Excercise log, day 2.
So I didn't get up early enough to do my distance x2. It brought me some sadness. I did force myself out, even though I left later in the evening than I did yesterday. I walked the same route, but was trying to make myself go faster. I wanted to see a much improved time on there like 10-15min. I was not as lucky today, but I did impress myself tonight. I shaved off 7 minutes. (Must remember that I take a short break, before I do the final leg home, to stretch my legs some.)
What I need to do now, is to figure out where I can make up some distance to make it so I am walking a good round 4.5miles. if I can find out where to make up the distance, and get myself to do that distance in 1 hr, I may stay there for a week....but ever pushing myself (and shaving off time) until I feel comfortable with that distance. Then, increase it to 5 miles or even 6.
Once I get that then work on that distance to lower to 1hr, etc etc until I can feel confident to force myself to jog the whole distance(which at 6miles in 1 hr, I am basically doing just that). Which, turns to getting myself up to hopefully 10-15 miles in an hr. When I achieve 10-15miles in the hr, I am going to then push distance more until, well, I am basically full out running like 20-25 in that hr.
I know that almost sounds out land-ish(sp?), Especially coming from a recently-quit x-smoker, who has a bad back. But, with the proper regimen, and core muscle strengthening I am quite sure it is possible, even for me.
Simply put, by this time next year, I want to be able to run a marathon, and not have an issue doing so. It is going to take a lot to do this pseudo-goal, but if I don't push myself one this front, I can see myself slipping to worse health, and I don't want to end up absolutely unhealthy.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have similar announcement, if not having finding the distance, but atleast reducing time.
(ctrl+k+x)
What I need to do now, is to figure out where I can make up some distance to make it so I am walking a good round 4.5miles. if I can find out where to make up the distance, and get myself to do that distance in 1 hr, I may stay there for a week....but ever pushing myself (and shaving off time) until I feel comfortable with that distance. Then, increase it to 5 miles or even 6.
Once I get that then work on that distance to lower to 1hr, etc etc until I can feel confident to force myself to jog the whole distance(which at 6miles in 1 hr, I am basically doing just that). Which, turns to getting myself up to hopefully 10-15 miles in an hr. When I achieve 10-15miles in the hr, I am going to then push distance more until, well, I am basically full out running like 20-25 in that hr.
I know that almost sounds out land-ish(sp?), Especially coming from a recently-quit x-smoker, who has a bad back. But, with the proper regimen, and core muscle strengthening I am quite sure it is possible, even for me.
Simply put, by this time next year, I want to be able to run a marathon, and not have an issue doing so. It is going to take a lot to do this pseudo-goal, but if I don't push myself one this front, I can see myself slipping to worse health, and I don't want to end up absolutely unhealthy.
Hopefully tomorrow I will have similar announcement, if not having finding the distance, but atleast reducing time.
(ctrl+k+x)