Achy Legs

Owie. My legs ache. I'm just happy I don't have to run until tomorrow morning. Only 22 more miles to go in the 3 days left of the week. That is a little over 7 miles per day, but since I'm planning to do a double day on Thursday and Saturday, that is about 4.5 miles per run. If I do 6, 3, 4, 7, 3, that gives me 23 miles. If I actually do run 60 miles this week, that will be a month earlier than I had planned. I'll start adding more speed work to my weeks next month. Right now, I'm just holding on. *grimace*

Morning Weight: 148.5
Miles Today: 7.5
Other Exercise: Biked Home
Total Miles this Week: 38

Lost it at the gym Competition Results

So the results are in. E-mail from the organizer:
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Hi Everyone,
I wanted to tell you that the results are FINALLY in –
You were a group of 22 (people who did both weigh ins, we started with 33 in the group!)
These 22 people lost an average of 3.5 pounds in six weeks and a TOTAL of 77.1 pounds!!!
You all did AWESOME!!!
So I know the question on your mind...WHO GOT THE I-POD???
Well we have 2 I-pod shuffles for the 2 biggest losers and they are...drum roll please...
K-- B----- and Sam----- ------! Way to go girls!!
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Oh oh oh! That's me! That's me! I can't believe it! I've always wanted an ipod shuffle. Holy cow... Now I just need music to put on the thing. wheee! Whoa. How did someone who probably has the least to lose, win that thing? Looking at the average, it looks like a lot of people didn't lose anything because I lost 12.5 pounds and 1/7th of the total weight and I'm assuming K-- did the same or better than I did. Hm. Whoa.

Morning Weight: 149.5
Miles Today: 11
Other Exercise: Biked to Work
Total Miles this Week: 30.5

Crumbling and Going the Distance

Oh man. I totally fell apart last week. I didn't do any double days, only ran 5 out of 7 days and ate a ton of bad food. My total mileage was 37.75. I'm blaming it on Harry Potter #6, too many fun activities in the evening, and HOT HOT days.

This is only the coolest tool ever. http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/ Now I know how long my runs are to the .05 of a mile! (I don't trust it to be any more precise than that). Awesome awesome awesome.

According to my superb running estimating skills and confirming with this tool, I ran 12 miles yesterday! Go me! We will see how far I can run this week. My main goal is to only commute to work once by car this week, max.

The weight is a little high because I stuffed myself silly last night at Fresh Choice. After my 12 mile run, I was 144, and after I drank a bunch of water, I was 147.
Morning Weight: 150
Miles Today: 7.5
Other Exercise: Bike Home
Total Miles this Week: 19.5

I lost it at the gym : results

So I weighed in on Monday and got a reading of 143.3 (which is totally not accurate, only relatively so), so that means I lost 12.5 pounds from start to finish. Not bad. That is exactly where I wanted to be (losing more than 2 lbs/week is bad anyway).

I didn't run Sunday, so I lost out on my LSD day, but I'm going to try to do 50 again this week anyway. Oh! I ran 51 miles last week! sweeeeet. I'm going to try for a double day on Thursday and Saturday.

Morning Weight: 150.5 after oatmeal
Miles Today: 7.5
Other Exercise: None
Total Miles this Week: 22.5

Better

I'm just really glad that every day I run, I feel less icky and bonk less drastically. Yesterday, I even ran twice! And, my second run had a hill in it! (Well, I was half-drunk, so maybe I was just numb to the pain. It worked though =) ) I put down 5 miles for today, but I actually haven't run yet. I guess I'm going to have to now...

My gym's "Lose It At The Gym" program ends Monday. 6 weeks ago, I weighed in at ~155 on their scale, which I think is wrong because I weighed myself immediately after on a balance scale at 158. Hopefully, their scale is just as off. I've lost 10 lbs in 6 weeks... not bad... =) I want to weigh in at 143/144 on Monday, but we'll see. The biggest loser gets an ipod shuffle, and I know it can't be me because I'm sure some people lost more than 2 lbs/week, even though it is unheathly to do so. Too bad. I really want one of those. At least the organizer said that if you lose anything you get some sore of prize. =)

Morning Weight: 147.5
Miles Today: 5
Other Exercise: Biked to work
Total Miles this Week: 44

H2O Factor

Note to self: stay hydrated. don't run in the middle of the day for your long run.

