Workout: stairs 30:00 + PU/SQU
Weight: 126.2
First day of my new schedule and my new workouts. I stayed home this morning and climbed our basement stairs for 30:00. It was boring, but I was going to do the stairmill at the gym on Mondays anyway, so I opted to stay home and try this. It was fine. I need a new playlist though, because listening to my running playlist when I'm not running really sucks.
I also did Week 1 Day 1 of pushups & squats. I did the following:
PU:
10, 12, 9, 9, max (12) with a 60 sec rest between sets
Squats:
13, 16, 9, 9, max (50) with a 60 sec rest between sets & an 8lb dumbell in each hand.
I will run 5 miles tomorrow morning & do situps (I'm going to do knee ups because of my tailbone).
On a side note: my in-laws moved back to town over the weekend and we were there Sat & Sun helping them unpack and am going back this afternoon. I'm going to get fat if I don't watch out - they eat crap and I'm going to have to be extremely diligent about not eating it when I'm there. I may have to bring some food with me, because I don't think I'll ever find a fruit or vegetable in their house unless I walk it through the door;) Am I wrong, Amy?
Monday, March 7, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Saturday March 5, 2011
Workout: Long run - 7 miles
Time: 68:35
Incline: 2%
Pace: 9:47 (average)
Weight: 126.6
This run was awesome. I felt really good throughout the entire run - felt like I could run for hours, but I started chaffing under my left arm and had to stop. It is a step down week and the calendar said only 5-6 miles, but I felt so good I ran the extra mile and definitely felt like I could have run at least 3-4 more. I ran the first 3 at 10:00/ and the middle 2 at 9:40/ and the last 2 at 9:30/.
I watched The Sting with Robert Redford & Paul Newman while I was running. It was a very pleasant way to pass the time.
Wondering if cutting down my running days has been the reason I've felt so good in these last two runs. I think maybe I'll cut down to 3 days/ week and see how that goes. That way I can do a normal run at the beginning of the week of 4-5 miles, a tempo in the middle of the week and a long run on Saturday. I'll cross train and do yoga on the other days. And do my PU/SQU/SU challenge. I'll sit down this week and figure out the timing of it all, but that sounds good - I like how I've felt on these last two runs.
Time: 68:35
Incline: 2%
Pace: 9:47 (average)
Weight: 126.6
This run was awesome. I felt really good throughout the entire run - felt like I could run for hours, but I started chaffing under my left arm and had to stop. It is a step down week and the calendar said only 5-6 miles, but I felt so good I ran the extra mile and definitely felt like I could have run at least 3-4 more. I ran the first 3 at 10:00/ and the middle 2 at 9:40/ and the last 2 at 9:30/.
I watched The Sting with Robert Redford & Paul Newman while I was running. It was a very pleasant way to pass the time.
Wondering if cutting down my running days has been the reason I've felt so good in these last two runs. I think maybe I'll cut down to 3 days/ week and see how that goes. That way I can do a normal run at the beginning of the week of 4-5 miles, a tempo in the middle of the week and a long run on Saturday. I'll cross train and do yoga on the other days. And do my PU/SQU/SU challenge. I'll sit down this week and figure out the timing of it all, but that sounds good - I like how I've felt on these last two runs.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Thursday March 3, 2011
Workout: tempo run - 6.5 miles total
Incline: 2%
Time: 62:07
Weight: 126.2
Workout as follows:
1 mile warm up (10:00)
[8:00 RP (9:13), 3:00 recover (10:00)] x 3
2 mile cool down (9:30-9:50)
This went really well. Probably due to getting adequate sleep for the last couple of nights, skipping a run yesterday and running at 5:00 in the afternoon. I felt awesome, though.
I set up a playlist that matched the timing of this workout and I ran to the songs, rather than to the time. So my RP times were usually longer than 8:00 - by maybe 30 seconds. The last tempo set, I punched it up to an 8:57 pace and ran a full mile at that instead of stopping at 8 minutes. I felt awesome. Dave had told me that the run was tough and he was really tired and the 2 mile cool down was nearly torture, so I was expecting horror, however, I felt amazing the whole time.
