I did a plank off the other night, which is where you hold your plank position for as long as you can, basically until you collapse and die. It's fun in a gross unfun way. Fun if you like shaking and aching and collapsing on the ground. I got 5 minutes and 20 seconds. Plank makes you hurt everywhere- arms, abs, back, legs. Everything was sore. Then for fun and because I couldn't move anymore, I looked up the plank world record and found some 70 ish year old guy who can do it for 33 minutes or something like that! Then just for fun I looked up the wall sit world record. Wall sitting is, in my opinion, one of the few things more horrific than running 13 mile repeats in 5:30 with one minute rest between them. Anyway the world record is by a woman who did the wall sit for 11:51, GROSS! then I realized that was 11 hours and 51 minutes, not 11 minutes and 51 seconds. Okay, considering I scream in pain after about 3 minutes suddenly the 100k doesn't sound that bad after all. I wonder if she just fell asleep like that, then woke up, realized her legs had fallen off and collapsed on the floor. That is what I did after 5 minutes and 20 seconds of the plank, which I can hold for longer than I can do a wall sit. 11 hour and 51 minute wall site- that is probably the scariest thing I have ever heard- happy halloween!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
I run too much
I run too much, way too much, this can't be good for me! Yet no matter how long I run it is never quite long enough because there are races that last 24 hours, and probably ones that last 48 hours, 72 hours, 168 hours, 3 years. A lifetime. In fact why spend anytime not running at all?
That is hard to do when you have a job, and a cat that likes to bite holes through your thumb, but off topic, anyway, last week I had to spend a lot of time not running. First at work and also at watching other girls run, or talking about running and stuff at Girls on the Run where I am a coach. By the time I got to run it was only 5 but because it is October now that means that at the end of my two hour workout it is already getting pretty dark. I ran 4 times 3k at Cornwall park at goal pace of 12 minutes each but with 15 minutes of slow jogging between which is nice but also uses up lots of daylight. I did pretty well though running 11:58, 11:57, 12:05, and 12:17, finishing up while I could barely still see then hurrying home before the creepos in the park get even more creepy when the moon comes out.
That workout suprisingly left me tired, and kind of injured so I only had to run 3 and a 1/2 mile repeats on Saturday and only an hour an forty minutes on Sunday.
Feeling like the slacker I am I headed into another week. This time there was no injuries to save me and so I got to do 13 mile repeats. They started out not too bad in around 6:55- 7:00 even though my hamstring felt tighter than it should have. Then because I know am supposed to be in pain I started running 6:44 and then 6:35 and I sure was. Like cooling down is hard type of pain, like this hill in the parking lot where I am cooling down that probably goes up 2 feet a mile feels like a mountain type pain. 13 mile repeats plus warm up and cool down is a lot of miles. But not enough because I could have run later in the evening again but I had to work. I could have run after I got off work at 9 o clock and then again in the morning before work at 8 am (which I did), but only forty minutes so that means I have three hours and fifteen minutes left when I get off work.
I want to see sometime how fat these audiobooks are that I go through. I listened to the Hunger Games, as recommended to me by Jessica which says on the back that it has 11 hours of tracks but it only lasted five days. Good thing it is a trilogy I guess though it seemed annoying yesterday when I didn't have the second book. I mean I ran for 11 hours and I still don't get to find out what happens? Great, I'm going to have to run 11 more, then 11 more after that. Never mind that I am tired, or have to work, or am sore and have this tight hamstring that doesn't go away for three hours. Never mind anything else, I have to run more. "I need to work you harder," Joel says the night of my four hour run when I'm lying on the floor too beat to want to get up even to take a shower.
I guess I don't run enough.
That is hard to do when you have a job, and a cat that likes to bite holes through your thumb, but off topic, anyway, last week I had to spend a lot of time not running. First at work and also at watching other girls run, or talking about running and stuff at Girls on the Run where I am a coach. By the time I got to run it was only 5 but because it is October now that means that at the end of my two hour workout it is already getting pretty dark. I ran 4 times 3k at Cornwall park at goal pace of 12 minutes each but with 15 minutes of slow jogging between which is nice but also uses up lots of daylight. I did pretty well though running 11:58, 11:57, 12:05, and 12:17, finishing up while I could barely still see then hurrying home before the creepos in the park get even more creepy when the moon comes out.
That workout suprisingly left me tired, and kind of injured so I only had to run 3 and a 1/2 mile repeats on Saturday and only an hour an forty minutes on Sunday.
Feeling like the slacker I am I headed into another week. This time there was no injuries to save me and so I got to do 13 mile repeats. They started out not too bad in around 6:55- 7:00 even though my hamstring felt tighter than it should have. Then because I know am supposed to be in pain I started running 6:44 and then 6:35 and I sure was. Like cooling down is hard type of pain, like this hill in the parking lot where I am cooling down that probably goes up 2 feet a mile feels like a mountain type pain. 13 mile repeats plus warm up and cool down is a lot of miles. But not enough because I could have run later in the evening again but I had to work. I could have run after I got off work at 9 o clock and then again in the morning before work at 8 am (which I did), but only forty minutes so that means I have three hours and fifteen minutes left when I get off work.
