Lola

Treadmill workouts

Hi!

Though my family isn’t sending out any Christmas cards this year, Hannah and I decided to take some festive pictures Sunday morning. . .

A picture with the lovely Lola

A picture with the family cat, Callie. She is 16.

We would have done a picture with each of the pets (dorks?) but we had to leave for church. I was sitting in church and noticed I had cat and dog fur all over myself and I laughed because it was fun to take goofy pictures.

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Has anyone tried this coffee?! It is more like adult hot chocolate to me… so delicious!
I got it from Walgreens for like $2.99 and I may have to go back for more soon 😀

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Want to hear something crazy? My last 5 runs have been on a treadmill… by choice. I’m not sure why, but I have been loving the dreadmill lately.

I even managed to do a long run (11 miles) on the dread on Friday last week. Strange.

Since it is getting cold outside, I thought I would share some treadmill workouts that I like. I usually do treadmill runs to music. It makes the time pass faster.

Workout #1: Intervals- Warm up for 5-10 minutes at a comfortable pace. Run 1 minute  at your 5k pace (or faster if you choose!) and then 1 minute and 30 seconds at half marathon pace. Repeat for 20 minutes and then warm down for 5-10 minutes.

Workout #2: Fartlek- This is the perfect workout to do to music. Fartlek means “speed play” in Swedish and that is just what you do. Play with your speed (and incline) throughout the run. If a fast/upbeat song comes on, run as fast as you can during the chorus. If a slow song comes on, I put the incline to 5%.

Workout #3: Hills- Complete an easy 10 minute warm up. Set the speed to your half marathon pace and raise the incline each half mile until you reach 45 minutes. (Or however long you want to run for.) Warm down for 10 minutes on 0% incline-yay!

Workout #4: Long run- Fill your iPod with music, grab a magazine, get a treadmill with a TV, bring snacks + water, and run slow and long. Try not to lose your sanity ;). Also, try you keep your stride similar to running outdoors so you don’t injure yourself.

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Sometime in the future I’ll post some p90x workouts for all of my weightlifting buddies (if anyone is interested!).

Hope everyone has a great day!

❤

Awkward pets?

Happy Thursday! How is the weather by you? Yesterday it started out raining in the low 40’s in Pittsburgh and ended up in the low 30’s and snowing by 2:30–right when I got out of my last class. Brrr. I usually walk Lola after classes and yesterday was no different..except it was cold, so I bundled up. 
I also attempted to take pictures of Lola with little success. 

Other picture fails:


Face time with Jimmy. Cause I hardly see him. Sad.

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Does anyone have a cat who likes to sit like this?


Lily (Hannah’s kitten) often sits like the above picture^

So when I see her sitting like that I like to grab her paws and look into her eyes. It is really awkward for the both of us.



Okay, enough.

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This post has been really random! Other random tidbits:

-Yesterday my mom went to spinning for the first time with me. She liked it & now Hannah wants to go. Rock on.

-I had my last microbiology class yesterday and I’m kind of sad because I liked it so much.

-I can’t wait to have time to bake and read more over the holiday break! 

-I can’t decide if I want to do a marathon in March or an ultra in April. I hate running in cold weather. I don’t know what to do! 

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Do you have any weird things that you do with your pets?!

[Besides holding Lily’s paws when she sits upright, I try to get Lola to come into the bathroom while I shower to keep me company but she is scared..lolzzzz]