I tried the first week of C25K. I really did. But after two days of running (and I was really proud of my distance!) it hit me. The shin splints, that is. So it's been a couple of weeks now that I've been hanging around the house playing facebook games and feeling like a big fat blob.
All is not lost though - I may not be heading to Vegas this year (sorry Brandy!) but I do want to go next year - hell, I'll be 40! And I've reacquainted myself with my bike - something that the kids can do with me and it's been saving us some gas this week! Which is good, because all my Vegas money has been finding its way into my basement (figuratively speaking, of course!)
I also tried very consciously to eat better today (she said, as she scarfed down her Kraft Dinner for supper...) I had a chicken wrap and a plate of veggie sticks for lunch. Yum! I'm going to keep trying that for a while. Who knows? Maybe I might even stick with the blog for a while. ;-)
Friday 24 June 2011
Wednesday 8 June 2011
I'm back....I don't know for how long, but I'm back!
So I took a week off. Things were shit, life was too busy - I'd forgotten what it's like to have two kids in two different sports! And the worst part was the weather.
I knew I had to get my ass outside if I wanted to accomplish any kind of real running, so I downloaded the C25K app for my iPhone. It's a version that allows you to make your own playlist (something that we've already established in a previous post - I need my hard rocking tunes!!!) So I did my very first run in ohhhh, a good few years. And guess what? My legs f@#$in' hurt! Tready has spoiled me! In Tready's defense though, I actually kept running and I think I only walked once when I should've been running, and only for about 10 seconds.
Oh yeah, the other cool thing about this particular app - your own music plays, but it goes "ding ding!" every time you switch from walking to running and back, and a voice will say "walk" or "run" so you don't lose track. It also tells you when you're half-way.
So - 5 minute warm up, 5 minute cool down, with alternating 90 second walking and 60 second running for 20 minutes in between. (It actually works out to 31 minutes, to be precise!) Listened to Sixx:A.M. (surprise!) and covered about 2 miles (or 3.2 km). It's about 15 degrees Celsius out there, sunny, with a beautiful light cool breeze. And I don't know when I'm doing day 2!
I knew I had to get my ass outside if I wanted to accomplish any kind of real running, so I downloaded the C25K app for my iPhone. It's a version that allows you to make your own playlist (something that we've already established in a previous post - I need my hard rocking tunes!!!) So I did my very first run in ohhhh, a good few years. And guess what? My legs f@#$in' hurt! Tready has spoiled me! In Tready's defense though, I actually kept running and I think I only walked once when I should've been running, and only for about 10 seconds.
Oh yeah, the other cool thing about this particular app - your own music plays, but it goes "ding ding!" every time you switch from walking to running and back, and a voice will say "walk" or "run" so you don't lose track. It also tells you when you're half-way.
So - 5 minute warm up, 5 minute cool down, with alternating 90 second walking and 60 second running for 20 minutes in between. (It actually works out to 31 minutes, to be precise!) Listened to Sixx:A.M. (surprise!) and covered about 2 miles (or 3.2 km). It's about 15 degrees Celsius out there, sunny, with a beautiful light cool breeze. And I don't know when I'm doing day 2!
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