Ripple

Start of a brand new year. A huge delicious slice of a day~foggy run, coffee, family, French onion dip, more coffee, Oregon coast drive, Newport awesomeness, walk on the beach with Dude at twilight....

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Day 1/1/14

Awesome Journey

Dude... Yup.

Summer time and the living is easy...

Been running and riding and swimming a lot.  Past week and next week off Boots and really missing it.  Not always keen on pre-dawn wake-up but man is it a great way to start the day.  Really jonesing for the workout and hard to make myself do it solo.  Easier to go on a run or swim.  Excited for next camp session.  Hilariously surprised on how much I enjoy the early mornings and the workout.  Need to keep up with the workouts to not lose the teeny tiny improvements I have made on being able to to a modified plank and push-up. Can't wait to do real push-ups and plank...hopefully in my lifetime :-)

Shoe Porn

As a runner.... This really does it for me. Zowie. New shoe day.

See Jane tomorrow in Alameda. Flat course, 75% ocean view, all women. Yeah!!!

Not trained at all but I have legs so I will run jog walk to my thumping tunes. Not a huge fan of See Jane, their FB posts are very corporate & all about champagne & chocolate & girlie stuff...a bit demeaning but I'm just picky.

Missed bootscamp today. Was up and almost dressed but really sore achilles & groin from squats .... Made decision not to go. Hard to do but didn't want to limp 13.1 for a fun dawn workout.

Can't wait for Monday 5:30!

Zooooom

Groove

Love BootsCamp. Hard to rise at 5am but so worth it. Amazeballs.

Getting stronger every day on lunges squats curls burpees hover plank

Love seeing the dawn

This week was a sad one for swimming, only went 2 times. Crazy busy & shorter lap swim hours in the summer, boooo

Half Marathon Saturday but stressed to get there & home for a party at noon. Not how I like to run an event.

Tired every night by 8 & up naturally at 4:30am

Need to eat more GREENS

Hydrate more

Stuffy head, cold coming on ... Ick. Hope it's a shortie.

Perspective

It's all in how you look at it.

3 laps on track
50 of each:
Push ups
Bicycle sit ups
Jumping lunges
Tricep pulls
Side leg raises
10 sprints jog back
1 lap

My goal is not time. It's cleaner stronger rounds of these!

My push-ups the start of second round were so much stronger than first set. Rad!

Goal~real push ups! Clean strong lunges.

Sooooo good

Camp for boots, rad!
Early to bed & up at 5am, super rad!
So sore, so awesome!
Geysers bike climb...gnarly hills. Felt insane & difficult & so glad I am a cyclist. So glad.

Drinking lots of water. Watching food. Eating enough. Not skipping meals. Fueling. No headaches. No late night sleep hangovers.

So far... Kicking ass and taking names.

Seriously in love with 5:30 bootcamp. Being up at dawn truly trumps night owling. Had no idea.

A month of living outside the comfort zone

Been away unintentionally from this blog for one month...life is still peachy in the meantime.

~swimming 5 days a week
~biking weekly (70 miler Backroads event)
~running, need to do it a lot more. Still have the zest for it, need to make the time

Tomorrow starts one month of bootcamp. Running, lunging, abs, weights... Old-school biggest loser workouts. A bit nervous/excited of the workouts, I've wanted a change from linear movemt (bikerunswim) for a while but I'm terrified of bootcamp time~5:30 AM...eeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk!

This mighty night owl is freaking out. Should be good for me. Going to bed like an adult at 10pm vs college kid at 1am. Excited about watching the sunrises though ;-)

Going to track my process here with camp and eating well. Doing a month of herbalife tea/aloe/shakes as well as clean-ish eating.  Not going paleo (I like rice & beans too much) or dieting (I like honey & cheese too much) or anything like that, just trying to lay off the junk food I shove in my mouth when I am too lazy to make a meal. I have a bad habit of skipping breakfast then being low energy/hunger headache and hosing myself on a run etc. hoping the quick/easy shake in the AM will help me in realizing how much better I feel when I'm fueled and can continue after the month is up by making my own shakes or using Herba if I am addicted/too lazy. Ordered the allergen free shake option (no soy, gluten, dairy)...Not sure it'll be as tasty as the banana cream pie shakes at the Live it Up cafe.  Love the tea and aloe though, not sure which one it is but something in one of those two things makes me feel ZOWIE.  Might also just being hydrated and fueled :-)

Yup.

Life is...

So good.

Biking, swimming, running.

Need more: sleep, reading, John Hughes movies, cleaner eating & fuel. Greens.

Let the season begin...

Biker Booze

I need one if these.

Life is good. I'm alive. I hate violence & chaos (Boston broke my heart) but I see the joy & love of being alive for now & my loved ones safe for today.

Bikes Lake Sonoma Hills, awesome.

Love my bike. Love her.

Eating is meh. A balance of salmon/broccoli and steel oats with self medicating comfort food 'tortilla mayo cheese pickle' wrap :-). Doing ok. Could be tons better but there are bigger worries in the world than sugar in my coffee (I use maple syrup actually).

Loving life & my family today, always.

Beautiful bounty

Life

Hidden Perks of an Active Life

Love that this evening as I walked the dog & thought 'yahoo glad I'm getting out for some exercise today...' I was totally forgetting that earlier in the day I had ran 3 miles & swam 30 minutes.

Righteous.

Food is ok. Off the wagon a bit. Still trying to be clean but not nearly as good as a few weeks ago but trying....