No rain on Thursday morning so that meant RUNNING. I woke up and was feeling really off. My belly hurt a little bit and my body just didn’t feel right. I had fallen asleep on the couch the night before, which I never do, so I should have known that today would feel weird. Honestly, I think was like hung over from our girls night! I did have a few glasses of wine but I didn’t think it was anything drastic but apparently my body can’t handle that kind of activity on a Wednesday night (must have to save that for Fridays and Saturdays) because my body was just mad at me. Regardless of what my belly was telling me I did get dressed and headed out w/ Tim to go for a run. That is when things got ugly.

Literally as soon as I picked up the pace from the walking we were doing I knew it was going to be a rough day. About a mile in my stomach just hurt, I had a cramp, my breathing was off, and my legs were tired. It seemed like no part of me wanted this run to happen. I tried to run through it but eventually ended up walking most of it with random bursts of runs in there to get the 2.5 miles done. While he didn’t say it out loud I think Tim was grateful for my dysfunctional body because I didn’t see him running ahead or anything!

I guess it was just one of those days where you realize you can’t always do exactly what you want to do. In my head I wanted to run 10 miles but every other part of me told me I couldn’t do it. When I got back I did tell Tim that I was disappointed in myself but he reminded me that I should be proud that I got out of bed and did the best I could. I mean I may not have been running but I wasn’t lying in bed doing nothing. I probably would have felt a whole lot worse if I hadn’t pushed myself to at least get out there and be active. So that made me feel a little better and then I felt a lot better when I realized I would have a second chance at moving my body during CrossFit/Rowing class that evening.

The day went by about as good as the morning. I was just in a serious slump and everything seemed to make me feel off all day long. The good news about that is because I felt off I was less chatty than usual and my to-do list shrunk by like 10 items! Amazing how much you can get accomplished when you are socializing! So that was the good news part of my day but the rest was just so-so. Not terrible but nothing impressive or fun to write home about (or write on here rather) so there you have the work day. I had some leftovers for lunch which prolly contributed to the less than impressive day of work haha.

I was happy to go to workout class but very tired. My mom noticed this right away and I think attempted to take it easy on me. It was a pretty arm intensive workout class which I was grateful for… for multiple reasons. 1. I was too tired to make it all cardio and crazy 2. I need wedding arms and they just aren’t there yet 3. It didn’t take much thought because I was pretty familiar with the moves so my brain didn’t have to turn all of the way on. So we did the following exercises for 45 second on, 10 seconds off 3 times around

• - Box jumps
• - Sit ups with kettle bell
• - Lunges with the medicine ball over your head
• - Squat Cleans w/ medicine ball
• - Dead lift
• - Kickbacks
• - Bicep Curls
• - Push-ups

It was a tough sweaty workout and exactly what I needed! After that I headed home to figure out what the heck I was going to make for dinner. I’m sure your not surprised to hear that was another off thing for me!

I finally decided on steaming a bag of edamame for dinner and then realized that just wouldn’t be enough. So after that realization I went back to my trusty friend the veggie burger salad. I microwave’d my Morning Star Veggie Burger (which Tim thought was weird since I had a grill and a George Foreman) and placed it on top of a bed of romaine lettuce. I added in slices of tomatoes, cookies mushroom and hot peppers. Then I topped the burger off with a smashed up avocado to serve as some tasty sauce for my meal. I was totally satisfied with myself and realized that a not to fancy dinner turned out to be pretty impressive.

My spread!

Look at that burger

Went to bed by 9… yep I am getting old. So overall not a bad ending to my weird not terrible but not great day!