Another week gone by and another weekend to flash before my eyes. After I got on the scale the other day it was an awakening - up 5 pounds! what? well, I know what - eating and drinking all the wrong things even though I am exercising. So, my goal for September 25:
Lose the 5 pounds
Work on running endurance so I can run the September 25th 5K without walking (as much)
That means I have to start journaling all my food, start making better choices, and drinking more water. So far on Day #3 things are going well. The bad part is the weekend is coming, and I tend to "forget" to journal and eat well and drink water. None of that any more.
Tomorrow another get-together and that means not stuffing my face; a long walk with Romeo (at least an hour); Sunday a riding lesson.
I've run outside for more days this past week than I have in the last month. The heat wave finally broke and it is really nice outside. I have already made headway into my not-walking the 5K goal by pushing myself to keep running. I'm letting my mind take over and tell me I should walk when there is no good reason to. Baby steps, baby steps. I'll get there one day.
Still working on the Christmas shawl, but it is getting longer. Pretty soon I'll have to get a bigger bag for it. It's long but not long enough to wrap around both shoulders. I believe I'm only halfway there. Like running, can't let my mind psych me out! I have to keep truding on.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Friday, At Last!
Why is it some weeks fly by like nobody's business and other weeks seem to want to be around forever? Monday is a drag, and on and on, but when I get to Thursday, I am always thinking it's Friday. What is up with that? I've come to the conclusion that I should be working a 4-day work week with 5-day work week pay. It's hard enough to get up on Mondays, but Friday mornings are even worse because I've been looking forward to the weekend for ever so long.
I pulled a muscle in my shoulder (must have been those really, really heavy weights - 30 pounds at least!), and I'm not sure if I'll be able to do anything today. I wanted to run, if even on the TM (weather is still hot around here), so I'll have to see if the sore muscle interferes with it. Obviously, no upper body workout today. No sense in making what is sore even worse. then, heaven forbid, I would not be able to ride on Sunday. Can't take any chances!
Yesterday I received an email from Twist Collective, an online knitting magazine, with an errata sheet and a new version of a pattern that I had purchased a little while ago. The first correction wasn't too bad, but the second correction had a lot of instructions left out. I printed out the new pattern, went through it and circled all the instructions for my size. So fortunate that I didn't start it, yet, but I doubt I would have been that far along, anyway.
Still working on the Christmas-gift shawl. I checked my yarn, and I discovered that I have used only 6 skeins of yarn. That means I'm only halfway through my yarn. Yikes! I have a very long way to go. It is an easy pattern, thankfully. The worst part is the blocking of it. I know I don't have any place in my house that will be big enough to block it. I may have to go to Betty's house and use her kitchen counter.
Mitten? What Mitten? It's still sitting there staring at me and telling me that I was really stupid for using such big needles. Why didn't you use the no. 1s as you knew you should have? Why did you go ahead and knit them anyway? Well, the answer is I was so excited about getting them started, that I threw caution to the wind (and my common sense) and started. They do look nice, but ........ oh, well. I shall have to make a note to myself that the next time I am overcome with starting a project with the wrong sized needles to walk away slowly and remember what I did to myself with these mittens.
Saturday: picnic/BBQ; Sunday: riding lesson; maybe work on my Halloween costume. or not. Maybe start my new sweater coat; maybe go to the grocery store; maybe just veg on the couch with Romeo. So many possibilities.
Dave's knee is slowly getting better. He's even walking a bit without cane or crutches. By the end of the day, his knee is tired, but the good news is it's finally healing up.
I pulled a muscle in my shoulder (must have been those really, really heavy weights - 30 pounds at least!), and I'm not sure if I'll be able to do anything today. I wanted to run, if even on the TM (weather is still hot around here), so I'll have to see if the sore muscle interferes with it. Obviously, no upper body workout today. No sense in making what is sore even worse. then, heaven forbid, I would not be able to ride on Sunday. Can't take any chances!
