Running week 8: back on the horse
Oct. 20th, 2008 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellymellHeh, it's funny, I just watched the episode this icon is from this morning while Jonah and I were killing time before school.
Back to it this week in full force. I managed to get in my 5 days this week. We skipped out on the Halloween 5k because, well, last minute registration was expensive ($35 as opposed to $20 if I had registered in August, multiply that by two and the cost of getting together costumes and, well it didn't seem worth it). The same group does a Cinco de Mayo race and I think a few others, all with huge block parties following the race. I'm definitely going to do the Halloween one next year and maybe some of their other ones as well. It just sounds like a ton of fun! Anyway, even though we didn't do the race, I did run Saturday. Here's what the week looked like:
Monday: rest
Tuesday: 2.35 miles in 31 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 13:10/mi)
Wednesday: 2.35 miles in 31 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 13:10/mi)
Thursday: rest
Friday: 2.35 miles in 30 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 12:46/mi)
Saturday: 2.53 miles in 32 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 12:37/mi)
Sunday: 2.35 miles in 30 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 12:46/mi)
Mileage totals:
Week - 11.93 miles
Month - 14.28 miles
Year - 93.81 miles
There's no way at this point that I'm going to make my 50 miles in a month goal again this month. Last month I was just under 7 miles short. This month, the first two weeks of my training calendar look absolutely pathetic (one day of 2.35 miles in two weeks). I must say though, that only having two lazy weeks out of 8 weeks of training isn't too shabby. This week, I'll be starting back to the plan, picking up on week 7. I saw Jennifer out walking yesterday while I was planting pansies in the front bed. Apparently she's done the exact same thing. She missed her race the first weekend of October because she was sick and was cycling through illnesses for about two weeks, just like I was. She's trying to get back out now and keep going, even though she doesn't have another race to work towards.
Oh, and J-9, mapmyrun.com now has an iPhone app. I'm not sure what all it does but it's free and it's running+apple related, so I thought you might want to play with it if nothing else.
So, it's that time of year again when Vandy asks its employees and their spouses (basically anyone covered under their health care plans) to take some evaluations with the incentive of saving some money, various amounts per month depending on what you're willing to do. Mostly it consists of just taking some questionnaires, but you can save more by going a bit further and setting out a plan for improvements for the next year. I'm not sure if you have to actually follow through on anything; I haven't actually done it yet. But with that on my mental "to-do" list (and various written ones), it's been on my mind. So, when I saw a "Real Age" health questionnaire site the other day, I decided to go see what it said, knowing where I was according to Vandy's evaluation last year.
Apparently, my "real age" is 24.5, 3 years younger than my actual age. Last year, Vandy told me I was 23, so I guess I've aged a year. I have a lot of good habits, like not smoking, not drinking too much, wearing my seat belt, drinking 8 glasses of water a day, not eating too much red meat, and as of recently getting regular exercise. But apparently, my diet could use some help and of course being overweight drags it down (or up as the case may be). I'm really not good at quantifying what we eat into servings of various food groups. I'm certain we eat more fruits and vegetables that I give us credit for but we're probably still not doing as much as we should. Especially on the fruits.
So, to prove it to myself (or maybe to try to do better), I went off in another direction. I've seen several links lately for food diary sites. I found a free one that is extremely detailed (nutrimirror.com). I haven't even gotten down to the nuts and bolts of it yet, but for now, I'm using it to track my food intake and logging my workouts there as well (since it affects my food intake). I've also logged my weight loss goal there and based on how much I've exercised that day and how much I want to lose it gives me a calculation of how many calories I can/should take in that day. It's set a goal based on my current weight and exercise for safe loss of the weight and an attainable goal. Pretty handy, especially once I get enough data in there to use some of the reporting tools. If nothing else, it's made me more aware of what I'm eating and when. I've found myself in the past couple of days making different choices based on the data I can see in front of me. It's already affecting my weight. Over the weekend, I dropped 2 lbs. I'm certain it's going to affect my trip to the grocery later today as well. When I started running before, I was counting calories on paper and that was useful, but this also tracks carbs, protein, fats, essential vitamins and minerals, even water intake. I'll give it a couple of weeks and then I'm hoping I can take the Vandy health assessment with a better understanding of our diet.
