Busy Lizzy
Today has been quite the busy day! Not complaining though. I am finally feeling better…still a stuffy nose, but none of that dragging, tired, sick feeling.
I woke up at about 8 this morning and had a breakfast of proatmeal and an apple. I headed to the gym and did biceps and triceps (my triceps were starting to feel sore during my last set of bench dips so it was definitely a good work out.) I added a 25 pound plate to my bench dips today (usually just do body weight between two benches) and i was pumping out 8-10 reps per set. I haven’t done them recently and am glad to see I’m getting stronger! I had some of a friend’s protein shake post workout(he was giving me samples of all the different proteins he had in his bag because he said they were delicious…and they were!!) He also gave me a sample of XPand which is a glutamine, b-vitamin, and creatine mixture..it was tasty and the ingredients looked pretty solid so I may have to invest 🙂
Tomorrow is my P.F. Changs 1/2 marathon too! So today my friend Brittni and I went downtown to pick up our race packets. We stopped at Samurai Sams on the way and i decided to get food, being I could get white meat chicken and steamed vegetables without sauce. Well the chicken still had some skin on it and some yucky stuff so I basically disected every single piece and didn’t get much out of it. The vegetables were good though! After that, I had a hair appointment. I needed food in me, so I stopped and got a Clif bar..it was all I had time to grab and it was the best thing I could find at CVS (wanted almonds, but they were all salted! :-(..) After my hair appointment I had a medium sized sweet potato and some more chicken, along with two apples, some strawberries, proatmeal, and then a shake of protein powder, 1/2 a banana, and cinnamon(very good!)…this was all spanned out over about 2 hours by the way. I just am trying to get my protein in. So as far as eating today it wasn’t the best as far as timing and nutrients, but I still have one more meal to get some more protein in! (Only at 137 g. right now and would like to be closer to 180 or above) I feel like I can see more straitions in my back and shoulders lately so I’m excited about that!
Race tomorrow at 8:30AM. I hope I am ready for it. My running training has not been what it should be, so if I need to walk at some point, then I will, but at the same time…i think i can pull it off! We will see my friends 🙂