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Rubenesque Ladies Running Week 10 Recap

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Week 9 of Rubenesque Ladies Running never happened, between being sick and being on vacation, it was bypassed.  Because of this, I wanted to make sure that I eased my way back into running.  This week consisted of 2 minute intervals of jogging and walking.  It felt really good to get back in the groove.

Friday March 5th, 2010-This was my first outdoor run.  The weather was AMAZING, the sun felt great and I enjoyed the scenery.  Those my friends were the pro’s.  The con’s well I’m not sure if I will every be an outdoor runner.  My feet felt like lead during the running intervals.  I missed having the clock on the treadmill telling me when to walk and run and it was awkward to look down at my watch constantly to see where I was at.  I instead decided to pick landmarks to run between and walk between.  I learned that I walk much faster outdoors than I do on the treadmill (I think my treadmill is fairly inconsistent on its speed, I need to call Nordictrack about that!)  I had no idea what my running pace was or how far I was running.  I wound up doing 1.7 miles in 27:53 for a Pace of 16:24 which really shocked me.  I felt like I was moving through quicksand!

Monday March 8th, 2010-My sweet, sweet treadmill, I missed you!  I was worried that I wasnt going to be up to the 2 minute intervals since it had been a week since I know that I jogged for 2 minutes at a time.  The first couple were a little rough, but it got a little easier as I went through.  I feel amazing now that it is through.  This is also the first time that I wore my GoWear Fit during an RLR run, and I learned that I burn approximately 375 calories during the 30 minute session.  I went 1.68 Miles for a Pace of 17:46, which is REALLY slow compared to what I had been doing, but I’ll work on getting it back down :)

Wednesday March 10th, 2010-This one never happened.  I over scheduled myself this week.   I could have done it on Thursday, but decided to walk on the treadmill instead of doing my 2 minute intervals.  I wasnt even going to walk, but I forced myself to at least do SOMETHING.  Walked at 3.1 for 30 minutes.

Bella was on a work trip all week, so I am not sure if she was able to get the RLR Runs in, but you should stop by and encourage her for next week!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Weekly Weigh In

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This is the weekly Weigh In that didn’t happen.  We were out late last night and I wound up over sleeping.  I spent my morning running around packing my lunch and getting showered and ready as fast as possible, somehow managing to make it in on time.  Therefore, no official weigh in for this week.  I do know that the scale was at 273.4 yesterday which was down 1.5 pounds from Monday, but still up from last weeks “Official” Weigh In. 

Just venting-I feel like our life is so over planned right now and that I am doing a lot of things just ok, but nothing is getting done well.  We are just going non-stop all.of.the.time.  I need a weekend to recuperate and get the house cleaned (because WOW does it need it!)  I’ve been in bed by 10 most nights and getting up at 5:30, so I don’t think I feel so out of whack due to lack of sleep (I need 7-8 hours a night or I am  useless.)  I’m thinking I just need a break from having to do 100 different things.  The good news is, that it looks like we don’t have anything on the calendar the first weekend in April, so I am hoping that weekend will stay open.  Granted every other weekend between now and the end of May have things going on, but there is that one spot of freedom lol.  All of the things we have planned are fun and enjoyable, it just means no downtime.

I am really enjoying my 30 Day Plan, and it’s going shockingly well (only on day 3!)  I think it helps me to have shorter term goals.  In Sparkpeople you can input what you want to weigh by a certain deadline and it’ll tell you the calories you need to consume and burn via activity.  I changed it from 60 pounds by 12/31/2010 to losing 7 lbs by 3/31/2010.  A nice short mini goal.  It is a lofty one at that! 

Tonight is my RLR Run plus the strength training designed by Sparkpeople.  It looks like I will be doing superman (whatever that is lol), calf raises, leg raises and two-part push ups.  Sparkpeople gives great demo videos for each of the moves.  I am sure between dance class last night and tonight’s RLR and strength training, I should be plenty sore tomorrow!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

A Mini-Vacay and No Longer Sick!

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I’m not even sure where to start.  I didn’t blog during my trip, which was by design.  My Mom doesn’t have wireless internet at her house and I didn’t want to spend a ton of time online and miss out on family time since one of my cousins and her family were visiting from Alaska!  It was such a great and relaxing trip but wowza’s did it every fly by.  I feel like I’m still recovering from the first 8+ hour drive (getting there) that the second 8+ hour drive (getting home) is just a blur. 

