A Nice Weekend

What a wonderful weekend with family.  My crazy week was topped off with a relaxing, stress-free, fun and exciting weekend in Vermont.

A.  The kids slept in each morning.  Giddy Up!
B.  I was able to sleep in until 7 - 8 a.m.  Sweet!
C.  Great snow conditions for skiing.  Yahoo!
D.  The normal "calming" that VT gives me.  Love it!

I didn't have to worry about work, e-mails, phone calls, laundry, cats/bunnies, groceries, cleaning and everything else that home makes me do.  My sister and her daughter came up so it was a blessing to have such wonderful company. 

WOD - I did nothing on Saturday and Sunday.  Skiing from 11 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. was plenty of work for my legs.  We skiied Pico and with two out of my three kids able to ski on their own, I was bending over and picking them up whenever they decided to do some fancy trick or tree ski.  I had my work cut out for me so I felt as though I did not need to squeeze anything from my training plan in.

We came home today so I knew that I had to do something.  With the 5:30 p.m. nutritional lecture I knew I could squeeze something in before hand.  I looked at my sheet and today was a 5K.

5K outdoors tonight.  My face froze and did not warm up until mile 2.5 just when I'm getting ready to be done.  I opted for the treadmill which I do not like but my husband wanted to run outside instead.  Of course I listened.  He dusted me and I was running on my own enjoying the fresh air, cool temp and the psychotic mind game of "what the hell am I doing out here!  This is nuts!  Am I done yet!  My throat hurts!  I have to pee!"  Ran the 5K in 29:18 which is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY slow.  What happened to my under 9:00 minute mile days?  I thought I was working my legs extra hard tonight.  Granted, I could not feel them but I thought I was running fast.  My only thought is maybe we ran more then a 5K.

Food - I did really well this weekend.  I snuck in a french fry or two and had one captain/coke.  But I stuck to my plan and had my eggs, veggies, salads, hummus and all that other "not fun" stuff. 

I don't feel any thinner, I don't feel any different but my cold IS going away!  Like I had said before, I'm going to weight myself after a good month of this nonsense and see what the ugly scale says.  I hope I'm losing something other then my sanity!