Busy week
It's been a busy week! I actualy got done almost everything I wanted to get done with the exception of cleaning the house.
Wednesday night
Activity: Running
Distance: 5 (plus some) miles
Time: No idea
I discovered a new park, fairly close to the house. It is called Millar park and it includes a 1/2 mile jogging path. I like the park but will now refer to it as fat girl park for a story you'll read in a moment. My goal was to do quarters on Wednesday night but there were 2 problems: Casey can't run on the track and both U City highschool and Wash U had practice so I had no track to run on. SO...the next best thing was to do halves at the park. I suppose this worked better because the park was further away than either track so I got more of a warm up and cool down. I was shooting for 3:30 halves. Evan and I talked about how fast my goal should be and I got sad thinking that when I was in highschool we did 16 quarters and our goal was 75 seconds. Now I'm trying hard for 3:30 halves and only doing 2 of them..... ahhhh getting old and lazy.
I started out with a 1.5 mile run to the park. Then jogged 1 lap. I did 2 sets of 1 lap sprint, 1 lap rest, for a total of 2 miles. Then I ran back home for another 1.5 miles.
The warm up, 1.5 to the park and 1 lap, came in at 14:59. Timed half #1 was at 3:42. Timed half #2 was at 3:37. I'm not all that thrilled but it gives me a starting point and I hope to get better from there. What would be ideal would be if Evan would run there with me and take the dog with him so I can focus on speed and not pulling Casey away from the squirls, bunny's kids, ect... The cool down was MUCH worse at 15 minutes.
I did manage to get hit on at the park, so that's a plus! When I first got to the park there were 2 women (approaching 250 easy) standing and talking. But the women decided that the best place to have their converstaion was RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PATH. When you ran, or walked, or biked, or skated towards them, they should move, right? No such luck. They just stood there, and continued to talk and then scowled at you like you were in THEIR way. 1 lap later another heavy womany, who had been walking before so I give her a bit of credit, had stopped to join the conversation. So now there are THREE women blocking the path. This continued till there were 4 large woman and 1 large kid taking up not only the path but a good 10 feet either side of it. I was NOT happy about it. Then, my luck changed and I got hit on. Always the way I like to end a work out. This poor kid was obviously there to loiter, seeing as he was wearing jeans and street shoes, starts sprinting every time he sees me coming. He would run for about 200 meters and then stop. He continued this for 2 laps. When I finaly got close enough to him he says to me "you working out too, huh". To which I wanted to reply, no, just running from the cops. He then asked if we could work out together sometime. "I'm Jim, but my friends call me slim" (he was NOT slim) "you live around here?". I kept moving, not wanting to engage in an actualy conversation but he didn't get the point. He didn't leave me alone until I left the park. I don't think I will go to that park in the dark, but I will go back.
Thursday night
Activity: Swimming.
Distance: I'd have to add and I don't feel like it
Time: 45 minutes total work out
Thursdays work out was far less exciting if you don't consider the hissy fit I threw when I thought Evan or the dog had taken my swimsuit just to be mean, and the fact that it took me about 20 minutes (the pool is 1 block from our house) to find the pool exactly. Once I found my suit, got dressed and got to the pool it was very uneventful, considering the previous nights experiences. There were 2 other men swimming and 2 kids "working" at the pool. I did not buy a pass because a) you have to buy it at another location and I wasn't sure I'd have time and b) I wanted to see if I liked it first. Turns out, there is no pass necessary. I asked them if they needed to see my pass and they said 'O, you actualy bought one of those, sorry you wasted your money'. So, they don't care I take it! I swam for 45 minutes and felt incredibly out of shape, inferior and water logged. The man that was there when I got there was still going strong and I never saw him stand or stop to rest. 45 minutes later! I started by getting comfortable with the water and then getting a few sample times so I would know where to go from here. Then I just thought I would see how far I could go. 500 M, 20 lenghts, seemed a bit impossible. I actualy did 11 lengths at one time without stopping which I thought was pretty good, till Evan told me that David swims 2000-3000 meters at a time with out stopping. I have no idea how many laps I actually went because I didn't count but it was at least an effort and I'm not ready to quit yet. But, needless to say, I have work to do in the swimming department. Normaly when I work out at the gym on the bike or the treadmill I'm there for a long period of time and see others come and go. Last night I was one of the "come and go" and I did not like that feeling. I felt like a slacker, and I was really tired. It was 9:30 pm, I'd been going strong since 7am and I'd not eaten dinner yet. No excuses, I know so I am trying to consider it an accompolishment that since it was so late in the day, I'd not eaten, I couldn't find my suit, I still went out anyway.
