This morning it was raining, and so I did what any dutiful running buddy would do, I texted Alyssa. This is how the text conversation went:
Me: "So unfortunately the rain plan is: we run - in the rain :-( "
Alyssa: "I figured as much"
Me: "I know, it stinks, but the race won't be cancelled for a little rain!"
Alyssa: "Yeah and rain ain't so bad in 80 degrees"
Me: "Nope and I don't think either of us will melt ;-) "
Alyssa: "Haha, no I'm probably more like those little sponge animals in capsules... I'll just expand!! LOL"
Remember those things? They were awesome! I followed this text up with a little tour antidote about a time when me and another crew member may or may not have bought a few packs of them, and we may or may not have expanded all of them one night, and we may or may not have stuck them to the ceiling, where we may or may not have left them as an interesting surprise for the maids when we checked out. But this may or may not have happened... I'll never tell ;-)
So hopefully tonight at around 7 pm when Alyssa and I are about to start our run around the Baldwin Whitehall track, please think of us and pray for no rain (fingers crossed).
FYI tonight is run 2 minutes, walk 3 minutes, repeat 5 times
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Rest Day
Rest day! Rest day! Rest day!
My what a glorious couple of words. Although I am not yet into the crazy running schedule yet, rest days still are a nice thing to look forward to.
So the plan for this week is: Tuesday - track day - run 2 minutes walk 3 minutes 5 times; Wednesday - Amazing Yoga (hot yoga) @ 7:15 on the South Side - classes run between 45 minutes and an hour; Thursday - track day - run 2.5 minutes walk 2.5 minutes 5 times; Friday - REST DAY!!!; Saturday - either run 3 minutes walk 2 minutes 5 times OR cross training of some sort (it all depends if Alyssa has to play her last softball game or not); Sunday will be whatever we don't do on Saturday
Busy week, but totally do-able.
Although I don't think I've lost any weight I have found my posture improving, which I think is a result from the training. It would be nice if I lost weight though, but I suppose that would involve actually paying attention to what all I eat then.
Oh well...
My what a glorious couple of words. Although I am not yet into the crazy running schedule yet, rest days still are a nice thing to look forward to.
So the plan for this week is: Tuesday - track day - run 2 minutes walk 3 minutes 5 times; Wednesday - Amazing Yoga (hot yoga) @ 7:15 on the South Side - classes run between 45 minutes and an hour; Thursday - track day - run 2.5 minutes walk 2.5 minutes 5 times; Friday - REST DAY!!!; Saturday - either run 3 minutes walk 2 minutes 5 times OR cross training of some sort (it all depends if Alyssa has to play her last softball game or not); Sunday will be whatever we don't do on Saturday
Busy week, but totally do-able.
Although I don't think I've lost any weight I have found my posture improving, which I think is a result from the training. It would be nice if I lost weight though, but I suppose that would involve actually paying attention to what all I eat then.
Oh well...
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Day 6/7/8
Ok, so much for trying to write everyday - oops...
Well Friday night I couldn't get my DVD to work. Apparently you need a clicker - I think Sancho ate mine months ago - all my other DVDs have worked just fine with me just hitting 'play' on the actual player. So to replace the DVD I did a workout called the "Lean Body Workout" by Women's Health magazine. It wasn't too bad, it involved 3 sets of varying reps of: squats, butt lifty things, kinda like a sit up but twisting while holding a weighted ball, lying on a balance ball while lifting my arms up, incline pushups, sit-ups on a balance ball, and jumping rope.
Saturday morning I ran/walked at the Riverfront Trail on the SouthSide - I went fairly early (7:30 am) so it wasn't too hot yet. It was a combo of run 2 minutes, walk 3 minutes. Having a more upbeat playlist definately helped (I listened to Mamma Mia!), and I did about 2 miles or so in 30 minutes (10 minutes of which was warm up and cool down, so I wasn't really moving too fast).
