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Week 4 Day 2 (Monday)

Strength - Rest Day

Food - I tracked what I could but had to guess at the chinese we got. Hub's birthday is today and we're watching Suicide Squad tonight so he decided to have his birthday dinner last night. 1275 cals though it was probably actually more which is good since that's low. I like to aim for 1500 on rest days and 1700 when I work out

Biking - Didn't even bike to work. I had no good excuse, I even filled up my tires the night before

To make up for yesterday's mediocrity I packed gym clothes with me and will head straight to the gym after work to lift. Hub's gets off work 30 minutes after me so I'll only be home a little later than him and still have plenty of time to make dinner before the movie.

Oh, and I'm officially calling a podiatrist over lunch. My plantar faciitis is getting worse and slowing me down some so I should really get it looked at again

I almost forgot! At the party Saturday it was our old gamer group that we haven't hung out with since we moved last year. Most of these people saw me at my heaviest and then at my prior lightest a few years ago but haven't seen me in about a year (when I was about 20lbs heavier). I got quite a few comments about how good I'm looking, not in a creepy way but in an impressed "way to go!" kinda way

39 minutes ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

I'm looking forward to hear about the inflatable race. Was it one that combined the inflatables with a colour run? So you're covered in powder paint by the end of it? I really want to do one of those, they sound like great fun.

So I mentioned above that I didn't end up doing the second race but it wasn't quite the color run with the powder paint. It was actually foam that glowed in black light. You're supposed to wear a white shirt and by the end it looks like tie-dye in the blacklights. I may end up doing this one later or a color run since they do look like fun even without the obstacles but Saturday night it just wasn't happening

Me in front of the second obstacle

People climbing up the second obstacle

Swag. No finishers medal but a wrist band instead

The Great Inflatable Race

This was similar to the Insane Inflatable 5k I did in June but it's a different company. Hubs actually joined me for this one which was awesome, but it also meant that no running happened (except for about 30 seconds of jogging for me to catch up to his long ass strides in the beginning). It was held at the fairgrounds, during the fair and it rained hard Thursday causing mud puddles they had to avoid so they were a little limited on space. They don't claim to be a 5k anyway and they said they had to shorten the course from the original plan. It took us about 45 minutes with walking between obstacles so I'd guess ~2.5 miles (didn't think to check my fitbit).

It stated off with two tall inflatables that you had to climb then slide down. At the IIR all the climbing ones had a rope that went all the way, in TGIR there were handles as you went up. So similar, but different. Hubs said his arms were sore last night so the climbing was a bit of an upper body workout. The rest of the obstacles were flatter but still a little challenging. The fourth one was actually a small climb but harder than the taller ones, I think a combination of a steeper climb and being a little wet since the ground before it was still damp from the rain. One obstacle started out with holes you had to climb through and I joked that we should "superman" through them...hubs said okay and went running head first! So of course I had to too Well he bent his (prescription) sunglasses and if mine had been metal instead of plastic I would have too (luckily mine were fine and he got his back in shape later). Hubs said that if working out were always like that he'd work out with me all the time.

After the race we went to a friends birthday party (30 minutes east) and I had planned on going from that to the Foam Glow 5k (another 30 minutes further east). Well I was feeling extra whiny and had a list of excuses (my foot hurt, my hips were acting up, I forgot my change of clothes at home, I was sleepy, even though I had paid for the race I'd still have to pay another $15 for parking and same-day packet pickup, etc) so when the party got done at 7 and my race didn't start until 9 I just said screw it and we went home. So I only did one race Saturday instead of two. Don't really regret the decision, I only signed up for the Foam Glow because I thought the party would go much later and that I could use an excuse to get away, but I do feel bad for paying for a race and not running. It was only $25 and since I'd have to pay another $15 PLUS buy a white shirt (mandatory for the race) to run I don't feel as much out of the money as I otherwise would have.

Anyway, a couple of picture from the Great Inflatable race to come in a minute

Week 4 Day 1 (Sunday)

Strength - Rangered!

