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Today’s Workout: Gross?

Every time the Zombies Run! app updates, I have to adjust my stride length… Which I did not do before this run so my pace is completely off.  I was digging around in the app and adjusted it and also noticed that 2020 was still the year of my highest mileage. I mean, of course. I was in lockdown and doing c210k, running a minimum of 45 minutes 6 days a week. Probably not likely to top that anytime soon. But, this was another really long run with no breaks and while again, the intervals give me water breaks I enjoy, I was able to get through the whole thing. I even did peek at the timing for c210k for the Just Run app and the shortest runs are 50-ish minutes. Doable if I get up early on a day I’m working late or run on a day off. There’s just no time to do a run that long after work but still have time for dinner and get to bed at a decent hour. I’ll have to tweak my schedule and see but I’m not finished with the 5k trainer yet.

These are… Not the most appetizing food pictures I’ve taken. I had a craving for pancakes. I had them after my run mid-morning. For dinner was butter garlic ready rice, salmon with garlic confit and shallots with some corn thrown in there. It looks greasy as fuck because the garlic confit I made had a ton of olive oil. Ugly to look at? Yes. Fucking delicious? Also, yes. This isn’t a food blog. It’s a “whatever random crap I decide to include” blog. And when you’re satisfying a craving, it doesn’t matter if your plate looks pretty. 

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Today’s Workout: Gettin’ the steps.

After spending the weekend taking some really great walks (actually outside where other people are) I’m starting my week with a slightly longer run as I get into the latter weeks of c25k. I hit my goal of about 7k steps but I did notice that my feet are aching. Maybe I need a just walk day and not a walk and run type of day like today. Since I needed peppers for dinner and they were on sale, I walked up to the store on my lunch break to get them and perhaps my work shoes were not the best for this? It’s not terrible pain, just more than average soreness.

For lunch I had leftovers from the dinner I made for the kid. I ate pasta instead (trying to use up all the sauce I made and free up more fridge space) and as I didn’t want to have actual tacos for Cinco de Mayo, I had a taco salad that was 90% vegetables. I portioned out some for tomorrow and some for the kid. One pack of ground beef went pretty far when I measured it out. But just for my share. The child eats what he wants since he’s not the one dieting. I am. There’s some avocado in there, too. I managed to use it just in time. One more day and it would have been rotten. It was a really filling salad. I could have probably halved it and it would have been fine but I did enjoy it. Even with only a small portion of meat.

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Today’s Workout: Imma just do the thing

I decided to do the 20 minute run workout on Thursday since that’ll be my last run for the week and the weekend will be body weight workouts and walking. I do hope to make it so every run is just a warm up, run, cool down, without the intervals but the intervals may be good for training? I dunno. This is the kind of thing that when I look it up, there are benefits and downsides to both methods. I guess as long as I’m moving, it doesn’t matter?

Whelp, Kind bars were on sale again and making an appearance in my rotation. As I was making dinner last night, I packed some of it for lunch today and for dinner, I threw some rice and chicken in the rice cooker while I was on the treadmill and by the time I was all finished, I added some veggies and chili crisp for some lazy chicken and rice. Putting everything together in the evening did result in me eating later than I’d like. I try to be done by 8pm and have nothing but water or tea after that (maybe some CBD seltzer to help me sleep). I don’t like going to bed with that full feeling. But, there’s not much to be done about it unless I start batch cooking again.

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Today’s Workout: Wait, what?

I went to do the next mission in Negative Space and turns out it’s not a running mission. It would have been great to know that ahead of time seeing as how I was on the treadmill already but I probably didn’t look close enough. It’s fine; I just used Radio Able instead.

Truth be told, that sandwich wasn’t on the menu today. I’m just showing off that I remembered to put arugula on it this time instead of forgetting it in the bowels of my refrigerator again. As you can see, the Kind bars were on sale again so those make a convenient breakfast. I had my usual Itaki for lunch and dinner was a really satisfying salad. I hadda put that crouton in the middle like that. It amused me way too much. Just this slab of a crouton sitting there. I guess I’m easily entertained.

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Today’s Workout: Iiinnn Spaaccee

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This mission has an Aliens feel with the synthetic humans and such. I like it! I’m a sucker for good scifi. As for the run itself, it was touch and go towards the end because my arm hurts (I’m getting some bad carpal tunnel… Really not fun) but my arm isn’t what I use to run. I just told myself to get over it. This will be my last workout of the week, other than some walking, since I have so many damn chores to do and editing to get done. I guess my biggest challenge will be finding the chance to actually rest my hand.

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As it was my late day, I had to prep lunch and dinner so, I made some steak and rice to go with the tray of roasted vegetables I’d made earlier in the week. I’m trying to have more variety in what I eat and lean into protein and vegetables. Basically whatever I get in my farm share box, I bake and put into my rotation. Even though my kid doesn’t like it, I do. I think it’s interesting to eat all these new things. 

