The Weekend

Saturday started with getting my C25K week three, day three training in before it got too hot outside. Here are Saturday's stats:

• 3,098 aerobic steps
• 24 minutes
• 1.53 miles

They aren't the greatest stats, but it was still pretty darn hot out on Saturday morning and I'm just happy that I got out there and did it anyway.

When I got done with my wog, I took a shower and treated myself to some pampering/extra grooming such as a face mask, a nose strip, foot scrub, eyebrow plucking, and nail clipping.

Wearing some socks until I'm sure that the lotion has absorbed into my skin after my foot scrub. Otherwise I would just have dog hair stuck to the bottom of my lotion-y feet.

Face mask

A nose strip to help clear out those big ol' pores of mine!

I spent a few hours on Saturday doing some shopping. I didn't need much, but it felt good to be out and walk around. I also managed to get a short walk in with Sebastion and Lilly. We met up with an older lady down the road who was also taking her dog out. Sebastion was a little barky and Lilly was so scared she was shaking.

Lilly is on the left and Sebastion is on the right.

Sunday I didn't do too much either. I watched some TV, went to return some items from Saturday that didn't work out, and finally got a little bit done in the evening. I finally got to attaching my basket to my bike. I had to test it out, so I threw my purse in it and went for a ride around the neighborhood. It is funny how when I wog I can't get up and down every street yet in half an hour, but it only took me 17 minutes on my bike to do one complete lap.

When I got done with my bike ride, I found my husband working on his raspberry patch. He was digging up grass and asked me to help him carry bricks over to him to use as a border around the garden.

It was so nice outside that I didn't want to go back in just yet, so I spray painted some pieces for my shelf in the great room,

put up a new garden flag I got on clearnace at Petsmart,

You can tell I only weeded partway on this side of the house if you look behind the flag!

and finally assembled a soloar light/hanging plant stand that I got on clearance last fall.

Got to plant the marigolds in them yet and do some more weeding in this flower bed...

Wogging, Yard Work, and Dogs

Monday started off a little lazy. The dogs woke me up about an hour short of 8 hours of sleep. I tried to get up and get going, but was too tired. I laid down for a short nap, but ended up not waking up until 9:00.

Benjamin cuddling next to me in my pjs.

I had some leftover cheese pizza and ate it for breakfast. I felt horrible from all the cheese. I slept in, ate something I shouldn't have, and now it is really getting hot outside. All of these things make me not want to wog, but I pulled myself together and did it anyway.

There is something about putting on your workout clothes that makes you feel obligated to at least try to workout a bit. Once you get going then you usually finish too.

Monday's C25K stats:

• 3,468 aerobic steps
• 29 minutes
• 1.52 miles

For week three my wog pattern is warm-up walk for five minutes, jog 90 seconds, walk 90 seconds, jog 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes, jog 90 seconds, walk 90 seconds, jog 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes, and a five minute cool down walk.


Here is the playlist:

• Sweet Dream- Eurthymics
• Jaded- Green Day
• Stay- Dirty Dancing soundtrack
• Mother Mother- Tracy Bonham
• I Love Rock and Roll- Joan Jett
• Shout- Beatles
• Never Coming Down (Part I)- Spacehog
• Pop Song 89- R.E.M.
• Manic Monday- Bangles
• Roam- B52's

I went to take my father-in-law's dogs out and play with them after eating some lunch. I managed to snap a few pictures of them.

Peter sunning himself.

Boo just wants to go back inside.

Do you think that they have enough toys?

My big chore that I worked on today was doing some more weeding in the flower bed on the side of the yard. There is a small crab apple tree there too, so I hacked at that too. I spent probably about an hour and a half, but there is a lot left to do. It was really hot, so I didn't want to make myself sick doing too much.

This is the section I started on today. It is pretty close to being done, so hopefully tomorrow I'll have a completed picture up.

I came inside to take a break from weeding and found the dogs sunning themselves by the front door. I think that Benjamin looks the cutest, because he is laying on his back with his back legs stretched out. Lilly is resting her head on Sebastion's rear end. So here are some more doxie pictures...

My choices for food today weren't the greatest. It seems like I either do good on my workouts (which I did today) or I do good at eating right, but it is hard to get both going at the same time.

Here is the food for the day:

Breakfast: cheese pizza

Snack:

Lunch:

Snack:

Dinner:

C25K Week Two and My Shins

Today is my start of C25K week two. I started having pain in my shins while running today. I've never been a big fan of jogging/running anyway, so I might end up just walking again if it is a huge continuing problem. I kind of liked the idea of doing something outside and having just a little something to add to it each week, so I'm not giving up on it yet. Here are today's stats:

• 3,575 aerobic steps
• 29 minutes
• 1.5 miles

Here's is/was this week's play list:

• Five Minute Warm-Up: Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana
• Call Me- Blondie (the rest of the songs were run 90 seconds, walk two minutes)
• Friday I'm in Love- The Cure
• Where the River Flows- Collective Soul
• Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)- the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss version
• Awful- Hole
• Baba O'Riley- The Who (five minute cool down)

I spent the rest of my day being productive around the house. I mowed the yard,

hung up the half of the frames I got painted and started on the other half,

and started weeding the flower beds in the front of the house.

You don't think that I let the weeds get a little out of control, right? Well, it is half done now and I'll probably do the other half tomorrow.

I did off and on throughout the day and evening watch TV, but it was probably a good idea to give my legs a break since my shins hurt.

Here are the eats for today (most of which are good, but once again went a little nutty on the Special K bars at night):

Breakfast

Snack

Lunch

Snack

Dinner

You can see mayo on the sandwich, but I usually scrape it off and just leave enough to get a little taste of it.

Snack: Tons of these...