Food - Rangered! A tad low but okay after Saturday's cracker binge: 1400 cals

Biking - Nope

Bench Press - 50lbs x 10 x 3

Lunges - 15lbs x 10 x 3 (each leg)

Lat-Pulldown - 70lbs x 10 x 3

Situps - 20 x 3

15 minutes on the eliptical

All of these could probably go up. I kept it a bit lower then I thought I could do since the Darebee experiment got me off track and I didn't want to jump up too soon

Apparently I only post updates while at work. I had a training class Thursday and Friday last week so I'm a bit behind. Lets see what I can remember:

Week 3 Day 4 (Wednesday)

Strength - Nope. Fully planned to but it ended up being a surprise (to us) game night

Food - Rangered-ish. Tracked everything. 2,650 cals

Biking - nope

Week 3 Day 5 (Thursday)

Strength - Umm...I think so but I didn't take a picture of my log (I keep a paper log at the gym and take a picture to use for updating here). I think I did:
OHP: 35lbs x 10 x 3
DL: 115lbs x 10 x 3

DB Curls: 22.5lbs x 10 x 3 (total, not each arm)

DB Rows: 22.5lbs x 10 x 3 (each arm, not total)

Intervals on the treadmill

Food - Rangered though I was low on calories. 1380 cals

Biking - nope. It's not been a good couple of weeks for biking. Class was on the other side of town so I couldn't bike there

Week 3 Day 6 (Friday)

Strength - Nope

Food - Rangered. 2025 cals

Biking - nope

Week 3 Day 7 (Saturday)
Strength - Kinda. Did the Great Inflatable Race which is an inflatable OCR. I'll do a quick write up about this later

Food - Nope. A friend had a birthday party and I had no real way to track food there. I did eat horribly but I mindlessly munched on crackers too much

Biking - nope. Only places I went were way too far away to bike to

Week 3 was not a total fail but not quite where I wanted to be. I'm tracking my food much better but I tried something new with workouts and decided it wasn't right for me. I didn't talk about it but I was doing Darebee's Hero's Journey workout. It was fun but right now I need something simpler. So I'm going back to just going to the gym 3x/week doing lifting and some cardio. I'm going to set a default schedule of Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday but will adjust if needed (like tomorrow is hub's b-day so this week might end up being Sun, Wed, & Fri)

I've been slacking on the biking. Some of it is justified (rain, classes on the other side of town, etc) and some of it might be burnout. I was trying to ride every day for a while and I think it was too much. I'm back to my goal of just biking to work 3x/week. After talking with hubs we've agreed that going down to one car isn't the right choice for us so we'll be keeping a second car. Tentatively I've decided to keep my VW and just take the fix and settlement, not the full buyback. It will ultimately depend on what the fix ends up being but for now I'm planning on that. Which means I need to get it taken in to have the AC fixed...

:'( I'm so sorry

Oh, and because I had it for lunch today and it was yummy and reminded me that I said I'd share:

Chipotle Black Bean and Peanut Sauce Noodle Bowls

½ cup creamy peanut butter
½ cup apple juice
2 tbsp Bragg’s liquid aminos
3 chipotle chilis in adobo sauce, diced
2 tsp adobo sauce (from the can of chipotle chilis)
1 (14-ounce) can black beans, drained and rinsed
¼ cup fresh chopped cilantro
1 (8-ounce) package Chinese curly noodles (they look like ramen)
1 cup shredded carrots
½ red bell pepper, thinly sliced
½ green bell pepper, thinly sliced
1 (14-ounce can baby corn, drained

In a bowl, mix the peanut butter, apple juice, Bragg’s, chilies, and adobo sauce to create a creamy sauce. Fold in the black beans and cilantro.

Prepare your noodles as instructed on the package.

Toss the noodles with the chipotle peanut sauce and beans. Divide the noodles evenly among 4 bowls. Top with carrots, bell peppers, and baby corn.

My notes: This is better if the sauce is heated up. I only ever prep this for lunches so I just mix everything together then reheat for lunch. I also use the whole can of chipotles since I don't use them in any other recipes, makes it pretty hot but still very yummy (DH and I are both wimps but like it). Noodles only take 3 minutes once the water is boiling.

