August 11, 2000
training
8/10 Locale: PF
Minutes: 30
Mileage: 1.50
Total Mileage: 103.90
Blogger ate my post last night AGAIN. I'll just tell you that somehow, I managed
to get through three 1:45 running spikes even though I hadn't run in a week. Go
figure.
You'll notice I'm no longer calling them "training walks". I figure
that if I can run almost two minutes out of every four, that's not just walking.
I've made it to the uncertain land of "walk/running".
I've been trying to figure
out where I'm going to end the beginning running training in favor of the Marathon
Team training. NFMT training starts on August 26th with a one-hour session. If
I get to 2-minute spikes by tomorrow (very likely at this point), then by the
time the 26th gets here I should be up to 6-minute spikes.
Wow, that sounds
like a lot of running. Because it is! For someone who, at the beginning of the
year, didn't expect to be so sporty and buff. ;)
But the first couple of weeks
of NFMT training are full of 3 and 4 mile training sessions. I don't cover that
much ground in the 30 minute sessions of my current training.
So basically,
I've got two choices:
1. I can increase the training sessions I'm doing NOW
to 40, 50, or even 60 minutes. Keep the 10 and 8 minute warmups, as dictated by
the training, but increase the time in the middle so that I'm doing more of the
run/walk cycles. That will ensure that I get in more mileage. Then when the NFMT
schedule starts, do the mileage as dictated by NFMT training, but keep increasing
the amount of running I can do as dictated by the 'learning to run' schedule I'm
on now.
2. I can keep them as is for the moment, and when I start the NFMT
schedule, increase the length of the training sessions as dictated by NFMT, and
do the whole NFMT schedule at whatever run/walk interval I'm at at the time --
around 5 minute running spikes. Run five minutes, walk to recover, run five minutes,
walk to recover. You get the idea.
I honestly don't know what to do. Can I
finish the marathon running five minute spikes? Will I have enough time? Will
I be going fast enough to avoid the straggler's bus?
I think that starting
to increase my session times NOW, instead of waiting until August 26th, is a good
idea. So I may try that to see if it works. And when my mentor calls next time,
I'll make a point of asking her what she thinks.
posted
by Adrith 10:54 AM
August 10, 2000
Too hot to go out, so stayed home and did free weights and yoga to help downplay
the soreness. Cardio in the morning -- I just can't manage it any other way. The
humidity makes me batty but the temps are worse! Wrapped up my mix tape, so
I have 3 hrs of new music for the weekend. I'm still flip-flopping between doing
what's scheduled for Sat. (2:45) or doing last Saturday's dealie (4:30). Mentally
I am not psyched for either at all. I'm tired after 16 weeks of this. NO, I am
not an eager beaver. YES, I'll keep going because with 2 weeks left -- why the
heck not?
But I do look forward to the new schedule! It won't start to get
gruesome again until November-December and I look forward to having Sunday for
biking. So September and October means we're back on the honeymoon. Hooray!
posted by Cat 'Astrophe' 12:56 AM
Argh, argh, argh! Still in pain, in random spots that make
me afraid to get anywhere near the treadmill. I've gone two days without hurting
in my back-right side, which is GREAT, but now my KNEE is starting to do some
flaky spasming.. oh, dear God, no.. not my knee. I need to walk a few hundred
more miles on that knee! Argh!
And here's the odd thing too -- even though
I haven't run in a week, the scale was down yet ANOTHER notch this morning, to
238. I can't imagine that my metabolism is still on its rocking running high;
I know I'm not eating as much, thanks to the heat, but I'm wondering how much
that has to do with calorie intake and how much it has to do with inadequate hydration.
Let's face it -- I'm parched.
Which reminds me, I gotta go refill the water
bottle.
Back with the water bottle, and it tastes funny. I can tell that this
is Durham town water I'm drinking even though it's in the Brita squeeze bottle.
Hrm. How can I solve my hydration problem?
1. Buy a new Brita bottle filter.
That should help the taste of the water here.
2. Bring home the Brita bottle
on the weekends, so whatever water habit I get into on the weekdays can be continued
on the weekend.
3. Drink two Brita bottles-full each day - one in the morning,
refill the bottle at noon, and make sure it's empty again by 4:30. The Brita website
doesn't list the capacity of the bottle nor is it printed on the bottle itself,
but if I remember correctly, it holds 16 oz. So that's 32 oz, or one quart, of
water during the workday.
