1.0 mile walk at lunch.
September went by so unnoticed by my running and walking feet it feels like I just slept thru it. It's be a fast Sleptember.
New Miles: 1.0
Total Miles: 440.0
Miles Remaining: 1060.0
Weight: N/A
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Sun and Run
A gorgeous late September day with temperatures in the high 70s and sun, sun, sun! I coached a soccer game (which we tied though should have won) in the bright sunshine and heat and it made me love the outdoors even more! I drove home with the windows down and got refreshed and energized and when I got home I went outside for a run.
I always feel as though I get seasonal affective disorder, and today I think I found my evidence. After a sluggish few weeks I finally found the drive to run again -- and all I needed was exposure to sunshine for a few hours to soak up its warmth and have it feed my brain to make me happy. These last two weeks I have been getting home from work (some days later than usual) and some days have been warm but others have been cold or rainy and then it starts getting too dark to do anything after 7:30 and so I get into my house and I don't do anything. In no way will this help me in my journey and it will definitely make for a very long fall and winter if I can't find a way to get past this mental hurdle.
Oddly in this two week span I have maintained a lower weight - consistently seeing pound 137 on the scale. I thought I was doing awesome by doing nothing - and then of course I realized I haven't been drinking my water and that definitely accounts for 1-2 pounds. So today - after hydrating and for some reason eating a lot more than usual yesterday I scaled up at 138.4 (then 137.8 after the run). Note to Self: Continue to be smart of my food decisions.
New Miles: 5.25
Total Miles: 439.0
Miles Remaining: 1061.0
Weight: 138.4
I always feel as though I get seasonal affective disorder, and today I think I found my evidence. After a sluggish few weeks I finally found the drive to run again -- and all I needed was exposure to sunshine for a few hours to soak up its warmth and have it feed my brain to make me happy. These last two weeks I have been getting home from work (some days later than usual) and some days have been warm but others have been cold or rainy and then it starts getting too dark to do anything after 7:30 and so I get into my house and I don't do anything. In no way will this help me in my journey and it will definitely make for a very long fall and winter if I can't find a way to get past this mental hurdle.
Oddly in this two week span I have maintained a lower weight - consistently seeing pound 137 on the scale. I thought I was doing awesome by doing nothing - and then of course I realized I haven't been drinking my water and that definitely accounts for 1-2 pounds. So today - after hydrating and for some reason eating a lot more than usual yesterday I scaled up at 138.4 (then 137.8 after the run). Note to Self: Continue to be smart of my food decisions.
New Miles: 5.25
Total Miles: 439.0
Miles Remaining: 1061.0
Weight: 138.4
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Swing and Sing
Clearly I have gotten lazy as I am letting lots of time to elapse between workouts. But I continue to take the stairs, which have been more exhausting than usual - I actually get winded. I finally realized that I think this is all due to my not drinking enough water. I don't know why but for some reason I stopped drinking self-sustaining quantities of water. So in the last few days I worked on that and tonight I got on the treadmill to at least try to walk off some exhaustion.
I belted out a wide variety of songs as I walked along, making the walk more exhausting than it otherwise would have been. And I had my 1lb weights on each wrist that I pumped as I swung and sung along.
Total Workout: 2.5 in 36:43 1% 408cals.
New Miles: 2.5
Total Miles: 433.75
Miles Remaining: 1066.25
Weight: 137.4
I belted out a wide variety of songs as I walked along, making the walk more exhausting than it otherwise would have been. And I had my 1lb weights on each wrist that I pumped as I swung and sung along.
Total Workout: 2.5 in 36:43 1% 408cals.
New Miles: 2.5
Total Miles: 433.75
Miles Remaining: 1066.25
Weight: 137.4
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Run before a Stroll
In the DC area for work I hopped on the treadmill for what felt like 3 quick miles but took 30:02. For .25 I ran at 8.6mph which is 6:58 pace. The run felt good - I would run for .5 then walk some then run for .5 then walk - each time increasing my speed.About 3 times during the run my right ankle really hurt and I contemplated stopping if it kept up - but I would pause, roll my ankles a few times, then start running again. The pain was pretty intense but fortunately it was more momentary than anything else.
Once the nice run was complete I freshened up then met up with a friend for dinner and nice warm-aired evening walk around my hotel area.
New Miles: 3.0
Total Miles: 431.25
Miles Remaining: 1068.75
Weight: N/A - 140.0ish
Once the nice run was complete I freshened up then met up with a friend for dinner and nice warm-aired evening walk around my hotel area.
