Y’all, how is it already April?! Good Lord, time flies! Well, here is how we measured up for March’s report card! Hope we aren’t grounded!
Teal
1. Paint Bedroom and guest room for real this time. Spring break should make this possible! A+: Done! I did this all by myself from 8-1am one day during spring break! So glad that is done. Every room in my house is now painted! Wahoo.
2. Survive my 2 week break from running and cardio by not cheating. I am going to give my body a true rest. I think it is overworked and is partially to blame for the plateau of weight-loss, my injury and that it is not fully gone, and from being tired from having 2 jobs and grad school. The break will be hard because rest is really not part of my vocabulary but it’s a needed part of life. Must get better.
A: I survived this and technically started cardio back one day early. I am happy to say that I have no foot pain, well minus our run from Saturday, but it feels great! I think my body feels better, but is ready to get back into training. Running has not been what I want but I am glad I did this. I really only ran 2 times last month outside of the 3 races we did. So it really was a good well needed break!
3. Yoga 12 times this month. This will be how I survive the “rest” from running/cardio. Low impact, restorative, and a good way to focus on flexibility.
C: I only went 6 times. I think my break went to my head because I really didn’t want to do anything. I was, however able to earn new Yoga bling for my 50th class this month.
4. Finish Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes F: Not only did I not finish this book I A) can’t find it and B) I read the Hunger Games instead! Whoops.
Beth
1. Run a sub 2:00 hour half marathon at Rock ‘n’ Roll Dallas! A+: I did it! In case you need the proof here it is 🙂
2. Lose 5 pounds. Seriously, y’all!! I need to get SERIOUS about take some pounds off for my wedding! F: Pretty sure I gained a pound. Womp! Womp!
3. Get a caterer for the wedding. You thought this one went away didn’t you? Well, I was all on track, got one approved by my venue and haven’t heard back from him after our initial phone call about my homes and dreams of wedding food. I’ve chosen to take that as a sign and look elsewhere just need to setup tastings! B: Brent and I are going to a tasting Thursday and Saturday of this week! Never thought it would take THIS LONG to get to that stage of getting a caterer! Holy geez!
4. Attend 3 to 4 yoga classes a week. You’re probably like whaa?? You yoga all the time! Well, technically I don’t totally have yoga goals like I did for all of 2011 and I took 2 weeks off when I hit my 200 and let me tell you my body knew it! So I want to see how I do with 3-4 times a week for a month where this blog holds me accountable! B+: I did this every week with the exception of the last week of April! So pretty darn proud of myself!
5. Update my handwriting/calligraphy website. It needs a MAJOR change starting with a new theme that allows for a real blog inside the website. Change is a coming! D: It still looks the same. Part of this I need my sister’s help on and we thought she’d uploaded a new theme for my website but it didn’t go through. AND she got to work on self-publishing her first ever book, Creative Chaos, so she got a little tied up which I don’t blame her!
As far as hills went in March I did a hill workout in 3 out of the 4 weeks of March. And I’m totally behind on my two books a month goal and only got through Mile Makers by Kristin Armstrong in March.
And now for April’s goals….
Teal:
1. Successfully complete the BluePrint Cleanse. This will start Monday April 2nd and end Tuesday April 10th.
2. Complete one hill and one speed training per week, in place of regular runs or cardio.
3. I have one paper left for Grad School that is technically not due until the middle of May but I want to finish it and not procrastinate. Also I would like to finish up with all of my hours before the end of the month so I can order, submit, and file everything early to be ready for graduation!
4. Earn my 75th class yoga band.
Beth:
1. Please don’t hate me, but I’m going for lose 5lbs again. Third time is a charm right? I plan on doing the Advocare 10 day cleanse again this month and take a two week supply of the Advocare MNS Max 3, so all of that alone should guarantee I lose more than 5lbs we’ll just have to see how I do keeping it off the rest of the month! 🙂
2. Save the Dates – have them printed, addressed (myself) and sent off to wedding guests before this month is over!
3. Stadium workouts once a week. This week sometime I should be meeting Johnny to do a stadium workout the way he wants me to do them and should that happen I would like to complete them once a week!
4. Prepare food for each week on Sunday nights this month. I’ll have to do this for at least the 10 day cleanse, but to help me get serious with my food and losing weight this has to be done every week!
So time for us to get busy! What do you have in store for the month of April? Personal goals you are trying to accomplish, running goals or both?
You have some ambitious goals and I know you will meet them as well as a winning attitude. Glad I found your blog.
Thank you so much, Cheryl! That means a lot to us!
I have that book… I think…. I have many books, never even cracked open, because I have this idea that I need to or would like to read things and forget it’s hard to read with a toddler in the house, and I need to finish my NASM CPT textbook first anyway. So if our paths cross at a NTX run or such, I’ll have it with me…. if I have it.
All great goals and excellent that you are focusing on them!
Thank you, Alex! =)
Yay for the As & the Bs and gold stars for trying on the others. Good luck with your April goals. You can do it!
Great job on the sub-2 half – and good luck with April goals too. 🙂
Thank you so so much, Paulette! =)
Great month! I love the colors in the bedroom and the pictures above the bed.