JCC 2016 Fitness Goals

Three walks at the office plus an extra half hour walk last night at a fast pace. Need a flex emote here.

 

6 mile run last night at 10:00 pm after a long day and a big Italian dinner. It was awful but I did it.

9:16/mile, slower than my goal

 

K-G, with the adrenaline on race day you should go significantly faster than training pace Especially if your pre-race breakfast is porridge rather than pasta


I did a PB in the pool last week, 24 lengths (x 25m) & cycle there & back

for run timing I use a Garmin GPS watch & a Timex stopwatch (sometimes the GPS takes a while to start up if you're running by tall buildings/in urban areas)

have also been trying the Guardian/Louise Hazel workouts. It's basically circuit training. Week 1 was a piece of p, by week 3 not so...

 

Went for a run yesterday. Bleh.

 

We had another warm spell and I got out and ran in shorts again. Feels like... freedom!

 

I went ahead and signed up for a 5k next month. I couldn't resist it, it's a 5k de Mayo

I'm still doing 20-ish minute runs so, if I pace myself, I can do this. It'll be fun.

 

There's a 5k/10k run on April 23. I'd like to do the 10, but my hamstring hasn't been feeling great lately. Maybe I can do the 10 slowly; but if I'm not up to it, I'm sure I can handle 5.

 

Thanks to the joys of fatherhood I had to my 2nd to last training run at 11:30 pm tonight.

5.75 miles, 8:45/mile

1 more run Thu and then I'm in Orlando for the inaugural race at the new SW section at Disney World.

 

Dbl post but it is done.

13.1 miles

1:58:22

Hitting my sub 2 hr goal was tougher than I thought it would be. The last few miles were really hard. Not to keep running but to keep my pace. Lots of SW costumes everywhere, music and scenes from the movies throughout the course.

 

I was off my gym routine for almost two weeks because of a bad cold. Managed to make it back this week, even with shorter-than-usual workouts. I have no idea what I should be focusing on at this point. I'm in much better shape but I still basically weigh the same, despite looking thinner, having more energy, and feeling better. Any advice? I don't really have the funds at the moment for a personal trainer but I think that's what I need to do.

 

If I looked thinner, had more energy, and felt better, I wouldn't care what those abstract numbers on the scale were saying.

 

Ran a 10k race this morning, but slowly cuz hamstring is still tender. Time was 51 minutes and change.

There was a 5k too and a couple friends from church were walking that distance. When I was 250-300 yards from the finish I saw them about 100 yards from the finish and I thought, maybe, if I give it all I've got and sprint for all I'm worth... and I blew past them about 10 feet before the finish line.

My hamstring is now telling me I'm getting too old for that sort of silliness.

 

be not fat

 

Got my results in. I was 838th out of the 8,124 men running that day.

Went for my first run in a week today. Enjoyed the break and it was a nice leisurely run with friends. It's nice to have the pressure off.

 

My weekly routine so far the past 2 and a half months:

Monday: Rest
Tuesday:Gym day, working out shoulders, biceps, triceps
Wen: Tennis or Basketball for two hours
Thurs:Tennis for two hours, or gym session working the back.
Friday:Basketball for a couple hours
Saturday: Early AM basketball, then Tennis for an hour or two
Sunday: Rest, or sometimes Tennis/Basketball.

I've had to ease up though on my exercise load the past two weeks since I started feeling lower back pain/tightness and knee tightness. I ignored my core workouts the past couple months, so i've recently been doing core work again the last week. No more lower back tightness/pain for now which is good. As for the knee, I think it's an overuse injury since I suffered the same thing last summer: knee tightness/pain from when I would do squats in the morning and play basketball later in the evening( I know, what was i thinking lol). I wouldn't stretch or warm up also, now I started doing both of those again the past week. I had that workout routine up above cause I was losing weight(down to 205 from 220 dating back to a month ago), but ended up overworking myself.

For this week, going to plan to take a rest from the sports maybe till Saturday. I'll hit up the gym and do a light workout(arms/abs) on Wen or Thurs.

 

I really want to get back into exercising and working out, but I know I must also so a better job of management my diet and sleep. I've been eating horribly the last month or so, feasting on pizza and burgers. I've been sleeping about 5-6 hours a night, just watching TV late at night.

So last night I went to bed early and just had a banana and cereal for breakfast.

 

For the past few weeks, I've increased the intensity/duration of both my lifting workouts and my runs. I've stopped running with partners who kind of just held back (and out of politeness, I would hold back to keep pace with them) and have instead either kept running on my own or with my good friend who is as determined a runner as I am (someone who who helps me push myself while I help him do the same). We've also been using those fitness tracking apps, like the Nike one.

Two weeks ago, we attempted a 7 mile run and completed the first mile in 5 minutes 30 seconds. The following miles were not as quickly conquered, however, with the last mile taking us 10 minutes 11 seconds to complete. We also didn't make it to 7 but to just under 6 miles instead. He and I usually do this once a week, and during the rest of the week I've been alternating between lifting and solo-runs. I've increased my solo runs from 3 miles to 4 miles and now 5 miles so that I'm better prepared for our weekly duo runs.

Unfortunately, I think my body hates the increase, and after Thursday's big run, my legs just stopped working. I woke up feeling like I had two dead horses strapped to my legs. The stiffness and pain is mostly gone now, but I haven't attempted a run since. I think I'll run again this coming Thursday, though.

 

While I haven't been running any races or any sort of competitive running, I've put in 32 miles (which were a combination of intervals, long runs, hills, and tempo runs) over the past 3 weeks. I mean it's probably not a ton for some of the hardcore runners, but I still feel a whole lot stronger than I did before. Anyways, good job to those who just ran races, and to those who are making healthy choices and working out.

 

I just want smaller waist. Why is my waist so disproportionately large?

Both bust and hips are about 35 inches. But my waist is 29 inches. I saw some nice dresses on amazon but my bust and hips put me in the "small" category while my waist puts me in "large." BMI is under 22 but waist to hip ratio is about 0.814. To get the ideal WHR, I need to lose ~4 bloody inches off my waist...

Christ, I don't know what to do. I'm already exercising an hour ever day. Maybe restrict calorie intake? I did manage to get my BMI down to 19.6 a few months ago but I hate waking up in the middle of the night due to hunger.

 

What is your exercise routine during that hour? I've went down about 3 pants sizes since last year simply by running and eating one meal a day (a salad), along with snacks of fruit and nuts (admittedly, my life is now haunted by perpetual exhaustion and hunger ).

 

An hour on the exercise bike (level 5 out of 10). Usually it says I burn around 550-600 calories (though I know better than to trust the bike for an accurate gauge). That's the only exercise I count because it's the only time I really sweat. I also hike about 45 minutes a day in the forest and play a little basketball/football (languidly) for half an hour to an hour.

But I feel you on the diet - it's basically lots of fruits and veggies, nuts, lean meats. Still the waist issue persists. I was so depressed when I measured myself today.