4. Drink water at home instead of the other goodies
that are in the fridge like the IBC cream soda and the IBC Black Cherry soda.
Mmm, I love that stuff. But Joe doesn't realize that when it's in the fridge I
don't drink enough water.
5. When going to the gym, bring Gatorade. It goes
down easier than water when I'm halfway through a workout, for some reason. I
can drink a quart of Gatorade during a workout, so there's another 32 oz.
If
all went to plan, I could get in 2.5 quarts of hydrating substance every day.
That's sure better than what I've been doing.
posted by
Adrith 3:14 PM
August 9, 2000
Sunset half an hour away. Do I go for a quick walk? Mow the scary lawn? Hope
Paul gets home soon with my car? 95 deg out -- all I want to do is hide. My lawn
is needing watering badly. Sigh. Scary power bill to boot. *chant* september,
september, september! Updated my Dietwatch stuff. 2 L water yesterday plus
some juice, going for 3 L today, no juice. All "green" days this month so far,
so I'm hanging in there and trying my best to stick with it.
posted
by Cat 'Astrophe' 6:53 PM
August 8, 2000
And in the news today: 1. I woke up pain-free without the help of drugs.
This is a very, very good thing. I was so afraid that I had done something to
myself, or that something had happened to me, which wasn't easily repairable and
would take lots of doctor's visits, money, and time off of training. This is thankfully
not the case, and I'll be back on the treadmill tonight.
Though taking it easy,
to be sure. If I feel like it, I'll try running the same 1:30 spikes I left off
at last week.. but no added time to the spikes. Yet. If that goes well, then maybe
I'll start increasing time again.
2. I've been weighing every day (or nearly)
for my paper training log, even this weekend when I wasn't walk/running. And the
weight has been steadily dropping: 241.5 on Friday, 240 Saturday, 239.5 Sunday,
and 239 today. My metabolism really likes this walk/run thing! But now it's definitely
time to get back on the treadmill, and stage an all-out assault on 230..
posted
by Adrith 9:08 AM
I hurt all
over my top. My bottom parts are fine, but my top aches. Yesterday I had a
dental appointment and since I was out on that side of town already, I went to
my old gym to try weights again. Lower body did fine -- but I probably could push
the weight a little higher. Upper body did fine too -- nothing out of the elbow.
But I can tell it's been a long time since I've done weights for real. I'm feeling
it in my armpits today from chest press and seated row even though I went lighter
than I used to do it at. I'm out of practice.
I'll do some extra stretching
later and I'll probably trade Tues for Wed. on the schedule so I can do just a
casual stroll rather than a speed thing. Let's hope for no rain!
posted
by Cat 'Astrophe' 1:34 PM
August 7, 2000
sidelined.
Dammit. I've got this pain in my side and it HURTS.
Hurts to get up. Hurts to sit down. Hurts to be sitting down.
And I'm tired
of laying down, too. Boy, am I scroobed.
posted by Adrith
11:05 AM
August 6, 2000
Training
Walk for 8/3
- Focus: Intervals for 60 min
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Where:
Neighborhood
- Distance: 3.75 miles
For a myriad of reasons,
didn't make it to gym for this one, so instead I just did a walk through the neighborhood
with no intervals. I finally got my pedometer calibrated right! I jsut can never
get the automated function for figuring out stride correct so I decided to do
it the real way -- MATH!
I ended up measuring the distance with my car,
multiplying 3.75 miles by 5280 to change it to feet, then divided by the 7715
steps it took to get my stride of 2.56 feet. I put in in the pedometer as 2.5
feet though instead of rounding up to 2.6 because I rather be a little under than
overestimate. All things considered, it was very close to the 4.0 MPH I need.
I had to stop twice by mailboxes to stretch my calves and this stupid yippy dog
chased me for about a block and that slowed me down, so even though the humidity/heat
was horrid I felt good about it.
Would have felt better if I could have
kicked the dang dog. :P
Training Walks for 8/5 and 8/6
- Focus:
Endurance for 4.5 hrs and 20 min recovery next day
Argh! It's not
even a DNF, it's more like a Did Not START!
The weather is coming down with
some major thunderstorms on and off all day yesterday and today. I'll be lucky
if it stops by evening so I can at least bike a little with Paul. I'tm thinking
about repeating this weekend's stuff next weekend. I really need to see how I
hold up over that many hours. It also irritates me because Paul can't work on
his car and I want that car stuff out of my hair!
posted
by Cat 'Astrophe' 2:45 PM
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