Training Log Archive: barb

A great way to warm up so I don't overdress to go running.
Isabel's calves are sore this morning from yesterday's DDR.

Class: aerobics & weights.

to gym & back

Work commute

Twice up the stairs to my floor at work.

After dinner session. The kids are getting into it, which is great.

vs Dave

to and from gym & work

Vs. Dave, after bedtime. I think this will help strengthen my ankles, the way I'm doing it now. I don't really get how the scoring works, or how you pick a selection. And some of the songs are ridiculously hard. And, are you supposed to use your hands some? I think so. I'm curious how you make your own dance.

C • Yes, some are very hard. Are y... 11

Work commute. Extremely cold.

Not sure what to categorize this as. Met my new young personal trainer, Adam, and he had me do some stretches and things with the foam roller... I'm not terribly enthused yet. But I'm in a mode of experimenting. I'll give his ideas a try and see how it goes. I meet with him Wed & Fri mornings starting next week, for a couple of weeks.

I am 24.7% fat, according to his ohmmeter.

This was actually Pilates, but I didn't want to make a new category. My first ever Pilates session. As usual, everyone else was way stronger and more flexible than me, and I had to try not to giggle at how ridiculous I was in comparison.

To a party 'honoring' employees who've been at the company 10 years or more. (12+ for me). I fell from grace: 2 glasses of wine, desserts...

Right Achilles tendon complained a little. I believe I reinjured it the other day when I bashed it into a chair. Woke at 3:40 from an anxious dream (at a foreign train station with family; they're scattered; train arrives; trying to find the luggage we left on the platform; can't find it - think someone stole it). Got up and did some work on the computer. Started running at 5:30; made it to work by 6:45.

Work commute

After and before ferrying the girls to swim team practice. Izzy says she doesn't want to be signed up for so much stuff next year.

Ha!

C • Details? 5

+: decaf, exercised
-: A bit of partying. Had some of the last pan of cookies

As to how it's going with my new training plan:

Sunday afternoon (the day before making the plan) I whipped up a batch of cookie dough (Toll house oatmeal walnut chocolate chip), because it was all dark and cold and rainy, and therefore baking was in order. That night I ate a bunch of raw cookie dough and about 10 cookies. The kids only got a couple of cookies each. This accounted for about half the batch of dough, so Monday when the training plan was conceived and stated, I still had the stuff in the fridge. I struggled mightily and managed to make a batch of cookies for the family yesterday and not eat any myself, and I'm very proud of that, but it would probably be easier just not to have the stuff around. There is still enough dough for another pan of cookies...

I went to bed by 9 last night as intended (which helped in the cookie avoidance effort), but didn't get up at 5. When I did get up I exchange stories from the weekend with Dave, and then made french toast for the family (didn't have any myself though!), and finally moseyed on into work.

Work commute. Rainy.

Phew, just made my required daily hour of physical activity.

A couple trips to the mall. Weird.

Training Draft: First half of 2007

Major goals: win the Big Muddy rogaine, feel great all the time, be organized, focus on friends & family.

Physical training:
* Slow running is fine for now. One long run (>1.5 hrs) each week; one faster session each week (> 1 mile). Work up to a couple 50-mile weeks in May/June, and 2 miles at 8:30/mile.
* strength & flexibility. Take baseline this week, and aim to improve strength measurably. Work with personal trainer on machines; yoga class; core conditioning / weights class.
* train a minimum of an hour each day; multiple sessions in a day better than single session
* climb stairs at work.
* toughen the feet (by going barefoot some)

Physical training highlights:
* hiking+ trip in February (Tucson)
* red & blue at a couple of A meets

Limit these things: sugar, caffeine, alcohol, etc. Generally, I get to party once a week with things on the Bad list. Reduce meat and dairy. Need strategy for what to do when tired and tempted in the evenings. Emphasize veggies, fruit, nuts, whole grains; unlimited snacking on these. Take my vitamins. Current weight 136; goal 129.

Schedule: aim at sleeping 9-5. Be working or training by 6 each day. Generally, skip the morning with the family in favor of the evening (get their agreement!).

Comment: Last year's training was pretty successful (no injuries; lost some weight; did great in the 3 biweekly May/June rogaines). I want to keep those good results but intensify. There was a cyclic pattern to my training in 2006; I'll look at that later today in more detail.

C • goals 2

This was bad. I dropped Dave's iPod and now it thinks the right button is always pressed and just keeps jumping from track to track without playing anything. It doesn't really look like you can just open up the iPod and look inside.

And I had other problems.

C • iPod 6