long run

Little bit tired

I’m currently a little bit tired but this weekend was totally worth the tiredness!

Friday night I was in bed by 10pm and Saturday I woke up at 5:30 to do my long run with Jimmy’s uncle. I got home around 10am and spent the day doing some planting (basil and green beans) and walked Lola with Jimmy. Then my family and I headed to downtown Pittsburgh for the Pirates game. We had a blast and the Pirates beat the Houston Astros. The weather was perfect and Pittsburgh was bumpin‘!! So many people just having a good time. 

We enjoyed some delicious food during the game as well:Pepperoni pizza

Chicken bruschetta wrap

[Hannah and I ended up making it on the jumbo-tron too :p]

My family left near the end of the 9th inning to beat traffic and made it home around 11pm. I was pooped! I hopped in bed and their was a spider in my bed so I slept in my sister’s bed. Cray cray.

I got up at 5:30 am to make a Mother’s Day card for my momma before I headed off to church. 

I even found time to paint my nails. Who am I lately?!

Today I’ve been plopped on the couch making a new Spinning class workout for this week. I’m headed back to church in about an hour.

This weekend has been full and so fun. I’m happy 🙂

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Happy Mother’s Day.. I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

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!

❤