Small steps.....
Wednesday night
Activity: Running
Distance: 5 (plus some) miles
Time: No idea
I discovered a new park, fairly close to the house. It is called Millar park and it includes a 1/2 mile jogging path. I like the park but will now refer to it as fat girl park for a story you'll read in a moment. My goal was to do quarters on Wednesday night but there were 2 problems: Casey can't run on the track and both U City highschool and Wash U had practice so I had no track to run on. SO...the next best thing was to do halves at the park. I suppose this worked better because the park was further away than either track so I got more of a warm up and cool down. I was shooting for 3:30 halves. Evan and I talked about how fast my goal should be and I got sad thinking that when I was in highschool we did 16 quarters and our goal was 75 seconds. Now I'm trying hard for 3:30 halves and only doing 2 of them..... ahhhh getting old and lazy.
I started out with a 1.5 mile run to the park. Then jogged 1 lap. I did 2 sets of 1 lap sprint, 1 lap rest, for a total of 2 miles. Then I ran back home for another 1.5 miles.
The warm up, 1.5 to the park and 1 lap, came in at 14:59. Timed half #1 was at 3:42. Timed half #2 was at 3:37. I'm not all that thrilled but it gives me a starting point and I hope to get better from there. What would be ideal would be if Evan would run there with me and take the dog with him so I can focus on speed and not pulling Casey away from the squirls, bunny's kids, ect... The cool down was MUCH worse at 15 minutes.
I did manage to get hit on at the park, so that's a plus! When I first got to the park there were 2 women (approaching 250 easy) standing and talking. But the women decided that the best place to have their converstaion was RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PATH. When you ran, or walked, or biked, or skated towards them, they should move, right? No such luck. They just stood there, and continued to talk and then scowled at you like you were in THEIR way. 1 lap later another heavy womany, who had been walking before so I give her a bit of credit, had stopped to join the conversation. So now there are THREE women blocking the path. This continued till there were 4 large woman and 1 large kid taking up not only the path but a good 10 feet either side of it. I was NOT happy about it. Then, my luck changed and I got hit on. Always the way I like to end a work out. This poor kid was obviously there to loiter, seeing as he was wearing jeans and street shoes, starts sprinting every time he sees me coming. He would run for about 200 meters and then stop. He continued this for 2 laps. When I finaly got close enough to him he says to me "you working out too, huh". To which I wanted to reply, no, just running from the cops. He then asked if we could work out together sometime. "I'm Jim, but my friends call me slim" (he was NOT slim) "you live around here?". I kept moving, not wanting to engage in an actualy conversation but he didn't get the point. He didn't leave me alone until I left the park. I don't think I will go to that park in the dark, but I will go back.
Thursday night
Activity: Swimming.
Distance: I'd have to add and I don't feel like it
Time: 45 minutes total work out
Thursdays work out was far less exciting if you don't consider the hissy fit I threw when I thought Evan or the dog had taken my swimsuit just to be mean, and the fact that it took me about 20 minutes (the pool is 1 block from our house) to find the pool exactly. Once I found my suit, got dressed and got to the pool it was very uneventful, considering the previous nights experiences. There were 2 other men swimming and 2 kids "working" at the pool. I did not buy a pass because a) you have to buy it at another location and I wasn't sure I'd have time and b) I wanted to see if I liked it first. Turns out, there is no pass necessary. I asked them if they needed to see my pass and they said 'O, you actualy bought one of those, sorry you wasted your money'. So, they don't care I take it! I swam for 45 minutes and felt incredibly out of shape, inferior and water logged. The man that was there when I got there was still going strong and I never saw him stand or stop to rest. 45 minutes later! I started by getting comfortable with the water and then getting a few sample times so I would know where to go from here. Then I just thought I would see how far I could go. 500 M, 20 lenghts, seemed a bit impossible. I actualy did 11 lengths at one time without stopping which I thought was pretty good, till Evan told me that David swims 2000-3000 meters at a time with out stopping. I have no idea how many laps I actually went because I didn't count but it was at least an effort and I'm not ready to quit yet. But, needless to say, I have work to do in the swimming department. Normaly when I work out at the gym on the bike or the treadmill I'm there for a long period of time and see others come and go. Last night I was one of the "come and go" and I did not like that feeling. I felt like a slacker, and I was really tired. It was 9:30 pm, I'd been going strong since 7am and I'd not eaten dinner yet. No excuses, I know so I am trying to consider it an accompolishment that since it was so late in the day, I'd not eaten, I couldn't find my suit, I still went out anyway.
Small steps.....
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