Gas $$ = Early Tan & Ice Cream Monster Siting

"It's the beginning of May, 

summer weather is only JUST beginning to come around on short occasions 

and I already look like I'm starting to get a tan."

I started a blog entry earlier this week with that line.  Then yesterday I headed out on my bike destined to up the ante (jump ahead to the picture below to see the ultimate result).  The weather was beautiful and I was online looking at bike computers - I need a new one because my current one doesn't reach the back wheel and it's annoying to keep switching between tires when I hop on the trainer and then go outdoors.  Given the ever increasing price of gas ($4.25 here), I decided to head out and RIDE over to a couple bike shops; it saves gas AND doubles as a workout.  I ended up stopping at two local shops and Dick's and went a total 23.8 miles.  End conclusion - Do to my sub-college budget, I'll just buy another $2 bag of zip ties and keep changing the current computer between wheels instead of buy a new $40 computer.  

Once I was home, I quickly cleaned up, ate, and headed to work.  Our Friday group is too cute for their own good.  When any of the facilitators come through the door, a mob of girls run up to them and demand hugs along with something unique.  My unique request is always to be picked up; the girls like to be picked up and whirled around and since I'm the only guy, that falls to me.  Not like I don't love it though!  haha

After work, I went to the pool with a friend for a swim workout before heading to a local theatre for a show.  As soon as we hopped in the water, I was informed that it looked like I was wearing a white tank top.

This is 22 hours later

I have my first sunburn of the season!  I drew two conclusions from this.  First, it's officially summer.  Second, I'm going to have some crazy tan lines this year between all the different shirts and shorts I wear on the bike and run. 

Our swim workout was quite unique as well.  We started out with the typical 500 warm up and 10 x 50s free on the 0:50 with a 200 yard stretch out.  Then we did some work with paddles and pull buoy.  I suggested doing IM's and that quickly turned into a MONSTER!  A 1400 IM.  400 yards butterfly, 400 yards backstroke, 400 yards breaststroke, and 200 freestyle.  We only cut off the freestyle portion because of time.  CRAZY!  But it felt good.

Cleaned up, dried, and armed with food, we headed over to the Connecticut Cabaret  to see their production of John & Jen, an amazing musical.  This is where it happened. 

Ice Cream Monster 

It appeared for the second time.  One minute there was a 26 fl. oz. Friendly's Ice Cream Cake sitting at our table.  The next minute, it had disappeared!  1380 Calories consumed and it didn't even dent the Monster's appetite.  It continued on to veggies with onion dip, raisins, and a jar of peanut butter.  As I told one of my friends recently, "I eat too much food."  Don't forget that I love the act of eating food, but it's annoying to repeatedly find nothing in the kitchen to eat or end up eating what I thought would be two or three days worth of leftovers in one sitting.

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Questions

1.  How high are gas prices in your area?
Has the price of gas caused you to change anything in your normal schedule?

2.  Does anyone else have a sunburn yet?  I can't be the first.

3.  Do you feel like a Monster when you sit down to eat too?
I've never once looked at a "serving size" and thought "That makes sense."


Stay fit.  Stay healthy. 

Randomness (That's Kind of My Life!)

Additive to yesterday's review!!

I wore the CEP All Sport Compression Calf Sleeves out on my run today.  It was in the upper forties and breezy, so I figured that should take the heat issue out of the equation and that it did.  I even ran with my running gloves, which for those who know me is never the case when I'm warm.

Overall, I admit that I didn't feel much.  Now, that could be either a negative or positive.  It could be that the sleeves didn't really do much and were only an added layer of clothes.  But on the other hand, it could be that not feeling much is the lack of excess muscle movement.  I'll need to check myself Saturday on my next run to see if I can feel anything different than what I felt today.

From the comments in yesterday's full review (catch it HERE) and talking with bloggers it seems that most people use the compression socks on longer runs both for the ability TO run longer as well as to avoid shin splints. Since I only ran four miles today, I can't ignore the fact that longer runs would present more opportunity for issues to come up and in turn more chances for compression wear to come in handy.  So on that note, I figure I should probably give them a longer test run.  I'll plan on running Saturday without them and then again next weekend with them.  

Again, if you have any questions, feel free to talk to Jackie in the live chat at CEPsock.com or socksforathletes.com.  

Onto the next day's endeavor!

Today I got to enjoy the nutritional benefits of my training.  Let me start by asking a couple questions...

Who likes ice cream?

Who likes cake?

Now, who likes ice cream cake?!

This kid!!

I got my hands on an ice cream cake and to put it nicely, Kristin @ Bigger Girls Can Run Too and I attacked it like ravenous dogs on a lonely island where a whale just got beached.  Ok, maybe I attacked it and Kristin joined me.

What's that?  You don't believe me?  Oh, I heard you!  Don't try to hide it.  Fine!  Here's a bit of proof.

I figured the picture on the left would be a bit vague, so I diagrammed it for you.  The smiley area was consumed in a matter of approximately five minutes.  A total of 1175 calories according to the nutrition label.  And now that I'm thinking about it, it's now 9:40pm and I haven't eaten dinner.  Haha  Let's just call today a non-perfect diet, shall we?

In other news, I finally managed to watch the 207 version of "3:10 to Yuma." 

If you are a movie buff in any fashion, you might tend to watch the original versions of new movies before watching the remake.  I have my own opinion about the amount of remakes that are in the theaters, but that's another story.  Compared to the original, the remake makes use of a lot of the good and "necessary" lines, but takes it's own artistic view of the character Ben Wade as well as the ending.  But I must agree that in the end, I like what they did with the film; it was very well done. 

I also sat down and watched Love and Other Drugs.

I very much liked this movie!  Jake Gyllenhaal  and Anne Hathaway give an extraordinary performance.  Thus far, I've not been a fan of Jake, but that may be changing. On top of that, Anne Hathaway is fradiggin HOT!  That's not the only reason I loved the movie, though it's certainly a perk.  You REALLY start to believe Anne actually has Parkinsons.

I categorize actors into two categories; those who you watch and know they are acting and those who you watch and you actually forget are acting.  Anne Hathaway achieved that latter status today.

Questions

1. When was the last time you just threw care to the wind and half of an ice cream cake disappeared?

2.  What actors are on your top list?


Stay fit.  Stay healthy.