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Strength Training Check-In + Breakfast for Dinner

I have still not gotten over my fear of strength training alone in the gym, so I still haven’t gone to the gym alone to lift. Despite having perused this book.

But, on the upside, I’m still remaining conscious of pushing myself to do things other than cardio to keep strong.

Last week:

Monday: Barre Burn

Wednesday: hot yoga

Friday: forgot to blog about it, but I did hot yoga again with Selena

That’s a total of four hours of strengthening. I’ve been shooting for 120 minutes/2 hours, so I’m pleased with that.

It’s been nice not having a training plan since I finished my last half-marathon last month, but I think I thrive on training plans, so I’m going to start training this week for my upcoming sprint tri.

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Courtesy of my man Hal Higdon.

The race isn’t for another 10 weeks, but I’m starting early and just doing weeks one and two twice each. I’ll be doing Physique for my strength until I run out of classes. I have an incredibly busy month of travel–by June 1, I will have spent time in: NY, NJ, MA, MD, DC, NC and possibly RI–so I’ll likely have to move some of these workouts around and possibly forgo a few. I’m totally doing this race for fun, so I’m okay with that. I don’t know much about triathlon-ing, so I don’t know what a good time is or isn’t (and don’t want to know!)

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I had a turkey burger, brown rice and broccoli for lunch today.

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When I got home, I realized I didn’t have much food (being in NJ yesterday meant that I didn’t get to go grocery shopping), but I still wanted to challenge myself to cook. I’ve been spending too much money on eating out lately. I made an easy egg wrap for dinner. I scrambled two eggs with a bit of almond milk and threw in some salsa. Boom. Dinner in less than 5 minutes.

One of my things that’s been on my blog to-do list for a while is to put up a FAQ page. So what do you want to know?

An Unusual Package

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Last night, I arrived home to an unusual package. Eight $25 gift cards and a bottle of Fiber Choice. A secret admirer concerned about my regularity?

Not quite. I won Janetha’s healthy choices giveaway. She asked what her readers would do with $200 to make their lives healthier, and I said I’d buy a Physique 57 package–something I probably wouldn’t do otherwise. Well, her random number picker picked me! Physique 57, I’m coming at you…with my eight gift cards.

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This morning, I met Emily for brunch at 44 1/2, somewhere we’ve both wanted to go since seeing Jordan write about it. I got the California omelet–egg whites with avocado, spinach, mozzarella and tomato. We were going to go for a long bike ride, but she left her bike at work since it was supposed to rain. I got in a quick three-mile run before we met up. And also achieved the unplanned goal of inhaling a whole set of lungs full of pollen. Yay?

Now I’m going to go catch a few rays before I head out for Derby parties. Because a rooftop is a terrible thing to waste.