No running today!

Courtney cooked a great meal for dinner.  Salad with fresh fruit, mushrooms, and veggie lasagna.  Had a late PBJ snack and it's been a while since I had a PBJ...  good stuff.

Alright so...

Obviously I blacked out for a while here.  I haven't been running (have done some walking) and have only been taking around 80-90% of the pictures.

I'd like to blame to intense schedule of the blog, my freelancing, and this damn eBook, but that's mostly just an excuse.

I haven't began gorging myself, actually my diet hasn't changed much at all.  But I've decided NOT to go back and try to piece these pictures together.

It's weighing on my to-do list and I'm just going to purge it off.  The point of this is to do it daily.  To recap what I ate and have that micro-accountability.  Not for me to go back and try to preserve things for 100% flawless journey.

So, I'm going to try to buck up even though I haven't finished the eBook and get back on track!

Here is November 7th here for us in New Zealand.  Very typical day with only walking, no running:

No running!  Ebook/Blog is killing me slowly, but surely.

Yes, that's an excuse.

We had a nice walk and light hike up to One Tree Hill and through a couple parks today.  No intense running, but overall more activity than normal!  :-)

No running today again!

I'm still trying to blame this on my sore leg, though I know I could have at least walked some.  (More than just around town a little).

Fairly simple day today.  Didn't work out.

Had some major cramp in my left leg (one of those cramps were you stretch it when you are sleeping).  Was sore to the point of limping all day.

Weird, but it's starting to wear itself down a little.

I think I got everything photo'd today!

Good news first:

I did interval running today, where I do a more intense running segment (~8 minute mile) for a .25 mile and then jogged (~13 minute mile) for around .15-.2 miles (shorter than than running, but close to the same time).

I did this for 3 miles, though!  It took around 33:30 minutes, so it was still a very slow average, but is *great* progress for me.

Only downer is that I had 3 mochas (long work day) and missed a picture of the 10 ritz crackers.  :-)

Two spinach, broccoli, asparagus, and mushroom servings of pasta later and it was time to call it a day!

Some of you know I'm going into extreme e-book mode this week, but am going to try to keep up the running pace.

I'd like to run 5k (3.125 miles) in 30 minutes.  That's my next goal and I think it's very possible this week at some point!

Took a break from running today.  Walked around 20-25 minutes, but nothing I'd call serious. :-)

I ate out veggie burger out and had some rice and stir-fry back home!

Back pounding the pavement tomorrow...

A great day today!

I ran 2.0 miles today in the morning!  Still hitting a big wall at 1.5, but got to 2.0 (not through the wall though).

Courtney and I went to a barbecue with some of her coworkers yesterday.  I ate a little bit more than shown (a few baked chips they brought out to everyone before the actual food), but was able to pass on the ice cream and apple pie they passed around.

Hmmmmm, looking back at the pictures I didn't realize how weird my diet was today.  I'm trying to think back to make sure I didn't miss anything, but I'm sure I didn't!

Well, I *did* run 1.75 miles again today.  I'm hitting a huge mental wall right now around 1.5 (actually it's side cramps a lot too).  I think once I break it I can start doing 3 miles fairly regularly.

Who knows?