New Miles: 3.0
Total Miles: 431.25
Miles Remaining: 1068.75
Weight: N/A - 140.0ish
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Montour Trail Half Marathon
On Friday I spent the evening trying to crack my right ankle to get it back into it's proper place, after a decent number of cracks along with some cracking of my right knee I went to bed. At 5:45am Ryan and I woke up and drove to the southwest of Pittsburgh to participate in the Montour Trail Half Marathon - a course along a reclaimed rail line, part of the Rails-to-Trails program.
The whole way we both wanted to go home, but since that would have been the easy way out and since if I was going to quit I should have decided that earlier in the week we sucked it up and ran it.
The first mile was all down hill allowing me to do a 9:22 mile pace. Ryan and I ran together for the first five minutes or so and then he went on ahead. I kept at 9:30 pace through the first miles, getting happier and happier with that as I crossed thru mile 4 then mile 5 and then mile 6. The course is an out and back course that goes out to mile 7 then has the finish line at the bottom of the hill so you don't have to go uphill at the end. The rest of the course is nice and flat but with small cinders/dirt most of the way with a few places of asphalt when you cross over roads or bridges. The surrounding nature was gorgeous; it was a nice serene run once the pack thinned out.
The whole way I felt pretty good and concentrated on "Keep the pace nice and slow, this feels good, don't go any faster. Oh you're speeding up, slow it down, no need to rush. Just go steady and comfortable." And so on I went and kept my 9:30 pace the whole way. Finally at mile 10 I was still feeling really good and so I thought "It's just 3 more miles, you can pick it up a little." and so I did. And then at mile 10.5 my right calf was like "Woah. Woah. Woah. What's going on here? You are running?! Aahhh! I am not ready for this." and I immediately learned my calves had no prior knowledge I had been running. So I slowed it back down a little bit and my calf stopped complaining. Then at mile 11 I picked it up again and then I finally felt my heart beating like I was working hard, it was then I discovered my heart and lungs were happy at my previous pace. But this time I told myself to suck it up since I didn't have much left to do. And then a short time later I got into that groove and was good to keep going on and on. The final 2 miles felt so long but I was good to push it out, and I even started cheering my other runners long.
I completed it in 2:05:15 - a new personal record!! With 1.5 miles left I had the thought that I felt really good and could possibly complete it in 2 hours or less but unfortunately I was 1:53 in and I can't run 1.5 miles in 7 minutes. So It was sad to realize that too late but I still felt good about the run and my time!
From the Results page of the Half Marathon Website:
Overall Place: 473
Class Place: 32
Clock Time: 2:05:55
Chip Time: 2:05:15
Pace: 9:34
There were 80 finishers in my Class of Women 25-29. There were 825 Finishers: 417 male, 408 female. I feel really good about where I finished.
Ryan had actually fallen behind me since he is sick and took some walking breaks, so after I finished I waited out on the course and cheered him in. He finished in 2:12:39 (10:08) pace - a good time in general but something he was disappointed in.
Then we walked .2 to the bus and got shuttled back up the hill. With all the extra walking around I did at least .4 more.
New Miles: 15.1 + .4 = 13.5
Total Miles: 428.25
Miles Remaining: 1071.75
Weight: 137.2
The whole way we both wanted to go home, but since that would have been the easy way out and since if I was going to quit I should have decided that earlier in the week we sucked it up and ran it.
The first mile was all down hill allowing me to do a 9:22 mile pace. Ryan and I ran together for the first five minutes or so and then he went on ahead. I kept at 9:30 pace through the first miles, getting happier and happier with that as I crossed thru mile 4 then mile 5 and then mile 6. The course is an out and back course that goes out to mile 7 then has the finish line at the bottom of the hill so you don't have to go uphill at the end. The rest of the course is nice and flat but with small cinders/dirt most of the way with a few places of asphalt when you cross over roads or bridges. The surrounding nature was gorgeous; it was a nice serene run once the pack thinned out.
The whole way I felt pretty good and concentrated on "Keep the pace nice and slow, this feels good, don't go any faster. Oh you're speeding up, slow it down, no need to rush. Just go steady and comfortable." And so on I went and kept my 9:30 pace the whole way. Finally at mile 10 I was still feeling really good and so I thought "It's just 3 more miles, you can pick it up a little." and so I did. And then at mile 10.5 my right calf was like "Woah. Woah. Woah. What's going on here? You are running?! Aahhh! I am not ready for this." and I immediately learned my calves had no prior knowledge I had been running. So I slowed it back down a little bit and my calf stopped complaining. Then at mile 11 I picked it up again and then I finally felt my heart beating like I was working hard, it was then I discovered my heart and lungs were happy at my previous pace. But this time I told myself to suck it up since I didn't have much left to do. And then a short time later I got into that groove and was good to keep going on and on. The final 2 miles felt so long but I was good to push it out, and I even started cheering my other runners long.