I was originally going to try to catch up on the posts that I missed, but that is a bit over whelming, so I figured I’d just start with today, a new day, a fresh clean slate and get back into my regular blogging schedule.  I am finally not sick (it took almost a week to get better!) the snow is almost all gone, the sun is out and it’s finally above freezing!

The things that haven’t happened in the last week:

  1. I missed all RLR Runs last week because I was sick.  It was my first week of 2010 missing them.
  2. I didn’t get a new recipe done.  Between being sick and then being out of town, it just didn’t happen.  I plan on making two new recipes next week to make up for the missed one.
  3. I was up and down with food choices.  I ate fast food on both the trip down AND the trip back up.  I ate several snack packs of Oreo Cookies.  What is it about going home that you immediately revert back into childhood habits?

 The things that did happen in the last week/starting this week:

  1.  The meals that we ate in and ate out during my trip were fairly smart choices.  The night that we ate out I got broiled scallops and shrimp with asparagus and a baked potato.  Seriously, had I not eaten approximately 11 million hushpuppies, I would have considered that meal a win, ha!
  2. I did my first outdoor RLR run on Friday (RLR weeks run Friday-Thursday.)  There will be more about this on Fridays post.  Let’s just say that after a week off, me and the outdoor running are NOT buddy-buddy.
  3. The weather was in the 60’s everyday that we were down there so I got in some fantastic walks with my dog and then also with family members.
  4. I spent a lot of time out in the sun, which did wonders for making my cold go away.
  5. The scale is up by almost 3 pounds L

I feel completely out of whack right now, I need things to be back to their regularly organized ways.  I spent a lot of time last night and this morning working on a plan, trying to figure out what I can do to motivate myself for the next movement to drop some weight.  I am determined to lose more weight; I just need to work on my focus.  So here is the plan:

Scale Warfare’s Next 30 Days (which will temporarily replace my 2-3 weekly goals)

  1. Do the Strength Training 10-15 minute sessions that are created by Sparkpeople.com 3 times per week (I’ve never done these before and I’m really excited to give them a try!
  2. Get back on track with my RLR Running.  By the end of these 30 days, I WILL be up to 2:30 intervals.
  3. Get out 1 day a week for an outdoor walk (besides dog walks).  Hopefully this can be on the weekends, but you never know what the rain will do!
  4. Get back to basics: measure, write it before I bite it, 5 fruits/veggies a day, 2 dairy servings a day, whole grains, multi-vitamin everyday, healthy oil everyday (the Weight Watchers Healthy Guidelines.)
  5. Wear my GoWear Fit regularly (not while sleeping, my arm needs a rest lol)
  6. Get my steps in.  Days 1-7: 6,000 per day; Day 8-14: 6,500 per day; Days 15-21: 7,000 per day; Days 22-30: 7,500 per day
  7. Have a calorie deficit of approximately 7,000 calories per week (which equates to 2 lbs)
  8. 30 Minutes of Cardio 5 days per week.  So in addition to my 3 RLR Runs, I will need to do 2 more days of cardio.

There it is, 30 days of getting my focus back.  I already have my GoWear Fit on, and it’s all charged up.  I no longer walk the dog twice a day due to a change in my work schedule (don’t worry, he still gets walked twice a day, just now once by Fireman) so getting these steps in will be tough, but I am focused on doing it.  It will likely mean lots of walking around the office through out the day.  If I find that the goals are too big or too small (regarding steps) I will modify this list a bit (today will be a test day to see how many steps I’m naturally getting.)

Please know that I am not quitting, but this losing weight thing is a constant battle, it is taking me constant modifications to get to where I want to be.  I sometimes wonder if it is easier for people who are not “professional dieters” to lose weight.  If it is easier when you don’t know the in’s and out’s of what it takes to diet.  Sort of like dancing, if you have been doing it for years you’ve gained bad habits that are hard to correct, but if you are new to dancing you are a fresh slate.  If that makes any sense lol.

