Keep on Runnin’

So…how do you combat a morning fail?

Make an afternoon SUCCESS!!!

Another week, another extra minute on the running intervals.  Up to 3 x 8:1 on the treadmill.  WooT!  I was sweating like a beast, but running at my slow and steady pace helped me make it through with very little struggle.  I even threw in some hills during each run and didn’t miss a beat. 

Including warm up and cool down = 2.15 miles (3.46km), 220 cals, 32 minutes.

Plus strength exercises:

• 3 x 15 – tricep pulldowns, bicep curls, ab twists
• 2 x 1 minute plank
• 2 x 15 – crunches, reverse crunches

Before I went out I grabbed lunch for the car…

Clementines, leftover PB&J Larabar, Bolthouse Vanilla Chai…

19 grams of soy protein in that bottle!  I drank half before the gym, and half after.

Unfortunately I never did get my x-ray.  I wasted over half an hour driving down there only to have an incredibly hard time finding the right building…argh.  The hospital here takes up several blocks and you need a city planning degree to figure out where to go.  Especially when two of the side streets I needed were blocked off for construction.  By the time I think I figured it out, it was too late to bother…the clinic would be closing when I got there.  Oh well.  Friday I guess.

Due to my less than stellar lunch I was famished after my workout so I opted to eat my dinner right away.

Leftovers from last night.  Yummy!  I felt much better!

After working to clean up the time I missed while driving aimlessly around the hospital working out, I still needed to get some veggies in for the day so I made a bigass salad.

 

Bigass spinach salad to be exact.

With cucumber, red onion, pomegranate, mozzarella…drizzled with honey & grapeseed oil and sprinkled with sea salt…

Holy deeelish.  Topped with walnuts after plating.

And added a handful of these veggie chips I picked up the other day.  Terra Chips - Sweets & Beets.

 

Pretty tasty.  A nice change for a chip.  I like the beets better than the sweet potatoes but that’s not to say I didn’t like the taters.  :)  I did have to hunt around in the bag for the beet chips though…would like to see more of those!

Now some warm Apple Pomegranate Crisp and a little SYTYCD. (I’m having trouble getting into the US version…the Canadian version was just toooooo goooood!!)

Night all!