I love body glide!!!

So I was having some chafing issues.....well this body glides stuff REALLY WORKS!!!!! So thankful for it!

8 miles is my favorite and I hauled ass!!!!

Not really sure why, but I like an 8 mile run the best! I dropped back down, because 10 miles really roughed up my knees last week (and because my gym was closing early and I did not have enough time to run 10 miles), I find that 8 miles makes me feel great but does not leave me limping away from the treadmill. Yes I am still running inside---it is wayyyy to cold and windy at the beach to start running outside. Hopefully in a couple of weeks it will start to be nice. I am starting to do some more lunges/squats and exercises that strengthen your quads---I read that helps support your knees. I think Ill call my cousin, a physical therapist, to see if she can recommend any. That all being said, I hauled ass today during my run to get it finished by closing time (and still have time to cool down and stretch) and I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to keep a faster pace for extended periods of time. So I am going to try and push myself harder with speed. It is still not that fast compared to many who run....but I was very proud to run 8 miles in 78 minutes and 32 sec. ( : That is with about 5-7 min of easy jogging at a slow speed. If I nixed that warm up I would have been faster.

Im especially hungry today and ate my usual sunday reward for running long and hard....egg, cheese and bacon on an english muffin from quick chek and Starbucks skim white mocha (didnt finish the latte though), and now I am just rehydrating and still unfortunately hungry. Which is weird because I am usually less hungry on running days....I dont know.

I am trying to be a good updater!

Ok, so after acheiving my 10 mile (run) goal last Sunday....I was in PAIN!!! My knees. So I am working on strengthening my quads again to support the knees and using knee supports. ( ; I took a break from running (just did weights and eliptical, walking on incline) until Thursday...Thursday I ran 4 miles, and did legs, felt good, but legs so sore from squats!!!!! Today ran a little over 4.5 miles and did the eliptical. I ate pretty healthy today---mostly because I was busy today and took a nap from 4pm to about 6:30....love me a good nap!! Had a nice big salad tonight with homemade low fat blue cheese dressing. yummy and some pinot grigio. Tomorrow no running and Sunday just 8 miles.

I am a blog slacker!

So I am a totaly blog slacker with school and all, but I did a major update on my cooking blog:

http://skinnybitchininthekitchen.blogspot.com/

and I just wanted to tell you a little about what I have been up to: RUNNING! Over the past 10 or so weeks I have been gradually building up to 10 miles, which I finished today!!! I will post my training soon. I am having some knee issues, so I will not be running until Friday. But Ill keep doing my reg. exercise. I am doing the Jersey Shore Relay on April 19th. The leg that I am running is 6.58 miles (along the beach on the boardwalk mostly--yay!) but I think if I feel ok at the end of that I will run with my hubby for his leg (3.5 miles). I am excited, it will be my first race.