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I feel revived. Got out of work early, biked back to my car, 30 min. Drove home then went for a run. Slow and steady for 28 minutes. Ended at the gym for body weight training, lots of abs and a weigh-in. Not thrilled by the weight, but Iblame that on the long weekend/lack of cardio.

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Bike commute both ways. 12 miles, 80 min. puts me in such a good mood to bike to work. No more road rage :)

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Bixi biked to work in the morning. The great thing with a bikeshare is that after I drop the kid at school, I can park anywhere close to a metro station and grab a Bixi to get to work. Montreal is a great biking city. Tons of bike paths and lots of pretty, quiet streets to explore. I tend to avoid the bike paths because they are too crowded during rush hour. Today I biked 5.25 miles to work in 34 min. Metroed back to the car because of rain but made it to the gym for a much needed run and weight workout. It's been a while and I felt getting in a good, sweaty workout.

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biked to and from work today, 60 min. total. Going in is a slight downhill the whole way, easy. Going back, slight uphill the whole way, sucks on a heavy, 3-speed Bixi bikeshare. My thighs were on fire when I was done. Finally got a new battery for my Fitbit so I can start counting steps again. The Fitbit even counts some of my pedalling. I got 3000 steps for the ride home. Shows how much I have to stand and pedal to get that dinosaur moving uphill.

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only exercise of the day was biking to work, 30 min. The lack of me time/exercise is frustrating. Must win lottery and find a live-in housekeeper soon.

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lunchtime run. it was hot out there and I felt like a hot mess when I got back to the office. Will have to rethink my mid-day workouts for the hot days. Wanted to do more exercise at home, but I've been sitting at my computer all evening, working. just finished.
family active time was making dinner with the kid. He was in "charge" of the recipe and I was the assistant. Can't wait until he's doing the dishes too.

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it's 1 am, I went to bed 3 hours ago with my whole body aching and I haven't been able to fall asleep. everything hurts, even my toes. could it be from the 3 miles I ran this morning, 2 laps around the park, or is it the 3 hours of gardening/neighborhood alley clean-up in the afternoon. I'm sure that the 4 beers I drank during alley clean-up did not help. poor me. I took some advil, ate some cereal and an hoping for the sleepies to arrive soon.

if my mother's day dream comes true I will be able to spend sunday at the spa, but that's only a dream...

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Wednesday evening: 15 min bike to and from 60 min. dance class. There were less people in class so we didn't have to split into groups during floor work which means I moved for the full 60 min. and got sweaty.

Thursday: a rare morning appearance at the gym for a Body Design class. 30 min. step and 30 min. sculpt. Did a lot more upper body work than I'm used to doing on my own. Change is good. Trying to use more big girl weights, like vonHottie.

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ran my 3rd 5k this morning. I was lucky #999! Great location through the botanical garden and adjacent Olympic park. The weather was perfect, sunny and 50°F. I felt great before the race but by km1 I was ready to stop and walk. I had to keep telling myself to keep running. I did stop 3 times very briefly after the 3km mark when we were running on rolling hills. I walked the last part of each uphill. I thought my time was going to be terrible but when I finally finished I saw 30:35, a new PB! each race I've been 30 seconds faster. Now if I had not stopped to walk...
Having serious doubts about being able to run a 10k in the fall.

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I tried out Cari's week 4 bootcamp workout today. Great stuff! I did 5 min. cardio intervals on the tread for 2 miles total and all the thousands in between. Great way of dividing up 2 things I don't love – running on the tread and weights. While I was doing abs Adele's song Rumour Has It was playing on the radio so I had to stand up and do my jazz dance routine. There were only 3 other people in the gym so I didn't care :)

My perfect workout combo would be biking, jazz dance and yoga. Maybe when the kid is all grown up and I'm retired I will have the time for those things every day, until then it's running and bootcamp.