Can’t wait to get caught up on everyone’s blogs, I feel like I’m so behind!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

PS-I just reset everything in Sparkpeople.com so it’s like I’m starting with a fresh slate.  It’s one of the recommendations that goes along with the Spark book.  It feels so new and clean :)

Rubenesque Ladies Running Week 8

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Another week down!  I am so glad that we made the choice to modify our program even more.  This week was so much more enjoyable and felt just absolutely amazing.  I looked forward to each run and pushed myself through each of the two minute sessions.  I love that I feel like I have the freedom to organically become a runner instead of feeling like I am forcing myself to meet certain deadlines that I feel that I am not physically capable of running.  Each session this week included 10 minutes of jogging, which is a minute longer that what weeks 5 and 6 had us doing.  I know it’s not huge progress, but it is still progress!

I am going to stick with the current pattern that I am using (5Walk, 2Run, 2W, 2R, 2W, 2R, 2W, 2R, 2W, 2R, 7 W) for one more week and then reassess after Week 9.  I think for week 10 I will wind up upping the Running intervals to 2:15 which would increase my jogging time from 10 minutes to 11 minutes and 15 seconds.  Baby steps, baby steps :)

Saturday February 20th, 2010- I did this session in the early evening.  While I much prefer my early morning sessions, I had a lot of errands to run this morning, including a trip to IKEA to pick up some glasses/vases for the wedding.  The session seriously felt wonderful, I was excited to do it!  Now that I’m finished, although pretty sweaty, I feel great.  The bonus is Bella sent me a wonderful surprise in the mail of the Philosophy Good Energy Body Wash, so now I’m excited to hit the shower too!  I totally love Philosophy products and this is such a clean and bright sent.  I walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0 for a total of 1.77 Miles.  Pace 16:55 (Under 17 Minutes YAY!)

Tuesday February 23rd 2010-As much as I am enjoying the changes we’ve made to the program, I’m not really enjoying doing the sessions in the evening.  With my newish work schedule though, getting up early enough to get the sessions in, in the morning just isn’t going to happen.  The clock can’t start with a 4 lol.  Once I got on the treadmill the first two sessions didn’t feel great but the last three felt wonderful!  I walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0.  I did the first session at 4.1 and that 0.1 MPH was too fast for this lady!  Total distance of 1.78.  Pace: 16:51

Thursday February 25th, 2010-Note to self NEVER drink a tall skim Mocha from Starbucks prior to running unless I want to have instant heart burn once the running intervals are happening…not to mention the strange feeling of a warm fluid bouncing around in my stomach (ok that was gross, sorry!)  Todays session felt the best yet even with the previously mentioned Mocha.  I walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0 for a total of 1.77 Miles.  Pace 16:53

One of the challenges that I am going to run into in Week 9 is that I’m heading down to my Mom’s (Hilton Head, SC hello sunshine and palm trees!) Thursday-Sunday so I am going to have two running sessions down there (one for Week 9 and one for Week 10.)  That means that I am going to have to take this treadmill show on the road, the actual road.  Everything is really flat down there and the weather is warmer, but it will be interesting in seeing how I do with that.  Hopefully the weather co-operates.  One of the other things I will have to do is calibrate my second Nike + for outdoor distances and I’m not sure how I am goin gto do that prior to getting down there since most of the tracks here are still covered in snow.

Make sure to head over to Bella’s site to see how she did with Week 8!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Weekend Recap

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This weekend feels like it never even happened! Saturday I headed to IKEA with one of my girlfriends to get things for the wedding. I bought so many glasses to use for vases that I think we can safely take the glasses off of our registry lol. Sunday we had the cake tasting and went to Sushi for lunch. I had the bright idea once we got home that we really needed to move our bedroom around, which always takes way longer than anticipated. At least in my experience, I find the most random things under the bed when I move my room around!

This weekend foodwise went really well. I always love looking up sushi and seeing how low in points/calories it is in relationship to how full I feel from eating it. At the cake tasting, I ate about the equivalent of one piece of wedding cake! We picked an amazing cake, completely different than what we originally thought we were going to want. I was certain that I’d want chocolate cake with no fruit and we wound up with white chocolate with buttercream and a raspberry filling. It was just so moist and yummy, we both immediately knew that it was the one when we tasted it!

Saturday I also did my RLR run, and it felt wonderful. I am so happy to be loving our running program again. I look forward to my next session which is tomorrow. tonight’s plan is to take a 30 minute walk on the treadmill, most likely while watching the Olympics, which seems to have taken over my life.

I hope that everyone had a great weekend!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

News Years Promises Updates Week 7

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Just a quick update!  I will have a recipe for you tomorrow, a “Healthified” Frittata that I created myself.  I have tested it out and have put it together as a formal recipe.

