Morning guys! It’s Thursday and the start of the weekend over here at the OHC HQ. Woot! Let’s start with last night. I was getting super sleepy and decided to make some tea. When I’m tired, tea or red wine helps me relax even more. Since it wasn’t a day where I allow myself wine, tea was the choice. I made us some Archer Farms (Target Brand) Cinnamon and Spice tea.
I checked the box but it was not labeled decaffeinated. I figured the tea wouldn’t be too bad so I had some anyway with two spoonfuls of honey. I was still a bit hungry as dinner didn’t hold over as much as I thought it would.
I had a Kashi cookie (these are awesome!) and 7 Kashi Honey Sesame crackers. This was the perfect light snack with the tea. As I was drinking the tea, I noticed I wasn’t tired anymore but a little perky. I brushed it off thinking that it was just because I was having a hot drink and not because it was too much caffeine. I was wrong. I had such trouble falling asleep last night! I went to bed at 9pm to read and at 10:30 tried to lay down to sleep. Tossed and turned for what seemed like forever and eventually fell asleep but it took a long time! I’m sticking with my usual peppermint tea from now on, at least I know that won’t keep me up.
I woke up a bit earlier this morning and it worked out so that was nice. I might try and do this from now on. I extended my run today and actually mapped it out. Total I ran 1.6 miles and it was hard! Mostly the reason I was having such trouble I think is because it was a totally brand new route. Since I wasn’t used to it, it felt like it was going on forever. So many times I wanted to either stop and walk or cut it short and head back home. But I didn’t. I pushed myself and told myself that it was no big deal and I could do this. I’m so glad I did! According to my heart rate monitor, I finally broke 200 calories! I burned a total of 243 on this run. Woooo!!! I was pooped though and the high humidity didn’t help. Came home and had my recovery drink.
I think two glasses was too much though. I felt a little full and bloated. Grabbed Rocky and went on our walk. With the calories I burned on the walk plus my run, I’m over 300 today. Hooray! Stretched, changed and made some breakfast.
I did that because I was still full from the Silk and I knew we would be going to Whole Foods later today for lunch so I wanted to be sure and be hungry for that. Breakfast was a cup of coffee + creamer, 1/2 cup of granola, 5 slices of banana, small handful of raisins and cranberries and 4 scoops of vanilla Stoneyfield yogurt.
I found a program for Macs to map run routes and log training info and exercise info. I might download that and try it out today. Now I’m off to get my brows defuzzed and then it’s Whole Foods for lunch. See you later!
No walk breaks? Very good!
No walk breaks! I wanted to but made myself push through it. LOL