Next week I'm going to start a push up / squat / sit up challenge. Six weeks of training to get to the point of doing 100 consecutive push ups, 200 consecutive squats & 200 consecutive sit ups. There is a 3 day/week training schedule. I'm going to try to keep up with the long runs on Saturdays, do the tempo run and do one other run during the week. I'll also do some cross training in addition to the PU/SQ/SU training. I'm pretty excited to be challenged by this and feel like by doing it I'll be hitting every muscle group and gaining a lot of strength that I've lost by focusing only on running. I need to get some muscle back!
Incline: 2%
Time: 62:07
Weight: 126.2
Workout as follows:
1 mile warm up (10:00)
[8:00 RP (9:13), 3:00 recover (10:00)] x 3
2 mile cool down (9:30-9:50)
This went really well. Probably due to getting adequate sleep for the last couple of nights, skipping a run yesterday and running at 5:00 in the afternoon. I felt awesome, though.
I set up a playlist that matched the timing of this workout and I ran to the songs, rather than to the time. So my RP times were usually longer than 8:00 - by maybe 30 seconds. The last tempo set, I punched it up to an 8:57 pace and ran a full mile at that instead of stopping at 8 minutes. I felt awesome. Dave had told me that the run was tough and he was really tired and the 2 mile cool down was nearly torture, so I was expecting horror, however, I felt amazing the whole time.
Next week I'm going to start a push up / squat / sit up challenge. Six weeks of training to get to the point of doing 100 consecutive push ups, 200 consecutive squats & 200 consecutive sit ups. There is a 3 day/week training schedule. I'm going to try to keep up with the long runs on Saturdays, do the tempo run and do one other run during the week. I'll also do some cross training in addition to the PU/SQ/SU training. I'm pretty excited to be challenged by this and feel like by doing it I'll be hitting every muscle group and gaining a lot of strength that I've lost by focusing only on running. I need to get some muscle back!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Saturday February 26, 2011
Workout: Long Run - 8 miles
Time: 77:00
Pace: 9:36 (average)
Weight: 127.0
Run felt really good this morning. I'm pretty dehydrated, so that sucks, but I felt good. I decided to run at 0 incline so I'd have a chance at having a decent run.
Thursday morning I went to a foot doctor to have him look at one of my toenails that is growing in kind of funky. I talked to him about the pain I've been having in the ball of my right foot. He took xrays and said that it is my second toe joint that is "going"... as in that is what is causing the pain and it is going to get worse over time.
I'm thinking about quitting running altogether. I don't want to be like my mom, who has had multiple surgeries on both feet and is still in a great amount of pain and is basically immobile. Her lifestyle is dramatically reduced, in my opinion, because she can't be on her feet or walk for any length of time (she does anyway, and then her feet hurt so bad that she has to stay off of them for days at a time). I don't want that in my life. And if running will cause that, then I don't want to run. Running didn't cause her issues - not exactly sure what her issues are - but if running is going to cause me significant pain in the future, then is it worth doing now?
But I don't belong to a gym that has a pool or classes. So I'd be stuck to the eliptical, the bike and the stair mill. All of which I hate. And I'm not sure I'd stay motivated. I have to put a lot of thought into this. The nurse taped my foot, so I wanted to run today to see if it makes a difference.
Time: 77:00
Pace: 9:36 (average)
Weight: 127.0
Run felt really good this morning. I'm pretty dehydrated, so that sucks, but I felt good. I decided to run at 0 incline so I'd have a chance at having a decent run.
Thursday morning I went to a foot doctor to have him look at one of my toenails that is growing in kind of funky. I talked to him about the pain I've been having in the ball of my right foot. He took xrays and said that it is my second toe joint that is "going"... as in that is what is causing the pain and it is going to get worse over time.