  1. Jog an entire 5k (See the tab Rubenesque Ladies Running aka RLR)-Finished up week 7.  Doing well on this.  It might take me an entire year to get there, but I am doing the work!
  2. Lose 60 pounds in 2010 (would love to see 40 gone by the wedding!)-I’ve lost 5.8 so far in 2010, that is 9.6% of the way to my goal!
  3. Focus on not binge eating.  Binge Free 48 of 50 days in 2010
  4. Try one new recipe each week, and do my best to post photo’s of it on the blog, at a minimum share the recipe with you!  7 for 7 on this one! (See tomorrows post!)
  5. Give myself 2-3 goals for each week.  7 for 7 on this one!
  6. Go vegetarian 1 day each week. 7 for 7!
  7. Continue to blog throughout 2010.  I think I’m doing well on this one!  I’ve started a new project at work, so the last two weeks have been a bit less consistent, however I have continued blogging.
  8. Pack my lunch 4 out of 5 days every week that I am working.  6 of 7 on this one.  This week was a challenge since it’s always hard when youre on a new site to know what to pack and when you will have lunch and where, but I managed!
  9. Journal my food EVERYDAY, regardless of how good or bad the day was.  Everyday but 2 in 2010!
  10. Make 2010 healthier than 2009 was; just as 2009 was healthier than 2008!  Doing the best I can!

How are your new years resolutions or promises doing?  I think we’re getting to the point or even past it already where a lot of people have given up.  Have you?

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Rubenesque Ladies Running Week 7 Recap

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Holy crap, Week 7 of Rubenesque Ladies Running is done.  I can’t even begin to believe it.  I am not even entirely sure how I got through this week.  The running jumped from 9 minutes to 16 minutes, consisting of 2-3 minute intervals and 2-5 minute intervals.  It wasnt easy, in fact, I couldn’t make it through the sessions (more on that later).  I’ve mastered 90 seconds of running, I can do it without much issue.  Three minutes, I’m still finding really hard, five minutes, forget about it.  I know this isn’t supposed to be easy, but I also know it shouldnt be this hard.

*Reminder, I write each of these recap posts the day that I do the run, so they are written in the present tense of when the run actually occurred.

Saturday February 13th, 2010- The longest 30 minutes of my life (dramatic much?)  The three-minute intervals, I did ok on, the first five-minute interval I got through, even though I was practically choking for air by the time it was done.  The second five-minute interval I knew I wasnt going to make it through, so I walked the third minute.  That means I only jogged 15 of the 16 minutes scheduled.  I am still pretty amazed that I can do the 15 minutes.  My goal is that by the end of these two weeks, I can do all 16 without wanting to throw up.  What I can tell you, is that my lungs feel amazing, it’s like they’re able to get in so much more oxygen in (this is AFTER the run lol, during the run, completely different story.)  Walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0 for the first two intervals and at 3.9 for the second two intervals.  Total distance 1.92 miles.  Pace 15:37 (HOLY $hit!)

So the best part of this run, was moving from the Yellow Level to the Orange Level with my Nike+.  I love earning points, moving through levels, etc.  Yellow Level with Nike+ is 1-30 miles!  Orange is a much longer level, it’s 31-154 miles.  YOWZA’S!

Tuesday February 15th, 2010-It took everything in me to get up and do this one.  I am starting on a new project at work today, and I just didn’t want to deal with running.  I’m dreading runs now, and I don’t like that.  I don’t like that this isnt really fun.  Until this week, I seriously looked forward to each session.  Once I was done with this I did feel amazing, I felt like I could conquer the world.  I walked the third minute of the second 5 minute jogging interval again.  I’m going to let myself do that this week and then next week try to do the full amount of each of the runs.  I walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0 for a total distance of 1.84 Miles.  Pace: 16:17

Wednesday night, I did what I do every night, I sent Bella an email with some thoughts and my daily food journal.  I needed to vent, and I needed to get some RLR related things off of my chest.  This is some of the text from that email:

I’m doing Day 3 of this weeks RLR training tomorrow morning.  I decided to look ahead and see what week 9 is going to bring since it’s just four sessions away and I’m seriously more than scared, I know I’m not ready for the next step.  I don’t want to let you down, I dont want to let me down, but I dont know how I am going to do it.  I can only get through one of the two 5 minute sessions without having to take a break, how am I supposed to get through two 8 minute sessions on the second day and then a solid twenty-minute session?  I just dont know what to do.  I’m starting to wonder if it’s possible for me to ever be a runner, or at least someone who can run for thirty minutes, at this weight.
 
