What ever it takes!

Tough start after a long weekend, woke up late then half way to work I realized I'd forgotten my key to get in the building and had to go back home so my run was cut short.  I'm going to attempt doubles all this week at lunch so maybe shorter 4-5 miles each is better anyway.

6 miles at the Fitness center followed by some weights.  Didn't get my double in yesterday, not sure if it will happen today either.

I've been going to Orem Rec center for about a month now and just barely figured out that they have an indoor track.  I guess I noticed the stairs but never really thought about what was down there :)  So today I ran on the track instead, it was a nice change, definately cooler than the cardio farm with a nice breeze, it was nice to have other people to pass to make the time go by faster.  6.2 laps = 1 mile in the outer lane 6.5 on the inner, according to the chart so I just ran 38 laps in the outer lane.  Its a concrete track so probably harder on the feet and joints than the treadmill but definately a nice change.

I really like the indoor track but I can almost feel the shin splints coming on every step on that hard concrete.  I was a little bit sore this morning so I started on the elliptical and then did 25 laps on the track.  I better stop all this non-treadmill running or I wont get a 1000 treadmill miles in this year :)

20 minutes on the elliptical, 31 laps on the track and about 15 minutes of weights.
 

Good run today, had pretty good energy and no pain to speak of.  I decided to not risk running on the track too much so I hit the treadmill.  6 miles followed by weights.

Between helping carry Carina's fancy new Boston Marathon Treadmill into her basement, and shoveling mounds and mounds of snow all weekend my arms were pretty shot.

10 minutes on the elliptical to get warmed up then 44 laps on the track.  Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday are Counterclock wise days on the track which equates to 172 left turns on concrete which I think is really bad on my left hamstring among other things.  So tomorrow back to the treadmill.
 

10 minutes on the elliptical, 6 miles on the treadmill.  Seemed hard today!

Did my standard 10 minutes of elliptical followed by 6 mile slow progression run, but then I did something wild and crazy.  I was feeling so good I decided to do some sprints, did 5 on 5 off (jogs) for another mile.  Felt good to run fast for just a little bit, this may sound weird but I have been so out of shape I felt like I couldn't get back into shape, I'm finally starting to see some progress, where I can actually push myself a little bit to where I feel like I'm getting a workout at the end.  I think for a while my cardio level was way higher than my body would let me go so I just never felt like I was getting a workout.

For my company work party we play games and the winner in each catagory gets $500 apparently.  The games are Badmittin, Darts, Bull Riding, Foosball, PingPong, Airhockey, Basketball, and Shuffleboard.  I signed up for the AirHockey, let the training begin.  $500 for Christmas will be nice.

Not much to say,  glad to have had a good consistant running week finally.
 

Oh, I forgot.  Not that my blog is the greatest place to advertise but my wife is friends with the owner of Fleetfeet in American Fork.  She wanted me to post that they are going out of business and everything is 35% off.

A little bit out of it today, I started out thinking it would just be an elliptical sort of day but then after 20 minutes I got bored and went down to the track, 31 laps for a total of 5 miles.  The last 4 laps were a little bit faster cause I thought someone was going to pass me.  They didn't.

Have you noticed that unless you can run a 2:30/2:50W marathon no one visits your blog anymore.  Seems like the blog has changed, I know my perspective of the blog has changed since I started but I thought that was just me.

10 minutes on the elliptical, 2.?? miles on the treadmill until it died on me, then I went down to the track and ran 24 laps for a total of 6 miles running.  Finished the last lap with a nice sprint.

I finally saw a doctor about my hamstring, it only took me 9 months.  Anyway, he told me that it seems I have a pretty severe tear in my one of my (technical word) hamstring muscles.  He seems to think it will require surgery to fix it.  I'm a little up in the air about that because it's obviously getting better on it's own since I can actually kind of run again so the question is at this point what would put me out longer, surgery or natures course.  I suppose I'll go get an MRI someday, I just hate the whole doctor thing.
 

I woke up thinking this might be the last chance I have to drive my Camaro this year, bad mistake, I made it about 200' out of my driveway before getting it completely stuck on a flat surface.  I spent the next 45 minutes digging, and spinning my tires to no avail.  I finally worked up the nerve to wake up my wife at 5:15 to come push me home with her car.  I'll never hear the end of it.  "I told you that car was a stupid idea!"  "We live in Utah what do you expect"

So by the time I made it to work in the good ol' Mazda I wasn't in the mood for running so 45 minutes on the elliptical.

Felt like garbage this morning but I had to get my 4 miles in for a total of 1000 2013 treadmill miles.  I know, pretty sad when my only stat worth mentioning is treadmill running.  I looked back when I actually had a good running year and only had 700 treadmill miles.

20 minutes on the elliptical, 31 laps around the Rec Center track, Some little 8 year old girl kept sprinting past me and then stopping and then sprinting past me again.  She was cute but it was a little annoying.  Another Teenager was running in leather moccasins, I thought that was cool, bringin' back minimulist before minimulist was cool.