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May 2011 Goals

May 2nd, 2011
by gazelle.
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April 2011 Goals

  1. Lose 3-4 lbs – FAIL! But, I also didn’t gain (again).
  2. Finish my 10K faster than last year’s time. – SUCCESS! I beat last year’s time by 7 seconds. Go me!
  3. Make first steps towards Audubon site certification – SUCCESS! The site plan is taking shape.
  4. Make sausage – SUCCESS! I made chicken, tomato, basil sausage, and it is delicious!
  5. Finish guest room fancifying – FAIL! The guest room is still unfancified…
  6. Upstairs storage solutions  – FAIL! I also haven’t figured out what I’m doing w/ the guest room closet.
  7. Make cheddar & goat feta. – half SUCCESS! I made the feta, although it didn’t turn out quite right; I can no longer find the goat milk I previously used, and there is a definite change in quality (and curding…). I need to get the raw stuff from somewhere again.
  8. Get my awesome new prints framed & hung in the kitchen – FAIL! I have not done this, but I will this month. FOR REAL!
  9. Find graphic designer to help with a secret project – half SUCCESS! I have the design down & a contact, just need to make it happen
  10. Follow the budget to the letter! (number?) – SUCCESS! I was a marvel of fiscal restraint.  :)

April 30 day challenge

I will take one picture every day & upload it to my Flickr site. These will show up in the sidebar! In addition, I would like to redo January’s challenge – the month of no extraneous spending! Go me!

I did great with the photo thing until I was derailed about 10 days ago with work.  I’ve definitely reached my goal of being more conscious of what’s around me, though!

April Training Goals

  1. Weights/Yoga/Swim/Bike – 16x this month – FAIL! I was doing great w/ this until about 10 days ago, again; that is a recurring theme…I got in 9 yoga/swim/bike (no weights) April 1 – 19, but nothing since then…
  2. Run 50 miles – FAIL! BUT – I did run 26 miles, which is my biggest mileage month since March 2010! Yay!
  3. Two OWS, minimum – FAIL! Again, see April 19 excuse & add ‘crappy, cold, rainy weather’ to that.
  4. Push-ups every week – FAIL! I’d forgotten I’d even put that in here. Oops.
  5. 20 hours of exercise – FAIL! Again, pesky April 19 when I stopped exercising excuse…I did get in 14.3 hours, and since I did not one lick of exercise between April 20 & April 29, I figure I was on track, at least!
May 2011 Goals

  1. Lose 3-4 lbs
  2. Finish my 10K faster than April’s time
  3. Finish guest room fancifying 
  4. Upstairs storage solutions 
  5. Make cheddar
  6. Get my awesome new prints framed & hung in the kitchen 
  7. Find awesome birthday present for the architect
  8. Get through the month without losing my sanity…this is key

May 31 day challenge

Send out 31 postcards…if you want one, sign up to the right or email me your address at gazellesoncrack at gmail.MayTraining Goals

  1. Weights/Yoga/Swim/Bike – 16x this month
  2. Run 50 miles 
  3. Three OWS
  4. Lift weights at least twice
  5. 20 hours of exercise

 

April 2011 Goals

Apr 1st, 2011
by gazelle.
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OMG, you guys! I haven’t even looked at the March goals since, well, March 1. I am a little scared to see the level of fail that will be in them.

Let’s look, though, shall we?

