Well I said that Friday was going to be a busy day and it was. I ended up getting up a little later than I had planned, I helped the kiddo finish up his schoolwork and then his reward for the day was to go to the pool so after lunch we headed up to the pool.
Since we normally don't go to the pool during the middle of the day on a weekday it is very rare that we get the pool to ourselves but the kiddo and I did ended up being the only ones there. Kiddo still can't quite swim so we worked on floating on his stomach and swimming underwater. I tried to get him to do a front flip but we didn't quite manage to master that. I only planned to stay for about 90 minutes and at about 85 minutes the clouds started to roll in and right at 90 minutes it started to rain.
After the pool we headed home and changed to head to grandmas. Kiddo and hubby had spent time together during the morning so kiddo decided that given the option he'd rather go to grandma and grandpas for the night rather hang out with dad and Bethany for the night. I drove him over to grandmas house which is about a 40 minute drive with no traffic, of course though I hit traffic both ways. By the time I made it home my husband was already home, since he'd left work a bit early. I baked him a german chocolate cake and after we had our cake, we headed to dinner, then saw the new Transformers movie.
By the time we made it home it was after midnight and besides my ninety minutes of lazy time pool time I didn't get in any consistent cardio.
On Saturday, my husband and I got up early to go over to his parents new place to finish laying down flooring. We tore up 1200 sq ft of carpet and padding in their new home and have been putting down new laminate flooring. We stayed there until 9 pm, stopping only for lunch and dinner. While I'm sure I burnt plenty of calories I didn't do my planned cardio.
Today, I just couldn't get myself out of bed. every now and then I have days where I'm just exhausted and feel like I could sleep all day. Today I proved I could by sleeping for the better part of 14 hours. I woke up feeling very refreshed and after I showered I ran an errand and then had dinner out with my family. I ended up not eating much since I ordered ribs and they came out crunchy and burnt, I sent them back, which I never do and the next set came out even more inedible so I just gave up and my meal consisted of a small salad and mashed potatoes. I ended up going out to have a drink with a group of people I hadn't seen in a while. After I came home and decided to go out for a 30 minute walk even though it was technically a rest day. I managed to do about 1.85 miles, my garmin died in the last 8 minutes so I used mapmyrun.com to figure out about what I did.
Tomorrow I am scheduled for a 3 mile but the heat index is supposed to get up to 110 degrees so it might have to be in on the treadmill.
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Day 2 for the umpteenth time
Today was a fairly uneventful day. I woke up around 10:30, which is my usual wake up time when I don't have work or the kiddo. I'm definitely not a morning person so it always takes me a little while to get moving. I finally got around to eating breakfast and then decided to head out for my 30 minutes of exercise.
I knew it was after 11 so it was going to be hot so I decided to just head out the front door and down the street in front of our apartment complex since one direction is fairly shaded. It was 84 degrees with 83% humidity and it didn't take long until I was sweating. Overall though I never felt like I was to hot thanks to all the shade. I ended up finishing 1.78 miles in 30 minutes. I did the same run 1 walk 14 as yesterday only on a different route.
After my husband got home we headed to my in-laws new house to work on the flooring. The previous owners had a lot of cats and the carpet was pretty disgusting so since I had put down laminate flooring in my old house I offered to pull up all the carpet and padding and put down laminate flooring in her house. It's going fairly well but it's been killing my hips and I'm thinking I might need a trip to the chiropractor after I'm done.
Tomorrow I have to work so I'm going to just have it as a rest day since I have a 3 hour round trip commute and a 12 hour work day.
Friday is my husband's birthday and I'll be spending the day with the kiddo. I'm planning on the same 30 minute run/walk at some point though I don't know when I'll be able to squeeze it into my day unless I can convince the kiddo to come along too.
It's been a while...
Where have I been? My last post was 2 months and 3 weeks ago. My fiance and I finished a 5K in May with less than stellar finish times, he didn't want to leave me so he slowed his pace to keep up with me, a complete 180 from last year when I slowed my pace to stick with him to the finish. Then on May 31st, my fiancé became my husband and we enjoyed a week long honeymoon in St. Pete's Beach, Florida. My husband has been injured since before the wedding and so between my usual lack of motivation added to feeling like I needed to do a thousand things and be a thousand places and having him be in so much pain, our training has fallen to the wayside and our weight has started to climb back up.
We've returned home and mostly settled back into our normal day to day routine. Kiddo is out of school and home with me 2 days a week, he is in summer camp 2 days a week and with his mother 1 day a week. Husband has seen a doctor and though it didn't fix his problem we are hopeful that the pain will resolve before he has to have surgery to attempt to fix this problem. I will be starting to work a bit more in July and August as we are hoping to save up a bit of money for a downpayment on a mobile home near his parents until we can get ourselves in the best financial place to fulfill our dreams of buying a significant amount of acreage and building our dream home.
