Foiled by the snow

I'm just going to have to consider this week a wash as far as exercise goes.   Although, maybe I could do Friday and Sunday to get at least two weight training sessions in.  We down here in the ATL have been under house arrest because of the snow.  Oh well. 

One upside is that I made some awesome pasta over the weekend. 

I've had that quinoa pasta sitting in my pantry forever, so I decided to use it up.  I caramalized some onions in real butter, added the kale and sea salt, and then mixed it together with the pasta and a little glug of Amy's Roasted Garlic Olive Oil.  Sprinkled with feta and toasted pine nuts.  YUM.  I would totally make this again, but I think I'd use different pasta and add sun dried tomatoes.  I tried to to a calorie analysis on it, and it came out to approximately 400 calories.  Although I'm not sure if I got the pasta serving size correct - I'm terrible with ounces.  Add an orange and super yummy lunch.

Weekend recap

Nothing exciting to report here.  We had a garage sale on Saturday morning and made about $75.  I was more interested in getting stuff out than making money, so that's fine.  Isobel had soccer Saturday afternoon.  Walking to the field and back was (sadly) my only exercise over the weekend.  Eating was kinda crummy too.  But I did manage to lose a little more weight, so my total is now -5.0.  It's slow going, but that's okay.  These are permanent changes.
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I've been trying to figure out how I'll get my walk in today and I think I may have a kill-two-birds solution.  We've been putting the kids to bed at 7:30 for at least a year now.  But at 3 1/2, I think Isobel doesn't need to go down that early anymore.  She stays up playing or sneaking out of her room for at least another hour.  So I'm thinking it would be a good idea to load her into the jogger and take her for a walk with me when I put Colin down at 7:30.  Hmmm.  I'll report back on how that goes.

Weekend recap

Pretty good weekend.  Very low key, but that's how I like 'em.  I did weight training on Friday, ran IN THE RAIN on Saturday, and we went for a hike with the kids on Sunday.  "Hike" is a little bit of an exaggeration, but we did go to the Red Mountain State Park.  That's a good hike for kids who are 2 and 3 1/2.  Besides, yesterday was gorgeous and we were just trying to get outside. 

But yes, I did run in the rain on Saturday.  It's so hard to find time to squeeze in a run with the kids.  I had gotten them bathed and the set up in our room for pre-bedtime Dora.  I changed clothes and grabbed my ipod, but I got ten feet down the road and it started sprinkling.  I came back in and though that I'd just skip it, but hey, a little rain never hurt anyone.  So I left the ipod behind.  It was actually kind of fun.  I haven't been out in the rain on purpose like that since I was a little kid.  I only did two miles, but it was really enjoyable.

The shin splints are still lurking though.  I'm not hurting, but I can feel them, which is why I haven't increased my mileage even though I could probably run double what I'm doing now.  I probably need to quit for a while and then come back with a reduced mileage, but geez, I'm only at two miles 2x week.  Maybe if I'm super vigilant about stretching, warming up, and iceing afterwards, I can avoid having to quit completely.  Besides, this time of year is the BEST for running - probably the only time of year we have down here in the Deep South without 1000% humidity. 

Nutrition this week was so-so.  The Hubby is really not very helpful on this front.  He wants to eat out all weekend or at least cook yummy stuff that's not really friendly to me.  I think I'm going to need to cook/plan ahead better on the weekend.  That and a little heart to heart about what he can do and how if I choose not to eat the food he makes, it's not a reflection on him.  Sigh.