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June 17, 2000

At this exact moment, the heat index is higher here in NH than it is in FL.

Ugggh!

(Incidentally, the heat index here is at 93°, which is right in the "Extreme Caution" zone of the heat index chart. I guess I'll be going out a little later.. definitely not right now.)
posted by Adrith 1:56 PM

Just got back from my folks for early Father's Day. It's super hot again. Ugh. I plan on taking a nap and seeing if it gets better as the sun sets. I don't understand why the gym closes EARLY on weekends when more people have more time to be going there than during the week. Yeesh! I might swap the two days -- do the shorter 60 min today and then the 90 min tomorrow.

Do have some good news -- got a progress report sheet and I'm almost at halfway! $475! Yeah! I'm eager to get that $1000 out of the way so I can jump into helping Adrith with hers. I want to meet her, I want to race, I want to DO this!

I also want to see Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island on the Cartoon Network tonight. I'm psyched!
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 5:33 PM

June 16, 2000

Guess what?

I didn't go walking last night. But I DID go and purchase the book "Fitness Walking for Dummies", and spent the evening reading. The particular sections I focused on last night: stretching and fitness walking.

And I'll go out walking tonight. Making this week three days on, one day off, three days on. Not so bad.
posted by Adrith 8:29 AM

Oh, god! The course map is up on the Disney site.
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 11:02 AM

I saw that course map, and as some of the Disney Deads commented, it doesn't look much different than last year.

But it DOES bring the reality of this marathon home, doesn't it?

On a related topic, I think I've decided on a water hydration system. I'm going to go with the Blackburn Creekflow HydraPak. It's not as expensive in cycling shops up here as the CamelBak products; their water saks have a great opening for easy cleaning; and I think I can afford to pick one up this weekend. Neato burrito.
posted by Adrith 11:41 AM

June 15, 2000

training walk 30 - Wednesday (scheduled for Tuesday)
Guest Walking Buddy: Astrophe's new tape! Wahoo!
Locale: Planet Fitness
Minutes: 45
Mileage: ~2
Total Mileage: 66.7

Darn blogger lost my post again.. good workout, but I think I might be having an issue with my ankle. Gosh, I hope not!

Because if I do tomorrow night's walk on time tomorrow, I'll be all caught up with training..

Good night!
posted by Adrith 12:01 AM

June 14, 2000

Ow. Ow. Ow..

training walk 29 - Tuesday (scheduled for Sunday)
Guest Walking Buddy: Joe
Locale: the Kitty Tour
Minutes: 21
Mileage: 1.0
Total mileage: 64.7

I'm a little disappointed that it took 21 minutes to do two laps of the Kitty Tour. But my body must have needed it after Monday night's walk, because that's as fast as I could go. And when I got into bed last night and tried some basic leg lifts, my left leg refused to lift. When I demanded its participation, it rewarded me with muscle pain.

This morning my leg seems fine (though the side-to-side movement feels a little tight still). You can bet I'm going to do quite a bit of stretching tonight.

I'm worried that I'm going to get stuck at the 21-minute mile. I'm worried that I'm not going to be able to finish the marathon and that I may not even have it in me to finish the half.

What I need to do now that our home schedule is a little more sane is concentrate on getting all the carbs and protein in. Get back to Points-counting and food group-watching and make sure I'm getting what I need to keep going.

Now that I'm basically back on track with training (just one day off), I'm not going to let me feel as though my work is wasted on a 21-minute mile. Back on track with walking. Back on track with eating. Back on track with water.

I CAN DO THIS!
posted by Adrith 9:57 AM

Foo. Hot day, evil weahter, 'nuff said!
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 6:03 PM

Training Walk 30? (Tues)

  • Focus: Speed for 45 min
  • Where: Gym, cross trainer
  • Duration: 45 min
  • Distance: 4 miles
  • Rank: 3-4?

