T-22 & T-21

Dec 24. Christmas festivities at both family houses on the 24th. Didn't make it out for a walk. Ate poorly, blah

Dec 25. Up late, didn't go for a run, ate poorly blah X2

Let's hope I can get it together on the 26th. 

T-23

Since I'm off today gotta take it outside for a 5K in the am!

Yeah, picking up the pace a little.

Breakfast: 2 eggs, 2 corn tortillas

Lunch: Subway Turkey Breast on wheat, chips, tea

Dinner:Lovely dinner at friend's house - 1 slice ham, asparagus, 4 pieces veggie sushi, sweet potato biscuit, apple/cabbage/rutabega dish, 2 slices cheese and crackers, 1 piece pumpkin pie w/whipped cream & coffee, 2 glasses prosecco,

Snack: medium flat white with 2% milk

Total Steps: 12,147
Total Calories: 2,180 (a rough estimate as I'm not 100% sure what was in all the food last night)

T-24

Made it to the gym and got the 30 minutes on treadmill and managed to get slightly more mileage than yesterday:

Breakfast:
3 eggs and 2 corn tortillas

Lunch:
Tokyo Joe's Green machine bowl

Dinner:
Blackened catfish

Snack:
nonfat latte
popcorn
1 chocolate caramel

total calories: 1,806
total steps: 10,346

T-25 days until Disneyland Star Wars 1/2 marathon

Detailing what I'm doing for the next 25 days to prep for the 1/2 marathon.

Got up and to the gym
- 30 minutes

Kind of slow and steady but got at least 30 minute in.

Breakfast:
1/2 c instant oats
2 eggs
1/2 c Almond milk (1/4 for coffee, 1/4 for oatmeal)
Large Flat white with 2% on way in to work

Lunch: small caesar salad, tortilla soup

Dinner: chicken breast and broccoli

Snacks: Kashi dark cocoa karma
animal crackers

total calories: 1,570

Total steps:10,176

Sneak results update

Not spectacular but not horrible either. Especially since this is only the second 5K of the year.

Now I just have to figure out a 5K to do mid-May since I have the Color Run at the end of May.

Sunday Sneak

Although I really didn't want to, I got out of bed early on a Sunday morning and headed down to Cherry Creek for the 30th annual Cherry Creek Sneak. In the past I did this race every year with family and friends but I hadn't done it since 2007. This year no one signed up to go with me so I was all by myself (with about 15,000 other runners) but that was fine. I made a great playlist (Lady Gaga every other song gets me rockin') and hit the road (hubby did drive me down there so I didn't have to try to find a place to park, thanks sweetie!). I felt really good and, although I still can't jog the whole way, I think I made pretty good time. I did manage to run across the finish line. I'll report in when I get the official time. I must say the course is a lot less hill-y than the Greenwood Village one from the Cookie run so that made me a very happy girl. Plus I remembered to get some moleskin for the blister and that seemed to help.

Like a turtle

Finally did my first 5K in over a year. It wasn't pretty but I finished. All this work on the treadmill and I thought I'd be able to run more of it, at least a slow jog, but no. Jogged a brief bit in the beginning, my heart rate shot up to 175 so I had to back to down to a race/walk pace for pretty much the rest for an average pace of 13:41. I'm going to have to figure out a way to get outside more for runs - treadmill just isn't cutting it.

Results below:

Did I mention there were cookies at the end of this race?