Posts made in October, 2010

Schedule

Posted by Administrator on Oct 7, 2010 in Me | 0 comments

Saturday: Did “long” run
Sunday: Did “short” run
Monday: Elliptical for 30 min.
Tuesday: Did “long” run
Wednesday: Did “short” run
Thursday: Elliptical for 30 min.

I think I like this schedule of things..I might stick with it. That would put me at running 5 days a week, approx. 21 miles a week in running (give or take) Not too shabby. And then do the elliptical on the other days. And if I feel like I need to have 1 complete rest day, I can ditch one of the ellipitcal workouts.

Change

Posted by Administrator on Oct 6, 2010 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Decided to ditch the brownish color and go with a purple layout.

Gotta switch things up every now and then.

Time to Calibrate

Posted by Administrator on Oct 4, 2010 in Me | 0 comments

Looks like I DO need to calibrate my Nike+.

I downloaded two different freebie GPS running aps for my iphone and both have me running a lot slower than the Nike+ sportband says and have me running a lot shorter of a distance.

I was afraid of that, I knew it was a very good possibility and yet, it still crushed me a little. To go from thinking, “Oh I’m running at this pace” or “Oh wow, I ran this distance” and then finding out, “well no, actually, you didn’t…” it’s depressing. To be honest I kind of felt like a loser.

But, I have to keep telling myself that none of that matters. I’m not training for a race and am never planning on running a race. I’m running  a)to get in better shape, b)burn some calories and c)because I enjoy it. And those three things are still happening regardless of the distance or speed. And even with the discrepancy in the distance, I’m STILL running farther than I ever had before and I need to be okay with that.

Easier said than done, but that’s what I’m telling myself. I took today off from running (hit the elliptical instead) but will go back out tomorrow.

At some point I’ll try to find a pre-measured track or we’ll drive a distance to see if we can get semi-accurate distance measurements and then I’ll run that and calibrate my Nike+ so hopefully it will be more accurate.

In the meantime though, I think I’m going to stop writing much about it. I used to tweet/facebook stuff about it. “Ran 6.2 miles today” (which apparently was not accurate! Ugh) and stuff like that. I think if I mention it anymore there it will be really general “Had a good run this morning. Weather was great.” Something like that and not get into distance and whatnot. First of all, none of the people on those friends lists give a flip and secondly, I think me posting stuff like that made me focus too much on the distance and the speed and all of that. So then when I found out that stuff wasn’t accurate, it made me feel awful. So instead I just need to focus on the fact that I’m going out and doing it and who cares how slow it was or stuff like that.

Again, that’s what I’m telling myself. But I still feel like I could cry about it.