The Not-So-Glamorous Side of Running!

Hey you guys! I have had a busy day! After blogging I took a look around and realized my apt needed some cleaning. It wasn’t dirty, just messy. So I cleaned until about noon. At 12:00, I had a quick and messy lunch. I had a whole wheat wrap with feta, tabouli, salsa, and spicy hummus with a side of BBQ Popchips.

After lunch I headed to the gym and did a 5 mile run in 46 minutes. After the run I walked for 5 minutes at a 10 incline, just to spice it up. It was HARD!!!

As you all know, I always talk about how great running is an how much I love it, but there is a less than glamorous side to it.

Sports Bra Burn:

Time to invest in some Body Glide.

And….runner’s calluses.

There are actually other gross foot things that I certain you guys aren’t wanting to see. I am pretty sure these are all things a little Body Glide can help. After my workout, I showered and headed to Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Market Basket groceries.

Today’s Outfit:

Jeans (GAP), Sneakers (PUMA), Gray Thermal (AE), White Cami (H&M).

Before heading into TJ’s, I grabbed a tall skinny cinnamon dolce latte.

My deal of the day was I got $37.00 worth of groceries for $4.97 at Whole Foods! Thanks coupons!!!!!!!

After unloading the groceries, cutting up the fruits and veggies for the week, washing dishes and doing laundry, I started some work for my part-time job. I was interrupted by a phone call with GREAT NEWS! It’s not my news, it is really someone else’s so I am not going to share it on here for a while. I want to give that person enough time to tell everyone they are close too, and I don’t want anyone finding out that person’s news on my blog, it is theirs to tell. But it is the best news I have heard in a long time. 🙂 I am thrilled!!!!!

Dinner with my handsome fiance started with a glass of red wine and a fresh salad.

Colorful! I only drank half of that glass of wine.

Dinner was homemade turkey burgers. We mixed lean turkey breast with egg whites, whole wheat bread crumbs and garlic powder and grilled them on the Forman. We ate the on whole wheat Arnold’s thins. I topped mine with cheddar cheese and mustard. We had some baked sweet potato fries on the side with organic ketchup for dipping.

It was awesome!!!! I spent the rest of the evening watching the Grammy’s and getting ready for my day tomorrow. FYI: packing tape is a great substitute if you don’t have a lint roller 😉

Well, I have an early morning, so I got to get to bed. I am going to bed with a big smile on my face tonight 🙂 See you in the morning bloggy friends!!!!!

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Three Truths!

Truth Number 1: I am obsessed with To-Do lists!!!! Yup, that is two separate ones for today!

Truth Number 2: I carry around FAR TOO MUCH crap with me all day! I look like a bag lady when I leave the house in the morning! 

Truth Number 3: I am unbelievably clumsy! Two instance from today alone as examples:

1. This morning when the alarm clock when off, I got up to hit snooze (don’t judge!) and I slipped on one of Oscar’s toys and fell backwards into bed as Adam was sitting up causing me to head butt him! We were both moaning in pain!
2. I fell down a whole flight of stairs at the gym tonight, during peak hours too! Oh yeah a lot of people saw and rushed over to see if I was ok. I was. Just a bruised leg and a bruised ego.

Around 3:30 pm I was hungry for a snack. So I dug into my afternoon snack which was a whole wheat Arnold’s sandwich thin and some low fat cottage cheese.

That is how I ate it 🙂

As I was leaving work, I got a little hungry again. I dug into my almost empty snack draw and pulled out a fruit strip.

I got to the gym about 20 minutes before my class started, so I did something I haven’t done in a while. The stationary bike. I enjoyed a 15 minute bike workout while reading my book that I am loving and really trying to finish before classes start and I am back to text books. I did the “hills” setting for 15 minutes at a level 8, I think it worked out to be 3 miles. It was a great workout, my legs were burning and my heart was pumping. I worked up a good sweat before Body Pump. I met my friend Ashley at BP, but it was SOOOOOO packed we could be near each other. So sad! I think it was full of all the New Year’s Resolution people. If you are a NYR person, BP is the class to try, you will be hooked and come back for more 🙂 I love Body Pump 72!!! It has great music and is really challenging!

After the gym (and my graceful trip down the stairs) I hoped on the train and headed home. By the time I walked through the door, I was STARVING!!!! Honestly, how does one begin the day too full to finish her oatmeal and end it staving? I returned my voicemail for my part-time job (work is priority) then made dinner. Yup, I was too hungry to wait until after I showered! So, I sat there and ate this covered in sweat!

A whole wheat wrap stuffed with spicy hummus, turkey, cheddar, spinach and avocado pressed on the Forman with some red grapes and Food Should Taste Good potato and chive chips.

Dessert:

Chamomile tea and a bit of dark chocolate.

The most spoiled dog in the world received this as gift from my mother today.