This is all a fear that I’ve been facing for a couple of weeks now.  I’ve been dreading week 9 coming up, it’s hard to put it into words.  I was actually loving everything about this until this week.  I enjoyed my walk run intervals, now I just dread doing them.
This email lead to a series of emails back and forth between Bella and I.  We were both having the same feelings about proceeding  with the training schedule as it is.  I only make it through the five-minute sessions by gasping for air, not just breathing heavy, but legitimately gasping for air.  I can’t make it through the second 5 minute session.  I know physically that I can not keep up the schedule.  My knee is hurting for days after the sessions, my ankle hurts, I’m not recovering well. 
 
So where does this lead us?  Well neither one of us are quitting our goal of running for 30 minutes as a New Years Resolution/Promise, instead we are modifying the training program even more.  Right now we are going to what we can and reassess in a couple of weeks.  My plan that I am going to follow for the next few weeks is:
 
5 Minute Walk to Warm Up
2 Minute Jog
2 Minute Walk
2 Minute Jog
2 Minute Walk
2 Minute Jog
2 Minute Walk
2 Minute Jog 
2 Minute Walk
2 Minute Jog
7 Minute Cool Down Walk
 
Total of 30 minutes, with 10 minutes of jogging.
 
I’d like to reiterate, that I am not quitting, I’m just modifying what I am doing.  At 273 pounds, the training schedule was just too overwhelming and I dont want to get to a point that I quit because of either an inability to proceed or because I am dreading each session so much.  Which leads me to tonight;
 
Thursday February 18th, 2010-I woke up this morning before all of the above decisions were finalized.  I decided to just go back to sleep and figure out a day to do my RLR run at a later date.  That is how much I was dreading doing the 5 minute intervals again, so much that I was willing to skip the run all together.  I havent skipped a single session in 7 weeks.  I felt such a huge weight lifted off of my shoulder when Bella was feeling the same way, I knew I wasnt alone.  As soon as the decision was made to modify the program, I once again REALLY looked forward to running again.  I couldnt wait to get home, get the dog walked, and get on the treadmill.  No the 2 minute jogging intervals weren’t easy, yes I counted down the seconds towards the end of each of them, but I did it.  I sweated up a storm but I did it!  I walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0 for a total of 1.70 Miles.  Pace: 17:35
 
Tata for now,
 
Scale Warfare

Rubenesque Ladies Running Week 6 Recap

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We are one-third of the way done with Rubenesque Ladies Running people!  Seriously 1/3 of the way done.  I can’t even begin to believe it.  This has already been such a fun and challenging journey that I can’t imagine what the next 12 weeks will bring.  To think that I could barley make it through 60 second jogging sessions 5 weeks ago and now I am managing to make it through 3 minute jogging sessions just blows my mind.

Saturday February 6th, 2010-We will call this Snowmagedon Run.  We have somewhere around 28 inches of snow on the ground.  I shoveled the porch and walk way three different times now and will have to do it one or two more times.  I havent even started on the car yet that looks like an igloo.  Because of the shoveling I considered putting off this run until tomorrow.  After sitting around for a couple of hours I decided to just get up and do it.  I wont lie, the third minute of each of the 3 minute jogging sessions I had to work myself through, telling myself, no jogging for one more minute will in fact NOT kill you.  I walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0 for a total of 1.78 miles!  Pace 16:49 (that’s right….16:49!)

Tuesday February 9th, 2010-After two days “off” this one felt pretty great!  I am still having a tough time with the last minute of the 3 minute intervals.  90 seconds now feels like a breeze!  I am not entirely sure how I am going to move to the next training level starting on Saturday if I am still having such a hard time with the 3 minute intervals.  I am going to keep trucking along though.  Hopefully I don’t run into a set back!  What I’m not liking about Weeks 5 & 6 is that the running intervals are done by about minute 21, and since I am keeping the sessions to 30 minutes, I have a longer than desired walk at the end of the session.  I’m just going to keep going with the plan though! Walked at 3.1 until the last 5 minutes or so where I bumped it to 3.2, jogged at 4.0 for a total of 1.77 miles.  Pace 16:53

