1/25 Monday
1/26 Tuesday 2.02 miles 11'28"
1/27 Wednesday 2.02 miles 10'56"
1/28 Thursday 2.02 miles 10'54"
1/29 Friday 2.01 miles 10'48"
1/30 Saturday 1.74 miles 12'27"
1/31 Sunday
Current Weight 261.5
Starting Weight 268.2
Total Lost 6.7
Interesting week. I set a new PR for 1 mile at 9'41" on Thursday. I have tried to maintain the 2 miles a day, but alternate between keeping a steady pace the whole time, and trying for PR in the first mile and cruising the second. Monday I needed a recovery day. Friday night I had a hard time sleeping because my knees were sore. My plan Saturday was to try for 10K distance at a nice leisurely pace, but at about 1.5 miles I was feeling very light headed and weak. Decided to hit the 5K turnaround and walked a bit to try and recover. Picked it up again and felt like I might collapse, so I stopped the run and walked the 1.5 miles home (not included in my stats) After I got home I could not get warm and had some intestinal issues. So I am thinking the achy knees and weakness were more signs of a mild illness/bug than from just exertion. Taking a rest day today just to be sure.
Overall I am rather pleased with my progress thus far. Since switching to the SuperFeet I have not seen any negative effects. In fact my feet and legs feel great both during and after the runs. I will probably try switching to a higher arch when we get back from Tahoe the week of 2/15.
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Sunday, January 31, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
01/24/2016 - Trying for consistency
1/18 Monday 2.01 miles 13'33"
1/19 Tuesday 2.02 miles 11'50"
1/20 Wednesday 2.02 miles 11'44"
1/21 Thursday Basketball
1/22 Friday 2.02 miles 11'48"
1/23 Saturday 2.05 miles 11'16"
1/24 Sunday 2.01 miles 11'39"
Current Weight 263.4
Starting Weight 268.2
Total Lost 4.8
I actually saw 258 on the scale Saturday morning, but had some pizza for lunch and went out to dinner Saturday night.
Overall a good week. Didn't realize that every run except the first was in the 11' range. definitely feeling good about that.
Took the Camry in to get the tires rotated and balanced and found out the front two were worn to blow out levels due to alignment, so I got two new tires and will have the alignment fixed Monday.
Celebrated 6 years at Nike on 1/19. It is hard to believe that I have been away from OHSU that long.
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1/19 Tuesday 2.02 miles 11'50"
1/20 Wednesday 2.02 miles 11'44"
1/21 Thursday Basketball
1/22 Friday 2.02 miles 11'48"
1/23 Saturday 2.05 miles 11'16"
1/24 Sunday 2.01 miles 11'39"
Current Weight 263.4
Starting Weight 268.2
Total Lost 4.8
I actually saw 258 on the scale Saturday morning, but had some pizza for lunch and went out to dinner Saturday night.
Overall a good week. Didn't realize that every run except the first was in the 11' range. definitely feeling good about that.
Took the Camry in to get the tires rotated and balanced and found out the front two were worn to blow out levels due to alignment, so I got two new tires and will have the alignment fixed Monday.
Celebrated 6 years at Nike on 1/19. It is hard to believe that I have been away from OHSU that long.
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Sunday, January 17, 2016
01/17/2016 - Feeling like a teenager again
1/11 Monday 2.05 miles 14'30"
1/12 Tuesday 2.05 miles 13'21"
1/13 Wednesday 2.00 miles 13'45" 10'30" Mile 1
1/14 Thursday Basketball
1/15 Friday 2.08 miles 11'04" 10'25" Mile 2
1/16 Saturday 2.05 miles 14'10"
1/17 Sunday 2.03 miles 13'36"
Current Weight 264.4
Starting Weight 268.2
Total Lost 3.8
I had braces put on Tuesday. They are no funner now than they were when I was a teenager. True to form, I had a bracket pop off one of my teeth within 36 hours.
