A Lot of Updates - sorry!

Friday Workout Wrap-Up: No More Trouble Zones (and crying- this never gets easier!) + run home from work
Saturday Workout Wrap-Up: Final Evolution Class (Spring Edition)
Sunday Workout Wrap-Up: Played Catch
Monday Workout Wrap-Up: Softball Game
Tuesday Workout Wrap-Up: 2 mile interval run
Wednesday Workout Wrap-Up: 35 min lower body + rolling


Holy Cow! I can't believe its been almost a week since my last update.  There has been a lot going on and this week has flown by!  Thank goodness, since it's a 4 day week for me, and anytime you know you have a day off from work coming up, the week usually CRAWLS by.

The weekend started off with my final Evolution class. They made the last one nice and challenging.  During this second round of class they have added in a lot more running drills and moving about the class which I really like. The space is on the small side, but they do a great job making it work.  Not to mention, as the class goes on people dropped out.  I was surprised by the end how many seemed to disappear! I also found out that I was the only person who used all of their free classes.  With this series, in addition to the 3 days of class, you got a bonus class to take whatever you wanted.  I went every week  - I paid for it, I'm going!

At the end of class we did our final assessments. I am happy to report I lost another 12 pounds over those 4 weeks.  Plus many more inches - top to bottom.  As soon as I get my final numbers chart emailed to me I will post.

Later on Saturday I got together with a couple friends to paint.  We decided on a picture one of them had recently taken on a trip to Ireland and got creative.

All of our pretty Irish sheep!

Sunday was Easter and I had plans to spend the afternoon at my friends Korey and Cherrisse's.  I was making lasagna to share.  I started the sauce and meatballs on Saturday night - it was smelling awesome.

Before heading over to their house my roomie and I met Korey to play catch in the park for a bit.  Monday was going to be our first softball game of the year, so we figured we better shake some of the rust off.  

It was nice to throw the ball around a bit and hit too.  Definitely rusty though!  After about a half hour or so of playing we had to call it quits...not because of rain but because I took a line drive to the leg.  It was one of those things that happens so fast but yet in slow motion and there is nothing you can do about it. It hurt pretty bad, but I think mostly because of the shock.

WARNING!! If you are easily grossed out - do not look at the picture below.(or if you are my Mom)  I will preface it with the fact that I bruise incredibly easy - so it looks a heck of a lot worse that it feels.

After icing the leg and putting my lasagna together and int he over it was time to head over to K & C's place for dinner and games with friends.

Delicious Dinner Spread

There was so much food - my picture captures only like half of it.  There was ham, my lasagna, potatoes, breads, cookies, beet salad and Rolos sandwiched between Ritz crackers.  Those went like crack - good work Donnie!

Monday was my first softball game.  The temp throughout the day dropped A LOT and it was realllllly windy and cold during the game.  We played against a team that was super fast and seemed to hit everything - so it was basically a good practice for us :)

I got a hit and also made the best play I think I ever have in the history of me playing softball.  So, lucky me!   It was good to catch up with old teammates and even better to get compliments like "you are looking skinny!" and "You look great, I had to do a double take!"  Everyone loves hearing those kinds of things!

If you haven't lost interest yet - I will continue to blab on for a few more paragraphs!  Tuesday I started my half marathon official training.  I suck at following plans and usually just wing it - so I found a nice 5 week plan - which I am turning into a 4 week plan :)

Week	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Sunday
1	2 Mile Fartlek*	Lower Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	2 Mile With Hills	Upper Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	Run 7 Miles
2	2 Mile Fartlek	Lower Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	2 Mile With Hills	Upper Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	Run 8 Miles
3	2.5 Mile Fartlek	Lower Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	2.5 Mile With Hills	Upper Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	Run 9 Miles
4	3 Mile Fartlek	Lower Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	3 Mile With Hills	Upper Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	Run 9 Miles
5	3.5 Mile Fartlek	Lower Body Strength W/ Foam Rolling	3.5 Mile With Hills	Rest and Foam Roll	Race 13.1 Miles

*Fartlek is Swedish for “speed play.” That means you include three to six faster paced intervals per session ranging from 10 seconds to 2 minutes.

I got my 2 miles of intervals in and was surprised how hard they actually are.  I didn't wear a Garmin so my the end of my run I had know idea if I was running a 9 min mile or like a 15 min mile...it felt like the latter.

The training continued today with my lower body strength which was a combo of a lot of the leg work and barre work from the gym plus this video from Tone It Up!

Tomorrow I attack the hills at Patterson Park!