This morning instead of doing an hour of Turbo Jam like we had planned, Alyssa and I met at the gym where we lifted for about an hour. A 5 minute warm-up on the elliptical, then we worked on legs and arms. Once home I threw in a few sets of sit-ups on the balance ball, just to get a little bit of abs in as well.
Tomorrow is a rest day, which is well deserved after 4 days in a row. I made up calenders for Alyssa and myself and blew them on 11x17 paper. I have posted mine on my fridge. It feels like such a sense of accomplishment to be able to cross off each day with a big red "X". I now have 8 X's in a row and still going strong!
Well Friday night I couldn't get my DVD to work. Apparently you need a clicker - I think Sancho ate mine months ago - all my other DVDs have worked just fine with me just hitting 'play' on the actual player. So to replace the DVD I did a workout called the "Lean Body Workout" by Women's Health magazine. It wasn't too bad, it involved 3 sets of varying reps of: squats, butt lifty things, kinda like a sit up but twisting while holding a weighted ball, lying on a balance ball while lifting my arms up, incline pushups, sit-ups on a balance ball, and jumping rope.
Saturday morning I ran/walked at the Riverfront Trail on the SouthSide - I went fairly early (7:30 am) so it wasn't too hot yet. It was a combo of run 2 minutes, walk 3 minutes. Having a more upbeat playlist definately helped (I listened to Mamma Mia!), and I did about 2 miles or so in 30 minutes (10 minutes of which was warm up and cool down, so I wasn't really moving too fast).
This morning instead of doing an hour of Turbo Jam like we had planned, Alyssa and I met at the gym where we lifted for about an hour. A 5 minute warm-up on the elliptical, then we worked on legs and arms. Once home I threw in a few sets of sit-ups on the balance ball, just to get a little bit of abs in as well.
Tomorrow is a rest day, which is well deserved after 4 days in a row. I made up calenders for Alyssa and myself and blew them on 11x17 paper. I have posted mine on my fridge. It feels like such a sense of accomplishment to be able to cross off each day with a big red "X". I now have 8 X's in a row and still going strong!
Friday, June 11, 2010
Day 5 - a recap
Well yesterday was Day 5 - after getting stuck in horrendous Baldwin-Whitehall graduation traffic, I picked up Alyssa and we headed for the Brentwood track. The parking for the track is located up above it and the track itself is down in a little valley. Since neither of us had been there before we were unsure of how to get down to the track, and the first way we went took us up to some baseball fields but not to the track, so we considered that walk our warm-up and turning around we began our first minute of running. I took off like a shot (relatively speaking - my shot more resembling that of a slug) and only after Alyssa yelled at me and told me to slow down did I realize I was perhaps starting too fast. Jogging along, we discovered a path towards the track that went down along by the pool. The walk time was filled with descending through the bleachers to the track and halfway around the track. It was in the third minute running that we really discovered we were running too fast - if we had been able to keep up that pace we would have been running an 8 minute mile! That's almost 1/2 the time we were aiming for (for the race you have to keep up a 16 minute mile to make the 3.5 hour cutoff) - way too fast.
I need to work on my playlist - far too much slow music on there. I need something with more of a beat, and as much as I like She & Him, they just aren't really good for running to. I have Mamma Mia! on my ipod, so I'll cue that up to run to on Saturday (which will be 4 reps of run 2 minutes/ walk 3 minutes). The issue with music is A) my 160gb ipod is dead - it won't charge, B) my other ipod is only a 1gb shuffle, and C) my laptop's hard drive fried and so I lost all the music that was on there and I don't have itunes on my desktop. Eventually when I get a new hard drive for my laptop and I get itunes back and I am able to download/ upload some music, I'll have a better playlist.
