Off to San Diego!

Whew!  What a morning it has been!  Ok, well, it started off slow, but now I’m on a roll and high off my rocker!

I woke up kinda early, (6am, much earlier than my norm of 7am) and lied around for a while because my body was still tired, but my mind was awake.  I hate it when that happens!  But I was excited for breakfast after being reminded of it on Tina’s and Gina’s blogs: Breakfast cookie! 

I don’t use all the ingredients they do, because I never have them, so mine are pretty simple ingredient wise:

• 1/3C rolled oats
• 1 smashed banana
• Cinnamon
• 1T PB
• 1T TJ’s Cranberry Apple Butter

The last two ingredients are dolloped on top, but believe me I mixed that around and mmm, mmm, mmm it was delicious!

I was supposed to be doing things this morning to get ready for today…but instead I read blogs and played solitaire, for like, 30 minutes.  Sigh…

I ate an apple too.

I finally got going after putting in an inspiring DVD (Annapolis) to get me going on my strength training.  I took the workout that Bobbi did on her blog last Friday, which included:

• 5 min jog in place (mine went at various speeds to get my heart rate up!)
• 25 squats
• 20 pushups
• 15 lunges (each leg)
• 40 jumping jacks
• 45 second plank
• 20 mountain climbers (each leg)
• 40 crunches
• 1 min jump rope
• 15 reverse lunges
• 30 jumping jacks
• 40 reverse curls
• 30 bicycle crunches
• 20 tricep tips
• 20 cross body mountain climbers
• 45 second side planks
• 20 curtsy lunges
• 25 donkey kicks
• 15 supermans (5 count hold)
• 15 side lunges
• 20 incline pushups
• 3 burpees (called for 15, but I HATE THESE!)
• 2min jog (at various speeds)

It was intense, but I was inspired after that to do more, since I was watching this hot guy get even hotter as he worked out his boxing moves!

• 50 bicep curls (w/ resistance band)
• 50 tricep curls (w/ resistance band)
• 10 flyaways (w/ resistance band)
• 100 inner leg moves (I had the resistance band doubled up and around my knees)
• 50 bridge poses
• 30 inner leg lifts (lying down)
• 25 outer leg lifts (lying down)
• 50 side punches (w/ resistance band hooked to a doornob!)
• 100 punches
• 100 hook punches
• 50 standing side kicks (each leg)
• 25 second standing side leg holds

Whew!

I had plans for a 4 mile run but I was simply too tired, so I sufficed with three, which was probably actually too much with all the running I have been doing. 

I looked at my schedule and I’ve been running too many days in a row, and I can start to feel it in some of my previously injured muscles.  No good. 

My plan for the rest of the week is:

• Thursday: Mission Bay 5-6 miler in San Diego
• Friday: a little bit of strength training
• Saturday: 11 mile long run

I’ll take a day off after that and we’ll see what happens then.  But I need to start keeping better track and not running more than 4 days a week.

Now I’m off to gobble down some lunch and then hit the road to San Diego with these yummy babies in hand!

Happy Humpay!!!