June 30, 2009
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Since ponderous is doing it and so is atomblonde, I guess I can join in? Right? Right.
I missed Monday but I am going to try to blog every other day except yesterday (since I don’t have a time machine or anything…yet) until July 26th. We’ll see how long it takes until I’m superduper bored or boring…
Today I was up at 0356 to go to the gym. I just started training for my half-marathon. I am planning to run the Lost Dutchman Half-Marathon out in Apache Junction on February 14th, 2010. Yeah, 2010. I have 7 months or so to train for it, which is likely overkill but as it’s an outdoor trail running kind of deal with hills and cold temperatures, I prefer to be OVER ready rather than UNDER prepared like I was for the 5k mentioned below. I ran 3.5 miles today at my maintenance pace (which, right now, is 6.0mph or a 31 minute 5k). That’s how fast I run when I’m not in a hurry and when I’m not doing a long run.
I’m planning to run on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuesdays will be the maintenance run, Thursdays the fartlek (which I have to figure out how to do safely on a treadmill) and Sundays will be my long run. Monday, Wednesday and Friday I have bootcamp most of the time – except during our occasional breaks. I am in bootcamp until November when I will be discontinuing my bootcamp subscription, with the hope of getting into the CLS program at Phoenix College. That will be 15 months of a very busy Kelly, indeed! I will still be running 3 days a week though and strength training/circuit training 3 days a week. That leaves me with Saturdays as a free day – I suppose I might go to the gym on some of those days and cross train but mostly, I do yardwork and housework and count that as my mild exercise for the day.
I guess I had a little more to say today than I thought. I also got poked for a varicella titer and a TB test. My arm hurts on the arm where the did the TB test, so I’m off to google to see if that is normal….
Comments (4)
i’ve sort of been contemplating doing a half marathon … but i have that heel problem so i am scared to do any running/treadmill walking. there is a half in october, which my co-worker thinks i could do, but i am a little too scared for that. you are a workout machine!!!
@ponderous - I like to eat. I really really do. And if I workout – I get to eat more. Admittedly, my definition of more now means, I can eat as much by way of fruit and veggies as I like without bothering to weigh or measure them and I can have one cheat meal a week or so (sometimes it’s two, like this week). That, and I find that I’m in a MUCH better mood when I workout daily. It’s helped immensely with the cramps and moodiness for PMS week too – so what’s not to love? I mean, aside from the getting up early, the heat, the sweating and the hard work part?
i’ve been working out 5x/week, burning at least 1000 cal in cardio plus strength training. i am irritated because i weighed in last night and have only lost 1# since the end of april. how effing depressing. gah.
@ponderous - that is depressing. As my bootcamp instructor says – exercise is only 1/3 of the equation – the other 2/3rds is eating! I know I’ve been slacking a bit in my eating – so I’m not seeing much by way of loss. But I’m okay with maintaining personally.