With the addition of braces, I have switched up my diet a bit. Generally, two meals get replaced by protein shakes. The third meal usually consists of small, soft items that I can place directly by my back teeth.
Thursday I played basketball. I played once last year. My jogging everyday did not prepare me for the short bursts needed for basketball. I was consistently winded and walked a lot. There were only 5 of us who showed up, so we all had to play the whole time. We got crushed.
Went to Rory's baptism yesterday which was nice. Had a banana split afterwards. It was delicious.
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1/12 Tuesday 2.05 miles 13'21"
1/13 Wednesday 2.00 miles 13'45" 10'30" Mile 1
1/14 Thursday Basketball
1/15 Friday 2.08 miles 11'04" 10'25" Mile 2
1/16 Saturday 2.05 miles 14'10"
1/17 Sunday 2.03 miles 13'36"
Current Weight 264.4
Starting Weight 268.2
Total Lost 3.8
I had braces put on Tuesday. They are no funner now than they were when I was a teenager. True to form, I had a bracket pop off one of my teeth within 36 hours.
With the addition of braces, I have switched up my diet a bit. Generally, two meals get replaced by protein shakes. The third meal usually consists of small, soft items that I can place directly by my back teeth.
Thursday I played basketball. I played once last year. My jogging everyday did not prepare me for the short bursts needed for basketball. I was consistently winded and walked a lot. There were only 5 of us who showed up, so we all had to play the whole time. We got crushed.
Went to Rory's baptism yesterday which was nice. Had a banana split afterwards. It was delicious.
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Sunday, January 10, 2016
01/10/2016 - Creating a habit
1/4 Monday 2.01 miles 13'34"
1/5 Tuesday 2.01 miles 13'09"
1/6 Wednesday 2.03 miles 12'19"
1/7 Thursday 2.05 miles 13'20"
1/8 Friday
1/9 Saturday 2.04 miles 11'44"
1/10 Sunday 2.05 miles 11'17"
Current Weight 266.8
Starting Weight 268.2
Total Lost 1.4
Cold Week. Everyone worked from home on Monday as the roads were snowy/icy. My tailbone is still really sore, but mostly bothers me just when I am sitting. We picked up the Toyota Camry from Uncle Stan last night. Today we added wiper fluid, antifreeze, replaced the battery connections, cleaned the Windows inside and out and RainX'ed them. It has a cassette player, so we had to find some of our old tapes to try it out.
I have been happy with my runs. I was wiped out Friday, so skipped it. I am also happy with the lost weight, especially since I haven't really changed my eating habits. I am getting braces on Tuesday, so I figure I will start changing eating habits then, as I am going to have to anyway.
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1/5 Tuesday 2.01 miles 13'09"
1/6 Wednesday 2.03 miles 12'19"
1/7 Thursday 2.05 miles 13'20"
1/8 Friday
1/9 Saturday 2.04 miles 11'44"
1/10 Sunday 2.05 miles 11'17"
Current Weight 266.8
Starting Weight 268.2
Total Lost 1.4
Cold Week. Everyone worked from home on Monday as the roads were snowy/icy. My tailbone is still really sore, but mostly bothers me just when I am sitting. We picked up the Toyota Camry from Uncle Stan last night. Today we added wiper fluid, antifreeze, replaced the battery connections, cleaned the Windows inside and out and RainX'ed them. It has a cassette player, so we had to find some of our old tapes to try it out.
I have been happy with my runs. I was wiped out Friday, so skipped it. I am also happy with the lost weight, especially since I haven't really changed my eating habits. I am getting braces on Tuesday, so I figure I will start changing eating habits then, as I am going to have to anyway.
