May 2013
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I’m scheduled to run two 5K races this weekend. On sat it’s the Camp Ojibway 5K then sunday is a Wolf Run 5K. Both are fundraisers for kids camp programs.
However, today I’m setting off for Texas for my uncle Tom’s funeral on Saturday. Obviously won’t be showing up for those races. I’ve already paid for them, so Steph is going to packet pickup to at least...
WIW
Starting Weight (1/18/2012): 386 lbs
Last week (5/8/2013): 311.8 lbs
Current weight (5/15/2013): 308.8 lbs
Soo… a 3 pound loss. I’ll take it. Not exactly happy about what I’ve done to get there though. Back to “starvation mode”.
However, I’m learning not to get to excited about a single loss. There needs to be a trend. A single week of loss is not a win...
sabbyrunsatl replied to your post: Hot Ride Home (almost..)
How long is that ride? I am not very heat tolerant, even with heat tolerance training. I bring a big water bottle filled with ice water, more ice than water, and it’s gone by mile 5 of my 7 mile ride.
The full ride would be 19-20 miles. Today I was only able to do 14 - took a little over 50 minutes (I forgot to stop my garmin). The...
Hot Ride Home (almost..)
I was really looking forward to the bike ride home today but at the same time I was dreading it. It was 97 degrees when I set out for my ride today!
Good news is, it was one of those dry heats. It actually felt really nice outside with only 14% humidity. That being said, I was sweating buckets and the heat did eventually get to me. I made it 3/4 of the way home before my calves could take no...
Bike commute
Rode the bicycle into work today.
I copped out on the first half of my ride. Got too late of a start because I was dragging really bad this morning. Not really sure why, I slept well. Even now after my ride, I’m just DRAINED. Since my wife was going to her bible study this morning she just dropped me off at a park that’s right off the highway she takes - pretty convenient.
Had...
Dude!
Today’s run averaged 10:13/mile! I did 2 miles alternating between 12:00/mile and 8:30/mile on the treadmill ( it was raining outside) in 20:26. My legs are toast.
Originally was going to do an easy 3 miles because of the riding yesterday and the terrible leg cramps I had last night. But when it got to be time to hit the gym I was running late and had a meeting coming up and had to make...
Headwinds and stoplights
I was so jazzed on my ride home because it seemed every time I looked at my watch when I was cruising it was clocking in between 18-22 MPH. Of course there were uphills and downhills that were outside of that (43 MPH peak speed!! Woot!!) but I was confident I’d have a good summary when I plugged into the computer. There’s was also a nasty headwind too, which made me even more jazzed...
First ride into work
Today was my first ride into work with the new bike. Man, it was nice. Had my wife drop me off at a park about half way as I didn’t want to try to tackle the whole 20 miles the first ride nor did I really have the time.
I averaged 15 mph even with getting stopped by almost every stinking light. Getting used to the new pedals (Time RXS) is making my starts a bit problematic - I’m...
WIW
Starting Weight (1/18/2012): 386 lbs
Last week (4/24/2013): 302.4 lbs
Current weight (5/8/2013): 311.8 lbs
I honestly don’t understand what happened, was not expecting this. Just dumbfounded - almost 10 lbs gained in two weeks. I’ve been eating good and working out.
Only real difference is now that the half is done my training has been lower miles and much, much, higher...
I got to run outside!!!!
With the weather we’ve been having this is quite the achievement to get outside. Did a short, but intense interval workout today.
Took 23 minutes to run 2 miles. Nothing too structured, I’d just pick a point and run to it as hard as I could. Then walk for a minute to recover my heart rate and do it again. I hit a heart rate above my “max” - that was an intense...
What's this crazy lookin' guy doing?
I had a crazy good run today so I took a crazy looking pic…
Really, I’ve been checked out for a few days. Just needed a reset I guess. Last week after doing my lunges my muscles were SORE so I opted out of my friday run. Then Sat I was at a training event with my dog and Sunday night I did some weightlifting and racquetball. So it’s been about 5 days since I last ran.
Man...
Weightlifting
After yesterday’s intense run I decided to do weightlifting today as my legs are SORE.
Not much to report - lots of upper body stuff. Bench press, bicep curls (dumbbells and cable) tricep presses and pushdowns, chest fly, row… etc…
I’m shot. I’d take a picture but I’m not sure I have it in me to flex my arms.
Here’s an orange instead…
I did...
First post half-marathon run
I did intervals for 2 miles. 7min/mile for 1 minute then 2 minutes walking. Took 23:33 with my short warmup.
Followed up with 67 pushups.
My groin muscles are very angry with me. That’s probably a good thing.
sabbyrunsatl replied to your post: New Baby
Which Specialized is it? Congrats!
It’s a 2012 Roubaix Elite. I got lucky that they were closing out last years model and they still had one in my size. For anyone that’s a bike geek - it’s the cheapest model in the lineup that still had a full 105 component set.
