Survivor Mud Run
It rained and hailed on Friday in Arizona, pretty much all day, so needless to say our mud run was much muddier than anticipated. The mud was deeper and wetter and lots of people lost their shoes and socks and ran it barefoot. It was also freezing outside, and the clouds threatened more rain the entire time we were running. But it was a blast!
Trying to run up steep muddy hills with no place to dig your feet in is challenging! Some of the obstacles we did included “running” through about 300 feet of mud about 2 feet deep, mud pits, a cargo net climb, climbing over walls about 4.5 feet tall, crawling through tunnels, and walking on narrow boards across a mud pit. Several of the exercises from Kosama definitely prepared me for this run including platypus walk (running up steep, muddy hills), sneak attack (walking across the narrow boards), leg blasters (just about everything requiring a modicum of balance), and under-the-rope, which enabled me to dip down really low and basically “walk” under the low ropes in some of the obstacles, rather than belly crawling, and I didn’t even graze the ropes. 🙂
Our finish time was somewhere just over an hour – not a fast 5k, but you try running through mud pretty much the entire time, and waiting for people to finish an obstacle so you can try it! We got a discount with a Living Social deal I purchased, but I would consider doing it again even at full price. The only thing that sucked was the parking, and hopefully the event organizers will learn from the experience.
Teammate Challenge: Weighing In
The Kosama Teammate Challenge my husband and I participated in concluded on Saturday and we did our final weigh-ins on Friday afternoon. We wrapped it up by going to the gym five days this week and I went for two 1-mile runs during the week (I am working on improving my mile). So what were the results? Our team collectively lost 9.7% body fat! (I lost 4.7% and Z lost 5%). Did we win? Most likely not. We won’t find out for sure until next Saturday at the “party”, but I’m not deluding myself. I’m just throwing myself into my next challenge – this Cleanse & Detox diet!
Detox Day 1
So Day 1 of the Cleanse & Detox (C&D) started out with drinking way more fluid in a short amount of time than I am accustomed to that early in the morning, and in the process of trying to locate the scoop for the Envy Greens I shook some onto the floor – it’s apparently Corgi approved because Ein immediately tried licking it all up before I could wipe it up. The Envy Greens taste like minty dirt, so the faster you can get it down, the better off you’ll be. I waited about 30 minutes after I woke up and drank everything outlined in the C&D before I made breakfast.
Breakfast was egg whites, 1 whole egg, minced garlic and fresh spinach with a side of ripe blackberries. It was delicious and even though I love bacon, toast, jam, etc… it was just fine without it.
Lunch was a really yummy salad consisting of fresh kale, spinach, chopped ginger, Bragg’s Healthy Vinaigrette and grilled chicken. I fumbled a bit today and forgot to add the ground flax seed and realized at lunch time that I was mislead by the packaging on my cranberry juice and it was in fact NOT 100% cranberry juice but also contained apple juice. That is a cranberry juice cocktail people! Mark your packaging accordingly! I had to make a trip to Sprouts to pick up the right stuff and I’ll be saving what I DO have for drinks on Girl’s Night next week.
Dinner was deeeee-licious! I cooked four boneless-skinless chicken breasts (two for me & Z tonight and two for me & Z for lunch tomorrow) using 4 tbsp Bragg’s Healthy Vinaigrette, zest and juice of 1/4 of a lemon, finely chopped rosemary (about two sprigs), and a generous amount of minced garlic. Baked at 350° for 40 minutes. I also tossed a couple cups of spinach in a skillet and cooked it with minced garlic, and I roasted 3 cups of halved brussel sprouts with 2 tbsp flax seed oil, minced garlic, garlic powder, ground nutmeg and ground pepper (I ate half the brussel sprouts for dinner).
Sorry about the blurry photo – ate dinner in the living room and there’s not much light in there!
So that’s day one! I won’t be doing an update every day, but I will document and share any other creative ways I come up with to prepare the protein servings for the C&D so you too can eat some healthy and delicious dinners. 🙂
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