We still are hoping to run the marathon in October and next week will put us at exactly 16 weeks until the marathon, so I modified our training plan from a longer more involved plan to a 16 week beginner plan.
October will also be a much more significant point in our lives as that is the month we have decided to start trying to get pregnant. This is a huge thing for me as I am already 28 and have never been pregnant, though obviously my husband has been there/done that already. The thought of trying to become pregnant and having a baby has been a huge motivator for me to resume my fitness routine and try to become healthier.
Currently I am a half a pack a day smoker and weight 210 pounds. Obviously there are many factors that I can't control when it comes to having a healthy pregnancy but those are two things that I have to power to change to prepare myself for pregnancy and having a child.
My height and weight places my BMI at 33.9 which is considered obese. I also have a diagnosis of PCOS which could make it more difficulty for me to get pregnant. If I lose weight not only will I have less risk of gestational diabetes and preeclampsia but a better chance of getting pregnant in the first place. This might be more than you wanted to know but I promise you that it is in fact leading back around to something blog related.
Being active is important at any points of our lives but also during pregnancy and it should also help with bringing my weight to a better range to prior to pregnancy. I'm hoping that in the next 16-17 weeks I can bring my weight from 210 to 185, which would put my BMI 29.9 and to the overweight category. I'd need to get my weight to 155 to be considered in the normal. However I think that goal is unrealistic by October but if we are unable to conceive immediately I would continue to work towards obtaining a normal BMI.
As for overall cardio, I am starting this week with just 30 minutes of walk/run 4 days this week. I did a run 1 minute, walk 14 min x 2 with a warm up and cool down yesterday, I finished 1.71 miles. I plan on doing the same general workout for 3 other days this week and then Monday I will start the marathon training in mileage and mileage only. I plan to run what feels comfortable and increase it as much as possible without injury. The Rock N Roll St. Louis Marathon has a 7 hour course time limit which correlates to a 16:02 min mile. I'd obviously be happy just to finish but I'd love to finish under 6 hours.
So there you have it, in one very long winded post with a bit of TMI and some lofty goals for the next 16 weeks. Oh and by the way, I didn't touch on it in the previous paragraphs but my husband and I are planning on quitting smoking on July 1st.
We've returned home and mostly settled back into our normal day to day routine. Kiddo is out of school and home with me 2 days a week, he is in summer camp 2 days a week and with his mother 1 day a week. Husband has seen a doctor and though it didn't fix his problem we are hopeful that the pain will resolve before he has to have surgery to attempt to fix this problem. I will be starting to work a bit more in July and August as we are hoping to save up a bit of money for a downpayment on a mobile home near his parents until we can get ourselves in the best financial place to fulfill our dreams of buying a significant amount of acreage and building our dream home.
We still are hoping to run the marathon in October and next week will put us at exactly 16 weeks until the marathon, so I modified our training plan from a longer more involved plan to a 16 week beginner plan.
October will also be a much more significant point in our lives as that is the month we have decided to start trying to get pregnant. This is a huge thing for me as I am already 28 and have never been pregnant, though obviously my husband has been there/done that already. The thought of trying to become pregnant and having a baby has been a huge motivator for me to resume my fitness routine and try to become healthier.
Currently I am a half a pack a day smoker and weight 210 pounds. Obviously there are many factors that I can't control when it comes to having a healthy pregnancy but those are two things that I have to power to change to prepare myself for pregnancy and having a child.
My height and weight places my BMI at 33.9 which is considered obese. I also have a diagnosis of PCOS which could make it more difficulty for me to get pregnant. If I lose weight not only will I have less risk of gestational diabetes and preeclampsia but a better chance of getting pregnant in the first place. This might be more than you wanted to know but I promise you that it is in fact leading back around to something blog related.
Being active is important at any points of our lives but also during pregnancy and it should also help with bringing my weight to a better range to prior to pregnancy. I'm hoping that in the next 16-17 weeks I can bring my weight from 210 to 185, which would put my BMI 29.9 and to the overweight category. I'd need to get my weight to 155 to be considered in the normal. However I think that goal is unrealistic by October but if we are unable to conceive immediately I would continue to work towards obtaining a normal BMI.
As for overall cardio, I am starting this week with just 30 minutes of walk/run 4 days this week. I did a run 1 minute, walk 14 min x 2 with a warm up and cool down yesterday, I finished 1.71 miles. I plan on doing the same general workout for 3 other days this week and then Monday I will start the marathon training in mileage and mileage only. I plan to run what feels comfortable and increase it as much as possible without injury. The Rock N Roll St. Louis Marathon has a 7 hour course time limit which correlates to a 16:02 min mile. I'd obviously be happy just to finish but I'd love to finish under 6 hours.