It was a good workout, although I wore a cotton shirt and the sweat made it stick to my body. Ugh. I did take my allergy meds, so even though there was smoke around and the gym was stuffy, I did ok with breathing. Elbow injury is fine -- had no problem with the arm moves on the cross trainer. I hit 5K in 36 minutes, which is waaaay better than my real race time. Of course, it's easier in a controlled environment like a gym, but hopefully the next time I do another race I will still see an improvement. My left foot's toes kind of fell asleep for a bit during the session. I wore Thorlos. and I think the extra sock material crowded the toe box in that shoe. My left foot is the bigger foot -- the right foot had no problems.


posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 9:27 PM

June 13, 2000

Reading The Courage to Start again:

"Successful 'adult-onset' athletes are made, not born. To those of us who simply want to run, the value of genetics is highly overrated. Running doesn't require an extraordinary combination of muscle and bone. It requires only the desire to move our bodies and the wisdom to accept the difference between our will and our won't.

Running, like living, is alternately easy and hard, good and bad, exciting and boring. It is made up of long periods of dreadful sameness interrupted by brief moments of pure exhilaration. The big difference between running and life is that runners choose their moments of exhilaration."

I hope I get to an easy week here somewhere, because the last two weeks have been harder. I'm thinking that when I add in the two 45-minute easy walks, that should give me at least one good week, because if nothing else the additional activity should kickstart my weight loss again..
posted by Adrith 9:37 AM

June 12, 2000

I'm cooking in my house and I can't turn the AC up any higher because we got the first summer utility bill and it was $150! Yaaaaaaaah!!!! Too bad heat doesn't make you lose weight like cold does! Foo!
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 1:48 PM

John Bingham writes in The Courage to Start:

"Once you've overcome the momentum of your own inactivity, the improvements are much more incremental and there are ups and downs. You begin to have good days and bad days. In time you come to accept these fluctuations as natural."

Ugh, this is natural?

I left the office for a little bit to get something to drink from the Memorial Union Building. When I stepped outside, I felt absolutely horrid. It was chilly out, I had been sitting on my spreading arse all day, and I hadn't really shaken that feeling of fatigue I'd woken up with.

When I exited the MUB after purchasing my snack, I stopped to think, really think. It was a grey day, the kind I love best. The breeze was blowing and the feeling of air moving around my face felt really good. And for a snack, I'd purchased a large diet cola and a bag of baked crisps.

I could have purchased a large regular cola and a big fat brownie. But I got a diet soda and baked crisps.

I started to feel good again. And I started to believe that tonight's 2-hour walk was going to be good.

I'll let you know if it really is..
posted by Adrith 3:46 PM

training walk 28 - Monday (scheduled for Saturday)
Guest Walking Buddy: Joe
Locale: Hampton/Rye, NH, coastline
Minutes: 1 hour 40
Mileage: 4.7
Total mileage: 63.7

Grrrr.

The mood was great. The weather was great. The conversation was great.

But Joe got tired, and I got a side stitch after eating my PowerBar (over the space of ten minutes, natch!).. and we were much, much slower than I was hoping for in the previous hopeful entry. We couldn't even seem to maintain that 20:00 pace I was hoping to see.

But it's hard to walk at a good clip when what you're doing more closely resembles waddling than walking.

At least I have good news to report in the chafing department; I wore the windpants again, and again, I have no chafing problems. The one good thing out of today's walk..

but at least I did it. Now onto Sunday's walk tomorrow..
posted by Adrith 10:23 PM

June 11, 2000

Adrith e-mails me to tell me she spotted something in the marathon article I probably wouldn't have spotted myself until much later because I haven't had the time to sit down and really READ that issue. Apart from the training schedule, we have to be walking 45 min two extra days as easy walks.

Well, dammit!

I'm not doing them Monday! That's the worst day at the gym. I suppose Wed. and Fri. will be my two extra days. Next weeekend for the the long walks we have a 1 and a half hour session and then a one hour session. Weekend after that is the big, long 3 hr followed by a 20 min. Oy.
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 10:04 PM

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