My Head Hangs in Shame

Why on EARTH is it your goal to hit 13 miles by February? Are we doing the 1/2 marathon? If so, S#!T. I thought we were doing the 15K... I almost had myself convinced I could make it for that. 13 miles... NO SIR... Please don't make me cry. If you want to enter the 1/2 marathon, I'm fine with it. I just can't run it all.

I did only 2 exercises last week: One BodyPump class on the 22nd and a four mile jog on the 24th. My entire week this week is shot, as I'm going off to a conference in La Crosse that I am co-chairing-- 11 states in all, and I forgot my running shoes. So, I couldn't even WALK if I wanted too! This weekend will have to be it for me....

Sunday, 25 October

It was an OK week- I exercised three times: 1) a two-mile (3.21 km) jog on the treadmill, 2) 30 minutes on the treadmill (mild hill program; 8kph... probably about 12/13 min miles), 3) 90 minutes on the treadmill. I made my goal to do a 10K before the end of the month... although it took me 90 minutes to do it (15 min miles)! I don't care, though, I'm just trying to put in the time. I'm using the same method I used to work up for the Army 10-miler. Just try to do SOMETHING/ANYTHING 2-3 times during the work week; then do one long-slow distance workout on the weekend; take the other weekend day off. I will try to gradually increase the long, slow distance until February. (Although I think my next goal won't increase dramatically, maybe one 12K some time by the end of NOV), one 13K by end of DEC, and one 15 K by end of JAN. (15 K is about 9 miles, and if I can jog 9 x 15 minute miles, I'll be convinced that I can jog/walk 13 miles by end of FEB. We'll see... wonder if I can do the treadmill until FEB? I should try to get outside... maybe next weekend for my long/slow distance jog?

Okay, you're smokin' me!

Well, you're smokin' me! I've been trying to keep up on the exercise, and you can still go farther than me.... Anyway, I do like the idea of posting every week with a summary... Last week I did okay ( I thought I did until I read your post): One four mile walk, one treadmill run of three miles with a one mile walk, and a four mile jog (yesterday). My goal was to jog four miles by the end of October, and I made it!

I, unlike you, need time to work up to a 10K. I'm hoping to hit that by the end of the calendar year. I've set a goal of hitting 5 miles by the end of November, 6 miles by the end of December, 7 in January and the 8 miles in February. That would work except that the Hawaii run is a 15K. Well, whatever.... I never was a distance runner, so this is HARD for me!

Sunday, 18 October

One more week of posts... I did the last 2 weeks really close together. My first post was a really good week - this one not so good. I exercised twice - one 5K on the treadmill and one long 60 minute treadmill. (I did the 2 miles in 18:24... then jogged really slowly. At least 18:24 is enough to pass a PT test). Will try to exercise at least 4 times next week. And I'll try to have at least one LONG/SLOW distance each week. Have to try to get outside this weekend - maybe Sunday. The treadmill is already starting to make me crazy.

My Pledge to Post Weekly - Every Sunday

Well, I have basically proven to be a dead-beat blogger... so I am going to try to do something new. I will post every Sunday and review the week's worth of work-outs. Might be helpful to see how much (or little) I've done in a one week period. Last week was a bit strange because I returned from Uvs Aimag (northwestern Mongolia) on Wednesday, 7 October. So I didn't really have a full week to exercise. I did get a good amount of exercise, though - with 1 x 40 Minute treadmill session (8 KPH/Level 8), 1 x 30-Day Shred Workout (20 Min), 1 x 2 Miles on Treadmill in 18:59 (OK, for some reason it's important to me that it was under 19 minutes!), and 60 Minutes on the Treadmill (8.2 Kilometers). I WANT TO WORK MY WAY UP TO 10K on the TREADMILL by the end of the month. I will make it my goal. It will probably take 1 hour, 20+ minutes, but I would like to do it.

Wow! I rode a bike....

...for the first time in three or four years? I was trying to guess. For sure the last time I rode was the last Muddy Buddy we did. A friend from work "invited" me to ride with her on an 18-mile charity ride in Lake Mills. I thought about it, and once I saw that you got a t-shirt, two drink tickets (I had root beer), and a pork dinner, I signed up! It was the Tyranena Oktoberfest Bike Ride http://www.tyranena.com/bikeride/
Naturally, it poured rain when I got there. But, at least it let up for the ride. It was cold, but I made it! I could have walked on my two feet faster than I biked up some of the hills, but at least I kept going!

Maybe now it will only be 2 years before I get on the bike again???!!!! Probably not.