Wow, I went for a run last night and it feels like I'm totally up to my previous level of running fitness. I was worried that my fitness level would have dropped after being sick for a few weeks, but apparently the human body is pretty good at bouncing back from illness.
My run last night, which you can see in Runkeeper here was for 6.45k (including warmup/cooldown), so about 5.5k of actual running. My eventual goal is to compete in a 5k race, but there aren't really a whole lot of them until the spring. I suppose I could just work on my endurance a bit and aim for a 10k instead!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Mostly healthy, back running
After a few weeks of fighting off some sort of virus-based cold/flu thing, I finally managed to get back to running last night. My run, viewable via Runkeeper here wasn't that long - only about 25 minutes running, and about 5.3km total (including warmup/cooldown), but it felt like a huge accomplishment to get back "in the saddle" after being on my butt for a few weeks.
I'm going to do my best to get back into a schedule of running every other day. It's getting colder now so it's getting harder to run outdoors, and I'm not a huge fan of running on the treadmill. Time to get some winter running clothing, I think.
I'm going to do my best to get back into a schedule of running every other day. It's getting colder now so it's getting harder to run outdoors, and I'm not a huge fan of running on the treadmill. Time to get some winter running clothing, I think.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Downtime... stupid colds...
I really love my kids, but this time of year they morph into festering germ-pods, ready to infect me (the noble parent) with whatever variety of illness the kids are playing with nowadays.
One of my children gave me a nasty cold, and I've been down for the count for a few days now. It's not so much the stuffed nose and coughing - I can deal with that - it's the fatigue! I've never felt so drained. Hopefully within a few more days I'll be able to get healthy again.
I've still kept up with the Hacker's Diet exercises each morning, even though they've felt a lot more challenging lately because of the cold. My goal for the next few weeks is to establish a routine of running on the treadmill at the gym, and hopefully I'll still squeeze in some outdoor runs before it gets too cold out.
One of my children gave me a nasty cold, and I've been down for the count for a few days now. It's not so much the stuffed nose and coughing - I can deal with that - it's the fatigue! I've never felt so drained. Hopefully within a few more days I'll be able to get healthy again.
I've still kept up with the Hacker's Diet exercises each morning, even though they've felt a lot more challenging lately because of the cold. My goal for the next few weeks is to establish a routine of running on the treadmill at the gym, and hopefully I'll still squeeze in some outdoor runs before it gets too cold out.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The perils of Thanksgiving
This past weekend was Thanksgiving in Canada, and we went to visit the inlaws in Saskatoon. Despite being out of town and having plenty of other people around the house, I managed to fit in a couple of runs while there, upping my distance to 6.48k and 6.72k respectively (links are to the Runkeeper activity pages for those runs.
I'm quite pleased to see some of the updates to Runkeeper - it now allows selective map sharing for activities, which is a feature that I requested a while ago. It allows me to share my runs via the web, but lets me limit which maps are viewable. I'd rather not share my exact address with the world, and sharing a GPS map of my runs would do just that - as with most runners, the start and end points of my runs are at my house.
Runkeeper now has a publicly-viewable dashboard for each user, which is a pretty useful feature.
The bad news is that the combination of turkey, wine, and desserts added four pounds to my waistline in three days. I know that only some of that weight gain is 'real' - a lot of it is just the normal day-to-day variation in weight - but I need to cut down for the next week to bring my weight back to target. Nothing dramatic, just a few calories cut here and there.
I have some commitments that prevent me from running today, but I'll definitely hit the pavement tomorrow.
I'm quite pleased to see some of the updates to Runkeeper - it now allows selective map sharing for activities, which is a feature that I requested a while ago. It allows me to share my runs via the web, but lets me limit which maps are viewable. I'd rather not share my exact address with the world, and sharing a GPS map of my runs would do just that - as with most runners, the start and end points of my runs are at my house.
Runkeeper now has a publicly-viewable dashboard for each user, which is a pretty useful feature.
The bad news is that the combination of turkey, wine, and desserts added four pounds to my waistline in three days. I know that only some of that weight gain is 'real' - a lot of it is just the normal day-to-day variation in weight - but I need to cut down for the next week to bring my weight back to target. Nothing dramatic, just a few calories cut here and there.
I have some commitments that prevent me from running today, but I'll definitely hit the pavement tomorrow.
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Blog neglect
At the same time that I've neglected running for the past week, I've neglected this blog.
I'm still alive, and I'm still doing rung 36 of the lifetime fitness ladder every morning (545 steps running in place, 70 jumping jacks, 49 forward bends, 39 sit-ups, 56 prone lifts, and 30 pushups) along with around 60 reps of some bicep curls.
I'll be hitting the pavement for a run today, and am hoping that I haven't lost any cardiovascular ability in the week I haven't ran... Now that I've completed the C25k program, I'm looking for a new challenge to work toward. Perhaps a 5k-to-10k transition. I'd love to run a 5k race, but I've missed the boat for this fall season - I'll definitely be entering one in the spring!
I'm still alive, and I'm still doing rung 36 of the lifetime fitness ladder every morning (545 steps running in place, 70 jumping jacks, 49 forward bends, 39 sit-ups, 56 prone lifts, and 30 pushups) along with around 60 reps of some bicep curls.
I'll be hitting the pavement for a run today, and am hoping that I haven't lost any cardiovascular ability in the week I haven't ran... Now that I've completed the C25k program, I'm looking for a new challenge to work toward. Perhaps a 5k-to-10k transition. I'd love to run a 5k race, but I've missed the boat for this fall season - I'll definitely be entering one in the spring!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Back running, completed C25k
My last C25k run (week 9, day 3 - 30min of non-stop running) was completed yesterday, and I had the privilege of running with public service blogger and colleague Nick Charney. Nick's an inspiration for me professionally as he is amazingly nimble at navigating the bureaucracy where we work, but he's also an inspiration on the fitness side of things - he recently completed a half-marathon and has only been running for four months or so!
The run itself consisted of a few laps around a nearby urban lake, totalling 5.29k. At about 4.2k, my phone rang and I had to take the call. I forgot that Runkeeper pauses its recording if a phone call is answered, and forgot to restart it afterward, so the last seven minutes or so of the run didn't get mapped.
After about 10 days of not running at all, it felt great to get outdoors again. Summer's gone and winter is upon us... I'll have to get some better running clothes for cold weather - the sweat pants and hoodie worked well enough yesterday, but they won't be that helpful once the snow flies.
The run itself consisted of a few laps around a nearby urban lake, totalling 5.29k. At about 4.2k, my phone rang and I had to take the call. I forgot that Runkeeper pauses its recording if a phone call is answered, and forgot to restart it afterward, so the last seven minutes or so of the run didn't get mapped.
After about 10 days of not running at all, it felt great to get outdoors again. Summer's gone and winter is upon us... I'll have to get some better running clothes for cold weather - the sweat pants and hoodie worked well enough yesterday, but they won't be that helpful once the snow flies.
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