I completed it in 2:05:15 - a new personal record!! With 1.5 miles left I had the thought that I felt really good and could possibly complete it in 2 hours or less but unfortunately I was 1:53 in and I can't run 1.5 miles in 7 minutes. So It was sad to realize that too late but I still felt good about the run and my time!
From the Results page of the Half Marathon Website:
Overall Place: 473
Class Place: 32
Clock Time: 2:05:55
Chip Time: 2:05:15
Pace: 9:34
There were 80 finishers in my Class of Women 25-29. There were 825 Finishers: 417 male, 408 female. I feel really good about where I finished.
Ryan had actually fallen behind me since he is sick and took some walking breaks, so after I finished I waited out on the course and cheered him in. He finished in 2:12:39 (10:08) pace - a good time in general but something he was disappointed in.
Then we walked .2 to the bus and got shuttled back up the hill. With all the extra walking around I did at least .4 more.
New Miles: 15.1 + .4 = 13.5
Total Miles: 428.25
Miles Remaining: 1071.75
Weight: 137.2
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Ankle Waits
Lunch Walk: 1.0 miles
In the evening hoped on the treadmill to test out the ankle and try to work out some kinks from the previous weekend. It went poorly. I wanted to run 3 miles but instead managed a 1.5 mile run with .5 at 7.0mph and the rest around 6.3 and then all walking. From miles 2-3 did 0.5% incline. It was difficult to move and my right knee and right ankle wanted none of it. Total Workout: 3.0 miles in 36:01 467
Most Motivating Songs: April Smith and the Great Picture Show "Movie Loves a Screen" and Rilo Kiley "Breakin' Up"
New Miles: 1.0 + 3.0 = 4.0
Total Miles: 414.75
Miles Remaining:1085.25
Weight: 138.6
In the evening hoped on the treadmill to test out the ankle and try to work out some kinks from the previous weekend. It went poorly. I wanted to run 3 miles but instead managed a 1.5 mile run with .5 at 7.0mph and the rest around 6.3 and then all walking. From miles 2-3 did 0.5% incline. It was difficult to move and my right knee and right ankle wanted none of it. Total Workout: 3.0 miles in 36:01 467
Most Motivating Songs: April Smith and the Great Picture Show "Movie Loves a Screen" and Rilo Kiley "Breakin' Up"
New Miles: 1.0 + 3.0 = 4.0
Total Miles: 414.75
Miles Remaining:1085.25
Weight: 138.6
Thursday, September 1, 2011
San Frantastic
Weds, Aug 31 - Airport - walked to the other terminal to meet up with Ryan then to the BART; Golden Gate Bridge - went half way across and back - 1.5 miles; Fisherman's Wharf
Thurs, Sept 1 - Alcatraz - .3 to the cell house; walked around inside for an hour, outside did .25 at min, walked back to ferry - did a min of 1.0 miles and I'd say at least .5 more. Fisherman's Wharf - Pier 39 to Pier 45 and to restaurant to F-line - 1.25 miles.
Fri, Sept 2 - 1 football game; Fisherman's Wharf; Chinatown walk to and back - .7 there and back with some extra walking around so 1.5 miles.
Sat, Sept 3 - 2 football games; 12:30 and 3:30. Loads of running and kicking; 2 minute solo.
Sun, Sept 4 - Ryan played in the National Championship Game; won. Dinner: .75 walk around to restaurant and 2 miles back to hotel
Mon, Sept 5 - Sat on airplane, sat in car, sat on couch, laid on floor.
New Miles: 1.5 + 2.25 + 1.5 + 2.75 = 8.0
Total Miles: 410.75
Miles Remaining: 1089.25
Weight: N/A
Thurs, Sept 1 - Alcatraz - .3 to the cell house; walked around inside for an hour, outside did .25 at min, walked back to ferry - did a min of 1.0 miles and I'd say at least .5 more. Fisherman's Wharf - Pier 39 to Pier 45 and to restaurant to F-line - 1.25 miles.
Fri, Sept 2 - 1 football game; Fisherman's Wharf; Chinatown walk to and back - .7 there and back with some extra walking around so 1.5 miles.
Sat, Sept 3 - 2 football games; 12:30 and 3:30. Loads of running and kicking; 2 minute solo.
Sun, Sept 4 - Ryan played in the National Championship Game; won. Dinner: .75 walk around to restaurant and 2 miles back to hotel
Mon, Sept 5 - Sat on airplane, sat in car, sat on couch, laid on floor.
New Miles: 1.5 + 2.25 + 1.5 + 2.75 = 8.0
Total Miles: 410.75
Miles Remaining: 1089.25
Weight: N/A
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