50 minutes Cybex Arc + 10 minutes Octane Lateral.
Welcome to all newbies/former lurkers!
Thanks for the info on melatonin and bedtime tea. I almost never have a problem falling asleep – it’s the staying asleep. I occasionally use a sleep aid (CVS brand, but I’m sure there are others), which works well. BUT, I’m not in love with the idea of taking too much of anything, even if it’s advertised as non-habit forming.
Also waiting for true spring weather to arrive here …
Thanks, sabaray! Glad it isn’t just me!
Yoga (slow flow) today as well as a 3 mile walk.
Sabaray–I am making chicken today too. Not doing stew–making chicken rice/vegetable soup. My H made chicken stock over the weekend and I am using it for the soup that I am taking soup to a friend who is starting chemotherapy on Wed.
I’m lucky because I don’t have sleep issues–my head hits the pillow and I am out. My chronic issue is muscle/joint soreness. I have lots if back flexibility and overdo twists in yoga–I always do the binds and then I am creaky and cranky. Going to try the product Busdriver mentioned.
Good luck @abasket and @nahnah12 in your races this weekend.
@sabaray - glad you feel better. I copy and pasted the recipe for future use. Sounds delicious!
It has been a very busy and stressful week, but I am making time for yoga/walking/running.
Got out this morning for 6+ but am now going to rest until Saturday. My body has had it. I need to do a better job of resting when I need it.
The stew was a big hit - I couldn’t taste it but Mr. Sabaray assures me it’s delicious. Some went in the freezer and I’ll eat more today. I should have added that you need to pull the chicken and shred it at the end of the cook time, return it to the pot and then add the greens and lemon juice.
Amazing you did 6 miles not feeling great, Sabaray! Glad the stew was tasty. I want to try it. I love ginger too.
I did what is turning into my “workout” lately – set the alarm, then told myself I needed sleep more than a run. The extra hour did feel good.
Take it easy, sabaray. Good job on the stew and the 6 miles!
Classof- my problem is that I can’t go back to sleep once I"m awake. Not that I want to get up, but I figure I might as well…
3.1 miles on a really nice morning. Legs were tired since I did some speedwork on the treadmill yesterday after work.
Finally home after much traveling. I was managing to run or swim every other day and walking a lot, but have felt off my game. Back to normalcy today.
Yup.
Slogged my way through a muddy hike yesterday. Was definitely faster than previous ice covered trails and that demonstrated I am a little out of shape. Looking forward to clear trails to get my pacing back.
4 miles done.
The snow in our yard is finally gone – but there’s talk of another storm on Saturday. What??? There does’t seem to be a consensus on the storm track, so hopefully it won’t hit us. It’s the end of March; enough already!
Just looked at that Run Fast Eat Slow cookbook. Looks really good, but I’m wondering…right now my issue isn’t so much athletic performance, but ditching body fat. I don’t know if it’s so good for that.
Just booked the hotels for the Pikes Peak Ascent in August, so it looks like we’re going to do it. Now I have to figure how to work out for it. Trail running, uphill jogging (if possible). Yikes! So maybe I should be focusing on the athletic performance instead of body fat…I guess it goes hand in hand.
That chicken stew recipe looks delicious!
Speaking from my own experience, I think it’s really difficult to lose weight/body fat (not necessarily the same thing) when you’re truly training for a specific event. Your body needs fuel and depriving yourself of calories is a bad idea when you’re tackling such a big challenge. The trap I have fallen into is overeating “because I earned it”. You don’t need to eat as much as you think you do, but you need to eat the right kinds of things. Sure, have that cup of chocolate milk. But you can’t also have a bacon cheeseburger, french fries and a beer. I think many of the recipes are very good choices for a weight loss plan - if you’re also exercising portion control.
The next recipe I’m going to try is a lentil salad with cauliflower couscous. Mr. Sabaray’s pick - it seems a little more involved, but it does look good.
It is hard to not overeat after you’ve worked out really hard, that’s for sure. I find that I never seem to lose weight after a massive hike, even though I felt that I burned thousands of calories. Probably all that pie and beer afterwards! Seems the only time I lose weight is after running a lot, the South Beach diet (which seems unsustainable), or when I first started taking bioidentical hormones.
Cauliflower couscous sounds interesting. I was looking at the carbs on the box of couscous I just bought. 40grams per serving. Wow.
“Now I have to figure how to work out for it. Trail running, uphill jogging (if possible).”
Bus, I do not think you have to look that far…
http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/01/17/the-steepest-streets-in-seattle/
Start at Pike Place Market and keep walking/jogging all the way to the bottom of Capitol/First Hill/Seattle U. 
Queen Anne is another good place for training…
Ha, Bunsen! You should see the street I live on. Sometimes my husband puts weights in a backpack and goes up and down the hill. We also live half a mile from a state park, with some steep grades down to the water. So I definitely don’t need to go far! The problem is, though, finding something comparable, that will take hours to jog/fast hike up. Even the close in mountains like Mt Si and Mailbox are too short, you’d have to double/triple hike them to make it comparable, and then there’s all that downhill. My husband thinks the best practice is going up Mt Adams with the elevation gain and altitude, but that’s kind of far away, and an overnight trip.
I had a good 5 mile run last night with the running club and another good 5 mile run this morning with Back on My Feet. Work is super crazy and the running is such a good stress relief.
busdriver - I hear you about the eating, although I seem to have a suppressed appetite after exceptionally hard exercise. I don’t have much of an appetite after a marathon or a really brutal hike. I do get a good amount of calories in on long hikes (like climbing Half Dome kind of hike) through trail mix and other calorie dense snacks. But for more everyday kind of exercise, it is easy to eat everything you’ve burned off, if not more. Michael warns about this frequently - he’s right, it is easy to overestimate how many calories you burned off during exercise and underestimate how many you are eating. It isn’t easy!
CBBBlinker - how is your brother doing? I hope your snow doesn’t materialize this weekend - enough is enough!
sabaray - I hope you are feeling better this afternoon.
Went running after work in my Marmot capri tights/leggings. 
(had to add that in after my leggings thread today…)
2.5 miles but at a little faster pace. Probably because I wanted to get it over with sort of. Probably my last run until the race on Sunday since I’ll be doing a road trip for work tomorrow and Friday (and it’s suppose to rain) and then traveling to Chicago on Saturday.
Back in the pool. I had hoped to run but fell asleep when I sat down to take a rest for a few minutes. (Tired and jet lagged from all the travel.) Oh well.
I, too, struggle with how to lose weight when training for something. Got to eat enough to perform well and that is always too much for me to lose weight. Some years ago, when the kids were still little, I was able to follow a big running miles training plan for the first time. I imagined the weight would just melt off. It didn’t. Part of the problem was that summer Ben and Jerry’s introduced a bunch of new flavors. H and I would put the kids to bed and then polish off a container every evening.