Want to know what I do?

My schedule is pretty crazy during the week. Along with school classes, I run and cross train. I generally spend 3-5 days jogging and 2-4 days cross training (stationary bike/elliptical) or weight lifting. I bought a swim suit last week so I could start doing laps at least once a week, too! Gotta love school gyms. I love doing yoga as well and try to work it in as much as possible. When I'm home (usually while cooking) I do arm toning exercises with light weight and high reps - at least 3x/week and throw in a few ab/back days when I take study breaks.

My runs during the week and on Sundays are shorter (30-50 minutes) with a long run on Saturday mornings with my team (GO TEAM! Hours and hours and hours... not really but kind of).

Sunday's "Upper Body" workout is at the gym and takes a little longer than most days. I do big muscle groups and more weight for my arms, usually something like pull-ups, shoulder exercises, chest, back, shoulders again, maybe another back, triceps, biceps, done. I aim to do 3 sets of 10-12 reps. If I can squeeze yoga in I'm in love. These jogs are easy and quick: 30-minute for my legs to get a little working stretch after the long Saturday run.

Monday is rest day. If I do yoga it's short and relaxing to let my body recover.

Tuesday is usually a 45-minute interval run. For my "Legs" workout, it's simply squats/lunges, inner and outer thighs (machines), and calves (raises) and takes very little time. Again, 3 sets of 10-12 reps. My legs get most of their workout from training.

Wednesdays are busy school days. I hit the gym for "Upper Body" which is really more focused on the body as a whole and includes some core workouts. It takes a lot less time than my other arm days and allows me to spend at least 30-minutes on the bike/elliptical. Occasionally I run instead of cross-training (or do both when I'm feeling crazy). My other running partner, Joni, has gotten me out to jog every week since we started training her for a marathon as well. She's awesome. I like to do yoga right before bed but have been missing this a lot due to my late class. This will be changing. I miss it too much.

Thursdays I'm back to running! I try to do a tempo or longer interval run, somewhere around 40-50 minutes. I also relish in the soreness of all my muscles and totally pig out.

Fridays are rest days. I pretty much melt into the couch after class and try to talk Joe into playing (losing) Scrabble or Rummy with me while we watch movies/Lost.

Saturdays, as I said, are my long runs. These are set by my Team in Training coaches and are now over an hour. Joni and I rock another run in the afternoon. Yeah. It's bad ass.

Rinse and repeat.

I'm tired thinking about it. Thank goodness it's Monday! Zzz....