Monday - Personal Training

Personal training today. I can tell it is going to be hard to steer the car in the next couple of days. Lots of arm work.

Did 3K on the treadmill at incline of at least 1.5.

Originally he said 15 minutes and I said I wanted to do 21 minutes (because I did not get a chance to run beforehand) so I did 23 to make it to 3K.

Funny, 3K sounds piddly but hey, at least it is running.

New word of the day

My son is in grade one (or first grade for you Amarikins). Yesterday his new word was "burn" and he has to make up a sentence with the word in it. His sentence?

"My mom likes to burn calories."

Yikes!!! Obviously little ears hear everything.

Monday - Personal Training

Had a great personal training session yesterday. I didn't get to run beforehand (had to remote in to work) but ran 3K on the treadmill then challenging weights.

Tomorrow morning is my mom's surgery.

I am covering for someone at work who is on short term disability. He job has time critical stuff that I have to chase people around to complete. Timing completely sucks. If surgery has complications though my boss will understand and pass her work to someone else. I am trying to keep doing it though to make myself useful. (previously my contract was going to end at the end of December)

Not sure if I will exercise today since I will likely go straight from work to hospital in early afternoon and stay there until 8 or 9.

At least I have kept my eating under control during all this stress. I'm afraid the stress might increase when she comes home. Right now she is being taken care of in the hospital. When she comes out I am the care giver.

Phewsh!

Its been a while! I finally ran today thanks to the prodding from my dear friend Dino. Thanks for pushing me out the door and entertaining the 4 year old. You are the bestest!

I ran 20 minutes at easy speed. It was good to get out there. The weather is unseasonably warm and has been all week. I've been missing out!

Mom has surgery scheduled for Wednesday. Hopefully she will come through it with flying colours.

Done and Done

Miss Lazy Boots got on the Eliptical for an hour while watching a Jane Austen movie that I've never seen (Northanger Abbey). Gotta love a good period piece chick flick. Who will the heroine choose? I don't know, I've only watched half so far.

Time: 1 hour
What: Intervals on the Eliptical. 2 mins hard effort, 2 minutes easy. Repeat.
Cals: 772 according to the machine.

Better than lying in bed watching TV. Now I don't feel like such a lazy slug.

Up next: Run in the am then personal training ass kicking. I love Mondays! (kinda)

Week in Review

Monday - 26 minute run then 1hour personal training (weights etc.)

Tues / Wed - Nada? What the heck?

Thursday: 2 hours cycling at class. Legs were very tired by the end likely not recovered from the previous Saturday's race. Still worked hard though.

Friday: Did weight routine homework from trainer. Its a Miracle! Didn't want to have to go back there and admit to not doing it. Hahaha.

Saturday: Should have run. However went to an all day long Scrapbooking thingie and did not work in the running.

Sunday: It is 6pm and have not done anything yet. I think I might put in some time on the *gasp* Eliptical! I should get on there more often just to burn of calories especially since I am not perfect with my eating.

I did not get my act organized this past week food wise and therefore eating was rather random and I'm pretty sure I won't have a loss tomorrow.. However today I have my plan printed out for this week. Most of my food is bought. Now to stick to it! I realize now that I need to do that on Sunday not Monday. Monday I just have too many places to be. (drop and pick up both kids at different times, trainer, nutrition guy etc.)

Exercising was more sparse than usual too. I am getting used to being back at personal training and doing the cycling. Need to get back to the 3 runs a week. I promise to do that Steph!

Thank you Internet friends who check up on me. Hi to Tony who sent me a message!

Monday - did my run - Yippeee

So, does anyone else have this trouble? I can comment on some blogs but not others from this particular computer (Hi Fatinah!). I can't even comment on a blog that I author. Weird! Unfortunately this means I sometimes read stuff, can't comment, then forget to comment later. Sorry!

Anyways... I managed to run yesterday before going to personal training. This left more time for personal trainer to make me do weights. (usually he has me run for 10-15 minutes). He also gave me a sheet of "homework" to do at home. I must must do that. My pushups and dips are beyond pathetic.

On another note: I need to firm up my running plan. My previous plan was to run 3 times a week, adding 2 minutes to each run weekly until I hit 30 minutes. Time to make a new Mega Plan!

One of my old school running friends is suggesting she might like to do a half marathon in SF next October. That sounds like it is do-able (and a cool idea since I have never been there) I need to come up with a long slow plan to work myself up to that distance without pissing off my nemesis (plural) aka right foot and right hip. If I do it slowly enough I hope I can fly under the radar without pissing them off too badly. Like a really extended plan way longer than the usual 16 week plan or whatever. Hmmm.... Don't want to ask my husband though. His plans are always way too hard :) However, a 40 week plan seems like a recipe for burnout. We shall see.

8K Race done

So, I ran my favourite race again. And again I was not trained properly for it. However, I loved doing it and I tried really hard. It is an 8K race where the first 4K is all uphill (and some of it is pretty darn steep)

My finishing time was not quite my personal worst. I was 1 minute slower the year I had a 6 month old baby at home. Hahahaha.

This was the first year I can remember it snowing during the race. That was a tad annoying. It was 1 degree C at race time. I wore a short sleeved shirt, a long sleeved shirt, medium tights, no hat. That seemed to be the right clothes for me.

I wore my heart rate monitor. I like to wear it mostly just to glance at to see if I am working hard enough during the race and it it fun to have some stats afterwards.

For my age my theoretical maximum heart rate is 183. However I am pretty sure my actually max heart rate is 184. I can't remember seeing it higher than that in a long time. I did see 188 briefly a couple of years ago.

So, this race is 4K uphill then 4K downhill. My max heart rate during the race was 184. My average heart rate was 175 (and according to my heart rate monitor I burned 1142 cals). That is freaking high people! This tells me 2 things.

1) I tried really hard. I did not slack off at all.

2) Unfortunately the high average heart rate is an indicator of my fitness. My fitness is not the greatest. My average speed was 8 minutes per km. Still I'm pretty happy that I ran that far since I started running again in July and at that point running 1 minute was hard. My longest run before the race was 26 minutes and the race took me over an hour to do.

Last year:
Pace: 7:23 min/km
Max: 179 bpm
Avg: 168 bpm
Cals: 836

Personal Best at this race: 8 years ago
Pace: 6:31 min/ km

It would be nice to be posting a year from now saying that I trained lots of hills in the summer and had my time back down under 7 minute per km pace. Just need to make it happen!

Monday

Back at the personal trainer's today. Going there once a week now. My upper body is mush. Kind of crazy how weak I got. I quit going 9 months ago and pretty much lost everything that I had built. Oh well... all I can do is start again!

So, I bring my daughter (4 years old) along with me and she watches a DVD and does colouring. She is so well behaved I can't believe it! Glad that is working out.