Dog popcorn! I cooked it up right away, I wanted to see what it looked like since it was “Roast Beef Flavored”

Yawn, it looked like popcorn. Then this conversation happened in my house:

Me: “Adam, try some I want to know what it tastes like.”

Adam: “NO, AL! Gross! You try some if you want to know!”

Me: “Ad, you know I VERY RARELY eat red meat, it is Roast Beef Flavored!”

No one tried it, not even Oscar! I tried to give him some and he turned his nose up and continued playing with his toys. I brought it up to my mom and dad’s and their dogs were fans!

That is Jefferson.

That is Miss Scarlett. They are both Basset Hounds. My dad was THRILLED that I put popcorn on his lap for the dog to make a mess on 🙂 Sorry, Dad!

In Other News:

1. I found out today that my gym is getting Body Jam this month!!! SAY WHAAAAAT?! Body Jam is the Dance/Cardio sister to Body Pump (aka as a way for me to a. make a fool of myself and b. fall on my face)…where so I sign up?! I am excited!

2. Today I fell IN LOVE with two upcoming races.

First, The Disney Wine and Dine Half Marathon.

http://disneyworldsports.disney.go.com/dwws/en_US/events/eventDetail/detail?name=HalfMarathonDetailPage&pid=pip-0-0

It is awesome because:

• It is in the dark at night (10pm)
• It is attached to an awesome food and wine festival
• It is in Disney…obvi.

However:

• It is $135 to register
• I would have to fly there and stay there
• I have no money to do above two!

I am praying for a miracle!!!

Second, The Ragnar Relay!!!

http://www.ragnarrelay.com/boston/index.php

12 runner + 2 vans + 200 mile + 24 hours = The Ragnar Relay.

Yup, running from CT to MA!!!! I want to see if I can find 12 people CRAZY enough to do this! It is the weekend before my half marathon, but I think I can handle. It sounds like so much fun it would be great to do with a fun group of runners!!!!

WHO IS IN?!?!?!

Well, I got to get together the supplies to refill my sad and empty snack draw at work and read a bunch of blog posts…see you guys in the am!

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COMBAT!

Good Afternoon! I hope all of you are having a great Hump Day!

I got am e-mail from my co-worker, Wendy today asking me if I wanted to go to Body Combat with her today! Um….YES! For those of you who don’t know, Body Combat is the kick boxing on crack cardio sister of my beloved Body Pump! I have never tried Body Combat, but of course I was so excited to try it. Verdict: AWESOME! It was so fun! Like BP, the tracks were full of energy and challenging. I looooved it!

Once I realized I was going to go to Body Combat during lunch, I knew I needed a little snack to carry me through. So I snacked on half of a pure bar before hitting the gym for a little lunch time workout.

It did the trick! After Body Combat I was starving though. I think I torched some serious calories! Lunch was a tasty wrap!

It has turkey, hummus, tabbouleh, reduced fat feta, lettuce, cucumber and avocado 🙂 YUM YUM!

On the side I had some red grapes and some sour cream and onion popchips!

Lunch:

Healthy, nutritious and filling! Perfect!!!

Have a great rest of your day, see you later on. 🙂

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A Whole Lot of Mocha!

Hey everyone! Good Afternoon! How is your day? Mine is FLYING BY– too fast! Around 11am I was hungry…so I dipped into the snack draw and grabbed a primal strip.

This was my first time trying a Primal Strip. It was ok, it reminded me of jerky, I will probably not buy more, but will most likely eat the other one in my draw at some point simply because I don’t waste.

Lunch was a turkey, laughing cow, lemon hummus, lettuce and cucumber wrap with an apple from apple picking this weekend.

Simple and easy (not to mention tasty).  I also tired some ice coffee that was sent to me by the people at Pacific foods!

I poured about 1/2 of the container into a cup.

It was creamier and more flavorful than any iced coffee I have ever had. I really enjoyed this creamy little treat. It was more like an iced latte in my opinion, but I am not complaining. Yum!

I had it as part of my afternoon snack which was a Trader Joe’s lowfat mocho yogurt.

and some of my Food, Fitness Fashion Mix granola from MixMyGranola.

That’s a whole lot of Mocha!!!!I actually only ended up eating half of my snack because I thought the yogurt was GROSS! When I found myself choking it down I realized it it I have to choke it down, I should probably not bother!!

Well it is Wednesday so without further ado:

THINGS ALI IS EXCITED ABOUT:

• The wedding this up coming weekend
• Meeting Janel, Jessica and Elizabeth at Boston Vegetarian Food Festival Sunday morning!
• Body Pump tonight!
• Fit Bloggin’ 2010 in March (far away I know but, whatever!)
• Getting married in 8 months!!!!!!
• Starting work on out NEW HOME!!!

What are you excited about?

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