What ever it takes!

1 hour on the elliptical and then 30 minutes of weights and stretching. I'm done hurting myself for the rest of the year.

I was thinking this morning, it sure would be nice to go to Florida this week. Then I realized, I am going to Florida this week.

My favorite quote from the New York City Marathon yesterday.

Announcer 1: "What do you think it means that Gebre is still wearing a hat at mile 18." Announcer 2: "Well, I think it means his ears are cold."

Now that is some info I can use in my next race.

I've decided my whole problem in life (as far as running goes), is that I weigh to much for the intensity I'm trying to run at.  My body just breaks down, and I'm sure that's my over heating problem too.  I can't figure out how come I can't loose weight, I started running, lost 80 lbs in like 5 months but now I just can't seem to go any lower, I've been this weight for 2 years now, whether I run 50 miles a week, 90 miles a week, nothing seems to make a difference.  So now that I'm not in any sort of training mode I'm going to change it up a bit, for the next month I'm going to attempt to run really far, really slow.   Today was sort of a trial run so not as far since I am still a bit sore from Saturdays race but I'm going to test the theory that low intensity burns more fat.

See ya in a month, hopefully 10 -15 lbs lighter.

12 miles in 1:30:00  7:30 avg pace

This is going to be harder than I thought, more mentally than physically.  Luckily my scenery is going to change a lot over the next month.

16 long, slow, boring miles in 1:59:10 7:26 avg pace

Long day, I woke up at 3:00am and got to the gym by 3:45 so I could get my run in before traveling to Miami.  I wore my HR monitor today to see where I'm suppose to be running for my weight loss initiative.  I think I should be between 120 - 130 bpm for best results.  Started at 8:00/mile pace for the first 7.5 miles,  Bumped up to 7:30 pace for 1.5 miles and then I realized I was running late and better hurry to get to the airport so I ran the last 3 miles at 6:20 pace.  12 miles in 1:30:46  7:34 avg pace for entire run.

Got to the airport and RAD  (Rachel) was sitting there waiting to get on my same plane, she was on her way to North Carolina to run a Marathon, I talked to her for a bit, and wished her luck.

Got to Miami, did some work, went to dinner and then I just couldn't stand it any longer I had to go for a nice run on the boardwalk along the beach.  7 more slow miles in 59:10  8:27 avg pace.  Hope all Y'all are enjoying Utah, but this 70 degrees along the beach, well, I could get used to it.

Ahh!!! What the heck?  I just went to sign up for the Ogden 1/2 and it's sold out!!! How the heck did that happen.

I'm pretty sure running doesn't get more perfect.  65 degrees, on a flat fully lit boardwalk along the beach with a nice cool sea breeze.  It's going to be hard to leave this place.  I normally don't run shirtless, but I figure if the women can go topless here, so can I.  I woke up at 5:00 am (3:00am Utah time) to get my miles in, ran 9 miles on the boardwalk, 2 miles along the beach then I decided running in sand was going to make me hurt so I went back to the boardwalk for the final 3.

14 miles in 1:51:04  7:56 avg pace.

I wonder how well my weight loss program would sell??  "All you have to do it is run 16 to 20 miles a day and you too can burn up to 1 -2 lbs of fat per week"  For some reason it doesn't have a ring to it.

There goes that pesky job of mine getting in the way of pleasure.  I was on the phone with Cisco TAC until midnight last night trying to fix a network issue.  I ended up figuring it out myself and upset that I didn't think of it 5 hours earlier.  Oh Well, all is good now.

Anyway, it ruined my double yesterday, and almost ruined my morning run except I can't ever sleep after working late on network problems so I was up at 5:00 am anyway and decided to go run.  I actually had the time to go further but decided with the lack of sleep it wasn't a great idea.  I was going to only do 12 but a little photo shoot on the beach made me need to back track.

About 6.3 miles on the sand, and 6 on the boardwalk.  Hopefully I can get out this evening for another 6 on the something.

P.M.

6 easy miles along the boardwalk after work in 48 minutes.  8:00 /mile avg pace.  Tomorrow I'm going to try and expand my Miami Beach running geography.  I've pretty much been just running back and forth on the path for 3 days, not going to say it's boring cause I know the alternative but a change would be nice.