chris' random ramblings

Successfully completed day 2 today: 20, 25, 15, 15, >= 25 (I managed 30).

Today was supposed to be a 3k easy run for the Around the Bay training. I was feeling pretty energetic, so decided to stick to the 3k distance, but to go a bit harder. I programmed my garmin to do a 3km, 5:15min/km workout, and off I went into the -15 weather! My route has a few small hills in it, so I thought it would make for a good workout.

I managed to do it in 15:48, which works out to 5:16min/km. I’ll call that close enough to count Next week I’ll try to hit 5:10.

If this article from getfitslowly.com is to be believed, then I shouldn’t have put my 100 push up challenge on hold while I had a cold.

My dad always said (about exercise, among other things), “It’ll either make you feel a whole lot better, or a whole lot worse.” Maybe this is a truism, but my experience has been that exercise while sick usually does make me feel better. Especially running. Maybe that’s because I’m more accustomed to running than to weight training or push ups?

So I guess my month-long break can be chalked up to laziness

Ok, back on the wagon for real now!

After working my way up to week 4 in December, then falling sick with a cold or two, I haven’t been doing push ups regularly for a few weeks now.

I decided to start at week 3 again. So today I did my 5 sets of 14, 18, 14, 14, >=20 with a minute rest between sets. I managed to complete 26 on the last set, which gives me some confidence that I haven’t lost all progress I had made up to December!

In other exercise news, I’ve registered for the 2009 Around the Bay Race. This is a 30km run around the Hamilton Bay on March 29th. I’m trying to follow their training program, and so far so good. I did my 14km run yesterday instead of on Sunday, and it went pretty well, except for the last 1.5km which was on a trail that was packed snow. Man, I had no idea running on snow was so hard! It’s a great workout for sure!

I’ve been using Map My Run to track my progress and routes and such. It’s pretty cool, although I wish they would let you graph your pace over time. I want to know if I’m getting faster or slower!