I rearranged my usual weekend schedule to go strawberry picking with my Mom.
No matter how good the berries are at the store, they just don’t compare!
It was towards the end of the season for this crop, so it took us a while to fill our flats. I ended up with 7 lbs, while my Mom picked about 12 lbs. I think we will use ours up eating them whole and in smoothies, but hopefully my Mom will make enough preserves to share.
What’s your favorite way to eat strawberries?
This is my training log for the Zooma Annapolis Half Marathon. (You can read my training log for week one here, week two here, week three here, week four here, and week five here.)
I can’t believe this is my last week of training before my taper week! I know I am ready. All I have to do is keep up my conditioning, not get injured and hope for a cool, cloudy morning!
Less than one week after the Zooma Half, I am running the Lawyer’s Have Heart 10K. For the first time, and in honor of my Dad, I am fundraising for the American Heart Association, so please visit my donation page.
May 23
21 min elliptical
free weights:
deadlifts/military presses/push-ups
plie squats/tricep dips
lunges/bicep curls
step-ups/lateral raises/front raises
bent-over rows/hamstring curls/leg extensions (Bowflex)
crunches/tuck & pile (on fitball)
side-lying leg lifts/crunches (on mat)
May 24 (Treadmill Hill Intervals)
Warm Up: 3 min @ 3.7 mph, 5 min @ 5.7 mph
Hill Intervals: 4 sets of 4 hills up to 6.0 incline (1 min hill, 1 min 0%), 2 sets @ 5.7 mph, 2 sets @ 6.0 mph
Cool Down: 2 min @ 6.0 mph, 3 min @ 6.3 mph (no hills), 5 min @ 3.7 mph
May 25
20 min walk outside
free weights:
deadlifts/military presses/push-ups
plie squats/tricep dips
lunges/bicep curls
step-ups/lateral raises/front raises
bent-over rows/hamstring curls/leg extensions (Bowflex)
crunches/tuck & pile (on fitball)
side-lying leg lifts/crunches (on mat)
May 26 (#watchless run)
~4.5 mile run (based on my usual route)
~ 43 min (based on my iPod)
May 27
21 min elliptical
free weights
:
deadlifts/military presses/push-ups
plie squats/tricep dips
lunges/bicep curls
step-ups/lateral raises/front raises
bent-over rows/hamstring curls/leg extensions (Bowflex)
crunches/tuck & pile (on fitball)
side-lying leg lifts/crunches (on mat)
Notes: I did my full weights workout since I am not doing my long run until Monday (Memorial Day).
May 28 (Pyramid Treadmill Workout)
1 mile warm up (12 min): 5 min walking, 7 min running
5 K @ 6.5 mph (29 min)
1 mile cool down (11 min): 6 min running, 5 min walking
May 29
Yoga: 20 min Rodney Yee “forward bends” program
And that’s just about it! One more long run tomorrow before I start my taper! 🙂
Step 1: Have a hot beverage ready (a “tall” is not enough!)
Step 2: Get two bags of ice.
Step 3: Run cold water into tub, and get in, fully dressed, with a big sweatshirt on top.
Step 4: Add ice, set timer for 15-18 minutes.
Step 5: Read or carefully play with smartphone (i.e., don’t drop it in the water!) to take your mind off the cold. Wiggle your toes and flex your feet from time to time to make sure they don’t freeze.
**This post is brought to you by the rapture that wasn’t, by Reverend Baker’s sermon the morning after, by this awesome Nike t-shirt, and by several life lessons.
My religious upbringing didn’t include much focus on the Book of Revelation or “the rapture.” As Reverend Baker put it in his sermon this week, when Jesus said (in John 14:6)
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
He didn’t mean that He is a door that you open and all of a sudden (woosh!) there you are in heaven. Rather, He is the way to follow as you live your life. Being a Christian is as much about the journey–how you live your life–as the destination–how you might spend the rest of eternity.
I used to think that losing weight and getting fit were destinations–goals that I could reach once or for all and then get on with the rest of my life. After I reached my weight loss goal, it took a bit of time (and a few pounds regained) to learn that eating right and staying fit were the keys to living the rest of my life. (My mantra in those days: If I go back to my old ways, I’ll get back to my old weighs.) Every day I have to make choices about what I will (or won’t) eat and how much I will (or won’t) move my body. Reaching my goal weight might have been the end of my weight loss journey, but it was only the beginning of the rest of my life.
I can draw the same analogy about work. As an associate, I had a general goal of making partner in my law firm. Now that I’ve been a partner for a few years, I see making partner as the start–not the finale–of my career. Becoming partner meant charting my own career path and doing the hard work it takes to be successful. Every day brings new challenges, new accomplishments, and yes, sometimes, new frustrations!
Understanding life as an ongoing journey suits me well. I try remind myself to “relax and enjoy the scenery,” and when the path gets rocky I remember that Jesus is walking with me every step of the way.
Did you ever reach a goal that turned out to be just the beginning?
What’s your favorite t-shirt slogan?
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Three Things Thursday: Blog Comments
This weekend I saw a few tweets in my #fitbloggin Twitter-stream wondering why people follow a link from Facebook to read a blog post, and then go back to Facebook to comment instead of leaving a comment on the blog.
(I also saw tweets about giving credit and attribution when someone else inspires a blog post–I tried to go back and find the tweets but they were lost in all the #fitbloggin chatter. If I try to guess who it was I’m sure I will get it wrong! So if it was you, please let me know and I will give you full credit for inspiring this post! According to Susan (@FoodieMcBody) it was Josie (@YumYucky), but I’m not sure if she meant that Joise raised it at Fitbloggin (they both were there) or on Twitter(where I saw it).)
I first wrote about commenting on blogs a few months ago, but didn’t address this issue directly.
Here are my top three reasons why I might prefer to leave a comment on Facebook:
What about you? What makes you more or less likely to comment on a blog post?
Would you be more likely to comment on Facebook instead?