Alive and Well

Yest. Ab ripper x
Today. 30minutes of monkey bar madness, and Ab ripper x!

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Friday AM: Relentless. This class used to be much different than the Thursday Relentless class, and now they're almost identical. Not sure it's worth getting up at 6:15 for...

Saturday: 8.25 miles (yay gps!) with my sister. PERFECT running weather.

Today: 3.9 miles with the girls. Borderline too hot, but I'd better get used to it now, bettern't I? Lungs feeling like they have a virus replicating in them. NOT COOL!

Ugh

Posting from my phone because my computer has just not been cooperating.

Wednesday: 5 mile run
Last night: 2 hour walk through downtown manhattan
This morning: 5 sets of 5 chinup leg lifts followed by 5x5 supe slow chinups then my usual pushup medley.

MOAR RUNNING!

Only 3.5 miles today, since we didn't ramble very much in the ramble. That's ok, Michelle and I were both rather tired. Tonight: Liver workout!

The Ramble

Ran what must have been between 4 and 5 miles today, but much of it was in the Ramble in Central Park, and I didn't have my GPS. There are also no maps of the ramble pathways that I can find, so I can't even estimate.

But this brings me to a new goal! I want to run allllll the pathways of the ramble this summer, with my GPS. I can then take the maps that generates, overlay them on each other, and hopefully come up with a map!! Besides, the ramble is cooooool and green and lush and dark, and a joyous place to run!

Back to Doubles

Pilates AM, Relentless PM.

Relentless was especially unrelenting today. Sam (instructor) made an announcement at the beginning that this class is supposed to be hard, so while you can modify anything you have to in order to be able to do it, he really didn't want you just standing around. If you had to rest, do "active rest", bounce a little, jog in place, etc. I don't typically spend a lot of time standing around anyway, but I sure did burn the 2nd most calories I ever have in that class!

Closing time

I continue to fail at getting up early enough to get to the gym and because I don't have enough money to afford a gym that doesn't suck due to my tenuous financial situation, at this point all this blog is, is a source of anxiety and frustration for me. Every day that I don't post is just reasoning for me to beat myself up. There were times when I didn't post exercises, and because I got used to working out alone, this group-competition format grated on me. I've never responded well to people talking shit or trying to motivate my by acting dude-like. The whole "put it down on facebook or this blog and it becomes real" doesn't work, and just further frustrates me.

I am re-evaluating my goals, as I realized that none of them have real, measurable, tangible ends. "Getting bigger" isn't one, and until I know what those goals are, I'm not sure generating another sense of self-hatred is a valuable one. Because that at this point, is the only product I can see, besides marginally larger biceps. And frankly, I don't respond well to shit-talk. Between getting a full time job, my drivers license, doing a class @ NYU, and some research and creative projects, I just don't know if I have the time.

::commence shit giving::

NRLW 4B4

Finally finished Phase 4, and of course upon finishing noticed that I was supposed to have been doing intervals at the end of the "B" workouts. Oops! Well, there're more intervals to be had in phase 5, so that's fine.

Quandry: How does one improve grip strength? Cuz it's getting to the point, say, during lunges, where my legs can take more weight than my hands can hold onto...

Weekend update with Hannah!

Ran ~5 miles on Saturday, in stunningly perfect weather. Then later walked from 57th and 7th to home - ~2.5 miles. It was lovely... until it rained on me. But I find enduring rain is good practice for the inevitable rainy race days!

Weekend Wrapup

Friday: 10x8 chin-ups
Saturday: 2 hours volunteering at the Brooklyn Half-Marathon
Today: 6x6 diagonal pull-ups, 3x10 ab-wheel rollouts with 60 cross-crunches in between

My foot has been bothering me ever since the 3 near PR attempts the week before. I'm afraid it might have a new injury. Needless to say, I've felt pretty down about not running this past week.

First run after the break

Set out for a nice easy 5 miles. Ran into massive walk for vision. Detoured. Ended up running 5.4 miles (as measured by my phones new GPS app, since I can now carry my phone while running. Check out SPIBelt if you are looking for something to hold your stuff while you run...) GPS is fun!!!

I'm back!!

First workout since the half - I enjoyed my lazy week, but actually got worried since I wasn't fiending for a good sweat. Had I lost all my drive?! But today I went to bootcamp and the drive is back.

Working out really is like heroin - you make it a few days without a fix, and you're pretty much in the clear. But get one little taste and the monkey is right on your back!

being sick

being sick blows

Updates!

Thursday last I ran 4 miles. Legs felt Ok, which boded well for Sunday.

