Week Two Day Two

Today was day two of my second week running, and it didn't go so hot as the first day. I got home later then normal cause I was out hanging with some friends from school and then had to drive back from San Marcos where we had our field trip today to a Micro Greens Producer.

I walked over to the nature walk way for my warm up walk and I felt fine except a little cold cause it was a bit chilly out. I felt pretty loose and the first run interval hit. My legs just didn't feel like they wanted to move, they got pretty tight pretty fast and I figured that this would go away after the rest walk and maybe into another run, but that didn't happen. I'm not sure if it was the cold air or that I haven't been feeling good lately (Stomach hurts like crazy)or that I was back to running on concrete (only one run on dirt) but my legs just were not going to work well today. It was really tight in my left hip and quad and my right calf. Every time I had to run my legs just didn't want to pick up and every time I stepped they felt like they were going to just crumble under me. For all of the intervals today I was basically doing a run shuffle cause I just couldn't get my legs moving. What was weird was that it hurt really bad on my rest walks and sort of subsided when I was doing my shuffle type run. On the third or so interval during the resting walk I just stopped and stretched which really didn't help but I thought that it might. I finished up all of the intervals but they weren't pleasant to do.

Over the weekend at home my eating kinda went back to how it used to be so now that I am back down here in SD its time to go back to the better eating. I haven't really noticed any difference in weight but I'm hoping eventually I will. It gets pretty frustrating thinking that I can eat to little and go into starving but if I eat to much I wont loose anything. Either way its a loose loose situation here. How do I know that I am eating to much or to little. I eat when I feel hungry and not just boredom hungry. I have a apple and a banana pretty much everyday and everything else I try to stick to somewhat of a WW diet.

Hopefully after a day of rest they will feel better on Friday when I go for the last run of the week. Either way I plan on moving on to week three next week and I am looking forward to it.

Miles to date: 10.7

Tyler

Week Two Day One

I came home for the weekend to see some friends and the family and just to hang out but today was also Monday so that ment running day. I brought my running gear with me because I knew that I would be running today so out I went for week two. I was anxious to see how hard 30 more seconds would be for the intervals but it turned out not to bad.

I was thinking of where I would go running at but I knew that concrete would not be planned because of so many dirt paths that are really close around here. I headed down to the park right behind our house and ran back and forth along the dirt nature path that they have. Each run and walk interval was about the whole path so it worked out pretty well. I realized how much better on your body running on dirt is. I have no soreness and it just felt alot softer then the concrete that I run on back down in San Diego. The first interval felt pretty good and I was suprised that I wasnt begging for Roberts voice to come on the podcast and say it was time for the walk. I actually ran it and was like "Wow I ran a minute and a half and it didnt really feel that long." About half way through I was starting to feel it and was getting pretty tired but I pushed through it and finished all of the intervals.

Im heading back down to San Diego tomorrow so it is back to concrete on Wednesday but it shouldnt be to bad. Being home was nice cause my parents stocked me up on food for the next few weeks and it was also nice just to see some of my friends that I miss while Im down for school. I have a paper to write for my Ethics class now so... See ya Wednesday.

Miles to date: 8.5

Tyler

Week One Day Three

Today was the final day of week one and I ran it perfectly. One week down, eight more to go. My legs were not that sore today and the five minute warm up kept them nice and loose. I was a bit tired because of my three crunch days as I like to call em. (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I have to get up at 5:20A.M. to be at school at 6:15A.M. for my 5 hour class 7:00A.M. to 12:00P.M.) Even though I was tired I still got out there and did it and it went by easily. Its weird at some points in the middle I am so tired and then by the last two intervals I am pumped or something and I feel like I could just keep going for another minute or so.

I ran again today on the nature walk way and it felt like it went by pretty fast today. During the running part I kept noticing that I was hunching over, probably from being on my feet so long during class and hunching over the table to do knife cuts or what ever I need to be doing. During my cool down walk my lower back was hurting pretty bad so I stopped to pop it and stretch it then kept on walking.

Looks like on Monday I will be starting my second week. I am pretty proud of my self. Week nine looks to be a way off and even the thought of running for multiple minutes straight kinda is scary but I will eventually work up to that. Tomorrow after class I will probably leave a little update with some pictures of the menu this week that we are cooking tomorrow. (Thursday and Friday are prep days for Saturday which is presentation + eating day.)

Miles to date: 6.3

Tyler

Week One Day Two

Today was a running day again for me and I was ready to go at it. I got home from school and had some lunch then waited a while so I wasn't running on a full stomach. I started out with my walk and went to the nature walk way again and my legs felt a bit sore but not bad enough to not run. The first few intervals my legs were still pretty tight but they went well and by the third or fourth interval they were feeling loose and ready to go but I don't think the rest of my body was feeling the same. I was pretty tired by the half way point. I turned around this time at the fourth interval so that I wouldn't be to far away when I was on my cool down walk. I timed it pretty well I would say because on the last running time I was going down hill, (starts going up to the trolley track.)

Overall I feel great now that I am done again and just happy to have done it twice. By the looks of it I will be moving on next week but I still have one more day to go. I'm ready for Friday and to get into week two.

Miles to date: 4.3

Tyler

Week One Day One

And it has begun.

Day One finally came around and it was pretty much gonna go down just as I had imagined it to. I left my apartment around 3:10 and headed for the trolley walkway. The trolley walk way goes follows the trolley along all its stations and then turns into more of a nature walk way going along the river. For each running interval I slowly moved along and pushed to get it done. By the last interval of running, O, let me tell you. There are people out there that would have paid millions to just video tape it and throw it up all over YouTube and Google Video. It would have been ever where. I must have looked so hideous, but I got through it and then proceeded to my 5 minute cool down. The cool down ended up being about 10 minutes as I had gone to far along the walk way before turning around, but it was alright.

While running I passed a gentle man and just smiled at him and then my running interval came in so I just passed him and knew that I would see him again on my way back cause I was due to turn around soon. After I turned around and was going back past him I saw him say something to me so I pulled my ear buds out and said what was that? He told me I should be running on grass, and not on the concrete. Now, I know that I should be running on asphalt if any thing hard but I have to weigh my options here. I don't know everything around here as I just am living in a dorm for school and all the roads that I walked along before starting this running thing are heavily trafficked. I can either run on this concrete walk way off of the main streets, run in the streets with cars everywhere, or run on the sidewalk of the crowded streets. I also know that there is no park in any sort of close distance, so driving to run everyday is something I would like to do.

Overall, day one went very well and I finished it and I am ready for day two on Wednesday.

Miles to Date: 2.2

Tyler

The Start of Something New

My First Post, Awesome!
Well, as of January 7th 2007, I have changed my diet and have started walking ( Soon to be Running ). I am using the Weight Watcher's program. I started off not being to strict but my mom recently gave me her old points counter and booklet so I can count a bit more accurately. I have been eating around 18 to 24 points a day which is a few less then what WW recommends, but I don't feel hungry most of the time so I feel like I can do with out the extra points. I just today received my running shoes, Brooks Beast's. Hello comfortable running / walking shoes, Goodbye skater shoes that give me shin splints. I took my new Beast's for a spin around my complex and they feel great.

Monday I am going to start the C25K training program from CoolRunning.com

I will try to post everyday that I run, hopefully Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I'll talk about how the run went, how I am feeling, other experience's and maybe some on my schooling ( Art Institute of California, Bachelor's of Science, Culinary Arts + Business Management ). Looking forward to Monday. Wish me luck!

Tyler