I'm thinking about quitting running altogether. I don't want to be like my mom, who has had multiple surgeries on both feet and is still in a great amount of pain and is basically immobile. Her lifestyle is dramatically reduced, in my opinion, because she can't be on her feet or walk for any length of time (she does anyway, and then her feet hurt so bad that she has to stay off of them for days at a time). I don't want that in my life. And if running will cause that, then I don't want to run. Running didn't cause her issues - not exactly sure what her issues are - but if running is going to cause me significant pain in the future, then is it worth doing now?
But I don't belong to a gym that has a pool or classes. So I'd be stuck to the eliptical, the bike and the stair mill. All of which I hate. And I'm not sure I'd stay motivated. I have to put a lot of thought into this. The nurse taped my foot, so I wanted to run today to see if it makes a difference.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Tuesday February 22, 2011
Workout: Walk 2 miles 5% incline
Time: 33:17
Weight: 125.0
Went to bed last night thinking that I'd get up and run 3 miles again this morning, but when I woke up, I decided to walk instead. My left ankle is hurting pretty badly and I don't want to aggravate it more than necessary. Decided to walk for 2 miles and the painting I do today will count for my normally scheduled weight lifting. The only thing missing will be stretching.
I'm painting our bedroom today. Yesterday I painted all of the trim (fresh coat) and today I'm doing the walls - soft pumpkin. I have new bedding, new curtains, new sheets - all for very reasonable prices: total cost of room redo: $234 (inlcudes paint & supplies)! Totally jazzed about it!
Time: 33:17
Weight: 125.0
Went to bed last night thinking that I'd get up and run 3 miles again this morning, but when I woke up, I decided to walk instead. My left ankle is hurting pretty badly and I don't want to aggravate it more than necessary. Decided to walk for 2 miles and the painting I do today will count for my normally scheduled weight lifting. The only thing missing will be stretching.
I'm painting our bedroom today. Yesterday I painted all of the trim (fresh coat) and today I'm doing the walls - soft pumpkin. I have new bedding, new curtains, new sheets - all for very reasonable prices: total cost of room redo: $234 (inlcudes paint & supplies)! Totally jazzed about it!
Monday, February 21, 2011
Monday February 21, 2011
Workout: 3.15 miles
Time: 30:00
Pace: 9:31
Weight: 126.2
In an effort to stop being so crabby, I've revised my training schedule again and am really reconsidering the 25k... will at least do the 10k since Dave and Jason are doing the 25k, but I'm just not sure I can train for this.
The only time for me to run is in the morning before school. Since my morning devotions are non-negotiable, this means that in order for me to get anything more than 3-4 miles done in the morning, I have to wake up at 5am. This is fine once or twice a week, but 5 days a week and it was causing me to be crabby. In addition, I was heading up to bed around 9:30, which means that the time that Dave and I had together alone after the girls went to bed was cut short... and the nights that he worked late (W/TH) we hardly had any time together.
Friday afternoon I was so crabby and Dave pointed out to me that it had been more than just Friday, it had been a couple of weeks. I'm going to try to cut my weekly runs down to 3-4 miles + stretching and see if I can still keep up with the long runs on Saturdays. That way I can get an extra 30 minutes of sleep in the morning. I'll have to see how this goes. I"m not entirely counting out the 25k, but need to be honest and realistic. This race is not worth making our home unpeaceful.
Time: 30:00
Pace: 9:31
Weight: 126.2
In an effort to stop being so crabby, I've revised my training schedule again and am really reconsidering the 25k... will at least do the 10k since Dave and Jason are doing the 25k, but I'm just not sure I can train for this.
The only time for me to run is in the morning before school. Since my morning devotions are non-negotiable, this means that in order for me to get anything more than 3-4 miles done in the morning, I have to wake up at 5am. This is fine once or twice a week, but 5 days a week and it was causing me to be crabby. In addition, I was heading up to bed around 9:30, which means that the time that Dave and I had together alone after the girls went to bed was cut short... and the nights that he worked late (W/TH) we hardly had any time together.
