pre 5k test run

Tonight I set my Nike+ to "5k" to kind of see where I was. Now I'll preface what I'm about to say by saying that I know it will appear as though I'm making excuses, and maybe I am but there is no way my Nike+ thing was right! It said I ran 7 secs slower than my first 5K back in August. Tonight=41:56 and August=41:49. And I was really pushing myself tonight. Back in August I kid you not, an old lady speed walking passed me. That would not have happened tonight. So for my Friday run, since it is so close to the race I'm just going to recalibrate my Nike+. One lap at the track walking, one lap running. Nice and easy so I don't burn myself out before the race. Look for a brief post Friday then one Saturday.

Here is the chart from my run tonight, take it with a grain of salt:

Okay so I can't get my Nike+ thing going in regards to the online component. Anyway the run appeared to be pretty steady but I feel like the stats were off. Also I wrote this last night waiting for the Nike + to log into my account so all the "today's" should be "yesterday's"

....shouldn't have left you, without a dope beat to step to, step to

Sorry for the delay in posts. I've started a new running schedule. My running days are on Mon, Wed, Fri. Mainly because I play softball on Tues and Thurs. Also I've stepped up my mileage in order to attempt a 10K at some point. The last 4 runs or so have all been 4+ miles 4.5+ if you include the warm up and cool down walks.

Sadly today was the first day i wasn't able to run that distance continually and honestly the only difference I can see is that I ran at the track. I still ended up running 3.7 something miles (.5 of which was walking) so it was still productive and more than the end of my Couch to 5K plan. The problem I had was I got a major stitch in my side and had to walk a lap. But I ended the run with a near sprint lap so it may have evened out.

The other problem I'm running into with the increased distance is finding a suitable route to run. I have a few neighborhoods i like to run in but I usually end up just winging the route. Roughly estimating in my head where i need to run in order to end up hitting the "end workout" button just as I get back to my truck or to my front door. What usually happens is I circle my truck in the parking lot a few times or run past my house then run back. Not a huge deal but kind of annoying.

Anyway the St. Johns road race 5k is this Saturday and I'm pretty excited to see how I do. My last time was 41:49 so that is my time to beat this Sat. Wish me luck!

And Honk! to you guys, I love you both and stick with it!

Matt

it's a comeback! kinda....

So I thought that a week without strenuous exercise would help my foot work itself out. Today was the day to try it out and see how it would go. The result was not that great. It started acting up pretty quickly, which bummed me out, but I ran for a while, walked a little bit, and then ran a while more, concluding with a cool down walk. I ended up going 2.34 miles in 32:33 minutes with a pace of 13:51 and burned 337 calories. It's not where I wanted to be when we started this thing, but it's okay because I'm still freaking determined to accomplish my goal. I'm hoping that by the end of this week I'll be back to the 3, 3.5 mile mark so next week I can start bumping it up a bit. But we'll see - we all know how well my body has liked my plans haha.

Back to today's run.......

I realized that once I got through the initial pain of the tendon, it kinda mellowed out a little bit. Once I would start to walk to relieve some of the pain, it hurt worse. So the running wasn't too bad. :) The only part that was kinda funny and made me slightly jealous was that the girl's softball team was running laps the same time I was, and a whole lot better haha. It did motivate a little bit, though. It's definitely the place I want to be - to run with seemingly no effort and to be able to just punch through a few miles and still be able to breathe when I'm done haha.

But anyway, I hope everyone's Monday went well! And if not, I'm happy that it's over for you. :)

HONK!

slacker

I agree with Liz W, we have been pretty slack about updating. I haven't kept up with a consistent running schedule but I have been able to get in 3 runs a week since completing the C25K plan. I decided to try and give the 10 plan on the cool runnings page a shot. I think some of what it asks you to do may be limited by my location and other factors but I know this, not having a plan is going to kill my motivation so i need to get one asap.

Here is my run from tonight:

I was quite amazed at how even it was. Slow and steady wins the race.

Matt

just a little quicky

I love that we've become quite the slackers lately with the whole updating thing haha.

I just wanted to do a little update about this week. I haven't been running. I decided that maybe a week would give my foot some time to heal and get better. It's been a little bit sore in the mornings, but not too bad. So hopefully when I start back running on Monday it'll be pretty fantastic and mostly pain free. That's the hope.

Anyway, I hope everyone's week has been going well - much love friends. :)

HONK!

I'm back baby!

Man it has been a long week. I haven't had a full C25K run in over a week, until today. I won't bore you with the details of what has been going on as you know already but here is a quick run down of my runs since last Monday:

This is where I locked my keys in the car and had to literally run home from the track, not fun. Then took Amanda to the ER and our week of happy fun times in the hospital began.

This was my first run after Amanda was out of the hospital. Wasn't really into it but felt like I needed to do something to stay with it or running might have fallen by the wayside.

This is where I knew I needed to step it up but still ease back into the full 3 miles. A good run overall.

And finally Week 8 Day 3 is in the books! It took longer than I would have liked but I got it done. I would have liked to have blown straight through C25k bus as you all know, life happens.

So its on to week 9! I'm very excited and I hope to see you on the other side of C25K!

Matt

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Um yeah, so I've run three times since my last update. Oops. So here's a quick recap:

Wed: 3.44 miles in 49:09

Sat: 2.04 miles in 28:03

Today: 3:47 miles in 40:11

I didn't run on Friday because Thursday night's yoga kicked me in the FACE. I was definitely sore on Friday morning and just knew there would be no way I could make it haha. So I ran on Saturday. I had every intention of going the whole 3 miles, but I realized that I probably didn't have time since I had to be in Carrollton so early for class. That's why it's only 2 miles instead of 3.

I'm still having to walk a little bit, but today I walked a lot less today than I did last week. Hopefully by the end of this week or next I'll be up to all running again. On a side note, I couldn't find my headphones this morning so I ran without music. I thought it would be pretty miserable, but time still seemed to fly by. Okay so moving on.....I've been trying different strides to help out my foot and I think I've found a stride that helps keep the pain away. There is a bit of an issue with the new stride though haha. I've been getting pretty winded when I'm running a lot quicker than normal. I finally figured it out that it's because my stride is longer, therefore I'm running a little bit faster than I'm used to. I'm totally okay with the switch out of more labored breathing than my foot filling with pain haha. It just means that with more time I'll get used to the new stride and my breathing will get better. The cool part about the faster pace is that I'm only a minute and a half away from a 10 minute mile! Today I did a mile in 11:34. :) I'm happy about that - a 10 minute mile is my short term goal for the moment haha.

On another note, I still love yoga. It makes me happy. :) And it kinda hit me when I was talking to my neighbor last week about my running and yoga and he goes "you're working out 5 days a week?! Wow! That's awesome, Liz." I never really thought about the whole 5 days a week thing - it's kinda funny! haha! Just think where we were just a few months ago - incredibly sore, thankful that we made it through the first few rotations of 60/90, and overall pretty proud of ourselves. Well, I'd have to say we're still pretty proud of ourselves, and if we're not we stinkin' should be, and there's still some hard parts of our runs, but I think we've done a pretty good darn-tootin' job. :)

And on one more note, I bought more running shoes haha. I didn't really have to, but I did. The whole reasoning (I keep justifying myself for a reason other than the fact that I just wanted them haha) is to switch out the shoes so that each pair will last longer. They're the new Lunar Glides by Nike (go figure). Here they are! :)

Oh! And I've been meaning to thank Laura E for suggesting orthotics for my shoes - I really think they've helped. :)

Till next time friends! HONK!