During the week, I prioritized these other workouts because they had times assigned to them, and I wasn’t as good as doing that with my second weekday run and it didn’t happen; last Saturday, I totally overslept and didn’t get that run in. By the end of the week, my legs were also pretty tired from working them new ways at Uplift. Combine that and a cold I’ve been fighting all week, and Jess had me take most of this week off after another crappy run Monday.
I have a super last-minute giveaway for an NYC reader. The Tri-Mania NYC Summit and Expo takes place on Saturday at Columbia University. It’s basically a conference/expo for triathletes, and includes a keynote from Ironman World Champion Dave Scott, an interview with Amby Burfoot (awesome Runner’s World dude who won Boston in 1968) – and a Chi Running workshop. The Chi Running workshop, as well as some of the other workshops are not complimentary, BUT shoot me an email at theodora AT losingweightinthecity dot com with subject I WANT TO GO TO THE CHI RUNNING WORKSHOP! and I will pick one winner. (I’ll be traveling, so I don’t know when I’ll have reliable Internet tomorrow to use the giveaway plugin.)
Are you running a race this weekend? There seem to be a million of them. What race? Shooting for a PR?? Good luck!!
I don’t know if it’s the dawn of a new year (cheese alert!) or being back on a training plan, but I’m just as motivated to stick to a sweat schedule and eat right as I was when I started down this crazy path almost three years ago. (Keep reading, there’s something in it for you, too.)
I left work at 7:30 last night and only grumbled a bit on my freezing walk to the gym. I had a 40-minute tempo run on my schedule, and I was excited to tackle it, even though I knew it would kind of suck. It’d been months since I’d done speed work. I did 4.37 miles in 40 minutes and got so hot that the walk home in the freezing cold barely bothered me. (Honestly.)
I got home and scoured my nearly-empty refrigerator for something to eat.
I wish I could say I found this lovely spread, but this was from a brunch Emily on Sunday that I just found on my memory card.
I was determined to follow this whole Eat In [More] Month thing. My kitchen was pretty bare, so I went for spinach feta eggs. (Ingredients: spinach, feta, coconut milk for a little fluffiness and awesomeness.)
My breakfast and lunch were a giant Eat In [More] Month fail. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail and all that.
Tonight, I left work at a decent time and headed to boot camp. You might remember I did this runner’s boot camp last year. I really liked it, but it kicked my ass so hard that, basically, I was afraid to go back after two sessions. I loved it because Jaz, the instructor, is incredibly intense, but also HILARIOUS. So while I wanted to die doing her class, it was hard to hate her. I’ve seen her around town at a few fitness events (and I saw her cheering at the NYC Half last year, which nearly melted my pumping heart), and we were supposed to work together to put on an event last year, but it ended up falling through.
Anyway, a lovely lady named Sara new of my love for Jaz, and asked if I’d be interested in figuring out some way to collaborate to help out both Jaz and me. I like to help out people I like…and myself…so I was all about it–with one condition: that there be something in it for you all, too.
With that…
the STRONG SEXY SPRING RUNNERS challenge was born!
What I get: free classes twice a week from now until the D.C. Half on March 17 and a customized training plan from Jaz. I’m going to take measurements and stuff tomorrow so that I have a baseline to measure against.
What I’m personally looking to get out of this: helping an awesome woman get more people to get into her classes and get stronger, hot abs and an even hotter PR come March 17. I’m also hoping that strengthening my core will help with lower back pain.
But you don’t really care what I get out of this, do you? You want to know what you get out of it.
So, this challenge is really geared towards those preparing for spring races, but really anyone can do it.
For NYC readers: Jaz is offering a great discount on her classes, which are usually $24/session. If you email her at pace4success at gmail dot com and tell you are part of the Strong Sexy Runners group, she will offer you a deal for $300 for 10 weeks of 2 classes per week, $270 for 9 weeks of 2 classes per week; and $240 for 8 weeks of 2 classes per week–for classes up until March 7 (10 days before the DC/NYC Halfs.) Also comment and let me know you’re in…and let me know if you want to meet up to take a class!
For non-NYC readers: leave a comment telling me if you’re interested in participating. I’ll have check-ins weekly that you will check in to by commenting about your strength workouts, and your comment will count as an entry for giveaways that I will be running. Jaz will also be sharing weekly strength tips for runners.
And if you’re so inclined, I’ll be hashtagging this thing with #strongsexyrunners.
And dinner was awesome. (I’ll be posting more of my meals again as I start cooking more again.) I made a variation of orecchiette with broccoli rabe. My differences: I used whole wheat shells instead of orecchiette, chicken sausage, spinach and added in some chicken broth while cooking the sausage.
