THE ADVENTURES OF CraftyOneSD

I came to the realization that I’m a totally different person MENTALLY than I was 7 months ago & more PHYSICALLY than I was 2 months ago. I’m no longer craftyonesd…I’m marathonerwannabe.sweat365.com. So I wish you all GREAT TRAINING! CraftyOneSD signing off…see you @ the finish line

I’m not one to believe the weather has an effect on the psychy but that has GOT to be what happened today. This gloomy a** weather! Everything going on or not going on in my life finally came to a head today. So I came home..wiped a few tears..and gave my boy a hug. Taking the day off from training since I’m not ALL in it with my head. :-/ I’ll take my frustrations out on my house.

I’m so used to keeping a 9:00 pace since I started running, that trying to run a 10:00 pace was harder. I had to keep focused on taming my speed. Tomorrow 30 mins of cross training on the bike

Workout:

• Type: Run
• Date: 05/05/2008
• Time: 19:00:00
• Total Time: 00:40:22.00
• Max Heart rate: 108
• Calories: 462
• Distance: 4.01 miles
• Average Pace: 10:04.03/mile

I’m so used to doing all my ‘running’ at 9:00 pace, I don’t know what pace ‘jogging’ is?

 Any suggestions?

Great book! Written by the son of a 50 something math professor who’d never ran a marathon before. And he completed it in 3 hours 58 mins! Wow! After my last couple training days I know I can keep the schedule he has mapped out in the book. As long as I follow it & don’t push myself. Vegas is Mission Possible!

Workout:

• Type: Run
• Date: 05/04/2008
• Time: 15:00:00
• Total Time: 00:46:11.00
• Max Heart rate: 118
• Calories: 570
• Distance: 5.14 miles
• Average Pace: 8:58.92/mile

After watching the Red Bull Air Race (TOTALLY awesome!) and getting sunburned..I decided to take some Popeyes chicken to my in-laws for dinner. No sooner did I walk thru the door..than I was put to work moving furniture for the 10,000th time. Some of this stuff is not lite. I don’t mind. I actually like moving stuff..as long as it’s not my own. Which by the way I’ll probably be doing in July.

Workout:

• Type: Cycle
• Date: 05/03/2008
• Time: 20:55:27
• Total Time: 00:45:00.00

Finally broke my 3 mile barrier!

Workout:

• Type: Run
• Date: 05/02/2008
• Time: 20:40:42
• Total Time: 00:45:28.00
• Calories: 554
• Distance: 5.02 miles
• Average Pace: 9:03.81/mile

Bought my boy a new bike. So he can ride while I run. Not sure how that’s gonna work, but we’re gonna try tomorrow. Probably have him ride in front of me..that way I can keep my eye on him.

Was given a pep talk tonight & ran out of excuses on why I shouldn’t. So I loaded myself up with 6 Block Shots from Cliff and drank 1/2 a bottle water. Took a little one with me and headed out. Wow taking water with you is a big difference.

 It got DARK while I was running but the thought of crackheads from the casino coming after me was incentive to keep running. LOL

This was the first time I ran from my front door ‘out and back’. I didn’t realize the BACK was all uphill! Crap! I hit each hill head on though. I was proud of myself for keeping the same pace on the hills. The biggest hill was leading to my house. Go figure the end of the run. I turned the corner and saw that hill (well sort of..it was real dark and no light on my street) and told myself I wasn’t going to quit my pace. Anyone know stretches for that lil muscle right above your achilles tendon? Mine keeps getting stiff on my runs

Workout:

• Type: Run
• Date: 04/30/2008
• Time: 19:40:00
• Total Time: 00:30:36.00
• Calories: 375
• Distance: 3.39 miles
• Average Pace: 9:02.17/mile