Easy Being Greene

May Goals

Did I set April Goals?  I think I was in Mexico and was more concerned about enjoying myself. 

Anyway, here goes Muscles May!

1. Run 100 miles 

My next race is a half marathon on June 2. I’m pretty sure that following my training plan will easily help me achieve this goal.

2. Practice swimming at the gym twice once my lessons are over. 

This is more of a courage goal - that I’ll have to go on my own and practice. 

3. Weigh in at 130 and maintain it!

I can’t wait to weigh in for you guys tomorrow! It’s going to be good. 

4. Log at least 20 strength workouts

I started doing this in April and I’d like to continue through all of May.

Tonight’s run and other things

Ran 5 miles tonight in 38:47! 7:44/mile average.

Splits:

Course and other stats:

Other things:

• Feeling a lot less funky. Was able to tell people IRL about my weird mood, had a good cry, and slept a decent amount. Still not feeling 100% my normal optimistic self. Maybe I just need summer?
• Shoulder hurts!! I visited Dr. Google and decided I have a shoulder sprain or a “separated shoulder” due to both of the falls I took. I think the second one was worse since I landed on my hand and had a locked elbow. It feels like normal muscle pain after a good workout - but I didn’t have a shoulder workout. I’ll have to see what I can do at swim tomorrow. Maybe I’ll work solely on breathing at the side of the pool. 
• I love beets. It’s true - it didn’t take much for this love affair to get started. I am looking forward to secondary effects of beets tomorrow.=)

4.18.12

After a crappy day of teaching, I was ready to run… until hubs called to say he was on his way home. It was 4, and I was still doing some cleaning. I just wanted to go home and run, but not really, but I was going to tell myself this so I would actually run.  (I have a “rest day” tomorrow (really, I’m running with a friend) and I like to play the swapsies game ALL THE TIME to talk myself out of running.)

40 min tempo run

Just 40 minutes right? My goal was 5 miles, since, you know, tempo is fast.  Around mile 2, I got lady cramps. SUCK! I stopped (and stopped my timer. stopping is not tempo) dealt with the pain and thought about just taking a shortcut home. BUT I DIDN’T FTW!

Finished 5.2 miles in 40 minutes. 7:41 pace.

Did the whole dinner thing and watched some meme videos. Finally made mine. Then I said I was going to strength exercises, and I did. 

3x

• 15 lunges each leg
• 15 dips
• 15 hypers
• 45 seconds of swimmers (sucked!)

Now I have to secretly make a tres leches cake… maybe I’ll wait until the wee hours of tomorrow morning when I’ll also be doing my lesson planning. We’ll see.