Hey all,
First off, congrats on the 1/2 marathon! I look forward to hearing about it tonight. Anyways, I seriously need to recalibrate my Nike+iPod thingy. This was the first LONG run I did with the new shoes + the Nike sensor. I did 12 miles but it said only 10.51 which is a HUGE difference!
Also, I think I calibrated it incorrectly when I first got it. I didn't know you had to go to a track and run exactly 400m. I thought you just had to run until the thing said it reached 400m. Doh! I'll try to recalibrate it at the track on Wed.
Anyways, I ran today and I accidentally ended the workout at a waterstop. Then, when I got to the waterstop again later, I did it again! DOH! So that's why there are 3 parts...
Anyways, my YouTube crush was there today and we ran together for most of the way. In the beginning it was me, her, and another guy, so I didn't really talk to her as much as if it was a one-on-one conversation (which is good, cuz I didn't wanna give too much Andrew). But I did talk to her a little bit. At one point in the run she fell behind so I just talked with the guy until we reached the waterstop. After we got our water, she ran and came to the waterstop with another girl. When we started running again I talked to my YouTube crush one-on-one which was nice while the girl talked to the guy up front. It was good cuz it was the end part of the practice.
She showed me her new Nike+ wristband thingy she recently got (the same thing except without the iPod) and so I just challenged her today on the website. Muahahahahahaha...
---Andrew =)
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wed Hill Workout #2
Went to the TNT Hill Workout last night.
We started out doing a couple of warmup laps and after the 2 laps I forgot to pause my workout for a LONG TIME while we were stretching... so long, that the Nike+iPod just paused the workout for me (so I'm not sure how long it was going for)... anyways, after stretching we did sprint strides and I didn't resume the workout for 2 of the first laps for that, oh well.
But it's all good... just a few minor things. I got fitted for new shoes yesterday (there will be a video about it) before practice and then wore my new kicks there-- Brooks Adrenaline GTS shoes with a little stability (I found out that I have mild pronation). Almost $100 bucks ouch! Next time I'm getting them online or something.
Anyways, the hill workout was intense but good. I definitely feel that I OWN the run whenever the ground is flat, but once there's just a little hillage the run owns me haha (or, maybe not owns me but I at least don't OWN the run anymore). That being said, I was still the #2 runner in practice last night.
---Andrew =)
We started out doing a couple of warmup laps and after the 2 laps I forgot to pause my workout for a LONG TIME while we were stretching... so long, that the Nike+iPod just paused the workout for me (so I'm not sure how long it was going for)... anyways, after stretching we did sprint strides and I didn't resume the workout for 2 of the first laps for that, oh well.
But it's all good... just a few minor things. I got fitted for new shoes yesterday (there will be a video about it) before practice and then wore my new kicks there-- Brooks Adrenaline GTS shoes with a little stability (I found out that I have mild pronation). Almost $100 bucks ouch! Next time I'm getting them online or something.
Anyways, the hill workout was intense but good. I definitely feel that I OWN the run whenever the ground is flat, but once there's just a little hillage the run owns me haha (or, maybe not owns me but I at least don't OWN the run anymore). That being said, I was still the #2 runner in practice last night.
---Andrew =)
Monday, August 25, 2008
3 RUNS
YOOOOO...
I did three runs since my last update but didn't post them-- whoops!
1.) Anyways, last Sunday the 17th I ran an EASY 15 miles during TNT practice... the fact that my YouTube crush and I ran together alone and talked for a while helped. We told stories and just yapped on for a while and that helped me.
2.) Then, on Wed the 20th, I went to West LA College to do a track workout with TNT. My YouTube crush wasn't there, but it was all good. We ran a 1200 (3 laps), then 800 (2 laps), then 400 (1 lap) with very short breaks in between and tried to get faster with each one. Then after we did that, we took a longer break for a few minutes and then did another set of 1200, 800, and 400. By the second set I was exhausted.
Here's the results...
And afterwards we did 2 "cool down" laps (I didn't know we were going to do this so that's why I had ended my workout)...
