Thursday, December 20, 2007
Why?
I'm not sure what brought this on, but I've made the decision I'm going to run a marathon. There are a lot of impressive, more atainable goals out there so I'm not sure what made me decide on this. Mind you, I'm not planning on doing it this minute or even this year. I haven't run seriously since high school and that was 20+ years ago. So, I'm starting out slow. I've set forth a bunch of intermediate goals to ramp up to the big race. First off, I'll train to run a 5k sometime this Spring. After that, there's a cool night 10k in July. After that, there is no firm timetable but I'll likely gradually increase my weekly mileage and hit some other longer races as they become doable: 15k, 20k, Half Marathon, then the big one. My plan is to do it sometime in 2009. They say you have to train 18 weeks to be ready for your first marathon and that's if you have a solid base of running already, so I'll have to choose a good one and count back 4 months before I get a serious bug in my butt for it. Maybe I'll do the Honolulu Marathon...
Friday, December 07, 2007
Some kinda record
It's been how long since my last blog post? I guess it's about time I got back to it. Not that anybody really cares one way or the other.
Oh, I started a running program. A while back, I started being really conscious about my food intake. Not that I don't eat the same food any more. I just don't eat quite as much. Well, I ended up losing about 15 lbs. between August and now. Actually, I lost it between August and about 1 month ago and I've leveled off. I could stand to lose about 20 more, so I figured I'd work in some physical exertion and drop the rest.
I hate running. Oh, I did plenty of it in high school when I was on the cross-country team. I just thought the long distance was tedious. Now it's 20-some years later and I'm coming back to it. I found a good program designed to ease people like me back into it and I think it's working. I actually look forward to doing it and I feel guilty if I miss. I'd like to run a couple of 5k's this coming year and maybe move up to 10k in the future. We'll see. For the immediate future, I just want the cardio-vascular endurance to ride a couple days of RAGBRAI in July. I did a single day last summer (70 miles) and it almost did me in. We'll see how it goes.
Oh, I started a running program. A while back, I started being really conscious about my food intake. Not that I don't eat the same food any more. I just don't eat quite as much. Well, I ended up losing about 15 lbs. between August and now. Actually, I lost it between August and about 1 month ago and I've leveled off. I could stand to lose about 20 more, so I figured I'd work in some physical exertion and drop the rest.
I hate running. Oh, I did plenty of it in high school when I was on the cross-country team. I just thought the long distance was tedious. Now it's 20-some years later and I'm coming back to it. I found a good program designed to ease people like me back into it and I think it's working. I actually look forward to doing it and I feel guilty if I miss. I'd like to run a couple of 5k's this coming year and maybe move up to 10k in the future. We'll see. For the immediate future, I just want the cardio-vascular endurance to ride a couple days of RAGBRAI in July. I did a single day last summer (70 miles) and it almost did me in. We'll see how it goes.
