Motivation gets you started, habit keeps u going

3 p.m. run

I love running with my new friend. She said she may go as high as a 6 miler with me. We were running an 11 minute pace. She felt like she was dying but I felt great. Well my ITB did start to feel ew after 4.5...but everything else was cool. I think we are going to run tomorrow. I don't know what I will do after I'm done with student teaching. She will still be a perm sub at the school and I will be working after 3p..stinks!

I did 4 sets of 15 pushups when I got home

Today is day one of my lower carb diet. My goal is to stay under 150 g of carbs and up my protein. I have a LONG way to go with the protein. Today I had to have a protein shake just to up the protein. did you know ther is like 33 g of carbs in bananas! Wow! I would eat two or three in a day on some days.

I'm doing this for some weight loss benies but mostly b/c i'm tired of my moods being so  up and down. I have been reading that if you have a low carb diet then your glucose levels are more level and not so up and down.

I did the weights portion of the Jillian Michaels shred this morning. It is a good thing too b/c I have to work tonight. I'm picking up some shifts my last two weeks in school to try to save us with some ofour bills. I"m nervous. I feel like I haven't served in soooo long!

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Last week of Student Teaching!

8 a.m. start. My brother and I did a mile warm up around Wrigleyville. It was chilly but I'm glad I left my coat in the car. I was hot by the end of the race. In fact I wished I had taken off my pants (wore shorts underneath). I had to get up at 4 am to meet up my brother so we could drive to the northside together. I am tired. And of course I never sleep the night before a race. But the t-shirt was totally worth it!

According to Garmin I pr'd by 1:30 from my last 5k. Official results will be out tomorrow.

Splits-

1.14-warm up 9:30
2-8:06 I had to tell myself to sloooow down!
3-8:13
4-8:23
.16-7:22

My goal was to beat my last time of 27:30 and to make 8:50's. I did both. Just as long as Garmin is right.

Great race-Guess a few days off really helped. Towards the end I could feels some twinges in my ITB. I may ellip tomorrow and do more strength training.

I started training today at my new job. I liked it. toda we talked about the menu and got a general tour of the place. Tomorrow we taste wines and the other mixed drinks. I"m pretty excited about this place. I was also a good girl and took my test at my current job so that they don't get all mad at me and tell my new boss (drama). Pluse I"m finding it will take about two weeks for me to get my training done at the new place. soo I might as well keep the other job for now.

Last week of student teaching. I have so far applied to 17 districts...whew!