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Running Goals

lorene — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:30:40 +0000

I’ve started running, for the first time in over 10 years, on March 12, 2011 in order to train to do a triathlon later this summer. When I started I was slow. Really slow. But I’ve been running 2-4 times a week for the past 2.5 months and in the past week I’ve almost reached my ultimate goal – being able to run a 30 minute 5k. Right now I’m at 10:17 min/mile. I believe in order to reach that I need to run 9:40 min/mile. Sooo..I’m upping my goal. I want to hit a 9 min/mile pace by the end of July.

So here is a chart of my progress. The bars are my pace and the line is my cumulative pace.

March Training Totals

lorene — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 02:38:18 +0000

I don’t think I’ve mentioned on here yet that I’m doing a triathlon this summer. My two sisters are also doing it but I plan to beat them and with the Inaugural Vosky Cup (which Natalie is tasked with creating). The event isn’t until August but I started my training earlier this month.

Swimming and biking aren’t too hard but I haven’t ran seriously since I was in high school. So I started 3 weeks ago and now I can pretty much run 30 minutes straight. I’m not quite to doing the full 5k but I’m sure I’ll be there soon.

Anyway I was checking out my training totals for the month and it’s awesome to see I’ve done over 100 miles this month of which 28 were running! Not too shabby. I am also going to start increasing the amount of time I’m training so those numbers will be going up.

Some other cool fun facts…I’m now the mayor of my gym on fourquare and according the LA Fitness iphone app I’ve been to the gym 19/30 days or 63%.� Not bad!

Build a BikeCam Mount for $10

lorene — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:54:39 +0000

Photojojo has a how-to on building a handlebar mount for your camera for $10.

http://photojojo.com/content/diy/attach-a-camera-to-your-bike/

Being overweight is healthy?

lorene — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:08:05 +0000

Some researchers have found that people who are overweight, according to BMI, have a lower death rate than those classified as normal, underweight or obese.

NY Times: Causes of Death are Linked to a Person’s Weight

Swimmin’

lorene — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:30:39 +0000

I finally went swimming at the gym I joined specifically because it had a pool. Damn it’s hard work! I managed to do 30 minutes of laps, but I was breathing hard after 5 minutes. Back in tha’ day we used to swim laps for like 2 hours straight for swim team and do sprints! I guess I’m going to have to work up to that.

Anyway, this morning I’m off to try out a new yoga studio. There are 50mph wind gusts on the mountains today so I’m not sure I’m going to bother going riding today. With winds like that the lifts might not even be running.