A day in my life: Friday November 13 2009 2009/11/13

Exercise:

THIS IS A BAD, BAD WEEK SO FAR!

I have had 1 work-out this week so far. Excuses? Too tired and not feeling well but those shouldn’t be excuses. It’s been a while since I had so little exercise in one week and I feeling guilty towards myself. I will and need to run this weekend, hopefully tomorrow and then do Shred on Sunday so I can make up a little for this week.

At least I didn’t gain weight this week, didn’t lose any either but for this week that’s fine.

What’s for dinner:
Yesterday I had a dinner date with one of my best friends K. For starter I’ve had chicken with teriyaki sauce and some vegetables.

Main course was a salad with tenderloin. Both were delicious.

Thoughts:
The surgery on my friend Y. went well, she’s got to go home a few hours after surgery and still has a lot of pain but at least she can rest at home.

Yesterday I had my dinner date with K. We work together and go out for dinner at least twice a year. She’s also my running buddy for runs and we go to at least 1 musical a year together. She’s one of the nicest persons you could ever meet and I’m happy she’s my friend.

After dinner we were at the train station and what catched my eye? STARBUCKS!

In Holland we have two Starbucks stores, one on the airport and one on the train station where we were yesterday. So after reading so much on your blogs about Starbucks I had to had one of course and it was a café latte vanillia: delicious. So it’s a fact: I’ve had my first Starbucks ever.

I’ve told you that a lot of my clothes are getting too big so I’m looking on Ebay to buy a smaller size for a cheap price and last week I found a dress for less than 10 dollar in a smaller size. I’ve worn it yesterday to work and I’ve never had more compliments about my clothes than yesterday. Even before I’ve got the compliments I already felt great in this dress: it fits me perfectly.

Itunes shuffle playing right now:

Queen and George Michael – Somebody to love

Got no feel, I got no rhythm
I just keep losing my beat
I’m OK, I’m alright
I ain’t gonna face no defeat
I just gotta get out of this prison cell
One day (someday) I’m gonna be free, Lord!

Find me somebody to love

Positive today:
It’s weekend!

Daily Tip/Quote:
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines.  It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
Madeleine Vionnet

A day in my life: Tuesday November 10 2009 2009/11/10

Week November 1-November 10:
Lose at least 6 kg / 13 lbs, starting weight 09/23 182.8 lbs.
This week -1.7 lbs, total loss during the hot 100: -4.8

Reduce fat% with 2 points (09/23: 43.3).
Final result at December 31th

Exercise at least 4 times a week with at least 2 runs in a week.
Su 1: Maple Leaf Cross run: 6K
Mo 2: Matt Roberts Weight Loss plan: week 3, training 1
Tu 3: No exercise
We 4: Planned to exercise but no energy
Th 5: 6K run
Fr 6:  No exercise
Sa 7: 30 day Shred, level 1, day 7
Su 8: No exercise, body hurts through fall Saturday night
Mo 9: Matt Roberts Weight Loss Plan: week 3, training 2
Tu 10: Planned to exercise but no energy

Complete the 30 day shred between September 23th and December 31th.
Started on October 2^nd, 7 days finished

Finish 2/3 (=24 workouts, total=36) of Matt Roberts 90 days weight loss plan
Completed 8 out of 24 workouts.

Sleep at least 7 hours a night.
Tu 3: no, bad night and went to bed too late.
Su 8: went to bed too late and didn’t sleep well, was awake many times.

Exercise:
After a day of rest I went to the gym yesterday. I really didn’t feel like it because I’m tired since a week or so. But just before I shut down my computer at work I read a tweet from Marcelle in which she said she was going to the gym and I thought “well why don’t I” so I did and felt good afterwards.

However today I’m even more tired, haven’t slept well 2 nights in a row, and I skipped my planned run today. I will do that one tomorrow. Think I’m going to get stuck on 4 workouts this week.

What’s for dinner:
Yesterday I’ve had a steak, unpolished rice and broccoli.

Today whole-weat pasta with chicken, mushrooms, leek and some herbal cream cheese.

Thoughts:
Well my colleague was at work again today and guess what: she had a great weekend and apparently still enjoying it because she hasn’t complained all day so there was no need to say anything today. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow.

