Wanna try again

Hey Shilo,

You up for trying some more updating?...

Last Day for updates...

So, I think I may have pushed myself too hard and fast to keep up with Shilo... this  month's injury?  I have a sharp pain in the bottom of my right foot whenever I step down on a hard surface without foot protection. It started out as pain when I was running in my outdoor trail shoes. Then when I was walking on the hardwood floors bare foot. Now it seems its always, unless I'm wearing my super protective hiking boots ( which I can't run in) . So, though I'm scheduled for a 16 km run tonight, I am taking a break.

Its also the end of the hundred km challenge, leaving me at 120 kms of running, and a bunch more in the sports department.

Tomorrow is supposed to be my rest day, but I'm way behind on my coaching kms this week, so I'm going to try to make up the 16 kms tomorrow.  Haven't decided if I'll try it outside or down on the treadmill.  I figure that'll give me a jump on the new challenge as well.

So why 20 hours?  We calculated that they recommend a healthy life style of 30 mins of activity a day. Whether it be walking or what have you. Because we both do active stuff OTHER than running/walking, and other people we know do too, we figured we'd try this. So any activity, like Shilo said, sports, walking, chopping wood, swimming for my open water dive course ( Guess what I'm taking again Shilo!?!?!), running, Yoga.. etc.

30 mins a day for 30 days is 900 minutes which equals 15 hours. Because we wanted to up the ante a bit, we set it at 20.  If it looks like  it'll be too easy ( we should know in the first week, if we have way over 5 hours) then I suggest maybe upping it to 25 or 30. But we'll see, I guess.

For now, I'm going to do some nice, restorative type yoga, eat supper and watch some horror movies to celebrate All Hallows Eve...

Hey! We beat our first goal, that's awesome! :)

It's getting a little chilly...

For the month of October, Jacey and I completed the 100k challenge. She has done a far better job at keeping this updated, and everyone more informed. What stinks, is I believe I've only done about 8 miles in the past 10 days... so I'm pretty sure that updating this is my attempt at avoiding going out in the chilly air and going for a run.

We have agreed to our own challenge of 20 hours of exercise for the month of November. I'm fairly certain we will blow that out of the water. It's getting to be that time of the year where it will be harder to exercise outside, and we'll need to either be in the gym or some other form of sport (Jacey has ball hockey, I have to find an indoor sport to keep up with her).

Enough avoiding... I'm gonna go get out there.

A sombre thought

I tried to run today, but I couldn't. I figured it might help work out the jitters, but after the first couple glitches I just stopped. I ran a mile and that was it. I'm at 96.4 km/100.


Why did I need to work off jitters? Cause monday a Canadian Soldier was run down by a car and killed, others were injured.

And today, while guarding the tomb of the unknown soldier, a Canadian Soldier was gunned down, before the coward ran into the Parliment buildings.

In both instances, these extremists, home grown converts to Islamic terrorism were killed. But here in Canada, this is the first time we've been touched, at home, by the threat overseas. No matter how close to us the attacks on the States were, or how many times Canadian lives were threatened, no one thought this could happen. And now it has.

I'm angry, and sad and a little tired... Tomorrow I'll run. But tonight, I'm going to think about

Cpl. Nathan Frank Cirillo who died today.

And Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent who died on monday.

2 Weeks down...

So, I think Shilo might be done, and I'm still motoring along on this 100 km in 30 days challenge, but that's okay, I'm still working on it, and making progress and that's what counts! :)

Running wise, I'm at 69kms as of today. I had to slow that down a bit because my joints hated me after this weekend. I forced out an 11 km run on Sunday, and a 7 km run on tuesday and my ankle, knees and everything were NOT happy.

Tuesday, I also did Ball hockey, and though I originally thought that was about 2.5 kms of sprinting, it was closer to around 5kms, comparing it to the pedometer after my 5km run today. Plus I did an insanity work out yesterday for work, and that equalled 4 kms.

So my totals to date are
Running: 69 Km
Other Cardio: 10 kms
Walking: 8 kms

I've made a pact/agreement with a friend of mine ( one of my bridesmaids, actually) that we'll be able to do a half marathon when we're in Hawaii. And about two days after we both agreed and set out our Nike Training coach programs, my cousin who is going to Hawaii ( and runs marathons all the time) showed me a trail run that's happening two days after my wedding. 22km,10km, 5km.  So, as long as my future husband doesn't object to me "wasting" a day of our honeymoon. That's when we'll do it.

So, I am still trying to complete my 100 day challenge, but I'm less concerned with trying to catch up with Shilo ( who is awesome! and really should write another blog post soon....lol) and more about keeping true to the plan so that I don't get injured or something. I think I was really close to it after this weekend of pushing myself, I could feel my knees aching with every movement, and my ankle feels a bit like its sprained...

1 week down

I am totally losing to Shilo!

Not that this is an existential crisis, she's working her ass off, and its giving me motivation to push myself more. :)

So, after 8 days of this challenge, where am I?

30.8 km / 100. Seeing as how my initial goal was to do 25 km in the first week, I think I did pretty good. :)  This is just running though. I have also done a couple dog walks, and the two I recorded totalled to 3 miles. Which is 4.8 kms.  But I'm trying to make this a running goal, so I'll hold off the total.

Today I needed to rest, cause I was feeling wiped, so I did a walk with the dogs, to total the second half of that 3 miles. woo hoo!

As you can imagine, I'm toning down the other work outs and favouring the running ones. Which is what you guys want to hear about anyways, seeing as how this is a running blog and all.

KT tape works better than the compression socks, I didn't have any shin splints. Tomorrow, if I get off work early, I'm going to try for 10 kms ( I've maxed out at 8 so far, though that's higher than the 3-5 kms I was running last month)

Day 2 of 31

So,

yesterday we did a group workout. And tuesday I did a full body work out on my own. Monday I couldn't go to the gym... So today was the first day this week that I actually ran.

And as Day 2 of 31 to get to 100 kms... I did 5 kms on the treadmill.  Woo hoo! I actually started! :) only 95 kms to go!

But hey, its a start, right?