Today’s Run (and walk)

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1549 days
by in Running

I mentioned in an early post, that I want to learn to run. One of my Resolutions is to participate in the LA Marathon in March. I plan to run 1/5 and walk 4/5.

I have been using a modified running schedule from coolrunnings.com to train. I have done almost of my “running” at the Antelope Valley College’s track. Today I did a walking warm-up of one lap. Turned on the GPS (his time I used my Garmin Forerunner 305, uploaded the results to Motionbased) and did the following work. Total of 4.36 miles. You can see my heartrate.

Also see a chart of my times for each lap.

Lap (#) Time (m:s) Distance (mi ) M Spd (mph) HR (bpm) Energy (Cal)
Avg Max
1 run 2:31 0.26 6.9 130 150 16
2 walk 4:17 0.26 6.5 112 149 32
3 run 2:11 0.25 8.3 144 160 17
4 run 2:14 0.25 7.4 160 163 17
5 walk 4:31 0.26 6.5 120 163 29
6 run 2:16 0.26 7.8 143 157 17
7 run 2:21 0.26 7.6 159 164 26
8 walk 4:45 0.26 6.7 120 163 29
9 run 2:21 0.25 7.4 143 158 35
10 run 2:24 0.25 6.9 160 162 29
11 walk 4:57 0.26 6.0 120 160 26
12 run 2:28 0.25 7.4 141 156 15
13 run 2:27 0.26 6.7 159 163 23
14 walk 4:44 0.26 6.5 122 162 35
15 run 2:19 0.25 7.2 146 158 19
16 run 2:00 0.26 8.7 168 176 25
17 walk 4:56 0.26 8.3 126 175 25

Saturday’s Ride

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1551 days
by in Fitness

Saturday morning I set out to ride with others from Gil’s bike shop and I arrived a little before 7:00am. They tell me they leave at 7:00 sharp. I waited and one other rider showed up. His name was Tom, and was a new rider. Come to find out, the rides now start at 8:00am instead of 7:00 during the winter.

Tom and I set out to ride to Fox Field. It was 40 degrees and my hands were insanely cold. I have winter gloves and stupid me, did not use them. I was dying, I had to stop at Apollo park to use the hand driers to warm my hands. I was feeling really bad (pre-cold) and had to sit on the curb. I mentioned to Tom, let’s go to 90th and down K to Starbuck’s.

By the time I got to 90th, I was feeling fine and Tom went his way and I decided to go with my original plan to go up to Munz Ranch and down Lake Elizabeth Road. I came down the road towards Palmdale and back up 30th West to Gil’s.

Overall, it was 46.5 miles, you can see the results.

Softball

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1555 days
by in Fitness

Last night our team player softball and we did well. We did not win, but that is expected. It was a qualifying game. I hit well, three singles and one pop-up out. We lost 17-16. I have a slight thigh pull. It is OK, but does talk to me.

Ride 60 Miles

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1561 days
by in Fitness

Saturday, I set out to ride 60 plus miles. My GPS batteries went dead, so I do not have a map of the actual course. I do have my ped-o-meter (google map mashup) of the distance. If you look at the ped-o-meter, click on the elevation and notice the calories. It states 8,860 calories. I like that, but think it is high. I left the house at 7:45am and returned at 12:15.

The ride was without wind (nice). I rode west up Avenue H, to 110st west, back over to Avenue I to Munz Road. Last time I rode this I had to stop four times. I changed out my big gear on the cassette to a 28. So, I was able to peddle up the hill without stopping.

I got the top of the pass, and eat. Rode west on Elizabeth Lake Road. There was a small fire that the fire folks had put out. They were hanging around to make sure nothing else started. At this time, just past that I saw a bobcat or the biggest dog with cat ears. It did not let me get that close. I saw one live and one dead coyote.

At that point, it was a climb for many miles. I did not expect it, but once over the hills, it was downhill to three-points. I really liked that area. Took the road out to Avenue D. To my surprise it was Neenach. We just planted a church there. Grace Chapel Neenach. It was a blessing to see the building. This was about 250th street. Rode to 245th street and followed it until it became Lancaster Avenue, where it turned in to Avenue I and then I am home.

