Last run by the Portage…
for a while, anyway.
So I tried to make it a good one. Ran 1st two miles (with some walks in there) in 27 mins. Then walked for a bit, and walked/ran for a bit, and walked for a bit more. I ended up doing 6 miles. Most of that was just walking & enjoying the sights, sounds, & smells, but I threw in some runs for fun too. & I still find it weird that I’m using phrases like “runs for fun.” Who knew? But it was beautiful: sunny, breezy, about 65 degrees. So I kept walking, thinking that this time next year I want to be running a 10K, so I figured I’d see how far (approximately) that would be. It’s gonna be a nice run next summer…I just have to make sure I’m ready for it. 
Tomorrow I think I’ll walk in to meet hubby after he teaches his class & then we’ll walk to our favorite restaurant for lunch…I’ve ordered their salmon on salad probably the last 8 times we’ve gone there, but it doesn’t disappoint & the walk in will be about 4 miles total, with another 1 mile back to the car after lunch.
Yesterday was busy. We took a 2 mile stroll along the Portage in the morning, packed some, wrote some, and then baby sat for our friends’ kids (3 of their 5 kids anyway…they took the newborn twins to dinner with them). Food wasn’t great…pantry cleaning food combined with a kid-friendly dinner isn’t a good idea, but neither is the ice cream that I had after dinner. So yesterday’s food & exercise:
Breakfast: corn chex & blueberries
Lunch: BLT on whole wheat, pasta salad
Snack: cherries & cheese popcorn (about 2 cups of the popcorn)
Dinner: Mac & cheese, ice cream
Exercise: 2 mile stroll
Today:
Breakfast: corn chex & blueberries
Lunch: BLT on WW & pasta salad
Dinner: 2 of hubby’s oatmeal cookies, cheddar popcorn (about 3 cups), about 12 cherries
Snack:
Exercise: 6 mile walk/run (mostly walk…the full trip took 1 1/2 hours)
Inspiration: oh hell, have you been watching the Olympics? Usually I focus on the men cause, well, they’re Olympic-style men for heaven’s sake, how can you help yourself? But this year, I’m all about the women. I want to be that strong, that powerful, that fast & muscular & confident & geeze! I mean, I can’t identify with the gymnasts at all cause they’re like 12 years old, but the runners & swimmers & bikers are amazing. Okay, so I was thinking about what it would take to get an athlete’s body on my walk/run today & that got me moving. When I get home, I’m going to start in on the weight machines & toss in some biking & swimming.
Six miles! Jeez, woman. You’re making my boot camp like puny. Way to steal my thunder!
Good for you on your body-of-an-athlete goal! I would love that, too. I was checking out tylerdurden’s legs (which ROCK, by the way) and that is so not in my genetic make up. So I would settle for just the arm ripple. Unfortunately, typing does not build said arm ripple.
Yes!!!! Been watching the Olympics—those male swimmers are just beyond belief!!! Last night when the fab four won the relay on that spectacular last swim leg I actually had tears in my eyes.
And, they are doing mighty well tonight too!!!
I used to be the same way…watch the guys! Even football, which I’m not into, all those huge thigh muscles and oh the “bums” ahhhhhh! LOL!!! Now it’s all about the female athletes! I watch a triathlon last month on t.v and I was fixated on how their bikes were set up,their posture, the runners paces and technique. I can’t tell you how badly I’d like to have those legs. Imagine running in a swimsuit! Not that I’d run in one…it’s the legs I envy!
I was thinking the EXACT SAME THING today! Again, get out of my head!!
And I was also wishing to have one of the German divers for myself because I was watching the synchronized diving last night and, well…. YUMMY!!!
I’m with you on “I hate running but love having run”. It’s so true.
Yeah, it’s one thing to watch sport from the purely aesthetic point of view (oh, those guys) but the women are inspirational. You should see the cover of last week (or was it the week before?)’s Time magazine. Wow. US Olympic swimmer. She’s 41 and has the body of a 20 year old MAN! Amazing abs and not an ounce of fat on her. Awesome.
I love watching the weightlifters. Especially the women. I remember one Commonwealth Games seeing this little Welsh woman lifting. Honestly, she looked about 12 and skinny and she was pretty much holding draught horses over her head.
Where the heck did you disappear to? Don’t make me come looking for you.