Guys I'm going through a computer crisis here. Yesterday my Mac crashed. Like completely and totally died while I was in the middle of doing work.


Turns out the logic board crapped out.

I never realized how unproductive I am without a computer. Apple told me they could fix my baby, but they'd have to send her out and I wouldn't get her back for at least a week.

Cue major, major panic attack on my part!

I could write a whole laundry list of things I can't do without my computer, but one of them is download the stats from the BodyMedia Fit armband.


Majorly upsetting.

Luckily I had almost an entire week's stats before my computer crashed. So just a note all the stats in this post go from last Tuesday until Sunday.

Previous Weeks:

Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four

This Week:


What I learned this week:

Bar crawls burn a ton of calories: Especially if you aren't drinking while crawling. I spent Saturday on a bar crawl with friends and we walked all over the city. I took more than 22,000 steps on Saturday just from walking from bar to bar. Some of those steps could have also been from dancing for two hours at the last bar of the night. And I didn't drink back a single one of those calories. Yes, I was a sober Sally on the bar crawl, but it doesn't matter I still had a blast anyway.

Some weeks are naturally more active than others: It seemed like this week I was on the go all the time and I walked around a lot more than normal. I never really considered how many calories I burn running from the grocery store to the library to the Post Office and all the other little things I had to take care of this week.

How I'm doing on my goals so far:

Seven hours of sleep each night: I'm doing so, so here, but still falling short all the time. There were several nights where I just couldn't sleep well this week, and re-introducing 4:30 a.m. workouts certainly isn't helping on the sleep front.

Track my food: I've been doing better after falling off the wagon last week though it's definitely still challenging to guess the amount of calories in certain foods when I go out to eat.

Lose five pounds: I either have the most fickle scale in the world or I'm randomly retaining a bunch of water this week. All week long the scale said I'd lost 1.4 pounds this week. Then yesterday it randomly said I gained a pound back even though my eating and workouts have been pretty spot on this week. It's certainly not the end of the world, it's just kind of annoying. Anyway down .4 pounds this week, bringing the grand total to down three pounds during the course of the challenge.

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I can't believe another week of training has come and gone. Week three started out great, but at the end of the week, the rainy weather forced me to move around some of my workouts. I like that tri training gives me the flexibility to swap an outdoor workout for an indoor one if necessary.


I might not have fit in my long run for the week, but I swapped it for a longer ride on the trainer to make up for it. I'm also impressed with all the extra stuff I was able to jam into my week and still make training happen. It really is all about being flexible.

Previous Weeks:
Week One
Week Two

This Week:

Monday: 4 mile run


After work I met up with a friend in the city and we ran part of Rock Creek Trail through the park. It was a beautiful day, another one of those days in the mid-60's, and there were tons of people out enjoying the weather. My legs felt pretty awesome on this run and it was really fun to run a different route than I normally do.

Tuesday: 40 minutes on the trainer + volleyball

Waking up at 4:30 a.m. to workout was brutal, but it was so worth it. I got my ride in while catching up on some TV on Hulu. Volleyball that night was rough. Not only did I end up with a nasty jammed finger, but our team only won two of our four games. We need to rebound this week if we want to make it to the playoffs.

Wednesday: 5.4 mile run + lifting

Apparently this was the week of running with friends because I met up with a friend again for my Wednesday run. I was actually really grateful to have running plans for Wednesday because the weather was bleak and dreary and I was just not in the mood to run. But I definitely didn't want to be the person to bail on a run, so we met up and logged close 5.5 miles.


The rain held off for most of the run and we got to run past several of the monuments around dusk. Of course as we were walking back home, the skies opened up and it started torrential down pouring. We sprinted the last couple of blocks, but were still drenched by the time we got inside.

After drying off a bit and making some protein shakes, we headed to the gym for a short lifting session.

Thursday: 2,800 yards swimming


Last week's swim session was short and sweet and focused on quick sets. This week's session was more like a long run, with lots of long, slow yardage. I didn't really focus on time at all in this workout, but just focused on maintaining good form over the longer distance sets.

Friday: Rest!

Saturday: 50 minutes on the trainer + bar crawling

Saturday was scheduled to be my 8 mile long run, but when I woke up it was raining outside and I just wasn't in the mood to run 8 miles in the rain. Instead, I hopped on the trainer for a 50 minute ride. Then I met up with some of my friends for a very early St. Patrick's Day bar crawl.


We walked all over the city and I think ultimately hit eight of the 14 bars participating in the crawl. We spent the most time at the last bar where we danced until we were all ready to collapse from exhaustion. My feet haven't hurt so badly since I was in college and used to dance the nights away at Bentley's in College Park.

Sunday: Rest!

I was hoping to get in my 8 miles from Saturday on Sunday, but it just didn't happen. My legs and feet still hurt from walking all over the city during the bar crawl and I also had plans in the afternoon to meet up with friends for the last Terps home basketball game of the season. We ultimately lost in overtime, but I couldn't complain too much because my friends and I got to watch the game from one of the suites at the arena that wasn't being used.


Talk about a sweet upgrade. Huge thanks to my friends that work in the athletic department for the awesome hook up!

All in all, not a bad week of training!

Some of my favorite blog ladies started a new Sunday feature called Sweat to Street Sundays.


I'm hardly a fashionista, so I can't say I'll play along every week, but I think it would be fun every once in a while.

My sweat outfit for the week was an old stand by.



And my "street" outfit for the week:


This is what I wore to the St. Paddy's Day bar crawl I went on with my friends yesterday.

Skinny jeans: Department store (couldn't tell you which one)
Sweater: Target
Black cami: A million years old, no clue where it's from
Awesomely obnoxious shamrock necklace: Borrowed from Amy

I'm pretty sure I'm the only partly Irish girl who doesn't own anything green.

Also, I never understand why St. Patrick's day bar crawl events happen many weeks before actual St. Patrick's day. It makes absolutely zero sense to me.