Congrats Shan!

My weekend was busy as always, but fun. Friday night was low key; stayed in and watched a movie and ate leftover Chinese. Saturday we ran around all morning and went to the pumpkin patch.

Oh! This is a great place to ask the question I've been thinking about. So in KY we drive out to the country to the pumpkin patch this time of year. We take a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch, pick out the pumpkins, buy the pumpkins, maybe buy some apples, go to the petting zoo, there are corn mazes, etc. Is this a regional thing? Just curious. Everyone in my Facebook newsfeed is going to the pumpkin patch, but the majority of my friends live around here.....

Yeah, so after the pumpkin patch we can home and walked up to our fourth consecutive weekend festival with some friends and their kids. Went to bed pretty early. Spent yesterday mostly relaxing. We met a friend for brunch (found our new fave brunch place!), I did a quick grocery trip, and then walked up to Cyclouvia, which is where they close a major road (that happens to be at the end of our street) to vehicular traffic from 2-6pm Sunday and there's all kinds of stuff going on. We met some family and got pizza. I also ate a bunch of potato nachos with cheese and bacon. So I had a rather terrible dinner.

I did manage to get about 20 minutes of yoga yesterday and a good amount of walking in over the weekend. I thought about lifting, but just didn't feel like it. Again, I seem to be appreciating my downtime more and more and would rather do a puzzle or read or watch TV during my 2ish hours of free time during nap time on Saturdays and Sundays.

My plan for the week is class Tuesday, lift during lunch Wednesday and try to get some walking in while we're out of town. Mom and I will probably walk around the complex Saturday while the guys golf. There's a gym at the clubhouse too, so I could go down and lift if I wanted to, which I may. Or I may choose to be lazy. We'll see. Only a 3 day work week for me then we head to the mountains! Woo hoo! Have a great week all.

Happy Monday everyone!

Better - they do pumpkin patches and mazes here too but it isn't quite the same. On our drive up the coast this weekend I did see huge pumpkin patches where you can go into the field and pick a pumpkin along with the hay rides and mazes - much more like I was used to in Idaho and have seen in other parts of the country.

Abigail - your pumpkin festival sounds like so much fun as does the cider press party!

We don't see as much of the community activities here - I think it is just too urban and everyone is so wrapped up in their own lives. We feel fortunate to have a pretty close neighborhood where everyone knows each other and our neighborhood is not the norm (sad but true but I know too many people here who have never even met their neighbors). We tend to do more in the summer with BBQs and swimming or at Christmas. It is also still really hot here and no one is feeling too much like fall so that could be part of it too.

I went out for a short recovery walk/run this morning and feel so much better - I was so stiff this morning. I am still pretty sore but plan to spend some time really stretching and rolling out on the foam roller.
My goals for the next two weeks are:
1) recover from this half and get ready for the next (run 4 days this week and taper next)
2) drink more water
3) get more sleep/get to bed earlier - none of this staying up until midnight playing on the computer...
4) stretch, stretch, stretch

Have a great week!

Hi guys! My name's Tiffany. I am new to this group and have been trying to lose weight for a long time. I weigh 145 and want to lose 10 pounds by the end of the month. Is this possible?

Two week goal: 3 cardio per week, 2 hikes per week, good food, drop 3 lbs. have fun!

Also....i can't log on to "groups" from my phone....so f$cking annoying!

I only get a silver star this week....forgive me, thanksgiving had to happen....

Hey ladies. I had pilates last night which I missed last week and I can tell! My shoulders are super sore today....good stuff. The class was great last night. Some things are getting really hard for me, but others are still making me feel great. I'm still loving the class. I don't think I'll sign up for the next 8 weeks as they would fall between 30-38 weeks of pregnancy, but I may drop in from time to time.

So sh*tty news....our house was broken into yesterday so I've been kind of consumed with that. Thye kicked in our basement door and took a laptop and 2 tablets, so not a ton of stuff. We suspect it was one of the workers as they seemed to know exactly what they were going for. I was mad and worried about the safety of my house, but I've decided I just have to get over that because living in fear is no way to live. Needless to say, we are setting our alarm everyday now, which we used to do religiously but have not been since we have people in and out of our house to work daily sometimes. Our general contractor will be letting all workers in from here on out. So the alarm system does give me at least some sense of security.

I'm off to the mountains tomorrow so catch you all next week. Have a great weekend!

Hi ladies - quick checkin. I had a long weekend and am playing catch up today. Ashley - so scary about the break-in... try and and enjoy your vacation.

I'll be back later today!

Ashley - It is terrible having your house broken into! Ours was many years ago and that feeling of having your space violated lasted a long time. In our case the kid was in our house for several hours while we were at work and he took so many things, not a lot of value but important to us. He also took and used a credit card and we only discovered it when we got a bill. Definitely keep that alarm on and I would also make sure the general contractor knows what happened.
Amy - what is the Scream Scram? The name sounds fun whatever it is!
Beeps - Happy Thanksgiving Canada style!

I was exhausted yesterday evidenced when I went to train and hit muscle failure on things I have been doing for a long time Got to bed early last night and feel much better today so I am going for a nice recovery run... I have to get ready for my next half a week from this Sunday. Kind of wishing I had never agreed to run it but my nephew is so excited to run it with me

There have only been 3 check ins for the star challenge and one of those was mine... I am not going to post the sheet this week.

Happy Hump Day!

Better: I would put a post on Craig's list saying what was stolen and if anyone was selling them, you had non-proprietary tracking software on it to deter buyers

I have been horrible We had a 4 day weekend and I didn't track and other than my long run on Saturday, no exercise...and I ate and ate and ate. Yesterday I went to the store and bought salad mixings and more smoothie stuff...I need a reset. Mom called and let me know that friends were coming to HI an were wanting to meet up...my first thought was OMG, they will see how fat I have gotten. Such a sad state of mind to be in.

So this morning I had my smoothie, not sure what is for lunch and plan another smoothie for dinner since hubby is going out star-gazing and I have my running club.

PT test is next Friday and I am mildly panicking about it, I still haven't made it to the track to see how fast I can run. I can run 15 miles no prob, but I don't know if I can run 1.5 in less than 13 min? Does that translate somehow. My push-ups are still weak. I had my second appt at occupational therapy and they are convinced it is tendonitis from an overuse injury and b/c I have full mobility of the joint, it can't be my broken arm. *sniff*

Ok, back to work. The computer trolls are busy today and everyone is having issues so it is fun times!