Miles to Health

Showing posts with label walk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label walk. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Adjusting

Back to reality, no longer sleeping in and going running later in the day, it is so hard to adjust back to the 4:30am workouts.Got back home at 6am on Sunday and I had every intention of working out but I ad so much going on and by the time I knew what was going on I was so tired and sleepy that it just wasn't worth getting a workout in just for the sake of logging one.

I told Monday off work to recover from my vacation, but I only got in 3 of the 7 miles called for in since I was running late for an appointment, and I had every intention of getting a second workout in but we had unexpected guest and so much for that, one of the reason why I love getting my workout done first thing in the morning.

Today, finally rolled my self out of bed at 5:30 even thou my alarm went off at 4:30am, on the schedule I had 10x400 @ 3k pace but even thou I updated the workout in Garmin Center I didn't download it to my Garmin and didn't feel like messing with it so did 8x400 from last week that was still in Garmin. Bike to and from work, my husband raised the concern of my biking on the road today, which I understand but I can't live in fear of what I can't control and I do find it safer on the road than on the sidewalk since I feel the driver do at least pay attention to me while on the sidewalk they totally ignore ad do cut me off on turning. I am taking every precaution I can think and being completely aware of cars around me. After dinner went for a 3 miles walk with husband, this was so much harder and I was cranky, but since I was being supportive of him getting back into a workout problem I suffer in silence. :)

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Didn't get a god night sleep due to all the high wind and noise, it is amazing that we are getting 65mph wind in Ohio, this has really been one of the weirdest April excess rain and cold, back to the 40s tonight with more rain.

I got on the treadmill this morning to get my workout in but after like 1.6miles we lost power, so while going at 6.1mph my treadmill came to a dead stop very weird feeling and just as I was trying to decide what to do the power came back ON then OFF then ON again.

Got in 7 miles was really suppose to do 8, but got up late, while running I was watching Royal People Product Collectors, it is amazing how much stuff most of this people have, how much money they've spent. I do have to admit it does make them happen and one woman even got teary eye why talking to a wax doll of William.

Decided to walk into walk from the transit center today, it was very windy and even walking was difficult sometimes, don't think I have enough bike skills yet.

Intention after work today was to go trail running, but I needed to go back home and take my son back to school for a study session, which means I will be driving about 45mins back to the run location then I noticed that gas was now $4.15 and decided that the 5 mile was not worth the price of gas so dropped my son off and ran the ABC streets around school for 3 miles which was all I seem capable of doing, legs tired, body cold and still very windy with sprinkle of rain drop.

Not sure what is going on with Buckeye Outdoors where I log my workout, right now the sites URL is coming up missing, yesterday it said loading but eventually failed. I really hope it is not lost that is where my most complete data is except for my paper log. ahh...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Didn't get up to workout this morning, well was wide awake since my husband is still jet lag and so was chatty and hungry, so what the hell gave up the workout but they were on their own for dinner.

Didn't go to trail group run today due to my son having band practice, so was going to run outside after I dropped him off, but them practice got canceled and it began to rain, oh well to the basement by the time it stopped raining I was in no mood to go outside.

The run was hard my legs felt fine for a change but I couldn't breath, the plan called for

1 mile @ recovery pace (5-5.4mph)
3x1 mile @ 10k pace (7mph)
1 mile @ recovery pace

the 1 mile interval was a struggle I just couldn't keep up the pace for the whole 1 mile, my breathing was hard and I was sucking air really badly so decided to walk recover then continue, I just couldn't control my breathing no matter how hard I tried. I did consider calling it a day after 2 miles but nothing was hurting I just couldn't control my breathing so just changed to more frequent walking breaks to finish it up, by mile 5 my breathing was better so I added an extra mile, taking total miles to 6 and then did 30 mins incline walk.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Dynamic Flexibility

1 mile @ recovery pace (12-10.52)
2x1mile @ 10k pace (8:36)
1 mile @ recovery pace (12-10.52)

2.55 miles incline walk

20 mins on the stepper

No trail run today since I had to get back home in time to get son#2 to band practice, probably going to miss next week's too

Wednesday, June 17, 2009


Chalean Extreme Burn 2, brought out the 25# dumbells because when I did this workout last week, it was extremely easy because of the low weights so up everything this week even use the loaded 42# barbell.
Charlene's workout didn't give me the cardio rush that I wanted so added on Steve Cotter's 10 mins cardio workout this is an awesome intense short workout, 20 double kettlebell and bodyweight workout, got to love the pushups variations use double 15# KB.

After work added on 20 mins of incline walking, 3mph@10-12% incline, am hoping I can start adding a 20 mins incline walk after work to help strengthen my knees and glutes.