Week 4 Training Notes

Oops, behind on the training blog...last week's recap:

Sunday - bike and core at the gym
Monday - 4.5 mile hill run (shins started hurting a lot)
Tuesday - off and went to sports chiro for an adjustment
Wednesday - ellipitcal and weights at the gym
Thursday - 3.5 mile run/walk with some burning shins...grr!
Friday - off
Saturday - 3 mile scale down run...I run/walked b/c my shins hurt

Coach told me to stick to the elliptical for the next week...le sigh!

Week 3 Training Notes

Sunday - walked around RnR marathon, ran a little w/ J and S
Monday - 4 miles
Tuesday - yoga
Wednesday - XT (bike and weights)
Thursday - 4 miles
Friday - off, yay!
Saturday - 7 miles.

My shins were a bit tight on Thursday which freaked me out but they were fine on Saturday, hmm.

Miles run thus far to train for NWM 26.2:  45 miles

Baby Blanket

K's older brother, also a "K" is expecting a little boy!  K and I are so excited for our new nephew!  I knew we'd be on a lot of trains while on our honeymoon so I brought a bunch of yarn to make this baby blanket for our soon to be nephew, Leroy (that's K&J's name for their fetus...lol!)  I guess I can say this blanket is made in the USA, France, Switzerland, and Italy? :)  On another note, I am getting tired of just knitting squares (blankets) and rectangles (scarves)...time to learn a sweater or something?

It's a chevron pattern...looked a bit more masculine than all the wavy patterns I saw.

The blanket is pretty big...like 3' x 4'!  Thanks Snuffles, for modeling it for me!  I must say though it's not easy to swaddle a polar bear...

With all the crafting I did for the wedding plus all the cooking and baking I've been doing now with all our super awesome new wedding gift appliances, I realized just how much I like the notion of making things with my own hands and being able to see, touch, taste, feel and/or smell the final product.  No wonder I have such mixed feelings about the practice of law, lol.

Cookies & Cream Cupcakes!

I recently made Fake Ginger's recipe for cookies & cream cupcakes since K loves anything cookies & cream related and these are ridiculously delicious!  I will definitely make these again!!

Recipe: http://fakeginger.com/?p=1257

Week 2 Training Notes

Sunday - off!  Yay!  But took niece M mini golfing if that counts for anything :)
Monday - 4 mile run
Tuesday - yoga
Wednesday - XT (35 minute on ellipitcal in my Vibrams, weights)
Thursday - 4 mile run
Friday - off but did a hip hop class
Saturday - gorgeous 6 mile run along the coast in La Jolla...I love San Diego!

Week 1 (part 2)

Did yoga, XT (30 minutes on the bike, then weights for arms & abs), and another 3.5 mile run.  Today's run was 5 miles near Road Runner Sports.

Week 1

3.5 mile run today.  Note to self: do not ever, ever eat an entire Chipotle burrito for lunch before running again.  Even if you give yourself 4-5 hours to digest.  What an unpleasant run!