Lowest weigh-in in almost two years. Rock.

This week has been outstanding, aside from dealing with the pain in my calves. I took Wednesday as my day off this week since my legs really needed the rest. I pushed myself during last night's run harder than I did on Tuesday and it shows today on my body. Before weight-lifting this afternoon, I'm going to do a few minutes on the elliptical machine or something else that's low-impact.

I'm getting more and more excited about the Solider Field 10. I like that I'm finally pushing myself a little harder, to take on a really big challenge like this. I have no idea if I'm really going to be ready for something like this in two months, but I'm giving it my best shot. I've never done a race that's this long, though I've attempted. Training looked good for the half-marathon back in 2004 until I screwed up my knee. I'm being careful now to do all of the stretching I should have done three years ago so as to not repeat the same mistakes.

Besides. I'm on a tight budget and I'm not letting the $40 entrance fee go to waste.

I had dinner at my friend Jen's last night and she just introduced me to what may be the most awesomest thing ever - Whole Foods prepared shrimp. This is probably a no-brainer to everyone else but me, but I never tend to venture to their quasi-prepared meals counter because the items either seemed overpriced or I'm at WF for a specific purpose. Plus, I cook so I never think much about such things.

Anyway, Jen tells me that two skewers of these meaty, large, marinated shrimp (at six shrimp a skewer) are only $2 each. EACH. Do you know how stupidly cheap that is? And when you consider how much it would cost you to buy the prep, let alone the shrimp, which I never buy because I can never go through them fast enough to make it work it! I have a WF directly across the street from my gym, and popping in there for a couple of these things on the way home will be a snap.

Yay for convenience foods!

Posted by Erin at 08:03 AM | filed under: Weigh in