Interval Training 101

Yesterday I started the second week of my training for the Tough Mudder.  I am not going to lie interval training stinks the big one.  5 intervals @ 6.0 mph (last one at a 1.0 incline) for .25 miles.  In between I did 5.5 mph for 4-5 minutes (I tried to really stick it out for the 5 minutes, and the last one was at a 1.0 incline).  First off I am not a math whiz and I am even worse when I have to run and try to do math in my head, so sometime I ran half a mile @ 6 mph before I realized that I had gone too far:)  All in all I did 3 miles (plus another half a mile cool down) in 30 minutes, not too bad especially since I watched The Big Bang rerun on TBS while I ran.  I then went on to teach a Hatha Yoga Class for an hour and since I am the teacher and I wanted to get a good deep stretch that's what we did:)

Check back tomorrow to see how far I ran today during my distance training:)

UP and Running

So I am going to try at this again.  New Year and all:)

I have lost all reason and have signed up for the 2012 Tough Mudder is Dallas here is the web site if you want more information about it.  I have NEVER in my life done anything this extreme so at 31 I am attempting to do one of the hardest things that I have ever seen (so glad I went blindly into this with 2 other friends, hey if we die we die together, right!?!)  So each Monday I am going to give y'all the training plan for the week (be afraid it doesn't look at hard on paper as it actually is I promise once you are forced to drop your running speed to turtle and then come back up you will understand!)

So here is week 1 and 2 (this is my second week of training)

Week 1:
Monday:   Speed   Distance   Reps   Recov Time       Recov Speed
                    6.0         .25 miles   4           4-5 min        Jog 4-5 mph

Tuesday & Thursday:   Distance &/or normal workout (for me this is distance plus boot camp &/or an ab class) 3-4 miles @ a 9.15 min mile

Wednesday & Friday:    Speed   Distance   Reps   Recov Time       Recov Speed

                                       5.5         .5 miles   4           2.15                  Jog 4-5 mph

Saturday: Resisted Runs & Exercises Below

4 sets 30 seconds resisted runs (you have to have a partner for this and they hold the resistance bands around your waist and you have to pull them as hard as you can, it works best if the other person is bigger/stronger than you)

1 min x each between sets : Push ups, Planks, Bear crawl-forward/backward/side-to-side, Half/full burpees, Hangs/hang crunches

Sunday: Rest (also my cheat day to eat:)

Week 2:

Monday:   Speed   Distance   Reps   Recov Time       Recov Speed

                    6.0         .25 miles   5           4-5 min        Jog 4-5 mph

* last rep at incline

Tuesday & Thursday:   Distance &/or normal workout (for me this is distance plus boot camp &/or an ab class) 4-5 miles @ a 9.15 min mile

Wednesday & Friday:    Speed   Distance   Reps   Recov Time       Recov Speed

                                       5.5         .5 miles   4           2.15                  Jog 4-5 mph

Saturday: Resisted Runs & Exercises Below

4 sets 45 seconds resisted runs (you have to have a partner for this and they hold the resistance bands around your waist and you have to pull them as hard as you can, it works best if the other person is bigger/stronger than you)

1 min x each between sets : Push up plank, Tricep dips, Mountain Climbers, High climbs/step ups, Dam or incline at 12 runs (we live at a gated lake community so we do the dam workout where we run up and down the dam 12 times)

Sunday: Rest Day

Like I said it's not for the faint of heart! Oh, and  I did not make this up, my friend who is a personal trainer and has trained a lot of people who have  done these events did for me.  For the record this is not for someone who is just getting into working out/ running I have been a runner for a while and also work out 5-7 times a week already (for a number of years).

I will tell you last week was rough, being that it was the week after Christmas and I had eaten all healthy (cough, cough) and all:)  Here is to a better week now that all the cobwebs are out of my system.

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours.








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Happy 4th of July

We made our flag cake and have been at the pool all weekend:) it has been a great 4th and we feel so blessed to live in a country where men and women fight so that we can celebrate our independence everyday of the year! Happy 4th everyone





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It my Party

It's my Day-o-Birth today and we lived it up this week at the beach and ate and drank way too well:) and I will have some extra yummy recipes on here to share with y'all.

And I have to give it to my GiGi for making this way awesome birthday Pavlova (I will have the recipe on here next week) it was soooo good I can gain 10 lbs just thinking about it. I get all my baking skilz from her, the woman can definitely bake and we always have a different desert ( nothing store bought) for our birthday's from her each year.





And of course we cant forget the Champaign, our glasses mush never be empty on your Birthday! Have a wonderful weekend, we have more celebrating to do with a big birthday cookout tomorrow!!!

No One ever drowned from their own sweat!

Sorry for the lack of blogging but life and work has been getting in the way of blogging lately.

I don't know about y'all but I love to hate to workout. I know I talk a lot about food on here and have not done too much talking about working out, which I do love to do. And I promised myself when I started this blog I would use it as a way to hold myself accountable for my workouts and running. So here goes my work out routine for the summer:)

I usually do 3 days of boot camp a week. Which is pure torture (especially now because it's dang hot in Texas) but the feeling that I have afterwards is awesome. I also do 2 days of yoga and try to run 3-5 days a week. I have always loved to work out but the last 4 years I haven't done very much of it because I was pregnant for almost two of the years and had lots of complications and couldn't workout at all. And then I had my son (oh and I work full-time like lots of moms do) and myself and working out took a backseat to my family and work. But at the end of last year I decided to rededicate myself to getting back into the best shape that I can be in not just for looks but for my mental well being. I think that all too often we as moms put ourselves last because it's the "right thing to do" but we do need to take sometime out of the day and do something for ourselves. Whether it be working out, taking a continuing education class, working and not feeling guilty about feeding our kids a PB&j for dinner, or just going to the grocery store by yourself.

My outlet is working out, it works for me. What's your outlet?

You know your a redneck when.......

That's right I woke up to a new horse tied under a tree beside my yard this morning. 

No, I am not making any of this up, this is my son's new horse (yes, I know he's only two and already has his own horse) and since he came from California and they have had the EVH1 virus we have had to keep him away from our barn and other horses, we do not live where our barn is right now since we are in the process of building the house out there.  So for right now he is living at the house, when the guy dropped him of last night in the middle of the night he just tied him to the tree and put a water bucket down for him and when I opened the door this morning there he was, talk about doing a double take especially since he wasn't suppose to be here until this weekend. 

Oh and don't worry we have since moved him to a makeshift pen in the front pasture.

Meet Shag (he's a plug, and need to put on about 300 lbs)

Shag says get me off this tie line lady

Chowing down on some alfalfa

Poor Shag, he has no idea what a good life he's going to have here:)

On a totally fitness related note, I have hurt my thut (the part between your rear end and your thigh) and I have to stand up to work because it hurts too bad to sit down.  I have iced it, foam rolled it and been to the chiropractor and nothing is working.  Hopefully the massage that I have scheduled for tomorrow will work.  I am not sure how I hurt it but it must have been between all the running (20 miles) the bootcamp, pilates and a new class called turbo-kickboxing that I did last week.  It did feel better yesterday when I was at bootcamp and during my run yesterday morning but during the day when I have to be at the desk during work it's killing me:(