Fitness yay!

So I finally got up off my ass and got back to playing the fitness game for rugby. Considering I only did about two and a half weeks in the two months I was in Madrid* I was worried that I'd be a little slow or a little weak.

I went running in our neighborhood, a route I did before I went to Spain that takes me less than 20 minutes and that is somewhere between 1 and 3 miles. It's got a lot of hills. When I did it before I went to Spain, I didn't make it the whole way - I stopped and walked a LOT on the way back. But when I did it today, I ran the WHOLE WAY! (Okay, I lie, I took like a 20 second break to scratch my legs at the halfway point but THAT DOESN'T COUNT!) So apparently, walking at least a mile a day and walking up and down five flights of stairs everytime I had to go to my apartment kept me sort of in shape!

I could possibly also attribute my not stopping to the fact that I got a book on CD and uploaded it to my iPod and was thus distracted from internal whining about muscles hurting and my stomach churning etc etc, but I'm going to not do that.


On a sort of related note, does anyone know of any websites or books that deal with nutritional health for a jock vegetarian who wants to eat healthily but cheaply while keeping up her energy and maybe gaining a little muscle weight? Please?


*Which I consider TOTALLY acceptable, btw, because being a little slower or weaker in rugby this season is worth having gone to the parks in Madrid instead of running.