My Random Life

Wednesday wasn't anything spectacular, but I did fit in a little Shaun T in the form of Insanity while the boys napped. I went with Pure Cardio and Cardio Recovery.  Phew!  My muscles are ready for a break today so that's exactly what I'm giving them.  I might do a little easy elliptical work later today but nothing more than that.  I'll go back to beating my body up again tomorrow.

In other fitness news, I did sign up for the Halloween Half Marathon and my training plan starts Monday.  I even got a friend to sign up with me and I'm super excited about training for it and hoping to work hard enough to get a PR.  I'm planning to train with the stroller but then race without it.  Hope my plan works...  If you're local and interested, you can sign up here.    My training plan as of now looks like this...  

Week	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1	CT	35 min tempo	4 mi	3 mi	Rest	7 mi EASY	CT
2	CT	5 x 400 IW	Rest	4 mi race pace	Rest	7 mi EASY	CT
3	CT	35 min tempo	5 mi	3 mi race pace	Rest	8 mi EASY	CT
4	CT	6 x 400 IW	5 mi	4 mi race pace	2 miles EZ	Rest	CT
5	CT	40 min tempo	5 mi	4 mi race pace	Rest	9 mi EASY	CT
6	CT	6 x 400 IW	6 mi	3 mi race pace	Rest	10 mi EASY	CT
7	CT	45 min tempo	5 mi	4 mi race pace	Rest	11 mi EASY	REST
8	CT	7 x 400 IW	5 mi	3 mi race pace	Rest	12 mi EASY	CT
9	CT	45 min tempo	Rest	3 mi race pace	Rest	5 mi EASY	CT
10	Rest	4 mi	30 minutes 10K pace	2 mi	Rest	20 minutes	Race Day!

CT = Cross Train (For me that's either biking or the elliptical.)

Sundays will probably be elliptical or beach cruiser days and Mondays will hopefully be spin classes.  This is a FLEXIBLE schedule!  The main thing I want to focus on is running 4 times a week, with one of those runs being a LONG run and one of them being intervals because I really want to work on improving my speed.  The stroller should help with strength as well.  

Enough workout talk...I've been playing around with a site called PicMonkey.  SO fun!  I made this little collage of my cuties.  (I also created those nifty surfboard backgrounds for my last 2 workouts using it.)  Yesterday, the boys wanted to help me vacuum...Mason clearly wanted to help more than Colton and threw a fit so Colton gave in and let him have it all to himself.  He was one happy kid vacuuming the floor for Mommy.  I'm hoping to make them think housework is cool so eventually they'll help out. 

All that cleaning must have worn them out because they slept like logs.  Colton has become a big fan of sleeping with his lion.  So cute!  Love those little boogers.

While I'm showing off photos, here's another one.  The boys took their first music class today...

They were very interested in the piano but the rest of the instruction was really great as well.  I'm hoping we can afford to go to more classes.  I got to learn some sign language to use with them as well.  It was great all around.

We've had some yummy food lately but my favorite thing right now is this smoothie:

I make this yummy GREEN SMOOTHIE by blending the following together in my Ninja:

• 1 handful spinach
• 1 heaping tablespoon brown rice protein
• 1 cup strawberries
• 1/2 a banana
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon PB2
• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
• 1 cup ice cubes

It really is divine.  Right now I'm loving SunWarrior protein as I'm trying to get away from animal products and it is a vegan, raw protein powder that's quite tasty.  In other words, its not as chalky as the others I've tried.  It is more expensive though...

I guess that's enough randomness for one post.  Hope you're having a great day!