Started 5k Training Today

I hope no one thinks badly of me about my post yesterday regarding the Facebook challenge.  I re-read my post and I almost feel like I came off as overly bragging about winning a large pot and only losing 3 pounds to do so.  I didn't mean to come off like that...I just thought it was ridiculous that anyone would still give me the pot when someone else did so much better, even though she didn't get her money in on time.  As I said, though, the whole challenge turned into a joke and I am giving the money to Jenn (that is if I ever see it; we have our doubts that the money will ever be sent out after all the other drama that unfolded during the challenge).  She earned it and I'm super proud of her.  :)

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My cousin's daughter is turning a year old in June and I got her invitation in the mail the other day.  My cousin is also a scrapbooker (our mom's are scrappers, too - it runs in the family, I guess, LOL) so she handmade her daughter's invites and they are super cute.  I've been looking on Pinterest for 1st birthday ideas for Ben's birthday in August and getting my cousin's invite really got me in the creative mindset.  I have 4 months to plan Ben's birthday, so if I don't procrastinate for once, I might be able to pull off a really great party!  LOL

not sure what's going on with the little fuzzy spots

Since I was in a creative mood today, I did a quick page for my wedding album.  When we first started talking about a Vegas wedding, I fell in love with the Stratosphere.  I am somewhat adventurous and the thought of jumping from the top of the Strat was pretty thrilling.  Unfortunately, it's hard to pry large amounts of money from my fingers and the $100 fee for the jump was not something I was eager to pay.  Oh, and I was 7 months pregnant, so it really wasn't an option anyway.  LOL  But I would LOVE to do it someday.  Maybe.  I'd probably pee my pants by the time I looked over the landing.  Anyway, I scrapped my pictures of the Stratosphere today.  As usual, the picture doesn't do it justice.  :)

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I started my 5k training today, with a schedule I created with Smart Coach.  I really think this is a schedule I can keep up with.  I may have to move my running day around once in awhile, but as long as I do each of the scheduled amounts of miles, I should be okay.  Today was an easy 2 mile run.  In my world, there is no such thing as an easy run.  I ended up doing it on the treadmill today because with soccer tonight, I wouldn't have had any other free time to do it.  Right away, the boredom of the treadmill got the best of me.  I powered through, though.  My breathing was actually pretty excellent today.  The only problem, besides boredom, was that I got really hot.  :/  I had a fan on me, but that really didn't help much.

2 miles, 27:54 minutes, 311 calories burned

Tomorrow is a scheduled rest day/cross training day, but I think I'm going to swap Tuesday and Wednesday around because I'll be able to get to the gym Wednesday, but not tomorrow.  The rest of my week looks like this:

• Tuesday - 2 miles
• Wednesday - cross train
• Thursday - cross train
• Friday - rest
• Saturday - 3 miles
• Sunday - cross train

I'm pretty excited about following this schedule.  I was doing pretty good when I had a schedule to follow prior to my injury in March, so I think this is really going to work out.  Plus, this schedule has me doing 117 miles during the 10 week training, which will put a nice dent in my goal of 366 miles logged for the year.  :)

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Food Log:

• lunch - chicken noodle soup (200), grilled cheese with ketchup (155)
• dinner -  doritos (280), cottage cheese (180)
• snack - banana (127), fruity pebbles and 2% milk (391)
• energy - sugarfree red bull (20)

total calories: 1353

I was too tired after soccer practice to find a really healthy dinner.  The kids and Preston had goulash, which I don't care for, so I just grabbed what was easy.  I wasn't actually hungry, but I know that I have to eat, even when I don't want to.  :/

Fitness Log:

• run treadmill - 2 miles/13:56 pace, 27:54 minutes total/311 calories burned

total calories burned:  311 calories

Calories are based off what the treadmill said.  DailyMile said I burned 407 calories.  Rule of thumb says I burned 200 calories (100 calories for every mile) so I have no idea what I should go by.  In my head, I'll assume 200, because using the Garmin, it tends to go by the 100 calories per mile idea.