Had also an appointment with the dentist for my 6 months check-up. I’m afraid of the dentist because I’ve had so much trouble with my teeth when I was a child. She removed tartar and I still have sensitive teeth: blah!

R. is coming home late tomorrow night so I won’t be seeing him late Thursday night as I will be asleep when he comes home. He will still be sleeping when I go to work on Thursday and I won’t be home for dinner Thursday night as I have a dinner date with one of my best friends K.

I’m worried about my other friend Y. who will have surgery on Thursday. She has a first stage of cervical cancer and they have to remove the bad cells on Thursday. She’s nervous and so am I. Unfortunately we live an hour drive away from each other so it’s difficult to just drop in to give her a hug. Please say a little prayer for her on Thursday, I know I will.

Itunes shuffle playing right now:
Madness – It must be love

I never thought I’d miss you
Half as much as I do
And I never thought I’d feel this way
The way I feel
About you
As soon as I wake up
Every night, every day
I know that it’s you I need
To take the blues away

It must be love, love, love
It must be love, love, love
Nothing more, nothing less
Love is the best

Positive today:
A nice talk with lots of laughs with K.

Daily Tip/Quote:
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas.
Mason Cooley

A day in my life: Sunday November 8 2009 2009/11/08

Health week 45:

Goal 1 (lose weight every week):
Weight result November 5^th: -0.8/-1.7 lbs.

Goal 2 (eat healthy every day):
Monday: Pink
Tuesday: Pink
Wednesday: Purple
Thursday: Pink
Friday: Purple
Saturday: Purple
Sunday: Orange

I’ve been thinking what I can do more. My exercise is usually good especially compared to the beginning of this year when I worked out once a week or so. I think I can lose more by portion control, especially at dinner and be aware of what I eat. So I’ve ordered online a food diary which I hope to receive next week. I’ve decided to write down everything I eat and the alcohol I drink. I’m going to evaluate this every Sunday and will have 3 kind of days:

Pink (my favourite colour) day = good day. I only eat healthy food and exercised.
Purple day = okay day. I did eat healthy but didn’t exercise or I didn’t eat completely healthy but did exercise.
Orange day = I’m in trouble. I didn’t eat healthy and I didn’t exercise.

So the goal is to get as much pink days as I can and have as less orange days as possible.

Goal 3 (work-out 5 times a week):
Monday: Matt Roberts weight loss plan, week 3, training 1
Tuesday: -
Wednesday: was supposed to exercise but had no energy.
Thursday: 6K/3.7 miles run in 44 minutes
Friday: -
Saturday: 30 day Shred, level 1, day 7
Sunday: Body hurts so took a day of rest.

Didn’t manage 5 workouts this week.

Exercise:
I’ve decided to change my workouts this weekend cause the weather was bad yesterday. So I did level 1, day 7 of the Shred yesterday. It was though, have forgotten how intense 20 minutes of Jillian is.

At least I had a little training buddy:

Today I was supposed to run 8K but something happened to me last night (see thoughts) and I had to take a day of rest which I hate because the weather was beautiful for an outside run.

What’s for dinner:
Yesterday we ate at my mom’s house, just simple bread.

She bought pastry, it wasn’t healthy but delicious:

Tonight we ate pork tenderloin with pepper sauce, baked potatoes with mushrooms and green beans.

Thoughts:
Well yesterday turned out to be an exciting day for Roussy and us.

First at my mother’s house, there was my sister’s dog: Beau. A scottisch black terrier, always picking on Roussy. Usually nothing happens but yesterday my mom and R. were in the kitchen and so were the 2 dogs. Suddenly we heard Roussy screaming, R. looked at the dogs and Beau was attacking Roussy. At first it seemed she had nothing but when I checked the kitchen floor there was hair on the floor. So after taking a better look at Roussy we saw she was bitten in the nose, it was bleeding a little bit also.

After we arrived out I took Roussy for a walk (that is: I carry her to a field because she can’t walk far anymore). She did what she had to do but kept walking further away from me. So I decided to get her and walked on the grass. When I walked back I stepped on a tree-stump which was very slippery and before I knew it I was falling and landed on my back on the ground with Roussy still in my arms.

At first it seemed I was okay, only wet, but when I came home my leg started hurting. This morning when I got up not only my leg hurt, so did my butt, my back and my left arm so no running for me today. I hope I feel better tomorrow so I can go to the gym after work.

