Happy Monday! My remarkably good mood continues!
I've decided to move the start of my week to Tuesday, because I always end up weighing that day anyway to allow my weekend (over)eating to fully exit the system. So this week will have an extra day, and the next weigh-in/workout stats will be posted on Tuesday 3/22.
I did well this week, even getting less carried away with the weekend food than usual. It helped that the weekend was utterly consumed by shopping...first the furniture on Friday, then a car on Saturday, and a trip to Sam's on Sunday. You don't want to know how much money changed hands. I don't even want to know. But big purchases happen every March (aka, bonus time)...I get a little giddy when my checking account expands about 400% overnight.
We hadn't really planned on buying the car, but Rob's been driving the same 6-year-old truck for...well, 6 years I guess. We were trying to wait it out another year, but there was a brake problem coming home on Friday...another in a long series of mechanical issues over the past year. Since we were in a position to make a decent down payment, we traded in the old money pit truck for another C0rolla. We have two car payments again, but it's no big deal. I'm glad Rob finally has something new. He almost never spends money on himself. While it's nice to have one semi-frugal person in the family, I always feel sort of guilty that I make about one third of the household income and manage to spend 2/3 of it. :)
Anyway, with all the shopping and driving around, I didn't think about eating much. I didn't really think about drinking much either, though, and I can feel it just like I do every Monday...dry eyes, messed up skin, tight wedding rings. My body likes its water, and rebels when it doesn't get it.
I did get to the gym twice over the weekend. The spinning class was full when I got there at 6:50 Saturday, so I changed my shoes and hopped on the precor for 45 minutes instead. On Sunday, I did the C25k Week 4 workout on the treadmill. It was too hot to do it outside...I haven't really been doing outdoor training in temps over 70 degrees, and it was in the low 80s yesterday. To minimize my treadmill knee problems, I didn't set an incline at all (I usually put it on 1%) and ran at 4.8-5.0 mph instead of 5.0-5.5 mph. My shins complained at me a little, but my knees feel okay today.
According to my HRM, my total workout time this week was 4:41:08, total calorie burn of 2486. Not too shabby.
And now, for the music. I've decided to go on to week 5 of the program this week. I was originally planning on doing every week twice, but since week 4 is very similar to the workout I was doing the week before I started C25K, I'm going to count that as two weeks @ Week 4. So that makes this week 5.
Week 5 has three distinct workouts, so I'm going to be posting three playlists this week. For the sake of disk space and bandwidth, I'm only going to post one playlist at a time, and the files for the previous playlist will be removed when the new one is posted. Ready? Okay!
Playlist for C25K week 5, workout #1:
In the Middle, In the Middle, In the Middle - They Might Be Giants (1:15, warm-up walk)
No One Like You - David Crowder Band (3:54, warm-up walk)
Lose Yourself - Eminem (5:20, run)
Accidentally In Love - Counting Crows (3:08, walk)
Oh, Goddamnit - Hot Hot Heat (2:28, run)
Dream Vacation - Gear Daddies (2:36, run)
This Old Town - Nanci Griffith (3:00, walk)
I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones (2:29, run)
Punk Rock Girl - Dead Milkmen (2:38, run)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (5:08, cooldown walk)
Right-click, save-target-as, you know the drill.
Yeah, some of these are repeats...but like I say--I have my favorites. In making this playlist, I realized that I don't have a whole lot of upbeat 5-minute songs, but I do have a collection of 2 1/2 minute songs. I decided to double those up for the running intervals, so it's walk 2 songs/run 1/walk 1/run 2/walk 1/run 2/walk. I should have probably made the first run interval two songs also, for consistency, but I couldn't find another two songs that jumped out at me. So Eminem it is. The same doubling-up happens in Workout #2, with the 8-minute run intervals. Different songs, of course.
Posted by Joy at March 14, 2005 10:40 AM