Columbus day adventures

I spent most of the "long" weekend at Newton Wellesely Hospital working, but I did get to go over to a friends house on Sunday night, enjoyed my weekend Wine, watched scary movies and had a sleep over.

The intention had been to go to Crossfit Monday morning, but I made Sunday my one day for drinking alcohol and sleeping on a friends couch after being up until 2 am watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" I shockingly did not make it.

It was a gorgeous fall day out so, my mother-in-law, the puppies and I went on a hike to Raven’s Woods. Her dog, Louie, the shih tzu, however, was not feeling it, and decided to hang back in the car. So Alina, Leo and I took on a nice loop!

Leo in his nice new sweat shirt

My Mother-in-law, Alina

Thank god for those blue dots marking the way! We almost got lost a few times.

I did not get in an official WOD, but we did get in a nice hike of about 4 miles.

 

Later that evening, Leo was apparently spoiled and refused to go on a walk around the neighborhood and he kept insisting on waiting y my car so we took a trip to Good Harbor Beach which turns into a giant dog park in the non-summer months.

Leo made friends with a few other dogs on the way.

It was great to be able to go out and enjoy the weather while its still nice and 'crisp' out but not quite cold!

How was your Colombus day? Did you get a long weekend or get to do anything fun?

Goal setting for October

Last night I went to crossfit at Ironspider Crossfit in Salem. We did:

Strength:
Deadlifts: 115# 5 sets of 3 reps
Skill:
Handstand wall walk ups
WOD:
5 rounds of:
15 hand release push ups
10 kettlebell swings (20#)
5 back squats (45#)
Time: 12:27 minutes
Tonight my plan is to try out hot yoga for the first time… I am not sure if it is actually Bikram or not- but we shall see! I am hoping I will make it- it is variable if I will make it based on which train I can get on after work and if it actually runs on time.
In a quest to be more healthy I am setting a few goals.
Nutrition:

• Only drink alcoholic beverages 1 time a week (bye, bye wine with dinner…)

• Practice more mindful eating. Think, “Am I hungry?”
Activity:

• Goal to walk at least 4 miles a day

• Work out at least 4 days a week.

Do you have any goals you are working on? What keeps you motivated?

This weeks planned activities include:
Crossfit Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and Yoga on Tuesday.

Map My Run

I have again been a horrible blogging slacker!

But without further ado-

Several things have occured: I turned 22, I moved to Cambridge, ... and that might be it?

Tonight is Friday Night, as of course as your standard 22 year old, I had a wild night planned! O wait- thats right- I work at 7 am.
So instead of wild parties- I decided to go for a nice little run.

I ran from central square, down Main Street in Cambridge, over by MGH, over the esplanade to Cambridge Street, and down prospect street.

I went about 5 miles, which for me is quite good. I'm not much of a runner. I have a lot of friends that are crazy runners, one of my old roommates was a marathoner so I became a bit disillusioned to what was actually a good distance to run, since she would be like, "O it was my light day, I only ran 10 miles..." and I would be so proud of myself for finally running 3 miles in a row haha. But We all have our own things. I am generally more of a gym person and like more variety - I love group exercise classes! but alas, my gym membership with BU expired, and now that I've moved its not in the most convenient location for me. I'll probably try out a gym around here eventually but for now I guess i can stick to running.

I like to use the website mapmyrun.com to plot out routes and see how far I go (also because I have absolutely no sense of direction and would inevitably get horribly lost without any sort of mapping tool.

Its also convenient just for mapping various distances, such as I've mapped how far my general walks are such as when I lived in Allston it was about 0.4 miles from my apartment to the T stop, and it was 0.6 miles from MGH to government center, so I knew on days I worked I generally got in at least 2 miles of walking from my commute, so I didn't feel quite as bad about sitting at my desk in front of a computer for 10 hours straight.

It also lets you save your routes, check out other routes people in the area have saved, look at races in the area, and calculate rough estimates on calories burned etc. Its a pretty nifty site, I suggest ya'll check it out if you have not already.

Do any of you guys use other mapping/ calculating of exercise tools?