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Today’s Workouts: Challenge Day 15

If just the peddler isn’t quite enough, then I’ll pair it with C25K. If that gets to be too much for me, then I’ll stop.

So far, even without the Saxenda out of my system. I’m not eating much. After my lunch, I’m not that hungry for dinner but the 30 minute run does spur my appetite a little. Maybe my stomach shrank and I’ll always eat less than I used to? Don’t worry, I don’t plan on becoming one of those people who overworks and ends up injured. I learned my lesson from the multiple times I’ve tried P90X and ending up hurting myself every single damn time. If I’m having an off day, I’ll just to the peddler at work and call it a day.

And fucking GoogleFit is still making my steps vanish. Between walking around like a normal day and my run, I should have had well over 7k steps. Yet, it only says around 4k? That’s some bullshit. Especially since that syncs to my other apps and messes with how many calories I’ve burned in a day. It shouldn’t bother me because obviously I’m at a calorie deficit when it comes to my workouts but it’d be nice if it stopped doing that.

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Today’s Workout: Week 4 something, something

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With my kid gone for the week, I’m trying to run after work again. Since the Saxenda makes it so I don’t feel hungry right when I get home, I went to run first then felt a little peckish afterwards. After that, I’ll make something for dinner. I tell ya, the 5 minute interval was tough but I’ve done longer intervals and I’ll get used to this again. I just have to go back to being that annoying person who stops life until I can workout since it’s important for me to keep it up.

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After my Itaki lunch, I made myself a salad after my workout. I remembered to use the cucumber I bought but forgot the radishes… I hope I remember them next time because I did a clean out of the fridge and I was so pissed at how much food I’d had to throw out because my kid was all “Of course I’ll eat it” and had someone order Chipotle for him behind my back. Then he’ll complain I don’t cook for him… Then when I do, he’ll brag I should open a restaurant but won’t finish the food. Teenagers don’t make sense!!!

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Today’s Workout: Scheduling

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After concluding I just don’t have the energy to run after work anymore, I thought doing it on my days off would work better. Instead of sleeping in, I got up and got on the treadmill before starting any chores. I restarted C25K and it felt good to be running again. It’s the best way for me to burn as many calories as possible.

I didn’t take any photos of my food but to run it down, I had some leftover pizza for lunch and made salmon, rice, and broccoli for dinner. And there’s plenty left to pack for tomorrow. I also got a bunch of cleaning done and found a bunch of books to donate to the library. Little by little, I’ll get rid of all the clutter.

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Today’s Workout: Poor Brunswick…

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Well, this mission was kind of a downer. I won’t spoil it but yeah, was sad. Either way, I still managed to run the full 10 minute intervals without taking any extra breaks. I kept reminding myself that during lockdown, I was doing c210k and did 20 minute intervals so 10 shouldn’t be an issue and I shouldn’t give up. I’m not sure if I’ll do the 10k training again because the workouts are really fucking long as the you go through the plan and that was easy to do during lockdown because if I had a webinar or something, I could throw on my headphones and be on the treadmill at the same time. Between single mom things and my side hustle things, I don’t have time for workouts that are an hour or more. Maybe if more of my books are selling and my adsense goes up but for now, that’s not in the cards.

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For lunch I did the beef and steamed veggies again. I think after I’m out of the ramen noodles, I won’t buy anymore to cut down on some carbs.

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Dinner had to be lighter to balance out lunch. I still have some lamb left but I’ll eat that another day. That’s romaine, scallions, and avocado with tuna. I finally remembered to plant the butts of the veggies to grow my own and try and save some money. Lettuce of various types, onions, and scallions are the most popular in my house and it would be amazing for my budget to have them on hand in the garden containers. I would like to try some cucumbers and tomatoes but, we’ll see what I have time for.

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Today’s Workout: New Recipe

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Since I had some salmon I wanted to eat, I was searching around for a recipe to also use some avocado along with it and found this recipe. Of course I find it at work while the salmon is defrosting at home so, the plan became to let the fish marinate while I was doing the above run. By the time I’d finished, cooled down, and taken a shower, the fish would be ready cook!

The soup was my lunch. And the smaller bowl is mine, the bigger one was for the kid.

Of course I had to put my own spin on it by adding chopped garlic to the top of the fish, some sliced onion, and Trader Joe’s Furikake seasoning. All non-sponsored links, of course. This meal was bowl-lickin good. I’ll have to prepare better in advance in the future but WOW. The salmon was perfect, the crunch of the cucumbers and onion was a perfect balance to the soft avocado (which is a sensory nightmare for me). I put some lime juice on the veggies and to keep the avocado from turning brown. I wasn’t getting sick of the usual steamed meat and veggies but I did want more variety in my meals, still be healthy, and not make too much work for myself. Things that require a lot of work to cook mean I’m doing that instead of running on the treadmill. If I prep properly ahead of time, I’ll be able to add more healthy meals to my rotation.

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