Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Produce, Exercise and Friends

Breakfast was homemade granola.  Lunch was a big apple and carrots with hummus with a can of chicken noodle soup.  Dinner was less stellar - husband cooked up home cured bacon and we made sandwiches out of it (although I stopped at one instead of the additional half that I usually have).  I served apples and carrots with it.  I had a little more hummus with my carrots.  Then I took a 2+ mile walk with my husband even though it was kind of cold and already dark. 

BDD - You've commented a couple times about how awesome my friends have been to help kick me in the ass and get off the couch more.  Both are wives of guys that my husband grew up with.  They know each other from high school, but they are about 6-8 years younger than me.  They both go to our church and have kids in our kids' school.  I got together with them a couple times last spring, but then over the spring and summer they didn't usually include me.  I thought maybe they didn't want to.  I basically trained completely alone for my first sprint tri (and my 2nd).  Not sure why they started calling more this fall, but I am very grateful.  I tend to feel a little bad about working out with Stacy because she is so much more fit than me that I feel like I slow her down, but as long as she calls - I will agree to do whatever she is game for.  Alyssa is much closer to my fitness level, but still a damn fast walker.  Now another mom (another mom from our school and wife of a guy I went to HS with, Susan) has expressed interest in going for a walk or jog.  She is a pediatrician with kind of crazy hours, but maybe one day a week we can do it.  It sucks less to work out with a friend for sure!  I'm so blessed and grateful for their supportive friendships.

Just won some winter cycling tights on Ebay.  Still bidding on some other fun tri items.  Got the tights for $24.51.  Same seller had some good deals on some jerseys so I am going to try to score on those too.  Trying to save Santa some coin!  :)  Better stop bidding soon though or my husband will repeat his mantra "You aren't saving money when you are spending it." 

5 comments:

  1. Working out with buddies can be a good thing. Sometimes even the faster people don't mind the easier workouts, and it gives you a bit of incentive to push a little harder than you might. As long as everyone is clear on what the workout is going to be, it should be good.

    I tend to be a very low maintenance guy, and sometimes find that waiting for other people to get it together is a pain the behind. Which is why I do most of my workouts alone. Every now and then I sing that song that George Thorogood messed up.

    I train alone
    I train alone
    And you know when I train alone,
    I prefer to be by myself!

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  2. I used to train alone, however, for the marathon I am training with a group. I have to admit it that it has been a great experience. After the Honolulu Marathon (less than two weeks away), I will be training alone again... bummers.

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  3. It is nice to have a group to train with. I basically train alone, but I love running with people, because it makes the time go by way faster.

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  4. Friends are great to train with and you are very lucky to have them around. Keep up the good work!

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  5. Thats what I love about my team, all spring and summer, we ride together, but in the late fall and winter, we all kinda disappear and do our own thing, since we cant ride in the winter, I just love having company while training, it makes it go by a heck of a lot faster

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