Week 5... of 24

I'm going to try to get better about posting the same day, but it's tough.  With training and fundraising, I feel like I have no time left.  For example, I got off work at 6pm today, went to a group run, came home, made dinner, ate, cleaned up and by then it was 9:30.  Sheesh, so much for doing anything else.  I think I'm going to try to run in the mornings.  As I've discussed before, I am Not a morning person. However, I would really like to have a little free time in the evenings, so it might be worth the trade.

Today was my first run in over a week, due to my foot 'injury'.  I also spent 5 of those days in Chicago and didn't run there either.  I was really looking forward to running in a new city, but I wanted to save money on luggage so I packed a small backpack for 5 days of travel and I didn't want to give up precious cargo space for my running shoes.  Or so the excuse goes.

It was a hot one out today!  95 degrees and really really humid.  Not a good sign for the future, counting it's only May!!  We met the team around 6:30.  The girls and I decided to run down to the lake and back as our 2 miles, rather than the circular laps the rest of our team completed.  I'm so glad Kate brought water!!  I tried to drink more water today than usual, but after the first mile I thought I was going to pass out.  We had to stop once or twice, but I'm not sure I would've made it without that water.  There were more people than usual out with the team today.  Everyone was friendly and encouraging.  I'm interested to see how relationships change through this training season - making friends, people dropping out, people you didn't like at first, but end up getting close to... all the things that come with pushing yourself through this type of training.

For dinner, I made brown rice with chicken.  It was delish.  I cooked garlic, onions, chicken, and zuccini in a pan, then covered it with onion/garlic flavored diced tomatoes, some tomato sauce and Mrs. Dash seasoning.  Yum!  I also cooked salmon for tomorrow's dinner and made salad with crab meat for tomorrow's lunch.  I've been reading that we're supposed to increase carbohydrate intake.  As someone who tries to stick to low carbs, this is going to be 'different'.  Tonights meal was a success, I'm now very satisfiedly full and have leftovers for Friday.  I've also added a banana, apple, oatmeal, and nuts to tomorrows snack pack.  Oh and Kate and I swallowed whole garlic tonight.  She said it's supposed to help our immune system.  I'm not so sure, but I love garlic, so I didn't mind.

Now it's 11pm and I feel like all I've accomplished for the day is work, running, eating and this blog.  I still need to work on the flyers for our Bowl-a-Thon and write a fundraising letter to put in the mail, both of which are supposed to be out by Friday.  How to people handle it as the distances get longer????  It will all have to wait... I'm going to sleep.