Weekly Round Up: The Break Up

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  This week I made some delicious sesame noodles, broke up with running, and saw the perfect silly movie.

Eats

Headline #1 for this week's post-COVID news is that my smell and taste are mostly back.  I think maybe it's not 100% but both stepson #1 and I have a heck of a lot more than we had last week.

The best thing that I made this week was Jo Cook's sesame noodles.  I was trying to figure out what to make for lunch on Saturday and it was the magic combination of stumbling across the recipe at random plus realizing that I had everything that I needed to make it then and there.  I only made half a batch (2 servings) because I knew I would want it more than once but wasn't sure if I would want it four times.  This is definitely a "eat in four times in a row" kind of thing, so I'll make a full batch next time.  I mixed in some soy curls just to bulk up the protein.

Workouts

Headline #2 of this week's post-COVID news is that running and I have parted company.  I wasn't super concerned last week when I did my first post COVID run and it was dreadful.  I'd been inactive for 11 days and it's well known that COVID and running are not the best of friends.  But as I continued to experiment with one and two milers throughout the week and felt each one getting worse I was officially ready to call it a day.

Running has given me some wonderful times, but it hasn't been great for the past two years (here's my most recent rehash of our issues) and it's long past time to move on.  Stay tuned to find out if running and I are just on a break or if it's permanent - as I've said many times, each post is just a chapter and there's no way how to know how it fits into the context of the full story.

Running and I had one item of community property to dispose of, which was my registration to a half marathon in late September.  I found a friend of a friend who ran her first half last year and had been getting the itch to sign up but hadn't pulled the trigger yet.  BOOM registration transferred and I am free.

(Context for non-racing friends - races are usually cheaper if you register early for them, there's always a risk that races will sell out, and in good times it's helpful to be "committed" by registering earlier rather than later.  I registered for the half way back in January when I was certain that my buggaboos with running would have gone away by now, just as I've been certain that they would go away "in a few weeks" for nearly two years now).

So post break up am I sitting around on the couch wearing sweatpants with my face buried deep in a pint of Ben & Jerry's?

Nah, I'm seeing Someone Else.  I've been doing working my way through a bunch of Caroline Girvan full body workouts on Youtube and I'm going to step it up and try following one of her programs.  This one is six weeks of five 30-ish minute workouts a week and I'll follow each workout with a 1-2 mile treadmill incline walk to get my cardio fix.  Treadmill power walking makes me huff and puff and drip sweat just like running, but I've been surprised that my heart rate stays surprisingly low so that's the way to go right now.

The last thing to say about that: yes I will still be following and cheering for my IRL and Internets running friends.  It makes me happy to read your blogs and ride along on your fitness journeys, and I think I'll still be picking up tips to apply to my new fitness life.

Watching

Who wants a silly movie?  Game Night is the movie that hubs and I have been meaning to watch for some time now but it kept slipping off our radar.  This was exactly what we were looking for.

Reading

Nothing.  I finished The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark, which was excellent from page one to the end.  It feels like it always takes a while to find "the next thing" after a really good book.  

That's all I've got for this week!  Thanks for hanging out!