Back on Track Monday

Today is a back on track day, which means I worked out and ate well.

I had pilates today and then I went swimming. I swam 40 laps of the 25 meter pool in about 35 minutes. There were many kids for some reason. They were jumping off the diving board. One girl jumped and then kept flailing around. I couldn't tell if she was joking or not. Her friends were yelling at her to swim, swim. Finally the lifeguard blew his whistle and went to save her. All the other lifeguards came running. It was crazy. I hadn't ever seen that before. She seemed pretty shook up after that and they all had to fill out forms. A little freaky.

I worried the whole time about accidentally peeing and microscopic fish swimming up my urethra. Thanks Billy. That was a creepy story. Luckily I managed to control myself. I do need swimming pool flip flops. The locker room is just plain gross. I usually have my running shoes on in there, but today didn't plan my footwear very appropriately. Yuck.

Tonight is leftover night and then we will shop later tonight. I think it may be burger week!!!

Sibling Trip

Back from California. It was fun!

This is all of us in front of the helicopter at the Nixon Library. I am still a bit grumpy about the whole thing, because the Watergate exhibit was closed for renovations. I don't know about most people, but that's the part I was interested in seeing.

I think Mary most enjoyed the docent explaining all of the gowns on display!

After a quick happy-hour stop at a local pub, El Torrito, we went to eat pizza with the California cousins. That was fun!! We played baseball with Daniel and got to catch up with our aunt and see the little ones.On Saturday we swam and bought snacks and two buck chuck at Trader Joe's and then sat on the patio and ate and drank and talked to our parents.

Then we ate sushi! And tried to teach Mary to use chopsticks.

Later we went to a bar.



Then on Sunday we went for a yummy breakfast. Mary and I didn't know better, but luckily Billy ordered off the "lite" menu. Before our plane we had time to sample some authentic California shops. We bought stuff at the Gap, Lucky, and Ann Taylor.

Hopefully we can do these sibling trips often. It was very fun and pretty relaxed. I am hoping Billy can come to Kansas City for the October 20th Half Marathon.

Thursday

Today was a busy day getting ready for my trip with the siblings! I ran a million errands, pilate'd, pump'd and ran. I only ran two miles and then walked one. But, the two miles were super fast. Two miles in 20:20. YEAH!!!

Tomorrow is the big trip!! I am meeting Mary at 7:30 and then we meet Billy at 10:30. And then!!! We get to go to the Nixon library!!! FUN!

I am looking forward to eating Tarragon Turkey Burgers, oven fries and asparagus in front of the Democratic debate tonight!!

I'll be back next week after the trip!!

Knitting

So, I have mentioned on here that my friend taught me to knit. But I didn't go back and elaborate. I love knitting!

I went yesterday with my friend to this very cool shop called String. I picked out some oatmeal colored wool yarn and started to make my scarf. I loved sitting in the shop with other women knitting on a cold, snowy afternoon.

This morning I was trying to read blogs, but my Internet crapped out, so I worked on the scarf.

It was looking really good...

You can tell that I was knitting three purling three and so on. I was so proud of it that I left it out to show Tim when he got home from work. Bad idea.

WANTED: KNITTING WRECKER and YARN EATER

Spring Storm

Monday night it rained all night. Which is VERY unusual. Then on Tuesday morning it turned to snow around here, but was still rain until the evening at my parents. I have about five inches of snow. It is the really wet spring-type snow and will be great for the grass. I do need to shovel, though.

Tuesday morning I went to tai chi, pilates and pump. Then I met my friend at the yarn store, so I never made it to cardio.

Today is pilates and crosstraining. I think I will add a little run also, since I didn't get to yesterday.

Recovery Workout

Mary said to take my workout pretty easy today. So I did. I always listen to Mary.

I went to pilates and I elliptical'd for 30 minutes. Burned 195 calories and my HR average was 135. Nice and easy. Then I stretched for a long time.

I wanted to give you all a very easy chicken recipe. We had it last night and it was SO yummy.

Citrus Chicken (serves 4, very good leftover on a sammich)
In a gallon size plastic bag place 1 pound of chicken breasts.
Into the baggie pour 3 tablespoons lite/low sodium soy sauce, 4 teaspoons olive oil, 2 teaspoons dried basil, the zest and juice of one lemon, one lime and one orange, 1 shallots sliced, 4 garlic cloves minced, salt and pepper.
Marinate for several hours, turning the baggie over once.
Grill until your meat thermometer reads 180 degrees.

We had it with red potato packets and broccoli, a nice bottle of Nora white wine, and the Sopranos.

Tonight is burger night. I love burger night. One week in May we are going to haveBurger Week. One night beef burgers, then salmon burgers, then pork burgers, then turkey burgers, and then three more ideas.....we haven't gotten that far. We are a burger loving family.

I am off to shower prior to book club. The ladies would prefer it that way, I think.

6 Miles!!!

Guess what crapped out again?? I'll give you a hint....it wasn't me. Darn Garmin. I was running along doing very well, if I do say so myself. I had gone to where the Garmin said 2.96 miles and I turned around. It was about 34 minutes in, so I was pretty sure it was very close to 3 miles. I then ran back toward home. When I came up a hill it said I was getting close to 5 miles, which is the 8k distance that I want to do in under 54 minutes. It said 4.8 miles 55 minutes, so I was so excited. I have about 6 weeks to get a little faster!!

But then....it made this weird beep and I looked and it said 4.0 miles so I was all bummed, then about few seconds later it beeped again and the little pop-up guy said it had lost satellite connection. So boo.

Luckily I had my HRM on, so I know that I ran 1 hour, 10 minutes and 55 seconds. I also know that I burned 527 calories. Yeah! Then I grabbed Maddie and we drove the course and it was 6 miles afterall. YEAH!!!

So I ran 6 miles in 71:55. I think that is AWESOME. And the better part is that I wasn't dead. I could have kept going. My legs were tired and my knees were a bit sore, but all in all I felt very good.

I wonder if the airport has anything to do with the Garmin troubles?? I was no where near tress and there aren't any clouds today... I did run right up next to the runway, though, so maybe that messed with it? It was so cool though, two little planes took off over me and they were so close!!

Anyway, for the weekend record: Pump & Pilate's Saturday; 6 mile run Sunday.
California in 5 days!!!