3.) Then, on Saturday we did a practice 1/2 marathon. I pushed myself and ran hard (but not too hard in the beginning) and felt that I had a good run. There were 2 big hills that we had to go up and down. The course was VERY confusing and I'm surprised most people didn't get lost. I felt like an idiot because at the end I made a wrong turn and ended up running the long way to the finish line (probably an extra .5 mile or 1 mile)... I felt embarrassed and dumb and didn't feel like wearing my plastic medal. All the people that I worked hard to pass were already there at the finish line when I showed up. There should've been a person to direct me at that fork but there wasn't so I just ran straight instead of making a right turn. Oh wellz... the course I heard wasn't exactly 13.1 (but more like 12.87 if I heard correctly)... so maybe I was the only one that really ran a 1/2 marathon. My time that I kept for myself was *1:57:56 (it really deserves that asterisk)... based on other people's run times and where I was in relation to them, my guess at my official time should've been around 1:50 (or, let's just say 1:49:59 haha). Anyways, if we do another 1/2 marathon I'll try to be faster.
Oh and my YouTube crush actually flirted with me on Sat... I had thought the game was over after Sunday's practice and had given up, but now the game is back on...
---Andrew =)
I did three runs since my last update but didn't post them-- whoops!
1.) Anyways, last Sunday the 17th I ran an EASY 15 miles during TNT practice... the fact that my YouTube crush and I ran together alone and talked for a while helped. We told stories and just yapped on for a while and that helped me.
2.) Then, on Wed the 20th, I went to West LA College to do a track workout with TNT. My YouTube crush wasn't there, but it was all good. We ran a 1200 (3 laps), then 800 (2 laps), then 400 (1 lap) with very short breaks in between and tried to get faster with each one. Then after we did that, we took a longer break for a few minutes and then did another set of 1200, 800, and 400. By the second set I was exhausted.
Here's the results...
And afterwards we did 2 "cool down" laps (I didn't know we were going to do this so that's why I had ended my workout)...
3.) Then, on Saturday we did a practice 1/2 marathon. I pushed myself and ran hard (but not too hard in the beginning) and felt that I had a good run. There were 2 big hills that we had to go up and down. The course was VERY confusing and I'm surprised most people didn't get lost. I felt like an idiot because at the end I made a wrong turn and ended up running the long way to the finish line (probably an extra .5 mile or 1 mile)... I felt embarrassed and dumb and didn't feel like wearing my plastic medal. All the people that I worked hard to pass were already there at the finish line when I showed up. There should've been a person to direct me at that fork but there wasn't so I just ran straight instead of making a right turn. Oh wellz... the course I heard wasn't exactly 13.1 (but more like 12.87 if I heard correctly)... so maybe I was the only one that really ran a 1/2 marathon. My time that I kept for myself was *1:57:56 (it really deserves that asterisk)... based on other people's run times and where I was in relation to them, my guess at my official time should've been around 1:50 (or, let's just say 1:49:59 haha). Anyways, if we do another 1/2 marathon I'll try to be faster.
Oh and my YouTube crush actually flirted with me on Sat... I had thought the game was over after Sunday's practice and had given up, but now the game is back on...
---Andrew =)
Sunday, August 17, 2008
8 mi @ the beach
Ran up HB yesterday morning. 84.5 min / 8 mi = 10.6 min/mi. Our goal was "10 min/mi" so I think we hit it no problem. This was in spite of a very slow upset-stomach start. Temps were good until the last half mile when the sun came out and it got muggy.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
WED HILL WORKOUT
Yesterday, I went to my first ever hill workout with TNT. It was the first time for my YouTube crush too... more on that later.
Anyways, I showed up at 7am all ready to do the workout-- but then found out that the practices were held at night... WHOOPS! I had even written 7PM on my schedule. I'm dumb.
12 hours later, I was ready and nervous. Nervous cuz I was going to ask out my YouTube crush while running. It was a tough series of going back up and down and doing squats and pushups at the bottom each time. I forgot to pause my workout a couple times when I went down and did my squats and pushups... whoops again.
Also, before asking her out I was NERVOUS... so nervous that it was hard for me to speak to her... there was some silences during our run, but then I asked her if she wanted to see Batman. She seemed interested but said something about her roommate wanting to see it too, so I took it as a rejection and didn't really run with her or talk to her until the end of the night when we said goodbye. Everyone's been telling me that I overreacted so yeah, my bad. Whoops a third time.
