So last night I had to hit the store for the dinner “fixins”, do I could make dinner when I got home. I knew there was a run in my to do list, so I wanted some thing quick. I had found recipes for Paleo Burgers and for Sweet Potato fries, both seemed fairly speedy. Turns out the fries take forty minutes to cook, but it was totally worth the wait!
So, last night I headed out into the 30 degrees (F) for a run (No Jeremy, I wasn’t in shorts.) I decided to be different and do the run on my hands, to help build upper body…
Then I remembered that I can’t stand on my hands, and that running on them was right out. That lead me to lean toward running on my feet instead. This was probably a great choice on my part for so many reasons – most of which you have already thought of, so I won’t go into it!
Ok, so all humor aside, yesterday ran later than normal, just the day-to-day. The entire reason – was I hadn’t gotten the items needed for my Whole30 meal, and had to stop at the store on the way home. Granted the Bacon/Roast Beef/Lettuce Club Wraps – were AMAZING!!!! (Whole Foods carries Bacon with no sugar or preservatives – Whole30 compliant!!!) I was well fueled (aka, ate too much) for my run – with the wraps, as well as the addition of fresh pineapple. So I was all set!
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So, I’ve found I can’t necessarily stay on top of Janathon posts AND Whole30 posts, so my whole 30 updates haven’t been as regular as they should be. That doesn’t mean they aren’t coming!
Looking at day 13 – Breakfast and Lunch weren’t overly impressive. But Dinner? Hold on while I stop patting myself on the back!
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See that? That is an Onion Pot Roast, with a nice Sun-dried tomato topping, a side of roasted asparagus, and cubed Jersey Sweet Potatoes with Nutmeg and Cinnamon.
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My night-time, winter running get-up. Notice, its an “action shot!”
It’s interesting, once my feet start to hit the road, I’m “home.” The problem with this, is that it’s not home yet. I have spent 13 months running rarely, and almost exclusively with my 12 year son at his pace – around 11 to 12 minutes per mile.
I have started running six days a week on January 1st, two weeks ago. While my mind knows I’m a runner, and the muscles know all of the steps, the fact is that endurance and speed do not develop in 14 days. The fact I was able to do 20 miles last week is really quite remarkable when I stop and think about it. Yet, the fact I am restarting doesn’t occur to me, until my legs are lethargically objecting sub 9 minutes miles. I know, this will pass and the mileage and speed will come. In fact, this is the best “starting point” I’ve gotten to work from, in my many years of off again/on again running! See that silver lining? Read more ›
We all have an image in our head of what we look like, and what our body looks like. It might be what we look like today, it might be what we looked like at another point in time, or it might even be what we want to look like. Now, for me, my self-image that I picture in my head is a wee bit different from what I look like today. It’s from a time that I was younger, skinnier and more in shape. A time without love handles! Now, it’s not a surprise to me when I look in the mirror and see the grey hair, – not usually at any rate – as I see that every day – but it isn’t my internal image.
I was a fat kid. It wasn’t that I didn’t exercise – I was out running around with friends constantly, I swam competitively and was generally an active child. It wasn’t until the end of freshman year, and into sophomore year that it changed. I started running and shot up like a weed! I went from being that pudgy kid – to being rail thin, and I liked it. I stayed skinny through high school (As I ran), and through my time in the Navy (although beer added some weight – but not much.) Read more ›
I was really torn on the title of tonight’s blog post, between what I used above, or “the pressure builds.”
See, in continuing withe the Whole30 my wife and I are doing, I made this incredible pork chile verde. We are dinner before I brought the boy up to chorus, and consequently – before I went to the gym and ran. Well as delicious as it was (and it was amazing, if I do say so myself), it seemed to respond like a can of soda in my belly. The longer I ran on the treadmill, the more pressure I felt. Now I did finish my run, just to reassure you, and there were no “accidents” of the sort that would make this a story I’d never forget. Lets just say that as the pressure released, I was glad no one was in the car with me.
But, with that aside – the run itself. Since Monday is still choir night, I was off to the gym. Read more ›
So, I kind of forgot to do my weather picture around the time of my run. Fortunately, it hasn’t changed in the two hours that have passed!
A balmy 32 degrees (zero Celsius)! Seriously, compared to what I ran in yesterday, the temperature felt great! With a snowstorm incoming, I felt that I should get out while I could.
Weekends here, but Janathon continues!
Today’s weather report… Now the weather report in Celsius!
I’m trying to be more internationally concious.
You all know what that sort of temperature (whether in Celsius or Farenheit) means – this boy heads to the gym I take advantage of the possibility of running in day light, and step away from the dread mill. Yes, this cold hating runner went outside and pounded the pavement in the frigid temperatures. Read more ›
Sadly, today WAS warm enough to run outside. At 4 o’clock it was 38 degrees. Unfortunately, I don’t get out of work until 5:30, followed by a drive to the supermarket, drive to choir (eatting the dinner I bought at the supermarket in the car), so the boy can take part of the night of games they have planned. Now it’s dark, and I’m in Baltimore, so off to LA Fitness to run on the stupid treadmill again.
Sigh. One week and running on this thing has gotten old.
No pictures, but another three miles banged out at 7 mph. No complaints, good run.
See you tomorrow fellow Janathoners!
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