Week in Review 1/31/10 - 2/6/10

Sunday: 6.0 miles outside
Monday:  45 minute intervals on treadmill
Tuesday:  45 minute intervals on treadmill
Wednesday:  1 hour yoga
Thursday:  60 minutes treadmill
Saturday:  80 minutes treadmilll

Total Running Miles:  27.8

Well that's the most miles I've had in a week since Columbus Marathon in October!  I am really still enjoying the treadmill interval workouts.  Call me crazy but I just feel like I am getting a better workout than if I were to go run super cautiously over the ice and snow.  On Saturday I wanted to go at least 7 miles but I was having a hard time getting motivated by myself in the basement.  The classic rock station was helping a bit but I really wanted another person in the room with me so I texted Abby, "I'm lonely."  She replied with an "ok" and soon came down to keep me company.  She fired up Wii Fit Plus and went to town.  Gina soon came down to add to the fun and then towards the end of the workout Jerry returned from his outdoor slog through the fresh snow.  The time passes pretty quickly that way and I have now officially had my fill of classic rock.  I was singing (well shouting is more like it because I can't carry a tune in a bucket according to my family) to Free Ride when Gina came down.  She gave me the "wtf" look and then said in her teenagery way, "What is this?"

Other highlights of the week were my massage on Thursday.  I haven't had one in almost five years.  It was heavenly just like I was hoping.  I think alot of pent up toxins were released because I actually felt foggy for the rest of the day.  Strange.  Gina was able to participate in two scuba diving classes through her high school gym class.  She is super comfortable in the water (unlike her mother) so I only worried about her a little.  I would have enjoyed watching her but had to suffice to listen to the description at dinner.

Abby had some nice treadmill time this week.  I think she and I are both waiting anxiously for that first spring-like day when we can head to the path together and soak up some sunshine.

We hopefully have secured a pacer for Jerry for Burning River.  A super nice friend of ours from church is interested and would be a great addition to our "team"!  I would kind of like to pace him for a short section.  We'll see.  I certainly wouldn't want to hold him back.  I don't like things that go bump in the night so I'd probably be a bit of a liability in the woods at night!

Yummy meals this week!  Vegetable soup, Fish and couscous, mac-n-cheese and bean salad, eggplant pizza, penne pasta with veggies, chicken salad on foccacia rolls, and on saturday after church we grabbed wonton soup, hot sour soup and lots of california rolls on the way home.  Deeeelish!