Tuesday and Wednesday Log
Tuesday. Ran 7.9 miles on the treadmill because it was windy bigtime outside. 60:02 minutes. I was tired and the treadmill was only set for 60 minutes so I didn't finish the full 8.0 miles like I probably should have. But I reached my time goal and almost my mileage goal. That would have put me at a 7:30 clip but instead just short of that at 7:36. Normally I would have finished the last 2 minutes at a 6:30 pace, and probably would have smoked my mileage goal,...but I was freaking tired and my heart rate was spiking around 200 so I backed off the last 5:00 minutes and ran a 7:45 clip to finish. Stoked on the time achievement, next week will be for 65 minutes.
Wednesday. See the above paragraph! I didn't do a thing today, and it felt great. I am worn out. I forgot to add that on Tuesday I ran 10 minutes in the morning followed by a chest workout, then in the afternoon I did my big run. The rest today was much needed. I wanted to ride the bike for a while but decided that a day off might help me to be fresh for tomorrow's speed workout.
Wednesday. See the above paragraph! I didn't do a thing today, and it felt great. I am worn out. I forgot to add that on Tuesday I ran 10 minutes in the morning followed by a chest workout, then in the afternoon I did my big run. The rest today was much needed. I wanted to ride the bike for a while but decided that a day off might help me to be fresh for tomorrow's speed workout.
posted by John J Cherry at 7:30 PM
3 Comments:
John, you’re my hero. A full hour at 7:30 miles is quite impressive. You’ve got to be burning 1,200+ calories in a run like that. What’s going to be your ultimate goal?
As for me . . .
You know those mornings when you don't really want to run, but then you go anyway and feel great afterwards.
This wasn't one of those mornings. As I was coming up on 2 miles I almost ended at that point, but pushed my self to 2¼. And what the heck, if I'm at 2¼ another ¼ mile wasn’t going to kill me. So I finished out my distance and ended up with a new pb cutting 15 seconds off Tuesday's time.
But while I was in the shower I literally had to sit down because my head was spinning. So I got out of the shower, brushed my hair, and put some g’s on. Then I climbed into bed. Kristi came up a half hour later to see where I was. She checked my temperature and sure enough. I’ve got the flu.
I’ve slept most of today; at least six hours anyway. I’m feeling a bit better tonight though still pretty achy. I don’t have a fever. If I lay down for a couple of minutes I fall asleep.
All this means I’m taking tomorrow off. We’ll see how I’m doing by Friday.
Congratulations on the PB and I am sorry to hear you have the Flu. That stupid achiness is what drives me bonkers. Hopefully you'll recover quickly. Injury and illness are the two major derailments to established exercise programs.
As for my ultimate goal, difficult to say really, but I recently had someone tell me that I have the wrong bodytype to run long distances and so I thought maybe I would try to see if they were wrong. The longest I have ever run before was about 12 miles, and it nearly killed me so maybe they are right. But my relatively short term goals are to run a sub 6 minute mile and run long distances at sub 7:00 minute mile. By long distances I mean anything over a 10k, so around 7 miles. Really, I want to run a 1/2 marathon in under an hour and a half. That is a 6:52 minute mile pace. By relatively short term I mean by the end of winter, so 5-6 months from now.
My weightlifting goals are to be comfortable doing reps with 60lb dumbbells for chest, ~120 lbs on back exercises, 30lb curls, 40 lb shoulder press dumbells, 150lb quad and hamstring machines, and 450lb leg press. That should give me an overall indication of improved strength.
My personal goals for weight are to approach 170lb and 15 % body fat by the end of winter. That means an average loss of 3 lbs and 1.5% body fat per month. Both are doable, but considering I have maintained 185lbs, 22% body fat for the last 5 months while upping my workouts,....it may be tough. Hey, I find that the last 3 days I have been reducing my carbs and upping my protein that I am not nearly as hungry all the time. Interesting. I think I will go weigh myself.
Oh, the treadmill said 1,185 calories burned including my 5:00 minute cooldown. :)
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