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....

Solo

Solo ride
Hit the road late, thought I'd do 30 min just to be in the saddle, then I said half the backroads loop (backwards), then before I knew it... I road the whole loop.

Yowza!

Saw a woman ~ lean tan long legs cute skirts gray hair and a face about 70-ish. I love riding=longevity.

Ahhhh Grasshopper

The problems: been a sugarwhore the past 2 days, no idea why or how but its been insane... Maybe 10-12 Hershey kisses, I lost count.

Dog craziness. Bad mood regarding school for Dude (excited for summer & lax routine) & him growing up way too fast.

The joys: walking swimming biking.

My Dude. He's been absolutely delicious & joyous, I want to just squeeze him forever and ever.

SUN!

Lazy calm nights at home.

Hitting the road on my bike again right now! Zoooooom

Lazy spring evenings...bliss

WW awesomeness

Thank you S!

Life

Today was a good day but also a mixed bag of good health and enjoyment.  I think I was tired from Saturday ride and also just hungry...for food, life, calm.  So I satiated myself :-)

Coffee soy maple

brown rice heated in almond milk cinnamon maple

1.5 hr dog stroll in the sunny wind

BIG italian sandwich from Fiesta, yum!

25 min Swim 

2 scoops sundae at B&R with Dude. Awesome

small portion spinach pasta & meat sauce

salad carrots

2 slices cinnamon raisin ezekiel toast & earth balance

Solo evening stroll with dog after dinner...beautiful outside at twilight

Left outside knee hurts like a bugger, aches.  I am sure it is a calf or hamstring issue presenting itself at the knee...STRETCHing needed.  More. Always. More.

Biking Tuesday and Run Wednesday...a sunny week of swimming daily I hope.

Evening Walk

Cinderella Ride Radness

Beautiful day...unsettled gray sun wind sun gray
Easy ride.  Felt the burn in the legs a few times up long inclines
New bike felt like BUTTER
Noticed new things on bike, my sit bones hurt and I felt higher on my seat.  A bit of a neck/high shoulders ache but I think that is the long mileage not the bike
Loved my new shifting and just new light bike.  Yahooo
Great people~love the tutus fishnets helmet art...so many fun people.
So many older ladies!
So many bike teams and groups
A few snarky ladies
A few people did not know or care to abide by the polite rules of the road...sigh...always a few turkeys out there
Strong, smart in riding, confident on the bike in big groups or traffic.
Felt guilty every time I blew a stopsign, I know if I encountered a crabby cop I would get a ticket but that didn't stop me from rolling with everyone through them. Felt a bit like cattle, following the herd.
Hard to touch down on all signs though, there were so many and no one was stopping unless a car was waiting. Again, herd.
Great food and snacks.  I was good and ate zero cookies & caramels etc even though it is justified to EAT anything on a long ride....stuck to bananas and PB & pickle sandwich :-) V8 and pretzels.
Next year I want to socialize more, chat up more ladies.  So many from so many places...love it.
Was channeling Big George (Hincappie) and pulling the big gear a lot, so fast & smooth on the new Honey bike.  I could have jetted away so many times on the straight aways if there were not so many people...fantastic.

Overall a totally righteous day.  So glad to be out there & riding.  Feeling lucky.

Tons of bikes...makes me giddy

Pockets full of caramels