Training

Rather than do posts with my training, boring everyone to tears, surely, I made a page for it – see toolbar to the right for the 10k Training Page.

 Check in on your own schedule. 🙂

Training, Day 5

30 minutes on the treadmill, 2.5 miles, including…

1 mile at 1% at about 5.5 mph

.75 miles at 4% at about 5 mph

.25 miles at 0% at about 7 mph

With walking in between.  Man – my calves HURT!!

Training, Day 4

2 hours at the climbing gym.  Not really all that helpful for running, but I had already made the commitment to go, so I couldn’t back out.  And I climbed really poorly, by the way.  I used to be so darn good at it!  I guess that’s what happens when you go from 3 days a week to once every 6 months…

Me in my heyday:

Training, Day 3

And Wednesday was a day of rest.  If you can call two hours of painting the bathroom walls “rest.”

I want to do this so bad I could spit.  Of course, if you know me at all you know I love The Amazing Race, and Urban Challenge is kind of like that, so really it should come as no big surprise.  I just have to figure out when it’ll be in Charlotte again…

Training, Day 2

Tuesday, January 29th

Abs & Back – Core Training:  25 minutes

Athletic Conditioning – football drills: 55 minutes

Training Day

Jen and I have decided to train for the Cooper River Bridge Run.  It’s a 10k in Charleston in April.  I’m a little scared, but excited as hell – it’ll be a great challenge for me to complete it (and just in time for my 32nd birthday!).  My goal right now is 1:15…but my real goal (the one that is just outrageously high) is under an hour (59 minutes and 59 seconds counts!).  I say outrageously high because mile 1.6 to mile 3 is uphill at a 4% grade the whole way.  That’s going to kill my time, even if I CAN run up the whole thing.  But maybe with enough training….  I’m going to start putting training updates up here, to keep me accountable – start yelling at me if I stop, okay?  (As if Jen won’t give me a hard enough time!) 🙂

 So….

Monday, January 28th

Weights at lunch

Run:  30 minutes, 2.25 miles, 1% incline on the treadmill (note to self – even 2 hours isn’t enough time for food to digest)

Bike:  10 minutes, 2 miles. Ack.