Yesterday I received an email from Twist Collective, an online knitting magazine, with an errata sheet and a new version of a pattern that I had purchased a little while ago. The first correction wasn't too bad, but the second correction had a lot of instructions left out. I printed out the new pattern, went through it and circled all the instructions for my size. So fortunate that I didn't start it, yet, but I doubt I would have been that far along, anyway.
Still working on the Christmas-gift shawl. I checked my yarn, and I discovered that I have used only 6 skeins of yarn. That means I'm only halfway through my yarn. Yikes! I have a very long way to go. It is an easy pattern, thankfully. The worst part is the blocking of it. I know I don't have any place in my house that will be big enough to block it. I may have to go to Betty's house and use her kitchen counter.
Mitten? What Mitten? It's still sitting there staring at me and telling me that I was really stupid for using such big needles. Why didn't you use the no. 1s as you knew you should have? Why did you go ahead and knit them anyway? Well, the answer is I was so excited about getting them started, that I threw caution to the wind (and my common sense) and started. They do look nice, but ........ oh, well. I shall have to make a note to myself that the next time I am overcome with starting a project with the wrong sized needles to walk away slowly and remember what I did to myself with these mittens.
Saturday: picnic/BBQ; Sunday: riding lesson; maybe work on my Halloween costume. or not. Maybe start my new sweater coat; maybe go to the grocery store; maybe just veg on the couch with Romeo. So many possibilities.
Dave's knee is slowly getting better. He's even walking a bit without cane or crutches. By the end of the day, his knee is tired, but the good news is it's finally healing up.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Another Show, More Stress
Well, I have decided to do a "Short Course" show at Loch Moy in September. This is like an eventing show, but with only one jumping course, which starts with stadium jumps in the field, leads to regular xc jumps and returning back over some more stadium jumps. There is a dressage test to do first, then just the one jumping course. Who knows if I'll ever remember which way to go! I'm already hyperventilating! ha!
We are going to our friend's son's house for his annual summer BBQ. Not a big event, but it's still nice he invites us. He usually has a great variety of people there, so it's not just all young people - like in their 30s.
Sunday is a riding lesson at Cathy's; the next Sunday is xc schooling, The show is the 12th of September. I should give Cathy my paycheck - enough of it goes to her every month.
I'm still plugging away at the shawl I'm making as a Christmas gift. It is easy, but I don't think I'm even halfway through it. The mittens I started have to be ripped out! boo! They are way too big for me, and so I know they will be too big for Cathy's hands. Oh, well, that's the life of a knitter. Can't tell you how many projects I have had to start over, not just once, or twice, but sometimes three times. Once I get to four times, that project is FROGGED!
I also bought a pattern for a nice wool coat that goes down to the knees and has a really nice big-cabled collar. The pattern is a lot of st st and could be boring, but it will all be worth it once I get to the collar. At least I hope so!
Either it's been too hot and now today it's raining like crazy, so no running outside. Ugh! I'm getting really tired of the TM. It's wearing me down! The ellipitcal is worse! Not as many calories burned, and it takes so long to burn anything nowadays, anyway.
That's it for now.
We are going to our friend's son's house for his annual summer BBQ. Not a big event, but it's still nice he invites us. He usually has a great variety of people there, so it's not just all young people - like in their 30s.
Sunday is a riding lesson at Cathy's; the next Sunday is xc schooling, The show is the 12th of September. I should give Cathy my paycheck - enough of it goes to her every month.
I'm still plugging away at the shawl I'm making as a Christmas gift. It is easy, but I don't think I'm even halfway through it. The mittens I started have to be ripped out! boo! They are way too big for me, and so I know they will be too big for Cathy's hands. Oh, well, that's the life of a knitter. Can't tell you how many projects I have had to start over, not just once, or twice, but sometimes three times. Once I get to four times, that project is FROGGED!
I also bought a pattern for a nice wool coat that goes down to the knees and has a really nice big-cabled collar. The pattern is a lot of st st and could be boring, but it will all be worth it once I get to the collar. At least I hope so!
Either it's been too hot and now today it's raining like crazy, so no running outside. Ugh! I'm getting really tired of the TM. It's wearing me down! The ellipitcal is worse! Not as many calories burned, and it takes so long to burn anything nowadays, anyway.
