Showing posts with label Y track. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Y track. Show all posts

Friday, March 24, 2006

not about running

Just kidding here's the running stuff. haha.

quick update. I thought on Tuesday that I ran a 8:44 but I saw in my notebook that it was a 8:08. So better than I thought. Tonight. This is awesome now. You ready? 1 mile: 8:00.71. Walked three laps cause I was DEAD after that. 1/2 mile: 4:00.71. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!?! However, the first 2 laps of the mile I was actually saying ow ow ow ow cause of my knees. Even the first lap of the 1/2 mile I was still saying ow ow ow. Damon, you are going to get a really long message chalk full of questions from me about my knees tomorrow. Cause seriously I'm starting to get freaked about this. It hurts.

More tomorrow. I'm gonna take drugs for my knees now.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

running

is there anything else going on in my life besides that?

I think my body is breaking down. I don't remember my joints hurting after running. I sat for three hours tonight, I got up and started walking and my knees, both of them, started hurting! DAMN. then during lunch I realised that my left hip hurt when I stood on my left leg. I couldn't quite pinpoint the pain I was feeling. Not cool. Yes I know that it was 10 years ago I was a lot younger but c'mon, I'm still young right?

Tonight's figures are:
1 mile: 8:44 (first lap in :46) (last lap in :44)
1/2 mile: 4:00 even (last lap in :44)

I must admit I was a little dying after the mile today. Especially once I started running and my hips were going creak creak creak. But they got oiled up after a lap or two. I think I need to stretch more. But once I get in there I just wanna go. I don't even wanna do the walking laps anymore. But I still do.

After I was done, i was walking through the hallway and past a guy talking to someone else about races. I heard the guy (he was a teacher at the Y, does cycling classes) that was talking about his goal this year is to finish a 10k in 36 minutes. That a little under 6 minutes a mile. DO WHAT?!?! "Since I'm not doing a tri[athlon] I decided that should be my goal." Boy, did I get a case of the "Can I's?" and "Will I's?" after hearing that. I mean, seriously, the race is one month from tomorrow. Will I seriously be up to shape to do a 3.1 mile race in one go?? I feel like I need to "kick it up a notch" (sorry watching Emeril) in order to reach my goal.

Monday, March 20, 2006

eh, no subject

I did a mile run today. 8:36m. I originally planned on doing a 10 minute mile but then I ran a :46 lap and I realised that I was going too fast and why should I do a 10 minute mile when I actually usually run a 4 minute half mile on average. So I decided on 8:30 and I managed it! YES! I actually wasn't that red either. Sweaty yes, red no. Then afterwards I did some machines in the gym. I didn't really like it. I did a thigh lift thing and then a hamstring thing. I wanted to do a calf thing but the weights on there were 2 45lbs weights and I didn't know where the smaller ones were at. and i didn't ask where they were at. yea I'm a pansy. one of these nights I'll do what Stacey does and go late at night. Maybe it won't be as busy. Or only lift weights on Friday when the whole place is pretty much empty. Anyway, so if I do a 10 minute mile on average then I should be done with the 5k race in 30 minutes. BUT I should be faster than that. At least I hope so!!

I got invited to go skiing on Friday during the day at Devil's Head. I wish I could go. Not last minute like this though. Then The Brat Pack is playing down in Carbondale. Modern Day Romeos at Cubby Bear in Chicago again. Amazing Kilowatts here in DeKalb. Aw Craps.

Um yea that's it.

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

running again

yea, i know. i get obsessed with something and that's all you'll hear about it in my blogs. earlier this year, it was work, and now this. Difference with this is that I'm actually gonna keep time from now on. I meant to borrow AJ's stopwatch today but he left before I could ask him for it from his car. So I had to use my watch. I tried to be accurate as best as I could. We'll see. Tomorrow during lunch, I plan on picking one up. A real one.

