Back to Beach Body

Life has been what I expected since we got back from vacation 3 1/2 weeks ago. Not that it has been bad. I just had visions of getting back to running, eating well. Yeah, not so much.

In the 2 weeks we were home before the kids got home, I enjoyed staying up late and sleeping late (well, as late as I could before having to go to work!).

Running has been in the back of my mind for weeks but the weather really has been pretty brutal since we got back - if it wasn't a heat wave, then it was the humidity.

I was supposed to do a 10K this coming Saturday but since I haven't run since June 14 I knew that wasn't going to happen (plus it is much easier for me to blow off races that don't include a medal!)

Quite a few times in the last week I've laid out clothes to run but haven't because it was 70-75 at 6 am and 90-95% humidity.

But I've been not feeling great lately (2nd half of my cycle) so I know exercise is the key to feeling better. So I laid out work out clothes, not running clothes, and even though I've been up since 3 am I made myself get up and do a workout. I did Day 1 of the original 21 Day Fix but tomorrow I am going to do Day 2 of the 21 Day Fix Realtime.

It wasn't an easy workout but it is better than nothing!

We are 1/3 of the way through out 21 Days of birthdays. But we are going away this weekend (even though I am not doing the race, we are still going to Maine since we aren't doing a family vacation this summer), then next week is my daughter's birthday (out to dinner 1 night and then ice cream and cake on her actual birthday) and my birthday is in 3 weeks which will be the Melting Pot. But I am not going to eat badly the full 21 days. I am going to continue with my workouts and try to eat better.

And for the Fall/Winter this is what I've got coming up:
-10K race the beginning of October so I've got to start running soon even if it means the dreadmill
-1/2 Marathon on January 11 in Disney - 1/2 marathon training will start November 11 so I need to be up to 6-7 miles at that time (which I will be since the 10K is a month before - I'll just keep up the 6-7 miles).

So sitting around is over, time to get moving.....again!

We are back from Wyoming

It's been exactly a month since I last ran. It would be perfect morning to run, but since it is our last weekend day without kids, I am putting off exercising one more day!

When I chose the pictures below they were in order of our trip, but didn't post that way, so I am just going to leave them as is.

3 weeks ago we dropped our kids off at 2 different overnight camps and after a lot of drama of cancelled flights, we were off! We flew into Billings, Montana and drove down into Yellowstone. We spent 3 nights there (at 2 different lodges) and then 5 nights in Grand Teton (at Signal Mountain Lodge) and then 2 nights in Jackson, where we celebrated the 4th of July, before coming home.

It was a wonderful trip! A trip I had been counting down for over a year. It was the perfect time of year to go - we really lucked out with weather. A couple of days before we arrived it snowed on the first day of summer, it was 70s and low humidity when we were there, and since then I think they've had the same hot weather we've had out east since we got back home.

We got 6 hikes in during our trip which were all wonderful! The wildflowers were out, the rivers, creeks and streams were still high water so beautifully rushing. We couldn't have asked for more.

And now we are back :( Back to work last week was no fun and then later this week we go pick up the kids. I am so used to going on vacation at the end of August that I keep thinking that summer should almost be over. I keep thinking we've been back for 2 weeks, not 1.

The kids will have 5 weeks of day camp when they get back. We aren't going on a family vacation this summer since we've all had quite a vacation :) We are taking a long weekend in October to go to Vermont- hopefully the foliage will be out, but that is a crap shoot these years with global warming. But for now we will enjoy summer, enjoy the kids being back, and try not to think about Back to School and Halloween and Christmas for at least a month, because I've still got 2 birthdays (my husband's and my daughters) to "look forward to" and then my own.

But for now here is a glimpse of our trip from some of the pics off my phone. I'll be back this week to talk about how I am not starting over (again) when it comes to weight loss :(