Food blog 5/30

Off work today!
Breakfast:
None

Lunch:
4 Red Baron 4-cheese pizza bagels =

Dinner:
Subway?

Activity:
None, rest day.

Today I'm feeling it from my activity at the gym last night. I still can't believe I did all that. The elliptical was hard though. Only reason I stopped at 20 minutes was because the bottoms of my feet started to burn and get all tingly. This weekend I'm going to Iowa so I'm sure I won't be able to write down all that I eat, it will be another bad weekend. :-(

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/29

So I had to retire a pair of jeans today. They no longer fit. Which just means that this food blog is just not working at me losing weight. I have to go to the gym 4-5 times a week and get my sweat on.

Breakfast:
Yogurt 8 oz = 200 cal

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine Roasted Potatoes, Broccoli, and Cheddar Cheese Sauce = 220 cal

Dinner:
Peanut butter & jelly = 400 cal

Activity:
Running = 35 min, 3.62 mi, 396 cal
Elliptical = 20 min, 1.95 mi, Level 10, 236 cal

820 - 632 = 188 cal

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/28

Breakfast:
2 cereal bars = 260 cal

Lunch:
2 chocalate bars (640 + 320) = 960 cal

Dinner:
Panera Bread soup (120 cal) and 3 pieces of french bread (240) = 360 cal

Activity:
Running 4 miles = 405 cal

1,580 - 405 = 1,175

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/27

So apparently keeping a food blog on the weekends just doesn't work for me when I don't have internet at home. Plus since this was a holiday weekend I splurged quite a bit.

Breakfast:
2 cereal bars = 260

Lunch:
Fatty's Gardenburger, fries, ranch, & Diet Coke = 720 cal

Dinner:
Peanut butter & jelly sandwich, leftover Ranch Doritos = 500 cal

Activity:
None

1480 - 0 = 1480 calories

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/23

Breakfast:
2 cereal bars = 260

Lunch:
Diet Cherry Coke = 0
Scalloped Potatoes = 540

Dinner:
Diet Mt. Dew = 0

Activity:
None

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/22

Breakfast:
1 cereal bars = 130
Tropicana Cranberry juice = 270

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine 4-cheese pizza = 360 (Fat 8g; Carbs 55g)

Dinner:
Gardenburger riblet = 240
Scalloped potatoes = 270

Activity:
Biking on stationary bike (16.5mi, 60min, Level 13 & 12) = 620 cal

1270 - 620 = 650cal

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/21

Breakfast:
2 Cereal bars (130 each) = 260

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine Santa Fe Beans & Rice = 290 (Fat 5g, Carbs 49g)
Diet Mt. Dew = 0

Dinner:
2 handfuls of stale tortilla chips = 200
Bowl of Shells & Cheese = 600

Activity:
None :-(

XXX - 0 = 1350

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/20

I saw on someone else's blog how they keep track of their calorie intake. I think I want to start doing that. I read a website to make sure that my daily caloric intake averages between 9 and 11 times my body weight (so between 1242 and 1518 or so).

Breakfast:
2 Cereal bars (130 each) = 260

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine 4 cheese pizza = 360 (8g Fat; 55g Carbs)

Snack:
2 Granola Bars (110 each) = 220
Peanut butter & jam sammich = 400

Dinner:
Leftover veggie burrito = too many 400?

Activity:
Biking on recumbent bike 50 min level 13 = 13.28 mi 520 cal

Total:
1420 - 520 = 900

Categories: calories

Sunrise Rotary 8k

I really should not go on a Mtn Bike ride days before planning on wearing a skirt. I stopped at this ravine that crossed over a creek. I paused there, took a break, deciding if I should continue. I saw this family cross and then a biker went down and back up opposite of the way I was going. I figured that since he was able to do it, I should too. So I backed up so I could get speed to go down and back up. Bad idea. I kept my left foot down and my right leg up so my left food got totally soaked and then as I was trying to peddle back up, my shoe slipped off my and I nearly fell on my left which would have been into bushes. I scraped my thigh and calf a bit. I only biked some 6 odd miles but some of those hills were awesome and got my heart beating! Also found a small place that Brent & I will be able to do a picnic!