Sunday I ran a half marathon. 1:52:59 was the official time, or an 8:37 pace. My 10k split was 52:26, or 2.5 mins faster than my previous 10k PR. This is in fact faster than my 4 mile pace! (Clearly, I have to run faster on short distances - I require speedwork). I was 131/845 in my age group, 510/7398 out of all women, and 1562/13310 overall.

Stupidly proud.

Weekend Wrapup

Saturday #1: UAE 10K. 8:16 mile pace. I haven't run a 10k this fast since 2009. Very pleased with the result.
Saturday #2: Yoga at Yoga Sutra. Went straight after. Absolutely burnt out. Nothing left. Couldn't even hold my downward dog for 4 breaths. Wow.

Sunday: 5x5 ab-wheel rollouts, 4x25 knuckle pushups

Monday #1: 5x30 knuckle pushups with lots of shadow-boxing. Yoga.

Biceps and Shoulders

All @20lbs

Curls to Shoulders Press 15x2

Hammer Curls 15x2

Outside Curls then alternating shoulder presses 15x2

Friday the 13th

Pre-workout workout: walked from the Williamsburg bridge to 39th st. b/w Madison and 5th.

Workout: Yoga at Yoga Sutra. This may be the highest caliber of yoga class I've ever been in. Tremendously motivated. Also, it helps to be in an area of New York City with the highest density of professional models possible.

Catching up

Yesterday AM: 6 mile run and really letting it fly at the end.
Yesterday PM: 2 hour walk from Dumbo to the Lower East Side to blow off some steam.

Today AM: 9x8 chin-ups.
Today PM: Pre-emptively entering the midnight moving that I'll be helping my girlfriend do. 2 hours of schlepping furniture around. Big fun.

Recovery begins

I wouldn't ordinarily run at all this week, but the half marathon looms big next weekend, and taking this whole week off would be a mistake. Did 3 miles this morning to tray and loosen things up... I hope I feel MUCH better by Sunday, because today wasn't fun.

PR! MOTHER****ER, PR!

7:35 per mile. 4 miles.

Tough Mudder New England

I made Mount Snow my bitch. And she begged for more. That was the single hardest thing I've ever done. An astonishing 87% of entrants finished the event - I figured the number would be closer to 70%. I alone saw probably 10 people carried off the mountain with hypothermia, and twisted knees and ankles. More than one obstacle was labelled "This obstacle will more than likely break your ankle. We're sorry."

Really an amazing experience. And I look forward to the day when the idea of doing another one no longer fills me with horror.

5/7/11

So I think Hannah may have a more hardcore workout than me today.

Nonetheless:
10x5 pull-ups and then 5 alternate-group isometric hangs.
Shadow-boxing in between.

I noticed that there was someone having an intense argument in a Semitic-sounding foreign language over the phone in the park where I was doing pull-ups. Hell with that, this is public property. I think he would've got into a fight with me until I started hitting the metal beams so loud that the whole park started to ring. He eventually got up and moved away. Gotta be honest and say that it felt good.

Uppery

Renewed gym membership thingie.

Dumb Inc Bench 3.15.45

Cable Seated Row 3.15.55

Dumb Shoulder Pr 3.15.40

Wide Lat Pull Dwn 3.15.50

Barbell Bench Pr 3.15.50

High Pull 3.15.40

Double Crunch 4.15

BEHIND!

What has become of me?!

Monday: Hangover
Tuesday: Ran 4 miles (which were particularly fun because rather than running any set course, we just ran around on trails in the park, at each intersection asking "LEFT OR RIGHT" and someone had to decide, though my girls are biased against stairs...)
Wednesday: Ran 4 miles

Wednesday

AM: 20 min. yoga, 10 min. warm-up, 30 min. fartleks, 10 min. cooldown.

Tuesday

9:15pm and I'm still at work. Did no one else do a work out today?

As for me, 10 sets of 4 side-to-side pull-ups. Still had a bit of time left before I HAD to go to work in the morning so I slipped in a 3x3 with the ab-wheel rollouts, 5 second hold at the bottom.

This guy starts doing the side to side's at 0:07.

Push up and Abs

Ab ripper x

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 push ups. Still can't make it to 10

Regular Style
Wide Arm
Military
Diamond

Ahhhhhhh

Sunday: Stretch Class. Today: Not in pain! Woohoo!!!

NRWL Workout A

Dumbell Inc Bench Press: 5/5/70

Cable Seated Row: 5/5/80

Dumbbell Shoulder Press:5/5/45

Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown: 5/5/70

Barbell Close Bench: 5/5/70

High Pull: 5/5/70

Chop wood, carry water.