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January 28

Run
  • 48m 06s
  • 4.00 miles
  • 12m 01s /Mi

January 27

Sport
  • Walking
  • 45m
Still hacking up a lung, and none too happy about it, and thanks to our wack-a-doodle weather my head decided to go nutso cuckoo.  I'm certainly channeling some bad juju these days, sick, tired, car got hit, hectic on-call shifts with the shelter.  I dunno, hopefully I'm burning off some bad karma of the past, I guess that's how I'll look at it.  I got a new 1/2 marathon plan from the Running Fit coach, definitely more meaty than the Hal Higdon one, so I'm kinda scared.  Not sure I wanna hurt that much, but I guess it'll pay off in the end. We'll see how that goes, but really, 5x a week running?  hmm.  Ok.

January 26

Run
  • 35m 30s
  • 3.00 miles
  • 11m 49s /Mi
Dreadmill.  Mike was taking morning Max duty today, so I decided to keep it indoors, so Max just sat and stared at me as in "Um, aren't we supposed to be doing this together, outside?!"  But he was patient.  I finished and still took him on a loop outside before a shower.  I suppose the miles are getting easier.  I truly cannot imagine what it would have been like to be sedentary your whole life.  I mean we all know people like that right?  I think about my ex sister-in-law, 43 I guess.  Seriously.  Has never done any working out, ever.  I mean I think there were silly little attempts at buying the "abinator" or crap like that.  But at least my body is saying, "Oh, yeah, I remember this"  But to start at 0?  At, well let's just say 49 y/o? Yikes. No wonder our country is in disaster mode with diabetes and obesity.  Outta shape @ middle age, huffing a mile would be demoralizing unless you knew instinctively that it would get easier.  At least I know the carrot at the end is soon I will be uttering "Pfff, 3 miles, that's nothing" :D

January 25

Run
  • 36m 49s
  • 3.00 miles
  • 12m 16s /Mi
Sport
  • Walking
  • 20m

Even the dog didn't want to get out of bed this morning.  I had visions of not going into work but then my laptop was there so I wouldn't even get a skosh of work done if I managed to drag me arse outta bed.  I'm so sick of being sick, that feeling of being icky but not so sick you're comatose.  Eventually the pooch did his shake out the fur routine, so I fig'd that was my alarm to just "do it" as Nike says. Max was gonna be subjected to leash running this morning as I did not want to kill myself on an icy trail, but as we headed down Packard to Stadium I realized how close County Farm Park was so dashed in there for a short loop so he could chase some squirrels. I did feel better today with more sleep, even though I'm still hacking up a lung. 

I suppose sooner or later, each mile will get easier, and I will bring these pathetic times down to the "not so pathetic" range. Ha, you speedsters out there, who knew there were people out there gunning for 11 minute miles.

 

January 24

Run
  • 37m 45s
  • 3.00 miles
  • 12m 34s /Mi
Holy heeving outta shape bag o'bones, Batman.  First for-real timed Garmin run.  So yeah, the depression set in yesterday when I Garmin'd the dog walk yesterday to find out the "supposed" 1.8 mile loop is really 1.5.  All that "I'm faster than I think" is really you're a grandma with a walker.  And today, even if you want to subtract the whooping cough like symptoms, and the fact I was on call and had little sleep last night, I'm still pretty much going in reverse.  I mean it's downright embarrassing that I even posted this.  Mile 1 and 2 I was somewhat alive, no walking, but Mile 3, I seriously thought I'd die.  I thought, ok, this is what mile 11 is gonna feel like on April 14th.  Yes, this is what happens when you give up any substantial forms of exercise for 15 months.  No, walking does not count as exercise.  I don't care what Dr. Oz is deluding his audience into believing.

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January 22

Can i be dying any more than I already am.  This is the worst chest congestion I've had that I can remember in, well, like forever.  I cough so stinking hard I give myself a headache.  I hope the end is in sight b/c I think my ribs are gonna be sore for weeks from all the coughing. <sigh>
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