HOOKED

5 miles with Marc G yesterday at Kens after work.  Didn't have a lot of snap......talked too much at the start.  We talked about minor Bandera details.  I told him to prepare himself to be HOOKED on the place!!!!

Oct 110 miles

Time consuming

236 crunches, 94 pushups, 88 dips.  Making some strides with crunches but seem to be marking time on pushups and dips.  That's okay though, the important thing is that I'm doing SOMETHING!!!  This has gotten more time consuming as the reps have increased.  I did the first 2 sets at home as I took care of my usual chores and then wrapped up the final 3 sets when I got to work.

AND

11 mile trail run this morning.  1st half by myself 2nd half with Lovey.

196 crunches, 93 pushups, 89 dips

AND yardwork too.  Productive Saturday.  Heading down to tailgate shortly!!!

progress!

Great run this morning with Shan and Diana!!  Nice cool weather for another 10 miler.  We did it in 1:43!!  I'm really happy with my progress lately, 2 10 mile run runs this week in under 4hrs total!!  I'm starting to get excited about the Nueces 50 mile NOW.  If I can continue on this roll I should have a great run at the National Championship run in March!!

supplement

As I go on with the sit ups, pushups and dips it seems to get more time consuming to do all three.  This morning I did 4 sets instead of 5 and my totals were 138 situps, 76 pushups and 71 dips.  I think I'll need to supplement my sit ups in the evenings or start earlier in the mornings.  I can feel myself gaining strength though!!!

1:56

Got in a great 10 mile run this morning before work in 1:56!!  I didn't sleep so well but manned up and got up anyway.  I didn't even feel like I worked that hard this morning.  I mixed in plenty of walking.  I was very surprised when I realized I had a chance to go under 2hrs.  I planned on 2:15.

188

188 sit ups, 87 pushups, 74 dips

6

6 miles at Barton Creek today.

65

Did 175 situps , 74 pushups and 65 dips!!

10

Awesomely painful 10 mile this morning in 1:50.  We had the whole gang today.  Shan, Diana, Mark and Steve.  Shan and I wanted to get in 10 and Diana joined us on that.  Steve and Mark started with us and did the 7 mile loop.  Pretty cool stuff having all the regular gang back together.  19 mile work week miles for me.....super frickin happy about that!!!!

exercise

Got up at 430 this morning for a pre "exercise" 4 miler.  The "exercise" is the 100 hundred pushups program I've been following.  It's a 3 day a week 6 week program to get a person able to do 100 pushups at one time.  They've also got programs for 200 sit ups and 150 dips.  I'm incorporating those "exercises" too.  The reason I'm putting the word exercise in quotes comes from Mark L.  One Thursday morning when we were gearing up for a run I was complaining about an injury and he and Shan were giving me advice on some cross training stuff I could do to possibly alleviate the issue.  When they were done giving me the advice Mark said, " Man, I hate exercising".  We all cracked up because we instantly knew that was code for running is NOT EXERCISE for us.  I've never forgotten that one and pass it along to my running and non running friends occasionally!!!

Anyway, this morning I was on day 2 week 3 and I can definitely feel a change.  I'm making minor adjustments in the number of reps I'm doing and I'm sure it'll take me longer than the 6 weeks to achieve the goals but it doesn't matter.  What matters is that I've found a program that I can do on my own that keeps me accountable and is really doable.

My totals for 5 sets of each were 152 sit ups, 66 pushups and 61 dips

3

3 consecutive days of running have got me on a pretty good high this morning.  10 Saturday, 7 with Misty yesterday and an easy 5 this morning along with my sit ups, pushups and dips have me feeling good about things.  Nothing like feeling good about things on the morning of your 52nd birthday either!!

recovery

Decent recovery on my weekend miles.  We went to happy hour Thursday night and I lost control.....again.  My original plan was to get in 19 miles at Bull Creek.  There was no way I was getting up early Saturday morning so I slept in and ended up getting 10 miles at Barton Creek and then 7 with Misty today.  I'm barely holding on to the idea of running the 50 mile at Wild Hare.

slow

Great 7 mile run this morning with Shan and Mark.  Last 3 weeks times have all been within a minute and a half of each other so I guess that means I'm consistently slow.  Rain last weekend put the kabosh on my 100 mile month.  With my recent history if it wasn't the rain it would've been something else.