Posted on 15th July 2010 by Ben Krasner in Health & Fitness
Physical Fitness, Weight Loss
It’s day four of my born-again active ways with the continued goal of putting down a nice base to build on for the coming weeks of physical activity. As I wrote earlier, I have registered for this Sunday’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight Run in University Circle and have altered this weeks plan a little bit to accommodate that event. Natalie and I both felt pretty strong and surprisingly pain free after three days of training. As a result, I decided to work extra hard today and take tomorrow and Saturday off before the event to recharge. Any muscle soreness or stiffness from today will be long gone after two days off.
Together we repeated the first three days workout schedule and felt more confident doing so. After we were complete with our workout, I went back outside and did some additional running. Since we jog our neighborhood route, I decided I would like to push it up and train a little harder on shorter runs. There’s a stretch from our house to the next subdivision intersection that is almost exactly a tenth of a mile and I was running that at what I felt was about 85% of my top end distance running speed. I did 8 of those (based on 4 quarters, just like in football conditioning) and was pretty gassed afterwords. I let myself rest while walking it off and then ended up in the circle in front of our house doing some short 75% sprints, some backpedaling and some shuffling to begin to work some of the muscles in my legs that haven’t seen much stimulation in some time.
The workout went well. It was hot and I pushed it for longer than I had in the previous three days… I put out some serious sweat in the process. Now it’s two days off before a 5K on Sunday. I’m excited! It feels good to finally get back to being active. I’m not sure what took me so long to wake up and realize that a 60 – 65 hour a week, oatmeal brain producing, life wasting job wasn’t the right main ingredient in my life’s recipe. But if I didn’t have regrets, I guess I wouldn’t be human.
Posted on 15th July 2010 by Ben Krasner in Day to Day Goodies | Health & Fitness
Healthy Kids Healthy Weight Run, Physical Fitness, Weight Loss
Good morning! So, I’ve decided to do it. I’ve registered for this Sunday’s Healthy Kids, Healthy Weight Run in University Circle. The cost is $16 (including a small registration fee) and it’s being put on by Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital with Aetna as one of the prime sponsors. I fully intend to take advantage of the fact that it is a run/walk because there’s no way I can run 3.1 miles from start to finish. I hope to get a great look at just how horribly out of shape I am in and finishing in the middle of the pack would be a victory, I think.
3.1 miles… wow. Thinking about it, I’m not sure if I have completed 3 miles since my high school football days – honestly. When I was in college I was in great shape because I was at the rec center every opportunity I got but, even then, I was only running a mile at the beginning of my workout and a mile at the end. I’m going to need every bit of energy I can muster. And, actually, my biggest challenge of all might just be getting there. The event is at 8:30 in the morning on a Sunday, with check in and packet pick up starting at 7:00. It’s about a 35 minute drive up there and I have no idea where to park. So I’ll likely be leaving at around 6:30 am … on a Sunday. Those hours just don’t exist for me so I hope I can pull it off (the event AND getting up in the morning… or maybe those should be the other way around).
Since I’ve signed up for this, I’ve decided that I want to take note of working out before hand. I don’t think I want to work out on Saturday at all and I probably will end up counting Sunday’s activities towards this week’s goal of 5 days. So I will probably manufacture two days off. Right now I’m thinking of taking today off, then working out tomorrow and taking Saturday off. We’ll see how Natalie feels… she could encourage me one way or another. For instance I could go real hard working out, today, and then take Friday and Saturday off to recharge – I’m flexible, here.
