July may have been quiet, but I still have a few runfessions to get off my chest. Or thighs, or buns . . . it seems like food is the theme in a lot of them this month!
Join me, Marcia @ Marcia’s Healthy Slice and other bloggers — reading other bloggers’ runfessions might just make you feel better..
I runfess . . .
I have a tendency to bit off more than I can chew — literally and figuratively. The literally being I tend to be a volume girl when eating (don’t give me teeny tiny portions!).
The figuratively being I get caught up in what I want to do vs what I should do vs what what’s realistic to do, and sometimes tire myself out needlessly. Take last Friday, for instance. I wanted to bake some stuff to bring to a party I was going to. And I just wanted to test out a lot of recipes I’d been eyeing for a while!
So I:
- Walked the dogs
- Made a smoothie to sip while exercising
- Rode the stationary bike
- Then did arms & abs
- Baked brownie bites
- Baked Banana oatmeal cookies simply because I had a couple of very ripe bananas
- Made a dip for the party
- Mixed up the batter for the s’mores cookies I planned to bake the next day
- Washed towels
- Mixed up the batter for my breakfast cookies the next day
- Made a smoothie to drink post long run the next day
- Cut up some lettuce and put it in mason jars for future salads
- And of course fed the furkids and went outside with them multiple times throughout the day
Basically, I was pretty much on my feet from about 7 am until about 2 pm.
This was the day before my long run, naturally. So much for taking it easy.
I runfess . . .
I definitely got carried away with the S’mores Cookies I talked about in last week’s Weekly Wrap (read it here). And maybe those Fig Bars, too. As in I ate more than I should have.
I’m usually pretty good, but I’m blaming the runger.
I runfess . . .
One day I ran in the morning on a super humid day, which means lots of sweat. I didn’t feel like struggling out of those sweaty clothes knowing I’d either have to wear some new workout clothes or get back into them later . . . so I stayed in them a few hours, until I’d finished my strength training and some yoga.
Good thing there was no one around me to be grossed out by it!
I runfess . . .
I wimped out and decided to run on the treadmill on a humid, rainy day that actually turned out to not be all that rainy. I can’t tell you the amount of times I went back and forth between I’ll run outside, I’ll run on the treadmill. It was quite the epic battle.
I runfess I probably would have run outside if I hadn’t misplaced my Garmin charger and my Garmin had very little charge. The charger is magnetic, which is great, except for the fact that it has a tendency to stick to metal objects. I know I’d charged it Friday before my long run, and dammit why didn’t I charge it back up after that run?
It was just an easy run, but how would I know when to run, when to walk? Or how far I’d gone? Not to mention I’d probably have to download an app so I could tell how far I’d run and I didn’t want to deal with that.
Mr. Judy had been complaining about the fact that I hadn’t yet tested out the treadmill after he fixed it again. So that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I runfess . . .
I normally don’t struggle with my weight as much during the summer, but this summer is different. Maybe it was all the travel and halfs. So knowing I only had a little wiggle room on my first of the month Weight Watchers weigh in to stay free for the month, I actually weighed several different dresses before I got dressed.
In the end I went with my lucky weigh in dress. Yes, I have one — basically, it’s the lightest dress I own. I will be heartbroken when it’s no longer wearable! In the end I could have worn something heavier, but I don’t have a scale at home and I wasn’t sure.
Everybody’s luck runs out sometime . . .
Do you sometimes overbook yourself?
How long would you stay in sweaty workout clothes?
What is the weirdest thing you’ve done to get a good weigh-in?
Wouldn’t you like to get some runfessions off your mind? Come join us
I am also linking up with the Friday Five 2.0 from Fairytales & Fitness and Rachel @ Running on Happy today.
