Not much happened this week, exercise wise. I had
another appointment Thursday morning with the RunLab sports therapist. We
did LOTS of fun (yes, I’m weird and think PT exercises are fun) exercises that
I’m looking forward to doing on my own because he assigned them as homework and
each week that I come back to see him, he’ll be adding more exercises for me to
do. A few of the exercises he wants me to do on an incline or a slight
hill. I was trying and trying to think of where to find a hill or incline
as around where I live is pretty flat. I mean, there’s a part of the park
trail that goes under the road so there’s a bit of a hill there and I can drive
there and park and there’s also a decomposed granite “paved” circle around a
soccer field so I can do like some track work after I do my exercises…or just
run mindlessly in circles. Ha! Or I can run the 3 mile loop once or
twice after them.
After my RunLab appointment, I drove to my gym, parked and
then ran down the street for 2 miles and then back for a total of 4
miles. The route was just a straight shot down the road, but it was chock
full of rolling hills. YEA! Since I have the Austin Marathon coming
up in February, I really need to focus on training on hilly routes and doing
speed work on top of my long runs. I just had an idea…what if I run the
hilly routes and ALSO do speed work…I can do fartleks up the hills and then run
really slow for recovery on the flats and downhills. I like this
idea!
After my 4 mile run, I went inside
the gym and did some core work. I used the glute master (it’s a kickback
action), then I did the 3-way ab crunch machine, then the back extension
machine and finished up with the rotary torso machine. I really wanted to
get on the Jacob’s Ladder machine, but as I was walking over to it, a guy was
strapping himself to it and starting to use it. Wah wah. After
that, I went home and finished up my core workout on my TRX straps by doing
some pikes. It was recommended to me by a friend that I add a push up
after each pike rep. So next time that’s just what I’m going to do!
And, in case you’re wondering what a pike is, you can check out the video of me
doing them on my Instagram (@sararunsthisweigh) or on my Facebook page www.facebook.com/sararunsthisweigh.
Today, I ran with a free running group called Al’s Ship of
Fools. It was supposed to be a 13 mile
route, but the pacer I chose forgot her map of the route and I couldn’t find
the map on their website on my phone, so we just ended up taking a couple wrong
turns and I finished at 12.4 miles. I’m
not worried about it, though. They had a
fantastic breakfast spread for us after the run and I had half of a cinnamon
roll, some sausage/egg/cheese casserole and a chocolate donut with chocolate
filling. So yummy. I hope to run with them again in the
future! When I got home, I showered and
took a nap. This afternoon, I was going
to go to the gym, but discovered that they either closed early or were closed
all day today. So, I still wanted to do
some strength training, so I did a few exercises on my TRX straps that I have
in my apartment. I did row, tricep
extension, bicep curl and supermans. As basic
as those exercises are and I only did 3 sets of 8 reps of each, I will probably
still be sore tomorrow just because of my complete lack of strength training
over the past 3.5 months.
I still weigh myself daily, so long as I have access to a
scale. However, at this time I’m not
going to be posting that information. I will
start January 1st with all of that.
Full disclosure, I promise. I have
regained some weight, so I do have some work to be done in that
department. I think I’m just going to do
weight and measurement and progress photo posts once a month, on the 1st
of every month. I’ll wear the same swim
suit for all progress photos…most likely my flag bikini because, well, it’s the
most revealing one I have, no extra flair that can distort or distract how the
photos are viewed (aka: no fringe or whatnot).
So, I’m looking forward to that!
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