Feel the burn

So after a 7 mile workout in 90 minutes on Thursday, followed by a 25 minute cool down, I knew that I would be sore. I honestly thought my level of discomfort would be higher than it was, and it was truly only bad when I had been sitting for a long time and then went to move. Soccer last night did not hurt too much after I warmed up, either, which was also very encouraging.

With the workout plan that I have formulated, I have a hard workout where I am truly working on increasing time and/or distance. Then an easy run of shorter time and distance the next day. Day 3 is a day off from running, but not necessarily being lazy. These are days to workout while at work if I get the chance. The 4th day is then another easy workout, followed by another hard workout. This way I am pushing my time and distance without burning myself out.

Before I decided to do the Corvallis Half Marathon on April 10th, I bought 3 Jillian Michaels workout DVDs. This was my way of committing to work out. Workout videos have never been my thing, and I don't admit this lightly. But because I was finding ways to get out of working out, and seeing changes that I did not like at all, I needed to do SOMETHING to make me stick to a routine.


Hard workout Thursday, soccer for moderate workout Friday, and work today means an alternative means of being active. My new DVDs arrived just yesterday and I figured once the clients went to bed I could pop one of those in and be just fine. I chose a 50 minute plan, including 5 minutes each of warm up and cool down times. I did not finish. That workout was butt kicking... I made it half way! I will say that some of this is directly due to residual soreness from marathon training 2 days ago, but the fact is that it was also just that challenging! So with that said, tomorrow is a moderate run, and I am really going to try and bring in some more of this workout video too!

Major workout update!

I signed up for a half marathon. The event is April 10th, 2011. I will have up to 4.5 hours to finish, but do not plan on using all that time. I did a good starter workout today, just to see where I am at. I don't feel as crazy or scared as I did when I clicked "register now" for this half marathon.

I am going running more, and today just showed that I am not in a bad spot to consider doing this!

Workin' Hard for the Dollar!

I am at work right now, but wanted to share this list:
Hillbilly Medical Terms

Benign......What you be affter you be eight.
Bacteria....Back door to cafeteria
Barium......What you do with dead folks
Cesarrean Section....A neighborhood in Rome
CAT scan....Searching for the cat
Cauterize...Made eye contact with her
Colic.......A sheep dog
Coma........A punctuation mark
D & C.......Where Washington is
Dilate......To live longer than your kids do.
Enema.......not a friend
Fester......quicker than someone else
Fibula......A small lie
G.I. Series....World series of military baseball.
Hangnail....what you hang your coat on
Impotent....distinguished, well known
Labor Pain..getting hurt at work
Morbid.....a higher offer than I did
Nitrates....cheaper than day rates
Medical Staff....A doctor's cane, sometimes shown with a snake.
Node.......I knew it
Outpatient....A person who has fainted
Pap smear....A fatherhood test
Pelvis.....Second cousin to Elvis
Post Operative....a letter carrier
Recovery room....place to do upholstery
Secretion......hiding something
Terminal illness.....getting sick at the train station
tumor......more than one
Urine.....opposite of mine
Varicose.....nearby
hospital.....the biggest building in town, other than Joe's feed warehouse or Frank's


That aside, I have been eating a LOT of chocolate recently! I have been doing more running, walking, playing with the dog and have started into that spring-time rush of yard work! I have been doing more cooking while at home, and am feeling pretty good. I have joined a second soccer team, at least for the first half of this current season. This is something I would like to make more permanent, playing 2 days per week. I have also decided that I would like to start clocking/mapping some of my jogging routes to continue to monitor my workout progress.