Jen Reed …a day in the life

September 2010 Ad Challenge @ DSO

Written by Jen September 1st, 2010 at 7:37 am

My new Ad Challenge is up at DSO!  I’m so excited about this month’s posting bonus.  I’ve known for awhile that I wanted to do something Halloween related for my September posting bonus. I’ve never designed a Halloween style kit before…I had a lot of fun.  Hopefully you’ll like it too and come play!

RULES
Take a look at the ad I select and create a scrapbook page that is similar in layout or style to the ad. In the past months, I was a bit lax and said “just scrap however it inspires    » Click here to read the rest of this post

Just another Wed….

Written by Jen August 25th, 2010 at 8:43 am

It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged over here at LC.  I had been blogging my running workouts regularly and even my weekly goals…but that seems to have fallen by the wayside.  Not that I don’t still workout or have a weekly goals.  Just that I haven’t been motivated to blog them. I was using my blog to get into the routine of having them every week and then got busy doing them. :)

Kids went back to school on Monday.  YAY!!  Not that I don’t enjoy having my kids around for    » Click here to read the rest of this post

Cool Running : W3D4

Written by Jen August 6th, 2010 at 8:05 am

Total Mileage: 2.1 miles  (.9 mile jog / 1.2 mile walk)

Total Time: 33:03

Calories: 606

Workout : 5 m warm-up / .25 mile jog /.25 mile walk / .25 mile jog / .25 mile walk / .25 mile jog /.25 mile walk / .15 mile jog / .15 mile walk / walk til 2.1 miles

Walking Rate: 3.5   / Jogging Rate: 4.4

I upped my speed to 4.4 today.  I was aiming to run .25 mile in the last section but I couldn’t.  So I just went with .15.  I still ran .05    » Click here to read the rest of this post

Cool Running : W3D3

Written by Jen August 5th, 2010 at 8:07 am

Total Mileage: 2.1 miles  (.85 mile jog / 1.25 mile walk)

Total Time: 33:40

Calories: 638

Workout : 5 m warm-up / .15 mile jog /.15 mile walk / .25 mile jog / .25 mile walk / .15 mile jog /.15 mile walk / .10 mile jog / .10 mile walk / .10 mile jog / .10 mile walk /.10 mile jog / .10 mile walk /walk til 2.1 miles

Walking Rate: 3.5   / Jogging Rate: 4.3

The humidity is high this morning.  I could not get that last .25 mile jog all in    » Click here to read the rest of this post

Cool Running : W3D2

Written by Jen August 4th, 2010 at 7:58 am

Total Mileage: 2.0 miles  (.8 mile jog / 1.2 mile walk)

Total Time: 32:14

Calories: 600

Workout : 5 m warm-up / .15 mile jog /.15 mile walk / .25 mile jog / .25 mile walk / .15 mile jog /.15 mile walk / .25 mile jog / .25 mile walk / walk til 2.0 miles

Walking Rate: 3.5   / Jogging Rate: 4.3

I’m going to try and workout every day instead of just M-W-F.  I might not be able to run every day and may have to change this to weights or something    » Click here to read the rest of this post

Cool Running : W3D1

Written by Jen August 3rd, 2010 at 8:27 am

Total Mileage: 2.0 miles  (.8 mile jog / 1.2 mile walk)

Total Time: 32:33

Calories: 597

Workout : 5 m warm-up / .15 mile jog /.15 mile walk / .25 mile jog / .25 mile walk / .15 mile jog /.15 mile walk / .25 mile jog / .25 mile walk / walk til 2.0 miles

Walking Rate: 3.5   / Jogging Rate: 4.2

I took a week off from workouts last week.  Decided to reboot.  I started the Fat Flush 2 week plan yesterday and am hoping to keep up enough energy during the    » Click here to read the rest of this post

Week 6b : Friday : Cool Running

Written by Jen July 23rd, 2010 at 8:00 am

Day 21 : 5 m warm-up / 10 min jog /3 min walk / 5 min jog / 1 min walk / 2 min jog / 1 min walk / 3 min jog / 5 min walk

Total: 35 minutes - walking (15 min) / jogging (20 min)

I wanted to jog at least 20 minutes today even if it wasn’t 20 minutes straight.  So after the first 10 minutes (which I had a hard time with), I decided that I was going to run another 10 minutes – no matter how many times I    » Click here to read the rest of this post

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