Row, Row, Row Your Butt.

Yesterday with the rain I didn’t feel like going to the gym. Luckily my hatred of watching my DVR shows live with commercials encouraged me to get my row on. It was x-training day and I selected the rowing machine program.

I warmed up for 5 minutes at an easy pace then did 1H(Hard), 1E(Easy), 2H, 1E, 3H, 1E, 4H, 1E, 3H, 1E, 2H, 1E, 1H, 1E then a 3 min cool down.  For Hard I upped the resistance and rowed fast, easy rows had lower resistance and I did at an easy pace. I haven’t rowed in 10 yrs, and hope I don’t get blisters on my hands.  The new gym location in Clifton has the row upstairs in the corner by the treadmills so I don’t feel like all the weightlifting dudes are eyeing me.

Today’s assignment is to warm up with 1 mile and run 3 miles at a short tempo pace and then cool down with a mile. Happy 3 day weekend!!!

First Assignment Completed

So after reading Jen’s Blog, I realized that training myself wasn’t a smart idea. I thought it would work out if I keep increasing by increments, but I wasn’t really building the stamina and I was not doing it consistently. So I signed up for the about.com emails and my assignment for tonight was to run 1 min/walk 1 min ten times. This sounded pretty easy since after training myself I am able to go 2-5 minutes straight depending on the consistency. 

Multi-tasker extraordinaire that I am, I put my potatoes in water for my cauliflower mashed potatoes, more on that below, and went for a run while they cooked for 20 minutes. I ran around the wet pavement around the neighborhood, thank god it stopped raining long enough for me to put in the 20. I have to say it was almost easy until half way thru when i had to walk for 2 minutes to catch my breath and continue on for the 1/1. Now I don’t have a stop watch, so I had to run with my blackberry and snoozed every minute so I could wog smoothly. 

Dinner: Chicken marinated in lemon/garlic/EVOO, and Deceptively Delicious mashed Potatoes. The potato’s came out a little liquidy but i am pretty sure it’s because i had to leave out a potato that didn’t look good. All in all it was not bad at all, as for my hubby he thinks this whole veggie puree thing is ridiculous and i should just go see a nutritionist. My take is that if i am getting these veggie’s in me why do i have to see a nutritionist. What do you all think?