Was that it? No there’s more …. after I got home I went upstairs to change clothes because my skirt was wet and R. let Roussy in the garden because it seemed she still had to do something. He watched her through the window but at one time he was watching at the tv and when he looked back he saw her standing at the pond trying not to fall in. He got the fright of his life and ran outside and was just in time to catch her.

So you can see it was an exciting day for all of us
That’s why we took it easy today, just a nice Sunday at home.

Itunes shuffle playing right now:
Michael Jackson – Gone to soon

Born to amuse, to inspire, to delight
Here one day
Gone one night

Like a sunset
Dying with the rising of the moon
Gone too soon
Gone too soon

Positive today:
Lazy relaxing Sunday at home

Daily Tip/Quote:
People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.
Author Unknown

A day in my life: Friday November 5 2009 2009/11/06

Exercise:
Thursday it rained all morning so I was getting worried: would it ever stop raining. I kept checking the rain radar which is very accurate and it should be dry at 2.15 pm. And it did so I went outside at that time and kept it dry the entire run. I did 6K and set my first PR on this distance: 44 minutes exact.

That’s 2.42 faster than the run on Sunday but I did walk on that one.

Today no exercise, at first I planned to go to the gym after work but I had to go to the vet before 5 pm to get food for Roussy. And I realized that I’ve planned workouts from tomorrow up till Wednesday so that’s 5 days in a row (want to bet if I do all 5 days since you are getting to know me a little bit better now? )

What’s for dinner:
Yesterday we had a piece of pork meat, baked potatoes with a salad.

Tonight I made noodles with beef and pak-choi cabbage. Delicious!

Thoughts:
Thanks for your condolences for my uncle. Tomorrow night my mom and I are going to offer our condolances. We eat at her place first since it is 5 minutes from her house.

Concerning my colleague, my manager won’t be in till Wednesday so I’ll have to do this one on my own. As soon as she starts to talk negative Tuesday I will say something about it, that it’s bothering me and that she has to talk to her manager about this and not to me.

We have an easy weekend, no appointments so I’m really looking forward to it. It seems ages ago since I cross-stitched so I want to do that on Sunday.

R. came home tonight and told me he has to go to France for his work from Monday till Wednesday so I’ll be home alone the first part of the week. He comes home late Wednesday night and I’m having a dinner date with one of my best friends Thursday night so I’m going to see/talk to him late Thursday evening.

Itunes shuffle playing right now:
Bruce Springsteen – The Promised land (one of my favourites of him, did you notice already I’m a fan )

I’ve done my best to live the right way
I get up every morning and go to work each day
But your eyes go blind and your blood runs cold
Sometimes I feel so weak I just want to explode
Explode and tear this whole town apart
Take a knife and cut this pain from my heart
Find somebody itching for something to start

The dogs on Main Street howl
’cause they understand
If I could take one moment into my hands
Mister I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man
And I believe in a promised land

Positive today:
Had a great day at work: did a lot and had a nice lunch date

Daily Tip/Quote:
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon

Weight Challenge week 45 2009/11/06

Starting weight: 89.2 kg (196.6 lbs).
Target weight: 70 kg (154 lbs).
Current weight: 80.7 kg (177.9 lbs).

This weeks result: -0.8 kg (-1.7 lbs)
Total loss: – 8.5 kg (18.7 lbs)

Fat percentage: 43.2 (last week 43.0)
Muscles percentage: 29.1 (last week 29.6)
BMI: 27.0 (last week 27.2)

Great result this week! My goal for November is to get < 80 kg (176.3 lbs). I’ll have 3 dinner dates in the next two weeks so that’s why I take the whole month to get there.

Dutch girl gets healthy plan:

Why?
For the rest of my life I want to be healthy, have a good figure and be fit and am finally prepared to make sacrifices for this goal and workout regularly. By working out I want to achieve: lose fat, gain muscles, get a lower a heart rate during runs and run faster.

Ways to get there
Eat healthy.
Workout at least 5 times a week

How to keep motivated
Set short- and long-term goals.
See workouts as fun.
Look at working out and eating healthy as “want to” and not as a  “must to”
Reading blogs/magazines about eating healthy, working out and running.
Think positive!

