Workout: 20:00 cross + weight training
Weight: 125.8
Glad to see my weight is down at least a little bit from yesterday. Hoping this will be a trend:)
Did 20 minutes on the upright bike this morning for my cross. On the way to the gym I decided that I hate the eliptical that much... that I couldn't even bear to do 20 minutes on it this morning. Heart rate was not great - 120's for the whole workout. But I needed a bit of an easier workout this morning.
My right quad is quite sore from yesterday's run. My abs are also sore. Pretty obvious to me that I haven't run in a while. However, I have NO calf pain or soreness today, which definitely excites me! I'm going to ice it again today and need to remember to ice my ankle, too. I don't think my ankle will ever be pain-free.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Tuesday March 2, 2010
Workout: 20 minutes cross + weights
Weight: 125.0
Ahhh - as much as I don't care about the actual number, I am getting pretty sick of the drastic fluctuation in my weight everyday. Yesterday I was 123.0, today 125.0. I just wish a number would stick.
I decided to try working out in the afternoon today so I could get some more sleep in the morning. Getting up at 4:45 every morning is getting to be a drag - especially with the mileage that I'm running. I feel like I'm constantly tired. And we're going to bed earlier and earlier. Its getting a little crazy - going to bed at 9:15 makes for not a whole lot of evening together after the girls go to bed at 8 - or after 8 like last night.
Working out in the afternoon was much different. Observations:
* I slept until 7am and woke up feeling like ass - like I needed 3 more hours of sleep, like I had been woken up in the middle of deep, deep sleep. Felt much worse than waking up at 4:45.
* I tooled around in my pajamas all morning because I saw no sense in taking a shower and getting dressed just to do it all again after working out. I hate that process, so I don't want to do it twice. Felt a little frumpish because of it. I might stay in my pjs all day on Sunday, but I don't plan to be productive on Sunday anyway.
* I did the cross training much harder than I normally do on Tue or Fri mornings. Usually I take it pretty easy and am probably lucky to get my heart rate up to 130 and break a small sweat. Today my heart rate was 160, I was breathing heavy and pouring sweat (did the eliptical at level 10). This also made the weight lifting portion more sweaty.
* Because I was working out during my time during the day without the girls, I was in a hurry. I wasn't in a hurry to skip portions of my workout, but I wasn't wasting any time either. I took a quick shower and came home. No dawdling for me. Got there at 12:30 and was out by 1:40.
* Just because I chose to go to the gym later in the day didn't mean that all of the people I normally see at the gym chose to do the same. Somehow their days went on as normal:) It was a completely different group of people and I somewhat felt like I was intruding on their territory.
* A lot more guys in the afternoon than in the morning.
* A lot of people were on their cell phones. This continues to amaze me - that people actually try to workout and talk on the cell phone at the same time - or text. In MY opinion, they are not committed to a real workout, because you just can't do both - not to the extent that you really should. I saw one woman doing the stairmill with the phone cradled between her shoulder & her ear. The stairmill was moving slower than I thought could be possible - like as slow as if I was just standing on it while it was stopped and through sheer force of gravity it moved down a level. What is that? Why in the world is this woman wasting her time? And it was the entire time - it wasn't like a 5 minute break.
* People who can run 8:30 miles are my heroes. People who can run 5.5 miles at an 8:30 pace are even more of my heroes. And people who can run 5.5 miles at an 8:30 pace, hardly have a drop of sweat on their shirts and not look AT.ALL like they could even run a mile are running goddesses.
I took some naproxen for my ankle yesterday and this morning. Its feeling much better.
Workout - 20 minutes on the eliptical. Heart rate was at 158/161, went over 3 miles, burned 288 calories. Weights: glutes, quads, hams, calves, back, tris.
Good, good workout. I will probably do this more often.
Weight: 125.0
Ahhh - as much as I don't care about the actual number, I am getting pretty sick of the drastic fluctuation in my weight everyday. Yesterday I was 123.0, today 125.0. I just wish a number would stick.
I decided to try working out in the afternoon today so I could get some more sleep in the morning. Getting up at 4:45 every morning is getting to be a drag - especially with the mileage that I'm running. I feel like I'm constantly tired. And we're going to bed earlier and earlier. Its getting a little crazy - going to bed at 9:15 makes for not a whole lot of evening together after the girls go to bed at 8 - or after 8 like last night.
Working out in the afternoon was much different. Observations:
* I slept until 7am and woke up feeling like ass - like I needed 3 more hours of sleep, like I had been woken up in the middle of deep, deep sleep. Felt much worse than waking up at 4:45.
