Not drinking soda is way less exciting to write about. :p
The push-up challenge is going well. I'm two weeks in and just retested and can now do 30 in a row versus my initial 12, so that's pretty cool.
Still running; trying to prep for an 8k next month. On Saturday I ran a 5k at 11 minutes per mile so I'm feeling decent about my pace.
And that's your Tuesday update!
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
You know you have a dependency when...
You dream about drinking soda... :P
Almost halfway done! Although I don't know how much soda I'll go back to drinking when I am done. I've been really hydrated these last two weeks and it really is a ton of calories and sugar cut from my diet.
Almost halfway done! Although I don't know how much soda I'll go back to drinking when I am done. I've been really hydrated these last two weeks and it really is a ton of calories and sugar cut from my diet.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Life (Or a Month) Without Soda
So here we are, just about a quarter of the way through February, and I have not touched a drop of soda yet. It's definitely been tough, and although I still get gobs of caffeine (oh how I love it) through coffee, I've had some strong jonsings for sweet sweet carbonated sugar water. Overall though it's been going well, and really all I drink now is water, coffee and some beer; I had a some cran-rasberry juice on Tuesday and I think that was the first thing to break the big three's stranglehold.
One thing that was me pretty excited is the fact I went running for the first time on Tuesday since January ended, and I was able to do two miles straight at under eleven minutes per mile. I really did just need a couple days to rebuild muscles and now I'm pushing out the best times I've had in quite a while.
In an amusing quirk, I was planning on doing push-ups every day in March, but a buddy on Facebook posted up looking for people to do the 100 Push-Up Challenge with him, so I'm getting a bit of an early start on my March stuff. Three days a week now I'm doing increasing sets of push-ups, with the eventual goal of being able to do one hundred in a row. Day two was completed yesterday, and it was easier than day one, so.... yay!
One thing that was me pretty excited is the fact I went running for the first time on Tuesday since January ended, and I was able to do two miles straight at under eleven minutes per mile. I really did just need a couple days to rebuild muscles and now I'm pushing out the best times I've had in quite a while.
In an amusing quirk, I was planning on doing push-ups every day in March, but a buddy on Facebook posted up looking for people to do the 100 Push-Up Challenge with him, so I'm getting a bit of an early start on my March stuff. Three days a week now I'm doing increasing sets of push-ups, with the eventual goal of being able to do one hundred in a row. Day two was completed yesterday, and it was easier than day one, so.... yay!
Friday, February 1, 2013
January In Review
Whelp. First things first; I made it all thirty days in a row, running every day. Second, my legs are veeeery excited for the break.
In retrospect, so far the weirdest thing for me was coming home this evening and realizing I don't have to go out running tonight. In just a month it's become so ingrained into me that that was my baseline expectation for how my evening would go. I think this will have been a nice jump-start to get me back into running and I can definitely see myself going multiple times a week, although I'm going to shoot for fewer runs but longer distance; need to start getting ready for Tough Mudder!
Now for some interesting stats from January:
Total Miles: 40.38
Total Time: 9:03:34
Average Pace: 13:27
Approximate Calories Burned: 4342
My average pace was definitely lacking in this. The first part of the month started off very strong, and I'd mix in some 'let's see how fast I can do a mile' runs, but I really needed a rest day toward the end of the month and my lagging pace reflected that. That aside, I'm pretty happy with just over 40 miles run. Out of everyone I'm friends with on Nike+, that barely squeaked me into most run miles for the month. (Booyah Peter!)
The calories burned are of interest also. 4342 is a rather abstract number, so I like how my cousin Sharon views it, in number of beers burned off. In this case I burned off almost twenty nine beers in the course of the month! Or, I basically made up for two full days of eating by running. Not too shabby I'd say.
This experience has been empowering and I'm feeling solid about rolling into my February challenge of zero soda or energy drinks. Based on some very rough napkin math, I'll probably be cutting out about 600-800 empty calories a day plus a ton of sugar.
One twelfth of the way done!
In retrospect, so far the weirdest thing for me was coming home this evening and realizing I don't have to go out running tonight. In just a month it's become so ingrained into me that that was my baseline expectation for how my evening would go. I think this will have been a nice jump-start to get me back into running and I can definitely see myself going multiple times a week, although I'm going to shoot for fewer runs but longer distance; need to start getting ready for Tough Mudder!
Now for some interesting stats from January:
Total Miles: 40.38
Total Time: 9:03:34
Average Pace: 13:27
Approximate Calories Burned: 4342
My average pace was definitely lacking in this. The first part of the month started off very strong, and I'd mix in some 'let's see how fast I can do a mile' runs, but I really needed a rest day toward the end of the month and my lagging pace reflected that. That aside, I'm pretty happy with just over 40 miles run. Out of everyone I'm friends with on Nike+, that barely squeaked me into most run miles for the month. (Booyah Peter!)
The calories burned are of interest also. 4342 is a rather abstract number, so I like how my cousin Sharon views it, in number of beers burned off. In this case I burned off almost twenty nine beers in the course of the month! Or, I basically made up for two full days of eating by running. Not too shabby I'd say.
This experience has been empowering and I'm feeling solid about rolling into my February challenge of zero soda or energy drinks. Based on some very rough napkin math, I'll probably be cutting out about 600-800 empty calories a day plus a ton of sugar.
One twelfth of the way done!
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