{Clean Eating & Bunny Bolt 5k}

Yesterday, I was very productive and made 2 meals ahead for this week (and possibly the rest of my life).
Seriously, for only feeding one person, this stuff will last me forever.

I made a healthy version of Fettuccine Alfredo and a mis-mash spaghetti squash meal.

The spaghetti squash alfredo is delicious!

I've made homemade Alfredo before and there's only one recipe I really cared for, but this one is easily beating the other in yummy goodness.  Creamy, garlic-y, amazing. The spaghetti squash worked really well with it also.

Spaghetti Squash with Chicken & sun-dried tomatoes was absolutely probably one of the best meals I've ever made. I can even say I liked it better than the Alfredo dish above.

I've never eaten a dish with sun-dried tomatoes in it (at least, I don't think so anyway) and they really enhanced this dish.  I thought it would be bland and boring. It was anything but.

Try it. I dare you. 

haha

So, all this food prep gives me lots of food. Like 10 days worth of food.

It's insane and awesome.

Later today, I'm also going to make a quick avocado chicken salad.

You know, just to have something to mix it up a little bit.

So, today is the 3rd race to my goal of One 5k Race A Month for 12 Months goal.

It's the Bunny Bolt.

Today was a fantastic run! 

Well, other than the fact that I got there 10 minutes late.

Yeah...

I don't even know what happened. 

I looked at the clock and it said 9:24. 

I should have left then but I did not.

The next time I looked at the clock it was 9:35 and I said oh shit and ran to my car.

The race began at 10 and was 35 minutes away.

So, I get there and park and, by the time I begin running, the race had been going on for 10 minutes.

I kind of knew where the start line was from running my first race here, so I just started there.

I probably was the last runner for the 5k.

My official time for the race is 45:06.

I ran the "Map My Run" app while I ran to see what my time would be according to it since I knew it was going to be off from the official time.

I also was just shy of 3.1 miles.

I'll let the picture speak for itself...

Say What?! Right at 3 miles in, we'll just say 35 minutes!

And a pace of 12:01?!

Talk about extremely happy.

That's a PR for the win.

It probably was because I had to pee so badly.

I did stop at mile 1.7.

At a porta potty.

Gross.

Yes, that definitely happened.

So, what's a girl who just ran a 5k do?

You go to the gym and do the lower body workout you missed yesterday.

 And really, I didn't miss my workout yesterday.
I went there.
I got on the elliptical for my 10 minute warm-up.
I finished the warm-up.
I left the gym

I absolutely did not feel like being there.
I wasn't feeling well or like myself at all.

So, I came home and then made those two meals listed above.
Good deal.

{Accent Vlog Link-Up}

I'm linking up today with Trista from Stewart Street for her Accent Vlog link-up.

Here are the questions and words we had to answer and say...

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bug that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you use to change the TV channel?

and then say these words....

Aunt, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught

On another quick note, dinner at Old Chicago did not happen for me.

Because the movie started at 10:45pm, they went to dinner at 9pm.

I didn't even leave the gym until 9:30.

I barely made it to the movie at 10:45.

It was indeed the new GI Joe movie and it was pretty entertaining.

My whole reason for agreeing to watch it DIED in the first 15-20 minutes.

Today is a run day. I'll try out that Zombies, Run! app.

Wish me luck! ;)

{If you fail to prepare...}

Tonight, I'm going to Old Chicago's for dinner with a group of co-workers.

I never would have planned my meal prior to going. 

I know, however, that Old Chicago is loaded in fat and all that stuff I've been trying to avoid.

So... I went to their website and picked out my meal ahead of time.

I already know I'm going to get the Spinach, Chicken, & Avocado salad.

It's the most nutritious meal I found I would enjoy.

No beer. No alcohol.

I've done well in avoiding it.

I'll do well in avoiding it tonight.

Ugh. Ok, well maybe just one.

The workout tonight is upper body and 20 minutes of cardio.

I am extremely tired from working last night and not sleeping well once I got home.

I plan on killing it at the gym anyway.

Movie after dinner? 

I think they're going to see the new GI Joe movie.

Eh. I haven't even seen the first one. haha

It depends on how I sleepy I am.

I'm older now, what can I say.

Wish me luck. ;)

{Who does 2 a day full-body workouts and then runs the next day?}

Apparently, this girl.

Sunday, I barely made it to the BodyPump class. 

Barely.

When I got there I was #8 (and the last one) on the wait list.

