Today is not officially a weigh in day for me but I just wanted to check in to see how I was doing.
I ate really well yesterday - didn't actually track my points but I know I didn't go over and I was careful to eat mainly veggies, fruits and lean protein.
I was 196.8 so that's nearly 4 lbs down from yesterday which is awesome.
Please ignore how terrible my poor bruised up toes look.
I should really paint my toenails to try to cover them up.
I had to run Mom to the hospital this morning to get some blood work done.
She had an appointment with her doctor in Whitecourt tomorrow and she's hoping the result will be back by then.
She wants to see how her iron levels are doing since the transfusions.
Today was supposed to be my rest day but since I'll be in Whitecourt most of the afternoon and I have an FCSS meeting, I decided to switch rest days.
So I ran tomorrow's 10 k today and I'll have my rest day tomorrow.
I went out and did it on my lunch hour.
It actually took me an hour and 17 minutes but I started work early today to make up for it.
I did some creative zig zagging again - had to use the washroom around the 3k mark but luckily I was close to home and was able to just pop over and do that.
My exercise details and average heart rate - very similar to yesterday's numbers.
My average pace and splits.
Again - very similar to yesterday.
Video check in for today.
I seem to be getting slower, not faster, but I am running longer distances so I'm pacing myself so I'll be able to do it so I'm not going to be too hard on myself about it.
I'm doing it and that is the main thing.
Right now my goal is just to finish the marathon and maybe after that, I'll work on my speed because I know for sure that I'm going to continue running.
We didn't see Freya today but Haylee posted this picture of her - she got into her mom's make up.
I picked up subs for Jason and I for supper (and a soup for mom) and watched the season finale of Grey's Anatomy before Jason got home from work.
Then when he got home, we watched today's episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
We are both really liking it.
Makes me want to go watch and rewatch all the Star Wars movies.
I saw the original three (Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi ) when I was young then Jason and I watched the final three that were most recently released (The Force Awakens, The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker) but I never watched the three in between ones or prequels (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith)
I'm going to make a point of getting them watched now though!
I think it would be fun to watch all 9 movies in the proper chronological order.
I didn't get much sleep last night and we were travelling all day, plus I was eating whatever while we were in Newfoundland so I knew my weight was going to be up this morning.
Even though it's Tuesday, I still wanted to weigh in to see where I stood.
I was 200.6 lbs.
So that's up 7.4 lbs from my last weigh in.
Not good, but not as bad as how things looked when I got back from NY.
I'm going to get back on track right away because we are heading out to NS next week so I want to shed a few of these pounds before I go.
I know I'll just eat whatever again so I want to give myself a bit of extra room and then when we get
back from that trip, we won't be going away again until Iceland in August for the marathon so I'll have a few months to really stick to the WW plan and work on my weight loss.
It was after 4 am when we got in last night and as soon as we walked in the door, I brushed my teeth and immediately got into bed.
I was exhausted.
I probably could have slept all day honestly but I had a meeting at 10 that I wanted to try to make it to so I got up shortly after 9, stopped at the store to grab a few things to snack on then made my meeting on time.
Meanwhile, Freya was asking to see us so Haylee dropped her off to Jason, he sent me this picture.
She's really been into dresses lately, especially 'princess' dresses which is what she calls them when they have the tulle on them.
I was so happy to see her when I got home for lunch.
I had boiled eggs and an apple for my lunch and she helped me eat it.
After lunch, I headed back to the office and Freya and Jason headed to the park.
I love that he sends me pictures of their shenanigans.
They had the toy box dumped when I got home from work and she had found this little bird that balances on things so she was trying it out everywhere.
She put it on her toe.
Then Kody's toe (he had dropped by to pick her up).
Jason's knee was the next trial spot.
Then she tried it out on her finger.
She got it balancing on her forehead.
She even got it balancing on her nose.
She tried to balance it on her Dad's chin but that didn't work so good.
I had a spoon full of chocolate hummus for a treat after my supper (Jason made bean soup) and she asked for a bowl so I got her some.
She ate a bit with her banana then I looked over and noticed this.
She was spreading it all over her hands.
OMG - what a mess.
Ha ha - such a turkey!
I took the pictures but then got her to the sink to wash it off immediately before it got on anything else.
Kody took her home not long after that then both Jason and I got ready to head out for our runs.
It was a gorgeous day out there and I had to run 10k today which I wasn't really looking forward to but I went out and got it done nonetheless.
I think the nice weather really helped.
I ended up doing a lot of zig zagging and back tracking again - I had to use the washroom and knew I wouldn't make it home so I had to double back to the gas station that I'd just passed but I made it and I got the 10 done.
My exercise details and average heart rate.
My average pace and splits.
It's up a little but my legs were feeling heavy likely due to lack of sleep.
Otherwise I felt ok but I know I just have to keep my pace down if I want to finish now that I'm running these higher km's.
My video check in for today.
I say in it, twice in fact, that it took me 10 hours and 17 minutes to complete it but of course it was only 1 hour and 17 minutes.
Boy - guess I was more tired that I thought, I didn't even notice that.
I was so happy to have it done.
Tomorrow is supposed to be my rest day but Mom had a couple appointments in Whitecourt on Thursday and I have an FCSS meeting that evening so I think I'll run Thursday's run tomorrow (10k) and have Thursday as my rest day.
