TMI

I went to my second spin class yesterday and of course, my butt and accompanying region hurt... a lot.  Except this time, it hurt to pee afterwards.  Like the next 4 times I peed.  Yes, I pee that much between 7:30 and when I go to bed.  It was ok when I got up this morning.  WTF is going on?  Biking shouldn't do that to you.  I wonder if my biking shorts make it worse because this has never happened to me before prior to the biking shorts.  I wonder if all that extra padding makes me sit differently and squishes all my lady parts weirdly.  It felt like it was being pinched the whole time.  Yes, definitely TMI.

So I asked the big brother if he had any suggestions for some bike shorts.  Maybe the next time I go, I'll skip the padded bike shorts and deal with a sore bum and non hurting peeing.

On a side note, I definitely sweat more when I spin than when I run.  My shirt was disgusting and my shorts too! I sweat through the bike shorts and onto  my running shorts.  EWWWW.  The hubster wouldn't give me a hug when I got home from the gym.

Sweaty Beast

That is what I am. Went on another run tonight and I came home a wet and sweaty monster. So disgusting, but felt so good. I ran my fastest 5k since the end of lacrosse season. This is my third night in a row of exercising and I realized that I need more exercise clothes. I sweat much more now that I'm 28 as opposed to when I was in college. Maybe I wasn't pushing myself as hard as I do now. Well, I'm about to admit to something that I hope others also do, but don't tell anyone (*cough* Vail, Meg *cough*). I sometimes rewear my workout clothes if I didn't sweat too much. Mainly sports bras and shorts. Unfortunately, I don't think I can do that anymore since the last three nights my shorts have been soaked through with sweat. I'm about to break the shopping ban again to restock. I did receive a $10 Dick's gift certificate and a $10 coupon to Sports Authority. Very tempting. I need it though!

Morning Fail

I tried again to wake up early and run before work.  It was quite the epic fail.  I had set my alarm for an earlier wake up time last night and I also did not shower last night in hopes that a shower after my run would motivate me.  Ha!  I did wake up to my alarm at 5:30 today, but my body was just saying no.  I thought maybe a snooze would help, but it didn't.  I really wanted to run this morning because I had an extra meal last night for good reason at all.  I wasn't even that hungry.

So I haven't lost those few extra pounds I put on while I was in Vail, and it doesn't look like I'll be losing them any time soon either at this rate.  I've also been offered overtime at work which means that I'll be more tired when I get home and even less motivated to work out.  This sucks.

I'm so weak

I went on my morning run this morning and my body was not having it. I had originally wanted to run 5 miles, but I was noticeably tired 2 miles in. I think a lot had to do with me trying better my recent mile times. I was pushing myself, but it was a bit too soon for that. I still don't think I've accepted the fact that I'm not in the same shape I was in before lacrosse season. Anyway, I did 2.6 miles with a 9:20 pace. Getting better, but nowhere near where I wanted to be. I also ran with that damn fanny pack again. Never again, totally swearing it off. Such a pain in the ass.

After the run, I felt like shit because I totally copped out. So I went to the gym to do my mat/ab work out and lift some weights. Omg, I lost all my muscles. I had to lower the number of reps or lower the weight in everything I did. I'm not terribly surprised, but I'm so sad. I guess the good thing that came about from today is now I am 200% more motivated to get back to the gym to get my muscles back!

Boot camp booted me in the ass

I finally made it to the gym! Even though my dentist appointment for two fillings was pushed back an hour, I still had time to make it to the gym. I ended up going to the boot camp class I used to go to when I was a gym-goer.

I am out of shape, and right now I am paying for it. My arms and legs hurt, and I have to go golfing tonight. I was able to keep up with the class, but I was exhausted afterwards. It's been a long time since I sweated so freaking much. I was so tired afterwards that I scrapped dinner plans to grill chile lime flank stank to have the hubster go out and pick something up. I did end up grilling the steak just because I wouldn't have been able to tonight and we bought it on Sunday.

Running

I went on a run last night when I got home from work.  I'm pleased to say that I ran further than last week's run.  I'm still a little disappointed at the pace I was going.  A 10 minute mile isn't bad, but for only 5.2 miles that's not where I want to be especially if a 10 minute mile is the pace I want to hold for 13.1 miles.  I'm bound to get slower as I go.

