Workouts for the Week of March 23rd

Sunday:  Run 6 miles in 59 minutes.
Saturday: Ran the 10 miler in 90 minutes.

Weekly Total:  16 miles

Year to Date:  158 miles

Workouts for Week of March 16th

Sunday:  run ~9 miles in 93 mins
Monday:  0
Tuesday:  run 4 miles in 39 minutes
Wednesday:  weights 
Thursday:  run ~4.5 miles in 45 mins
Friday: weights
Saturday:   0

Total Running Mileage for the Week:  17.5 miles
Total for the Year:  142 miles

The 10 Miler

The Charlottesville 10 Miler went okay.  I finished with almost the exact time I predicted, about 90 minutes (89:48).  Even though I knew I’d be slower with my abbreviated training and nagging knee injury, it still got me down a bit… I lost 10 minutes in 1 year.

I’m hoping to get my knee rehabbed.  I’ve taken 2 weeks off from running completely and I’m doing my physical therapy exercises regularly.  I just want to be able to run pain free…

If anyone is interested my splits were: 

10:04   9:18   9:03   8:40   8:49   8:46   8:56   9:05   9:00   8:12

My knee was really killing me for the next few days.  This morning I ran/walked about 3 miles alternating 8 minutes of running with 2 minutes of walking.  I plan to repeat that a time or two and then start adding distance/decreasing walks.

My physical therapy (PT) takes a pretty large chunk of time so I’ve also changed up my weight lifting (I do PT first whether I’m running or lifting that day).  On lift days after PT I do three sets each of the following:  pushups, ab work (2 exercises for a total of 6 sets), pullups for the first superset and then three sets each of the following for the second superset:  Squats, Bench Press, Leg Curls and Curls.  We’ll see how it goes, I’m hoping to get some strength gains.

I’m treading water on weight loss, not really gaining or losing. I’m going to try to buckle down… lose the last 5 – 10 pounds in the next couple months.  Thats the plan anyway, ice cream keeps getting in the way!

Thanks for reading.  I’ve got to figure out my running totals for the year so far and post them up soon.

Um.

I was going to write a quick post about my race, but now I see I haven’t posted in a while. . . Therefore this is just a placeholder to say I’ll try to get everything up to date this weekend.  It will take more time than I have today to write everything I want.

A Real Post

I’ve really struggled with training for this year’s 10 miler.  I’ve had a nagging knee injury, an infant daughter, a 3.5 year-old crazy man, and a wife with post-partum depression.  All of this has resulted in me eating too much, running to little and not getting enough sleep.

I ran 9 miles on Sunday, and that will be my longest run in training – the race is just 1.5 weeks away.  I was hoping to break last years time, but my realistic goal now is just to finish.  I’m expecting to finish somewhere in the 90 – 100 minute range.  A far cry from last years 80 minutes.  After the race I’m going to take a couple weeks (maybe as much as a month) off from running.  I’m hopeful to completely rehab my knee and other nagging aches and pains.  I’ll come storming back after that…

Right?

Workouts for the Week of March 9th

Not a very good week.  I fell and hurt my knee while running the week prior… 

Sunday:  run ~2 miles in 20 mins
Monday:  0
Tuesday:  0
Wednesday:  Weights
Thursday:  run 4 miles in 39 minutes
Friday:  zilch
Saturday:   nada

Total Running Mileage for the Week:  6 miles
Total for the Year:  124.5 miles

Workouts for Week of March 2nd

Sunday:  run ~7 miles in 70 mins
Monday:  Weights & Elliptical for 35 mins
Tuesday:  run ~3 miles in 30 mins
Wednesday:  Weights & Elliptical for 35 mins
Thursday:  run ~5 miles in 50 minutes
Friday:  zilch
Saturday:   nada

Total Running Mileage for the Week:  15 miles
Total for the Year:  118.5 miles

Workouts for Week of February 24th

Sunday:  run ~4.5 miles in 40 minutes
Monday:  Weights
Tuesday:  run 5 miles in 45 minutes
Wednesday:  Weights & Bike 16 mins
Thursday:  Run 5 miles in 45 minutes
Friday:  nuthin
Saturday: not a thing

Total Running Mileage for the Week:  14.5 miles
Total for the Year:  103.5 miles

Workouts for the Week of February 17th

Last week was not the best week, but doing well so far this week…

Sunday:  Run 80 minutes ~8 miles
Monday:  Zip
Tuesday:  Zilch
Wednesday:  Run 45 minutes ~5 miles
Thursday: Lift Weights & Bike 20 minutes
Friday:  Zero
Saturday:  Nada

Total Running Mileage for the Week:  13 miles
Total for the Year:  89 miles

An Update on My Weight

I’ve been pretty lax about posting the progress (or lack thereof) of my weight loss for a while now.  I’m updating my Weight Loss page soon, but thought that it would be worth its own entry just to note that in my WW meeting on Thursday (Feb 14th) I weighed in at 165.4 — just 6.4 pounds over my weight goal!  I was very encouraged and have been working hard and tracking like crazy to ensure I make it to my goal in the near future. 

I’ll try to update on this topic more frequently in the coming weeks…