Ton of Fun- Week Two

How has it already been a week since I last posted?! I have every intention of doing a post on my experience thus far with our juicer, but every time I am done and washing the juicer, I remember that I wanted to take photos of the process. Hopefully now my post can live up to the hype, whenever it gets done. But anywho, we are really here to discuss week two on the ToF weight loss challenge. To find out how week one went, click here.

Week one wasn't perfect and I really wanted to try to make more changes for week two, since I am sort of getting into a good groove. I have officially logged in and tracked for 13 days in a row on My Fitness Pal, if you haven't downloaded this free app what are you waiting for? Go ahead, check it out, I'll wait. Also, you can just go to the website if you don't have access to apps. There are some extra bonus features there that you can't get on the app.

So back to trying some new things for week two... I figured since I polished off a half gallon of ice cream during week one, maybe I should just not buy the ice cream in the first place, that way I am not tempted. Mission accomplished! I also decided to be more diligent about juicing, since I am using it as my breakfast to avoid the Dunkin' drive thru. On Saturday, Rob and I went to the farmers market in Fairport to get some veggies for dinner and to use for juicing experimentation. Week one I had only juiced with fruits and my sugar intake was really high. I also decided instead of juicing every night for the next morning, to make a double batches instead. I went four days in a row with no trips to Dunkin'! I hope they don't forget my usual.

Yes, I have too much time on my hands.

As far as my weekly exercise I really slacked off over the weekend so I hit the ground running Monday. Instead of yoga I went to the gym and did 45 minutes of hard cardio. On Tuesday I returned to my former Tuesday tradition of the Cobb's Hill run and I brought Rob. This was very eye opening. Cobb's Hill is always pretty challenging, but during half marathon training I got pretty good at it and even enjoyed it occasionally. Well on Tuesday I couldn't make it up the hill without a walk break. I figured this is a good gauge of starting over and it can only get better from here. Wednesday was my usual spin class, we had a sub, but she was pretty good.

4.6 pounds lost so far! 

Must be all the changes I made helped because according to the FF scale I lost over 3 pounds!!! Way better results compared to week one. I think I have found my groove for sure. How did I celebrate? My favorite Half Moon salad and I splurged and got a Mountain Dew. I really like to live on the wild side.

Looking ahead to week three I hope I can continue to stay in the groove with these changes and make healthy choices overall. It might be hard since my birthday is coming up and I am a fan of sweets, maybe I'll make a special birthday cake juice...carrots, pineapple, mango and some sprinkles? Maybe I'll just stick a candle in it!

Tuesday Rendezvous

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." 

-Nelson Mandela

My typical Tuesday night is spent at my home away from home: Fleet Feet Brighton & Cobb's Hill.

I promise I'll try to get better blog photographs.
I only have a degree in photography!

Tuesday marked my first official training run towards the marathon. One down, a million more to go! The official run from FF Brighton on Tuesday night is hill repeats. I had 3 miles on my schedule and I knew the route was going to be at least 3.5, hey call me an overachiever. I was joined by Katie and Laura and a ton of other Winter Warriors gettin' their run on. We left after the big crowd because I was too impatient to wait in the long line for the bathroom and I thought if we waited it would be clear. Well the line was shorter, but other people had the same plan I did. Is it weird to take photos of people in line for the potty? Yea thought so. The three of us headed out and I picked up the pace until the first main intersection. I felt like I was flying and was feeling great! I continued to cruise right along Monroe with clear sidewalks free of ice and snow. 

Once I got to the base of Cobb's Hill I had some thinking to do. You see my trusty Garmin failed me last Tuesday. Last week I decided I would do a tempo run up and around the hill and then do one repeat at tempo pace as well. Well I did and I was haulin', great run, felt like Ryan Hall. Until I was about a quarter of a mile from the store (the finish) and realized my Garmin had stopped at 19 minutes. NOOOOOOOOO! Fast forward to this week and I had some retaliation to do, take that Garmin. I decided I would do one trip around at tempo pace and skip the extra repeat. My pace was great going up and around the hill, much faster then normal and on the way down I swear there was smoke coming from my sneaks. Katie even said she couldn't catch up with me, score! We took it a bit easier heading back to the store and compared results at the finish. When I checked my average pace for the run I was right around 12 minutes. What the heck, I am always around 12 minutes. Something must be wrong, I swear I was bookin'. Next time I am putting it on my other wrist, maybe it's faster. 

I finished my Tuesday night rendezvous with a trip to Half Moon for a yummy salad. Once I got home I took a nice hot shower and surfed the web. I cannot believe how many of you have checked out my blog. I am so glad you are enjoying it so far. I can only take credit for about 100 of those visits on the stalker counter :) 

Do you wear a GPS for running?

Ever feel like it isn't accurate?

Ever try running naked? (w/out GPS people!)

P.S. Did you know you could Google "Hill Quote" and you actually get a bunch of quotes with the word hill in it? What did people do before the internet!