Burn Your Jog Bra Day

Today, it must've been Burn Your Jog Bra Day at Town Lake today because it's been awhile since I've seen so many bouncing boobies while running. I think I have whiplash and I almost tripped like 8 times today.

Before this week, I did 5.5 miles on Tuesday with a good workout with Texas Iron and then I did 7 on Saturday. On my run on Saturday, I knew something was up. Later that night, I started feeling bad and woke up Sunday with a cold. A week later, I still have it lingering a bit. I was feeling like crap until Thursday night. I was feeling a bit better, but not awesome by any means. On my trip to TN for T-day, I was expecting to put in 3 runs and get about 15 miles in. However, I only was able to do about 3.5 miles on Saturday and it felt good. Today, I did my standard 6.88 miles around Town Lake and despite the numerous near trips, I did it in 53:09. I had planned on taking it really easy and I thought I did, but my time showed that I was either VERY well rested or I'm actually getting quite a bit faster. I was watching my heart rate and it was in the 150-155bpm range as well.

Last week's run mileage: 12.5 miles
This week's run mileage: 10.5 miles
Asics run mileage: 31 miles

Seriously?

Seriously? What the fuck? I'm healthy. Well, I try to be healthy. My back has been jacked up for a few months and I'm trying to get it healthy. I went to get a massage today to work out my back, shoulder, and neck issues. Well, that well (painful) but I fucked up my neck at core practice a few hours later. Now, I can barely move without my neck hurting immensely. I try to take care of my physical issues for one thing and I end up hurting myself in another way. Damnit! Why can't I get completely healthy for once?

18 Miles

I ran about 18 miles last week. Well, I think. 5.5 on Tuesday, 6 on Thursday, 3.5ish on Friday for the pub run (do we really count those?) and then 3 on Monday morning that really should be Sunday. Only 8.5 of those were on my new shoes. And as I expected, I drank on Friday night and woke up at 195 on Monday morning.

Weekly mileage: 18 miles
Asics mileage: 8 miles

Wow

So, after struggling to get below 191 forever now, I weighed in at 190.5 yesterday morning and took a rest day. I was expecting to be up over 191 this morning but I weighed in at 189.5 I was not expecting that. I'm also working out hard today (30mi attack the hills ride and then track workout) and moderate workouts for the rest of the week so we'll see how it goes. I think I've finally made a break through.

Abuse

I've been meaning to get back in shape. And I don't mean just triathlon shape, I want to be in good shape overall. Let's face it, most triathletes, that are in shape, I'm not talking about the people with 30% body fat in Spandex that eat 6 donuts after a 10 mile bike ride, have skinny little T-rex arms and chicken legs. I don't want that. I actually want a bit of muscle on me. Well, I have some muscle but it's covered in a nice layer of fat. I thought of it right before my yoga class that I'm going to start abusing my body. Well, I already abuse my body but I'm going to start doing it than more in just a certain area. If it is difficult to do, I'm going to do it. If it hurts, I'm going to keep doing it. Things I'm weak at, I'll do.

Because of this, I had a great fucking yoga class tonight. I pushed myself a lot tonight and it felt fantastic. I have been working on handstands in yoga class for awhile. Well, I haven't actually gone to yoga class in awhile but I came back like a champ today! We usually do handstands against the wall and I was working on and keeping my balance just off the wall. Then, we did handstands in the middle of the room with assistance. The instructor just had to keep a finger or two on my legs for balance and I was doing all of the work. I couldn't do it if I didn't have the upper body strength to push up, the core strength to keep my torso flat, and the lower body strength to keep my legs straight and pulled in together. And on top of all of that, I had the neuromuscular control to keep all of this in mind.

So, I have a new mantra for the next few months to take my physical fitness to a new level and I'm going to put myself through so much abuse and I'm going to enjoy every second of it.

255 miles

My Asics Gel Nimbus 10s now have about 255 miles on them after this morning. I think they are in need of replacement because they feel flat in the front when I run and I'm getting some pain in the balls of my feet. Except for this morning because I ran around Town Lake and wore some new, padded socks. It's better to be safe than sorry so I'm going to retire this pair at 255 miles when the last pair got 304.5 miles before they were retired. Money is tight, but I think it is time to switch. The last pair did last about 4 months so that is an average of 64 miles per month or 16 miles per week. Looking at it that way, that's not too bad, but I want to average 20mpw. I now have a pair of Asics Gel Nimbus 11s that are ready to go and I'll christen them on Tuesday.



I had 1 day of swimming. Wait, it might've been two. I can't remember. I think it was two. I also had at least 2 bike rides this week. Why the hell can't I remember anything that I've done this week? I do know that I did the core workout on Monday and Wednesday. I have to say that my core strength has gotten incredibly better since I've been laid off. I attribute it to not sitting in a chair 8-9 hours a day without my core being used at all. Also, working at Performance Wellness, I see a lot of patients with problems from lack of core strength and that just motivates me to work on mine. Oh, point being I can tell my core strength is better is because I wasn't sore after Monday's core class and I was a bit sore after Wednesday's core class. Core class used to be so tough that even if I did it every Monday and Wednesday, it would take me at least 3 weeks of consistently going to not be sore anymore. I'm also doing pull ups utilizing the pull up bar that I put up in my garage. In the course of 1 week, I went from struggling to do 1 pull up to doing 2.5 a couple of times a day. My goal is to go out into the garage and knock out a couple of pull ups a couple of times a day and I eventually want to do 10 easily before Christmas and then up to 20 at some point next year.

What else? My weight is OK. Weighed in at 191.5 on Friday, 190.5 on Saturday, and 191.5 this morning. I didn't drink much this weekend (a bottle of wine over the course of 2 nights) so that's good. As long as I don't wake up weighing 194 on Monday morning, it'll be a good week for me. Right now, I've ran 7 miles and I plan on going to yoga and I don't plan on playing beer pong or going to any Chinese buffets today so I should be good to go tomorrow morning.

Finally, I ran an OK 5 miles on Tuesday night with Texas Iron, a crappy 5 miles on Thursday afternoon, and then a pretty decent long run today of 7 miles with reverse pyramid of 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 minute of progressively faster intervals with 2min of rest in between. I've also been working on high knees when I run and pushing off and getting more leg extension. I'm also going to work on hip flexor strength as well since I have huge, muscular legs and it takes a lot of strength to get them to move quickly.

Weekly run mileage: 17 miles
Asics run mileage: 255 miles

Decent Week

Nothing really spectacular to say about this week's training. I had two good morning swims with T3 but that ended up causing my shoulder to be a bit sore. I was also doing weights so it might have been a combination of those things but it was sore for a few days. Right now, it's not hurting at all. I don't think I even got on the bike this week. Wait, I did a spin class at 24HR Fitness on Thursday and won the award for Person Who Sweats The Most easily. I had a puddle on the floor under me. There were a few cute girls in that class, too. For running, it was a pretty quiet week with I think only 2 runs. However, today's 8 mile run around Town Lake was awesome. Oh, there was a pub run/scavenger hunt on Friday but that wasn't real mileage.

Weekly run mileage: 12.5 miles
Asics mileage: 238 miles