Yesterday’s Workout
Thursday was another weight lifting day. It focused primarily on the lower body and back. Lifts focused on the Quads, Hamstrings, Back, and Calves. My legs felt a little jello-y afterwards, but not as sore as my upper body was.
Yesterday’s Workout
Thursday was another weight lifting day. It focused primarily on the lower body and back. Lifts focused on the Quads, Hamstrings, Back, and Calves. My legs felt a little jello-y afterwards, but not as sore as my upper body was.
I changed things up a little this week since there aren’t that many races I thought I would just combine the results and the races into one post!
Race Results
Jingle Bell 5K Run/Walk on December 8th was won by Abdelaziz Atmani, 25 of Indianapolis, in 15:22 (4:56) about 30 seconds ahead of second place. Sarah Higgens, 17 of Greenwood, won the female division in 18:25 (5:55) about 50 seconds ahead of second place and 34th overall. Bill Bentley, 55 of Greenfield, won the walk in 30:56 (9:57) about 20 seconds ahead of second place. Janet Higbie, 66 of Indianapolis, won the female division in 32:17 (10:23) about a minute ahead of second place and 4th overall. 979 finished the 5K run and 127 the walk.
Upcoming Races
The 12K’s of Christmas Run and Walk begins at 9am on December 15th at the Northview Christian Life Church in Carmel. 12K is 7.44 miles, there is also a 5K fun run!
Toys for Tots 1 Mile Run/Walk begins at 9am on December 15th at the Professional Office building main entrance at Union Hospital in Terre Haute. Contact Jo for more info.
News
As of November 30 the 2008 Indy Mini Marathon or the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon sold out at 35,000 entrants. They claim that entrants come from all 50 states and 8 countries. There is still room in the Finish Line 500 Festival 5K, which was about 51% full at the time. Starting in January the organizers will also registration transfers again this year.
Tuesday marked the Grand Opening of The Running Company’s newest store. The Greenwood store is located at 1251 US 31 North Greenwood Indiana, 317-887-0606, inside the Greenwood Park Mall Lifestyle Center.
Yesterday’s Workout
I hit the pool again! This time I kept track of how many laps I swam and in total I did about 400 yards, which isn’t a lot but its a good start. I didn’t time it so I’m not sure the actual time which would give a better comparison to distance, but swimming is a lot harder than running! I have always heard that you need to do 3x’s as long on the bike and 1/3 the time on a swim to equal a running workout. (90 minute bike is equal to 30 minute run which is equal to 10 minute swim) I also found if I slowed down a little bit it was easier to turn my head and breath!
Since I haven’t been outside running I’m a little late giving out winter running tips! But here are nine tips every runner should know:
Bonus: Joe over at Run with Perseverance has developed a Winter Weather Temperature Chart (Excel Spreadsheet) which describes which items of clothing you should wear at 2 degree increments in the winter. This is a great system which can be modified to meet your specific running needs. I found it may be a little overdressed for my personal tastes.
Some of my inspiration came from these sources:
Yesterday’s Workout
Today was a lifting day! This is the first I’ve lifted since early spring and I can definitely feel it! My thought has always been to cross train MWF and lift on TR. It was nice to actually get the chance to do it! Today was upper body workouts which included bench, curls, dips, hanging leg raises, and shoulder press. No cardio!
Well by the time you are reading this the 12 Days of Fitness will have already begun. It is scary how quickly Christmas is approaching but don’t worry there are more than 12 shopping days left!!
I signed up for the 12 Days of Fitness to receive daily e-mail “gifts” which is described as
Sharing the the knowledge, skills and abilities of over 250 of the world’s leading health and fitness experts each and every day for a full 12 days starting on December 10th and ending with a final bumper sack full of health and fitness presents, enough to fill Santa’s sack 10 times over… and then some!
The free gifts are actually a bunch of promotional materials without lots of helpful content.
And what’s really great is that we have them in all kinds of formats from printable PDF to downloadable audios to follow-along-at-home streaming videos that’ll walk you step-by-step through specific exercise routines and stretching.
I like free content!! Unfortunately there is a small “cost” involved. All of the ones I looked at required you to give your name and e-mail address.
There is a lot of good topics and what could be good content. You can visit Day 1 and Day 2, but I’m not going to post any more links. If I find some really good content I’ll be sure to let you know!
HT Run to Win
Yesterday’s Workout
I started the workout with 15 minutes on the rowing machine. White River Club only has one machine and the computer is broken so I’m not really sure of any stats. This felt better than last time, but I still feel the burn in my back and shoulders! After that I stair climbed for 10 minutes, the program shut down before I got my stats off, but I was a climbing machine!! This is definitely a solid quad workout. I finished the day with 15 easy minutes on the elliptical machine! This was a good 40 minute workout, mostly focused on strength.
Indianapolis native Allison Martin recently completed her second marathon at the St Jude Marathon in Memphis, TN. Martin now lives and works in Nashville, TN and plans to complete her third marathon next spring! She ran the race with her friend Bridget. Excellent job Allison!
YES! Another marathon completed!
This weekend my running partner Bridget and I ran the St. Jude Marathon in Memphis. The weather was great–40s when we started and maybe 60 by the end–with a clear sky and bright sun. Not too strong a sun though. The course was relatively flat with some gradual hills throughout, and sadly some at the end. (Who puts a three-fourths a way up a hill right before mile 24? C’mon!) And several Elvis impersonators, including two at the finish line for a photo op.
Bridget had been having knee pain for the past month or longer, classic runner’s knee, and it started bothering her around mile 13 a lot. We got these way cool temporary tattoos at the registration on Friday that showed your mile times based on your desired finish time. (Check out www.pacetat.com) So we knew that we were a consistent 2 minutes ahead of our 4:45 finish time. Until mile 15. We slowed down quite a bit. Bridget finally convinced me to go on without her since I felt good and her knee was killing. So I took off, determined one of us would finish in our goal time.
And man! I felt GREAT and kept a consistent 10:30 min mile. Not until mile 22 did I really start to slow a bit but by that time, I was so close to the end, I didn’t even care! I ran the whole time, only stopping to stretch at water stops cause my hamstrings were extremely tight!
And then–there it was! AutoZone Park! I entered, ran around the back of the baseball field and crossed the finish line at 4 hours, 42 minutes and 33 seconds!
HOORAY! Now for Country Music April 26th and maybe a 4:20 finish?