Walk 2 laps.
Run 5 laps. Time: 3:30
Walk 2 laps.
Run 5 laps. Time 4:20
Walk 2 laps.
Run 1 lap as fast as I could. 35 seconds.
Walk 2 laps.
Run 1/2 lap full blast 15 seconds.

My legs were jello by the end. Especially during the 1 lap, I could feel myself slowing down but I just kept on pushing! Tomorrow will be in-line skating to work different muscles. I saw a guy jump roping, I thought I need to do that to work my respiratory system.

And that's that. I'm feeling good about what I'm doing. I just wish I had more of a trainer. Have to remember what I was taught back in high school but that was when I was running 5 miles in practice alone! I think that all we did was run, no lifting I know that much. I miss my little 4 pack stomach. hehe.

Monday, March 13, 2006

Running Man

So, I have decided that I'm going to run in a marathon. Or at least a really big race. This way I keep up with my running and then I also have a goal to attain. I know of DeKalb Corn Fest 10k at the end of August. And then the Sycamore Pumpkin Fest 10k at the end of October. I don't know of any earlier ones but I don't know if I wanna do any earlier ones. Gotta make sure I'm all trained up for them. Winner of the 2004 Corn Fest Race in my age category ran it in 40 minutes. I think I can do that! Never had to run that long before. That's longer than my cross country races in high school!!

Tonight's running was too easy. I did the 2 walking laps to warm up but the next 5 laps were too easy. I almost felt like I only ran 4 laps. In fact, it felt so easy that I only did 1 walking lap and then the rest. I even busted out the last lap full force. Well, as full force as my weak legs could take me! I wasn't concentrating on my breathing as much. I gotta think more about that.

I read that runners need to build up a tolerance to latic acid. Apparently; "Lactic acid is a defense mechanism your body uses so it doesn't overheat. When your brain realized that you are over exerting yourself, it releases lactic acid so your muscles feel sore, which in turn gets you to slow down/stop whatever you are doing so you don't get overheat and die. The whole purpose of this workout is to infuse your body with big doses of lactic acid so you are "used to it" when it happens during the race." And how I do this is by finding a hill and running up it as fast as I can for 60 seconds and then jog back downm then repeat 5 more times. Now... all I need to do is find a hill. Know of any? DeKalb County seems pretty gosh darn flat to me.

What I also need is a stopwatch. So I can time my laps. Wal-mart should have something like that, I hope.

AMC is having 80's Week! Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club tonight. NIIIICE! But who is the guy in Sixteen Candles? I've seen him before but don't know where from. Another movie? TV Show? Not sure. My first time seeing it. The only John Hughes film/Brat Pack movie, I haven't seen and now I have!

Saturday, March 11, 2006

no internet makes lindsay crabby

finally have internet back. as of yesterday but i was soo busy yesterday (being Thursday not Friday) that i didn't get a chance to write. so here i am, late friday night/early saturday morning writing this.

lets see what has happened to me this week? i started running. well, i've been running sporadicially but now i'm keeping it up. my stragety is this: walk 2 laps, run 5 laps, walk 2 laps, run 4 laps, walk 2 laps, run 3 laps, walk 2 laps, run 2 laps, walk 2 laps, run 1 lap. this way i will have run a total of 1.5 miles and walk another mile. this way it not only gets my heart rate up and down but i'm also not bored counting 10 laps in a row. but what i don't get is that i've gained 5 pounds. and don't give me that crap about how muscle weighs more than fat. it's only been steady for 3 days. i have NOT gained any muscle in 3 days.

Breckenridge got 4" of snow in the past 24 hours, 7" total from a few days ago. VERY JEALOUS! i wanna live in colorado sooo bad. i just wanna be outdoors.

i have 9 days without roommate, Josh. this is going to be a very lovely time for me and my cats. but now since i mentioned him, i might as well say what's been bugging me about this trip of his. It's bitter Ex-Girlfriend time.

