What a week it was! I definitely did plenty of indulging in food, fitness and (most of all) my family. We had my brother, SIL, niece and nephew here for five days over Thanksgiving and it was so wonderful. The kids are all at an age where they play together so well and love each other so much – – it’s a great thing to watch and I only wish they lived closer so we could do it more often. But, that’s just getting greedy and the holidays have zero tolerance for that, right?
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 24, 2014 (THANKSGIVING WEEK!)
RUNNING: It was a great week of running! It snowed like crazy on Wednesday which made a perfect backdrop for holiday runs! I was able to run with my SIL, do hill repeats as part of a post-Thanksgiving day workout (below) and a solo run on Sunday in the sun! The hamstring pain is diminishing (due to PT exercises and rest) and, as long as I keep it slow for now, I can run for an hour pain-free. This makes me a very happy girl.
Hello sunshine!
CYCLING: I set up the bike trainer just in time for the first second snowfall. I was able to get in a great ride before my relatives showed up on Wednesday. The boys played happily around me as I rode hard for 50 minutes. A great indulgence (part miracle!) for me.
SWIMMING: Oh how I missed the pool last week! I was only able to swim once but I’m jumping in today for an extra long session. I can.not.wait.
RACING: I’m starting to plot and plan for next year’s racing schedule. Â I’m setting some lofty goals that scare the hell out of me, but it’s the only way to fly, right? Bring it! Oh no…wait, I still have a few more weeks of indulging before I have to seriously train. Luckily I received my autographed Lauren Fleshman journal just in time:
I do believe, I do, I do, I do!
FUEL: Holy shit. What didn’t I eat this past week? Thanksgiving was absolutely amazing and I ate all.the.things, including a decedent piece of apple pie from Smith’s Orchard Bake Shop in Charlton, NY! Another favorite meal was sans kids, with my husband, brother and SIL for a Saturday brunch. The grandparents brought all the kids to see Rudolph The Musical so obviously we went out for cocktails before noon:
THINGS I LOVE: Doing a garage boot camp workout with my family over Thanksgiving! I don’t have to force my family as much as one might think to do a workout with me. I do however, have to push them when they start whining. I threw in the hill repeats just for fun, and because we live on a huge hill, but I think that’s the part that made this Bootcamp three rounds instead of four. Try it with your family, but you can leave my name (and the hill repeats) out of it:
THINGS I DON’T LOVE AS MUCH: People who say they’re “sad” when it’s obvious they’re really pissed off. Example: My Facebook feed is making me really sad today because of [insert hotbed topic here like Ferguson, ebola, politics or religion]” Just say you’re mad when you’re mad. We get it, and if we don’t we can unfriend you. It’s a trend I’m seeing everywhere and not just on the book of the face. If everyone is truly that sad, then that really makes me sad. Like for real-zies.
MUSIC: Do you want to build a snowman? No, I’m not talking about that overplayed makes you want to stab your eyes out song from Frozen, but actually building a snowman! While shoveling the driveway with my brother, the kids were playing all around us – – either whizzing by on sleds or building snowmen. This is why snow is fantastic:
READING: What’s this? I didn’t get a chance to read much except some gift catalogs and recipes. I made the Pumpkin French Toast casserole that I pinned last week and it was delish. My stepmom made some ridiculously good figs stuffed with cheese and wrapped in prosciutto. OMG. To die for. And my classic baked chicken wing recipe from my most favorite cook books (yea, I still cook from actual cookbooks!) Mad Hungry – Feeding Men and Boys. Best one ever if you need to feed males in your home, and this chicken recipe has become famous in my family.
RANDOM QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “The girls I grew up with they’re living normal, adult lives. So they call me now and they’re like, ‘Amy, I’m pregnant.’ And I still react like, ‘What are you going to do? I’ll drive you, I guess.’Â – Amy Schumer (we watched one of her Comedy Central shows, and it was to-die-for hilarious. She is one sick chick and I love it.)
How was your holiday?
What do you indulge in?
What are your race plans for 2015?
