April Goals

Hey all!

Happy April Fools Day! Anyone get pranked or have any good pranks of your own? I haven’t yet, but got a few up my sleeves! Muhaha.

For me, a new month means new goals! Here are a few of them

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1) Incorporate more green smoothies and juices in my diet. At first, I was a little intimidated by the veggie fruit mixtures but after trying a Naked Green Monster and a baby green smoothie sample from Whole Foods, I think I’m hooked! They’re so yummy when done right and SO nutritious.

2) Get back on my running schedule! Aka my pre-frolics running schedule. I miss it. So. So. So. Much. I was running 5-6 miles a day with 1 day of sprinting, 1 long run, and 1 rest day of upper body lifting a week and felt SO great. During my super busy weeks of Frolics, I completely lost my sched. Not only did this affect my running but also my sleeping and eating habits… not good. I feel like my body’s just so confused right now… I just need my planned workouts back!

Couldn't help myself with this picture...

3) Experiment with more recipes! I have about 5 million recipes from my favorite blogs that I’ve screen-shotted and bookmarked on my phone and computer. They’re all SO yummy looking it’s time for me to plow through them! Once I’m out of school (April 13 woooo!) I feel like I’ll have so much time to cook up a storm!

I’m gonna include FINALLY set up my Recipe page! I promise that it’s on my list of things to do! Stay tuned…

4) Cut back on the snacks. It’s bad. Reallll bad. Lately I come home everyday and snack my life away (cough cough thank you PB Cheerios) then the sicky fullness makes it impossible to run (enter reason #2 for the messy running schedule). I just need to cut back on the afternoon/3pm snacking aka run right from school while I still can then run in the mornings once I’m out of school. Hopefully I can keep it up? I also should probably really think about WHY I’m snacking- am I actually hungry? Or just bored? (usually mu hungry is bored-hunger..)

Ps. not even gonna bother counting how many times the PB Cheerios have made an appearance in my posts in the past week. Update on those: Monday’s box was finished off tonight by me… yes, I single handedly om-nomed an entire box of cheerios in a week… it is an addiction, I think I need help.

5) Read more! My Kindle wish list is depressing. It’s literally like 8 pages long cause I keep finding more and more books that I want to read, but never have time to read them! I LOVE to read (yep, I’m a total nerd and am okay with it). I think I like to read more in the summer/nice weather though. Probably cause I read like it’s my job when I’m at the beach… The little taste of summer from a few weeks ago is making me miss my book-days!

What are your goals for April?

XOXO,

Caroline

Weekly Goals!

Hi guys! 

Happy Monday! Hope everyone’s week is starting well. Us oldies only have 18 days left of high school! Wooo! Time flies.

Anywho, I have a HUGEEE research paper due in my english class tonight at midnight and still have a lot of ends to tie up with it so this post will have to be short and sweet!

I wanted to kick off Monday with a few goals for this week! I love setting goals and making lists so this is 100% up my alley… (nerd alert?).

1) SEE THE HUNGER GAMES! I’m guilty of being a complete Hunger Games fanatic. (Yes, I cancelled and denied any and all plans to read all three books in a matter of three days over the summer). It comes out Friday at 12am…I have tickets and cannot possibly wait to see it. My goal other than to see it is to actually stay awake through the whole thing. I’m a monster with no sleep so this might be interesting. I’m banking on adrenaline to keep me going? And maybe a little caffeine? We’ll see.

2) Push myself & kick butt in my workouts. With Frolics the past two weeks, it was really hard to find the time to get a good workout in. Now that it’s over, I’m so missing that feel good sore and am desperate for a week of butt kicking workouts. So far, so decent? :/ I’ll have to step it up a little…no excuses!

3) Run more trails. Today it was SO nice out so a friend and I went for a walk at a local state park that doubles as my old cross country team’s course. I forgot how much I love running trails and this little nature walk reminded me of that! I’ve also been getting so sick of my same old road routes near my house so it’d be so good to mix it up with some trails. Plus, the amazing weekly forecast paired with the random hilliness of the terrain will make for a hard but enjoyable run!

4) Keep up with my schoolwork. Having only a few days left of high school, senioritis is for sure at it’s peak. I don’t have much time left  but it’s enough that if I let the senioritis kick in too much, my grades could totally suffer and I can’t and won’t let that happen! I just need to keep reminding myself that sticking these last few days out could make a difference, and carefree living will be here any day now!

5) Get back in the habit of drinking more water. Usually I’m really good about hydration but lately, I’ve been slacking. With the warm weather rolling in (80′s this week..say whaaa?) I for sure need to be drinking water if I want to survive my workouts. HYDRATION IS KEY

6) RELAX! Especially now that my huge research paper (that I’ve been preparing and working on pretty much all year) is finally coming to an end. I need to let the little things go and quit sweating the small stuff. I seriously can get so worked up over the smallest, most pointless things and it’s 100% NOT WORTH IT. I need to unwind and just enjoy the last few days of high school and not worry about anything that comes my way that isn’t worth the time spent worrying over.

Have any goals of your own for this week?

XOXO,

Caroline

GOALS!

HAPPY TUESDAY! Just one more day until WIAW!

So I lugged myself to the gym today and was completely exhausted. I just knew that my workout would reflect how I felt and was so unmotivated. But, the second I hopped on the treadmill, everything turned around! I felt great. I even cut my pace of my 6 miler by 30sec/mile and did tons of weight training! Whoda thought?!

Anywho, back to my original intent for this post… GOALS!

What started off as a way for me to unwind and stay in shape turned into a way for me to compete with myself and push myself on a daily basis. Ever since I started to take it more seriously, I have began setting more and more goals for myself as a runner. I LOVE the rush I feel every time I get a faster time or tack on more miles and my excitement to pass my previous records keeps me going! With running, I’m turning what used to be impossible into tons of possibilities- yet another reason why I love the sport!

My main goal right now is to run my first half marathon by the end of the summer. A year ago today, this probably would have counted as “impossible” for me but my training and dedication has made this a potential reality. I love long distance running (my weekly long runs are my all time faves!) and I feel like now that my racing career for school is over (to my knowledge at least…) it’s time to move on to my next challenge! I haven’t started any concrete training plans yet but I’m kinda in the process of getting my body ready for that next step. Right now, my weekly workout (roughly) looks like this…

Sunday: Long run (8-10 miles)

Monday: 4-5 miles

Tuesday: 35-45min HIIT workout

Wednesday: OFF

Thursday: 5-6 miles

Friday: 34-45min HIIT workout#2 or track workout

Saturday: 4-5 miles easyish

WITH PLENTY OF WEIGHT TRAINING IN BETWEEN

Another of my goals is to get my mile time down to 5:50. I’m just a little ways away, hopefully I can get it down!

That would be my mirror...that would be my motivation

Seeing this sucker everyday keeps me on track! (Like the “Things I otter remember” paper? Saw it in a little shop in Maine and had to have it…for obvious reasons). But, back to the point! This sort of thing is how I manage to motivate myself to achieve my goals! Even the smallest things like glancing at a piece of otter paper hanging on my mirror every morning gives me the drive to push myself a little harder or run a little faster everyday. Seeing my goal right in front of me makes all the difference. It is things like this (along with my training, of course) that will get me to my half marathon and get me to my 5:50 mile!

What are your current goals? & What’s your motivation to achieve these goals?

XOXO,

Caroline