Time: 7:50am
Where: gym
Workout: 2 mi easy (between 10 – 10;30 min mi)
Plank 60 sec x 2
Plank on Ball, 20 sec on/10 sec off for 2 min
Side Plank: 45 sec x 2, each side
Notes and Observations: nothing to report.
Music: Twilight Breakding Dawn Part 1 Soundtrack (nice and mellow goes well with an ‘easy’ day)
1+mi hilly walk for Max and some Kinect Sports and Fruit Ninja.
Then some nachos and calamari and other super bowl food goodies.
But now I have a losers stomach ache.
Sigh.
At work we do this quarterly exercise called VFOs, Vital Few Objectives. We come up with a few priorities that we’re to focus on for the quarter, knowing what our final destination is for the fiscal. It is intended to keep our priorities in check when work gets in the way.
Last fall I came up with the grand idea of assigning something similar in my fitness goals. I know the ultimate goal for me (for now) is to run the half-marathon in June, and to run it quite a bit faster than my first half 8 years ago (really? 8?), preferably about 10 pounds lighter than I was 8 years ago. But how will I achieve that? Enter the VFOs:
1) get back into the habit of working out consistently, like back when I was rowing.
2) maintain some sort of lifting routine even as I increase my mileage.
That’s about it for now. well, there is
3) look happier when I run
Or run the risk of being known as ‘angry Asian girl’ at the gym. Seriously. I can’t be the only person to make up names of all the gym regulars. I know you do it too.
Time: 10:45am
Where: Burke-Gilman trail
Workout: 5 miles. 5 minutes hard, 5 minutes easy
Notes and observations: it felt good. Hard to say how fast the hard or easy parts were, just that I did my best to focus and think fast when I wad going for it, and to think recovery during the off times. beautiful morning for a run! Made it much more enjoyable.
Music: Foo Fighters, whatever records has starts with ‘Times Like These’
I did walk to and from the bus stop, ~.8 mi each way. I originally thought I would lift today but i passed.
Training for the Seattle Rock n Roll Half Marathon has officially started. I am hoping to continue to lift at least 2x a week. We’ll see.
Time: 11ish am
Where: gym treadmill
Workout: 4 mi.
Mile 1 warm up, getting up to 6.0 on the speed scale
Miles 2 & 3: 6.0 baseline, accelerations of 200m as follows: 6.5, 6.5, 6.6, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.7, 6.6
Mile 4: 6.0 with a slower speed at the end
Notes and observations: 4 mi goes by fast with intervals. Blisters begin forming between 3and 4 miles. There is a lunchtime food truck in the Mars Hill parking lot.
Music: The Killers, Hot Fuss
Time: 8 am
Where: gym treadmill
Workout: 3 mi easy
Notes and observations: hovered between 9:30 & 10 min mile, and I probably should go slower for an “easy” run. The problem is I like to be done quicker than an 11:00 min mi allows.
Music: The Killers, Hot Fuss