Anyways, the hill workout was good but I hope to redeem myself in the female dept on Sunday. I've been wasting too much time dwelling in it... grrrr!!!
---Andrew
Anyways, I showed up at 7am all ready to do the workout-- but then found out that the practices were held at night... WHOOPS! I had even written 7PM on my schedule. I'm dumb.
12 hours later, I was ready and nervous. Nervous cuz I was going to ask out my YouTube crush while running. It was a tough series of going back up and down and doing squats and pushups at the bottom each time. I forgot to pause my workout a couple times when I went down and did my squats and pushups... whoops again.
Also, before asking her out I was NERVOUS... so nervous that it was hard for me to speak to her... there was some silences during our run, but then I asked her if she wanted to see Batman. She seemed interested but said something about her roommate wanting to see it too, so I took it as a rejection and didn't really run with her or talk to her until the end of the night when we said goodbye. Everyone's been telling me that I overreacted so yeah, my bad. Whoops a third time.
Anyways, the hill workout was good but I hope to redeem myself in the female dept on Sunday. I've been wasting too much time dwelling in it... grrrr!!!
---Andrew
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Alright-- running is going very well. I ran today and also last Sunday (didn't get a chance to post last Sunday's until now)...
LAST SUNDAY...
TODAY...
Things are going pretty well with me and YouTube girl but there might be a couple of roadblocks. I'm probably going to go ask her out tomorrow so I'll keep you both posted on that schtuff.
In terms of running, I'm just getting better. I tried out my first Gu gel ("chocolate outrage" flavor) at about 50 minutes of working out and it definitely gave me a boost. Running was easy after that point. I finished first today amongst my huge group (finished with 2 top runners today as a group) and I wasn't even that tired after finishing.
In less than 2 weeks we'll be doing a practice (but official-like, with bibs and gunshots etc) 1/2 marathon at the Rose Bowl with the other TNT groups from different parts of LA. I know it's not a competition, but it would be awesome to whoop the other teams. It would also be awesome to finish first out of my whole running group, or dare I say-- out of all the other LA TNT chapters???
---Andrew =)
LAST SUNDAY...
TODAY...
Things are going pretty well with me and YouTube girl but there might be a couple of roadblocks. I'm probably going to go ask her out tomorrow so I'll keep you both posted on that schtuff.
In terms of running, I'm just getting better. I tried out my first Gu gel ("chocolate outrage" flavor) at about 50 minutes of working out and it definitely gave me a boost. Running was easy after that point. I finished first today amongst my huge group (finished with 2 top runners today as a group) and I wasn't even that tired after finishing.
In less than 2 weeks we'll be doing a practice (but official-like, with bibs and gunshots etc) 1/2 marathon at the Rose Bowl with the other TNT groups from different parts of LA. I know it's not a competition, but it would be awesome to whoop the other teams. It would also be awesome to finish first out of my whole running group, or dare I say-- out of all the other LA TNT chapters???
---Andrew =)
Friday, August 01, 2008
51 min / 5.2 mi = 9.8 min/mi
I had some terribly greasy tacos for lunch and was feeling extra jiggly. I needed to run to at least recoup some of the damage from those tacos. I read recently that 1 mi running is the same caloric burn as 1 mi walking. So I'm going to concentrate less on the pace and more on the distance. I think that will benefit me more, and probably it will be easier on my legs/ankles if I incorporate a bit more walking here and there. I'm going to try to keep my heart rate up though - I think it has to be in a certain range to do the fat burning, but I don't really know. :P
I had some terribly greasy tacos for lunch and was feeling extra jiggly. I needed to run to at least recoup some of the damage from those tacos. I read recently that 1 mi running is the same caloric burn as 1 mi walking. So I'm going to concentrate less on the pace and more on the distance. I think that will benefit me more, and probably it will be easier on my legs/ankles if I incorporate a bit more walking here and there. I'm going to try to keep my heart rate up though - I think it has to be in a certain range to do the fat burning, but I don't really know. :P
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