Short-term goals

Weight:
82 kg/180.7 lbs -> 10/15/2009
81 kg/178.5 lbs -> 11/05/2009
80 kg/176.3 lbs
79 kg/174.1 lbs
78 kg/171.9 lbs
77 kg/169.7 lbs
76 kg/167.5 lbs

Running:
09/27/2009: Singelloop Utrecht, 10K -> time 01:19:35
11/01/2009: Maple leaf cross loop, Hilversum, 6K -> time 46:42
11/28/2009: St. Nicolaasloop, Bunschoten, 5K
12/31/2009: Sylvestercross, Soest, ?K

Exercise challenges:
10/02/2009: 30 day Shred -> 6 days completed.
10/12/2009: Matt Roberts 90 days weight loss plan -> Complete 7 out of 36 workouts.

After shred: Finish all 20 workouts of the EA Sports Active 30 day challenge, level hard.
After MR 90 days weight loss plan: Matt Roberts 90 days fitness plan

Long-term goals

Weight:
75 kg/165 lbs
70 kg/154 lbs = goal

Running:
04/18/2010: Nike Ladies Run, Hilversum, 10K
05/15/2010: Marikenloop, Nijmegen, 10K

Running training:
Spring 2010: Start training for 15K (but only if I run a 10K under 1.10)
Summer 2010: Run a 15K run
Spring 2011: Start training for ½ marathon
Summer 2011: Run a ½ marathon

Fat percentage:
< 40%
< 35%
< 30%
27% = goal

Muscle percentage:
> 30
> 35
> 40
> 43 = goal

 

A day in my life: Wednesday November 4 2009 2009/11/04

Exercise:
Monday I went to the gym immediately after work and did the Matt Roberts work-out, week 3, training 1. Felt good and went well.

Today I was supposed to go again but had to finish something at work and decided to do the shred. But when I got home I had no energy left (see thoughts). Maybe I’ll catch up on this one later this week.

What’s for dinner:
Monday I’ve made “nasi”, it’s a Chinese meal but then the Dutch way. They don’t eat it like this in China, that’s for sure J

Yesterday an oven dish of minced meat, mashed potatoes and red cabbage.

Tonight we ate kale hotchpotch.

Thoughts:
At work I share my office with a female colleague. She works on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

She doesn’t get along with the manager she works for so she’s very negative, lately it seems to get worse and worse. I don’t try to pay much attention to it because I’m extremely busy right now and I do love my job and the managers I work for. But I’ve been noticing lately that I have no energy left on Tuesday and Wednesday when I come home after work. She soaks up my energy.
The Thursday’s that I work I’m usually in a meeting most of the day so I don’t see/talk with her much.

I hate confrontations but I know I have to put an end to this because it’s using up my energy. My boss knows I’m no good at confrontations and he also knows about my problems with her so he will coach me in this. The problem is that she’s sweet and nice to everyone and I’m the only one who notices this.

Today I’ve asked her if she still likes her job. First she said “no, not right now” and after that “I do like my job but not my manager”. I answered that those two are connected but she didn’t say much to that.

Today the oldest brother of my dad died at 75. He had a stroke and has been in a coma for 4 days. I’m not a family person so I don’t see them much. I saw him and my aunt every now and then when they visited my mom. He looks exactly like my dad who passed away in 2000. I won’t go to the funeral, I have been to way to many in my life already but I will offer my condolences together with my mom on Saturday evening.

Itunes shuffle playing right now:
James Blunt – 1973

Positive today:
Can’t think of anything today.

Daily Tip/Quote:
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. 
Confucius

A day in my life: Sunday November 1 2009 2009/11/01

Exercise:
I did it! I ran my 6K today. It was though, it was hard but it was so much fun too!

It was in the woods, I’ve never run in the woods before. There were two really big hillswhich I had to take twice, I couldn’t run to the top so I walked and there were lots of lower hills. I even had to jump over a big piece of wood. My time was 46.42 (at 3K 22.30), a bit slower than I have planned but I hadn’t expect such big hills and there was a lot of wind. It stayed dry till about 10 minutes before my finish, it then started to rain very hard so I ran a little bit faster then.

I already know I want to do this next year again and then try to improve my time.

