Happy Birthday Julie!

Just a head's up, I've totally lost my mind.  I'm officially training for the 10 mile Broad St run in Philly on 5/1/11.  This is all Amanda's fault, I mentioned I was thinking about doing it because a bunch of people at work are running & next thing I know we're in training.  Below is a plan I found online that we're going to complete in the next 16 weeks.  On the website there's a breakdown on pace but I'm removing that, I just want to get the actual distances finished.  I told Joe we are doing it & he asked if I want him to run it too, I said absolutely, so I think he may be in as well... 

10 Mile Training Plan

Week	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN
1	3	0	3	0	3	0	4
2	3	0	3	0	3	0	5
3	3	0	3	0	3	0	6
4	4	0	3	0	3	0	7
5	4	0	3	0	3	0	8
6	4	0	3	0	3	0	9
7	4	0	4	0	3	0	10
8	4	3	4	0	3	0	11
9	4	3	4	0	3	0	5
10	4	0	4	4	0	0	10

http://www.the-fitness-motivator.com/10-mile-training-plan.html

1/4/11 was my friend Julie's 30th birthday!  She deserted me to live in warm & sunny South Carolina though so I only see her once or twice a year.  :-(  I texted her a birthday message and asked if turning 30 is messing with her as badly as it is me (we are in similar relationships/lifestyles), she said it was in the few months leading up to it but not so much anymore.  Well that's reassuring...  I'm going to give her a call on my way to the gym on Thursday so we can discuss this further.

 As for my eating...I had another bowl of cinnamon toast crunch and a banana for breakfast.

 I am out of fruit cups so I subbed in some pineapple from the fruit bowl at our NYE party.

Amanda & I planned to work out together but couldn't decide what to do, our options were boxing, zumba or kick.  I didn't want to do all of them equally so we decided to go for a run just to gauge where we are now.  We did 2.66 miles in 31min, which is pretty much my standard.  Although I did get a cramp in my butt that is still hanging around this morning, lol. 

I forgot to take meat out for dinner so I threw together some whole grain pasta with broccoli and ricotta cheese.  I added garlic, oregano, evoo & parmesan cheese to it but it was still missing something (or maybe it just needed more of everything).  Joe added hot sauce to his but I'm not a fan of spicy.

We watched the Hurt Locker after dinner because the DVR is still pretty empty.  It wasn't bad but much more Joe's taste then mine.

 I was still way under 1200 calories for the day so I had the last chocolate/m&m covered pretzel leftover from the party.  I really would have liked something more but it was too late & I was too tired to look.

 How did I do on my January goals?

1. drink 64 oz of water every day - check
2. track all my food & burn at least 500 calories a day for at least 25 days - food was tracked and I only burned close to 1000 calories.
3. 1000 fitness minutes, not allowed to count walking at the restaurant - 45 minutes complete
4. run 20 miles - 2.6 miles complete
5. 15 spend-free days - bought some 2 new books for my kindle.