Yesterday was hot and humid.  This is going to be my training weather for the rest of the summer.  I can't run long distances at the gym and I hate running on a treadmill.  I broke out my little running fanny pack yesterday.

I can't say I'm pleased with it, but it has nothing to do with the product itself.  I had to cinch it really tight to my waist because it would bounce too much when I ran.  It kept rotating on me and getting loose.  I was just taken aback that I wouldn't be able to run with it lower on my hips.  Oh well.  I am glad that I had the water bottle with me.  It was hot and I used it to squirt water in my face.  It cooled me down, but got all my salty sweat in my eyes and mouth.  GROSS!  I definitely need to decrease my salt intake.

My knee started to hurt after 2.5 miles which is what would happen to me when I first started running.  I think I need to just push past that point.  The odd thing is that the pain moved from the outside of my leg towards the inner part around my knee.  I think that has something to do with my shoes and insoles.  I ended up going 5.2 miles in 52 minutes.  Not bad, but I've got a long way to go.  I think today I'll give me legs a break from running and either hit up the spinning class or the weights class at the gym.  This will be the first time in 2-3 months since I visited there too!

Decisions, Decisions

Now with lacrosse season coming to end (Ohio Cup this weekend is all that's left), I now have my nights back!  Yay!  That means getting back to working out.  I'm trying to decide what to do tonight.  The stepson is staying with us for the remainder of the week, so I'm worried about getting dinner ready at a decent hour.  If I get home around 5:30, that means dinner will be at 7:00 pm at the earliest.  That's an acceptable dinner time, right?

Now to decide if I want to run outside or go to the gym and work out.  I haven't lifted weights in a very long time.  I'm afraid to see if my arms lost all the definition I got from last year.  Maybe I'll run outside tonight since the forecast says rain tomorrow and Thursday.  I hope to make it to boot camp this Wednesday too after my dentist appointment.

Soft

I'm going to Vegas in a few weeks with the intention of only doing the following: gambling, eating, sleeping, drinking, and laying out at the pool.  Except for the last one, I'm completely prepared for those activities.  As for laying out, I've gotten soft.  I've lost the definition in my abdomen.  I blame it all on lacrosse season.  I've been so busy every night that I haven't been to the gym in who knows how long.  I miss just running and lifting weights.  I never thought I would say that.

I think I've done a good job maintaining my weight with my horrible mid-season eating habits, but I want to get my definition back before I leave.  I think that means doing crunches and ab exercises when I get home from reffing.  I don't really believe that will help because we all know it's a combination of cardio and weights and you can't spot reduce.  I'm still going to try.  I can't stop officiating because that supplements the first activity in my list.

Danishes and more

My diet has gone to shit lately.  With all the lacrosse games I'm doing, I'm lucky to get home by 10 pm.  I leave straight from work and I have to eat snacks throughout the day to make sure I'm not hungry in the middle of the game.  And then once the game is over, I find myself stopping to get fast food and totally pigging out because I haven't had any real food since 11 am.
Anyway, this weekend was not good to my scale.  I ate way too much for the hubster's belated birthday dinner at Top and had too much to drink.  After that, I had margarita's and mexican food with my reffing buddies.  Same thing, was starving and overate.
To start things off this week, we had an all hands meeting this morning where they had some breakfast foods to snack on.  So I had half a blueberry muffin and a cheese danish in addition to the banana and the protein bar I ate for breakfast.  To make things worse, I now have this on my desk:


Yes, another cheese danish and an APPLE one too.  My games tonight were cancelled tonight too, so if I eat these, it'll be like double calories because I won't burn any tonight.  Hmmm, perhaps it's finally time to hit the gym that I haven't been to in a month.  Things have got to get better.

Exercise gives you endorphins - Endorphins make you happy.

It's totally true.  I got off work yesterday and I was in the worst mood and feeling completely wiped out.  I got a few announcements at work that threw my plans for the week into a tizzy and I hate that.  I have to know what's going to happen and it has to follow my schedule.  I had plans to go the gym, but on the drive home decided I didn't want to go.

I get home and my snowboard had arrived, so that put me in a better mood.  The hubster said some "encouraging" words to get my butt out the door, and I'm so glad he did.  I felt so much better after my work out.  Maybe not happy per se, but an overall improvement in mood.  Even though I tell the hubster he has to make me go to the gym and then bitch and complain when he does, he really has a knack for knowing when to push and when to let go.  <3 my hubster.