Thursday, October 30, 2008
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
What to do???
It is amazing the amount of time in a day when you are not training or recovering from training for a majority part of your day.
Today I got up had breakfast. Then I went outside and had my coffee while reading my book. Today was a very nice day and the dogs enjoyed the sun and lounging outside. After this leisure time I went for an hour easy run, as recovery from my 11mile run yesterday.
Ate a nice panini for lunch, while I was baking the pumpkin seeds in the oven.
Then off to the grocery store, for the one million time this week. Came home chopped vegetables for my "homemade" marinara sauce. Then made and cooked meatballs for our meatball sandwich for dinner tonight. I have never had a meatball sandwich so dinner tonight should be very interesting. Both of these items came from the ABS diet book and they sounded good. So, we will try it.
After preparing our dinner, I decided to clean the whole kitchen. Then vacuum the whole house and then cleaned the shower.
While cleaning I decided that homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies sounded good. So, I began gathering the ingredients for the yummy cookies. After gathering, I had to tape Pedro's ankle, since he is going to try and play pickup basketball tonight. Ok, back to the cookies. I made the cookie "dough" and have it refrigerated so we can eat them freshly out of the oven after dinner. I did eat quite a bit of the dough..mmmm.
Now a short nap before I get ready for basketball practice, then come home.... warm all the food for dinner. Watch tv and make the cookies for dessert :)
Today I got up had breakfast. Then I went outside and had my coffee while reading my book. Today was a very nice day and the dogs enjoyed the sun and lounging outside. After this leisure time I went for an hour easy run, as recovery from my 11mile run yesterday.
Ate a nice panini for lunch, while I was baking the pumpkin seeds in the oven.
Then off to the grocery store, for the one million time this week. Came home chopped vegetables for my "homemade" marinara sauce. Then made and cooked meatballs for our meatball sandwich for dinner tonight. I have never had a meatball sandwich so dinner tonight should be very interesting. Both of these items came from the ABS diet book and they sounded good. So, we will try it.
After preparing our dinner, I decided to clean the whole kitchen. Then vacuum the whole house and then cleaned the shower.
While cleaning I decided that homemade oatmeal chocolate chip cookies sounded good. So, I began gathering the ingredients for the yummy cookies. After gathering, I had to tape Pedro's ankle, since he is going to try and play pickup basketball tonight. Ok, back to the cookies. I made the cookie "dough" and have it refrigerated so we can eat them freshly out of the oven after dinner. I did eat quite a bit of the dough..mmmm.
Now a short nap before I get ready for basketball practice, then come home.... warm all the food for dinner. Watch tv and make the cookies for dessert :)
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Pig Roast!
Sunday we had about 20 people over for a pig roast. Pedro spent the better half of Saturday picking up the pig from a farm and then marinating the pig. Sunday he woke up around 630 to begin the roasting. He created a "rotisserie" and it worked really well. His friend and him sat at the roaster for nearly 8 hours rotating the piggy.
All in all the party went very well. We worry with so many people at our house because we don't have a lot of room. We were blessed with some warm weather so we didn't have to be inside the whole time.
Below are the pictures from the roast:
All in all the party went very well. We worry with so many people at our house because we don't have a lot of room. We were blessed with some warm weather so we didn't have to be inside the whole time.
Below are the pictures from the roast:
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Running...
Running is currently my sport of choice. Well, choice isn't exactly the word, but sport "in training". I am hoping to improve my pace in my aerobic zones. Sounds fun right??
Funny thing about my running is that I am now going to be the Running Club Coach for the new gym near the house. Yeah, funny because can you be a RUN coach if your RUN looks more like a WALK? Maybe I should call it the Walking Club? When the gym opens, in about a month maybe I will be a bit faster. If not then I will have to recruit what appear to be moderate speed walkers. Not speed walkers, since they are probably way faster!
The benefit of this new coaching gig, is not financial. It is the benefit of having a free gym membership to, what appears to be, an amazing gym. I will also be able to take masters swimming. Yes, I plan on taking masters to hopefully teach me to swim better. The last benefit will be to have a few group runs, though not as fun as a group run would be since I have to do the planning etc.
Then starting in January I will be the Tri Coach for the gym. Again, funny since I am looking for my own coach. But this is mainly for people that want to learn about tri's. Info about types of training, distances etc. Again, something that I have to plan and figure out what to coach.
As most people know I am on the computer researching training, tri's and stalking some really good athletes, so I'm pretty sure I can help people feel better about racing and learning what to do.
A last funny note, Pedro went to the store again. This time with a list. Amazingly, he returned with everything on the list (which is better than myself, I always forget something) and even bought the last few things which I forgot to put on the list! Maybe more shopping for him, though I will say I was kind of sad that he didn't get any good treats, I was kind of hoping for some surprise item I wouldn't buy.
