Just one lazy week

Well, it's Friday and again I just didn't want to get out of bed. I was awake in plenty of time, but just didn't want to get up! Since Bill has a little longer run planned for Saturday morning, we decided that we'd run right away after work today.

Got out just after 5pm today. It's a nice day, but I find that I really stuggle running right after work. I don't know if it's from sitting most of the day, or wearing heels for the day, but the legs struggle to get into a groove.

Looking back, this was a bad week. Ran only the 1 mile every day, no gym, no longer runs, no intervals. Kind of a lazy week. Last week was the same, except that I did see Anna one day so I had some weights in there. Need to get a little more on track now!

Tonight I ran 1.02 in 9:46 (9:36/mile).

Y...no Y

Tonight we had decided to go to the YMCA after work. Well, Bill found a place to take the lawnmower for repair, therefore we came home after work to load the mower into the truck and take one vehicle. Although he was ready to still go work out, I wasn't. :(

Therefore we just decided to do the errands, get dinner and run later. Ran late again. Ran 1.01 mile in 9:30 for a 9:23/mile pace.

Mornings just aren't happening

I just can't seem to get up to run in the morning this week. The bed is just too comfy! Therefore I decided to go to the All Saints gym or the YMCA after work instead. When I was leaving work, though, I just wasn't in the mood.

Bill had trap tonight and he ran right after work before he went to trap. I hung around the house for the evening as Bill said he might run with me when he got home. By the time he got home, he had alot on his mind and I was ready to run, so I ran by myself.

Although alone, I just couldn't keep a good pace. Started too fast and had to slow. Ran 1.02 mile in 9:18 for a 9:08/mile pace.

Another later run

Another night of trying to get the lawn mowed. This time Bill actually got it to run a bit and he was able to cut most of the front.......but not all. We don't look like complete hicks, but still we have a really long lawn in most of the yard. The lawnmower definitely needs repair.

Sun has set and it's time to run late again. This time we ended up running together for the entire run. Unfortunately we somehow "cheated" a bit as the run ended up only being 0.99 mile! Arrrrgh! Just short of our mile. Oh well!

Ran the 0.99 in 9:24.

I'm the rabbit

Tonight Bill wanted to try to cut the amazon lawn we now have after all the rain and a nice weekend. Unfortunately the lawn mower wasn't cooperating. After several hours, and darkness falling, it was time to stop that and go for a run.

We started out slow as Bill's still recovering. About halfway through, I felt good and pulled away. I got in a good rhythm and just kept running. Bill stayed a nice even distance behind me....then yelled at me. He said I acted as his "rabbit" and he found himself chasing me. I'm not quite sure how that's my fault, but it's OK as it kept him running.

Ran 1.0 miles in 8:32.

Travel day back to WI

We had an early flight out of Salt Lake City this morning, so that made for a busy day. After travelling, driving home, late lunch, unpacking, and starting laundry it was already 5pm. Bill was pretty wiped as he didn't sleep well during our trip (and there was the little matter of running 26.2 miles also) so we decided to take a little nap. Woke him up about 6:25pm so we could do our run. I need to do my mile and Bill said he would too.

We started around the neighborhood together, but I picked up the pace around .4. I must have really been running slow for the first .5 mile as much of the second .5 was at a 8:10 pace.

Did the mile in 9:13.

Bill's marathon day!!!

Today's Bill's marathon in Park City, Utah. Got up with him this morning and took him down towards the starting line. As always, I have a plan to meet up with him at various points on the run, therefore I don't have tons of time. Yet I have to do my mile. I really didn't want to deal wtih the air and hills again, so I chose to run on the hotel treadmill.

Boy, was this treadmill old. I got nervous that it may overheat or something going at a fast pace. The air is still a little tough for me, so I tried to start out at a normal pace, but had to slow it down. Did the mile in about 10:30.