Friday afternoon I was so crabby and Dave pointed out to me that it had been more than just Friday, it had been a couple of weeks. I'm going to try to cut my weekly runs down to 3-4 miles + stretching and see if I can still keep up with the long runs on Saturdays. That way I can get an extra 30 minutes of sleep in the morning. I'll have to see how this goes. I"m not entirely counting out the 25k, but need to be honest and realistic. This race is not worth making our home unpeaceful.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Saturday February 19, 2011
Workout: 7.25 miles
Time: 70:00
Pace: 9:39 (average)
Weight: 126.4
So glad I have this out of the way. Was not looking forward to doing a long run. I'm kind of getting sick of running and this sounded awful. Not sure if running outside would make a difference in my being sick of it. Perhaps. But its got to get a lot warmer for me to run outside at 6am. And thinking about getting up early on Saturday mornings to drive out to Old Plank Trail to do longer runs than this sounds soooo... ick. Not diggin' the training right now.
I made a playlist entirely of praise & worship music. It was really nice to run to that this morning instead of the same ol' songs that I normally run to. For one thing, the songs are longer, so while a 7 mile run with my normal playlist would be about 18 songs, this run was only 14 songs. So when I'm counting songs and find out that after 5 songs I've already run 2.75 miles when I normally would have barely hit the 2 mile mark, that is awesome.
Beyond that, though, I'm really trying to immerse myself in God and become more aware of him throughout the day. I find that it really helps me to listen to p&w music during the day... it refocuses my attention on what I should be focused on. Unfortunately I've been living in a stretch of time where if I think about God beyond my bible reading the in the morning it is a miracle. I know it is happening and I confess it and want to be more aware, but it doesn't change. In the past, I've found that playing p&w music helps me a lot with that. I'm also listening to Moody Bible radio in the car instead of normal talk radio banter. I find the station and the people on it to be too fundamental and conservative for me, however, I'm hearing Bible verses when i normally wouldn't be and their fundamentalist and conservative opinions are causing me to think about issues and where I stand on them and what I think. It also prompts conversations between me & Dave and other people. So even though I don't like much of what I hear, it is good to hear it.
So listening to my p&w playlist had several good effects this morning. I did find myself struggling to run against the beat of the music a couple of times, which was frustrating, but overall it was pretty close to my pace.
Time: 70:00
Pace: 9:39 (average)
Weight: 126.4
So glad I have this out of the way. Was not looking forward to doing a long run. I'm kind of getting sick of running and this sounded awful. Not sure if running outside would make a difference in my being sick of it. Perhaps. But its got to get a lot warmer for me to run outside at 6am. And thinking about getting up early on Saturday mornings to drive out to Old Plank Trail to do longer runs than this sounds soooo... ick. Not diggin' the training right now.
I made a playlist entirely of praise & worship music. It was really nice to run to that this morning instead of the same ol' songs that I normally run to. For one thing, the songs are longer, so while a 7 mile run with my normal playlist would be about 18 songs, this run was only 14 songs. So when I'm counting songs and find out that after 5 songs I've already run 2.75 miles when I normally would have barely hit the 2 mile mark, that is awesome.
Beyond that, though, I'm really trying to immerse myself in God and become more aware of him throughout the day. I find that it really helps me to listen to p&w music during the day... it refocuses my attention on what I should be focused on. Unfortunately I've been living in a stretch of time where if I think about God beyond my bible reading the in the morning it is a miracle. I know it is happening and I confess it and want to be more aware, but it doesn't change. In the past, I've found that playing p&w music helps me a lot with that. I'm also listening to Moody Bible radio in the car instead of normal talk radio banter. I find the station and the people on it to be too fundamental and conservative for me, however, I'm hearing Bible verses when i normally wouldn't be and their fundamentalist and conservative opinions are causing me to think about issues and where I stand on them and what I think. It also prompts conversations between me & Dave and other people. So even though I don't like much of what I hear, it is good to hear it.
So listening to my p&w playlist had several good effects this morning. I did find myself struggling to run against the beat of the music a couple of times, which was frustrating, but overall it was pretty close to my pace.
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