Cookie Ministry

I am officially going to start utilizing my love of baking for a good purpose and since I am pregnant and can't eat raw cookie dough my figure shouldn't suffer too much.  I signed up for the "Cookie Ministry" at church.  We make cookies and they get delivered in a variety of ways to the community throughout the month.  Some are put in meals they hand out to the homeless.  Some are delivered to local patient care centers such as those for pregnant teens.  This should be fun but it is a lot of cookies.  They ask for six dozen once a month.  I need to buy some cooling racks.  I've always just sat my cookies to cool on foil on my counter top.  The hubby thinks it is time to upgrade a bit.

I think these will be my first batch which I stumbled across on this blog:  http://www.mybakingaddiction.com/chocolate-chip-cookiesa-must-make/

Exercise update.  Last week looked like this:

Bike:  70.95 Mi - 4h 15m Pace: 17.08 Mi/hr

Run:  11.00 Mi - 1h 54m

I also spent about 20 minutes lifting some weights and a little bit of time on the elliptical.  I didn't run as much as I would have liked but I did put in 4 days of running.  It is difficult to have any mile accumulation when I'm really only doing 3 miles per session.

Today I ran outside with Travis & Sam right after church.  It was about 65 degrees and we had a break in rain showers so we decided to take advantage of it.  We ran 3.62 miles and Sam fell asleep about 20 minutes into it so while I was done running after the 3.62 we did walk for a total of around 5.5 miles.  It was nice.  Now if I could just stop peeing myself when I run I would be a happy camper.  TMI I know but hey it is one of the crappy things about being pregnant and it is what I am dealing with every time I run so I figured I may as well share - sorry!

Hotel Gyms

I travel about once a month for work. I try to just be gone overnight but sometimes I have to make a longer trip. This week is one of those longer trips and I hate it! I miss Travis, Sam and Dakota like crazy. I can't relax an sleep at night. An I hate workin out in the hotel gym! It is always full of work out wanna-bees. I feel bad typing that because at least they are making some effort, but when they impact my workout it drives me crazy!

I hav spent around an hour in the gym every day and since becoming pregnant I rarely just do one activity per workout. I like to run a couple of miles then jump on the bike or elliptical then hit the treadmill again and repeat the cycle. Well every night someone has grabbed the bike about a minute before I was ready to make the switch. Thank goodness they don't work out for long....the longest I have waited is 10 minutes but it still drives me crazy! Maybe I'm just being mean or maybe it is the hormones!

Today I cut back just a little and did 20 minutes on the treadmill and 20 on the bike. My heel hurts! I know I need some new running shoes but I think this might be more than that. I don't want to say plantar fasciitis but I'm a little concerned here.

I am loving the bike though and I've been doing a lot of that.

Today I ate a few of my favorites...Jimmy John's #1 with no cheese or mayo (and for those wondering I did heat the ham to steaming first), salt and vinegar chips for lunch and a chicken burrito bowl from Chipolte for dinner. I'm getting hungry again and would love some M&M's but I think I will force myself to eat some yogurt and All Bran.

Sam update, she ran into a fence at daycare today and cut her lip with her teeth. Travis sent me a pic and her little lip is so swollen. Poor baby. They said she cried a little bit but cried more because she dropped her popsicle. Now that sounds like my little girl!