Suffer-O-Rama

On the schedule for today was intervals and with a limited collection, although I have a feeling that it will be growing soon since I am loving the workouts, I decided to do Spinerval 3.0 Suffer-o-rama. From the website "Spinervals 3.0 - Suffer-o-Rama, will teach you how to suffer on the bike with 45 minutes of explosive power sprints and highly anaerobic sets. Brutal, but soooo effective! " how do you not want to do this at 4:30am in the morning :) This was hard but time flew by fast, I was amaze that I was able to get my heartrate to 145bpm during one of sprints, legs were burning and sweat was pouring. With Warmup and cooldown this clock in at 53mins.

When I looked at my training schedule on training peaks, Coach had training time as 1.5hours but I didn't check the time of the picked DVDs which were only 60mins, so I added on Ultra Condition 2.0 Core Builder since I had core workout on my schedule to do. UC 2.0 has a lot more 1 legged drills which were hard after Suffer-O-Rama but we got lots of break sort off, hoping of the bike to do core work on the stability ball.

My eating is still not where I want it to be and neither is my weight, I hate when you tell someone you are a runner or athlete and they give you the "really" look. I guess I can't keep talking about it, I have to do something about, I know exactly what to do but boy do I love food and not junk food either, just food.

I am really loving the Training Peaks phone apps, it is making it easy for me to log my workout, metrics and food. Having the Super 6 workout has also make getting back into a rigorous training program easy, knowing I have a long workout the next day, am back to goign to bed at a resonable time and getting up when the alarm goes off instead of snoozing it. Doing 30mins when the schedule calls for 90mins is not going to work.

Cross Training

I use Runerval with Coach Troy and really like it even thou he does have a weird sense of humor, so when I started thinking of cross training to complement my running I kind of gravitate towards Coach and his Spinervals, when I check on facebook he actually had a Challenge going and this is great since I can download straight into training peak. The challenge is called Spinerval Super 6, coach did have a special on the kinetic Kurt Trainer with 10 DVDs actually came to 12 DVDs when you add the 101 and the free one that came with the trainer .

The plan is to run 3 days a week and cycle 3, then add on strength and yoga, started this official on Monday and just going to join the program where they are, not starting from the beginning, downloaded the program and I love the training peak phone app made it easy to update metrics. My running training starts back up Dec 3 so right now keeping weekly runs to 3.1miles and long runs to whatever the group is doing.

Monday -
Run - Cardio Coach 1b- 3.1 miles
Strength - Oxygen Superset Workout
Abs - 2 min Plank

Tuesday
Cycle - Spinerval 16.0 Aerobic base Builder - 80mins this is the longer I have ever been on a bike, but I really have to say the time by so far, coach really does a good job keeping things moving.
Strength - Barry's Bootcamp Fat Blaster Lower Body

Wednesday
Run - Itread 9 - 3.1miles
Strength - Cathe Superset

So far so good need to make some adjustment to my bike and I also order a bike computer for cadence and mileage. But really do need a new bike

Holiday Bootie Buster Challenge

I have done a really lousy job in tracking my points for HBBC,only got the 1st week recorded before life as usual got in the way,so lets do a quick recap




Week 2:Nov 26 - Dec 2

Total Miles Ran = 32.49 miles = 32.49 points
Strength Training = 142 mins= 7.1 points
Vegetable & Fruit = can't remember so = 0
Low Impact Cardio = 20mins = 1.3
Total Points =  40.89




Week 3: Dec 3 - Dec 9 ( Since I was out of the country for a funeral not much got done)

Total Miles Ran =  12.02 miles =  12.02 points
Strength Training = 0 mins=  points
Vegetable & Fruit = can't remember so = 0
Low Impact Cardio = 60 mins = 4 points
Total Points = 16.02





Week 4: Dec 10 - Dec 16


Total Miles Ran =  19.41 miles =  19.41 points
Strength Training = 0 mins=  points
Vegetable & Fruit = can't remember so = 0
Low Impact Cardio = 50 mins = 3.33 points
Total Points =22.74

Week 5: Dec 17 - Dec 23

Total Miles Ran =  47.98 miles =  47.98 points
Strength Training = 150 mins=  7.5 points
Vegetable & Fruit  =1
Low Impact Cardio = 40 mins = 2.67 points
Total Points =59.15

Training log can be found here at Training Peaks still need to go make most of the workouts public didn't realize I needed to do each on individually.

By the way miserable workout today but got in the 20 miles anyway, hope everyone is having a great Christmas Eve