I wrote about this workout here though.

Later that night, I found a full-body workout on Pinterest.

{Feel free to Follow Me on the good ole Pinterest.}

So, I headed to my work gym since it was Prison Yard time (you know, the time where everyone and there mother is at the gym) at all my favorite gyms.

I only did this workout once instead of the suggested twice.

After just one round, my entire body was shaking and I'd reached muscle failure.

I did find out I'd reached muscle failure when I attempted to do it twice.

Yesterday, was C25K day. However, because of the ridiculous amounts of snow dumped on us this past Saturday and a little on Sunday, none of my trails outside were clear.

Dreadmill it is then.

Instead of following C25K on the dreadmill, because it sucks balls, I decided to just run it out.

I ran at a 12:00 pace for 20 minutes straight. 

After that, my head got the better of me and I decreased it to 4.3 (I didn't even look to see what that pace is, just know this: slow). I even walked for a minute. I finished slow, but only walked a minute.

I'm okay with that. My body hurt from the day before.

You can't really tell from the picture but my face was extremely red after this run.
It also seemed fitting that the first song Pandora played from the "Hard Rock Strength Training" station was Another Way to Die

I also went back to work last night after being off on vacation for 7 full days.

I sit at a desk for 12 hours. 

I can't get away for long.

Quick breaks here and there.

Do you know what sitting for 12 hours does to your body after working out like that 2 days in a row?

It hurts.

I was in so much pain last night.

Like I knew I needed to stretch but that stretching would hurt also.

It was a good pain though.

A pain I'm proud of.

Today, I decided to make my "off" day.

I'll hit it back up Wednesday night at our work gym with a co-worker for Upper body & Cardio.

Saturday is the 3rd 5k race of my goal {One 5k Race A Month for 12 Months}

It's the Bunny Bolt.

I'm pretty excited.

It's been forever since my last 5k race!

I'm also craving Reese's Cups!! o_O

Thank you, monthly friend.

It makes me happy to know you remind me each month that you are indeed there for me.

{Vacation Recap Part 2}

Finishing up my family vacation recap...

Tuesday we went to Apex Center in Arvada because they have ice skating and indoor swimming.

This was so much fun!

We arrived at the center about 15 minutes before the ice skating ended so they awesomely gave me 4 free passes to go again! They also let us skate about 15 minutes longer. 

The indoor water park was absolutely so much fun!

They have 2 huge slides: one to go down individually and the other to go down on a tube.

My niece and I did both once. I'm not too sure she enjoyed it like she said she did since she was adamant about not going down either again. Haha!

My nephew is fearless! He even had to have one of the lifeguards jump in a deep pool after him. 

Somehow he got away from my mom and dad as my niece and I were going down the slide.

Wednesday we took it easy. We'd been going non-stop and I think my parents needed a break!

So, my niece and I went and saw The Great and Powerful Oz. My nephew, at 4, doesn't have much of an attention span, so he didn't go with us. Instead, my parents took him to lunch at Buckley AFB. My niece and I loved the movie! It's probably the most beautiful movie I've ever seen. I didn't care so much for Mila Kunis though. The only movie I've thought she's done well in is The Black Swan. In this movie, her acting skills just weren't up to par. 

After the movies, my niece and I went to Charming Charlie. I told her if she saved her chore money, I'd match it. She came here with $40, so I gave her $50 (a little more than matching). She did so good and got a great loot for her money! It also helped that I'd received 2 coupons in the mail shortly before they arrived.

Thursday we went to Winter Park, Colorado. I'd bought a Groupon for tubing. 

Of course, we could have went sledding down here, in Aurora, but most of the snow's melted. Besides, Winter Park is absolutely beautiful, as well as the drive up there. We were about 9200 feet above sea level. My dad's been having major back problems (more than likely from all those Airborne jumps he's made), so he decided to stay home and rest up. Everyone had so much fun up there! There were 4 different lanes you could tube down. Lane 1 being the slowest and lane 4 being the fastest. We also did tandem tubes since my niece didn't want to go down by herself and my nephew had to go down with someone. We did lane 2 first to kind of test the waters. After that, it was lane 4 all the way! For the groupon, you get to tube for an hour. We got to go down about 10 or so times because all the people in our group.

Friday was pretty busy. We went to the Butterfly Pavilion, Hammond's Candy Factory Tour, and a hike at Lair O'The Bear Park.

They left Saturday and now I'm a sad panda.