9
Mar
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Big FAIL!
I got all dressed up and went home.
Awesome.
Actually, turned out to be a fairly good idea. You see, on Sunday I toppled over on my bike because i am retarded. I was coming into a stop, and I usually clip out my right foot first. This time I decided, in my wonderful wisdom, to click out my left foot. Well, when I finally came to a stop I didn’t lean the right way and I went down. Got a little scraped up on my knee, but got back up. The last couple of days my lower back has been killing me, and this morning I came to the conclusion it was because I fell and probably tweaked my back a bit. I had PT today and I am feeling better. So if I would have run I probably would have screwed up my back even more. And I also would not have been able to make this:
Lemon Dream Pound Cake, that I refuse to eat. Why you ask?
2 1/2 sticks of butter, 3 cups of sugar, 6 eggs, 1/2 cup of sour cream, and a crap load of flour. I think I know why they call it a pound cake now…
I also screwed up a bit, even though I sprayed the crap out of the pan part of the top got stuck. So I just evened out the part that “was removed” and used some garnishments to make it look a little better. It tastes wonderful (i ate what was in the pan)…just isn’t as pretty as I would like. It would have also been better if I could have covered up the whole top with thick gooey icing, but the recipe calls for a glaze. Some cakes have all the luck!
Today I got 5 oranges from a co-worker who has a tree, so I will make the same cake but replace all the parts that say “lemon” with the oranges. This time i might use grease and flour for the pan, I think that pound cake might be a bit too much for poor Pam.
3
Mar
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Lately I have been doing physical therapy for my lower back. I basically have had lower back pain since I hit puberty and it has gotten progressively worse. I finally had enough and had my doctor write me a prescription for PT. Through the Pasadena Triathlon Club, I found a place called CATZ. CATZ works mostly on athletes and gear a lot of their methods to the active person. But I plan to do a whole post on that later….
Anyway, they have me doing a lot of core work and plyometrics and I think it is paying off! One month ago (early on in my physical therapy) I went for a run at the bowl, then I went again this week and I shaved a whole minute off of my pace, check out the stats!
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For my run on March 1st, I actually did an interval run. So I ran for about .8 miles then walked a minute, then ran 4 minutes, then walked 1 minute, etc… By the time I was toward the end of my run I was doing about a 9:50 mile pace when I ran. To me this is AMAZING! I had sort of come to the conclusion that I just wasn’t a runner. And it didn’t matter what I did…I would always suck. I also have to tell you that I didn’t do any actual running between the runs you see above. It was all that core work that really improved my run! So now I am convinced that I need to do even MORE core work and who knows how far I can take this. It would be great if I could get to a point where I am running 10 minute miles with no walking breaks, but I still need to do some more work before I hit that goal.
Running is also my weakest part in triathlons. This is the make or break it point for me when it comes to getting on the podium (for Athena). If I can get better at my running, I know I can really rock some of the courses out there!
In other news, the evil girls are back again:
I am just going to give in now and eat a whole box (because that is what happens anyway). Maybe I will eat so many of them that I throw up and then can’t eat anymore, wait…isn’t that an eating disorder?
Happy Hump Day!
2
Mar
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I’ll let you decide…but I am leaning toward just cheap.
You see, I have been searching for a good pair of capri running pants and I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, what if I didn’t like them? Ya know? Anyway, I found some today at Ross but they have a logo on them:
I don’t ever plan to run the Boston marathon…unless they have a division for the longest time it takes to do it…then maybe! I sort of feel weird with it on, will people think I did that marathon? Am I misleading people to believe that I am such a fast runner that I actually qualified??? Does that make me a poser?
Then there is the second part of the story, the cheap part:
My capri pants cost $15…versus the $50 they retail for. And I always like ADIDAS because they make their clothes a tad bigger so I fit nicely into a medium. So basically, my capri pants with the Boston Marathon logo were ridiculously cheap and it gave me a low-cost way to test out how I like capri running pants.
I feel a little like a poser, I will just have to stop and tell everyone I see while wearing these capri’s that I did NOT run the 2009 Boston Marathon…but rather that I got them at Ross for hardly anything 
And my conclusion on running capri’s is that they are GREAT! They were so comfortable and I never thought about them once (my #1 rule on having something that fits correctly).
