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.