Weigh-Ins for Brown's Boot Camp today to start of January. Weighed in at 250.5 at home after post-run shower. Had breakfast of 1 cup of Special K cereal with 1 cup of 1% milk and 1/2 cup of blueberries.
Forgot to take my BP this morning but it was 118/82 yesterday morning, very good. My doctor said if it is consistently under 120 for three months I can get off the meds. Cool!
Ran about 4.5 miles this morning at 8:00. North on La Canada from Naranja to Moore Road and back down. I need to measure this distance in my car to get a good mileage reading. Felt very good. Ran the uphill portion in 22 minutes and the downhill in 20.5 for a total of 42.5, 9:44/mile. Todd Jarkovsky slowed down to honk hello. I miss seeing Todd at BBC regularly.
Folks from BBC are running 8 miles tomorrow morning. I would love to go with them but having run today and running 8 miles tomorrow kind of screws up my just created training plan by eliminating a day of rest on Sunday so I'm gonna skip it. Don't want to overdo things and ruin my whole plan.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Thursday, January 5, 2012
I'm Gonna Run A Half Marathon
It's been a long time that I've written in this blog. I've been a bit busy with another blog I created about my soup making, cocinacaldo.blogspotcom.
I have noticed that I sometimes need an outlet for other things going on and have thought of my Middle Age blog but have not taken advantage of it until now.
As the title of this entry indicates I've committed to run in a half marathon in early June. This is a next step in some really good progress I've made in my fitness. I've lost over 20 pounds since October and 50 since I started with Brown's Boot Camp in June 2009. The most surprising thing coming from my physical activity is my growing affinity for running. Since high school I've had shin splints that I used as an excuse to not do any running. The shin splints even caused enough discomfort to limit my walking. When I started boot camp in 2009 the shin splints were a problem but I pushed through the discomfort and after a few months they just went away and have not been a problem since.
I now am running regularly outside of my boot camp workouts. I have run a few 5Ks and was looking for a goal to have in 2012 and the Rock & Roll Half Marathon in San Diego on June 3 seemed a perfect fit. There's a marathon and half marathon here in Tucson but not until December, too long to wait. There's a Rock & Roll marathon and half in Phoenix in late January, too soon. A friend mentioned the San Diego event so I checked it out and the date of June 3 gives me plenty of time to work up to the right miles and you can't beat SD in June. I've created a 21 week training plan that gets me to 13 miles pretty gradually and incorporates my boot camp work. This should be fun
I have noticed that I sometimes need an outlet for other things going on and have thought of my Middle Age blog but have not taken advantage of it until now.
As the title of this entry indicates I've committed to run in a half marathon in early June. This is a next step in some really good progress I've made in my fitness. I've lost over 20 pounds since October and 50 since I started with Brown's Boot Camp in June 2009. The most surprising thing coming from my physical activity is my growing affinity for running. Since high school I've had shin splints that I used as an excuse to not do any running. The shin splints even caused enough discomfort to limit my walking. When I started boot camp in 2009 the shin splints were a problem but I pushed through the discomfort and after a few months they just went away and have not been a problem since.
I now am running regularly outside of my boot camp workouts. I have run a few 5Ks and was looking for a goal to have in 2012 and the Rock & Roll Half Marathon in San Diego on June 3 seemed a perfect fit. There's a marathon and half marathon here in Tucson but not until December, too long to wait. There's a Rock & Roll marathon and half in Phoenix in late January, too soon. A friend mentioned the San Diego event so I checked it out and the date of June 3 gives me plenty of time to work up to the right miles and you can't beat SD in June. I've created a 21 week training plan that gets me to 13 miles pretty gradually and incorporates my boot camp work. This should be fun
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