Sweet Frog

First things first. Sweet Frog! My HR lady from home office suggested I find a Sweet Frog Frozen Yogurt shop in my area. She went on and on about how great they were. I researched them online and found on 30 minutes from here and since I am like a DQ ice cream kinda girl I really liked the idea of having control and getting I wanted!

So I talked my hubby into a trip to Morgantown, I had to promise Sonic for dinner...but I talked him into it! Believe me I was pretty excited for Sonic myself. Even after looking over the menu and nutritional info on line pretty much all day I still talked myself out of the "healthier" options and got the guacamole dog. Oh man was it worth all 400 and 80 some calories in it. It was good, and just enough to really make me crave something sweet IE: Sweet Frog.

When we got there the line was about 3 stores up into the shopping plaza! No Joke. They were crazy busy and I wasn't about to stand in line that night. It was dark, kinda cold, and wet from the huge down pour earlier that evening.

 So the next day we headed back to Morgantown. First we went to The WOW! Factory, had dinner at Crackle Barrel, then went back to Sweet Frog. It was so worth it. I was in love with the toppings. The flavors we good but I would have like to seen more sugar free options.

I choose a 12oz cup with about 3oz of sugar free vanilla and 3oz of cappuccino topped with blueberries, strawberries, shredded coconut, and almonds. OH MY WORD! I could have eat triple that amount because it was so good.

Next time we go up I am going to double the amount of the vanilla and try a different flavor with it and more of each of the toppings. My mouth is watering just thinking about the goodness.

Katie from the blog Runs For Cookies always treats herself to a special treat after her long runs...and I think if I ever get to the point that I can say "long run" when recapping my run, this will totally be my treat!

Oh and I almost forgot to mention that for 5 different 12oz cups of FroYo our bill was less then $10. I don't think that is bad at all. We can spend $15 on 3 items at Cold Stone...

Best run yet-beside still waters

Tuesday morning I set off a 2 mile run/walk at a local park by the lakes we often go to. It is a nice paved 1mile out 1 mile back trail that sits next to a pair of man made lakes, I normally take the kids push them in the stroller and let them play at the park for a while turn around and then head back to the van.

I had dropped Joel off to work then headed to the lakes, I wanted to make sure that I got there and had enough time to shower and get ready for work after my run. I got out stretched and then started walking. I knew that I wanted to run so I as soon as I had a good walking pace I took off. I figured that I would run 1/4 mile walk 1/4, but once I started running I didn't feel like I needed to stop, about 1/2 mile later I thought "I will walk up the nice steep hill coming up in 1/4 mile." But once I got to the hill I started repeating "mind over matter, mind over matter" in my head. Next thing I know I was at the top of the hill, ran the whole way! I felt like Rocky once I got to the top of that darn hill. I started shouting "Thank you Jesus!" and throwing my hands in the arm. I am so glad that I was the only one running that morning or I would have been so embarrassed. 

The second lake starts right at the top of the hill and it was breath taking. I was in such a beautiful place on a glorious morning. The geese were honking over head, the fog was rolling off the lake, the baby ducklings were swimming behind mama duck. I was in awe. And the best part was I was there running amongst it all. It was such a empowering feeling and I have to say I was quite over whelmed (in a good way!)

I was reminded of "He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Psalm 23:2-3

Who needs a schedule anyways?

Well I lied about the whole training schedule thing. I started with great intentions but couldn't muster the courage to do it. The calendars I printed out is still hanging on my fridge door shouting "Go run, Go run!" but being a full time employee, a wife, and mother of 3 leaves little time to work on myself or some silly training schedule for a race I still haven't  registered for.

So instead of a "training schedule" I am just going to wing it. Yep, I hope that the first paragraph made me sound little discouraged and lazy but the truth is I have been running and Loving it! I had to start talking my husband to work around 5:30am after the axle went out in his car. I didn't want to drive all the way home then back to work at 7am everyday so I decided to start working out at the Y beside my hotel.

But then on second thought I have a crazy fear of gyms. I feel like everyone is looking at me and thinking about the "fat" girl. Yep. Even after losing over 100lbs I still have some crazy self esteem issues. Anyways, after talking my self out of using my Y membership I choose to run at a park in between our places of work.

I set out to do a walk/run since the last time I "ran" was in January and that was only .7 miles. I ended up jogging about .9 miles and walking .5 miles in the rain. Not too sure how long it took me because I forgot to start my garmin. When I got back to the van and started to stretch I could have screamed when I saw it still said start! I headed to the hotel took a quick shower and then started working. I don't think that I have ever been so productive at work. That 1.4 miles impacted my whole day in ways I could have never imaged. That day I made up my mind that I didn't need some crazy training schedule to met my goals, all I needed was to listen to my body and push myself.

Running has turned into my norm now. Every other day I will get up early and go out on a run. To date my longest run was 2.23miles. I am so proud of my silly ol 2.23 miles. First off it was on a Sunday, so that means I had to get up on my own and run before I headed out to church. & I did it! I am not one to get out of bed early for anything so that in its self was amazing.