Run Like a Basset Hound!

Running a little low on time this morning, I ditched the 2mi warm up and the .5mi cool down.. Instead I ran .75mi, walked for a second, ran .5mi, walked the last .25 as a cool down. 

I was definitely feeling the brownies, lumpia, and liquid carbs from the football game Sunday! I was hurting most of the way. I didnt feel like I was really breathing fast at any point, but didnt seem to be able to "catch" my breath, and my legs felt offly heavy!

I did 2 sets of push-ups before the phone started ringing for work.. so I ditched the rest of the work out, and hit the shower.

Some is better than none, I guess..

2mi walk in boots, 1.5mi run, .5mi cool down walk.

Felt good today. Ran the whole 1.5mi.

Calf muscles were both really sore durring walk, but I stretched again while I changed my shoes and everything felt really good on the run. Wind was pretty strong durring the warm up walk, but wasnt too bad on the run.

I think Firday I'm going to go 1.75mi on the run, with the idea being I'll do 1.75mi Monday and Friday and 1.5mi on Wednesday next week.

Started a "little" late today, so I'm bailing on my push-ups. I had already decided to skip the sit-ups today in hopes my back will feel better w/ a week off.

Good run..

2mi walk in boots, 1.75mi run, .25mi cool down walk.

The muscles around my right achiles were fairly sore yesterday and this morning my calves felt pretty tight, as well. So I thought I'd stretch and start the walk and see how things went. The first .25-.5mi of the walk my calves were really burning but they losened up and they felt good when I finished the walk. Actually they felt much better than they did Wednesday. So I decided to strech some more and give the run a shot, but I was going to stop at 1.5mi.

I changed my course a little this morning to make room for the extra .25mi w/o having to loop back. I could choose to either stop running .5mi out and get the exact same workout I've been doing or I could keep going to .25mi out. My run felt great, everything felt great.. so I went w/ the longer run. Instead of looping to make my cool down a full .5mi, but I was lazy and just did .25mi.

 My right calf is a little sore now, I'm going to stretch again and I'm thinking next week I'll go w/ 1.5mi Monday and Wednesday, and 1.75mi Friday.

Bailing on pushups again.. bummer..

Took the youngest pup on the warm up walk, so I only did 1.5mi w/ her. Then .75mi run, walk for a sec, .5mi run, .25mi walk.

Legs just didnt feel that great today. Heavy head wind to start. Just before the "cool down walk" my right calf got really tight. Not sore, just tight. So I ditched the last .25mi of the run and turned into the cool down walk.

Didnt feel great after the 1.75mi run Friday, so decided to stick w/ 1.5mi for another week at least.

Still bailing on the calisthenics for now, back feels fine but I dont want to risk tweaking it again w/ a whole bunch of flying coming up in 7 days!

When I started my stretches this morning, I felt a slight twinge in my calf. Not just any twinge, it was in the same area that I've had problems w/. So I bailed on the workout and spent 2 hours palpating, massaging, and stretching my calves. Hopefully an extra day off

So after Wednesday's twinge, I decided to back off a bit. I walked 1mi in my running shoes, ran 1mi, walked .5mi. I think I'll stick w/ this for at least another week. Of course next week I'll miss at least one run, since I lose a whole 24 hours flying.

But I felt good today. A little muscle soreness in the calves, but nothing bad. Everything else, including lungs felt good.

Did my push-ups and sit-ups at the end.

Walked .5mi, ran 1mi, walked .25mi, ran .25mi, walked .25mi

Felt good. Legs were a little heavy at the end of the 1mi run. Strong head wind on the way out.

Shins were pretty tight at the end of the 1mi run. I stopped and stretched them for a second, before going into the walk.

Did my push-ups and sit-ups. Couldnt quite hang w/ the sit-ups.. only got 90 instead of the 106 I was suppose to do today. Got all 80 push-ups though!

Dont know when my next post will be.. dont really know when my next work-out will be either, but I should have time to get one in Friday at the latest!

.5mi walk, 1.75mi run, .25mi walk, .25mi run, .25mi walk.

Felt good, finally got adjusted to the time change AND actually had time to run. I should have just got up and ran at least one of the last few morning when I woke up in the middle of the night and couldnt go back to sleep..

But felt good, and I can now say I've run on 2 continents.