I would encourage you to visit the website and learn more about the challenge, it was a really cool experience. This company sells a deer antler velvet supplement, which you don't have to take to do the challenge, and I didn't. I don't take supplements. I tried once, but I keep forgetting to take them, so I figured why bother? I'll just eat better and not have to worry about it.
For the last 8ish weeks, members of CrossFit boxes all over the country have been competing to see who can eat the cleanest and improve the most on a few benchmark WODs. My results were awesome! There was no weight component to the challenge, but I did do a before and after and I lost 11#. That made me pretty happy, because I'd slipped off the wagon a bit before the challenge began and I was feeling kind of bloated and blah. Measurements wise I lost 4 inches overall, which sounds small compared to some of the others I've seen, but that included an 1.5 inches off my hips and an inch off each thigh (which are still bizarrely uneven, but it is what it is). My jeans are thankful for the reprieve. More than these visible effects, though, I just feel a lot better. I feel stronger, and my lifts got better, and I improved my time on each and every benchmark workout. That was pretty cool.
I also got back into my red scrubs, which I refer to as being "red pants skinny". They are a size small, and while I know that scrub sizing is bullshit, I am a girl (no really, I totally am, I crapped out a few kids and everything) and that makes me feel a little good. Or a lot good. Depends on the day.
Now that the challenge is over, I'm really looking forward to half and half in my coffee. I'm tired of coconut milk. It doesn't take bad, but it's a little grainy. The no dairy at all thing was hard, not that I eat that much of it. Still, sometimes a girl likes a cheese curd.
I went to a party last night and had an odd realization: It's been so long since I had a drink that I forgot what I used to like to drink. I ended up having a couple of vodka cocktails, but they were sort of anticlimactic. In retrospect I almost wish I hadn't had them. I didn't even get a buzz on. Snore.
In other news, I've made great strides in my effort to assemble a sweatpants based wardrobe.
NC state sweatshirt and Tennessee Volunteers pants. Total expenditure? $13
I also bought a couple of ginormous pairs of men's sweats. Drawstring = fitting. They are so comfy.
I just finished getting my Winter/Spring running calendar together, and it's pretty exciting (if you like running and racing, which I do. If you don't, prepared to be bored stiff).
Run Less, Run Faster has resurfaced! I'm going to spend 12 weeks working on running my fastest 5K (goal = sub-28). I have it all planned out and scheduled. I even went so far as to program each workout into my Garmin. I'm going to do actual speedwork, consistently, for 12 weeks pre-race. I've got a warm up 5K in January with the goal race in February. March and April will be fairly quiet, but May? May is going to be CRAZY!!! A race every weekend, with 3 of them being out of state. I'm am beyond excited. Here's the round-up.
January:
Icebreaker 5K (indoors)
February:
Seroogy's Valentine Run 5K
March:
Point Bock 5 miler (my PR is going down on this one!)
Two Rivers 10-mile
April:
Drake Relays On-The-Roads half marathon
May:
Door County Half
Ragnar Cape Cod
Cellcom Green Bay Half
Soldier Field 10 miler
Des Moines Dam to Dam 20K
June:
Bellin Run
HFM marathon relay?
July:
Ragnar Trail Lake Tahoe
It looks a little nutty, but I love having a full race calendar. It motivates me to keep moving forward, even if I'm having a bad day. Some of these races I've done before, but a lot of them are brand new, and I can't wait to get started.
Hooray! It's time to run again!
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