Contrary to what Sarah Palin thinks, you need to know where you are and how you got there before you can figure out how to fix it.
Back to it this week in full force. I managed to get in my 5 days this week. We skipped out on the Halloween 5k because, well, last minute registration was expensive ($35 as opposed to $20 if I had registered in August, multiply that by two and the cost of getting together costumes and, well it didn't seem worth it). The same group does a Cinco de Mayo race and I think a few others, all with huge block parties following the race. I'm definitely going to do the Halloween one next year and maybe some of their other ones as well. It just sounds like a ton of fun! Anyway, even though we didn't do the race, I did run Saturday. Here's what the week looked like:
Monday: rest
Tuesday: 2.35 miles in 31 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 13:10/mi)
Wednesday: 2.35 miles in 31 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 13:10/mi)
Thursday: rest
Friday: 2.35 miles in 30 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 12:46/mi)
Saturday: 2.53 miles in 32 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 12:37/mi)
Sunday: 2.35 miles in 30 mins (run 5 mins/walk 30 sec) (avg. pace 12:46/mi)
Mileage totals:
Week - 11.93 miles
Month - 14.28 miles
Year - 93.81 miles
There's no way at this point that I'm going to make my 50 miles in a month goal again this month. Last month I was just under 7 miles short. This month, the first two weeks of my training calendar look absolutely pathetic (one day of 2.35 miles in two weeks). I must say though, that only having two lazy weeks out of 8 weeks of training isn't too shabby. This week, I'll be starting back to the plan, picking up on week 7. I saw Jennifer out walking yesterday while I was planting pansies in the front bed. Apparently she's done the exact same thing. She missed her race the first weekend of October because she was sick and was cycling through illnesses for about two weeks, just like I was. She's trying to get back out now and keep going, even though she doesn't have another race to work towards.
Oh, and J-9, mapmyrun.com now has an iPhone app. I'm not sure what all it does but it's free and it's running+apple related, so I thought you might want to play with it if nothing else.
So, it's that time of year again when Vandy asks its employees and their spouses (basically anyone covered under their health care plans) to take some evaluations with the incentive of saving some money, various amounts per month depending on what you're willing to do. Mostly it consists of just taking some questionnaires, but you can save more by going a bit further and setting out a plan for improvements for the next year. I'm not sure if you have to actually follow through on anything; I haven't actually done it yet. But with that on my mental "to-do" list (and various written ones), it's been on my mind. So, when I saw a "Real Age" health questionnaire site the other day, I decided to go see what it said, knowing where I was according to Vandy's evaluation last year.
Apparently, my "real age" is 24.5, 3 years younger than my actual age. Last year, Vandy told me I was 23, so I guess I've aged a year. I have a lot of good habits, like not smoking, not drinking too much, wearing my seat belt, drinking 8 glasses of water a day, not eating too much red meat, and as of recently getting regular exercise. But apparently, my diet could use some help and of course being overweight drags it down (or up as the case may be). I'm really not good at quantifying what we eat into servings of various food groups. I'm certain we eat more fruits and vegetables that I give us credit for but we're probably still not doing as much as we should. Especially on the fruits.
So, to prove it to myself (or maybe to try to do better), I went off in another direction. I've seen several links lately for food diary sites. I found a free one that is extremely detailed (nutrimirror.com). I haven't even gotten down to the nuts and bolts of it yet, but for now, I'm using it to track my food intake and logging my workouts there as well (since it affects my food intake). I've also logged my weight loss goal there and based on how much I've exercised that day and how much I want to lose it gives me a calculation of how many calories I can/should take in that day. It's set a goal based on my current weight and exercise for safe loss of the weight and an attainable goal. Pretty handy, especially once I get enough data in there to use some of the reporting tools. If nothing else, it's made me more aware of what I'm eating and when. I've found myself in the past couple of days making different choices based on the data I can see in front of me. It's already affecting my weight. Over the weekend, I dropped 2 lbs. I'm certain it's going to affect my trip to the grocery later today as well. When I started running before, I was counting calories on paper and that was useful, but this also tracks carbs, protein, fats, essential vitamins and minerals, even water intake. I'll give it a couple of weeks and then I'm hoping I can take the Vandy health assessment with a better understanding of our diet.
Contrary to what Sarah Palin thinks, you need to know where you are and how you got there before you can figure out how to fix it.
