After stepping on the scales shortly after Christmas, I made the decision to train for the big half marathon held in the Middle Tennessee region. There is a bright red line for weight over which the "caution" bells turn to "red alert" bells and I have crossed it.
I still need to go to a physical therapist to try to understand the persistent hip/groin injury (past 3 years), turf toe (9 months), and to make sure I don't tear my hamstrings again, but something has to give and the only way I can consistently motivate myself to train is to lay my money down for a race.
To serve as a source of motivation, I am going to post my current weight and time trial results,and my goal time. I know to many of you my goal time looks awfully slow, but remember Clydesdale run slow over distance, and given my poor results over the past 3 years, rather than attempt a pre-40s PR, I will aim for a post-40 PR. (By virtue of being the first post-40 run.) The time trial I will use to gauge my progress during training is a little bit hilly ~6 mile run from my house that I have used for the past 5 years to track progress. For reference, when I ran a 1:54 half, I was running it around 54 minutes.
Goal time: 2:05:00 Course is somewhat hilly. Avg per mile time 09:32.
Week 1
1/03/09 Wt 220.5 time trial 1:13:24 Avg per mile time 12:20-Not pretty.
Week 2
1/05/09
Updates
1/06/09 Run 3 miles at YMCA. Mile 1: 9:40 Mile 2: 8:45 Mile 3 8:35
Ride bike to work one day.
Wii fit Yoga one day for 30 min.
1/10/09 Play indoor soccer for 1.5 hr. Play about 1 out of every 2 games.
Wt 222.5-Wrong direction.
Week 3
Ride bike to work one day.
1/17/09 Attempt to rerun 6 mile time trial. At mile 3 time is 33:00 and hear sharp popping sound as right calf muscle pulls. Manage to walk home, talking short cuts which probably brings total mileage to 5 miles. Total time 1:15.
Wt 222.5-No progress
Week 4
1/22/09 High step in place for ~50 minutes while watching Lost.
Ride bike to work one day.
1/24/09 Play indoor soccer for 2 hrs (usually sit 1 game in 3.) Calves are tight put don't give out.
Wt 224 Going the wrong way here.
2 comments:
Maybe you are putting on muscle. Try measuring your waist and see if it is getting smaller.
Unfortunately, I think if you look at my training so far, you can see that it really isn't sufficient for any training effect. I have had to stop wearing my pants with smaller waist sizes. So while some of the weight gain may be water retention in inflammed muscle, the rest is probably still too much good food.
SD
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