Whoever said that it's better to go into a race undertrained than overtrained should be shot. For the Sunrise Rotary 8k: My legs were dead by the 4th mile. I ran 4 minutes slower than the race last year. But then again, the wind gusts were insane and coming from west to east so the first part was going north. Yuck. The second part was going east so that was pretty nice. Then back south, yuck. My hair is NOT aerodynamic at all. It kept going over my shoulder when I wanted it to stay behind my back. Good thing I'm getting it cut soon. I walked in this race. I've never done that before. I walked through the first water station. And then walked after the second station before the third. I felt horrible but I had to. Then once I reached the 4th mile, I vowed not to walk the last .97 miles but man was that ever hard to do. I came in at 47:33. Last year was 43 something. I also came third in my age group last year, sixth this year. :-( But still the food is still totally great there. Strawberries were so huge!

Categories: Kishwaukee Sunrise Rotary 8k, races

Bi-training

I did something unusual today. I ran from Hopkins Park but then before that I biked down to the park! It was only 2 miles. Then I ran 4.25 miles. And biked the 2 miles back. I was cold on the way back though since I was all sweaty from the run. It was a tough 2 miles back though.

Yesterday I biked for 45 minutes on the recumbent bike at the Y. I ended up going 16.5 miles too! I have to cross-train like crazy because of the bike ride I'm doing in a few weekends!

Tonight I'm also going for a NITRO (Northern Illinois Trail Runner's Organisation) seminar on endurance. I also joined them too. It was only $5 so I think it's worth it.

Categories: NITRO

West Frankfort run

I ran from my other brother's house today. He lives in a bigger town but luckily, I ran in his city before so I have a few routes. But it happened again. I got the same cramp. Luckily, it came right before I ran back by my brother's house and I ran inside and sat down on the toilet. I again didn't go. Very weird. Once I got back outside, I felt fine and ran a total of 3.45 miles.

Later on that day, John and I went on a 9.6 miles bike ride around Rend Lake. That was fun! We both got to use our CamelBaks too. :-)

Categories: southern illinois, West Frankfort

Dix run

Today I ran in Dix, IL. I'm down here visiting my brother and still had to run since I have an 8k next week! I woke up bloody early but it was too cold to go running, 50 degrees. At 8am, it was starting to warm up, so I got dressed in shorts and a tank, with a normal cotton shirt over that. It was 55 when I left. I decided to run 4 miles, 2 miles north on Rt. 37 and 2 miles back.

When I got just out of Dix, this cyclist comes up to me and asks me if I ever ran Tunnel Hill. I said no, he explained why he asked because he came across a blog that said she ran Tunnel Hill and thought that there couldn't be many runner's in Dix. I asked where it was at. He said further south than here. Then I remembered that it was in my Biking in Illinois book, that it used to be a railroad track and it might be the only trail in Illinois that goes through a tunnel. Still it's kinda weird that he was asking me and I was running and we were having a conversation.

It was weird though, I started to get a really bad cramp in my lower stomach area, below my belly button and above my pubic bone about the 1.75 mile. I actually had to stop, run off in the strip of pine trees and try to pee. By the time I found the trees, I had been stopped and walked for a little bit. Nothing came out when I dropped trou but a little tinkle. By that time, I felt OK to keep on going. So at the 2 mile mark, I turned around and headed back. No more cramps.

I eventually had to take off my cotton shirt and tuck it into my shorts. I used it a few times for my snot rag. Later that day at the St. Louis Zoo, I sneezed like 25 times in a row because of my allergies. That was not fun but my Dad was laughing.

All in all, today's run felt OK. And I think I know what to finally wear in the odd temperature of 50's/60's.

Categories: allergies, Dix, southern illinois

Run down to Prairie Park

Brent and I went running tonight. We ran from his house for a change and it was nice. Ran down to Prairie Park and ran through the disc golfers on the bike path and down to Taylor and back to his house.

We also had to go running tonight. He was in the middle of a life changing decision and needed to run to clear his mind, I decided. He kept saying that his heart was heavy and I was worried that he was going to have a heart attack!

He hadn't run in more than a week so he stopped around 3.5 miles. I kept on going and ended up finishing around 4.12 miles. I was on a runner's high again! Just felt so good. I even had a conversation the ENTIRE TIME running. That was most highly unusual for me.

Pace ended up being an average of 9:39 min/mi. His ended up being 9:38 he said.

Categories: Brent, runner's high

St. Jude all over again

As of yesterday, I officially entered the realm of a Marathoner. I signed up for the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis, TN on December 6, 2008. Pretty nifty. I ran 3.5 miles yesterday. I think I want to run again tonight. There's a group meeting at 7p but I think that's too late for me. Don't know. Last night I ran at 6:30p but I didn't eat anything beforehand or after. I need to eat sometime at night! I'll talk it over with Brent and sees what he wants to do for tonight. I need to get up to par for the 8k in a few weeks!

Categories: St. Jude Marathon