So there you have it, in one very long winded post with a bit of TMI and some lofty goals for the next 16 weeks. Oh and by the way, I didn't touch on it in the previous paragraphs but my husband and I are planning on quitting smoking on July 1st.
Monday, April 7, 2014
2014 Go! St. Louis Half Marathon
Last year this was supposed to be my marathon, but I didn't train and I wasn't feeling well, so I was a DNS. So, this year was going to be my marathon but I didn't train so I switched my race to the half marathon. Don't they say that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity? So how many half marathons have I performed poorly in and ended up injured during or sore and miserable afterwards because I didn't train properly? More than half... I knew that I didn't want to have another DNS and I couldn't do the full marathon without risking significant injury.
Still I determined to at least finish the half marathon. My fiancé and I woke up early and headed downtown via the metro link. We got to the start line about 20 minutes before the race started and we walked around for a bit and I got in line for the porta potties before heading to my corral. There were only 5 corrals for 15,000 estimated participants. The first corral was elites only and then they had A, B, C, D corrals. I was in corral D. They have pacers for several different times for both the half and the full, they have a 14:52 pacer which is followed by the sag wagon. I spent just a minute or two chatting with this nice lady and she told me she'd been starting a few minutes after the last person crossed the start line.
I crossed the start line at 7:12 am and took off, I ran at a modest pace for about a minute and a half before spontaneously deciding that I would try to do a slow run for 2 minutes and then walk for 3 minutes and pray that kept me in front of the nice lady with the 14:52 pacer sign! My split for the first mile was 14:42 and I was feeling pretty good. I was enjoying playing with my watch during my walk times and I had set up live track so that fiancé could watch me so I got a nice text to cheer me on. My second mile was even better and I was trying hard to keep a slower pace during my runs, we started seeing the first of the half marathoners that had already made it to mile 5 and were passing us on the other side of the street. I finished the second mile in 14:29. I hit the first hill in mile 3 and couldn't pull off the run 2 walk 3 that I had been keeping up. Those run parts always seemed to come midway up a hill. I still managed to finish mile 3 with a 14:52 pace. Mile 4 was fantastic and significantly down hill so I managed a 14:20 and started scheming that I might be able to actually pull off a decent time (compared to my other halfs). I started doing what I love to do during runs, math. Yes I'm weird, it's part of my charm.
Miles 5 - 8 went by without much trouble, mile 6-8 were mostly uphill but I still managed to be 14:28, 14:12, 14:38 and 14:52. Towards the end my ankle was just starting to bother me and but I was able to manage it while walking with just a little stretch now and then. I knew by the end that I only had 5 miles left and I may have been achy and slowing my pace a bit but mentally I was doing great. I was enjoying the scenery and the people around me. I was focusing on making sure I didn't meet back up with that pacer and when necessary I found it very easy to dig in and give it a little extra when I needed to.
At mile 9, I had just passed the 2 hour mark so I was feeling good about my pace and knew that I only had 4 more miles to go. I got a GU but I had to accept that my pace would need to slow down because my heart rate was getting up into the 180s quicker and wasn't coming back down quickly during my walk breaks and my ankle was starting to get more tender. We made the last turn around about mile 10 and started heading towards the finish. We had met back up with the marathoners at their mile 23 and I was bored and needed something to entertain myself so I started cheering them on and clapping for them. Some of them seemed to appreciate it a lot, while the rest seemed to be very taken aback by the idea. Anyway, there was a lot of uphill in the last 3 miles and my ankle was done, my pace started to slow finally mile 9 and 10 were both 14:50, mile 11 was 15:03, mile 12 was 15:45 and mile 13 was 15:28. At this point I desperately wanted to finish the half marathon in less than 3:15:00. Definitely not the fastest 13.1 ever but it would be a pretty decent time for me so I took off at a jog towards the finish line hoping to beat that 3:15:00, my final time according to my Garmin was 3:14:55.
I was so excited and took off toward the finishers area. I grabbed my snacks and stopped by the medical tent to say hi to a bunch of the doctors I used to work with. I was already starting to get sore and I knew that I wasn't going to want to be on my feet all afternoon so we headed home.
My official time is 3:14:53. I'm happy with this time given the circumstances surrounding the race.
Still I determined to at least finish the half marathon. My fiancé and I woke up early and headed downtown via the metro link. We got to the start line about 20 minutes before the race started and we walked around for a bit and I got in line for the porta potties before heading to my corral. There were only 5 corrals for 15,000 estimated participants. The first corral was elites only and then they had A, B, C, D corrals. I was in corral D. They have pacers for several different times for both the half and the full, they have a 14:52 pacer which is followed by the sag wagon. I spent just a minute or two chatting with this nice lady and she told me she'd been starting a few minutes after the last person crossed the start line.
