Weekly Avon Walk Update
Every week I’m going to provide a quick update on how my Avon Walk training is going. If you’d like to see my full training calendar, check it out here or on the left sidebar of my blog. The calendar shows the recommended training plan found on the Avon website going forward. As I complete workouts, I will update the calendar with what I actually did. So if you look at a previous date, it will show what I did that day.
I’ve decided that to prevent myself from getting bored with just walking, I’m going to mix things up a bit. I’m going to stick to the endurance walks on the weekends. Those will be key to training my body to be able to handle ~40 miles in two days. The rest of the weeks consists of 2 shorter, faster walks and 2 cross training days. The two shorter walks are primarily for cardiovascular training, so I’ll either do walking as recommended or other cardio training (I really enjoy the elliptical). For the cross training, I plan to do a class at the gym or weight training. This will help strengthen my core so that my body can handle the long walk.
Also, our gym is a 0.4 mile walk from our house. I’m not going to count that in my total mileage. I look at it as a warm up and cool down. I can’t wait until it’s warm enough out for me to start walking outside instead of on a treadmill!
Miles walked last week: 6.8
Minutes doing cardio: 70
Minutes doing cross training or weight lifting: 0
Thoughts on training so far: I’ve been reading that some people get blisters easily and others don’t. I must fall into the first category. I’ve already had 2 blisters this week. One on each foot but in different places. I’m definitely going to learn a lot about how to prevent and treat blisters over the next few months!
Total $$ raised: $550
Thanks to everyone who has donated so far! If you’d like to donate to support my walk, you can make a donation on my Avon Walk page. If you donate at least $5 by the end of January, you will be entered to win a very cute tote.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
I love that your readers’ favorite recipes are both savory and sweet. It looks like you had a wonderful year in the kitchen and I’ve enjoyed following along!
Great roundup! I still want to make that berry cream cheese.
That lemon cake looks divine!
My favorite is the brownies!
I love that you divided it up by month!
Great roundup, these all look so yummy!
great post honey!!!!
lots of love to you!!!=D
I stopped dead in my tracks at the sight of the coconut layer cake with lemon curd. Just pinned it for the world to see – and for me to make!! ~Megan
beantownbaker — December 28th, 2011 @ 4:55 pm
Thanks for pinning it!
Great list of recipes! I like how you did the best from each month. I was just going to do a best overall for the year post. Now you have me contemplating redoing my list!
what a delicious compilation. you made a lot of beautiful food in 2011.
So many great looking recipes there! That cheesecake looks gorgeous! And those Zucchini sticks sound good too.
I just wanted to say thanks for all the great recipes! I made all of my Christmas goodies from your blog- including your Fresh Cranberry Orange Cookies and Candied Vanilla Pecans just today!
I look forward to your posts every day! 🙂
beantownbaker — December 30th, 2011 @ 2:22 pm
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoy the posts 🙂 Happy New Year
I made the braised beef for a special occasion and it was AMAZING! Thinking I might need to make it again, now that you’ve reminded me…
beantownbaker — January 4th, 2012 @ 8:02 am
I’ve reminded myself to make it again as well! I can’t believe it’s been a year since I made it.
tasty round up!