Here's my proposed training plan. I'm going to clean it up in the next few days when I take a harder look at my schedule (and Himself and TDMN's schedules too).
Monday, July 25, 2011
Quick n dirty...
Here's my proposed training plan. I'm going to clean it up in the next few days when I take a harder look at my schedule (and Himself and TDMN's schedules too).
Friday, July 22, 2011
Wherein I restart my training...AGAIN...
My blog posting seems to be going much like my running - fits and starts. This month's excuse is a recurring hamstring (maybe a tendon?) injury. I'm somehow beginning to link it to my new(ish) trainers but I know it has its roots in speed training (pushed myself too hard to keep up with faster folk) and the habit I have of keeping my legs crossed. That last one is pure speculation on my part, but it always hurts the most after I've spent long hours with my right leg (the injured party) crossed over my left. Oh, and I need to flat out stretch. I'm wickedly lazy about stretching. Ever...
Anyway, at first I thought it was the sciatica from my pregnancy revisiting - but while it hurts its a totally different hurt than that.
Looming in my face is the Army Ten Miler (hereafter A10M), and my limited attempts at running since early June (Zooma Annapolis Half Marathon), have been sloppy and mostly painful. Not excruciating, but definitely uncomfortable. Yoga - no probs. Biking, not fond of stationary which is all I have access to at the moment, but again no probs. Walking...meh...too much (over 3 miles) or an extended hill and we have problems. But if I'm going to even attempt the A10M I need to get out there, so I'm revising my training plan (AGAIN, sigh...) to a mostly walking plan with strength training and stretching and see how we go. If I can figure out how to do it, I'll post the plan in a few days.
Anyway, at first I thought it was the sciatica from my pregnancy revisiting - but while it hurts its a totally different hurt than that.
Looming in my face is the Army Ten Miler (hereafter A10M), and my limited attempts at running since early June (Zooma Annapolis Half Marathon), have been sloppy and mostly painful. Not excruciating, but definitely uncomfortable. Yoga - no probs. Biking, not fond of stationary which is all I have access to at the moment, but again no probs. Walking...meh...too much (over 3 miles) or an extended hill and we have problems. But if I'm going to even attempt the A10M I need to get out there, so I'm revising my training plan (AGAIN, sigh...) to a mostly walking plan with strength training and stretching and see how we go. If I can figure out how to do it, I'll post the plan in a few days.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
How come 730 sq ft seems small until you're mopping the floors?
Does housecleaning count as strength training? No? How about when it involves standing on a step-ladder holding a 25lb vacuum trying to clean a ceiling fan that you've only just realized is so covered in fuzzy dust it could be a Muppet?
Dusted, vacuumed, mopped, swept, scrubbed the toilet, cleaned the stove hood and still the place feels like a pig-sty.
Sigh...
Dusted, vacuumed, mopped, swept, scrubbed the toilet, cleaned the stove hood and still the place feels like a pig-sty.
Sigh...
Saturday, May 14, 2011
I'm in.
The website only crashed on me once, but I'm in.
I got closed out last year because the registration date slipped my mind and then the race filled in something like 2-weeks. I've been running it for a few years and that was super-fast closure.
I unintentionally exaggerated my best 10K time...not so much I'll end up seeded up front, but I'm sure I'll end up with a bib colored something other than purple this time.
I got closed out last year because the registration date slipped my mind and then the race filled in something like 2-weeks. I've been running it for a few years and that was super-fast closure.
I unintentionally exaggerated my best 10K time...not so much I'll end up seeded up front, but I'm sure I'll end up with a bib colored something other than purple this time.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
...and Dancing
The cool thing about hardwood floors is that when your naked, fresh from the bath, daughter pees and then dances in it in shear abandonment its really easy to clean up the mess.
My own little Gene Kelly splashing in pee puddles. :)
My own little Gene Kelly splashing in pee puddles. :)
Monday, March 7, 2011
OK. Now that The Divine Miss N is 1 and walking, the weather is getting (slightly) better and I've joined up with NYSC and the Elysianettes, lets try this again.
In TDMN's first year I've learned how amazingly sticky both boogers and poop are and a child cutting her last 4 teeth is perhaps the crankiest thing ever created. There's other stuff in there but as she's in the middle of teething and a cold these are the things that are sticking out in my mind at the moment.
I've also managed to run a few 5Ks in the last year, but none of them at a pace that I'm too pleased with. On the calendar this year are two weddings (one at a resort and the other in TX in July) and my 40th birthday. I'm feeling the need to be in good shape for all of the above.
Oh, and I'm a stay-at-home Mom for the time being. That story is complicated and Himself is clamoring for the laptop so we'll leave it for the moment.
In TDMN's first year I've learned how amazingly sticky both boogers and poop are and a child cutting her last 4 teeth is perhaps the crankiest thing ever created. There's other stuff in there but as she's in the middle of teething and a cold these are the things that are sticking out in my mind at the moment.
I've also managed to run a few 5Ks in the last year, but none of them at a pace that I'm too pleased with. On the calendar this year are two weddings (one at a resort and the other in TX in July) and my 40th birthday. I'm feeling the need to be in good shape for all of the above.
Oh, and I'm a stay-at-home Mom for the time being. That story is complicated and Himself is clamoring for the laptop so we'll leave it for the moment.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
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