Then I had to shower and pack to get us out of the hotel in time. Met up with Bill at mile 10.5, 15, 17, and the finish. It turned out to be a beautiful day...a little warm, but not too bad. He did really well until about 18, then struggled. But he still finished, and in 5 hours 46 minutes. Not great, but not too bad since they even advertise that this is a hard course and "you will not make a personal record on this course." This was marathon #8 for him..........only 42 more to go!

Park City, Utah

We're in Park City, Utah for Bill's 8th marathon (tomorrow). Still have to do our mile a day! We found a neighborhood up the street from the hotel with a little park area. It was a hilly area, but this whole area is hilly. With the thinner air and hills, I knew right away this was going to be a slow run. In the flat areas or downhills, it wasn't too bad.......but the uphills were killing me.

Did just the 1 mile in 11:46.

WET n WILD.....well, maybe just wet!

Because we are leaving this afternoon for Salt Lake City, we knew that we had to run this morning, as I definitely wouldn't want to run after 8pm after several hours of travel. Bill was a little slow getting up so we got going just a few minutes later than normal, and today that wasn't a really good thing. Left the house and we didn't even get to the east end of the block and it started raining. Then it got a little harder, then even harder. Before we even got to .5 mile, it was pouring! I have NEVER ran when it rained this hard, water running into my eyes, clothes ddrenched, feet soaked. Luckily, since we were .5 mile out, I had no choice but to finish.

Ran 1.02 miles in 9:09.

Trainer Day

Raining again!!! But tonight is an appointment with Anna, therefore no matter if it's raining tonight I can just run at that gym.

Did a weigh-&-measure with Anna and I'm losing a little in inches! Yeah! Did 5 minutes on the elliptical as a warm up, then various weights and other exercises with Anna. Focused a little more on core today. Then finished up the session with my mile on the treadmill in about 9:45. Running after working out is a little more difficult as the muscles are tired!

Moody Tuesday

This rainy weather is really getting to me. Woke up this morning to hearing it drizzle outside. Thought about it for a minute and realized I didn't have anything to do tonight, therefore we aren't running this morning. ;)

Bill has trap tonight, so we planned to meet right after work and do our mile. Luckily it cooled off a bit today, but it's still really humid.

Ran right after work. Ran 1.02 miles in 9:01 total time (8:50 min/mile pace).

Happy Monday!

Woke up this dreary Monday morning and thought about skipping the morning run. Since Bill was busy after work, I already planned on going to the All Saints gym to work out.........I could just do my mile there. As I lay there for 5, 10, 15 minutes, awake but just not wanting to get up, I decided that if I did get up I could exercise twice today and do a little more. So, I did.

In the morning I ran 1.02 miles in 9:02 minutes (8:53 min/mile).

Then after work went to the gym and ran another mile on the treadmill at about a 9 minute pace, plus another 2 minutes of walking. Then did a few weight machines--chest press, chest pull back, deltoid pull-down, and leg press.

That's enough for today!

Lazy, Rainy Sunday

We decided today would be a YMCA day. But, when we got up and heard/saw the rain, we decided that we didn't really want to go! Lazy, lazy we are! We decided we'd just go for a run later.

Unfortunately it rained, and rained, and rained nearly all day--with only a few minutes here and there with no rain during the day. By 8pm, it was still raining but we had to go. Just the one mile---it won't be so bad. Yuck, it was a nice steady drizzly rain. Started out a little fast and had to slow it up a bit. Ran 1.01 total for 9:23 minutes--at a 9:15/mile pace.

Just 2 months ago, the rain was just the excuse I needed to not run. I never ran when it rained! But now that I'm 50 days into this "one mile, every day" thing, my stubbornness won't let me use a little rain as an excuse! I don't know how long this streak will go, but it didn't end tonight.

Saturday morning run

Today we were doing the cemetary run. A pretty simple run with lots of places to shorten or lengthen the run without ever being too far from the car.