My old Giant was a steel bike which does ride nice - a lot better than...
New Baby
I’ve been drooling over one of these for a long time…
I really do like my old vintage Giant bike that I rode last year but it just doesn’t compare. This thing is sooo smooth and so much more efficient riding. I’m looking forward to putting a lot of miles on this thing and now I don’t have to be paranoid about breaking down all the time!
April 2013
42 posts
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Get In Gear Half Marathon Recap
This was a day that right from the get go wasn’t going right. The race started at 9 but due to parking situation we needed to be up and out the door early so we could catch a train around 7:30. Sitting at the train station I made two realizations.
1) I forgot to take my pills (for diabetes and high blood pressure) which I wonder if that had something to do with my issues later on.
2) I...
Get In Gear Half Marathon
One word summary: Suckage
More details to follow later. But remember that really bad treadmill run I had about a month ago that was “my worst run ever”. It just got knocked up a rung on the ladder.
Ugh.
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So I’m standing at the train station waiting to go to the half marathon and just realized that I forgot to put my little bandaid on. FML…
Rest Day Weightlifting
Took it easy on the legs today. But got a great upper body weightlifting session. I pushed 225 lbs (5 reps) on the bench press today! Very happy to be back up there - and it felt great, no pain.
Awesome.
Then I did 50 pushups on my 100 pushups program and lots of arm curls, tricep presses, rows and chest fly.
Man I’m pooped.
I guess I had a good workout yesterday...
Woke up with leg cramps. When I tried to get out of bed they locked up hard and went right up my back so I ended up falling onto the floor. My wife had fallen asleep on the couch because one of our little one’s got up real early and she couldn’t hear me - I couldn’t take a deep enough breath to yell loud. Eventually I knocked my cell phone off the night stand and texted her....
Last training run!
Today was the last training run before the half-marathon. Man, it feels so weird. Especially since it was just supposed to be a 2 mile run.
Instead of an easy run, I did intervals. Warmed up for a couple of minutes then alternated between 7 min/mile and walking every 30 seconds. A couple of times I had to walk a little extra because I wasn’t recovering.
It felt GREAT! I realize in...
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WIW
Starting Weight (1/18/2012): 386 lbs
Last week (4/10/2013): 300.6 lbs
Current weight (4/24/2013): 302.4 lbs
GRRRR!!!! Up, down, up, up, down, up, down, up, up….
At least I got rid of the 20 lbs extra I had on me last week. Although, I honestly was expecting to see a number under 300 today.
After Sat I’ll be done with the half-marathon and can start to focus on...
HIIT Workouts
thefitandfooddiaries:
These are awesome cardio workouts for fat loss goals. Intervals are more challenging than steady-state cardio on the body! Get in your HIIT workout today!
I definitely need to be thinking about this stuff. Need to plan ahead to what my training is going to be after the half-marathon this weekend.
Last week of half-marathon taining
W12D2 - three mile easy run. So I set the treadmill to 12:00/mi and cruised. Actually surprisingly hard at first - couldn’t get my breathing right and I wasn’t even sweating for the first mile or so. Then things fell in line and the firehose opened and I sweat an unusual amount for doing an easy run. It’s like the body was telling me where to go…
After the run I did my...
Rest day
W12D1 calls for a rest day so I subbed in upper body weightlifting.
STAYED THE HELL AWAY FROM SQUATS!!! lol…
Went pretty well. Still feel like I’m getting back on the horse and not able to work to my full potential. Not sure how to describe it. I push to failure and limit out, but I don’t feel as exhausted at the end of the workout like I think I should.
Quite a busy day
Yesterday I couldn’t even run a few steps. Today I did 9 miles. What a difference a day can make.
W11D6 of the schedule called for 12 miles but with the back being out I hadn’t run since last Saturday. So without running for a week I was just going to do the best I could do.
I managed 9 miles before the back started hurting. Given the situation I was a lot slower that planned...
Not sure what to title this.
I haven’t run in a week at this point. I tried running last night and only got a couple of steps before pain was shooting though my back. Today I was supposed to do 12 miles to train for the half marathon next saturday. It’s definitely not happening.
Tomorrow I will try to run and see how it goes.
Frustrated doesn’t even begin to scratch the...
Swimming
Well, since I couldn’t do my 5mi run that’s on the books yesterday I went swimming. Something nice and easy on the back.
I’m amazed how much swimming stresses my calves, cramp city. It doesn’t feel like you’re working them that hard then, WHAM!
Did 22 lengths in 30 minutes. Sooo, I think that’s about 1/3 of a mile. Unfortunately that required me stopping...
WIW is not happening this week. Stepped on the scale this morning and I’m up 20 (yes TWENTY) pounds from last week.
I know that’s BS. Has something to do with being laid up in pain and taking narcotics. I feel extremely boated - everything is tight on me.
