"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

I think they call this cross training...


So today is an off running day and I have decided it would be best to follow most training schedules that  I see and cross train or walk on my off days. So I went on the eliptical in the gym here today. Elipticals suck btw. I lasted about 5 minutes on it and was so bored I could have cried. I got off the eliptical and went back on my old friend, the treadmill. It was actually hard to restrain myself from running but I did. I cranked the hill elevation up as high as it would go and walked at about 3mph. I was actually sweating REALLY HARD. I did about 12 minutes of that and figured that was enough. :)

So yesterday I started logging the food I eat on www.caloriecount.com . So far it has proven to be EXTREMELY helpful. It makes me think twice about the crap I am putting in my body.

I woke up this morning and decided to weigh myself (which is something I haven't done since I became lazy last week.) Some how I lost 3 more POUNDS! ...but who is counting, right?

7 comments:

  1. Yay good for you!! I'm an elliptical girl...I dont do well on the treadmill because I hate running so much. St Patrick's Day Dash is going to be interesting this year :/ I'm glad you're using CalorieCount, it's super helpful!

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  2. Is that how you spell elliptical? Good to know! lol. Are you gonna do the dash?! And thanks to you for telling me about caloriecount! It is very helpful!

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  3. I dont know..that's how i spell it, but i used to spell it with a y, so...maybe i should check! haha Yep Nick and I are doing it, and I think my mom and dad...and a few friends from college! Mostly, the hanging out AFTER the run is the best part, I did it last year with some work people...SO FUN!!

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  4. Oh yay!! I am going to see you there! I had no idea you have done that one before :) Wanna train and do the Rock and Roll Marathon with me? I asked Kelsey too. We could all get together every week to train and pretend we are still in high school.. ha ha!

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  5. Yay that would be so fun!! Are you planning on doing the full or the half? I can't pretend like I could get it together for the full by June...maybe next year lol

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  6. no no no.. no full in June! I want my full to be the Seattle Marathon in November! :) I just want to do the half! If you want I can send you my training schedule!

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  7. Yah definitely, I need some motivation!!

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