I decided that I wanted to try to run at least the 4 miles without walking in-between at all. I haven't done that in months, at least since before March. Although a few weeks ago I ran over 4 miles total, there was some walking in between. Bill had only a short run today as his marathon is next week, so I told him we'd run a nice easy pace together. I figured if I didn't go out too fast, which I usually do, I could endure longer. After about 4.2, I was feeling pretty good and Bill still had just under a mile to go to finish his 8 miles. I ran with him and stopped right at the 5 mile mark! --- I like having this Forerunner so I can know exactly where I'm at at any point in the run, and know exactly when I want to stop.

5 miles in 51:15--exactly 10:15 minute miles. A little slower, but not too bad. And this was the furthest I ran continuously in at least 5 months--maybe longer!

Finally a morning run

We got up this morning and did the run in the morning. Just the mile around the neighborhood to get moving. In fact, with my new Forerunner, I could make sure I ran just the 1 mile. One mile in 9:16 pace.

More than just a run!

It's been a while since we've gone to the YMCA, so we decided tonight we had time and thought we should do it. Bill remembered that only some of the treadmills have the "interval" function and he picked the treadmills in that area. It's been a while so tonight I needed to do intervals. Set the machine for 10:30 minutes, with the job interval at 6.0 pace and the run interval at 8.3 pace. Ran for 2 minutes, did 30 seconds at run pace, and continued at about that same repeat until I did my mile. Cooled down for a bit, then hit the weights.

Did the 2 machines for the shoulders and pecs (3 sets of each, of course), plus the leg machines--adductors, abductors, and press. Finished with 10lb dumbbells in each arm and did a superset of bicep curls and shoulder presses (up towards the ceiling). That's about all for tonight!

Another night run!

We woke up this morning and neither of us really wanted to run again. It was raining, and therefore we really felt lazy. Therefore tonight we felt we really had no excuse not to run a little longer and do a 2 mile run. We ran out the neighborhood to Green Bay, back in the neighborhood to the south, to 3 Mile Rd., and up Goleys Rd into the neighborhood.

About 0.6 mile into the run, I said to Bill that we were going really fast. He agreed and we slowed it up a bit, but we still kept a pretty good pace. Coming back into the neighborhood at the north end of Goleys, about 1.5 miles into it, I just couldn't keep up the pace. I told Bill to go ahead and I slowed a bit. Just about 20 paces later I was feeling stronger and kept exactly that space between Bill and I until the end of the route.

Home again, I saw that we ran 2.05 miles for 18:14 run (8:54 pace/mile). Wow, still pretty fast...and for 2 miles!

We're tracking now!!

Today I received my new Garmin Forerunner 205 and thought I should start this blog at the same time.

On June 30th, my husband, Bill, and I decided that we were being a little too lazy and exercising very sporadically. He thought there was really no reason we couldn't run at least 1 mile every day. If we get up in the morning, change, run, and stretch.....that would all add up to less than 30 minutes, therefore we should be able to do it. He mapped that a loop around our neighborhood, with just one little bloop down a side street, totalled 1 mile, so it was an easy route to always do. So, starting 7/1/07, we started the challenge.

It's now August 14th, and the challenge is still going. Thirty-one days in July and now we're 14 days into August and still running at least one mile every day. Some days it's more, some days I did intervals (Anna, my trainer, told me to start doing these again!), and some days I worked out with Anna or went to the Y and did weights in addition to the running. Up until now, I've been tracking what exercise I did in a notebook. But Bill thought I'd like to blog this instead. This way I can make more comments if I want (I type faster than I write), and he said then Anna could also check it to see my progress. I really think he just wants to see what I say! :)

Today I received the Forerunner and did the first run with it, so I thought it was a good time to start logging. Ran tonight at night with Bill on a little muggy of a night. Ran for a total of 1.03 miles for a 9:10 run (8:52 pace). Came home right away and downloaded the tracking to the computer. This is very cool--can see my pace throughout the run, elevation, fastest points, slowest points. I really like seeing it on the map to compare how I felt at certain points on the run to how my pace varied with my feelings.

Good night for now!