Well about 30 minutes before I was going to head to the gym Hubs got a call asking where we were. Apparently we're gaming tonight. We game every other Wednesday but this month is getting messed up, we thought we were off the next two weeks then on the following two weeks but we were wrong. So no ass kicking tonight...unless you count the Manananggals (actual monster currently being beaten up). Since we were already late I didn't get a chance to sneak in some body weight work before hand like I normally would have
So, tomorrow I kick some ass! *sigh*

6 minutes ago, Aggievet2014 said:

Back when I was in school, everything had a due date or an endpoint. I was always crunched for time, but scheduled heavily and made sure I got the pressing things done and still had time for myself. Now a days, I just kind of coast. Wake up, drive to work, work all day, drive home, eat, sleep. Try to get some things done on my days off, but it's never pressing. I don't have the "I need to finish this" drive like when I was in school.

I have this same problem. Even work now is a problem because I have so few hard deadlines I have issues keeping myself motivated. Self-imposed deadlines don't seem to work for me so I'm focusing on just doing what I should be doing on a daily basis and that's helping.

8 minutes ago, Aggievet2014 said:

On a final note, the DOMS hit me HARD after those squats. Hubs swears more exercise will help. Thinking about getting on the bike or horse makes me hurt, and the idea of doing lunges turns my stomach. I am wondering if DOMS are worse due to the fibro. I've never exercised this hard before (woot woot!), and I literally cannot put any pressure on my thighs (cat standing on lap, very gentle massage) without it hurting.

Stretching helps (though hurts like hell when you're quads are so tight!) and honestly your Hubs is right, exercising helps too. I about killed myself with lunges the other day and did a darebee workout that involved lots of hopping/jumping and they hurt less afterwards. With quads, even just walking around can help lessen the DOMS

Week 3 Day 3 (Tuesday)

Strength - I did 3 minutes of planks (non-consecutive)

Food - Tracked everything but it was not-so-great. 1800 calories many of them junk (M&M's and theater popcorn)

Biking - Nope. I'm really falling down on this one. I've even driven to work every day this week and will have to drive the rest of the week too since I have training classes on the other side of town

We went and watched Bourne last night, it was okay, not great, but worth the $5. I meant to make it to the gym before the movie, even brought my gym clothes with me so I could go right after work, but I wasn't really feeling it so I just did some planks at home instead. Not quite sure what's up lately but I've been feeling blah again this week. Generally when I make myself work out I feel better but yesterday was a little too overbooked anyway between work, errands, and the movie so I skipped. I am going tonight though and kicking some ass.

Week 3 Day 2 (Monday)

Strength - Rest Day

Food - Tracked Everything 1700 calories

Biking - Nope

I didn't end up running yesterday and am somewhat relieved, I just really wasn't feeling it. I don't know if it didn't happen or if I just missed them but I sat in my car watching where I was told they usually meet (it's an informal run put on my hub's work) and I didn't see anyone. Well, I saw tons of Pokemon Go'ers but no runner. After I got home I was still feeling off so I did a darebee workout which helped and went to bed early.

On 8/1/2016 at 5:12 AM, Charlie_Quinn said:

So a 5K run followed by a 12K OCR. Perfectly normal Ranger behavior, right? 

And people think I'm crazy for running a <5k inflatable fun run Saturday morning followed by a 5k fun run that evening.

It's just a little bit of a pain to catch up after a weekend because I have to remember what the heck I did three days ago. Some days I have to think really hard to remember if I drove or rode my bike to work that morning

I'll have to post the recipe sometime because it IS amazing! Unfortunately I still have leftover curry from last week so I didn't get any today

Good news is that since this morning they downgraded today's high from 97 to 90 and it's not even supposed to get there until 8pm so only around 85-88 when I'm running. I don't even pretend to understand the weather anymore, I just go with it.

This week caught up to me by surprise. I'm going to blame the fact that I couldn't see it on the calendar until today. I have a 5k run tonight, Bourne movie tomorrow, and two runs Saturday with a party in between. I'm not ready for tonight's run at all. It's a straight 5k and the temps are in the upper 90's again. But it's one of the ones sponsored by Hub's work that I need to run in order to get the shirt. I'll qualify for the 25k by the end of the month and if I do the rest of the ones sponsored though Hub's work I just need to find one more to qualify for the 50k

HOWEVER, I did an awesome job of prepping food yesterday. I made a yummy chipotle, black bean, chinese noodle thingy for lunches, chopped up some fruits and veggies for snacks, pre-chopped up veggies for a meal later in the week, prepped a crockpot meal for tomorrow so we can eat before the movie, and hubs made his breakfast burritos. I also bought a bag of peanut M&M's to divide up for snacks and only ate one serving yesterday

