My body's still busted up ( Read more... )

I've been doing moderately better at getting my workouts in. I say 'moderately' because I've been hampered by my neck -- I've had the stabbing can't-turn-my-head type of pain on and off but more or less consistently for the last 6 weeks. Some days my neck will move and it's just pain, maybe a 4 on the pain scale; other days it locks up and I can't ( Read more... )

I've struggled a lot with working out / staying fit / being healthy in 2012. My biggest problem has been consistency.

On the short term, my mindset looks like this:

• [Sunday] I'm going to be so healthy this week and work out all the time! I go to the gym. I go to the grocery store and buy awesome high-protein breakfast and lunch ingredients, and ( Read more... )

The Akron Marathon (Relay) is only 2 days away! I am starting to get excited/nervous about it -- last week I was ready to just have it over and done with, but now, I'm preoccupied with how I am going to do and whether the 200 miles of training I've put in are going to show up or not ( Read more... )

Week #4 of Sev's Half-Marathon Training Plan:

Tempo RunLong RunEasy Recovery Runtotaltarget
Week #13.07 mi 5.4 mi 3.2 mi11.67 mi11 mi
Week #23.5 mi 4.85 mi 3.64 mi12 mi12 mi
Week #34 mi 6.6 mi 3.3 mi13.9 mi13.3 mi
Week #43.87 mi 7.5 mi 3.3 mi14.67 mi14.6 mi

This was a pretty bad week for running. I had no energy anywhere; every single run ( Read more... )

I've run over 100 miles in 2010.

More accurately, I've run over 100 miles since I started keeping track, which was after Ohayocon.

100 miles is a lot!

I had a longer post but my day hath exploded in fire and brimstone (more accurately: long meetings and drum-drying) and thus I will just post a big giant YAY @ SELF.