I want to see sometime how fat these audiobooks are that I go through. I listened to the Hunger Games, as recommended to me by Jessica which says on the back that it has 11 hours of tracks but it only lasted five days. Good thing it is a trilogy I guess though it seemed annoying yesterday when I didn't have the second book. I mean I ran for 11 hours and I still don't get to find out what happens? Great, I'm going to have to run 11 more, then 11 more after that. Never mind that I am tired, or have to work, or am sore and have this tight hamstring that doesn't go away for three hours. Never mind anything else, I have to run more. "I need to work you harder," Joel says the night of my four hour run when I'm lying on the floor too beat to want to get up even to take a shower.
I guess I don't run enough.
Monday, October 10, 2011
blah-og
Jessica's mom complained that I don't update my blog enough which I said was because nothing interesting ever happens. Trust me, you guys aren't missing anything! But to please her I guess I'll try to make something interesting out of all the uninteresting things that happen while running and running and running.
I got two weeks easy after the 50k, that is if your definition of easy is running 60-80 minutes everyday with a couple of workouts, it is? Then great! Why aren't you running with me?
The day after my race I didn't want to run 60 minutes, I wanted to run 6 but I ran about 40 and walked about 25 so I thought that was close enough. But then I told Joel that I have to make my own decision at times and he said- well if you don't like what I tell you to do you can find another coach! Okay- how about my runner's world running journal? It tells me to take 1 week off after the half marathon, two weeks off after the full marathon, what would that be for the 50k? 2.2 weeks? Of course it also says things like "hot weather affects front runners more than the rest, use that to your advantage." Huh, what are you saying exactly?? Maybe not. Ooh and it also says somewhere that it is good to run naked. Yeah ok perv who wrote this, you are not fooling us girls. This isn't the Evergreen state college. Sigh, i guess I'll stick with Joel after all.
One of the workouts was at Lake Padden with Jessica because she was running a race there. We ran 800s around the whole lake in preparation for the WWU invite. Although I wasn't very prepared because I ran the actual workout and during the race I just stood around and watched. I love Lake Padden- I once ran around it ten times just for fun but for some reason a top 75% finish at the Lake Padden Invite has always eluded me. Jessica had a good time and I had a good time watching. It is a rare feeling for me- to go to a race and not be so nervous I might loose my energy bar, it was nice. I was also nice out, which probably only happens at the Western invite about once every fifteen years. Not nice enough for Jessica to go swimming with me though :( though I did ask!
The next day I ran for an hour and forty eight minutes and Joel asks if I want to start training again. I guess I had 2.2 weeks "off" after all. I'm still not running naked though.
Now don't complain that this was boring cuz I warned you! I will try to think of more uninteresting things to tell you. Blah, blah, blahg
I got two weeks easy after the 50k, that is if your definition of easy is running 60-80 minutes everyday with a couple of workouts, it is? Then great! Why aren't you running with me?
The day after my race I didn't want to run 60 minutes, I wanted to run 6 but I ran about 40 and walked about 25 so I thought that was close enough. But then I told Joel that I have to make my own decision at times and he said- well if you don't like what I tell you to do you can find another coach! Okay- how about my runner's world running journal? It tells me to take 1 week off after the half marathon, two weeks off after the full marathon, what would that be for the 50k? 2.2 weeks? Of course it also says things like "hot weather affects front runners more than the rest, use that to your advantage." Huh, what are you saying exactly?? Maybe not. Ooh and it also says somewhere that it is good to run naked. Yeah ok perv who wrote this, you are not fooling us girls. This isn't the Evergreen state college. Sigh, i guess I'll stick with Joel after all.
One of the workouts was at Lake Padden with Jessica because she was running a race there. We ran 800s around the whole lake in preparation for the WWU invite. Although I wasn't very prepared because I ran the actual workout and during the race I just stood around and watched. I love Lake Padden- I once ran around it ten times just for fun but for some reason a top 75% finish at the Lake Padden Invite has always eluded me. Jessica had a good time and I had a good time watching. It is a rare feeling for me- to go to a race and not be so nervous I might loose my energy bar, it was nice. I was also nice out, which probably only happens at the Western invite about once every fifteen years. Not nice enough for Jessica to go swimming with me though :( though I did ask!
The next day I ran for an hour and forty eight minutes and Joel asks if I want to start training again. I guess I had 2.2 weeks "off" after all. I'm still not running naked though.
Now don't complain that this was boring cuz I warned you! I will try to think of more uninteresting things to tell you. Blah, blah, blahg
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