March 2011 Goals

  1. Lose 3-4 lbs (This will be a goal every month until I reach my eventual goal of 20 lbs total) – well, I’ll be honest. FAIL. But nothing gained. Perhaps my crappy diet & (lack of) exercise plan are to blame?
  2. Run my first race in 11 months (ZOMG!) in under 30 minutes. – FAIL! I did run my first race, but it was 32:45…booo!
  3. Weights/Yoga/Swim/Bike – 16x this month (with my 15 planned runs, that should be an average of a work/day) – FAIL!  ha ha ha ha ha…seriously. 3x. Two yoga classes & one bike. PATHETIC! What did I do on my week off?
  4. Get early stuff planted & the initial long-term site plan started – half SUCCESS! The garden has been cleared (mostly) and is ready to plant. The long-term site plan is underway, as is the final plan for this year’s growing bits.
  5. Make bacon.  - Finally! SUCCESS! The bacon is made & is nearly ready to go to the smoker that I’m planning on using at my neighbors’ house!
  6. Finish guest room fancifying – FAIL! Really? I couldn’t even buy new sheets on my week off? WTF?
  7. Upstairs storage solutions DONE – FAIL! I don’t even know? It’s not like I even finally finished Dragon Age (my personal prerequisite before purchasing Dragon Age II). Can you say LAZY?
  8. Make cheese – I am going to re-try the cheddar & make some queso blanco. And, if I feel fancy, I want to try feta. – Due to the combination of 1) no dairy & 2) extreme laze, I only made chevre (which isn’t cow dairy, so in my mind it doesn’t count). But still, SUCCESS!
  9. Meditate 20 days for a MINIMUM of 10 minutes per day. – FAIL! ha ha ha – I meditated on three days. That’s an average of two minutes a day. None of those days were during my vacation.
  10. Get my awesome new prints framed & hung in the kitchen – FAIL! damn! Talk about month of fail! I wish I’d including making mustard in my goal list – I did get that done. Or perhaps I should’ve included “starting the dishwasher,” ’cause I did that once, too. Hopefully, April will be a wee bit better.

March 30 day challenge

I will take one picture every day & upload it to my Flickr site. Feel free to ignore the pope placeholder pic. Unless you don’t want to.

I did pretty good with this – not perfect, though. I took pics on 20 of 31 days. I’m actually going to repeat this goal for April, until I get it down!

March Training in Review

I completed the C25K, and logged a total of 21.85 miles of running – down from last month, but no walking this month! Also, I did my 5K, so that’s cool.

I biked once (pathetic) for a total of 6.69 miles

I swam not even once. BUT it’s on in April, with the OWS season & tri training starting!

I attended 2 yoga classes, lifted weights never, and pretty much lazed around. I did hoe for a couple of hours doing garden prep, and that was a killer workout.

Total hours – 6.5. That actually used to be a lowish weekly total. I am ashamed.

BUT – let’s think positive. Looking forward, not back…

April 2011 Goals

  1. Lose 3-4 lbs (This will be a goal every month until I reach my eventual goal of 20 lbs total – 4 down, 16 to go!)
  2. Finish my 10K faster than last year’s time.
  3. Make first steps towards Audubon site certification
  4. Make sausage
  5. Finish guest room fancifying
  6. Upstairs storage solutions
  7. Make cheddar & goat feta.
  8. Get my awesome new prints framed & hung in the kitchen
  9. Find graphic designer to help with a secret project
  10. Follow the budget to the letter! (number?)

April 30 day challenge

I will take one picture every day & upload it to my Flickr site. These will show up in the sidebar! In addition, I would like to redo January’s challenge – the month of no extraneous spending! Go me!

(Coming up in May – 31 postcards will be mailed out – if you are interested in being a recipient, send me your snail mail address – gazellesoncrack (at) gmail!)

April Training Goals

  1. Weights/Yoga/Swim/Bike – 16x this month
  2. Run 50 miles
  3. Two OWS, minimum
  4. Push-ups every week
  5. 20 hours of exercise

Training Week in Review 6/7/10 – 6/13/10

Jun 14th, 2010
by gazelle.
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So, last week I said my only goal was to hit seven hours of workout time for the week.

And, in response to that, I would like to say “ha ha ha ha ha ha”

So – I got 2.5 hours of exercise last week (this does not count painting for 2 hours, or weeding, or gardening, or pitchforking). I was LAZY! Also, busy with my last week of school. (Woo! Summer Break!)

So – the stats (this shouldn’t take long)

6/7 – nothing (CHEESE!)

6/8 – nothing (EMO!)

6/9 – swim; 2500 yards in 1:03:22 – my fastest long swim yet!

6/10 – swim; 1000 yards in 34 minutes – my slowest short swim in ages (although, in all fairness, I didn’t stop my watch when I stopped to chat w/ the Ambitious One as she was leaving the pool).

6/11 – yoga; 60 minutes of beginner Hatha; painting

6/12 – spectating Jen & my kick-ass neighbor at the Helvetia Half. My kick-ass neighbor got a 3-minute Half PR! Woo! then, there was some olympic level beer drinking. Go team!

6/13 – lounging; whinging; pitchforking; weeding

Stats:

Running: 0 miles (first time in ages that I’ve had a 0 mile week. sob)

Biking: 0 miles (PATHETIC!)