I discovered yesterday that it is also much easier to run with a buddy, after having run/walk by myself on Tuesday it made a world of difference having someone to talk to. Another thing that was better yesterday than Tuesday was running (I use the term loosely) in the evening. After being in the scorching midday sun on Tuesday the early evening was soooooo much nicer. As for a soreness report today there really isn't one. Alyssa's knee was hurting a touch yesterday, mine was hurting a tad today, but no quad, groin, glute pain like after Tuesday. I believe this is because Alyssa is a self-described "stretch-aholic". We stretched for ages after the run, which is what I needed I suppose.
On the agenda for tonight - Day 6:
For me:
a 30 minute video - Core Rhythms: Getting Started
I bought these videos from Target after seeing an infomercial about them ages ago, but have actually never used them. It is a 4 disc set: Getting Started (30min), Full Workout (45min), Quick Workout (20min), and Latin Dance (?min). They're taught by 2 crazy perky ballroom dancer ladies, and pretty much it's supposed to work your core (thus the title) through different dance moves - we'll see how this goes.
For Alyssa:
a 30 minute video - Turbo Jam
This is part of the series we worked out to on Sunday, its a combo dance/ abs/ martial arts type workout, taught by a very perky blonde lady. After seeing the behind the scenes footage though, it's hard to hate her for being perky.
A quick shout out to Manda for all the support - Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!! I totally appreciate it!!!
Wish me luck tonight!
I need to work on my playlist - far too much slow music on there. I need something with more of a beat, and as much as I like She & Him, they just aren't really good for running to. I have Mamma Mia! on my ipod, so I'll cue that up to run to on Saturday (which will be 4 reps of run 2 minutes/ walk 3 minutes). The issue with music is A) my 160gb ipod is dead - it won't charge, B) my other ipod is only a 1gb shuffle, and C) my laptop's hard drive fried and so I lost all the music that was on there and I don't have itunes on my desktop. Eventually when I get a new hard drive for my laptop and I get itunes back and I am able to download/ upload some music, I'll have a better playlist.
I discovered yesterday that it is also much easier to run with a buddy, after having run/walk by myself on Tuesday it made a world of difference having someone to talk to. Another thing that was better yesterday than Tuesday was running (I use the term loosely) in the evening. After being in the scorching midday sun on Tuesday the early evening was soooooo much nicer. As for a soreness report today there really isn't one. Alyssa's knee was hurting a touch yesterday, mine was hurting a tad today, but no quad, groin, glute pain like after Tuesday. I believe this is because Alyssa is a self-described "stretch-aholic". We stretched for ages after the run, which is what I needed I suppose.
On the agenda for tonight - Day 6:
For me:
a 30 minute video - Core Rhythms: Getting Started
I bought these videos from Target after seeing an infomercial about them ages ago, but have actually never used them. It is a 4 disc set: Getting Started (30min), Full Workout (45min), Quick Workout (20min), and Latin Dance (?min). They're taught by 2 crazy perky ballroom dancer ladies, and pretty much it's supposed to work your core (thus the title) through different dance moves - we'll see how this goes.
For Alyssa:
a 30 minute video - Turbo Jam
This is part of the series we worked out to on Sunday, its a combo dance/ abs/ martial arts type workout, taught by a very perky blonde lady. After seeing the behind the scenes footage though, it's hard to hate her for being perky.
A quick shout out to Manda for all the support - Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!! I totally appreciate it!!!
Wish me luck tonight!
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Day 5
So nothing has happened yet on Day 5.
Ok, so I guess I have been to work, which involves walking across the bridge to get to, so that's something. And at lunch Jonnie and I walked to Market Square to check out the farmer's market. I think if I'm going to want to buy anything good at the farmer's markets downtown I'm going to have to take lunch earlier than 1 o'clock! Well, I bought sweet potato gnocchi which I'm pretty excited about, I do like it so. Unfortunately being in Market Square also meant I was in close proximity to yummy (read - fattening) restaurants, and we went to Moe's for burritos for lunch. At least I only at 1/2 of mine, which leaves 1/2 for dinner tonight, which means the chicken I have defrosting will have to be for tomorrow - oh well.
And I may or may not have bought a piece of baklava. Which I may or may not eat in about 1 minute. Don't hate me, I love sweets!
