Thursday, October 2, 2008

It's doable...

After running a Blue ridge relay where I put forth as much effort as I could given my limited fitness I have begun to actually start down the road to get some (fitness) Drinking less. Staying out too late less. Running an average of once a day or better. All the little things that require nothing more than the will to do them (or not do them as it were). The cold front that blew in makes running fast much more feasible. My ab muscles still hurt most of the time and that is bothersome, But apart from simple discomfort It is not stopping me from running. I'll just tough it out and see what happens. I think I have a focus race coming up. I'd like very much to go to Uhwarrie and run the 8 miler to see where I am fitness wise. It is in February and that will give me time to train properly. It blows my mind how I let myself get out of shape. I love the feeling, why would I not stay there? I averaged an abysmal 7:35 per mile for the blue ridge relay. In 2006 I could have taken those same legs (hills and all) and run 6:00 per mile or just under it. Just a month later I am ready to run those same legs in 7:00 pace. That's nice but I want the whole thing back asap. Weight loss is not happening quite as fast as I'd like. Turns out I have LOTS of fat hiding on me and I needed to build up more running muscle. It won't be as simple as, drop weight and then you are ready to run. It's more like, whip the mule and have it push away from the feeding trough as well. I don't care if I look gaunt when it's all done, I'll work on adding muscle after I get down to race weight.
One other thing that I am going to have to do is break out the spread sheet o' pain. Basically I will lay out a weekly time target for running. It must be hit properly. If I miss a run then other runs get longer and weekly running distances and times are achieved.
I have been talking about this crap for months and done precious little about it. Time to go!

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