Since 7/23

7/24: 6 mile run and an interview by Fox 5. Be sure to watch on Triathlon Sunday!
7/26: 4.5 mile run
7/27: 10K, PM: Swimming
7/28: Half hour of swimming
7/29: Half hour of swimming
7/30: Queens Half. A shade over 2 hours. Made my first goal of doing a sub-10 pace. Didn't make my 2nd of a sub-2 hour pace.

Anyways, final preparations are in place for next week's triathlon. Go-time!

Thursday

Thursday - Yoga

Today - rest and 8pm bedtime so I can get up at 4! YAY!

7/27

Ran 4 miles. Felt great. Hope that feeling continues on Saturday! Also, GORGEOUS weather.

Tonight: Yoga in the park!

7/26

Pilates this morning.

Last kickboxing class this evening.

Updates!

Saturday - 11 miles. Not nearly as fast as I would have hoped, but I wasn't trying for any particular pace, nor checking my current pace - just trying to get through without passing out. Mission accomplished.

Sunday - Long ass walk around town for errands

Monday - Ran 4 miles. Why OH WHY can't we have today's weather again on Saturday!?

7/23

5 mile race pace run to start the day!

7/21 and 7/22

7/21: Half-hour swim with rehab exercises at the end.
7/22 AM: Half-hour swim with rehab exercises as well.
7/22 PM: Hour long walk in 100 degree temps with a set of 10 pullups to impress pedestrians.

3 swims in 2 days? He's in triathlon gear now!

Heat

Woohoo I have company again!

Thursday: Kickboxing! Only one class left in my groupon, which is sad, cuz I really like it, and it's a fabu workout. But $150/month is just absurd and I refuse to pay it.

Today: 4 miles. Resting this evening in hopes that tomorrow's 11 miles won't suck so much. At least I'm doing it with the support services of NYRR - water, gatorade, salty snacks, etc. And it blissfully starts and ends right near my apt, so that's a total win!

Catching Up Again

Sorry Hannah, Internet problems with Blogger have kept me from posting. Here's a recap of the past 10 days.

7/11: Swimming for 45 minutes at Coles.
7/12: 3.5 mile run. Runs have been feeling awful lately. Clocking in 1 - 2 minutes per mile slower than my normal time.
7/13: 5.25 mile run. Same problems.
7/14: 3.25 mile run.
7/16: Since the MTA screwed up my race day morning, I went home, did 100 pull-ups and ran 5 miles afterwards. Run was somewhat better than the past few, though I was doing it at 45 seconds than my pre-Africa runs.
7/19 AM: 3 miler.
7/19 PM: 45 minutes of swimming.
7/20: 8 miler. Awful. Absolutely awful. Ran out of gas halfway through (although I was clocking in pre-Africa times) and had to walk the rest of the way home in 90+ degree heat. Totally spent.

In case you're wondering, the run pattern is Hal Higdon's Intermediate 1 marathon plan and I'm aiming at the NYC Marathon this year.

ALSO! Fox News wants to do a story on me on Saturday. Stay tuned for more!

Posting to myself is fun!

Tuesday night: Ran sprints with the girls after all. Did 3 x 1 mile intervals, aiming for 7:50 pace. First: 7:44, Second: 7:55, Third: Kate told me she thought they were holding me back, so I should go ahead. Finished in 7:27!!!! Felt awesome, treated self to beers.

Wednesday: Trim down , Tone Up at the gym. Can barely lift my arms now. :)

Tuesday

Pilates! Gotta see about something to do this evening, since sprints with the girls just sounds heinous in 85+ degree weather.

Monday

Ran 4 miles. It was hellish. Legs felt like lead, too warm. These terrible runs always make me fear that the rest of my runs forever will feel this way. But it hasn't happened before (them staying bad, I mean) and I see no reason why that should change now.

Saturday!

Ran a totally new route today - On the greenway, starting at 34th and W Side Highway, down under the lower tip of Manhattan and up the East side along the FDR. Who knew Manhattan went that far down?!?!

SERIOUS hydration problems, though... Not nearly enough water opportunities (I'd only carried a pint...) along the 2nd half of this course, and my friend Kate and I were dying. She was seeing spots... We did find water shortly after realizing we'd both stopped sweating, but I'll have to remember that for the future.

Capped the run with a chai frappuchino. HOLY HELL I HAVE A NEW FAVORITE BEVERAGE. I sorta want another one....

Friday

AM - Relentless

PM - Bootcamp

Nearly two glorious hours sweating for Sam. Tired now.

Also irked that I seem to be burning way fewer calories these days in my workouts than I once did... I am clearly too fit.

Recap

Wednesday - Lifted, but didn't get to the intervals at the end, as I realized I'd forgotten my house keys, and had 4 minutes to get home before Chris would be leaving, and I'd be locked out for the day. Fortunately, I made it.

Thursday - 5 BEAUTIFUL miles. I politely requested that today's weather be replicated on July 30. Here's hoping.

Tuesday!

JEBUS it's too hot and humid to be running. It was a slow 4 miles this AM, but I am super thankful to not have to do it this evening!

Yoga tonight!!!

Monday

Kickboxing! Second class, and this time I managed not to injure myself! Yay!!!

BACK FROM AFRICA

Yesterday: 10K, followed by 45 minutes of swimming, 2 workouts
Today AM: 5x20 knuckle pushups, 4x50 inverted leg lifts on each side

Hannah, looks like you're the last Mohican around here. With the Africa trip, I'm probably going to have to hustle hard to catch you, but I WILL BREAK YOU.

Weekend

Friday: Ran 4 miles.

Saturday: Ran 10 miles.

Sunday: MASSAGE, BITCHES!

Wednesday

New Rules of Lifting for Women Stage 5, workout A, instance 4. DONE! One more workout in stage 5, and then I move on to stage6 - the Pullup. They're MUCH different workouts than what I've been doing, with the SOLE goal of getting you to be able to do a pullup. This stage is half of why I started this program in the first place! WOOHOO!!!

things

Saturday - 6 miles. Longest run I've done solo in a while, it was kinda nice.

Sunday - Weights, even though I really didn't feel like it.

Monday - rest

Tuesday - ran 4 miles with my sister, who is visiting for the week! AND did some crunches/pushups/lunges/medicine ball things in the PM!

Injury and recovery

So I turned/sprained my ankle at kickboxing - I'm clearly not THAT coordinated, but despite swelling I managed to walk 3 miles last night, and run 3 this morning with no pain. I have clearly osmosed some of Tarik's Mutant Healing Powers. Tomorrow, we'll test it out on a longer run.