Brief Check In

It is midnight now and I reall have to be going to sleep. I am waking up in four hours to catch a plane to Austin, TX for work on College Baseball and Softball. From there I head off to the Women's Final Four in Tampa, FL. I told myself I could not go to sleep tonight until I blogged. I promise all you readers out there that there is more information to come. I have been making notes over the past three weeks of my blogging absence. I have been keeping up with my running and can say that I am on track for the OKC half marathon in less than four weeks. Thank you for your patience. I will get you more detailed updates from the past few weeks shortly, but for now, I must get to sleep. Sorry this is so short and non-descript.

Great Workouts and a Plan

Nothing long today. Just a short note to keep you updated. Yesterday I put in a 5.8 mile run with the cooldown. Today I put in a cross-training session. I spent 20 minutes on the stationary bike, 40 minutes on the eliptical and did 3 sets of my strength training weights. The run yesterday felt great after the first two miles. I kind of did not want to stop, but it was getting late and I did not want to end up eating dinner at 11pm. The cross-training session also felt great. Exciting info of the day was stepping on the scale and seeing 241. I am not making that down officially yet because I want to see it couple of more times before I change the total in the sidebar. I am still officially calling myself 243.

The workout plan for the rest of this week and all of next week is going to be modified a little because of having to work on Tuesday and Thursday next week. I will be doing 8 miles on Sunday this week, followed by another 2 miles on Monday. I will be off on Tuesday for work, Wednesday will be a 6 mile temp run, Thursday again off for work. Friday I will get in a 2 miler with some strength training before visiting with my sister. Saturday will be a fun day and then I will finish the week out next Sunday with a 7 miler. This next week is the first week on my training schedule that calls for me to run on 4 days, so it is making it more of a challenge as my work schedule this month is picking up a bit more.

That's all for now. Check with you later.

Life, Lewis and the Pursuit of Cross-Training

So it has been a few days since I last posted. Strength training did not happen last Friday. Life, Huey Lewis & The News, and work got in the way. I did get my six miles in on Sunday. I spent the first half of it with my wife as she busted out her new running shoes and her own GARMIN. We covered what I call the 5k loop around the block. It really is more like 3.3 miles, but makes for a nice warmup, run, cooldown. The only downfall to it is there is a lot of concrete sidewalk, some asphalt, and a little bit of dirt/grass along the roadside. I made two laps around the loop, while my wife only did the first lap. She's training for the OKC 5k the same day my sister and I are doing the OKC Half (04/27).

Monday I was hoping to cross-train, but again, life got in the way. Waking up and having to wait at home for the cable guy to arrive, then there was the whole process of setting up my newly installed TiVo, and by the time I got done with all that I had to go do the grocery shopping for the week. Yes, these are excuses. BUT, they are excuses for cross-training. I have still been getting in my runs when they are due. I have not been cheating myself there. It was a bum deal that I did not get to cross-train Monday because I was all jazzed up to do it. You see, in the morning when I did my weigh-in, the scale read back to me a weight of 243. That means I have lost 9 lbs. since I have started my more concentrated effort to get my weight down and train for the Goofy Challenge. I was so pumped I wanted to go pump some iron.

Today, Tuesday, I was only on schedule for 2 miles. I did a total of 5 laps around my condo complex, each lap is .56 miles. The fifth lap was a cooldown lap. Even with the cooldown lap I knocked off about 50 seconds from last week's 5 laps of the complex. That was cool to see since I was not trying to beat any time. Thanks GARMIN for that knowledge. I also managed to do the laps at an overall average pace :07 faster than last week. Another thing I took note of is with each lap I was getting faster. This was the same situation last week, and I was not intentionally trying to make that happen. Again, another GARMIN nicety I have been enjoying. Following today's run around the complex I did do some strength training in the fitness room.

With work tomorrow (Wed.) and another run on Thursday it will be Friday before another cross-training session takes place. That's all for now.