Taking the Reins

I hope so!  Because I’m certainly slow.  But it’s all good.

Just got back from run practice with the Divas. Kept using our walk/run strategy, except we extended the run to 5 minutes followed by 1 minute of walk. The first five was steady and aerobic, while the second was supposed to test our lactic acid threshold. Well, my limiter is the aerobic, so I just chugged along same as usual, watching the heart rate to make sure I didn’t let it get so high that I couldn’t keep running. Managed the first 1.5 miles in 14:30, and then kept it up (mostly) through 3 miles for a total of 29:32. This is fantastic news!! A personal best for me, and it means that perhaps I’ll even get faster in the coming month. Very important, because the run is my weak point, and I will lose a lot of time to you crazy marathon people if I don’t watch out. Anyways, I’m a happy girl right now as I sit here with ice on my knee. I’m going to beat my times from 2004 if it kills me. (Trust me, it shouldn’t be that hard…..I was an uber slowpoke)

Eating today has been “fuel” oriented. Choked down a Lara Bar at 6:50am, then had my recovery English muffin when I got home. Don’t have THAT many points left over for lunch and dinner, but I’ll get there. Hitting the store today and am hoping there’s some healthy stuff on sale!

DH is talking about going to Coldstone now, so I’m a little cranky about that.  If he’d told me about this earlier today, I could have planned for 4 points!!  Butthead.  Now I get to watch him eat a ton of garbage while I stare into space and hate the world because I could gain a pound with one bite of “Founder’s Favorite.”