Merry Christmas Everybody!
Today was supposed to be a rest day, but I was feeling extremely guilty about certain dietary excesses, so I thought I would get in a light workout today. The Lifetime Fitness in Atascocita opened at 15:00 today, and I got there right after that. Did 30 minutes on an Elliptical machine followed by about 55 minutes of upper-body strength training.
Got up really early and flew to Atlanta. Took a Groome shuttle van from Atlanta to Columbus, GA and then on to Fort Benning. Found Gordy Jr.’s truck and started driving back to Humble. Spent the night in a hotel on the S.E. side of Mobile, AL, right by Battleship Park. It was a really neat area, right by the water.
Went for an easy run after I got checked into the hotel. Here is the route that I took:
If you click on the view details at runkeeper.com link, you will also be able to see some pics that I took on the run.
Had a nice ride today on the Fuji Aloha. Road from the house over to Duessen Park, then around the south side of Lake Houston. Continued over to Crosby and north on various farm roads up to Huffman. Crossed Lake Houston on the FM 1960 bridge then cut through various neighborhoods until I got back to the house. Here are the stats:
Duration: 02:53 Distance: 49.04 mi Energy: 3132 kcal Speed: 16.9 mi/hr (avg), 26.9 mi/hr (max) Heart Rate: 121 bpm (avg), 148 bpm (max)
You can view the map and other specs here.
Today is my sweetie’s birthday!!!!
Kingwood Fit Run
We had a nice run with the Kingwood Fit group today. The weather was wonderful and it definitely has a fall influence.
Here is the track as recorded by the Runkeeper app on my iPhone:
Here are a few pictures from the group that I took this morning:
Running – Treadmill
At lunch I went over to Ballys and ran on a treadmill for 50 minutes at a medium pace (boring!).
I’m still experiencing a lot of pain in my left achilles tendon and also on the lower front side of my left leg… maybe shinsplints?
I think I’m going to not do any running until Saturday and instead spend the time that I would have been running on an elliptical machine instead. If I can’t get this cleared up soon I’m going to have to go see good old Dr. Kerr, the sports medicine guy.
Kingwood Fit – 10 mile run
Got up at 04:30 this morning. After some coffee and a bit of breakfast, drove up to the Christ the King Lutheran church in Kingwood. It was raining pretty hard on the drive over. Our group took off at about 06:00. The rain had stopped, but started up again about halfway through the run. Not too hard though so it was pretty pleasant.
I was wearing the Garmin ForeRunner, but it lost the GPS feed at about mile 8 so the last two miles are not recorded. I think it was from the rain.
I read somewhere that a GPS device can usually receive a signal through things like cloth, etc., so long as they are dry, but that even a thin film of water on the device can interfere with the reception.
Partial stats available here.
Run – 40 / tempo
This was nice. Walked briskly for 5 minutes. Ran at tempo for about 45 minutes. Then walked again to cool down. Went out early in the morning. Temperature was great.
Sprint Intervals at Kingwood HS Track
We started doing interval training instead of hills on Tuesdays this week. The Kingwood Fit bunch met at the Kingwood High School track anywhere between 05:00 and 05:30. Coach Gary had us do the following for this first sprint session:
Run two easy laps to warm up, followed by stretching.
Then run 4 laps as follows: Sprint hard on the straight parts and run easy on the curved parts. So there were 8 sprint/rest intervals in all.
Lastly, we ran two easy laps to cool down. I’m assuming that we will add additional sprints each week.
Treadmill at Lifetime Fitness
Distance: 5.02 mi Duration: 00:45 Energy: 521 kcal
Strength Training – NROL Hypertrophy 1A (#6)
Had to do the normal routine in a different sequence than documented due to availability of various stations.
Duration: 00:50 Alternating Sets: DB shoulder press: 30x10,10,10,10 wide grip lat pulldown: 80x10,10,10,10 DB incline bench press: 45x10; 40x10,10,8 cable seated row: 210x10; 180x10,10,10 Alternating sets: BB close grip bench press: 100x10,8,7,6 high pull: 65x10,10,10,10 swiss ball crunch: 45x15,15,15
Swimming – Easy laps
Distance: 20 laps (1 km) Duration: 00:22
Easy Morning Run
OK, today was supposed to be a no-running day, but I was up and wanted to play with the Vibrams.
Distance: 4.69 mi Duration: 01:18 Energy: 820 kcal (estimated by RunKeeper)
You can see the route here.
Afternoon – Cycling with the single-speed bike
Just a quick and easy ride from the house over to Duessen park and back. Kind of a big CCW circle.
Distance: 31.27 mi Duration: 02:01 Energy: 1097 kcal (estimated by RunKeeper)
Ran into some heavy rain on Mount Houston rode. You can see the route here.