Juneathon -- Day 3 & Healthy Dinner

Daily progress on the Juneathon challenge. If you want to know more about the challenge, check out the Juneathon page.


Day 3:


Type: Elliptical & Cycle (combined)
Duration: 45 min
Distance: 3.6
Calories: 320
Extra: Lunges, squats & calf raises
Juneathon Total so far: 8.4 miles

Enjoyed a nice relaxing workout this morning while the boys were home napping. Maybe I should have napped instead? Nah, the workout was worth it!

Here's some healthy food to make you drool. My dinner last night at work. Who says you can't do healthy at work? Avocado & toast with PB and banana. Of course with my water bottle which I ended up filling up 8 times yesterday. Water overload I think. Anyone who knows me, knows I'm a freak about water. Have to have the bottle with me at all times. Can we say security blanket?

Happy Juneathon everyone :)

Mama needs new shoes

Running has always been a love of mine. I used to run cross country in middle & high school, though basketball was my first & greater love. I ran cross country just for fun to get in shape for basketball. Yep, I said I ran for fun. Since then I have tried to stay in shape any which way I can. I began training for the Lost Dutchman 1/2 Marathon back in the Fall 2010 as encouraged by a couple co-workers. I really got into it. Then I was pregnant, and so I put it on hold.

Now that I don't have anything in my way, like being preggers (which was actually not all that bad!), I can start to train again. Slow to start of course, since I have quite a ways to go and don't want to injure myself. Reading up on other blogs, as I do most often, I have been following along with running blogs for quite some time now. Not all that I read is cooking and food related!

Some great running blogs include:

Skinny Runner 

SarahOUAL

Hanna at bouffe e bambini

Great inspiration, motivation and upbeat blogs to read, among others. 

As for some things I'm excited about, thanks to these lovely blogs:

PRO Compression Socks - Marathon Pink

BIC Bands - Aqua Sparkle

Nuun Hydration drink mix

Now all I need is a new pair of running shoes. Better save up for those :)

Juneathon is going well, 2 days down and 28 more to go! So much fun :)

{Heat & Family Life}

Happy Weekend to everyone! If it isn't your weekend yet, like me, Happy Saturday!


Can anyone else believe it is June already?! Wow, time is just flying by. Along with it being June already, the heat has welcomed us back to summer here in the desert. Ah, how we missed  forgot about did not miss you. Alas, more time in the pool and with air conditioning will be spent.

This was yesterday June 1, forecasting 113 degrees for some areas.

Most places in the lower deserts broke/tied records. Why not start summer with a BANG?!


The best thing about the heat this summer: I'm not preggers and the size of a whale, so I should feel quite a bit cooler. Sweet. 


We've started swimming a couple days/nights a week and Jackson seems to like it. He's pretty unsure about it at first, since all he's seen is his small bathtub and this is one huge bathtub to him.

That swimming is tough stuff! He loves his hat though, he wears it like a champ!


Jackson has also been doing great trying out new foods. He wasn't so sure about watermelon, but there is still time. He was more into playing with it and trying to grab the slippery pieces.

And some berries I eat like crazy, can't get enough fruit these days!

Man what a big boy he is getting to be. We had some fun taking pictures of him recently :)

Eating mangoes on a walk with mommy.

Toy mountain around Jackson.

Building and playing in a tent before bedtime.

All this fun wore me out. Gotta have my Uncle Jimmy Bear :)

Juneathon -- Day 2

Daily progress on the Juneathon challenge. If you want to know more about the challenge, check out the Juneathon page.


Day 2:


Type: Elliptical (seems nicer on the knees, until I get good enough to run more)
Duration: 32 min
Distance: 2.6 miles
Calories: 350
Juneathon total: 4.8 miles

Nice good workout this morning. I'm getting more efficient at the elliptical. Gonna 

Juneathon -- Day 1

Daily progress on the Juneathon challenge. If you want to know more about the challenge, check out the Juneathon page.


Day 1:


Type: Elliptical
Duration: 30 min
Distance: 2.2 miles
Calories: 250

Day 1 done! On to a month of working out!


Excited to get a few people also excited about this and joining me, thanks guys!

Challenge: Accepted

Just the motivation I needed. A challenge I will complete with flying colors, of sweat. 30 days of commitment. If only the weather was cooler than 106 degrees.

Juneathon

The challenge is called Juneathon. A month long challenge to work out or run every single day and blog about it. So yes, that means you'll be seeing lots of posts from me but mostly about working out. If this turns you off, please don't be afraid. I will be posting other stuff and it is only a month long!


If you're up for it, join along. You don't have to blog about it, but it is a great opportunity to get motivated to get in shape. Make an effort to get out and do something active every single day this month. And if you live in the desert oven like I do, maybe working out inside a gym will be better. Not that running in 108+ degrees in the middle of the afternoon doesn't sound like a blast, or perhaps waiting until it cools down after sunset to run at 8pm when its only 101 degrees, sound better?


Be smart, don't overheat and over-exert yourself. Stay hydrated!


Speaking of hydration...

Nuun is a new thing I've discovered. It is a great enhancement to water and adds electrolytes which you sweat out while running/working out. Water is obviously the best to stay hydrated, but you need electrolytes too.

                                          

 Nuun is great for this. If you've ever tried Emergen-C drink mix, which I also love and drink very often to help fight against getting sick and for a pick me up with tons of Vitamin C, this tastes very similar. Scratch that, the lemon-lime flavor tastes similar. There are tons of flavors. I tried the lemon-lime and the strawberry lemonade. Yum! You just drop a tab in 16 oz of water, wait for it to fizzle-dizzle-dissolve and BAM you've got a tasty drink. No added sugar, so it's not too sweet. I find it to be amazing after a workout. Go get some Nuun on!

Ok enough with the ads. Not that I'm being endorsed, but if anyone out there would like to, I'd be happily accepting :)

Happy active June everyone!

Juneathon -- I'm In!

So thanks to my amazing blogger friend Hanna over at {bouffe e bambini} and the motivation I've been storing to start running/training for a half marathon, I've decided to join Juneathon. A month long challenge to exercise/run every single day, and blog about it.

My only downfall, the blogging part. I can see finding the time to get the exercise in, even with my crazy schedule. The blogging part might be tough. If I can't get that done, then obviously I'm not as cool and great as the rest of the people signed up, but if I can get 2-3 posts a week, that's my goal. If I surpass, awesome. 

I think this is great motivation for everyone to get out, get moving and get in shape. Enjoy summer! I'll have to figure something out to compensate, since running outside in 105+ degree weather will be tough. Lots and lots of water!


Today I started my challenge, yes two days early, who cares!


See the activity on RunSaturday

Type:	Cross - Elliptical
Duration:	0:35:00
Distance:	2.75 mi
Calories:	305

What are you excited to get out and do this summer? Anything new you're trying for the first time?