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Monday, January 4, 2016
01/03/2016 - Catching Up
1/1 Friday 2.01 miles 14'19"
1/2 Saturday 2.00 miles 14'19"
1/3 Sunday 2.01 miles 13'53"
Weight 268.2
It has been a while. D convinced met to run a Half Marathon in October, which he was running with his wife. So May 18th I started running again. I started low and slow and ran 3 5K races in June before heading to Tahoe for Ty and Angelina's wedding and our family reunion. Attempted to do "the loop" a couple times with Shaylee and Cami, but 7,000 feet was just too much and I ended up walking a lot of it. I completed a 10K in July and was training for a Half Marathon in September, thinking if I could just complete the September race, I could work on speed for the October Half.
In August my neck seized up on me, so much so that I had to go to the chiro. I was out of commission for weeks, and when the race came around I was woefully unprepared. I had gotten up to 9.00 miles before the injury, but only had 2 5K runs in the month before the race. I hit the wall at Mile 7. The 70 year-old walkers passed me at mile 9.5 and I was dead last. I don't even show up in the records as having finished.
I was able to get in lots more training runs over the next month, but nothing more than 8.25 miles. On October 17th I ran the Newport Bay-to-Brews half marathon. It had a hill. Since it was a loop we had to do the hill twice. The second time killed my knees. I started walking about mile 11.25, and Darrell met me at mile 12.0 and walked with me til the end. I was able to painfully jog the final quarter or eighth of a mile.
During all of this I had been doing the run-walk-run method, running 4 minutes, then walking 45 seconds. I did a 5K running the whole way one week after the race.
Since then I was sick, and busy. We went to Utah for Thanksgiving which was nice. I took the kids skiing 2 days while we were out there. I skied one of the days. That uses very different muscles than running.
I took two weeks off for Christmas and we spent a lot of time up on the mountain. I was snowboarding, and hurt my tailbone by butt flopping the landing on one of my jumps.
So with all of that, I have just started running again. My hope is to do at least 600 miles this year, which is 2.00 miles a day for 300 of the 365 days. If all goes well, I also hope to FINALLY do the Newport Marathon this year in June.
Cheers for now!
-Allen
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1/2 Saturday 2.00 miles 14'19"
1/3 Sunday 2.01 miles 13'53"
Weight 268.2
It has been a while. D convinced met to run a Half Marathon in October, which he was running with his wife. So May 18th I started running again. I started low and slow and ran 3 5K races in June before heading to Tahoe for Ty and Angelina's wedding and our family reunion. Attempted to do "the loop" a couple times with Shaylee and Cami, but 7,000 feet was just too much and I ended up walking a lot of it. I completed a 10K in July and was training for a Half Marathon in September, thinking if I could just complete the September race, I could work on speed for the October Half.
In August my neck seized up on me, so much so that I had to go to the chiro. I was out of commission for weeks, and when the race came around I was woefully unprepared. I had gotten up to 9.00 miles before the injury, but only had 2 5K runs in the month before the race. I hit the wall at Mile 7. The 70 year-old walkers passed me at mile 9.5 and I was dead last. I don't even show up in the records as having finished.
I was able to get in lots more training runs over the next month, but nothing more than 8.25 miles. On October 17th I ran the Newport Bay-to-Brews half marathon. It had a hill. Since it was a loop we had to do the hill twice. The second time killed my knees. I started walking about mile 11.25, and Darrell met me at mile 12.0 and walked with me til the end. I was able to painfully jog the final quarter or eighth of a mile.
During all of this I had been doing the run-walk-run method, running 4 minutes, then walking 45 seconds. I did a 5K running the whole way one week after the race.
Since then I was sick, and busy. We went to Utah for Thanksgiving which was nice. I took the kids skiing 2 days while we were out there. I skied one of the days. That uses very different muscles than running.
I took two weeks off for Christmas and we spent a lot of time up on the mountain. I was snowboarding, and hurt my tailbone by butt flopping the landing on one of my jumps.
So with all of that, I have just started running again. My hope is to do at least 600 miles this year, which is 2.00 miles a day for 300 of the 365 days. If all goes well, I also hope to FINALLY do the Newport Marathon this year in June.
Cheers for now!
-Allen
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