Three Miles!

I've gotten a little bit behind on my blogging. I just didn't have time to do it on Friday during the day, and then I fell asleep early. I don't really have an excuse for not blogging on Saturday, though! Turns out Friday marked a milestone for me in my running - I ran 3 miles! It was a nice cool day and I was feeling good, and I just figured that if it was going to happen anytime, it was going to happen then. And it did!

Mile 1: 12:39
Mile 2: 13:03
Mile 3: 12:49
Average Pace: 12:53

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Obviously I slowed down a lot. I asked on a running board why the distance wasn't feeling any easier, and someone advised me that I needed to slow down. So I made an effort to keep it slow. Unfortunately I didn't manage to do negative splits, which people also advised me I need to do. So I'm going to have to work on that. But right now, I'm really excited that I made it this distance. I know 3 miles is nowhere near 26 miles, but I'm actually starting to feel like the marathon is going to be a reachable goal. This is the longest I've stuck with running in my adult life.

Part of the reason I think my run felt so good on Friday was because I ate a HUGE amount on Thursday night. The day started out OK - I had a grande latte from Starbucks after I dropped my sister off at work (2 PP), and then ate half a steak salad that my Mom brought home from lunch the previous day. I estimated that at 3 PP, which is actually probably too low since the salad had potatoes and cheese in it.

 Then I headed out to the doctor to hear about the results of my CT scan. They were frustrating - my sinuses are apparently clear. So something else has to be causing my headaches. This is really weird - I have been having these headaches since I was 20, and I've always been convinced that they are sinus headaches, just based on what the pain feels like and where in my face I feel them. I had been hoping for an obvious problem with an obvious solution, because the headaches are just horrible. So when I got home from the doctor's, I was really frustrated and wanted to eat. Instead of really binging, I grabbed some jellybeans (3 PP).

This picture is of 20 jellybeans, my original plan - I ended up eating 10 more after this.

My sister needed to be picked up from work, and she hadn't been able to eat lunch during the day because she was hungry. There is a Tex-Mex place on the way home from her office, Cactus Cantina, that has been a family favorite of ours for years, and she suggested we stop there for dinner. So I ended up spending a ton of weekly points on the first day that I got them! I usually never do that - my week resets on Thursdays, and I save those points for the weekend. But I had chips and queso, a soft flour beef taco, and 2 1/2 margaritas. Not a ton of food, but it added up to 40 points! Yeesh. But I'm pretty sure all those carbs are a big part of why my run felt so good the next day.

Just to catch up on my eating for Friday and Saturday - I forgot to take pictures at Cactus, and then forgot for the next 2 days! I'll try to get back in the habit. Friday I was out and about all day. We stopped at Panera for lunch and I had half an Asiago Roast Beef Sandwich, with an apple. I love those sandwiches, and half was more than enough. (9 PP) For dinner, we got Dominos. I love their thin crust pizza, and a quarter of a pizza, which is what I ate, is only 7 PP. I of course had champagne too, but I wasn't feeling great, so I ended up only drinking half a glass. (2 PP) When I went to bed I ate a handful of Cadbury Royal Dark Mini Eggs. Yum. (6 PP)

Yesterday I started out with a Venti Iced Skim Latte. (3 PP) In the afternoon, I ate 20 of those jellybeans, I love them. (2 PP) Dinner was Chipotle - I ordered two soft corn tacos with chicken, guacamole, tomatoes and lettuce. Normally I get my tacos with cheese and sour cream, but I figured the guacamole made it healthier. I used the nutrition calculator, and it should have been 9 PP. But when the tacos showed up, they were regular soft flour tacos instead and I didn't want to deal with recalculating. Hopefully it's OK. I also drank 2 glasses of champagne (7 PP) and ate the rest of the Cadbury Mini Eggs from the night before (3 PP). My sister had ordered chips and guacamole too, and I ate a few chips. I didn't track them, but I ended the night with 2 points left over, so hopefully that's enough of a buffer zone for them and the flour tortillas.

Tonight we're going out for a 4 course meal at Morton's for Father's Day. I've pre-tracked it, and if I've estimated OK, I'm going to have 17 weekly points left as a buffer zone. That's a good thing, since I didn't pre-track the alcohol I'm sure I'll drink. We'll see how it goes, but I'm just going to try to enjoy myself. Happy Father's Day!