Thursday February 11th, 2010-Another day working from home due to the snow.  I’m so incredibly over the snow.  I’m heading into work tomorrow because I need to clean out my cube since I am moving onto a new project downtown.  Yay for getting out of the house!  The treadmill has been a life saver, at least I can get my excercise in, even though there isn’t a patch of sidewalk or pavement to be found outside.  Today I walked at 3.1 until the last 5 minutes where I bumped up to 3.2, jogged at 4.0 for a totally of 1.76 miles.  Pace 17:00

And now for the HOLY SHIT BATMAN portion of this post, we are moving onto Week 7 (Week 4 on the traditional C25K Program), which means we are upping the running intervals:

7 (2/12- 2/18); 8 (2/19-2/25) Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then: 

  • Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
  • Walk 1/4 mile (or 2-1/2 minutes)
  • Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
 Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then: 

  • Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
  • Walk 1/4 mile (or 2-1/2 minutes)
  • Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
 Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then: 

  • Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
  • Walk 1/4 mile (or 2-1/2 minutes)
  • Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)

Five minute jogging sessions?  Mixed with three-minute jogging sessions?  People, I can hardly make it through the current three-minute sessions, how am I supposed to make it through five-minute ones?  FIVE MINUTES….and THREE MINUTES.  What happened to four minutes designers of C25K??  Heck what happened to just letting us finish out the program with three minutes being our longest intervals?  Ugh I’m scared…really really scared.

Make sure to head over to Bella’s site to see how her Week 6 finished out!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Rubenesque Ladies Running Week 5 Recap

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Week 5 is DONE!  Only 13 more weeks to go before jogging for 30 minutes straight.  I’m getting more and more eager for the weather to get nicer and there to be more day light, so that I can take this show on the road.  Even once it get’s nice I will primarily stick to the treadmill, but once a week might be nice, at least to get myself ready for the outdoor 5k in June.

Week 5 Recaps:

Friday January 29th, 2010-This was the first day of the next step in Rubenesque Ladies Running.  Starting today I had to walk for 5 minutes, jog for 90 seconds, walk for 90 seconds, jog for 3 minutes, walk for 3 minutes and then repeat this twice (minus the warm up) followed by a 5 minute cool down.  If you do the math, the cool down was actually 7 minutes so that I could reach a full 30 minutes.  I was really worried I wouldn’t be able to make it through the 3 minute intervals, but I was able to do it!  I was glad to have the 3 minute walking intervals though, it took me longer to recover than I expected.  I enjoy the Friday sessions the best, and I feel great now that this is done!  Walked at 3.1; jogged at 3.8 for a total of 1.71 Miles.  Pace 17:27

Tuesday February 2nd, 2010- I was worried that I was going to hate this one since I was a day late with my scheduled run.  I mixed things up a bit by listening to music with a timing application, and I felt like the sessions went faster than normal.  The first 3 minutes session went great, the second one I was counting down the time after I hit 2 minutes…only 50 more seconds…only 40 more seconds..  But I did it.  If I could just figure out how to turn the Closed Captioning on, on my TV, I’d be in treadmill heaven!  I walked at 3.1, did the first two jogging intervals at 3.9, did the last two jogging intervals at 4.0.  Total 1.74 miles.  Pace 17:07 (Fasted yet!)

Thursday February 4th, 2010-This run was almost a comedy to me.  I have a new phone and I set the alarm on it, but I guess I set the alarm to silent (useful eh?) luckily my normal alarm clock went off, but it goes off a few minutes later than I like to actually start moving and getting ready for working out.  I got on the treadmill, managed to forget to stretch, stopped stretched, got back going and once the running intervals were over, I somehow managed to yank the emergency stop cord off, so I came to a startling halt, got back going and walked the last ten minutes.  Like the previous run, I’m finding the 3 minute jogging intervals very do-able, the last-minute I really have to push myself through.  The good thing is, the 3 minute intervals really make me realize that the 90 second intervals are so much easier for me than they once were!  I walked at 3.1 and jogged at 4.0 for a total of 1.76 miles.  Pace 17:02 (yay for improvement!)

Did anyone see The Biggest Loser this week?  Did you find it strange the speeds that they were given to walk and run?  It was sort of nice to know that I am not so far behind them (or even ahead of them) regarding the speeds I use on the treadmill.  Granted they workout 8 hours a day :)   I just sort of found it interesting.

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare