5 Week Countdown

So, a little under 5 weeks until race day.

Here is my schedule for the next month. I will be focused specifically on building distance and improving pace.

I never completed my food journal! But I would still like to try. I would also like to work on achieving 6 small meals a day and to incorporate more fruits & vegetables into my diet.

I'll let you ladies know how the 15KM goes!

Post-Vacation Tone-Up

Hey ladies,

It is high time that I posted - sorry for my disappearing act! I was on vacation in Nova Scotia last week, where I ate ice cream. Every. Single. Day.

Time to get back on track!

Here is my plan for the week:

Day	Activity	Completed?
Mon	Weighted workout
Tues	Run @ work (lunch)
Wed	Kettlebell Class
Thurs	Run - intervals
Fri	Weighted workout
Sat	Run - 7km
Sun	OFF

Also, I have a confession. I started another blog. I've decided I'm not going to drop this one, though, I love the inspiration! Check out my little side-project here if you have a chance, and let me know what you think! http://fitnessalaanna.blogspot.ca/

Good Week!

Hi ladies,

So this week was pretty good. Was able to get in 4 runs, my longest being 10km (which is the longest so far :)!!) and I didn't feel like I was totally going to die during it lol. On one of my runs my Aunt Angie came up to Huntsville and joined me. She decided to start training for the half marathon in Toronto to as a bucket list for her 50th birthday. It was fun getting out and doing the run with her :)

In other news, my mom had a slimming party this past week. Basically you wrap your self in these cream soaked sheets and saran wrap them into place. They are suspose to detoxify and shrink cells, causing you to lose at least a inch (cue my eye rolling here during my mom's explaination). Anyways, I joined the party mostly for the wine and cheese and girl talk. The after treatment measurement shows that everyone lost at least a inch....though not sure if that because we were wrap so tightly for a hour and we were squeezed into place or the person measuring fudged the numbers a bit....anyways, despite it being a fun party, I think I will stick to the running to lose the inches...seems like a more reliable-if painful-way lol

In my plan for this week I hope to get another 4 runs in before I head out east to drop my sister off at school (logging some distance in since I know Im not reliable with training when Im away). The long run is 12km, eek!

Sums everything up!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/the-stages-of-taking-up-running

I'm still going! Much needed update

Well ladies, it's been too long! I haven't posted much, not because I haven't been doing anything.... but because of the opposite.

A few updates:

Last Week

• The 4 day weekend at the cottage threw me off. Although I was very active while I was there (exercised everyday! even on the one day I didn't run, I helped pick up and stack wood logs - holy squats and lifts!) it threw me off my weekly schedule, resulting in a less than stellar week.
• Nutrition was way off. Indulged quite a bit at the cottage and then it was tough to go back to healthy eating when I got home.

This Week

• As a results of my indulging, I got fed up with feeling icky from bad food and made a serious meal plan for this week. I've been sticking to it too! (Remind me I need to post it here).
• I'm really into vegan eating and I'm trying to consume as little dairy and meat as possible. I got a great book on cooking vegan which I LOVE. Will post it later. I'm trying to transition into 95% vegan eating - not indefinitely, but for now. (I say 95% because I know there are little things I can never avoid e.g. going to a coffee shop and having to settle for dairy milk instead of soy or almond milk, or, having something cooking in chicken broth, or, honey)
• I last minute registered for the 'Midsummer Night's Run'. I'm doing the 15km race on Saturday night. Definitely not ready. Was gonna do a 12km last night but felt exhausted. Gonna do it tonight. Excited to amp up my running game.
• I felt like I needed a physical detox or bootcamp so this week I'm doing morning workouts and afternnoon workout. Honestly it feels great. I'm hoping to keep it up while Chris is away on vacation next week too.

I took before pictures and I'm going to take after pictures... I'm thinking I'm gonna call this a 2 week bootcamp + vegan eating camp? Not very catchy. Regardless I'll post results after the two weeks.

How are you guys doing? Summer is tough for staying in the swing of things. Let me know how it's going :)

xo Danielle

PS: Vegan + Fish. I can never ever give up fishies. miam miam miam

Was away but now I'm back!

Hey girlies!

So back from NYC and it was amazing! Had super fun but unfortunately the old trick of getting out and running on vacation didn't pan out well. Only one day did I do an "actual" run on the treadmill in the hotel. However, on the bright side we walked EVERYWHERE in NYC, only took one taxi while we are there.... So figured that we walked approx 3-6km per day (depending on the day)... So that counts doesn't it?

Being back this week at it has been ok... Trying to recapture my running groove again (feel like I just found it before I left and then it disappeared!) but keeping at it. My goal is trying to do 4 runs this week as I'm home for the entire week. 

Is it just me or is it getting Fall cold already?!

Panic

Hey ladies!

So it's been a while!

I thought I had been doing well after the MEC race (despite coming last I beat the time I had set for myself, so I'll take it as a win), but this week has been absolutely brutal for me. I've been getting up at 5:30 and working 9.5 hour days and I seriously have no energy by the end of the day. I would try getting up early to run but that would mean I would have to get up at like 3 and yeah... definitely not gonna happen.

So last week I had accomplished my goals and stuck to my schedule. Had two gym days, ran 7km and had a 5km run outside Saturday morning. This week everything is off, partially to my work schedule and the holiday Monday where I totally lazied it up.

This is where my "panic" is coming from right now, I thought my 15km race in September was near the end of the month, but actually it turns out that it's the 8th, and I'm also running it by myself. I'm worried that I'm not going to be back into the swing of things and increase my endurance enough for the extra 5 km.

AHH.

my schedule:

I've been rearranging it as I go to actually mark what I did... I know that kind of defeats the point of a schedule but oh well.

7 Day Report Card - Week 2

Hey Team!

Hope you guys are doing well and achieving your weekly goals. I had a pretty good week. Morning workouts are going really well for me. I even managed to keep it up at the cottage. WOO.

How are you guys doing??? I wanna know!!

xo
Danielle

Ladyz, I've been lazy

I felt pretty motivated after the MEC 10KM. You'd think that would have inspired me to train harder and more religiously than ever. Instead I became lazy lazy lazy and could not hit the pavement.

Bought new and proper running shoes: 

(They are the green ones, i was trying to get Sylvester to pose with new shoes but he was more interested in my cross trainers).

Shoes helped me get back at it but In an uninspiring way. 

Today, ladies, I share my new outdoors cross training regimen. My trainer suggested to do the workout solo but I tacked on a light warm-up run. Seriously this workout means business and sets your thighs on fire. 

("Crush" = crunch, rowing requires a heavy item - strengthens back and triceps if that helps illustrate move, "planchette"=plank but with arms extended in push-up position) 

Pros, can do workout at home or just run outside, don't have to go to gym

Cons, having to roll around in dew-sodden grass.

Not quite sure when I will get my next log distance run in. I'm working a double tomorrow and am going on a spontaneously wilderness filled adventure Sunday-Monday. 

Happy long weekend!!