DairyKing's Journal, 15 September 2014

Good Morning, FS Warriors! Today is a day of rest, though I will try and get a strength training workout in this evening. Got some extra beauty sleep last night, but it doesn't seem to be working. :( My calves are still rebelling against me this morning. My 6 mile run yesterday was at a pace faster than I ran the 10K in last month. I know my long runs on the weekend are supposed to be a lot slower than that, but I get impatient and I want to see if I'm doing any better. I am, but I need to stick to my training plan. As I'm increasing mileage, the last thing I want to do is overdo it and get some kind of debilitating injury that sets me back. The weather has been great for running; it was like 41 on Saturday and 43 or so yesterday morning. It was 55F this morning, and it's supposed to only get up to about 61 or so. Other than a little more rain here and there, it looks like it's going to be a perfect week, with a high in the mid 70's most of the week. Yay!
The doggie is doing fine. I've got to give him 3 pills every morning and evening for 2 weeks, and then he gets 2 injections over a 36 hour period while he camps out at the Vet. I was trying to hide the pills in a chunk of cheese, but I soon discovered it wasn't necessary. He's such a glutton that he thinks the pills are food and he takes them and swallows them before he can taste them anyway. Then I give him the piece of cheese or something, and feed him. He's a lab, so I feed him twice a day. He's not the kind of dog where I can leave a self dispensing food container at his disposal, because he would eat 5 pounds a day or more. He's looking good now. I took him to the Vet last year, and the Vet said he'd be pleased if the doggie lost 10 pounds the next year; he was 16 pounds lighter this time, and he is a moose (stocky).
Funny, I remember the comments about how women's panties were getting so big with their weight loss, and it reminded me of the running shorts I just received. When I ordered them, I went by their sizing chart, and ordered extra large, based on my waist size. When they arrived, I opened the package and the liner looked exactly like big girl panties, and I mean big girl panties! You could put 2 of me in them, and then some. My first inclination was to put them right back in the bag and send them back. But then I thougt, well, I wear an Under Armour type of running boxer underneath anyway, so the liner doesn't really matter to me. The shorts themselves are pretty big also. They do cinch up pretty tight, but they are at the end of their elastic when they do. Runnign shorts are expensive, and I don't think these are going to fit me at all in another month or two. At least I hope not. Maybe I ought to send them back. Strange that running clothes are all over the map when it comes to sizes, depending on the brand, country of origin, and probably even the time of day that they are manufactured. I'm 5'10" and I noticed when I buy those ripstop type running pants at WalMart, they are always like 4 inches too long. They apparently don't make them in different lengths; if you are not 6'2", then I guess you just pull them up to your chest and cinch them up. Daggonit, I don't think the Fashion Police are doing their jobs! OK, enough rhetoric for one morning. Here wishing all my FS Friends a wonamous week. Toodles!

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594 kcal

Fat: 12.95g | Prot: 23.70g | Carb: 100.09g.   Breakfast: Bananas, Guaranteed Value Non-Dairy Creamer, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds), Sunny Delight Orange Juice. Lunch: American Cheese, Wendy's Tomato (1 Slice), Garden Cuts Green Leaf Lettuce, Turkey Ham, Whole Wheat Bread. Snacks/Other: For You Radishes, Pears. more...