I’ve done quite a bit since I posted last. I ran a 5k for the kick off to the Health and Fitness Fair for ATA last Tuesday. I didn’t beat my last 5k time and I was surprised because this one seemed to have a lot less elevation change in it. After the fact according to my GPSr and another guys GPSr (we agreed with in a 1/100th of a mile) it looked like the course might have been a tad too long, which wouldn’t really surprise me haha. Google agrees with our GPSrs as well… moving on.
At the fair I got my Cholesterol and Blood sugar checked and I’m in good shape there. I’m a tad over the mark in lung capacity. However this is where I fail… My sit & reach… well it was off the charts. More accurately said “I didn’t make it to the chart.” So going on what I’ve known my whole life, and said my whole life, I need to work on my flexibility.
After work I ran another 3 miles indoors to get me over my 5.5 for the day. That night after Don’s spin class I went to Cindy’s stretch class. It went alright. I really dislike yoga though. It’s not that it hurts, or is weird, I just have a hard time seeing its benefits to the goals I want to ultimately achieve. Anyway, I managed to hit up yoga at the base with Cassie Grow on Monday and again left with the same feelings toward it. I’m going to keep going and maybe I’ll start to see results and start to enjoy it more. I need to get a benefit out of my 10 dollar tjmax yoga mat :P
Onto the snow. Sunday night we got 4 inches of snow or so in the Manchester area. Jessie and I went out to jaunt around in the snow. I got pelted with some snowballs… as did she. One o’clock came around and Jessie had actually talked me into running on the treadmill. The treadmill is uncharted territory for me. I had a 9 mile run scheduled. Well the Rec Center was closed for the snow… Which is really a lame excuse, I was pretty irritated I got ready to head up there and went up there to a sign on the door. No running on Sunday. I ended up only running 11.6 miles last week.
Monday I got up early to make up for Sunday. I chugged around the track for 108 laps. I managed to get this in 1:18:25 which is about 2 min faster than last week. So I was happy with that. I really wanted to get one of my 9 mile runs outside but that didn’t happen. Lunch was the yoga mentioned earlier.
After work, I went home and challenged and beat bowser in super Mario sunshine just in time for swim class. I have to say swim class had me ready to die. I think some of it had to do with the running and yoga earlier in the day. We swam 3x200, 2x200, 1x200 descending sets. First couple of two hundreds not too bad. The last 200 though, it felt like I finished that one with an anchor tied around me.
Tuesday was my normal run of 6 miles. I like the loop I ran however next time I’ll be running it in the opposite direction. It’s a 3 mile loop around the rec center which I did twice. I finished off with spin class which Jessie joined me for. I think she liked it mostly due to the better music. However, Nickelback is bad enough, there is no reason to play it twice (as if there was even a reason to play it once). Streach class was canceled so no luck there.
Wednesday was a much stronger swim class for me. I felt like I had improved and felt quite a bit more comfortable with my turns. With my turns its one of two things that normally get me. 1) if there is someone behind me, I don’t have a lot of control in my flip so I often end up on the wall just wherever, and sometimes that’s right in the face of the person trailing me. 2) I can’t get my breath when I need to and my timing is off. To say the least I was happy with my performance in the pool.
I inhabitants of hell got to try out their ice-skates this morning… I actually made it to a 530 spin class. And the best part of my day: I found a 10 dollar bill in my jean pocket when I was getting dressed in the locker room. Later today I’ll be running my 6 miles and meeting Jessie for dinner. She is going to the LRCP meeting in Fayetteville and since I don’t have a baseball game, I’m going to tag along.
I umpire Friday night it will be my first game of the season (due to the other two being canceled). Saturday I’m going to wake up and get my 10 mile run done then off to umpire again.
