This week we didn’t have much time at all to do our cooking. Since we knew that ahead of time, we opted to go for some dishes we knew would work well – hence all the repeats. But they’re delicious repeats, we promise!
1. Beef veggie and cheese burritos (yes, again from last week) – we could eat these every week. Actually, we’re going to just tweak them a little bit and probably eat them NEXT week again. That’s how much we like them. (Ignore the calorie count, for some reason spark doubled it – it’s ~390…)
2. Pasta Fa-Jolie Soup (it’s been renamed for supreme cuteness) because it was good and we wanted it as a soup instead of a pasta casserole dish. (less noodles again next time, but this time we got a *little* broth with 8 oz of noodles, we’ll go 4 next time)
3. Chicken, corn/quinoa noodles, broccoli and peas (and Leah’s had spinach), with artichoke pesto sauce. This is always a good meal. Pasta dishes are AWESOME after running days. It was just as good with the pesto as it was with the light alfredo.
Obviously these all get the endorsement of A+, would make again!
By cooking only 3 meals last Saturday instead of four, we were able to squeeze it in between training and hosting a party, instead of taking up a lot of Sunday. We were able to make a good amount of food for the week that only needed to be supplemented by a few fish dishes and a few meals out. And since we had been missing our fish, this worked out even better than expected.
Next week we’ll try a few new tricks, so tune in next week!
Question of the week: What healthy meal would you (or do you) eat all the time?
Swim Swim time, Legs are starting to get better. More drills are needed. Swim Stats
Thursday:
More Batman and more riding. I can pedal quite fast to this movie. I was sad when it was time to stop. I could have kept on riding until the end of the movie but that pesky work thing. Bike Stats
Lunch run was good, The main group was booking it but Leah and I kept our slow pace and stayed where we were supposed to with our heart rates. Its getting easier to run at zone 1 and 2. Run Stats
Friday:
Day Off!
Saturday:
35 Lap swim test. 1050m, Great times on this. 26minutes fantastic for me. Swim Stats
Finished up watching Batman and got in 20 miles! Poor nutrition though, we should have eaten more on the bike. Doesn’t it always come back to that? Bike Stats
Super slow run, Leah’s HR kept getting over her Z2 top, so we walked a few bits. It was 58 out so perfect running weather. Run Stats
Oh yeah… we did our batch cooking, before the swim, after the swim and after the run this day, and hosted a party at the house for a few other couples. Long day.
Sunday:
Day off, but we ended up walking all around 1 store for like 2 hours.
According to Joels Fitbit.
73613 steps taken
43 floors climbed
35.5 miles traveled
The stairs are great I love how it tells me. It makes me want o go up and down the stairs a whole bunch of times at work, just to get a better “score”.
Leah Week 3 Recap:
Monday: Weights: 3×22… 190 lb* leg press, 40 lb pulldowns, 105 lb squats, 20 lb* dumbell chest press, 60 lb row, 80 lb* calf raises, 10 lb plate situps with twist. Swim: 1290m in 30 mins. Tuesday: Bike: 11.37 miles in 30 mins. Run: 3 miles in 36:30. Wednesday: Weights: 3×22… 190 lb leg press, 50 lb* pulldowns, 125 lb* squats, 20 lb dumbells chest press, 60 lb rows, 55 lb* hammie curls, situps w/twist w/10 lb plate. Swim: 1350m in 32 mins. Thursday: Bike: 10 miles in 32 mins (hurty hip so I went slower). Run: 3.1 miles in 38 mins. Friday: off Saturday: Swim: 1050m test (in 23 mins). Bike: 20 miles in 52:28. Run: 3.1 in 40:30 because my body hated me. Sunday: off
(Weight PR is noted by a *)
Notes and Observations:
My heel has gotten less creaky, I got to run outside 3 times and I’m not limping and feels better than it has for a while. That’s a happy for sure!
I did a 1050m test (70 laps) on Saturday and hit 23 mins. That’s a ~35 minute mile. Faster times than I’ve posted for a while/ever (for a while I had the pool measurements wrong so I thought I was faster than I was)? It felt great to push myself in the pool and I am HUNGRY for some hard pool workouts that are going to come starting March.
Cycling has just been more of the same goodness. I’m craving some outdoor riding, but I want to push myself to see what I have outside at a closed road course (Veloway). I may have to break my zone 1/2 rule just once soon. For now, loving the trainer movie rides.
Running – meh. My HR finally came down a bit this week for the lunch runs, but Saturday’s run was just shit. Allergies, lack of motivation, no music because I’m a dummy and didn’t charge my mp3 player, and just plain tireds made my heart rate go sky high after about mile 1.5 and I was either trotting or walking so I bagged it a little early (with the warmup and cooldown I got my intended 45 mins in, because I ran so frigging slow, but it’s not what I set out to do). I’ll keep at it, but right now, runs are, pun intended, my Achilles heel.
Weights are good. Raised everything to 22 reps, and I even upped some weights. I’m getting stronger. Let me tell you a story… I went about my normal weights workout on Wednesday…and Zliten and I were staggered so he was on the exercise before me. I get to the squat bar, put my weight on, and go at it. The first set went OK, but the second set was just WAY hard. I started thinking about how the day really drained me. Finishing his last set of the previous exercise, Zliten comes over and points to my bar and gives me a thumbs up. I’m like, what? I then realized I had put two 35s and two 10s on each side instead of 25s and two 10s. Holy crap, I squatted 125 lbs which is 20 more lbs than I was struggling with last week! I almost took the weight off, but figured if I could do two sets I could do three. It did make my hips (of all places) REALLY tender for about 12 hours after but I survived. I’ll scale back a bit next week (115 maybe?) but that was awesome!
I did not eat so well last week, so one of my big goals this week is to try and eat all the right things and not go completely overboard on calories. Sometime soon I’ll post the eating strategy I’m following, but it’s basically about eating good things while trying to stay away from the bad things and trying to eat them at the right times. Sounds like rocket science, eh?
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Question of the day: Did you run, bike, swim, or lift heavy things this week? Was it awesome?