I'm so bad at getting on here on the weekends

Week 2 Day 6 (Friday)

Strength - Rangered

Food - Rangered. 1530 Cals

Biking - Nope

Pushups x 10 x 7

Shoulder Taps x 10 x 7

Punches x 20 x 7

DB Curls 22.5lbs x 10 x 4

BB Rows 50lbs x 10 x 3

OHP 35lbs x 10 x 3

Lat Pulldown 70lbs x 10 x 3

Planks 30 seconds x 10

25 minutes of intervals

Week 2 Day 7 (Saturday)

Strength - More like cardio. 20 high knees, 1 pushup, 2 plank jump ins x 5 (this is one set) x 6 sets

Food - Umm...I tracked everything so technically rangered. 2725 calories. Much of it junky. I really need to plan better for weekends

Biking - Nope

Week 3 Day 1 (Sunday)

Strength - Rangered. Situps, sitting twists, reverse crunches, crunch kicks, leg raises, raised leg circles, supermans x 10 x 3

Food - Rangered, 1475 calories

Biking - nope

So some idiot didn't stretch out after her lunging marathon yesterday....

I kinda knew I was in trouble when I already hurt this morning and it's just gotten worse through the day. DOMS don't normally hit me in full force for 2-3 days so this weekend is going to be interesting

Week 2 Day 5 (Thursday)

Strength - Body weight work
Food - Logged everything, 1618 calories

Biking - was running late so I drove to work and didn't go anywhere else

Lunges - 10 x 7

Jumping lunges - 10 x 7

Knee strikes - 20 x 7

Jumps - 20 x 7

Side lunges - 20 x 7

These are actual amounts done, not for each leg. 2 minute rests between sets was spent wonderfully lying in my hammock, nearly dozing a couple of times.

You guys! I am ONE POUND away from weighing what my drivers license says! Which is still about 15-20 more than I think I want to weigh but I think that puts me at what I weighed when I moved to this state 8 years ago

Similar to my meme from last night; this was me this morning changing into jeans after riding to work. BUT they're single digit size jeans so I'm excited even if I did have to twerk to get into them. For reference, when I was at my heaviest I went shopping for new jeans and couldn't fit into size 15 (I refused to buy 17s so I can honestly say I never wore that size). So fitting into 9s while still a little sweaty from riding is awesome!

Lol, yeah. Humidity doesn't get me too bad. I briefly lived in Colorado and the altitude completely took me out. Hubs and I drove up a mountain, found a PAVED path to walk up to the top and I had to stop every 20 feet to catch my breath. A very pregnant woman and small children passed me. Then there's the friend who grew up in a mountainy area of NM then in Denver and he could run forever up there; came to Nebraska and couldn't run because of the humidity

33 minutes ago, Marauder said:

I'm taking the day off today.  No walking, no workout.  I'm just not feeling well and honestly the walking seems to make it worse.

Probably for the best, rest and take care of yourself. I have to take my rings off when I do anything remotely physical, especially in the heat because my hands always swell. Even just taking a walk over my lunch break can cause them to swell enough to make my rings painful if it over 80*F outside

4 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Good news! I felt well enough last night to do a workout.

Yay! Keep feeling better

4 hours ago, Charlie_Quinn said:

Keeping a food log is making me realise how much rice I eat. Not that that's a bad thing but might explain why I'm a bit bored with what I'm eating.

A couple of years ago I was explaining to someone what I generally ate and realized almost everything came down to "meat, veggies, sauce, served over rice". I joked that I apparently ate vaguely chinese-ish. Looking at your last couple of food entries, maybe you're missing the sauce that makes it not-boring

8 hours ago, Marauder said:

Nice work over here!  Keep it up!  It's so darned hot. Be careful out there. 

Thanks! It's actually cooled down a bit here. Yesterdays high was 85 so downright cool compared to where we were for the last month and a half. It was just quite humid last night so even though I wasn't very hot I was 100% drenched as soon as I started working out. But I was right outside my patio doors (with the cats watching me from inside) so even if I did start to get too hot it was 5 steps to get into air conditioning.

Bodyweight work outside might have been a bad idea when it's so humid out. Bonus though: getting to lay in the hammock between sets