Posts Tagged ‘ Fitness ’

Look Ma, No iPod!

03/28/2011

When I run, I like my music. I rely on it to get me through the dips, to drown out the negative voices that tell me to walk all the time and to cover up the sound of my breathing when it gets ragged. The iPod is a tool that makes getting out the door to go running just a little easier. Because as much as I enjoy running once I’m out there doing it (or maybe more accurately when I’m done), getting out the door is still a challenge. It’s much easier to stay cozy on the couch, especially when it’s cold and windy. Unfortunately, USAT doesn’t allow iPods in any leg of a triathlon. So…. if I’m going to have some fun in this race, I have to get used to running without my iPod. Today I did. I went out for my run and left my...

Logging The Miles

03/22/2011

Sunday was my best workout day yet. And with 6 weeks to go, I’m confident that I’ll be able to cross the finish line at St. Anthony’s on May 1st. I may need a wheel chair to get to the after-party, but I’ll cross the finish line! I started my day with my planned workout, a 6.2-mile run. I walked a .2 warm-up and started running. I didn’t stop running until I’d completed my second loop of my 3.2-mile course, so my total run was 6.2 miles, no walking. The run took me 1:14 minutes, just under a 12-minute mile pace. For me, that pace worked perfectly for that distance. I felt strong until about 5.4 miles and then the legs really didn’t want to work anymore. But there wasn’t much more to go and I knew I had it. It still amazes me how much of running success...

A Fresh Start

12/28/2010

Rotten cold over. Check Holiday feasting and revelry done. Check 2010-2011 Winter Blizzard over. Check (and let’s hope there’s not another one!) Resolutions for 2011 firmly in place? Well that’s what we’re doing here. I’ve committed to Team in Training and an Olympic Distance Triathlon for May 1. Training was going well until Rotten Cold took over. Now it’s been a couple of weeks. Ack! Tomorrow means back to the gym. I got all kinds of cool outdoor running gear for Christmas but old man Winter has put outdoor training on hold for at least a week. Maybe it will rain next weekend. In the meantime, I can break in the new sneaks on the treadmill. The Diet! I’ve stopped and started so many times this year with a new healthy eating regimen, I’ve lost count. What I haven’t lost count of are the pounds I’ve managed to find...

Hesitation

11/11/2010

Hesitation? How many of us let this get the best of us? I know I do. After some time away from healthy eating (no I didn’t pull it back together right after Halloween like I’d hoped) and a few weeks away from running, I feel like I’m finally getting back on track. It was tough. But not because I can’t do it. It was tough because I convinced myself it would be. With the running especially, I find that if I take some time off from it, getting back to it gets me nervous. It’s almost like I forget how good it feels to finish a run, and instead focus on how hard it is to start one. I went for my first run in two weeks last night. Now mind you, it’s not that I’ve been doing nothing. I’ve been walking long distances and working out in other...

I Am Stuck

10/15/2010

I am stuck. I am suffering from blogger’s block (different from writer’s block, since I now write for a living and that would be detrimental to my paycheck). But writing about me and my ever-so-exciting fitness adventures has been escaping me. (Sarcasm, since I’m feeling kind of bored and frustrated in this space). I keep starting blog posts, and they end up in my drafts folders, abandoned because I just can’t seem to get my thoughts in order to get past the second paragraph. ok, on to the third paragraph… Maybe the reason I am having trouble writing about fitness is because I’m blocked here too. I am suffering from weight loss block. I’ve gone back to Weight Watchers, had a couple good weeks (okay, one), and I’ve again hit a plateau that frustrates me right into a bag of Hershey’s Kisses or a pan of brownies. (Gee, do...

Overriding the Lizard Brain

09/19/2010

There is a part of our brain, according to Seth Godin, that has the capacity to stop us from doing great things, or doing anything, for that matter. It’s the part of our brain that makes us afraid or unsure of ourselves. It’s the part of our brains that makes us cautious, afraid that if we push too hard or push at all, we’ll get hurt, we’ll fail, something bad will happen. I have to fight my lizard brain. Really. In everything I do. I especially find myself fighting with my lizard brain when I’m working out. And this morning was no exception. This morning though, I won. I had a 3.2 mile run planned this morning. I knew I needed to go. But my lizard brain wanted to hang around the house. My lizard brain kept trying to talk me out of stepping out the door. It gave...

Running with the Buses

09/15/2010

It’s kinda like running with the bulls, only if you’re smart you run in the opposite direction of the buses so you don’t get creamed. My road is the bus route for the junior high and high school AND there’s an elementary school at the other end of the road. Many, many buses when school starts. And right at the time I go out running. It’s noisy. And Wednesday is recycling day — garbage trucks too! Today was my first morning run with the buses. While I’m not a huge fan of the buses, I do like that it signals the beginning of the best running weather. It also signals the season where it’s important to pay really close attention to the traffic. Not just because of the buses, but teachers and parents driving their kids to school too. It turns my quietish road into a main road for...

Getting Back on Track

09/08/2010

I go through periods where I write blog posts and then don’t like the way they sound when I read them back to myself, so I toss them. I can be prone to whining. Really, I can. There have been a string of those this summer. I started thinking about why my blog posts aren’t getting to my actual blog, and I realized it’s because over the last few months, I’ve lost my focus and I didn’t really want to admit that. I’ve become a bit of a slacker from a weight watching perspective, from an exercise perspective and I guess, as might be expected, from a blogging perspective. I haven’t been visiting my Twitter friends almost at all. I’ve come to count on this community to keep me rolling along, eating right, moving and staying on top of my healthy habits. I am so inspired by the stories...

Eye on the Prize: Long Island Diva’s Half Marathon

07/27/2010

Staying on track from a food perspective has been tricky these past few months. And I plan on getting that back in order just as soon as I can. Today will be a good day. Tomorrow will be a good day. Then I’ll have VACATION. This weekend I head off to a family reunion, where I can pretty much be guaranteed I will overeat and overdrink. But it will be loads of fun, and I’m not planning to limit myself too much for the couple of days I will be away. When we get home, that will be a different story. When we get home, I will be training for a half marathon that I found in my area that just looks like awesome fun. It’s called the Diva’s Half Marathon and you are greeted at the finish line with champagne and chocolate. Now if that’s not an incentive...

Running: Conditions Matter

07/23/2010

I went for my second run this week. It’s still hot. But not nearly as hot as it was on Wednesday. Again, as I write this post it’s raining, which we’ve been told will bring in more scorching heat tomorrow, however short-lived. With the impending rain, it was humid again this morning too, but again, not nearly as humid as it was on Wednesday. Today’s run was bearable. Today’s run actually wasn’t bad. I still had to walk a bit, but I went 2.5 miles with less walking and more efficient running than Wednesday. In fact, I did the longer distance in about the same amount of time. I didn’t feel like I weighed 2000 pounds on today’s run. That could be because I have been eating much better than I was earlier in the week. It could also be just that the air wasn’t as heavy. Today’s run...

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