Ultra Training

Lot of technical difficulties yesterday between my phone, my Garmin, the internet. Frustrating day in that sense.
In any event....training for the day (first of the week) consisted of a biathlon of sorts - a 5K run followed by a 4.74 mile ride. I am working my way to a 5K then 12 mile ride - the distance of the Newman Freedom Festival Biathlon, which is a run-ride, not a ride-run.
Overall exercise time was about 48 minutes with a 761 calorie burn. I might make this 15 pound goal by August yet. Tonight (Thursday)I will have a late training as Beth is out of the house for awhile. Hope the rain stays away. I need it to dry up a bit. I want to get back in my garden.

I will add this, I am new to this blogging thing. If you don't want to read these, send me a note and I'll delete you off the email list. Feel free to comment if you like. I think it will get fancier as I get more experience with it.

Ultrathon Training

On Saturday 5/4/10, I got up nice and early, took measurements, and well, got depressed. But, need to start somewhere. Here are my numbers.

Wt: 204.6, neck 17, abdomen, 39.85, waist, 38.5, body fat 25. My training for the day was the 1 mile fun run with Jill and Laura at the races for all paces. I later did yard and gardening work, but I am sure that din't burn a lot of calories.

On Sunday 5/5 I did a brick after church. I did 5.19 miles biking in 21:16, which is just over a 4 mm. Immediately afterwards I did a run - 2.07 miles in 17:43 for an 8:33 pace. I am pretty happy with today's workout. The temp was about 55 and we had a good wind - probably 8-10 miles per hour. Not sure what workout I will do in the morning. I am thinking a 3 mile run. We'll see how the night goes.

Updated my profile, now checking if I can post from my phone.

Saturday, April 10

So, this is my blog. I've never really done this, and obviously, it's my first entry. I feel like I am way behind the times as I don't know what people normally "blog" about. As I type this, I am not even sure what privacy there is to it, that is, if I post pictures, can anyone in the world see them? If so, that means no pics....

I have been away from work for 7 full working days now, a total of 11 alltogether, although I did pop in on Tuesday night. It has been a welcome relief, but I feel like I am going to have to get there really early on Monday to catch up. I have to complete my grant paperwork so the county can get reimbursed. I generally love my job and the cases I am prosecuting, although some of the people can sure drag me down sometimes. I guess that's life and one just needs to move past it.

There are only 20 days until the half marathon. I feel like I am so completely not ready. I tried to run 12 miles today. I don't know if it was fatigue or the wind, but I could not run it all and I only managed a 10 minute per mile pace. That is really bad for me. I was hoping to run 13.1 miles faster than what I ran 12 today. Work schedule is going to make it tought to adequately train this month, but I'll do the best I can.

The kids are growing like weeds and we sure had fun this week being on vacation together. I am concerned for Laura though. She apparently is not keeping up with her class. I know she can do better. I think she just gets easily frustrated and disappointed when she doesn't know the answer right away. Jill still seems to be functioning at near genius level and Mitchell, well, he's a chip of the ol' block as they say. Sometimes I think he is the smartest of the 3 youngest. Katie is back from New York. Sounded like she had a good time and I am happy for her.