Street Run

exercise:  easy street run

10 minute brisk walk

40 minute run

10 minute cool-down walk

running

Once again I didn’t really have the time to head to Princes Park for my run but I really wanted to run outside today, so I settled on a local street run.  Started with a 10 minute brisk walk and I couldn’t wait to start running as it was a little nippy.  Around the 30 minute mark of running, my sciatica started to twinge a bit but I ignored it and finished my planned 40 minutes.  It started to rain at the 38 minute mark and it was absolutely beautiful.  I finished my 10 minute cool down and it was still sprinkling when I got home.  Had a good stretch on the front verandah and then jumped into a hot shower 🙂  Really enjoyed running outside again and hope to run on the week-end, maybe down the Tan or at Albert Park Lake.  

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The school holidays start next week and I am really hoping to be able to keep doing my 3 runs a week.  I usually have to give the gym a miss over holidays but I will be very happy if I can continue with my running.  My 3 year old hasn’t been back to creche since “the incident” so I have had to rely on DH to babysit when he gets home from work in the morning.  Not only do I feel guilty about that, it also means that I can’t exercise until later in the morning which I don’t like to do.  I like to get my exercise out of the way early because it then leaves me plenty of time to do the things I should be doing around the house 🙄

P.S  Andrew, my dream car is actually the new VW beetle 😆  I wanted one when I got my first car but my Dad would not let me get a one.  He use to say, he could work on any car except that one so it became an unfulfilled dream for me 😦  I know I am probably too old for that kind of car now but they are so cute, especially the convertable ones!  Maybe a more fitting car for my age group would be a BMW convertable 😆

Answers…

I was tagged and here are my one word response answers:

• Where is your cell phone?  Kitchen
• Relationship?  challenging
• Your hair?  boring
• Work?  Slave 😆
• Your sister?  Perth 😦
• Your favourite thing? Laptop
• Your dream last night?  cryotherapy
• Your favourite drink?  Champagne
• Your dream car?  VW
• The room your in?  Dining
• Your shoes?  runners
• Your fears?  terminal illness
• What do you want to be in 10yrs?  alive
• Who did you hang out with on the week-end?  family
• What are you not good at?  singing
• Muffin?  top 😦
• Wish list item?  own car
• Where did you grow up?  Perth
• The last thing you did?  school interview
• What are you wearing?  tracksuit
• What are you not wearing?  watch
• Your pet?  none
• Your computer?  escape
• Your life?  exhausting
• Your mood?  content
• Missing?  family
• What are you thinking about?  stomach 
• Your car?  old
• Your kitchen?  new
• Your summer?  hot
• Favourite color?  none
• Last time you laughed?  today
• Last time you cried?  fortnight ago
• School?  memories 🙂
• Love?  sons

There is no one else left in blog land that I can tag so I will leave it at that.  I could tag a complete stranger but thats a bit embarrassing 😆

OMG, I’ve Been Tagged!

Exercise:  tready run  

10 minute brisk walk

40 minute run

10 minute cool down 

running

Hate to say this but I had the opportunity to go for an outdoor run today but I chose the tready at gym!  I just didn’t want to pound my feet on concrete doing a local street run.  If I had a little more time up my sleeve I would have driven to Princes Park but I didn’t so the tready it was.

It was a great run and I felt good while doing it 😀   My average heart rate was 130bpm which reminds me, I must look up the McMillan Running Calculator for paces.  I am following a regime but I need to know where I should be with the runs.  Although I still have the slight niggles they are not getting worse.  I am going to give myself this week and towards the end of next week before I go back to Pod to get checked out.

I had intended to go to gym tomorrow to do weights and spin but I have a Parent/Teacher meeting which I had forgotten about.  This means my nine year old will be home from school so I will have to contend with both, pesky 3 year old and the 9 year old 🙄    

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OMG, I’ve been tagged!!  I am so excited about this!  I have never been tagged before!  I know, I lead a sad life 😳   Thanks Jaykay 😆   I will have to come back and do this later as I have to go and pick up my son from school 🙄

Fabulous, Fabulous Run

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Was unable to swing the Sri Chinmoy event yesterday but I did meet up with RJ just after 9am at the the Tan 🙂   It was absolutely freezing but a beautiful morning for running 😀   We started with a very brisk walk along the Tan to warm up and then started running across the Morrel Bridge and completed a loop.  We then continued down Alexander Ave going towards Punt Road and then looped back to the Tan where we were parked.  It was a fabulous, fabulous 40 minute run.  When we finished stretching we headed off to the Children’s Playground Cafe for a latte and we shared a berry muffin, it was the perfect finish to our morning run 😀   I could really get use to doing that every Sunday that’s for sure, it was great.  I had happy hormones floating around the entire day!