When I was at the Poppy Reserve it started to rain. That was nice, we need rain.

Softball Winter League

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1561 days
by in Fitness

Friday night was a qualifing game for the Lancaster City Parks and Recs for softpitch or for the new season of Winter League. I have not played in four weeks and did fair. At bat, I walked, singled, poped out and singled.

Ride 65.3 miles (AV 3rd Annual Century Ride)

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1569 days
by in Fitness

Today was my first organized ride. I rode in the Antelope Valley 3rd Annual Century Ride, put on my Gil’s Bike Shop in Lancaster. I rode (see my Motionbased results) in the metric century (about 62 miles). I got on the road at 7:20am and finished at 12:20pm. It was about 65.3 miles and it was hard. The wind was blowing about 25-40 miles per hour all day! The ride west was brutal. It was granny gear cycling. I had hoped the ride north would be easy. Nope, the wind was so strong. In fact it blew me off the road into the dirt. I thought I was going to eat it. Unclipped my left foot and stabilized myself and back on the road. The climbing leg up Tehachapi Willow Springs Road was the easiest. I found my stride. Riding south was still working with the stupid wind. I was being blown around. At times, I had the bike leaning over to keep it going straight, my arms would be tense to keep everything stable. I got inside a couple of sand storms (boy those hurts), where I could not see more the 30-50 feet in front of me. I had to turn my head and close the wind side eye just to keep the sand out of my eyes. The ride from 90th to 30th with wind behind me was the greatest. I set a new speed record for me at 36.8 mph with no effort at all.

I finished the ride with two personal records, the first is speed 36.8 maximum speed and distance of 65.3 miles. Prior was 52 miles.

Running, a Start

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1573 days
by in Running

I started a couple of weeks ago to start running. I have been using a modified (extended) schedule from an article off coolrunnings.com, entitled The Couch-to-5K Running Schedule. It starts with three runs a week. The first week is 60 seconds of running and 90 seconds of walking; repeat for 20 minutes. Teri and I did this for the first two weeks. We changed to distance, since the track is clearly marked. I would use time if we were not on the track. Last night we changed to running 220m and walking 200m, then run 440m and walk for 440m. Repeat for 20 minutes (plus).

It is going well. The biggest issue for me is the side aches on the longer distance. They are manageable but I expected my joints to be the loudest talkers, not my side. The walking distance is just enough time to recoup from the run.

Overall I am enjoying it, but it is work and I have to stay motivated or I can lost momentum.

Rode Work (44 miles)

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1576 days
by in Fitness

On October 20th (next week) will be my first metric century (62 miles), so I needed to prepare a little. I went on a ride.

I headed up to Ave H, over to 110th West (did not want to travel on Ave I). Came back towards Ave I (near the Poppy Fields) on to Lancaster Ave (that far out Ave I turns into Lancaster Ave). I made a few turns and petaled on to Munz Ranch Road. I did not think would be that hard. My bike does not really have a “granny” gear, so I had to stop and catch my breath a few time. I met Eric on the apex and we chatted for a bit. It was mostly down hill from there. Ya! I travelled down into Leona Valley and it was the best ride ever. When Elizabeth Lake Road met Highland Ave, I came back into town. Today at Marie Kerr park was the Fall Festival and it was busy in that area. I got onto 30th west and headed home.

Today was gorgeous, I love the ride. It was 44 miles and I did it in about 3 hours. You can check the path on my GPS motionbased account.

Some Differences

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1578 days
by in Fitness

At my friend’s Romina Avery’s surprise birthday party, I had someone take a picture of me and Teri. I noticed the difference in my weight. The picture on the left side is from the party and the one on the right is last December on mountain bike (wine tasting) adventure on a short cruise in Mexico. I noticed the difference in my face and upper torso. I am the one who takes pictures, so it is rare for me to be found as the subject of a picture.

differences

40 Pounds Lost

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1578 days
by in Fitness

Today I weighted in at 188.8 lbs. This is the first time I broke below the 190 mark. This means that I have lost 40lbs to date! I have been stating I lost close to 40lbs, so now I can say I lost more than 40lbs. Cool!

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