It Looks A Lot Like Fall

But it sure doesn't feel like Fall. It's supposed to get up to 83 degrees today. It was 70 degrees when I left my house. And muggy too.

Ran 5 miles this morning on the treadmill and my knee felt good. There were just a few moments where it felt a tad funky but I would say 99% of the run my knee felt just fine. Plus walking last night and today at work I feel no funkiness.

Tonight is Body Pump if I am up for it. As I've done the last couple of weeks, I have my gym bag sitting right by my desk for me to stare at and feel guilty if I start to not want to go. I have a free night, husband is getting daughter and making dinner, so I really have no excuse to NOT go other than the usual tired and hungry.

In other news there's not much else going on unless you want to hear about how much a washer disinfector for a hospital costs.

I did finally get my car back from the body shop yesterday. It's all fixed and clean. If you live in the Charleston area and get in a wreck, call Norton and Richardson in Summerville. They do awesome work (for the 2nd time for me).

Potty training continues to go well. Sophie went all day with out an accident until late in the afternoon she did a deuce in her pants. It's OK though because it's going to happen and she knows she needs to go in the potty because as she's getting cleaned up she goes "you poo poo in the potty." Just have to get her to tell us before hand, which she does a good job for the most part. Either way I'm proud of her. She's doing awesome. I never did buy the small potty, mainly because I didn't want to have to clean it each time she went. Instead I bought the seat that goes over the big toilet seat so we could get her going there, learn to flush and all that. It's worked for us.

Now it's lunch time and I need to figure out what to eat because I didn't have any leftovers to bring. My choices are...Subway and that's about it. Not really crazy about Subway so I might have to venture over the bridge to find something.

I'll probably end up at Subway.

Slept In

I made the decision last night to not run this morning (even though I set out my clothes just in case I woke up anyway). My knee was still giving me a little trouble yesterday. When I got home I did a little jog down the street and it didn't feel quite right so I made the wise decision to rest it another day.

I'm glad I did that because as of this morning it's feeling much better. Last thing I want to do is injure myself. So tomorrow morning I will attempt to run and see how it feels. Plus it felt kind of good to sleep in.

I did my ab ripper ex DVD when I got up. I haven't done it in a while and it was tough. See my husband and I tried P90X starting in January 2010 (when Sophie was 7 months old). It was going really well because we would put her down early (that's when she would go to bed early) and then we'd workout and be done by like 9:00.

We made it to week 5 and then I got sick with 2 stomach bugs in March 2010, could barely eat for pretty much the whole month, and we never really got back into it. Bummer because I was a fan. Now it's all I can do to get Sophie into bed by 9:00 and then I'm pooped. I'll save it for after baby no. 2.

Anyway, tomorrow I will run and see how the knee is doing and then I should be able to go to Body Pump tomorrow night. It's becoming a Wednesday ritual.

Yesterday Sophie went ALL day with NO accidents. Way to go girl!!!!!!!

Today's Workout: 3.51 Miles with Hills

This morning's run consisted of a 3.5 mile hill run (on the treadmill) with a short arm and leg workout.

Time 28:12, avg pace 8:01

Splits:

SPLITS

MILE	TIME	AVG.PACE
1	7:55	7'55"/mi
2	16:00	8'05"/mi
3	24:02	8'02"/mi

I wonder what the .5 was, Nike+ does not tell me that.

It's all good, tomorrow I will be purchasing my Garmin! I'm torn between the Forerunner 205 and 305. Really the only difference is the 305 has a hear rate monitor, which I don't really care one way or the other. I will probably only use the Nike+ for the treadmill runs and Garmin for when I run outside and obviously on my long runs.

Ricky has purchased a bike so we are all set to start next week. I will be registering for the race next Wednesday after I get paid. And then it's for real!!

I had about 30 minutes after my run so I decided to do a short arm and leg circuit which consisted of:

Walking lunges (3 sets)
Bicep curls with dumbbells (2 sets of 15)
Triceps extensions (1 set)
Squats (1 set)
More bicep curls with Troy Bar (18 lbs)
Triceps dips (1 set)
Elevated lunges (1 set)
Shoulder sequence (8 exercises, 8-10 reps with no rest - killer burn!)

I was going to do abs but honestly I drank so much water that it started to slosh around, so I did the elliptical for my remaining 10 minutes.

Then it was home to hurry and get ready for work.

On the home front, Sophie sat on the potty last night, the big potty! She didn't do anything but the fact that she asked to and was interested in it is a big step!