Your holiday week sounded quite perfect actually and truly makes me hope the next three weeks go quickly as I am planning on taking off as well for Christmas week into New Year’s to rest up a bit and also took some time last week. And now I totally want to watch that Amy Schumer comedy special too 😉
I hope you had a great holiday and yes, I’m already looking forward to the next break! I highly recommend the Amy Schumer special – hilarious!
YAYYYY for a good week of running! That makes me happy toooo! Aren’t those gloves awesome! So glad you are enjoying them, the thumbholes, they are ingenious!!! I find writing in a journal really helps too, and those believe ones are so perfect for that! Have a wonderful week my friend1
I cannot wait to start filling out my journal! I definitely need to start getting my racing ducks in a row 🙂
I ordered my Believe Journal last night. I need to get back into the old school way of getting it down on paper. Looks like a wonderful weekend – and thanks for getting that damn song stuck in my head.
Sorry!!!
So glad you ordered the journal. I love ‘old school’ writing too. I need to see it in pen with no delete option!
I’m glad you had a really good week of running and congrats. I love anything with thumbholes so I completely understand.
The little thumb flap on those gloves is pure genius.
Oh how I love the pic of Miles(?!) with the snowman. Facebook has be rough, like really rough over the past week or so. I’ve just been hanging out on Twitter trying to avoid the madness! That workout looks great…for me. If I even mention hill repeats to my family they would laugh me out of the house!! Glad you had a great weekend with family!!
YES it’s Miles! You got it!! 🙂
I feel like FB is the first place where people lose it. Why is that?? I don’t blame you for avoiding the whole mess.
That is too funny about the hill repeats!! My family was not thrilled and my brother kept saying “she’s crazy!” but he did it.
That Amy Schumer quote made me LOL for realz! BWAH HA HA HA! Am totally sending that to my sister! Thanksgiving sounds like it was amazing…love that y’all got snow…makes everything so much better, especially the holidays! Now, excuse me while I go drool over the pumpkin french toast recipe! :)-Ashley
I saw that you pinned the recipe. I have another one in my freezer just waiting for a snow day. It was fantastic and a total crowd pleaser.
Amy Schumer is my new fav comedienne. OMG just too funny!!!
So glad the hamstring is behaving–eccentric exercises really are miracle workers, aren’t they? I’m excited to see what you have in store for 2015, although I think I remember what one of them is, thus the swimming.
Yep on the FB feed nonsense. Just stop people, just stop!
Yes, hence the swimming! Lots of TRI’s in my future so let’s hope I don’t drown.
FB is totally for crazies. Usually it’s entertaining but I just can’t take all the fake BS with the ‘sad’ thing. I mean really.
What is a backdrop? I’m not familiar with the term, sorry.
AND FROZEN IS MY FAVOURITE MOVIE, STOP IT! 😉
Hahahaha!!! It’s a great movie but just too much already. 🙂
“backdrop” means just that – a back ground for your favorite thing, in this case it’s running. It’s like the stage/background set for a play. I hope that makes sense!?
We did a family 5k, walking or running. James was done his run in under 20, and I opted to walk five miles in an hour twenty. Then I came in and ate a piece of chocolate babka. Mmmm. Trying to get back to reality today – it’s tough.
Under 20? WOW nicely done. And you so should have eaten that after your almost hour and half workout. Good for you!
Today is almost unbearable. This morning’s wake-up call was ugly and I’m still waiting to get back in the groove. Maybe by Thursday…
No excuse about the swimming. You could’ve filled up the bathtub and got in a workout. Sheesh.
You are 100% right! Now I’ll know how to handle this over the Christmas break.
For some reason my comments don’t seem to be going through so I’m trying again.. maybe they went to spam? In any case, glad you had such a good week. I’m impressed you can get your family to workout with you! I’m the only one in my extended family… I’d love to have someone to run with or slam some medicine balls around with. 🙂
That’s weird? Not sure why you’re all of a sudden tagged as “spam” but hopefully I have rescued any further comments from there. Sorry!!
I am pretty lucky that my brother and SIL are up for a good workout. We also felt gross after indulging for so many days prior to the bootcamp session 🙂
Sounds like you had an awesome week! I think my family would throw me out of the house if I made them do that! LOL! You would think with all working out that I do I could lead by example but no. Right now the only thing I have planned is a half marathon in the spring. I would like to do more racing in general next year. Can’t wait to hear what you have in store!