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Back to reality when I got home and both our boy’s started hounding us to go and see the new Shrek movie.  After we got lunch out of the way we headed to the 2:30pm session.  I was very relieved that my three year old sat relatively still.  He usually tears around the cinema and we get shusshed left right and centre as I tear around calling him in a stern whisper 😳  I think it was because we went a little later than normal so he was konking out of steam.  Yay for us because we got to watch the entire film for a change 😀

The Great Outdoors

exercise:  gym

50 minutes x-training (20 x-trainer, 20min brisk walk on tready and 10min rower)

I wasn’t sure I was going to get to the gym today even though I really wanted to go.  My 3 year old was digging his heels in and not wanting to go 😦   I sort of knew this was going to happen after yesterday’s incident.  I just only hope I can get him back there next week.  Anyway, DH came to the rescue and let me escape to the gym for a couple of hours thankfully 😀  I am on a quest to lose some of this weight I have put on!!  

I so wanted to run again on the tready and had to really hold myself back.  I can’t wait to run outdoors on the week-end and I may just head down to the Sri Chinmoy event on Sunday down at Como Landing if I can swing it.  I would really like to run the 7km event.  Not sure if running 7km’s at this stage of my comeback is very clever but I have an overwhelming desire to do it, so I am going it give it my best to get there 😆

No Super Heroes Here!!

exercise:  gym 

30minute tready run

core/upper weights

running

Had a fabulous run on the tready today  😀  Did I just say that??  How could you possibly have a fabulous run on the boring old tready?  Well, I did and it is because I am feeling so much better.  I am well and truly over my bug, thank goodness as I was beginning to think it was never going to go away.  I actually wanted to run longer than 30 minutes but the training regime said 30 minutes and who am I to argue.  Yes, and don’t ask, it is another training regime I found 🙄   I am a girl with loose morals when it comes to training regimes as I just jump from one regime to another, in search of the perfect one 😆   I have a run planned for the great outdoors on the week-end and I am really looking forward to that.  I am going to meet up with RJ so even better 🙂

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Today was the first day I took my 3 year old son to the his new creche at the gym.  He was in a really happy mood and wanted to go to “creche” this morning.  So off we went.  Arrived and he settled in really well much to my relief.  When I went to collect him I was met with a furrowed brow from one of the child minders.  I spotted my son happily riding a tricycle eyeing off a little girl who was in tears.  The child minder took me aside and explained there was “an incident” were my darling little cherub wouldn’t share with a little girl and it all turned a bit nasty with my son pulling out his spiderman antics!  He throws his invisible spiderman web from his hand making the sounds with his mouth.  Let me tell you, I am forever bound in Spidermans web 😆  Apparently he did this to the little girl and the child minder when asked to to share.  The child minder then told me she told my son “we don’t have super heroes here and she made him sit in the corner to “think about it”, pmsl!!  I actually came out of there wondering what he had to think about??  The fact that he wouldn’t share or that there are no super heroes at creche.  Needless to say I felt embarrassed that this has happened on the very first day and feel like the worst parent in the world.  He is three and although this is the first time anything like this has ever happened in childcare, I am sure it won’t be the last.  Funnily enough, he seems fine about returning tomorrow which is making me nervous as to what other antics he has up his sleeve 😆

Blinking Feet!

Exercise:  gym

30 minute Tready run

Weights/Core 

running

I had my 2nd appointment at gym this morning to go through my program.  I came that close to cancelling it as I was feeling headachey and tired but decided in the end it would be too much hassle to change it.  So I soldiered on and was glad I kept it as it only took 20 minutes.  I decided while I was there that I would try and run on tready and see how the head held up.  I ended up doing a 30 minute run with walk breaks so I was happy with that.  I think I am on the tail end of this bug that I have had as last night was the first night my sore throat didn’t bother me too much.  I have had this blessed thing for 2 weeks!! 

