5/4/09 – A new start of sorts and a PR of huge sorts!

I have been avoiding blogging, for nearly two weeks. The last two weeks have been bad for me food-wise; on the other hand, exercise-wise they were not only good, but really fantastic. When things are going bad with the food I don’t blog. The solution: I need to blog so that I will [...]

Day 142 (4/22/09)

Based on my recent successes in races, I’ve decided that my interval training has been very useful, not to mention the fact that I think it makes the run go by quicker. Today, I did a slow mile warm-up. Then I did 3×400, 2×200, and 1×400. I did all of the sprints at or [...]

Day 141 (4/20/09)

I’m back, with a vengeance.

Woke up at 6 a.m. this morning and headed for the gym. I ran 5 miles in 51:22 (.5 mile warm-up and cool-down and 4 miles at 6 mph+ pace). After the run, I decided that I need to start at least doing three weight training exercises per visit at the [...]

E,(S,B),R,L Hiatus

Sorry for the week hiatus. I have some ’splaining to do I suppose:

The honest truth is that I just didn’t feel like blogging. I went to bed several nights before M even left the couch. I decided that the gym & sleep were more important this week than updating the blog. I think it paid [...]

Day 127-131 (4/6/09 – 4/10/09)

I’m avoiding you blog readers, as I’m sure you have noticed.

The best descriptor for this week is exhausting. I have worked more hours this week than I have in any week since I started working (that’s probably really not an impressive number), but trust me, I’m not a big fan of long, 6 day [...]

Day 121 (3/31/09)

I’ve officially blogged for 4 months! I wasn’t sure it would last this long, but I really do believe that the blog is the reason for my success. I’m planning on a new feature: Monthly Updates, so I’ll be back later today with my first monthly update for March. Make sure you check [...]

Day 120 (3/30/09)

Despite setting the alarm 15 minutes early today and have one of the worst nights of sleep of late, I woke up this morning at 5:45 a.m. ready to go. I wanted to run 6 miles today so that I could do 8 tomorrow, which would put me at 100 miles for the month!

I got [...]

Day 116-119 (3/26/09- 3/29/09)

Wow I haven’t updated in a while. I just needed a break this weekend.

Exercise this week

Thursday: 6 miles in 1:04
Saturday: 10 miles in 1:46:45. With this pace, I’d run the Mini in 2:20ish, which would be a fifteen minute improvement (I think I can handle that )
Sunday: 1 mile in 10; 10 minutes on [...]

Day 114 (3/24/09)

Not a whole lot to report today other than that I did a triathlon of sorts (although a bit spread out). This morning I did a 30 minute swim. This evening I did a 20 minute bike ride on a stationary bike, a one mile run (I was trying to stimulate the brick feeling) and [...]

Day 113 (3/23/09)

I made a mistake today. I woke up at 6 a.m. and instead of going to the gym I went to work. I felt “blah” all day at work and was just in a grouchy mood. I guess the good part of this morning (which also could be viewed as bad) was that I decided [...]