We considered going for a bike ride after our runs because it was so lovely out there but we were both so tired that we opted not to after all.
We were going to head to be actually then around 8:30, we got a call from the guy delivering our luggage saying that he was in Edmonton but heading our way with our luggage.
We figured we'd be in bed but told him to some on anyway and just ring the door bell when he got there.
Turned out we stayed up late and were still up when he got there around 11.
We woke up to an absolutely gorgeous day here in Nfld.
I wish we could stay longer but we are heading home today.
Our flight is at 6 pm this evening so we had a bit of time this morning to get a run in.
I opted to just run on the road that Dad and Dee's house is on this morning.
It is hilly but there are gorgeous views everywhere.
This lake is just up the street from there place (they call them ponds here) and Dee said you can swim in it in the summer.
This is the wharf also just up from their place.
Dee said Dad would get his coffee everyday and jump in his vehicle with Ranger then drive down and sit here and drink his coffee.
So I had to run out to the end of the dock.
The ocean is a beautiful thing to watch, or any body of water for that matter.
When I lived in Dartmouth, I also used to get a coffee then drive and sit by the lake to drink it.
It's very soothing, even on a gloomy day which today was definitely not.
This is just past their place too but going in the other direction now.
The views of the ocean are spectacular.
Tough running but the views make it worthwhile.
If I ran here every day I'd be in great shape!
I just did an out and back but it included lots of tough hills and a section of it was on the trails in the woods so that part I had to slow down for but it was a great run and I'm glad it's done for the day.
My exercise details and average heart rate.
My average pace and splits.
I was slow on the hills and the trail slowed me down too, plus I was stopping and taking pictures so all in all, I'm happy with this pace.
My video check in for today.
After my run, I had breakfast, showered and packed.
It's about an hour drive into the airport and we figured we should get to the airport around 3 so we were able to visit with Dee until almost 2 pm.
It's been so nice getting to know here - I never really got the chance to know her properly before and I was worried that the visit would be awkward but it wasn't at all.
She was very welcoming and made us feel comfortable right away.
Even though Dad is gone now, I want to maintain a relationship with Dee.
Firstly because I really like her and also she's my link to Dad - she's family.
Jason and I both said that we want to come back and spend more time in Nfld and with Dee as we've enjoyed this trip so much.
We said our good byes to Dee and Ranger then headed in to St John's.
We were going to stop for an ice cream along the way but both places we saw were closed so no ice cream, bummer!
We made it to the airport in plenty of time, dropped of our rental then on through security.
It was a breeze and we probably got there way earlier than we needed to but better to be early than late.
We decided to get a bite to eat at the restaurant in the airport.
I picked the pulled pork nachos.
Jason chose the Chicken Caesar Salad pizza.
It was literally a pizza crust with a chicken and Caesar salad up on top.
It was pretty good.
Our flight from Nfld ended up being delayed an hour but finally we made it onto the plane.
We were worried about catching our connecting in Toronto but we had about 40 minutes to spare.
Normally we just check the flight board for gates and stuff but because we were a little pressed for time, we asked the gate agent as we got off the plane what gate the Edmonton flight was at and she sent up to gate 53 where we sat until it was time to board.
Then they stopped boarding just as we got to the front of the line as they had no pilot and while we were standing there, Jason noticed that it said Calgary on the gate information screen and sure enough, we were at the wrong gate.
We hoofed it over to a screen to find where out where the Edmonton flight was (gate 39) then ran over there as quickly as we could.
The plane was all boarded but luckily the door was still open so we made it just in the nick of time.
Thank goodness!
That would have really sucked if we'd missed our flight.
We didn't though and we were on our way.
They kept telling us we were going to have a lot of turbulence on the flight which I just hate but there were only a couple of rush patches in reality so it wasn't so bad.
We landed in Edmonton just around midnight then waited around for our luggage on the luggage carousel.
We stood there for what seemed like forever waiting for our luggage and lots of other people were standing there too so we were hopeful at first.
However, we soon realized that it was just the same stuff going round and round and nothing new was being added so at 12:30 or so, we went to luggage services.
There were already two people in line ahead of us and then all the other folks that were waiting for luggage also got in line after us so it was a huge line.
The poor guy at luggage services - I felt bad for him.
They are supposed to close at 1 am but it was close to 1 when we finished up so it looked like he was in for a late night.
He said he felt like quitting.
Anyway - turns out there was a mix up in Toronto and our luggage was still there but would be coming in on the first flight in the morning and they said they would deliver our luggage to us at home tomorrow.
We picked up our vehicle from the Park n Fly then stopped for some McDonald's before hitting the road.
I was exhausted and kept nodding off but would then wake right back up because I was so worried about Jason possibly nodding off even though he kept telling me he was fine.
It was a light night out and the sun was actually starting to come up by the time we made it home around 4 am.
I was so happy when we pulled into the driveway - I bet Jason was too!
Looks like they had a nice day in Swan Hills here today.
Haylee posted some pictures of Freya.
Nice shades.
Playing at the beach with friends.
Love that she had her rubber boots on - funny kid.
It's so nice that she had lots of little friends to hang out with.
Gathering rocks - is there anything more fun than that as a kid?
I thought this was fitting.
So true - when I was a kid I was always trying to get my parents to let me stay up and now I look forward to going to bed at night.
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