So rather than get wound up I’m just taking the week off from WIW. I’ll be back to normal in a couple of days...
Someone run a few miles for me for Boston!
No running is happening today. I can barely walk much less run.
W11D2 of the schedule calls for 3 easy miles today. Then 5 tomorrow. I don’t know when I’m going to get the next one in. REALLY hoping to be able to do my 12 miler this Sat.
Pity Part Time —- WHY THE HELL IS IT THAT EVERY TIME I TURN AROUND AND SOME INJURY IS KEEPING ME FROM DOING STUFF?!?!?
OK I’m...
i just saw that one of the boston fatalities was...
lindsaydoeslife:
i am just sick.
WTF?!? A child!?! I didn’t know I could be more infuriated about this. The bastard(s) responsible needs to be fed their own balls before they get the lethal injection.
Just flipping great..
This seems so trivial after what happened today at the Boston marathon.
Blew my back out doing squats. Great. Did it about an hour after paying my registration fees for the get in gear half marathon later this month. Double Great. Hopefully be back on my feet fast!
iwillrunforfood:
Someone that I follow on Twitter said:
“As a runner, I feel like someone just attacked my friends. As I person, I am just horrified.”
Exactly. I’m just floored by this. Right now I’m in shock.
Swimming!
Today was supposed to be a crosstraining day. I’ve been dying to do some swimming and need to get back into it if I’m going to do a tri this year.
Holy crap! It’s harder than I remember. I think the last time I swam was almost 10 years ago. It took me about 50 minutes to swim 30 lengths of the pool - I think it’s 25 meters long. Most of the time I’d swim one...
Testing out the shoulder
I’m just posting like crazy!!
Last night Steph and I went to the gym for some weightlifting. It’s my first time I’ve done the bench press in months. I did do it real light a few weeks ago but that was less than my normal warm up weight.
It went real well. No shoulder pain!! Again, I took it easy - max was 6 reps at 205. It felt soooo good. I’m sore today, but I...
Week 9 "long run"
Today was the W9D6 long run which meant 6 miles as it’s a step back.
6 miles, 1:14:10. Felt really darn good but I took it quite easy as I want to make sure feet continue to feel good. Unfortunately I did do it on the treadmill as it was cold, sloppy & icy outside.
Finally made good use of the hdmi port on my phone though and plugged it into the TV at work for the run. Watched...
Slow 3 miler
W9D4 of the training schedule. Supposed to be an easy three miler but I’ve been trying to do intervals on this day of the week.
Well, after pushing the end of last night’s run I just don’t have it in me. I’m pretty sore. So taking it easy as the schedule called for was pretty well enforced. 3mi 37:55.
However, I was sweating bucket loads today. Definitely...
melanieisdoinglife replied to your post: Crazy day but I got my run in…
I’m pretty sure I’d stumble and go flying off the treadmill if I tried to text and run. At any speed.
Haha… I can at least say for sure that I cannot walk and text on the treadmill…
Crazy day but I got my run in...
W9D3 called for a 5 miler. Crazy day at work made me wonder if it was going to happen. Well, it did - after work.
5.01 miles in 59:48, just under the wire before the treadmill went into cooldown mode on me. It’s somewhat better than it sounds when you figure the first 5 minutes were spent walking. I got a replacement phone last night and didn’t have pandora or bluetooth set up and...
run-doozer-run replied to your post: Easy 3 mi on W9D2
Do the longer of the two long runs, if you can. If you’ve been staying on track with the rest of your runs you should be alright come race day :)
I think that’s what I’m going to do. This weekend will be backing off on the mileage to get the scheduled rest then I’ll do the 12mile run next weekend before the race.
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WIW
Starting Weight (1/18/2012): 386 lbs
Last week (4/3/2013): 303.2 lbs
Current weight (4/10/2013): 300.6 lbs
Well hello there! Almost a 3 pound loss!!!
I was really hoping for yesterday’s weight which was 298. I’ll take what I can get.
My hope is that the plan is working and the increased calories are doing their thing and revving up the metabolism. I’m trying not to get...
Easy 3 mi on W9D2
Today was an easy 3mi run - 34:38. Basically ran a 12:00/mi pace until the last half mile where I ramped from 10:00/mi to 8:30/mi. Treadmill run though - raining like crazy outside and the precursor to our supposed 6-12 inches of snow.
However… So the half-marathon is on April 27th which means I evidently can’t do math. I should be on week 10 of the training schedule not week 9....
W9D1 Cross training
Actually yesterday was supposed to be cross training and today was supposed to be a rest day. I’m flopping them around.
Just did 20 min on the elliptical trainer today. But, I did it in intervals. Ramped it up to the max resistance and went as fast as I could for one minute then backed it off and costed for 2-3 minutes until I recovered. Wow my legs hurt.
Awesome.
It’s looking...
