Been a rough week. My kid has been waking up in the middle of the night crying. Doctor thinks he has pneumonia and sent us for a chest X-ray and put him on antibiotics. Hopefully he is getting better because we are leaving for Vegas for a wedding tomorrow. Hope to get at least one run in Vegas. This run was disappointing, but considering I am tired and haven't run two days in a row it is to be expected. Right hamstring very tight during run. I did pass a walker and a driver flashed his lights at me.
I've been out of town (Vegas) for a wedding and haven't run much lately so I have been wondering how much fitness I lost. Especially considering I gained a couple pounds on vacation. Hash House a Go Go is an amazing place to eat by the way. I go on my run and feel pretty good, but run at a comfortable slow pace. I get to the point on my run where I normally start running, but my HR alert hasn't gone off yet, so I keep going and going. About the 1 mile mark I realize I turned off the alert on my hike earlier in the week. So my avg HR is higher than normal and it is difficult to compare to prior runs as I didn't follow the same rules. I think I did lose a bit of fitness, but not as much as I feared. Going camping tomorrow for the weekend (Chiricahua area) and will do some hiking, but probably not any running. Hopefully the hiking will keep me in shape.
Andy's Sage Fried Chicken Benedict
-a layer of mashed potatoes -biscuit -sprinkle of fresh spinach -a thick layer of smoked bacon -fried chicken breast -scrambled eggs -a griddle melted mozzarella -waterfall of cream chipotle sauce -tomatoes here and there
Hiked 2.04 miles from Herb Martyr Campground to Little Damn to Ash Spring and back to the campground.
Hiked 3.37 miles doing the Echo Canyon Loop in Chiricahua National Monument. Saw a Rock Rattlesnake in the shade along the trail. Very Scenic with lots of rock spires.
Been out of town the last couple weekends and have done some hiking, but very little running, so I have lost a bit of fitness. Also my right ham was extremely tight this run to the point of limping. It is good to look forward to some stability and hopefully more consistent running.
Watched Ultramarathon man. I respect Karnazes a lot, but largely view his 50/50/50 feat as a gimmick. A little too commercial for my taste. Maybe I would feel differently if I read his book.
Best time yet this year. Nice to know my slacking the last two weeks didn't hurt too much. Felt good aerobically. Tried to stretch my hams well before run, didn't seem to help during run. Right ham still very tight. Saw a guy from my ward, so had to delay a walk break.
I haven't been running as much as I would like. I could blame it on the pain on the top of my foot that developed my last run, but I've just been lazy. The weather outside is great tonight (cool and humid). I started off with a bit of a headwind making me run slow and I had just read the part of Burt's open mile race that he had posted so far. Anyway, I came to want to run a mile without any walking. I ran slow to keep my HR down. At the mile mark my HR was still doing well, so I kept going. Rt ham still tight. 1.5 miles my HR monitor is telling me to walk, but I slow the run and eventually just live with the high HR. I made the complete run without any walk breaks. I want to run a 5k on Thanksgiving and got it in my head that I want to beat 32 minutes to be respectible. I have two months to get there. This gives me a bit of hope that it is possible. Next week will be lengthening my run a bit. Maybe test a 5k distance this saturday to see how many minutes I need to cut off my current time.
Here is a video in Celebration of Burt's new post HS personal record in the mile.
Legs felt good. No tightness. Seeing signs the weight is finally (barely, but noticeably) starting to come down. 3 walk breaks. Same identical pace as last run.
98 degrees with sun beating down. Kind of depressing, next week we'll run it in a much cooler part of the day and see where I am really at. The last few days were getting cooler, don't know what I was thinking.
Lengthened my typical run. Maybe next week will start running a little less than half a mile with my daughter at the start of my run. She runs to her bus stop every morning and calls herself a runner like her dad.
Took my daughter with me for first part of the run. Before we left I told her "We're not racing, we're just running." She says "That's because last time I beat you." I laugh and she says "I don't get why that is funny."