Before the start:

Start:

Action picture:

At 3K:

Finish:

The Hot 100 – Going out with a bang

Week October 22-October 31:

Lose at least 6 kg / 13 lbs, starting weight 09/23 182.8 lbs.
This week +0.8 lbs, total loss during the hot 100: -3.1

Reduce fat% with 2 points (09/23: 43.3).
Final result at December 31th

Exercise at least 4 times a week with at least 2 runs in a week.
Th 22: Running 5K
Fr 23: No exercise
Sa 24: Running 6.3K
Su 25: Matt Roberts weight loss plan week 2, training 2
Mo 26: Matt Roberts weight loss plan week 2, training 3
Tu 27: No exercise
We 28: No exercise, home late after work
Th 29: No exercise, home late after work
Fr 30: Running, Intervaltraining.
Sa 31: Housekeeping, gardening

Complete the 30 day shred between September 23th and December 31th.
Started on October 2^nd, 6 days finished

Finish 2/3 (=24 workouts, total=36) of Matt Roberts 90 days weight loss plan
Completed 6 out of 24 workouts.

Sleep at least 7 hours a night.
Yes, got 7 hours every night, sometimes more.

What’s for dinner:
Yesterday I’ve made a sandwich with rocket salad, tomato, egg and fricandeau.

For snacking we had some cheese and some piece of saucage meat.

Sunday smoothie (yes it’s back, I still make one every sunday but forget to make the picture):
pineapple, forest fruits, a bit of low-fat yoghurt and pineapple juice.

Thoughts:
Yesterday I did my housekeeping and we made the garden ready for winter, trimed where necessary. We had a quiet night at home. R. was watching tv, I was making some Japanese puzzles and did some reading.

Today has been all about the 6K run, as soon as we got home I made hot tea for the both of us and had a piece of chocolate with it, I really thought I deserved that.

Tomorrow is the start of my new set goals till Christmas. So that means lots of working out, eating healthy and lose some weight.

Itunes shuffle playing right now:
Bruce Springsteen – Born to run

Positive today:
Ran the Maple Leaf Cross

 

A day in my life: Friday October 30 2009 2009/10/30

Health:
So I’ve gained 0.4kg/0.8 lbs. No surprise I saw this coming. I had too much unhealthy stuff to eat last week and although I didn’t overeat, these things always makes me gain weight.

So here’s my November/December plan:

Goal 1:
I will lose some weight every week till Christmas, that’s 8 weeks.

Goal 2:
I have 3 dinner appointments in November so far that leaves 27 days for healthy eating of which Saturday’s will be “snack” days. December will be planned soon as November is over.

Goal 3:
I will exercise 5 times a week. I skip workouts to easily when I don’t have time. Starting November 1^st I will find ways to workout 5 times a week.

I will keep track of these three goals in this blog section.

Exercise:
I haven’t been able to workout for three days so I was really looking forward to go running this afternoon. I did an interval training which I haven’t been doing for a few weeks. And boy did I notice that. It was very hard but …. I made it and the weather was beautiful, a bit chilly but sunny: a perfect Autumn day.

Sunday is my 6K rain and the weather forecast is rain. But I prefer rain above hot temperatures so I’m not complaining. I’m looking forward to it.

What’s for dinner:
Wednesday we had sauerkraut with mashed potatoes (no picture).

Yesterday I was home very late so we had some bread with baked eggs.

Tonight we had take away Chinese food. We were supposed to eat that yesterday.

Thoughts:
Work has been crazy these last three days, I haven’t been working out, hardly read any blogs, hardly wrote on my forum, was so tired at night that I didn’t do much more than watch some tv and go to bed early.

Wednesday I was home at 6.15 pm, we had a suppliers day which was a great day but tiring.

Yesterday I had to take notes at a meeting which was supposed to start at 3.30 pm but started at 5.30 pm which meant that I left the office at 7.30 pm, that was a 12 hours working day which luckily doesn’t happen all that often.

Today I left a 2 pm since I worked late yesterday, got my groceries and went for a run. Tonight we’re going to visit my mother-in-law. No specials plans for the weekend.

Itunes shuffle playing right now:
Elvis – If I can dream

Positive today:
Running after three days sitting on my lazy butt.

Daily Tip/Quote:
There aren’t enough days in the weekend.
Rod Schmidt

Weight Challenge week 44 2009/10/30

Starting weight: 89.2 kg (196.6 lbs).
Target weight: 70 kg (154 lbs).
Current weight: 81.5 kg (179.7 lbs).