As for training - Alyssa and I are going to the track tonight. 1 minute running, 4 minutes walking, repeated 5 times, hopefully it won't be too bad. My goal for tonight is to stretch better than last time, so hopefully I won't hurt as bad.
Speaking of hurting, around 4 pm yesterday, I discovered that I really should stretch my groin - OUCH! Who knew? I never assumed running for only 4 minutes total could hurt so much. What the heck have I gotten myself into?!? 21 weeks and 2 days until race day.
I'm almost done with The NonRunner's Marathon Guide for Women - Get Off Your Butt and on With Your Training, and Alyssa and I have already dubbed it our running bible. Dawn Dais is hilarious! I have busted out laughing so many times while reading it, I feel that her sarcasm will help us survive this thing.
Wish me luck tonight!
Ok, so I guess I have been to work, which involves walking across the bridge to get to, so that's something. And at lunch Jonnie and I walked to Market Square to check out the farmer's market. I think if I'm going to want to buy anything good at the farmer's markets downtown I'm going to have to take lunch earlier than 1 o'clock! Well, I bought sweet potato gnocchi which I'm pretty excited about, I do like it so. Unfortunately being in Market Square also meant I was in close proximity to yummy (read - fattening) restaurants, and we went to Moe's for burritos for lunch. At least I only at 1/2 of mine, which leaves 1/2 for dinner tonight, which means the chicken I have defrosting will have to be for tomorrow - oh well.
And I may or may not have bought a piece of baklava. Which I may or may not eat in about 1 minute. Don't hate me, I love sweets!
As for training - Alyssa and I are going to the track tonight. 1 minute running, 4 minutes walking, repeated 5 times, hopefully it won't be too bad. My goal for tonight is to stretch better than last time, so hopefully I won't hurt as bad.
Speaking of hurting, around 4 pm yesterday, I discovered that I really should stretch my groin - OUCH! Who knew? I never assumed running for only 4 minutes total could hurt so much. What the heck have I gotten myself into?!? 21 weeks and 2 days until race day.
I'm almost done with The NonRunner's Marathon Guide for Women - Get Off Your Butt and on With Your Training, and Alyssa and I have already dubbed it our running bible. Dawn Dais is hilarious! I have busted out laughing so many times while reading it, I feel that her sarcasm will help us survive this thing.
Wish me luck tonight!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Day 4 Soreness Report
Today is Day 4, it's a rest day, Hallelujah. After today though we have 4 days in a row: walk/run, cross training, walk/run, cross training, and then the next rest day. I'm glad yesterday's weather was not like today's weather. I walked in to work across the bridge, and it was raining buckets - I hope my sneakers dry out before I have to go home.
On to the Soreness Report:
Jenny:
My back is killing me (but I think that may be from yard work)
I could definately tell my quads exsisted this morning as I walked up my stairs
My bum was definately feeling it a bit as well
One of my arms hurt (but I think that's from how I slept)
Alyssa:
Doing well
Just tired
Has a godawful upset tummy (Bad Fajita Rollup!)
Recommended Reading:
The NonRunner's Marathon Guide For Women (Get Off Your Butt And On With Your Training)
by Dawn Dais
- hilarious!!! She's so sarcastic, it's great - I'm only on page 70 (of 245) but I can't wait to finish it!
On to the Soreness Report:
Jenny:
My back is killing me (but I think that may be from yard work)
I could definately tell my quads exsisted this morning as I walked up my stairs
My bum was definately feeling it a bit as well
One of my arms hurt (but I think that's from how I slept)
Alyssa:
Doing well
Just tired
Has a godawful upset tummy (Bad Fajita Rollup!)
Recommended Reading:
The NonRunner's Marathon Guide For Women (Get Off Your Butt And On With Your Training)
by Dawn Dais
- hilarious!!! She's so sarcastic, it's great - I'm only on page 70 (of 245) but I can't wait to finish it!
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