A Hot Rink

Yesterday was such a busy day that I decided to stay unplugged when I got home at 9pm. I sat out on my deck taking in the gorgeous night we were having instead. The day started off with a bowl of Wildroots cereal:
Since it’s been so hot this week (which I love), I haven’t really been feeling like eating much at all. Funny how the weather can affect one’s appetite. I’d much rather be outside than in the kitchen making big meals.

We had a meeting at work which sucked up the whole morning. It was a productive meeting, though, so it was well worth the time. Summer vacation and hours have been sorted out, schedules have been set. We’re good to go! Starting July 5 through to Aug 27 I’ll be working 30hrs/wk (as opposed to 35) and taking Monday’s off. Nice! I ate this blueberry muffin bar before going to the gym:
Didn’t taste like a muffin at all, but it was OK.

I decided on a programmed interval “course” on the treadmill yesterday. It actually worked out great! Each interval was about 2mins long and flipped between running at 6mph with a 5% incline and walking at 4mph with a 7% incline. I felt sufficiently sweaty when I was done and my ankles didn’t bother me at all so I think this is on that I’ll be putting in my workout rotation.

Time: 45 minutes
Avg Hr: 153
Max Hr: 172
Calories Torched: 432
Distance: 3.5 miles

Lunch was the last of the wheatberry salad I made Wednesday stuffed into a WW pita.
And a pack of almonds because I was still hungry!! And there was pineapple, too!

Dinner was fast, cool and easy! We had to leave the house by 5:30 to pick up our Jeep from the mechanic (needed an oil change) and get DS to his soccer game. I mixed a can of water packed tuna with some salad, sprinkled it with a bit of grated cheese and used multi grain chips to scoop it all up.
I found a coconut carob pecan oatmeal bar in the fridge for my sweet end: Soccer was a blast! DS just has SO much fun playing, even in the 30* heat. He did down a mega bottle of Gatorade, though. Gotta keep him hydrated. I didn’t get any good photos this time around, but I’ll be sure to do a better job of it next week so I can post some. I was hungry by the time we arrived home as it had been 4 hours since my smallish dinner. No picture, but I did eat a Dr. Kracker flatbread slathered with almond butter.

I finally got back into the mood for oats this morning! It’s been like, 4 days. LOL! I decided to make my dark chocolate cherry mocha oats:
I figure go big or go home, right? And I loved every second that this bowl lasted. YUM!

Work was busy, busy again so lunch snuck up on me. Not so fast that I didn’t have time to enjoy a WCMN Clif bar before going to the gym!
I stuck to my 4mph, 7% incline walk today….AND I caught the new video for a song featured on the Eclipse movie (Twilight) so I got me some Edward, too. Nice!

Time: 45 minutes
Avg Hr: 152
Max Hr: 167
Calories Torched: 418
Distance: 3.2 miles

Lunch was a refreshing salad made with romaine, red bell pepper, cucumber, cheese, the last of the tuna/salsa mixture and blueberry acai salad dressing:
BEAST!

DS is in a ball hockey tournament this weekend in the next town over so we had to leave the house by 5pm to get there on time. My hubby made a beer butt chicken on the BBQ so we had an early dinner before the game. I toasted an English muffin, spread some blackberry jam on it, topped it with chicken breast and goat cheese and dug in!

The game went well. We tied 3-3. The only issue was the fact that the rink had NO air conditioning in it! It was more like a sauna in there. Here’s me and DD looking hot just sitting there:

We weren’t near as hot as DS, though! Here he is right after the game:

They play at the same rink again tomorrow at noon. I hope they’ve done something about the temperature in there! I’m going to unplug now and grab a bowl of cereal. Dinner was long ago! I’ll leave you with a few shots from the game.

Bye for now!!