Latest of lates - my bad!
Marathon Training Week 6
Miles Ran: 20
Long Run: 10 miles
Cross-training: Still struggling.
Pros: Actually stuck to the training for the most part this week!
Cons: Been having some ups and downs with food. Still trying to find the right balance of energy providing foods for my runs.
Tunes: It expired, sadly - so now I'm trying out Shiver until I can check It out again.
Talkies: Added in Dexter, Walking Dead, and American Horror Story: Asylum. Seriously, I should write down all of the shows I watch and some point and really take stock of how I spend my free time...
Favorite Recipe: For Week 5 in the Paleo Plan I'm going to have to go with Maple-Walnut Chicken with Roasted Acorn Squash! I did not realize how incredibly delicious acorn squash was. We only just discovered the joys of spaghetti squash this year and now to see what a variety of different squash is out there is just astounding to me, haha. Do yourself a favor and try out a few in your recipes. You will not regret it. Seriously, this didn't even really need the additional honey and coconut oil. I only put in a touch of each because it was already tasting so yum.
Marathon Training Week 5
Miles Ran: 18
Long Run: 12 miles
Cross-training: Still sucking at this.
Pros: I did the 12 miler. Seriously, I'm just so glad I actually did it. We had a wonderful wedding to attend on Friday with some delish free wine I was not about to say no to. So I indulged and told myself I'd just run Sunday instead of Saturday. But we still kind of indulged on Saturday. So it took me forever to wake up on Sunday and I didn't manage to start my run until after 10am. On a clear, warm, muggy day in Texas. I thought I was going to die. My pace was abysmal. But I did it.
Cons: We're still indulging too much. And I got a sunburn from my run. I swear to goodness - I start hitting all the right spots with my Body Glide and my body still finds some way to punish me. There was not a cloud in the sky, so I got good and toasted.
Tunes: It continues.
Talkies: My normal TV lineup, plus I started watching Nashville. Also watched The Descendants and Audition. Both a little sad, really. I need to find me a good comedy.
Favorite Recipe: I'm going to cheat on this one because we really didn't follow the plan well last week at all. But last night we made Paleo Plan's Lascaux Chicken Waldorf Salad for our lunches today and it is super tasty!
Marathon Training Week 4
Miles Ran: 17
Long Run: 11 miles
Cross-training: I bravely ate my way into my 30's? No? Ah well.
Pros: I managed to pull a major binder of a birthday week and still ran 11 miles. The morning OF my birthday party. Not too shabby!
Cons: Well, again - I managed to pull a major binder of a birthday week, haha.
Tunes: I finished Bossypants and started It! Yes, very different - blame my library for not having many options for free downloads. But I've always wanted to read it. So far so good!
Talkies: We spent the week watching my favorite movies and eating dinner to match. So we saw Lilo & Stitch with sushi, Princess Bride with a Ploughman's, Serenity with Chinese, Aladdin with Indian (yes, a stretch), and The Goonies with pizza. My party was themed after my seven favorite fantasy worlds so we had them playing in the background - Sailormoon, Alice in Wonderland, Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, Neverending Story, Peter Pan, and Harry Potter. Then today we went and saw Looper! Still catching up on my usual tv, too. Geesh.
Favorite Recipe: Nothing I made this week was paleo and I (almost) regret nothing. I did make a Shepherd's Pie - or more accurately a Cottage Pie. So I thought I would share my friend Kendra's paleo version that I hope to attempt in the future myself! (Note, she was inspired by Elana's Pantry.)
Late again! Can't be helped. Had a big out of town weekend and then I've been busy with lots of birthday type activities and plans as today is my 30th Birthday! (CRAZY.)
Marathon Training Week 3
Miles Ran: 3
Long Run: Became 4 mile walk
Cross-training: Walked through the rainy Dallas Texas State Fair? No? Ah well.
Pros: Got some rest...?
Cons: Strained my neck on Tuesday so I took it easy the rest of the week and then we were in Dallas for the State Fair with some friends on Saturday and it was rainy and there was a group and it was an unfamiliar area so what was supposed to be a 6 mile run turned into a 4 mile walk. But I'm glad, really. It was a very nice walk. :)
Tunes: More of Tina Fey's Bossypants. Also started listening to the new No Doubt album.
Talkies: So worried about the return of TV, argh. Revenge, Once Upon a Time, Modern Family, New Girl, Castle, Bones, Up All Night, Raising Hope... I'm sucked right back into all of them.
Favorite Recipe: I actually did not love this week in the Paleo Plan Quickstart Guide. It started out so promising, the recipes sounded amazing. But they all kind of fell flat for us. I think I'd like to try the buffalo chicken wing "peanut" sauce on just some regular chicken, maybe that would improve it. But favorite recipe will have to go to Crockpot Pork Loin.
