3 Mile Run
Who: Ali
What: 3 Mile Run
Where: Struble Trail
Ali took her bike out and rode next to me while I ran, which worked out pretty good.
Comments On This Journal No Longer Require Registration… But…
I have disabled the requirement that any commenters must be registered to make a comment.
However, I have added a Captcha plugin that will hopefully continue to prevent spam comments, and I’ll also moderate any new comments for the foreseeable future.
If spam begins to attack this journal despite the Captcha, I will require registration again. Because if it comes down to a choice between moderating spam and having no comments, I’ll just choose the lazy No Comment option. Or the equally lazy Comments Only From Registered option. It’s not like this journal gets thousands of legitimate hits every day anyway!
45 Minute Crosstrain
Who: Other gymrats
What: 45 Minute Crosstrain (Elliptical)
Where: Planet Fitness Downingtown
A good elliptical session. Legs were not too terribly tired to start, which was a good sign. I’m still having a little tightness in my right calve muscle, but I stretched very carefully beforehand and everything seemed fine, maybe even better than when I started. I’m hoping that works itself out as I ramp up, and so far it has.
After burning calories, I ingested all those calories and more at a new foodery that opened just down the road from us, fully sponsored by my NCAA pool winnings.
Fallout 3 First Impressions, or Why I Am Very Old
Can you have First Impressions on a game you have already spent 30 hours on? Absolutely. Though it must be a role playing game.
I’m going to preface this somewhat. I loved Fallout and Fallout 2. I even played (and liked, for what it was) Fallout: Tactics. So you can chalk me up as a Fallout Fan at the start.
5X400 + Stretch / Weights
Who: Other gymrats
What: 5×400 repeats. Stretching. Weights.
Where: Planet Fitness Downingtown
Pleasant, if long, workout. I did my stretching and my abdominal exercises. Then, I did the repeats on a treadmill. (It was too cold and cloudy for outdoor running, at least in my mood). I followed that with an upper body workout.
I think I’ll be exhausted. I did shorten the workout from what was my usual weights workout… just due to the fact that I was also running. Thursday, I guess, will be my bigger weight day. We’ll see how this schedule works out.
NCAA 2009
So I won my office NCAA basketball pool. That doesn’t suck.
I had three of the final four, one of the final two and the winner. So go me.
My 24 Week Plan For the Philadelphia Half Marathon
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Wordpress 2.7.1 - Things I like
When I dusted this journal off, I went out and upgraded wordpress. I’m impressed so far. Things I like:
- The ability to sticky posts to the top of the journal.
- Seems faster.
- When you finish typing a post and click ‘publish’, the post doesn’t go away. It leaves the post there for the user to edit things. Great for when I notice a typo right when I click.
- The new administrative user interface. Unless they have a wordpress journal, any readers I have will never see this but it looks and functions much more to my liking.
3 Mile Run
Who: Alone
What: 3 Mile Run
Where: Local Route
The legs were a little TOO fresh. I wanted a nice, relaxing, easy run. I kept telling myself to slow down. I barely listened. I did, somewhat, though. I guess.
Cardio needs work. Heart rate rose too fast and stayed too high. But that’s all part of getting back at it.
Training Plan (Nearly) Done
My training plan for the Philadelphia Half Marathon is nearly done. I may put it up after it has been finalized. I’m using the training plan for the Miami Half as a starting point, but I have over double the amount of time. This is good, because I feel like I really need more time doing runs of more than, say, 8 miles to do an appropriate build to get the speed that I want. This is bad because, well, it’s longer. Burnout is more of a concern.
(Not the kind of burnout where you crash cars. Which is, of course, unfortunate.)
I’m enjoying creating and modifying the plan. Much like a new season of any sport, everything is fresh and new and anything is possible. “Of course I’ll be able to do weights on that day after a run,” I think to myself. “I’ll schedule this here, and that there, and I’m going to do so great with it. This will be an undefeated season!” My body is currently (arguably over)rested. I am excited to be a part of the plan.
The season will start. I will have stomach issues. I will get sore. I will pull a muscle or do something else bad. Some days, I’ll have a win. Some days, it will be a loss. This is a sport, after all, even if I’m only competing against myself and my expectations.
My Tuesday work, which tends to be speed work, is so very important. It’s the clearest place where I can improve, other than having more time to build endurance. I skipped more Tuesday workouts during the last training than any other workout. It is better if I skip Wednesday or even Friday. Well, ideally, no skips are best, but what did I say? Some days, you lose.
In the end, I think I’ve revised this plan pretty well. I took things I learned. I used Amy’s brain to refine what I already thought. Plans can be modified, too, to reflect reality.
I’m excited to train for something.
And at least for the immediate future, no running in the cold!!
