Mandy's meanderings!

I'm really excited that I actually fit in some exercise today.  I even upped the incline to 1.  Did a .25 mile warm-up, jogged 1.25 miles at 5.8 mph, walked .5 mile at 4.8 mph, jogged .6 mile at 5.8 mph then another .25 mile at 6.0 mph, then did a cool down.  Total time was 34:36.  My right hamstring is SOOOOOOO tight.  I think I might do some foam roller stretches this afternoon.  Still haven't missed my morning walk.

Back from vacation.  We did a ton of walking and hiking around Breckenridge, CO, which was great.  Today is the 'get back into a routine after vacation' day.  I took the kids for our daily walk this morning.  That is becoming a fun routine for me. 

My run today was a lazy one.  I did a total of 3.31 miles in just over 36 minutes.  The last .3 miles of the jog I increased the incline to 1 and increased the speed to 6.0 mph to push myself at the end. Pretty sure I jogged more than half, which I call a good run for now.  The calories are only from the run.

Did three walks down to the pool/park today.  One for our morning walk where we got rained on and I ran home with the stroller.  One for swimming with the cousins at the pool.  And one for the carnival fundraiser for girls camp for the girls in our neighborhood.  I'm tight.

Did our morning walk-no rain thankfully!  then did a 3.5 mile jog/walk.  My calluses are gone on my feet so I only lasted about 2 miles before stopping and putting my shoes back on.  Still jogged more than I walked, and I still did the increased incline and speed for the last .25 mile.  Total time was right around 40 minutes I think.  Stretching felt really good after yesterday.

I think I really need to charge my shuffle so I can have my running music back.  I get really bored without it.  Did our morning walk and my right side was super tight so i tried to stretch more during my jog.  I ended up walking a total of 1 mile of the 3.5 mile workout, including warm up and cool down. I ended the jogging with the incline of 1 and speed of 6.0 mph.  Total time for the workout was 39:10.

This week I'm trying to fit my running in early so the girls can make it to swim lessons.  I woke up and hopped on the treadmill.  About halfway through, my seven year old caused me to pull the emergency stop, so I guestimated where I was.  I did up the incline and speed for the last .4 of a mile and I only stopped and walked one lap during the 5k jog.  After the run, I took the kids on our morning walk.  Total time was something like 36 minutes I think.

did our walk twice today. Once in the morning for exercise and once in the afternoon to go to the pool.

I've only missed one day of going on a walk, which feels really nice.  Today's run was my best thus far.  I increased the speed to 6.0 for 2 miles to try and hurry things up a little bit (my baby was waking up).  I increased the incline to 1 for half a mile at the end, and the only time I paused was to try and get my baby back to sleep twice.  which means, I jogged for 3 full miles today!  Go me!!!  It felt really good.  Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come.

did our walk twice today since we went down to the pool for a while.  The bitties loved the water.

Today's run was definitely not my best.  Halfway through it I realized it was because I never ate breakfast this morning.  Oops.  I finished it at least.  I did keep the speed at 6.0 mph when I was jogging though, so there were some improvements.  I even upped the speed to 6.2 for the last lap.  I did take two walking breaks though.  My lower back is really sore and I don't know why so I'm working on stretching it out throughout the day today.  Total time was 37:30 for 3.5 miles.  The extra mile was the morning walk with the kiddos.

didn't get to do our morning walk this morning, hopefully tonight I can take Buster.  Did better on my run since I remembered to eat breakfast this morning.  Did a .25 mile warm-up, ran at 6.0 for 2.5 miles, then upped it to 6.1 and the incline at 1 for the rest of the run.  Did a short cool down since I was short on time.  total time was 33:30.

Got the morning walk in the with kids the past couple of days.  Today was pretty slow since my son hurt his knee this morning and didn't want to walk on it.  My run made  up for it though.  Since I still can't find the charger for the shuffle I'm getting REALLY bored, which means I'm taking more breaks than I need.  today I kept the speed at 6.0 except for one two minute break when I walked at 4.8.  The last mile I shook it up a little more by putting the incline to 1, going at 6.2 for .5 mile then upping it to 6.5 mph for .2 mile, just to see if I could do it.  It didn't really feel hard.  That makes me happy.  I ended up running a 5k in just under 31 minutes.  I'm really wanting to get it under 30 minutes again.  Maybe next time.  Total time on the treadmill was 39 minutes.