That's it for now.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Waredaca Recognized Eventing Show
Sara made the plunge to participate in a Recognized Horse Show. She was doing well and dealing with the stress in stride until...... she found out that Phillip Dutton and other professinal riders were participating in this show. Fortunately, she is not competing against Phillip Dutton, but she is now rubbing shoulders with the big boys and girls.
So many things she has to do: braid Satchmo's mane (fortunately, she found someone to do that for her), give him a bath, clip his muzzle (to get rid of that 5 o'clock shadow), clean his tack and get the trailer loaded up on Friday evening before the show. No ride times, yet, but we are hoping for times that are not at the crack of dawn nor at the end of the day. They should be up around 2:00 today, so stay tuned.
We went cross country schooling last Sunday; after the falls I have had, I was a little nervous, but I persevered and made sure I used those legs! Amazing how well things go when using the right aids for jumping. My confidence level went up a lot after that trek to the schooling field.
We had a short visit with Dave's niece and her family, who were in this neck of the woods to attend a family reunion from her father's side of the family. She and her husband have three lovely kids. We saw them on Friday with Dave's parents and Sara for a Chinese dinner, then again on Monday for homemade pizza. That's it in a nutshell; you really don't want to hear the boring details of it all!
If this weather ever gets cool enough, I will run outside; so far, I've only done TM work. I ran one 5K in July, but fortunately, it was one of the cool mornings before the temps went out of control. Speaking of which, I've signed up for a 5K on October 6 in Washington, D.C.
"Proceeds will be donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. Many of them rely on the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund in order to have family members nearby while they recuperate in the hospital, as well as to help them get back on their feet financially when they return home. Please help us meet our fundraising goal of $20,000 and make a difference for our injured Marines and their families."
http://www.semperfi5k.com/Welcome.html
So many things she has to do: braid Satchmo's mane (fortunately, she found someone to do that for her), give him a bath, clip his muzzle (to get rid of that 5 o'clock shadow), clean his tack and get the trailer loaded up on Friday evening before the show. No ride times, yet, but we are hoping for times that are not at the crack of dawn nor at the end of the day. They should be up around 2:00 today, so stay tuned.
We went cross country schooling last Sunday; after the falls I have had, I was a little nervous, but I persevered and made sure I used those legs! Amazing how well things go when using the right aids for jumping. My confidence level went up a lot after that trek to the schooling field.
We had a short visit with Dave's niece and her family, who were in this neck of the woods to attend a family reunion from her father's side of the family. She and her husband have three lovely kids. We saw them on Friday with Dave's parents and Sara for a Chinese dinner, then again on Monday for homemade pizza. That's it in a nutshell; you really don't want to hear the boring details of it all!
If this weather ever gets cool enough, I will run outside; so far, I've only done TM work. I ran one 5K in July, but fortunately, it was one of the cool mornings before the temps went out of control. Speaking of which, I've signed up for a 5K on October 6 in Washington, D.C.
"Proceeds will be donated to the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund. Many of them rely on the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund in order to have family members nearby while they recuperate in the hospital, as well as to help them get back on their feet financially when they return home. Please help us meet our fundraising goal of $20,000 and make a difference for our injured Marines and their families."
http://www.semperfi5k.com/Welcome.html
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Liberty View Stables Dressage Show
Sunday, August 1, we attended the MD Dressage Ass'n. dressage show at Liberty View Stables. The farm was gorgeous, the day was gorgeous, and there was no hustle and bustle that is usually associated with a horse show. For the first time I was very relaxed, and that showed in my tests. Not that I had great scores, but that I felt my shoulders relax and my arms lose the tension that is usually in them. Cathy, the coach, was happy; that's all I ever ask for! LOL
Here are Cathy and I waiting for my time to ride the second test.
This picture could use a caption, but I'm having a difficult time coming up with something cute and quirky. Wait awhile; it will come to me.
Yesterday I ran on TM, did some core work, ran some more, did some inside and outside thigh work as my thighs certainly got a workout at the show (as well as my abs). Whoever said that a rider "just sits on the horse" has never ridden a dressage test!
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