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Not that much to ramble about really.  I think I have lost my mojo abit with the outdoor running.  I am beginning to think my feet aren’t made for it.  How long does it take before the orthotic’s are perfected???  I think that is why I haven’t really attempted to run outside as I don’t want to start building up again only to have to stop again because of niggles.  I have had my orthotics in my runners religiously everyday and have done quite a bit of walking in them over that time and I can tell they are not right.  It is very frustrating!!  Maybe I should just bite the bullet, get outside and see what happens 🙄

Once again I came away from gym feeling happy with the change.  The equipment is even better than what I was using at Fernwood.  Quite amazing really when you think of the difference in cost.  I just have to get my pesky three year old to go happily into the creche.  I have a session booked for Friday so fingers crossed 😆  

Isn’t Rationalisation Just Great!

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What an absolutely fabulous morning it was for running and with all my umming and ahhing over the Run 2 G this morning, I ended up being a no show 😳    Now in my defence, I was dressed, psyched and ready to go but due to family issues which I won’t bore you with, the pin was more or less pulled from me and I was put in the position of having to decide not to go.  Initially I was so disappointed and then the rationalisations came flooding in…. well, you haven’t really ran over the last two weeks, the last time you did a decent distance was R4K 😳 , you have got new adjustments on your orthotics which you haven’t really worn in properly, need I go on 😆   So although I was disappointed, it is not the end of the world and maybe a blessing in disguise 😉 , aahhh you gotta love rationalisation!  I now have my eyes firmly set on the Queen of the Lake 10km at Albert Park Lake on the 6th August and I start training tomorrow!

“Life Be In It” run, I think…..

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Not too sure about my Run 2 the G on Sunday.  Still have a slight cold/cough but definitely 100% on what I was but the fact that I haven’t really done any training in the last two weeks is not leaving me feeling pretty confident at all.  I had decided to just enjoy the day and walk/run as best I can but it is going to be 14 degree’s and showers.  Now normally this would not bother me at all but because I am treating it as a “Life Be In It” run I would prefer some sunshine 😆   I think I have talked RJ into joining me in my “Life Be In It” run but I would not be surprised come Sunday she will be a no show.  Even though she agreed, it wasn’t a very confident yes and I don’t blame her really as I feel exactly the same!

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Any doubts I had about changing gyms has gone completely out of the window.  I had my first assessment on Wednesday and the personal trainer I had went above and beyond my expectations.  She weighed, measured my height, measured my bod, took the pulse, BP and did the fat % thingy.  My consult was an hour with no short cuts.  I came out of there feeling very happy and excited.  She was very pleased with my cardo fitness after 10min test on bike which was a relief to me as towards the end I was huffing and puffing.  We then discussed what I wanted to achieve and she wrote out my program for me.  My next appointment is on Tuesday and that is to go through all my exercises.  When I finished my appointment, I jumped on the tready and did a 30minute run, did walk for a couple of minutes around the 20 minute mark as I was all huffy and puffy again and then finished it off.  Felt not to bad at the time but later in the afternoon I did have to lie down for a bit as I felt really off colour 😳   I can’t wait to feel competely back to normal and get back into a proper exercise routine. 

Running Goals

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Still haven’t ran and I think I may have to wait now until tomorrow, oh well, such is life.  I decided if I wasn’t running I could invest some of that energy into setting some running goals.  I vaguely remember saying something along the lines of once I had done R4K, I would work on consolidating my 10km runs.  I got caught up in the hype of running the half in October thinking its only 6kms more than R4K, blah, blah, blah 🙄 I am not saying I am not going to do it, I am just saying that now I am going to concentrate on the 10km runs and when the Samsung Melbourne Marathon comes around, if I am not ready I will do the 10km.  I have a sneaky feeling I will in fact be doing the 10km in view of the fact that it just seems impossible to string my training consistently together 👿  

So, I have picked the races, they are: 

17th June  –  Run to the G 10km

5th Aug  –  Queen of the Lake 10km, loved this race last year 🙂 , although I only did the 5km

16th Sep  –  Spring into Shape 8km

7th Oct  –  Melbourne Marathon 10km, I am pretty sure it will be the 10km 🙄

25th Nov  –  Spring into Shape 8km

Now that should keep me busy and hopefully I will be able to run a strong 10km by the end of the year 🙂