News to me

Well, today was a busy day. I got up and went and worked out this morning for an hour and a half. I started the workout with a 2.5 mile jog and then ended with a hours worth of drills. Needless to say I was feeling pretty tired after that. I am deciding on whether or not to go work out tomorrow morning. It will all depend on Tiffany and if she will be going to her Mary Kay meeting on Monday night.

I talked to my sister who was in the Air force and is now finishing up her masters and teaches a fitness class for Extreme Body Shaping. She apparently has been getting a chuckle out of my blog and the way that I eat, so I will be "trying" to change the way that I eat and not count calories but instead lower my complex carbs and increase my protein. I am going to try and eat more fruits and veggies and try and stay away from white bread. I am also going to try and eat more fiber and whole wheat products.

Only time will tell. Any suggestions?

Ouch

Well, a good workout yesterday. Lots of squats and leg lifts. Worked my lower body pretty good and now today I am sore. I am going to go workout an extra day on Saturday because I was unable to workout on Tuesday and I hear that it is pretty brutal on Saturdays.

My eating yesterday was not terrible but could have been better.

Breakfast:

1. BK Crossant 340
2. Small Hash Brown 230

Lunch:

1. Turkey Sandwitch 260
2. chips 140
3. Pudding Cup 102

Snack:

1. Banana 110
2. Med Diet Cherry Limeade 15

Dinner:

1. Steak Fajita 228

Total: 1213 calories

I think I did pretty good, only ate one fajita. I was pretty hungry after getting home from work, but did not want to eat before my workout because it did not go well the day before when I did that, so I just ate one fajita to get something in my stomach, with the intention of eating more after my workout. When I got home I was not hungry and was just ready to take a shower and rest.

This morning I did pretty good, had special K with half a banana and a hard boiled egg. I have yet to have a coke and I am feeling it, I might just go upstairs and get me a diet coke.

Core workout

Well had a pretty good workout yesterday. We worked our core for an hour, it was brutal. It is not just the workout but you have to jog about a mile before the workout starts to get your heart rate up. That just kills me sometimes.

One thing that I need to try is not to eat right before my workout. It was tough working out after eating delicious turkey tacos that Tiffany made for dinner.

Well, another week almost gone and another Saturday run about to be here. This Saturday we will be meeting at 6 am at Pinnacle Mountain State Park at the Visitor's Center. The scheduled distances are: 1 mi (half marathon build up), 4 mi (marathon build up), 6 mi, and 8 mi. Don't forget your bug spray AND your water and/or sports drink.

Well, today I need to jog a mile and a half. Not sure if am going to stick with my schedule but instead do the boot camp. I think that I will do better at the boot camp.

Since I did not wake up in time this morning, I was unable to get a proper breakfast. I ended up running out the door with 20 min to get the kids to school, and in traffic, it takes about 30. Because of this, I did not get the breakfast that I wanted to eat which was special K with bananas and one packet of Splenda. Instead I had to settle on Burger King croissant meal. I will be headed home for lunch, and I might just walk/jog my distance at lunch.

Since I blog every day, I think I am going to blog what I eat to get a sense of my food intake. If anyone has any calorie counting web sites that they recommend, please let me know.

Bah

I got out and jogged yesterday but was unable to workout with the group. I was watching the kids last night while Tiffany when out with some women from our church. I got 1.5 miles in, this is the distance for training. To tell you the truth, I might start slacking off of the marathon training runs but instead just workout 4 days of the week at the park with the fitness group. I find myself very very tired if I do both in one day.

To give you an update on the compression shorts that I purchased last week, I love them. They really help out with my runs. I don't get any more chafing and they really feel good. Here is my run from yesterday, link.

I did not do well today eating wise. My daughter wanted to go to eat donuts this morning, so I obliged and we ate donuts. I had a ham and cheese croissant with a donut, it was good but not good for me.

New workout

I am trying something new. I started up a bootcamp at a park close to me. It is lead by a former Marine and it is an hour a day, 4-6 days a week. I am going to try and go 4 days a week. Juggling that with Tiffany s schedule and the kids schedule will be a task, but I will work it out.

I also jogged 2ish miles yesterday just like me training schedule posted and it was rough doing that and 1 hour of workout. Here is the link for yesterdays run. The break in the run is when I stopped to talk to the workout instructor about the class.

What a weekend

Wow, what a weekend. This past weekend was really busy. One thing that I did not do was get out and run. I just had a hard time getting up in the morning and run. I did mow the yard, but waking up at 5:30 to go run at 6, just did not happen. Well today I have 2 miles to get done, easy enough.

I started using my phone to tether an internet connection while at work, and might I add, it works quite well and is pretty quick. I was able to stream Hulu and youtube just fine.

This is going to be a good week, I just know it.

Finally Friday

Well, I ran my 2 miles yesterday and I can honestly say that it felt great. Here is the link for my runkeeper log. I decided to run a different route, and I liked the change. I also upped my pace to under a 15 min mile ;-).

Here are a few pics that I took of my kids.



The first one is my kids going for a ride, but they got pulled over by the po-po (Police), I think they were speeding.



Here is another of my daughter going to school today. Today is picture day so my wife wanted me to take a picture of her before school. She had her clothes for today laying out all week just waiting for pictures.