* I tooled around in my pajamas all morning because I saw no sense in taking a shower and getting dressed just to do it all again after working out. I hate that process, so I don't want to do it twice. Felt a little frumpish because of it. I might stay in my pjs all day on Sunday, but I don't plan to be productive on Sunday anyway.
* I did the cross training much harder than I normally do on Tue or Fri mornings. Usually I take it pretty easy and am probably lucky to get my heart rate up to 130 and break a small sweat. Today my heart rate was 160, I was breathing heavy and pouring sweat (did the eliptical at level 10). This also made the weight lifting portion more sweaty.
* Because I was working out during my time during the day without the girls, I was in a hurry. I wasn't in a hurry to skip portions of my workout, but I wasn't wasting any time either. I took a quick shower and came home. No dawdling for me. Got there at 12:30 and was out by 1:40.
* Just because I chose to go to the gym later in the day didn't mean that all of the people I normally see at the gym chose to do the same. Somehow their days went on as normal:) It was a completely different group of people and I somewhat felt like I was intruding on their territory.
* A lot more guys in the afternoon than in the morning.
* A lot of people were on their cell phones. This continues to amaze me - that people actually try to workout and talk on the cell phone at the same time - or text. In MY opinion, they are not committed to a real workout, because you just can't do both - not to the extent that you really should. I saw one woman doing the stairmill with the phone cradled between her shoulder & her ear. The stairmill was moving slower than I thought could be possible - like as slow as if I was just standing on it while it was stopped and through sheer force of gravity it moved down a level. What is that? Why in the world is this woman wasting her time? And it was the entire time - it wasn't like a 5 minute break.
* People who can run 8:30 miles are my heroes. People who can run 5.5 miles at an 8:30 pace are even more of my heroes. And people who can run 5.5 miles at an 8:30 pace, hardly have a drop of sweat on their shirts and not look AT.ALL like they could even run a mile are running goddesses.
I took some naproxen for my ankle yesterday and this morning. Its feeling much better.
Workout - 20 minutes on the eliptical. Heart rate was at 158/161, went over 3 miles, burned 288 calories. Weights: glutes, quads, hams, calves, back, tris.
Good, good workout. I will probably do this more often.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Monday February 22, 2010
Weight: 125.0
Resting heart rate: 55bpm
Workout: 4 miles + 10:00 cross
Saturday killed me for this morning. I had a rough 4 miles this morning. My ankle hurt really, really bad, but ultimately it is my ankle that kept me going and not taking a break. I felt like I was laboring for a good portion of the run, however, I knew that if I stopped and started again my ankle would hurt again (ankle hurts for first 30 seconds - 1 minute of run then stops) and I wanted to avoid that so I just kept going. I was fine, it was just more of a struggle than it was comfortable.
Heart rate was 165. I increased my speed for the last mile - to 6.1 and then to 6.3. Heart rate then was 174.
Saturday night I was so exhausted and so unbelievably hungry. Apparently the tape worm comes back at 6 miles;) We had a good night - dinner was good, the wine was fantastic and the time together was worth it all. The B&B was cute and cozy and breakfast on Sunday morning was amazing. Very, very glad that we went and will be happy to return. The B&B is only 10 minutes from our house, but the downtown area feels like we're in a completely different area. I would like to return when the weather is nicer so we can walk around a bit and enjoy some time out on the balcony.
Hoping to rest my ankle so Wednesday's run is not nearly as difficult.
Resting heart rate: 55bpm
Workout: 4 miles + 10:00 cross
Saturday killed me for this morning. I had a rough 4 miles this morning. My ankle hurt really, really bad, but ultimately it is my ankle that kept me going and not taking a break. I felt like I was laboring for a good portion of the run, however, I knew that if I stopped and started again my ankle would hurt again (ankle hurts for first 30 seconds - 1 minute of run then stops) and I wanted to avoid that so I just kept going. I was fine, it was just more of a struggle than it was comfortable.
Heart rate was 165. I increased my speed for the last mile - to 6.1 and then to 6.3. Heart rate then was 174.
Saturday night I was so exhausted and so unbelievably hungry. Apparently the tape worm comes back at 6 miles;) We had a good night - dinner was good, the wine was fantastic and the time together was worth it all. The B&B was cute and cozy and breakfast on Sunday morning was amazing. Very, very glad that we went and will be happy to return. The B&B is only 10 minutes from our house, but the downtown area feels like we're in a completely different area. I would like to return when the weather is nicer so we can walk around a bit and enjoy some time out on the balcony.
Hoping to rest my ankle so Wednesday's run is not nearly as difficult.
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