty much always on the last minute menu.
What is your favorite part about summer where you live? What is on your last minute menu?
I honestly don't have much to talk about today. I will tell you that my lunch consisted of a Think Thin bar, Pop Chips, and Amy's mac and cheese. When we're out of town, we avoid fast food by hitting the grocery store and grabbing any array of things we like. I'm a little bit addicted to Pop Chips, so those are pretty much always on the last minute menu.
What is your favorite part about summer where you live? What is on your last minute menu?
Winning
So sorry I've been neglecting you, dear readers. I have been insanely busy at work. Then, when I'm home I just feel too drained to do anything else. Mainly I've been watching movies and desperately trying to finish The Girl Who Played With Fire in time for the book club. The book club was yesterday and, luckily, I managed to finish the book on Thursday. It was very good. I highly recommend the trilogy, even though I haven't read the third one yet.
Today was a lot of fun, and exactly what I needed. I was on a quest to find a new swim suit to take to California. I've been looking for a while with not much luck. I happened to mention to Chad, "If we had a Target, this wouldn't happen." So he said "It's Saturday; let's just go to Charleston." In case you don't know, Charleston is an hour away from where we live and there is no closer Target. So, off we went. At Target, I found exactly what I was looking for. As I knew I would. We also found a very affordable espresso machine and purchased it since we've been wanting one.
Then we did a bunch of window shopping at Pier 1 and then headed downtown to eat at Capital Cafe. We love that place. When we got there we found out that there had been a jazz and wine festival going on and we just barely missed it. Fail. But, we still got our good coffee and light food from Capital Cafe and walked around downtown. As we were walking, we saw a restaurant called Ichi Ban, a Japanese place. There was a sign that said "appropriate dress required". We thought we wouldn't qualify, but could see people in the window who weren't dressed any fancier than we were. So we walked in and Chad asked, "Are we dressed appropriately?" to which they replied in the affirmative. So we took at a seat at the sushi bar (you all know we're obsessed with sushi) and ordered three rolls. Chad also ordered sea urchin. It did not look appetizing, but he ate it. His response did not give me any hope and I didn't try it.
After consuming three rolls of amazing sushi (the best I've had so far) and, of course, some sake we walked down to the mall. We continued our window shopping here and Chad spent a lot of time picking up clothing and saying "this would look good on you". Yes, my husband shops for me. And he's pretty much always right about what would look good on me. I ended up buying an amazing dress from Charlotte Russe. He didn't tell me to try it, but I did anyways. I still make my own clothing decisions (sometimes). We had taken so much time shopping, by the time I bought the dress the mall was closing. So we left and came home and made lots of espresso.
Here are some highlights from today's adventure:
So there you have it. I'm sorry I sound a little crazy right now. It is 12:30am. I don't do well after 10pm.
Did you do anything fun today? Are you winning?
Today was a lot of fun, and exactly what I needed. I was on a quest to find a new swim suit to take to California. I've been looking for a while with not much luck. I happened to mention to Chad, "If we had a Target, this wouldn't happen." So he said "It's Saturday; let's just go to Charleston." In case you don't know, Charleston is an hour away from where we live and there is no closer Target. So, off we went. At Target, I found exactly what I was looking for. As I knew I would. We also found a very affordable espresso machine and purchased it since we've been wanting one.
Then we did a bunch of window shopping at Pier 1 and then headed downtown to eat at Capital Cafe. We love that place. When we got there we found out that there had been a jazz and wine festival going on and we just barely missed it. Fail. But, we still got our good coffee and light food from Capital Cafe and walked around downtown. As we were walking, we saw a restaurant called Ichi Ban, a Japanese place. There was a sign that said "appropriate dress required". We thought we wouldn't qualify, but could see people in the window who weren't dressed any fancier than we were. So we walked in and Chad asked, "Are we dressed appropriately?" to which they replied in the affirmative. So we took at a seat at the sushi bar (you all know we're obsessed with sushi) and ordered three rolls. Chad also ordered sea urchin. It did not look appetizing, but he ate it. His response did not give me any hope and I didn't try it.
After consuming three rolls of amazing sushi (the best I've had so far) and, of course, some sake we walked down to the mall. We continued our window shopping here and Chad spent a lot of time picking up clothing and saying "this would look good on you". Yes, my husband shops for me. And he's pretty much always right about what would look good on me. I ended up buying an amazing dress from Charlotte Russe. He didn't tell me to try it, but I did anyways. I still make my own clothing decisions (sometimes). We had taken so much time shopping, by the time I bought the dress the mall was closing. So we left and came home and made lots of espresso.
Here are some highlights from today's adventure:
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| Some bohemian people playing instruments. |
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| AMAZING SHUSHI!!! |
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| Sea urchins. You know that looks appalling. |
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| Yep. That's a T Rex made out of balloons. |
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| WINNING |
Did you do anything fun today? Are you winning?
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Feeling Scatterbrained
Well, I'm on the second to last week of TurboFire. I haven't been posting any progress pics but I will when I'm done. I've really enjoyed this program and I've become a bit of a Chalene Johnson fan in the process. I've also decided to try for the new TurboFire DVD auditions. It's going to be interesting. While we're in California, I'm going to go to Irvine to work out with Chalene at 24 Hour Fitness. Maybe I'll sneakily slip it in that I'm trying out for the new DVDs if I get a chance to talk to her. ;-)
Speaking of California, I'm getting so anxious to go! I can't get it off my mind. It's pretty much all I think about now and probably will be until we get there. I think it's also making me a little scatter-brained. For instance, it's taken me about 15 minutes to write these two short paragraphs. I just have too much on my mind. I'm thinking about California, work, reading, training for the Tough Mudder and everything I'm not getting done at home. I haven't done any housework for a while. Luckily, my dear husband is home for the summer (being a teacher and all) so he's kept up with it pretty well. I'm blessed that he's home while I'm so busy at work for these few weeks. If he wasn't, this place would be a pig stye.
I have a confession to make. It's 9pm and I haven't worked out today. Yes, that's right, I haven't even done my Turbo. And I was really hoping to get to bed earlier than I have been. I might just use today as my rest day and work out tomorrow (which is supposed to be the rest day). I also have another confession to make. I ate two tiny cinnamon rolls that my boss brought in today. So, I've officially had way too much sugar. Guess I'll be working out extra hard tomorrow. :-P
I apologize for being boring today. Just wanted to give you a quick update.
How is your week going? Any confessions you'd like to make?
Speaking of California, I'm getting so anxious to go! I can't get it off my mind. It's pretty much all I think about now and probably will be until we get there. I think it's also making me a little scatter-brained. For instance, it's taken me about 15 minutes to write these two short paragraphs. I just have too much on my mind. I'm thinking about California, work, reading, training for the Tough Mudder and everything I'm not getting done at home. I haven't done any housework for a while. Luckily, my dear husband is home for the summer (being a teacher and all) so he's kept up with it pretty well. I'm blessed that he's home while I'm so busy at work for these few weeks. If he wasn't, this place would be a pig stye.
I have a confession to make. It's 9pm and I haven't worked out today. Yes, that's right, I haven't even done my Turbo. And I was really hoping to get to bed earlier than I have been. I might just use today as my rest day and work out tomorrow (which is supposed to be the rest day). I also have another confession to make. I ate two tiny cinnamon rolls that my boss brought in today. So, I've officially had way too much sugar. Guess I'll be working out extra hard tomorrow. :-P
I apologize for being boring today. Just wanted to give you a quick update.
How is your week going? Any confessions you'd like to make?
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