As I sat on the floor of my office with the door closed for my lunch hour I chuckled at the thought of what my coworkers must be thinking if they walked by and heard the wooshing and squeking each stroke of the hand pump for my new chair was making. One thing I bought with my birthday money was a ergonomic balance ball chair! I have always wanted to try one of these. I can't give you a review on it yet however! I am on day 2 of attempting to get it blown up with the pump in came with and have given up. I need to see if my bike pump will work with the plastic needle they provide for it because at this rate I'll never get to sit in it...
The second thing I bought with birthday money (yes I am an adult and yes I still am somehow lucky enough to be receiving birthday money) was a new pair of hiking boots that are supposed to be water proof. They fit well and seem to stay dry, so far no complaints. They can get warm if you are not using them in cold weather. It was very challenging finding vegan hiking boots. Ideally I would have found boots that were a little taller so that I could make it through deep snow without any of it sneaking into my boot but Northface etc none of them made non leather versions. You would think that for wet conditions they would leave the leather out of the shoe. So far I am happy with my purchase and it beats hiking in the snow with running shoes which is what I was doing before.
Southwest Challenge Series partial schedule is out!!! My first triathlon will be April 3rd a reverse sprint with a pool swim. Excited!!!! This is the first triathlon I did many moons ago when I took a triathlon class in college and was reintroduced to the sport. I had done Ironkids before that thanks to my dad's "encouragement". So once this marathon is over I am switching back to swim, bike, run WOOOO HOOOO!!!!
I have lost my 1st lb since starting this blog and am hoping it is the catalyst I was in need of! The only slightly frustrating thing is that it seems I have to be training for and participating in very long endurance sports (hence my marathon training) in order to lose maintain my ideal weight but I guess that just means I have an excuse for life for training for triathlons... This is a picture of my food log I've been keeping. This is usually not a typical day it is what most weekend days look like during the week I usually only burn between 250-600 calories with my exercise. Training this last week consisted of: Sat full day of skiing with 3 out of the 6 hours actually being downhill skiing burned 1,142 calories, Sun. All day skiing, Monday 12 mile run (this run felt awesome and I was 7 minutes faster than last time I ran it), Tuesday rest day and puppy class, Wed. Weights and Abs, Thurs will be 1 hour bike ride on my trainer at home!
This Saturday is my last long run before the marathon!!!! Instead of specific miles I will be running for 4 hours (that should hopefully get me to 20-24 miles) then I have a 10 mile and 8 mile run left then the big day!!!!!!!! Wow I'm finally excited about this it took me long enough to get excited.
As I sat on the floor of my office with the door closed for my lunch hour I chuckled at the thought of what my coworkers must be thinking if they walked by and heard the wooshing and squeking each stroke of the hand pump for my new chair was making. One thing I bought with my birthday money was a ergonomic balance ball chair! I have always wanted to try one of these. I can't give you a review on it yet however! I am on day 2 of attempting to get it blown up with the pump in came with and have given up. I need to see if my bike pump will work with the plastic needle they provide for it because at this rate I'll never get to sit in it...
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