Tales from the Cube

Running Like The Wind

sucrizzle — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:36:01 +0000

Well, the Saturday was about as good as I had planned; had a planned cheat 1/2 day with my eating, got in a weight workout and got some work done. This is hopefully the last working weekend for a long, long time.

Sunday I had planned on getting a lot of yard work done, doing some shopping and going for a run. It pretty heavily rained until about 1:30, so that got me out of doing the yard work, and at about 2:30 (after a long internal debate), I put on my running shoes, all of my wonderful running gadgets and got my butt outside. In my training schedule, this was my 4-week-to-go 5K test run, so I was hoping to keep a 5:00 per KM pace to see if I am on pace for a 25 min 5K in September; I was hoping for at least a 25:30 to make sure I was on pace. I decided to just run what I thought was a decent pace and take a look at my time at the half distance mark (I have this run all mapped out in terms of each KM mark). At the halfway point, I looked at my time and I’m at a 4:30 per KM pace. What the…?!?! Feeling somewhat encouraged and very tired I managed to keep going for the 5 KM with a small drop in my pace after the 3KM mark.

I completed my test 5K in 23:00 and, considering that my previous PR was 25:55, I was pretty darn impressed with myself. Now I just need to be able to do that when it counts! I’m thinking I may now aim for a sub-23 5K during my race which will hopefully have me finish in the top half of my age group.

I’m looking forward to the training the next for weeks and hopefully the hard work will pay off.

Fun with Pagers II

sucrizzle — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:50:35 +0000

Another night of fun with production support issues; I’m hoping I can get a full night’s sleep one of these days. Doesn’t look like it will be this weekend as I’ve got work to do this weekend.

Going to get my workouts back on track today, I’ve got a weight day planned for today, a 5K run this evening and a baseball game later tonight. Hopefully the pager is quiet tonight…

Not a Bad Start, Not a Great Start

sucrizzle — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:12:57 +0000

Yesterday I began my first Tour of Duty through the 52DC. Overall, I started the day motivated and was able to keep my eating habits on track; if there’s one thing I know about myself, it’s that if I can keep my eating habits on track, everything else is ~~gravy,~~ ~~piece of cake,~~…Are there any sayings that would fit here that don’t revolve around sodium or sugar laden foods?

I didn’t get my workouts in that I had hoped for, mainly because I was still tired from Tuesday where I had a 3 mile run, a 1 hour session with a trainer (which involved weights and another 2.5 miles of running) and a hockey game. Yesterday I had hoped to go for a run after work, but I got stuck at work for 2 hours longer than I had hoped and lost all interest in running for the day.

After getting home and spending most of the evening on the couch resting up my legs, I decided that I would go for a run before work today. Well, as I am on-call at my place of employment, I had a fun evening of fixing problems until about 4:30 am, then got to sleep around 5:00 am, got paged again at 6:30 am, got back to sleep shortly after 7:00 am and got paged yet again at 8:30 am (2 on-call days down, 12 to go). So today isn’t panning out as well as I had hoped either.

I did manage to get out for a run around 9:30 this morning and it was a surprisingly good workout considering the lack of sleep.

Hopefully sometime soon I can get a workout in after a good rest…