I crossed the start line at 7:12 am and took off, I ran at a modest pace for about a minute and a half before spontaneously deciding that I would try to do a slow run for 2 minutes and then walk for 3 minutes and pray that kept me in front of the nice lady with the 14:52 pacer sign! My split for the first mile was 14:42 and I was feeling pretty good. I was enjoying playing with my watch during my walk times and I had set up live track so that fiancé could watch me so I got a nice text to cheer me on. My second mile was even better and I was trying hard to keep a slower pace during my runs, we started seeing the first of the half marathoners that had already made it to mile 5 and were passing us on the other side of the street. I finished the second mile in 14:29. I hit the first hill in mile 3 and couldn't pull off the run 2 walk 3 that I had been keeping up. Those run parts always seemed to come midway up a hill. I still managed to finish mile 3 with a 14:52 pace. Mile 4 was fantastic and significantly down hill so I managed a 14:20 and started scheming that I might be able to actually pull off a decent time (compared to my other halfs). I started doing what I love to do during runs, math. Yes I'm weird, it's part of my charm.
Miles 5 - 8 went by without much trouble, mile 6-8 were mostly uphill but I still managed to be 14:28, 14:12, 14:38 and 14:52. Towards the end my ankle was just starting to bother me and but I was able to manage it while walking with just a little stretch now and then. I knew by the end that I only had 5 miles left and I may have been achy and slowing my pace a bit but mentally I was doing great. I was enjoying the scenery and the people around me. I was focusing on making sure I didn't meet back up with that pacer and when necessary I found it very easy to dig in and give it a little extra when I needed to.
At mile 9, I had just passed the 2 hour mark so I was feeling good about my pace and knew that I only had 4 more miles to go. I got a GU but I had to accept that my pace would need to slow down because my heart rate was getting up into the 180s quicker and wasn't coming back down quickly during my walk breaks and my ankle was starting to get more tender. We made the last turn around about mile 10 and started heading towards the finish. We had met back up with the marathoners at their mile 23 and I was bored and needed something to entertain myself so I started cheering them on and clapping for them. Some of them seemed to appreciate it a lot, while the rest seemed to be very taken aback by the idea. Anyway, there was a lot of uphill in the last 3 miles and my ankle was done, my pace started to slow finally mile 9 and 10 were both 14:50, mile 11 was 15:03, mile 12 was 15:45 and mile 13 was 15:28. At this point I desperately wanted to finish the half marathon in less than 3:15:00. Definitely not the fastest 13.1 ever but it would be a pretty decent time for me so I took off at a jog towards the finish line hoping to beat that 3:15:00, my final time according to my Garmin was 3:14:55.
I was so excited and took off toward the finishers area. I grabbed my snacks and stopped by the medical tent to say hi to a bunch of the doctors I used to work with. I was already starting to get sore and I knew that I wasn't going to want to be on my feet all afternoon so we headed home.
My official time is 3:14:53. I'm happy with this time given the circumstances surrounding the race.
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Half Marathon # 7 in the books
I had signed up to run a marathon today and well, that didn't happen. A few weeks ago I emailed the race staff and asked if I could change to the half marathon, they changed my registration for me. Yay! Except that I still hadn't trained for a half marathon anymore than I had trained for a marathon. I figured that I had completed half marathons in the past on very little training and I could do it again. Please DO NOT follow my example, please train for your races.
I will do a detailed race recap in the next few days but I did finish and I beat the required finish time.
As for the rest of my weekend, kiddo finished his Read, Right and Run and got his very first race medal! He is somewhat excited to do a 5K with his Dad and I. We haven't picked one out yet and will of course let him go at his own pace, well we tend to actually make him go a little slower because like most 7 years old he runs as fast as he can for about 6 minutes and then is tired and whiny for the rest of the time. :)
As for right now, I'm looking forward to my wedding in May, my marathon in October, being properly trained for said marathon and adding more races to my running schedule. The next race for fiancé and I is the Ferguson Twilight 5K. This will be my 3rd year running of this particular race and fiancé's 2nd year running this race.
I will do a detailed race recap in the next few days but I did finish and I beat the required finish time.
As for the rest of my weekend, kiddo finished his Read, Right and Run and got his very first race medal! He is somewhat excited to do a 5K with his Dad and I. We haven't picked one out yet and will of course let him go at his own pace, well we tend to actually make him go a little slower because like most 7 years old he runs as fast as he can for about 6 minutes and then is tired and whiny for the rest of the time. :)
As for right now, I'm looking forward to my wedding in May, my marathon in October, being properly trained for said marathon and adding more races to my running schedule. The next race for fiancé and I is the Ferguson Twilight 5K. This will be my 3rd year running of this particular race and fiancé's 2nd year running this race.
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