A half marathon is a great start! I hope you can race more too since I know you love it. As for the family workouts, I guess I’m pretty lucky that my brother and SIL want to get in at least ONE good workout in 5 days!! I would never be able to get my dad involved although he does ride his bike on the trainer everyday. 🙂
Ha. That quote is hilarious. I can’t wait to get back to my workouts. I think it is still awhile off but I’m hoping sooner rather than later. I ate so much good food last week. My favorite was the salted caramel apple pie!
I remember that feeling! It will feel so good (and maybe a little awkward) when you can start working all those muscles again – especially your abs since they took a direct hit. Don’t rush into anything and just enjoy that beautiful baby!…and maybe more salted caramel apple pie – holy YUM!
ha! We watched the Amy Schumer show too. So funny because I never watch comedy. She’s something else.
And I get it about wanting the cousins together more often. My brother is the only one to have kids.. so far.. and my kids get along with his kids like magic. I mean.. it’s really magical. And we live three hours away, so I guess it could be worse.
That is too funny…I mean, really funny!
Magical is the perfect way to describe cousins. My brother lives 2 1/2 hours away so it’s about the same. Yes, it could be worse but it could be so much better. We always beg them to move here but it’s too hard with my brother’s job. I guess I have to dwell on the “it could be worse” part.
So glad you had a great time with family over the weekend!!!
Love that you had some quality adult time as well as time with the kids.
Hooray for being able to run without pain!!!
And, I’m right there with you on the sad thing. I think it is way overused and should be saved for things that really make you sad – like one of my really good blog friends who brought her husband home from the hospital on Friday on hospice – that makes me sad!!!
YES that is horribly sad. I know people just use it to sound nicer but it’s not working.
Thanks Kim and I’m sorry about your (blog) friend.
Sounds like a great week! Did you lose power from the storm? My family in NH did, but you may be a little bit too far south? We went to a friend’s house for dinner. The first time in 8 years I did NOT host Thanksgiving and it was glorious! Then I was repaid by getting a 104 degree fever for 72 hours. Fun times 🙂
Luckily we did not lose power! My dad has a generator so we would have all been at his house if that happened.
That is awesome you didn’t have to host the main event but so awful you got sick. I saw a pic of you on FB with a mask and a minion cake and I was like ‘what the hell?’ You are a trooper mama! Hope you’re feeling all better.
Haha, yea, my oldest kept telling Reid that it was his birthday and I had promised him a cake….I couldn’t let him down! Popped some ibuprofen, let my fever come down and made that darn cake!
You have now achieved hero mom status!
No, no…not at all. I have to make up for all of the yelling I do :/
So glad to hear that your hamstring is feeling better and yay for a great week of runs! OMG so much indulging this week and not much moving (traveling, sick – again!). Can’t wait to see what you have in store for 2015 in terms of goals and I’m excited to cheer you on!
Thanks Christine! I know you’re traveling and not feeling great but I’ve been loving all your yoga pose pics with the kids!!
Sounds like you had a great holiday! I love that you got to cycle while your kiddos played. Awesomeness! BTW, they are so adorable!
Thank you! It was total awesomeness that they weren’t fighting or otherwise getting into trouble. 🙂
I really love that you eat AND train with wild abandon.
Glad you had a good Thanksgiving!
It’s the only way to live!
Great week of workouts over the holidays! I’m glad you are able to run pain free for a bit! I was thinking about pulling my trainer out this week too. Maybe I will 🙂 Your family Thanksgiving workouts sounded great! Happy December! xo
It’s kind of sad but I had a great workout on it so I got over not being outside pretty fast.
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving too!! xoxoxo
You are SUCH A BEAST AND I LOVE IT!!!!!! You make me look like a pathetic pussy cat. AH HA AH!
And um, I have a feeling you didn’t eat Kangaroo last week?
What I do at the gym, you do in the kitchen! You are a foodie super hero!!!!
Kanga – what?????
I totally indulged in shopping and food over the thanksgiving holiday. So yummy! and I have Lauren’s journal for postpartum goals! Can’t wait to dig into it.
That is awesome!! Can’t wait to see what 2015 will bring for you 🙂