Its been a while

And I haven't been entirely faithful to my training schedule. Well, at all.
All this stuff started all at once, including a new relationship...  Eh, whatever, its all excuses.  Yesterday I jumped right back into it with a 6.5 km run, at 35 minutes. Slower than my other pace, i know, but I'm getting my fat ass back into it, right?

Right. :) The battle is still going on.

Oops, been a little while..

So, I apparently took a hiatus from this blog. I'm sorry. I've also been a little too lax with my training. I have been doing good with doing at least three miles on Saturdays.

This past weekend I was in the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. We got there Friday, and I may have overindulged a bit with the alcohol. I did get up on Saturday and go to the Fitness Center in our Holiday Inn. I was really impressed with what they had set up, and how nice it all was. The treadmill had a few options, and because I knew I needed to get myself ... cleaned up?... I decided to do a 5k run. Again, run is pretty loose, as I did power walk half of it. Took me about an hour, but I was just proud of myself for not giving up on it. I think it is harder to do loops and pass the same scenery. The treadmill though had a little nature course and as you ran it turned red, and each km was marked off. I'll admit, I was about ready to call it quits a few times, but thought better of it, and really I wanted to feel accomplished. So by 9:30am, I was definitely feeling accomplished... and absolutely gross. I felt bad for two men that were riding the elevator with me, even though it was only for one floor to the lobby, where I asked for more towels to be delivered to our room. I guess I smelled as poorly as I thought, because they delivered 8 towels to our room. I'll have to say though... I now know how to get rid of a hangover, because I definitely felt great for the rest of the day.. Who knew? (well, if you did, please be gentle when you tell me I'm dumb for not knowing...)

Today, I went for a walk/run around one of our local community fields with my neice. I bought a New Balance pedometer, that is supposed to track how many steps you take/how far you run. Well, the township tells me that the loop is 1.33 miles. My NB pedometer says that after 2 loops, I did 1.64 miles. Who knows.

Either way, I need to adhere better to my training schedule, I know this. I just have to actually make myself do it. That's the tough part.

Okay, I Digress

I disappeared for a couple days. My bad, really. Have I been doing any running? Not really, I should have, yes, but thursday I hadn't yet recovered from wednesday. ( I need more water, more nutrition) and friday I hadn't recovered from being up way to late on a date the night before or the several hours I stood in the sun all day.

But yesterday, was that Spring Sprint. It turned out to be more of a 5 km walk, but it was less about the run, and more about being there for my friend. The event was for brain tumour research and support,  My friend's fiancee passed away from  brain cancer in 09.   His family was there, she needed friends with her.  So, me and a girl she works with, walked with her.

Today, I play paintball and then ball hockey. Monday is a new day, and I'm hoping to get off my ass and manage an 8 km trail. That's my goal. To hopefully do two of those next week.

Training schedule set.

Well, my first day of "rest" was completed yesterday. I felt like a chump, because lets face it, I've been resting for about 2 years now. Today I'm not certain what I'm going to do, but I will do some sort of training at some point. Does bowling count as cross-training? I have a charity event this evening.

Either way, Melissa found an appropriate training schedule for us. We'll be following Hal Higdon's Half Marathon Training Program. My days of the week will be a little mixed up, as we'll be doing the longer runs/walks on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

I feel better knowing this is what I'm supposed to be doing though. It's something in black and white to follow. So we'll see how today and tomorrow go.