Exercise Goals for 2008

Yeah, it was 3F w/ wind chill (11 w/o the WC) when I got back from my run today. Mighty cold.

I had worn a compression shirt as a base layer, a long sleve tech shirt as the 2nd layer, a big sweatshirt as 3rd layer, and a thin windbreaker on the outside. I had a whole head sleave and my sweatshirt hood on my head. I had only wore my tights and a pair of shorts on the bottom though, and that's were the problem with the t&b came in; thankfully I had to urinate a few times on the side of the road and that helped warm the tackle up somewhat. If it's this cold again next week I'll throw some warm up pants on over the tights/shorts, and maybe find a use for a 3rd sock .

My upperbody felt pretty good, I may need to lose a layer though because I was sweating quite a bit. The hands were a little cool, I had just worn a thin glove. I'll probably throw on a thicker pair over the thin pair next time. I'll just need to figure out the lower half (hopefully soon).

And thanks for the advice about the ankles, they are feeling a little raw right now.

I switched to a treadmill when it got to the mid-20's -- how are your lungs, too? That's what I disliked the most, the dry cold air. 3F -- brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

I generally set 20F as my lower limit. When it's colder than that I wuss out and
call it "cross training". Yeah, that's it, cross training.

Ice is my nemesis. I can dress for the cold, but I hate not knowing when I will fall. I'm back on the elliptical since last week. I need to work my way back up to an hour. right now 30 minutes is the best I can do.

Congratulations! I set a personal record there, too. Why you didn't wait for me to finish, for half an hour, in the freezing cold, sweating after the PR you'd just set, is a mystery to me.

I'll run the 4M next weekend and the 15K the weekend after, too. The plan is that you won't stand a chance against me next year.

The weather.com site listed 17F (helpful subtitle: "feels like 3F") as the
temperature for Chelmsford.

"Well," thought I, "this is an opportunity to show solidarity with our A2K
cold-weather runners."

And then I thought, "Screw that. They're on their own."

Cross training today: 5 sets each of bench presses and pec decks, followed by a
session on the Concept2 rower.

Haha....

I love that "feels like.." subtitle. If it feels like 3F, then it IS 3F.

It was brutal this morning. 13F. Helfino what it felt like. It felt ******* cold.

Anyway, I was late so I attempted to jog to the bus.

This proved to be a bad idea.

I think 20F is about right for a lower limit, with ice on the roads/sidewalks, even in warmer weather, to also be a limiting factor, at least for me.

Indoors is the bike, plus Leslie Sansone is on the On Demand part of Comcast.

Ran intervals today, on the treadmill, indoors. Total of 2 miles, probably half that running but tried to go pretty fast. (7.5 mph is the high point of my week pretty much -- that's really my favorite kind of running.)

Thomas: I just got your voicemail THIS morning. That's Monday. (!??!?!)
Congratulations on your PR!!

I'd be honored to be passed by you at one of next year's races.

Joe(do it just at the end for the full effect)Nation

No problem, Joe. My personal record was to beat 90 minutes; you would have needed a calendar to catch up with me at the finish line.

I am in weenie mode.

It was 60 and raining Wednesday, so out I went and did a soggy four miles.
But my heart wasn't in it. Thursday it was still raining, but it was also still
warm enough to run outside. I stayed in. It was still raining today. The power
was out at work, so I returned home and thought I might take a morning jog
around the neighborhood. But it's raining, I whined. And all those puddles, I
whined. And maybe I'll get splashed by cars, I whined. Wah, wah, wah.

So I went to the gym and did fifteen minutes on the elliptical, some core work,
and fifteen on the bike. A reasonable workout, but I feel like a weenie.

Tomorrow I'm gonna run outside. No, really, I am. Honest.

The sun that brief December day made a brave attempt to shed warmth as well
as light and then said the-hell-with-it.

I had vowed I would run outside and I did. It was cold, so I was layered. A
shirt of some wondrous wicking material under a t-shirt, under a heavyweight
cotton mock turtleneck, under a sweatshirt. If you'd have cut me in two across
the torso, I'd have looked like one of those cross sections of the earth you see in
fifth-grade science books.

3.4 miles at a gentlemanly pace.

Weenie reporting!

Can't imagine running outside in cold horrible rain. Blech.

Gymmed X 4 last week, feeling pretty good. Only managed 1.5 miles on my distance run (then stopped, ran .2, then ran another .5), oh well. (Goal is 2 miles nonstop.)

Stuff is definitely happening since I started this exercise routine at this gym though. Biceps are doing gratifying things (I'm not a girl who minds having Real Muscles), getting more toned overall.

Finished today's 4 mile race in Central Park in 53 minutes -- 5 minutes less than last time. Maybe I'm getting somewhere after all.

Hm....George and Joe hitting 1,000 miles this year really got me thinking how many miles I've put in, so today I added them all up.

I'm missing about 2 months worth of data, not sure where those sheets are, but I have:

787.55 miles logged in 2008

It would be VERY hard to break 1,000 before the year is over, but next year it's mine.

There's a site called runningahead.com that has a great facility for recording
mileage and mapping your runs. They have various user groups, one of which
is a 1000 mile club. Check it out.
RunningAhead

32 seconds in - our folklore class appears for about 10 seconds

Yayyyyyyyy!

It is a bit of a yay - not quite The Marathon - but it's big enough for me right now.

Dancing in public.

Whoodathunkit.