This weeks result: +0.4 kg (+0.8 lbs)
Total loss: – 7.7 kg (17  lbs)

Fat percentage: 43.0 (last week 43.1)
Muscles percentage: 29.6 (last week 29.2)
BMI: 27.2 (last week 27.1)

I’ve gained 0.4 kg/0.8 lbs this week.

Dutch girl gets healthy plan:

Why?
For the rest of my life I want to be healthy, have a good figure and be fit and am finally prepared to make sacrifices for this goal and workout regularly. By working out I want to achieve: lose fat, gain muscles, get a lower a heart rate during runs and run faster.

Ways to get there
Eat healthy.
Workout at least 5 times a week

How to keep motivated
Set short- and long-term goals.
See workouts as fun.
Look at working out and eating healthy as “want to” and not as a  “must to”
Reading blogs/magazines about eating healthy, working out and running.
Think positive!

Short-term goals

Weight:
82 kg/180.7 lbs -> reached 10/15/2009
81 kg/178.5 lbs

Running:
09/27/2009: Singelloop Utrecht, 10K -> time 01:19:35
11/01/2009: Maple leaf cross loop, Hilversum, 6K
11/28/2009: St. Nicolaasloop, Bunschoten, 5K
12/31/2009: Sylvestercross, Soest, ?K

Exercise challenges:
10/02/2009: 30 day Shred -> 6 days completed.
10/12/2009: Matt Roberts 90 days weight loss plan -> Complete 6 out of 36 workouts.
After shred: Finish all 20 workouts of the EA Sports Active 30 day challenge, level hard.

Long-term goals

Weight:
80 kg/176 lbs
75 kg/165 lbs
70 kg/154 lbs = goal

Running:
01/16/2010: Rusthoeveloop, Putten, 10K
04/18/2010: Nike Ladies Run, Hilversum, 10K
05/16/2010: Marikenloop, Nijmegen, 10K

Running training:

Spring 2010: Start training for 15K (but only if I run a 10K under 1.10)
Summer 2010: Run a 15K run
Spring 2011: Start training for ½ marathon
Summer 2011: Run a ½ marathon

Fat percentage:
< 40%
< 35%
< 30%
27% = goal

Muscle percentage:
> 30
> 35
> 40
> 43 = goal

 

A day in my life: Tuesday October 27 2009 2009/10/27

Exercise:
Yesterday after work again to the gym for the Matt Roberts plan: week 2, training 3.
Today no exercise.

I’ve changed my work-out plan a bit. Since work is so busy and will be till somewhere next year I find it hard to go to the gym three times a week. So I’ve decided to go running twice a week, go to the gym twice a week and do 1 home work-out every week.

For my running I’m going to try something else. In the odd weeks I will do speedwork on a weekday, in the even week on my day off I will run 5K, next week 6K and the week after that 7K and then start from the beginning.

In weekends I will do a 8K, then 9K and then 10K and start that also all over again. I’ve made routes last night so I have different routes every time. I hope this makes me faster eventually by changing the distance every time.

Next Sunday I have a 6K run. It’s in the woods which I don’t have where I live so I’m looking forward to that. It has also some hills which will be the first time for me. My mom is coming with me, she wants to see me running.

What’s for dinner:
Sunday the high tea, we had also sandwiches and quiches, mini pizza’s but I forgot to take pictures of that because we were talking so much.

Yesterday we ate spaghetti carbonara.

And today … ai … look for yourself. I was so tired when I went home so I choose take away food.

Thoughts:

The high tea was great, we laughed, we talked and we had delicious things to eat.

Tonight I’m going to have my nails done, I do that every 4 weeks.

Tomorrow I’m out of the office. We’re having a day with presentations for our suppliers. I didn’t have to organize this one, my colleague did that but I do have to help her. These days are very tiring but usually fun too because it’s something different than doing the regular stuff at the office.

I hope I have enough energy left to do a speedwork training tomorrow night, if not I will do that Friday.

Itunes shuffle playing right now:
4 Non Blondes – What’s up

This song is special to me, first sentence: “25 years and my is still trying to get up that great big hill of hope for a destination”. When I first heard this song I was 25 years old and in a car somewhere between LA and San Francisco while I was there for a holiday all alone far from home and R. whom I’ve met just a few months before.

Positive today:
Worked really hard but went home satisfied with the work I’ve done.

Daily Tip/Quote:
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty