deer crossing
Had a lovely nap today cause I got only about 4 hrs. sleep last night…fell asleep around 2am, got up early to go watch the half marathon (13.2mi.). I walked out of my development to the blvd. where a turn was at about the 5 mi. mark. Saw bunches of runners/walkers I know; actually most of them spotted me—didn’t have my contacts in and my distance vision is just rotten. At the point where I was, the race was turning on to a side road and one thing we have in excess is deer; a deer came running out of the brush, scared the daylights out of about 6 runners and did an immediate turn in the other direction back into the brush. I was directly across the road (just 2 lanes) from where it came out; reminded me of that vid. on the web a few weeks ago from Sturgis about the deer leaping over the guy on the motorcycle. Bet he/she had quite the story for its little deer family. I saw a few wheelchair racers, one leg amputee, numerous casts, and leg braces, strange party outfits including brides, signs, lots and lots of Hokies…….Got an email tonight from a friend who has already signed up for next year with his daughter!!!! I heard we had 24,000 this year….now you know why I didn’t work the finish line, do you have any idea how long it takes for 24,000 people to finish a half marathon????? believe me, a L-O-N-G time….
Anyway, food…bfsk: grapenuts flakes, V8, plum, tea, skim…..lunch: turkey, thin sliced deli, half a big tomatoe, small amt. corn, broccoli salad, slice of Alpine Swiss, Skinny Cow fudge bar, dinner: 1 1/2″ Hilshire Farm beef sausage, butter beans, broccoli salad, 1/2 nectarine
I’m still messing around with some sort of plan for eating/exercising this month. I wore a pedometer today; my milage is now 4.29 after the walk to the half marathon and a dog walk that was at least 2mi. tonight. Since I haven’t been really doing anything planned or organized all summer(unless you count the one little hour of yoga a week that I haven’t even made it to lately), I guess starting slow would be best. I really need to cut down on red meat…..bfsk. is always the same for me so that leaves 14 meals a week to deal with. So I think this may be doable: fish: 3x chicken, turkey: 4x beef: 3x meat and fish free: 4x…..(oops, I forgot stuff like ham, pork and bacon but don’t eat much of that anyway) I’m crossing off what I’ve had on a piece of paper and started my week today, so I’m already down 1 beef and 1 turkey choice. Meatless is gonna be hard, really hard, gotta look around the web cause all I can think of right now is eggs and peanut butter for protein replacements……have a fish recipe from Ruby Jean I want to try…..
exercise……..hmmm, lets see what I’m willing to promise per week…walking, OK 12mi. should be doable, most of this will be measured at the gym on a treadmill on incline……rowing 1hr………bike…(depending on how much my butt hurts) 20 mi……have to see how the weight machines feel when I get back to them, then there’s the hr. of yoga and my ladies lite exercise class M. + W. Will keep track and report next Sun…………..g’nite!!!
September 2nd, 2007 at 10:29 pm
My mistake, correction, half marathon is 13.1 mi; NOT 13.2…sorry!
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Geez, you sound really fit. I think I’m an athlete if I just walk around three or four blocks! I want to do more exercise, and be out there in the world using my arms and my legs! Eldest asked me if I would join some sort of team with her. She was a really good softball and volleyball player, we’re trying to think of a sport.
I’ll try to find some meatless recipes for you! I have one for Albanian cornmeal pie that is super easy - it has ricotta cheese in it or cottage cheese, and you could do skim.