Swimming: 3500 yards (not bad)

Yoga: 1 class, 60 minutes

Weights: nada

This weeks is week 1 of my 10 week metric century ride training program. I’ve had a good start so far, as I biked to work today, which generally means I am forced to bike home, as well.

I think that running is going to be put on hold until 2011. If I feel like I can, I’ll get out there, but I’m not going to make too many plans. :( I am going to concentrate on biking, swimming & yoga. I also want to start doing some more strength training – I want my legs (and core) to be wicked strong by the time I have surgery, so that even with the atrophy that will come with less use while I’m in my boot, I won’t be completely weak when I can start working again.

So – for reals, I am going to try to get about 7 hours of exercise this week! Lots o’ biking, for sure.

Training week in review – 5/31/10 – 6/6/10

Jun 7th, 2010
by gazelle.
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My training is so all over the place lately. Some days are great! Weekends are not. Part of that is I don’t have as many weekend meet-ups planned, part of it is that if it’s nice (as it was Saturday), I tend to do yardwork & gardening, leaving little time for bike riding, and if it isn’t nice, my running friends & I skip running in a downpour in favor of eggs & biscuits.

So – for the foreseeable future (i.e. until I have something concrete I’m training for again), I am not going to publish  my weeks goals, just do a recap of the previous weeks. Because I know you care. And because if I don’t publishing something, I might not do anything at all.

So – new format explained – and now the recap!

Training Goals: 5/31 – 6/6

Monday: Rest Day

Tuesday: Swim (1,000 yds) + Yin Yoga (75 min) with Jen.

Wednesday: Triple Day! Morning spin class (60 min) + post-spin brick run (1.1 miles) + evening swim with the Ambitious One! (2,650 yards)

Thursday: Bike to work (9.7 miles) + post-work bike (16.3 miles) -  the Ambitious One & I biked a bit after work, but the weather sucked, so we split up & went our separate ways. It was cold & miserable & wet – but I think the Ambitious One had a worse time of it than I did.

Friday:  Hatha Yoga (75 minutes)

Saturday: Yard work + gardening – no exercise

Sunday: LAZY! – The weather caused the cancellation of my planned morning run (we just skipped running & went right to the brunch).

Totals

Run: 1.1 miles
Bike: 60 minutes (spin) + 26 miles
Swim: 3,650 yards
Yoga: 2.5 hours
Total workout time: 6 hours, 11 minutes

My only published goal for this week is to get in a little more time – I’d like to be getting 7+ hours/week of exercise.

Training Goals 5/31/10- 6/6/10

Jun 2nd, 2010
by gazelle.
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The recap (a couple days late, but whatever…)

Training Goals: 5/24 – 5/30

Monday: Easy swim – FAIL! I was not recovered from my 24-hour flu that knocked me out Sunday, so I rested instead.

Tuesday: Run + Yoga – SUCCESS! I ran two speedy miles while my running buddies did 800′s on the track, then we packed it up & headed to yoga. (I also walked just over 1/2 mile to the track before my run.)

Wednesday: Triple Day! Morning spin class + post-spin brick run, evening Open Water Swim with the Ambitious One! – 2/3 SUCCESS! I did my morning spin class, but the foot was sore from the previous evening’s run, so I skipped the brick. I didn’t OWS, but I did do my fantastic 2500 yd swim! Yay!

Thursday: Swim – SUCCESS! I swam an easy 1000 yards to stretch out my really sore shoulders from the previous day’s swim, and then I walked just over a mile to MAX

Friday:  Yoga + Bike (actual plan – bike to & from yoga!) – half SUCCESS! I yoga’d, but it was so rainy that I decided to skip the bike.

Saturday: Run 5 miles + party prep (yay! Brad’s 40th birthday) – FAIL! I did not run. I don’t even have a very good excuse – I did homework & party prep all day instead.

Sunday: Rest/Recover from said party – SUCCESS! I rested AND recovered (and planted all my tomatoes & peppers).

Training Goals: 5/31 – 6/6

Monday: Rest – spoiler! I was successful

Tuesday: Swim + Yoga 

Wednesday: Triple Day! Morning spin class + post-spin brick run, evening swim with the Ambitious One! 

Thursday: Bike to work + lunch swim + post-work 20 miler

Friday:  Yoga + possible Forest Park run

Saturday: Bike

Sunday: Run (4-5 miles)

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