1) Okay, so his girlfriend moved out of state right? while they were dating. and with her parents (who were also moving as they sold their house in rockford). There were no blow ups. There were no name calling. There were no fights. There were no finger pointing. They both agreed that it was financially sound that she do this right now. now where the FUCK was MY SUPPORT when I did the SAME FUCKING THING??? *whew* When i moved out of state after graduation cause i couldn't find a job, i got called every name in the book. i got accused of being selfish. i got called pyscho. i was told that he wanted to kick me out that very day and tell me to go now. he says it's a completely different situation. i think differently. it is not. i had to move cause after august i had no job to afford to live in the apartment. she had to move even though she HAD a job but cause she could not afford to live on her own. Now josh has said that he offered me to stay in the apartment and i countered back with then how would you have afforded the place on your own? he said he would have done it somehow. i retorted back with she could have done it somehow as well then.

2) it's been a GRAND FUCKING TOTAL of 10 DAYS since he last saw her. He's already out there vistiting her. FLEW out there mind you AND with Jenny! Now, get this. I was down in Mississippi for 5 months. he never, not once, came down and saw me. that's only a 10 hour drive. I even drove up to my mum's one weekend. that was only a 4.5 hour drive for him. he *thought* about coming down but decided against it. i did however, fly up here twice for him. once on halloween and then again for christmas. and then a month later, 4 days before our 4 year anniversary, he broke up with me. oh and jenny never not once talked to me. not that she ever volunteeringly talked to me while we were dating anyhow. i'm thinking that she learned her lesson how she made me feel cut out and left out and now she's actually talking to her and making her feel welcome. though it could also be b/c the girlfriend actually does what i didn't do which is illegal and will have no part in it.

Gee swell. what a great boyfriend i had eh? i think these two points either proves that A) he never did love/care for me. B) he didn't love/care for me as much as he loves/cares for her now. or C) that he learned his lessons and corrected his mistakes on me and our relationship. I don't know which one I hope its more of cause either one of those makes me pretty damn sick to my stomach. These two situations that I noticed this week has me feeling really down about the last 5 years I spent with him as soulmates and this last year we spent living together as roommates. Yes, I actually did tell someone today in fact, that josh and I were soulmates. we were. it was great cause we had equal number of common things vs. equal number of not in common. (yes, i am one of "those" that don't believe couples should have EVERYTHING in common cause how freakin boring would that be?) however, there was one big non common thing that neither one of us could let go and that was the downfall to the entire relationship. just one freakin stupid sour thing. but i'm glad that i finally held on to my standards and that i am still. it only took me 5 years to do it but i did. anyway, i'm getting off track here. the point was it's a great feeling when you realise that the one past great probably the last meaningful relationship you will ever have was all a big ole fat lie.*smiles* *thumbs up*

oh and another thing i forgot to add on to this was that i wanted to live in louisville kentucky after graduation. we talked about it and so i told him that's where i was applying for jobs at as well as Chicago. he said that it really didn't matter to him. then suddenly he changed his mind about it one day and wanted to stay near the chicago region cause he likes chicago and his family is here. but i just found out that now he's looking into jobs in the portland area --- cause GUESS WHO LIVES THERE???

I SUCK!

okay, that's it. i'm done talking now that i've gotten myself into a tizzy about this whole thing.

happy birthday chuck norris.

Friday, December 2, 2005

healthy me? nah...

so i ran 2 miles at the Y tonight. first time for that.

10 laps = 1 mile

so i walked for 3 laps (i always mean to walk 5 but i get bored) then ran for 1 mile total. then walked for 4 laps and then ran another 1 mile then walked for another 5 laps.

usually i only do the walk, run 1 mile and walk more then leave. but no, i was upset about today so i decided to run until my heart stops. and stop it did. but it was awesome and i pounded my frustrations on the track.

now i think i'm gonna do some pilates. i need to look healthier (ie toned). plus i need to get stronger for some skiing i'm gonna do this winter!