April 21, 2000
Busy day ahead. Getting ready for Easter stuff. My foot is still wonky, but better.
Today Paul wants to pop in at the mall to get his stuff, so while I am there I
am going to pop in at Just for Feet for some better insoles or arch supports.
If it's not happy by Sunday when we start training, I'm going to bike instead.
Blogger issues -- foo! I hope they get fixed over the weekend.
posted
by Astrophe 4/21/2000 9:32:49 AM
Blogger can post to UNH again! Hooray! Clap hands! And hope this doesn't happen
again.. I joined DietWatch to log my food and exercise, and I'm hoping that
it will be "my way" of logging food and workouts. I've never been good at logging
what goes into my mouth; even on WW, the little paper journals don't quite do
it for me. I downloaded Diet Sleuth, and I never use the thing. I'm hoping that
this online community focused on health and fitness will be just the tool I need.
It just hit me that Sunday, two days from now, I am walking 40 minutes to start
my training for the marathon. Wow!! Wow!! I'm really going to do this!
I'm
going to need new sneaks by June 1st, though. Definitely.
posted
by Adrith Bicchieri 4/21/2000 12:19:38 PM
April
20, 2000
I don't usually post this late at night. (I'm not usually
awake this late at night.) But tonight I collapsed into sleep right after dinner,
and now I'm paying for that by not being able to get back to sleep. I'm eager
to start training. I need something to work toward, and this marathon is it! My
sleep schedule is officially "all messed up" due to my lack of activity, and it's
about enough of that. So I'm going to try to get up and go for a twenty-minute
walk tomorrow, before I'm due in at work. If I can just get to sleep, it might
even happen..
posted by Adrith Bicchieri 4/20/2000 12:16:25
AM
Hee hee. Adrith is on my wavelength!
I just cleaned the oven and the whole time I was baking soda-ing it I kept thinking,
"Why am I cleaning an oven at 1 AM? I'd rather be out walking at 1 AM than scrubbing
food gunk from the oven." Ok, so walking around at 1 AM isn't too sane either,
but what the heck. We used to rollerblade at our townhouse that late. Why not
walk? Because I live in a house now, in a neighborhood that's not as well lit,
that's why.
I'll go to bed now and just get up to walk when the sun rises.
I'm looking at gear: pedometers and heart rate monitors. Do they make one
that blends the two without it costing a zillion dollars? Will it have Power Puff
Girls on it?
posted by Astrophe 4/20/2000 1:29:07 AM
Well, it didn't happen. My sleep schedule is just
too messed up, I guess. That, and I need to find a radio station for my alarm
clock that doesn't have programming I like to sit there and listen to, like NPR
does! I also have to find a way not to fall asleep on the couch or bed in the
late afternoons/early evenings. That's the main culprit for my screwed-up sleeping
patterns; it's hard to get a full night's sleep when you've already had three
hours before you get ready for bed..
posted by Adrith Bicchieri
4/20/2000 10:10:30 AM
Mental note:
get new shoes. Been having this weird foot ache. That means no walking excessively,
only small short walks.
It's not hot foot. When I kept getting hot foot in
my old New Balance w877's I knew it was just time to get a new pair. So I did.
This new pain is more like this sharp ache. I don't know enough about feet issues
to even guess what it may be, but I am pretty sure the culprit was going to Denny's
earlier this week in my newest pair of dress flats that don't have lots of arch
support for my high-arched feet.
So now I am reading about walking shoes like
I read about running shoes so many moons ago. Walkers strike on the heel, runners
and joggers strike more up in front. So I need walking shoes with more heel shock
absorption. Went over to New Balance and
see what they've got. I want to get walking shoes that will do for now, but can
fit orthotics if I need them from the podiatrist.
I miss my old 8th grade
boy's Casio watch. No, it did not have a calculator on it. It was just a really
great watch. I liked the display, the stopwatch, and the alarms. That would be
really handy about now! My current watch is a Guess velcro waterproof sports watch.
But it's analog only, no other features. I've always liked watches with big faces
on them -- little delicate feminine watches don't do it for me.
I really would
like to get a good watch/stopwatch/heart rate monitor/alarm thing. Guess I'll
be checking those out too!
posted by Astrophe 4/20/2000
10:51:13 AM
April 19, 2000
Zoiks! It must be destiny! Taking closer looks at my materials. While laying out
the calendar stuff for what I need to be doing, things just dovetailed. The active.com
program we start this sunday ends August 26. The training chart (not the graph
I was looking at earlier) I have from NF starts on August 26. So I just blend
from one to the other seamlessly.
posted by Astrophe 4/19/2000
2:40:14 AM
The thought of seven months
of training is starting to feel daunting, now that it's finally hit. I like the
thought of doing a 5K somewhere in there -- UNH has a pretty good one during Homecoming,
in the fall. But I'm off to go check out other events around New England..
posted by Adrith Bicchieri 4/19/2000 10:50:12 AM
I have to get around to posting at least the first
week of workouts on my DietWatch calendar.
Active.com has a training log thing, but hello!? How many websites am I going
to be looking at on a daily basis? I'd rather have it all in one place and since
I have to food journal anyway, it's handier to keep it on DW.
posted
by Astrophe 4/19/2000 11:37:06 AM
April 18,
2000
So I went and signed up for this marathon. Yeah, you heard
right. I signed up for the Disney World Marathon on Jan 7 2001. One of the sponsors
of this marathon is the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation, or NNFF. The premise
is simple: if I raise $3000 for this organization, they will enable me to participate
in this event by taking care of transportation and accomodation costs. And I will
get to walk 26.2 miles in a celebration of how strong I've become. Of course,
I have to get to the being strong part. That comes in two steps: a structured
diet plan by Weight Watchers, and
a training plan by active.com. I started
Weight Watchers yesterday, 4/17, and will start my training program on Easter
and my 26th birthday, 4/23.
I couldn't do this alone, however -- the main reason
I elected not to participate in the Team in Training for the Leukemia Society,
even though my aunt passed away last year because of the disease. When I read
in Cat/Astrophe's journal that she was planning on doing this event, I knew then
that I had a recipe for success.
posted by Adrith Bicchieri
4/18/2000 12:49:11 PM
How do I feel
about blogging? It's weird. I think it's a cool idea, but I still think it "feels"
weird. I'll get over it. How do I feel about the marathon? I'm still in disbelief.
I'll get back to you on that one.
How do I feel about Adrith e-mailing me
this morning to see if I wanted to be partners? Totally thrilled, and excited.
We'll get to train in VR and meet in RL. How cool is that?! :)
posted
by Astrophe 4/18/2000 2:15:41 PM
Ok, working out with Adrith how this blog is going to look. I think we got it...
I'm looking at this chart I got from the NF Training Manual and I'm supposed to
do 20 miles in week one. That breaks down to 4 miles, 5x a week. I can do that.
The one where it gets to 40 miles (8 miles a day) a couple weeks later... now
that's something else. Comparing to the first week schedule from active.com
it goes time based rather than miles. Two different approaches.
I'm going
to do the active.com one, which ends in August. I'll try out a 5k, then I'll go
back to either a repeat of active.com's thing or do the NF version so that I'm
not sitting around between August and Jan doing nothing and getting out of shape.
I told Adrith this week I'd be just soaking it all in and trying to map out
a plan so I can still have my biking and weight training without giving up rest.
Kinda daunting, but I can do this.
posted by Astrophe
4/18/2000 5:52:53 PM
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