Funny thing about my running is that I am now going to be the Running Club Coach for the new gym near the house. Yeah, funny because can you be a RUN coach if your RUN looks more like a WALK? Maybe I should call it the Walking Club? When the gym opens, in about a month maybe I will be a bit faster. If not then I will have to recruit what appear to be moderate speed walkers. Not speed walkers, since they are probably way faster!
The benefit of this new coaching gig, is not financial. It is the benefit of having a free gym membership to, what appears to be, an amazing gym. I will also be able to take masters swimming. Yes, I plan on taking masters to hopefully teach me to swim better. The last benefit will be to have a few group runs, though not as fun as a group run would be since I have to do the planning etc.
Then starting in January I will be the Tri Coach for the gym. Again, funny since I am looking for my own coach. But this is mainly for people that want to learn about tri's. Info about types of training, distances etc. Again, something that I have to plan and figure out what to coach.
As most people know I am on the computer researching training, tri's and stalking some really good athletes, so I'm pretty sure I can help people feel better about racing and learning what to do.
A last funny note, Pedro went to the store again. This time with a list. Amazingly, he returned with everything on the list (which is better than myself, I always forget something) and even bought the last few things which I forgot to put on the list! Maybe more shopping for him, though I will say I was kind of sad that he didn't get any good treats, I was kind of hoping for some surprise item I wouldn't buy.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
FOOD!
Food is a big thing at our house. I mean we eat A LOT! I might actually say that we eat more when I am not in full training because I am home more and so I eat more times in a day.
The funny thing about this is grocery shopping. I hate grocery shopping. However, anytime Pedro goes to the store he comes home with some very interesting items. One day he brought home lactose free milk. Now I am not exactly sure what that is, but he did drink it all. I thought lactose was the thing that "made" milk...so who knows?
The best thing (not really) about him going to the store is that he comes home with some really good things. Not good, as in good for you, but good as in my current favorite; Double Stuf Oreo's (yes the bag has only one f on the stuff). I really think it might be a sin when I am eating my oreo's out of my Ironman glass. But they are dang good. The other thing he loves to buy is sugary cereal. Currently, we have cinnamon toast cruch. These are things I would never buy during actual training...and most people should never eat. As Kory pointed out Oreo's are probably one of the worst foods a person can eat...funny how the worst are always the best tasting.
Then I go to make lasagna tonight. He comes in and asks "is that enough sauce? is that enough cheese??" This is a usual thing if he happens to come in the kitchen while I am actually making the food. He has no idea, what or how much of anything goes into our dinners...so fastforward to tonight when we ate the lasagna, it was apparently so good that by the time I got home nearly half of the 9 by 11 pan was eaten.
Anyway, so no more shopping for Pedro. Back to the boring foods that I buy. And the trips to the store a few times a week.
The funny thing about this is grocery shopping. I hate grocery shopping. However, anytime Pedro goes to the store he comes home with some very interesting items. One day he brought home lactose free milk. Now I am not exactly sure what that is, but he did drink it all. I thought lactose was the thing that "made" milk...so who knows?
The best thing (not really) about him going to the store is that he comes home with some really good things. Not good, as in good for you, but good as in my current favorite; Double Stuf Oreo's (yes the bag has only one f on the stuff). I really think it might be a sin when I am eating my oreo's out of my Ironman glass. But they are dang good. The other thing he loves to buy is sugary cereal. Currently, we have cinnamon toast cruch. These are things I would never buy during actual training...and most people should never eat. As Kory pointed out Oreo's are probably one of the worst foods a person can eat...funny how the worst are always the best tasting.
Then I go to make lasagna tonight. He comes in and asks "is that enough sauce? is that enough cheese??" This is a usual thing if he happens to come in the kitchen while I am actually making the food. He has no idea, what or how much of anything goes into our dinners...so fastforward to tonight when we ate the lasagna, it was apparently so good that by the time I got home nearly half of the 9 by 11 pan was eaten.
Anyway, so no more shopping for Pedro. Back to the boring foods that I buy. And the trips to the store a few times a week.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Running has not been going great. I have not been running a significant distance but my heart rate just doesn't seem to be lowering at the same pace, which it definitely is suppose to be doing. The annoying thing is that it has gotten better on the bike, but just not on the run. Pre-hr monitor I was fast. This is a common statement. But I mean I could finish top 15, in my age, in the Bolder Boulder which has over 50,000 runners. Now, I'm malasses. Very frustrating. They say it could be because I trained for so long in an anaerobic state (pretty much my whole life of basketball and faster running). So, now I suck.
Well, again I went in for another bike fit. Getting quite annoyed, as I am sure they are with me. This time we changed my bike cleats and raised my seat. He asked if I was still growing since the bike seat doesn't seem to be the right height...again. We will see if that helps. The knee pain I had during the race was not pleasant, but at least it didn't hurt after I got off the bike, until the next day.
Right now I am trying to create my own running group. I might have some people that are interested. I think people are scared to run with me, but I am not sure why, since I am running as fast as some people can walk!
Here is a pict that my dad made of my race, no it is not me on the bike at mile 56..I am the person in the pink cap in the group of people headed to the swim.
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