I didn't drink any water on Saturday. Dumb. I didn't run either, but that is ok. I still ran 40 miles last week in 6 days. I think I'm pushing myself too hard anyway. This week I want to run as many miles as I feel like going, and I'm not going to worry about what my coach has down on paper. I'm not ready for that, and I almost crumbled this weekend with the pressure I was putting on myself.

On Sunday, I didn't get out of my place until almost 11. I felt great... for the first 3 miles. At that point I had to run up a slight hill and that started taking a toll on me. Plus, it was hot and I started sweating a lot. I was so tired after 4 miles, that I was wondering if I'd even be able to do the dish loop. When I arrived at the gate to the loop, I had to stop and recover a bit. My breathing was heavier when I stopped than during my run! I ran to the top of the first hill and then took an alternate route to Alpine Rd. I was so tired when I got to Alpine Rd, that I stopped an walked. Oh brother. I walked/ran most the rest of the way home. And I got sunburned again on Sunday! Grrr.

Yesterday wasn't much better, although I didn't stop and walk, and I thought I was way more hydrated too. I'm drinking 2 liters of water today. My run today was better, but I was running shorter. Tomorrow will be the test.

Morning Weight: 149 yesterday, 146.5 today
Miles Today: 5
Other Exercise: Biked to work
Total Miles this Week: 21.5

51

No. That's not how many miles I've done this week. I wish. That was my heart rate when I woke up this morning. =) 51 bpm.

Morning Weight: 153
Miles Today: 3.75
Other Exercise: None
Total Miles this Week: 40

Morro Bay XC's Training Secret

Oh man. I should have put emphasis on the word "should" in the last sentence of my last post because I've felt like a slug since that day. Well, yesterday evening wasn't too bad. I ran the "longer" way from work and did it about 10 minutes faster than the last time I ran that way, so I was pleased, but I still felt pretty icky.

Probably the main reason why I am still stiff and tired from Thursday is I figured out why MBHS' Cross Country team is so darn good at hills. Everyone already knows the obvious reasons like how their coach is amazing and they run hill repeats once a week. What they don't know is there are no possible non-boring runs in Morro Bay or Los Osos that are flat! Holy cow! And where was I this holiday weekend? Oh, at my parents' in Los Osos. I already knew this secret deep down, but after running mostly flat runs the last few months with one or two hilly runs a week, and after running that crazy hill-packed run on Thursday, every little incline was icky this weekend! My dad thinks that the 5.5 mile loop we do is fairly flat, but I count 5 hills on that sucker. And there pretty much is one every mile. I vow to run more where there are hills. This means that my easy days are probably going to be out and back on Sand Hill instead of a loop around Stanford.

This week's goals:
48 miles
147/8 lbs.

I think that I'm just going to focus on mileage right now and then speed workouts. So I'll try to do the speed workouts my coach wrote when I'm feeling good, but I won't stress them.

Morning Weight: 150.5
Miles Today: 7.5
Other Exercise: None
Total Miles this Week: 31

Balancing Passions

What I am doing for the next 3 weeks. I hope I can balance that and work and running. I guess I'll have to look at the schedule. Tomorrow it starts on at 5:30am. Yesterday I did two Dish Loops! Negative splits too! One guy asked, "Is this your second?" I nodded and he said, "Holy Cow!" =) I passed people and nobody passed me. I felt like a runner again. The last time I felt like that was over a month ago and before that was probably October. This feeling should come more frequently as I go further in training.

Morning Weight: --
Miles Today: 3.5
Other Exercise: 4 min. situps
Total Miles this Week: 34.5