The Most Perfect Ending

I just had the most perfect ending to a pretty good day. First, Cecilia went to bed tonight without a hitch. Not even a wimper or cry for "mumma" when I left the room. She blew me a kiss and that was the end of it. And after that, I made myself the most delicious mojito and sat on my deck, listened to the beautiful songs of a nearby bird and read my book until just now, when there was no longer enough light. It was fantabulous! I can't remember the last time I went out and just relaxed on my deck, by myself, just me. It was probably about 2 years ago when I was 8 months pregnant, and I would hardly say that it was relaxing (if you've been 6-9 months pregnant in the summer heat, you know what I mean). So, it's been a long while. And I was dying to do this for the past few weeks, but DH had been re-supporting the deck, so it wasn't stable enough for us to go out there. All I can say is "Ahhhhh".

As for my running, I did the C25k W3D1 workout. I didn't really know what to expect since I didn't check ahead of time, but I was quite surprised that we were jumping from 90 seconds of running to 3 minutes of continuous running. I didn't stress; I just took it slower than usual, made it through the workout easily and threw in a 2:1 and two 1:1 (run:walk) intervals at the end. I struggle at the beginning of my workouts and labor a bit, but once I hit that 20 minute mark, I get the extra push to do a bit more and make the most of the workout since I've made it so far. Body felt good, legs felt good, I pushed towards the end of the 3 minute intervals, but overall a great run.

After that, since I was dripping with sweat beyond belief, I decided to go to my mom's and do a few laps in her pool and cool off...oh, and I needed to pick up Cecilia there too. It's quite convenient that there's a pool there. ;) I hopped in, did 2 sets of 10 laps, mainly because the little one wanted me to throw her around and needed some attention. I could have done 16 laps continuously, but she just wouldn't wait for me anymore. Oh well, it was a bonus workout.

Ate great today. Down 1lb for the week. Just overall calm and collected and I'm not letting my messy house ruin that mood.