day 34.

abs class and body pump tonight. total of 1.5 hours. same teacher, same room.

abs class: went pretty well.

body pump: went well. felt pretty strong. i increased my weight a little bit for squats and lunges and for part of back. legs were jiggly by the end but not terribly. i think i'll increase some weight for next class too by just a bit. triceps are still the hardest for me. biceps got a little easier - i'll add a little more weight next time.

day 34.

sunday. official rest day. only i did a lot of walking. in sandals. wasn't planning on doing so much walking. it just kinda happened.

first, i went to brunch with nicole, alice, and kyle. from my house, n & a and i walked over to southport for brunch at sopo which is maybe 3/4 mile? we were planning on staying more around my house but b/c of the pride parade it was a madhouse. from southport, we walked to waveland and halsted to watch the parade. another walk. maybe another half mile? 3/4 mile? more? it's so hard to tell how far it is when you are just walking around the streets. from there, kyle and i walked back to my house down halsted so we could see all the crazies and their dress up outfits. you'll have to refer to my other blog to see those pics! and so from waveland & halsted to clark and halsted, it's probably a little more than half a mile. then a quick couple blocks to my house.

at my house, kyle and i got some water, went to the potty, then decided to take the bus to north ave beach. yeah, the buses were not running down clark, so we decided to take the 156 bus over on sheridan and walked over there towards the lake. only that bus wasn't running either. great. so we walked. and walked to north ave. it is 1.5 miles if walked straight there. but we had to meander around to get there. excellent. probably made it more like 1.75 miles or so. finally at castaways, we ate chicken fingers and fries and therefore negated anything good we'd done with our walk. when it was time to go home, kyle went to the brown line and i decided on the clark bus since the end drop off spot was closer than the long block from the el stop. plus the el was a further walk to get there than the bus to begin with. however, i made the wrong decision. even though the parade had been over for hours, they were still changing the route. boo. first they said we had to get off at fullerton (or go all the way to irving park, um no!) which would have been a mile walk. then they said they were not doing the alternate route but that at the diversey/broadway intersection, instead of staying on clark, they were taking broadway. awesome. so i got off at diversey and had another 1/2 mile walk home. i was exhausted. finished. done. and fell asleep on the couch prob around 8ish and then got in bed by 10.

day 33.

my first official sat 6am training run. i hadn't been able to make it to any of the others for various reasons, but i made it to this one! 9 miles. whew! awesome. ok. well first things first i needed to figure out who my group was and who the pace leader was. turns out the 3/2 12-12:30min pace group is very very small. we had 5 people total. and some of those are apparently floaters. but everyone was super nice and my pace leader was fun to talk with. her name is raquel and she had broken her watch over the week and not replaced it so she was using her cell phone and asked me to help her out. no prob, but i knew i'd probably fall back at some point and let her know that. we chatted for a good bit of the run which was nice as it passed the time and made it feel easier. we started our run at the north ave bridge base and then went south to randolph. that was 3 miles. then we turned around and headed back to the bridge which was another 3 miles (duh). i was doing fine with the intervals though i was getting heavier legs. by this point at the 6 mile mark i was definitely working hard to keep the intervals going. it was hot, but not horrifically so and there was a nice breeze. we then headed north to diversey which is 1.5 miles north and i started to fall back in the group. not too far as to not be able to catch up but definitely slower than i'd been going. still doing the intervals though. then on the return 1.5, i started to lose the intervals. but, it's ok. the coaches all say to give yourself permission to do that if needed. i still finished fairly strong and i think i was on about a 12:30 pace. right around there at least. after the run, alice and i headed over to the farmer's market. i got some pretty flowers and delicious blueberries.

day 32.

pilates with chris. she does a great class. i worked hard and was tired by the end and sore. great workout. i love that feeling.

day 31.

couldn't go to regular pilates class b/c i was having dinner with my aunt and uncle at 6 so instead, i went to do a run in the middle of the day on the treadmill. 36 mins. it went ok. just hot. hot hot hot. still getting used to the heat. they say it takes 2 weeks or so to acclimate. great!

day 30.

ces group workout day. i don't usually go to these b/c i prefer to go to body pump. but, i went this wed evening b/c dev and i signed up for a free wine tasting event afterwards. apparently wine is a fine motivator. i was worried all day b/c there was a good amount of thunder going on. no rain, just thunder. but, by the time practice came around it was sunny and hot hot hot. so i headed over there and instead of doing hills, they changed it to a 30 min run due to the heat. my old pace leaer has moved up to doing 5/1s and so i decided to join her group. i did just fine until about 20 mins in when i fell off the pace as i was getting light headed and overheated. it was a miserable evening. i must admit when i was done the last thing i wanted was wine and i was ready to just go home. but, i stuck it out and went wine tasting with devon and a girl from her group, kate. and i ended up having a great time so i'm glad i went. i definitely got my sweat on!

day 23 - 29.

i've been bad. very very bad. i don't remember wed (day 23), though i do believe i went to body pump. day 24 - i went to a cubs game and then had high school culver friends in town so i know i didn't get in any workout. friday i flew to houston and again did nothing. sat i was lazy and sunday i was lazy. way to go me. on monday, i went to the gym with my mom and got in about 50 mins of elliptical. the gym was hot. outside was hot. and by hot i mean 100 and humid. gross. not optimal workout weather. there. that's my excuse. then tues i flew home and i know i was lazy that day and didn't work out. and that was my day 23-29 workout regime. not a heckuva lot...