"Let's Take This Town"

I feel really healthy today.  Running another 5K felt great!  I managed to keep my heart rate at an average of 163bpm, but I wanted to run faster!  It was a depressing forty minute run, but it felt like ten minutes.  I followed it up with some elliptical heart rate training, and I kept my heart rate at 155bpm for an additional fifteen minutes.  I will get to where I want to be, that is if it doesn't kill me first.  Mu-whahahaha!

Take this [POW!] ...heart with extra beats!

In Need of A Ramble

I've got a lot on my mind lately.  A lot of it, I'm sure, is simple, emotional frustration.  This is me letting go.  And, there it goes.  Tomorrow is a new day.  :)

I had a two mile run today on an incline, but I ran too hard for my heart.  Back to the heart rate monitor.

I'm excited for vacation time.  It's a great motivator for healthy, happy days!

I feel like I missed quite a bit, having been sick most of the summer, and am looking forward to Monday's appointment.

Tomorrow is a new day, and it's almost here already! :)

RESTRICTED

Some days some things just seem strange.  Today is one of those days.  Eminem's song is perfect for today.

In running news, I ran two miles Saturday, passed out on a friend's couch, had the best wine and chicken, pineapple, bacon pizza Sunday, then passed out on my brother's sofa.  Today I ran two miles on the track and felt great.  Friday will be three point one timed on the track.  Wednesday, tomorrow, should be another two miles on an incline, but we'll see how that goes.

Some days some things just seem strange.  Today has been one of those days.  Goodnight.

Endurance Running: 8 Miles Completed Successfully

Whoo!  So, I made the eight miles! [BIG SMILEY FACES!]

The program repeated 1mile at 165bpm, .2 at 185, and .2 at 140 until I reached 8 miles.  To my happiness, 185bpm turned out to be too high.  I doubt that I'll run this far again for a while, but it was nice to do it for the first time in over four years.  This is a milestone, and life can only get better.  I'm hoping the fact that I'm off the large amounts of caffeine I used to be on is helping too.  I am down to only tea, and the running feels great!

8 miles in 118 min, 166 bpm avg, 4.1m/h avg... which did leave me walking at times
Having completed the eight miles planned ... priceless.
Knowing that I could have gone further if I hadnt ran out of my Gatorade substitute... even better.  :)

"Back to the Days"

This training is tough.  Today I got the right program, but I only made it 3.9 miles in 50 minutes with an average heart rate of 170 bpm and an average speed of 4.7 miles per hour.  I probably could have ran it a bit faster, but I'm trying to train this heart.  So, I have to continue this, this listening to my heart.

I'm rethinking the next program.

[Nearly an hour later...]

Okay, instead I will run the same run again on Wednesday morning, and then a new program based on heart rate and distance on Friday.  Instead of running for a certain heart rate during a specific amount of time, I've drawn out a plan for an eight mile run for Friday [or maybe Wednesday instead].  Now, this will also have to happen after twelve hours of work, so I will have to plan my morning meals right and be prepared for the calorie hydration during my run.  I'm planning on two hours of running with an average heart rate of 165, which is lower than all of my recent runs.  If I complete this, then it will be the first time I've ran 8 miles since the Modderman days... so probably since early 2006.  I want to complete this before I have to have my next hospital visit.

That next hospital visit comes on the 30th.  I'm not sure what they're going to tell me.

[Another hour and a half later...]

I just was told I need to find a new place to live.  This is God giving me a deadline and comes as no surprise.