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K-SWISS Giveaway!

UPDATE: THE SIZE 11 SNEAKERS ARE GONE.

First of all, breakfast was just the spinach feta wrap from Starbucks. I’ve honestly given up on cooking for this week, but I’m still trying to keep track of what I’m eating to stay healthy around the holidays.

You may have caught that I wrote a few weeks ago that K-Swiss sent me some sneakers. I’m not ready to write a full review of mine yet, but I do have some fun giveaways.

When I was in high school, I wore K-Swiss sneakers when I played tennis, but they were the old school ones. (However, they offered plenty of support for ankles weakened from years of gymnastics.)

From Jillian, my K-Swiss PR contact:

Moving forward, K-SWISS is all about performance, in fact, the 2nd place men’s finisher at Ironman last week, Andreas Raelert, and the women’s world champion, Mirinda Carfrea, are both K-SWISS athletes. Obviously not everyone is going to be competing in Ironman, and we love your approachable, realistic view of running, training, and eating properly.

I have two pairs of size 11 sneakers (one pair of tennis, one pair of running) in my apartment. Since these are a specific size, I’m just going to give these to the first person who e-mails me (losingweightinthecity AT gmail dot com) and says these will fit them.

The more fun part of the contest is as follows:

You can enter by commenting (either as a Tumblr reply or a “regular” comment) about your favorite running memory.

OR!

By photo-replying on Tumblr with a photo of your favorite running memory, linking in the comments to a blog post with a photo of your favorite running memory, or sending me (losingweightinthecity AT gmail dot com) a photo of your favorite running memory by midnight EST tonight, Dec. 8. I’ll be choosing five running memories and five photos and will post them for you to vote on tomorrow!

4 Days Till Move Day!

And I’m making my list and checking it twice.

I’m finding a new dog walker (thanks Emily!), confirming the mover and cleaning my current apartment so I don’t have to “broom-clean” it too much after the move. 

I’ve been thinking a lot about this staying healthy over the holidays—maybe a little too much—and I’ve decided that if a pound or two should sneak on over the holidays, it’s okay if it’s worth it. If it’s from enjoying food I love with family or friends or having my favorite treat. If it’s from eating extra because it’s around my apartment or it’s easier, it’s not necessarily worth it to me. If I’m talking a lot about this lately, it’s because this whole maintaining my weight around the holidays thing is new to me—I was still trying to lose weight last year, and before that I didn’t care about my health.

For lunch, I had leftovers from the other night:

It’s broccoli, chicken, carrots, kale and brown rice stir fried with some sesame oil and soy sauce.

When I got out of work, I ran to the subway to make it to the gym for a kickboxing class. After missing a class I wanted to take last night, I was determined to make it tonight, and thankfully, I did. I forgot a sports bra and a headband so jumping around and kicking was definitely a little, um, interesting, but I got a damn good workout and it definitely kicked some more of those winter blues I’ve been battling lately. I also took a long walk at lunch up to the Lululemon store by Lincoln Center. Getting in as much walking as possible has helped me a lot lately. Even if it’s freezing, it’s still better than being inside.

For dinner, I failed on the cooking front. Despite Emily and I rescheduling dinner plans so we could go to the gym and cook the food we had in our apartments. I have such a random assortment of food left (don’t worry, mostly stuff that can be moved) that I have no idea how to combine to make a meal. Plus, by the time I got home from the gym and walked Bailey, it was 8:30.

I’m really excited for the move—I’ll be walking distance from work, so I will be getting more walking in by running home some days to walk Bailey, and walking to work. I’ll also have to walk past my gym on my way to and from work, so it will be extra motivation.

And I’m going to get back outside and run tomorrow. In the cold. 

Check back then for a fun giveaway, too!