Inspiration?

I ran a mile on Monday and my calves are STILL in serious pain. Granted I haven't been abiding by the rules of a day off MEANS a day off. I've been training clients, jumping on and off bosu/versa balls and doing different strength training including my lower body. How do I get back Ontrack? P.s. thats one of the gym's I work at. Anywho, I am struggling to get back on the running train, granted its painful to do. If I take time off, I get furious at myself for not running. If I run and hurt myself more, I'm screwed.



So I need time off, but I need to be active, if I could be anywhere right now, it'd be in perfect health at Yosemite either running or hiking with my mates. To the right is a photo of me coming down Half Dome (With style.)

Good side note-I haven't done pushups in a while and I busted out 46 in a row today before work. This gives me an easy upcoming goal-50 pushups, shouldn't take long.

Exercise for Love

Apparently some people would like to have more exercises of the week. Previously I chose the donkey calf raise (hillarious, feel free to read back to late January) I was trying to find pictures from a "couples workout" I read about. Sadly I couldn't find the hillarious ones, so I found one with two women instead. If done correctly, the person doing pushups onto a person's knees can give them a kiss when they do a situp. Hillarious right?



I at least imagine that the point of doing something like this is to express love for each other. Maybe I will try to do exercise of the week every tuesday or...just some weeks when I remember. Sidenote-I altered my running gait, aiming for balls of feet, I am in serious pain. This is from running one mile....talk about back tracking in the training. I also picked up another client for personal training at my gym, and submitted an order for a 24" imac for tax free day!! Good day, I think the guarunteed check for training may have inspired me to finally get a new computer (much needed, money doesn't grow on trees)

Random Crush Facts

1. I can't be a vegan mainly because of cheese...but I also eat meat 3-4 times a day. So there are a lot of reasons, but I love cheese, esp. sharp cheddar, CABOT.

2. I have killer dance moves, and I use them constantly to meet the ladies.

3. I am a sleeper in the kitchen. People are surprised at the awesome stuffed shells and baked ziti that I make.

4. Laughter is my life, I like to laugh, often at the misfortune of others.

5. Music is absolutely my life. If I didn't have an IPOD I would freak out, I havent gone more than 4 days without owning one in the past 4 years.

6. I grew up with cats, but can't wait to get an awesome dog. As cute as cats are, they can't go on runs, or play fetch, or play dead.

7. Exercise is a way for me to relax, I can relax by having techno blasted into my head when I'm on a run.

8. I love watching and playing basketball more than any other sport.

9. I'm either really tall, can jump really high, or a medicore combination of both.

10. Dubstep is taking over.

Hannibal and Predator

So barely into my marathon training I’ve decided I need to take a few rest days. Granted I’ve been working out 4-5 times a week for the past 8 or so months, so I think its okay. As I’ve mentioned before I had a long period of time where I anti-worked out, aka I got fat. I’ve been pretty good for a while now, a few years, and my final semester of UVM it was crushing plates with one of my riders of brohan (reference lord of the rings and he’s a bro.) As we became more infamous around the gym we picked up some weight lifting nicknames. I was Hannibal (the cannibal) and he was Predator. When we weren’t benching, squatting or crushing some sort of weight we were fighting the ladies off of our swollen arms. Back to the main point, my body needs some rest, I’ve been tired a lot, I haven’t been extra motivated to workout (yet I have been working out a lot.) I just feel like my body is losing more than its gaining. For the effort I’ve been putting in I would expect better results. Today I will workout VERY lightly (not technically a rest day.) But I’m doing some personal training for my mom so I will do some exercises with her. Tomorrow is the Mardi Gras parade, so I’ll take a break and try to revitalize, rehydrate and pack some protein in.



*I'm the one who doesn't look like a rat-2009 mardi gras parade with predator*

Sounds like Margaritas, Buffalo chicken pizza and heavy beer for me. I guess by rest day I also mean fat gaining day(s)... Hopefully this reverse muscle/endurance building regimine will get me back on top.(of the scale) No no I need to get jacked...oh well.

Greediness/ Cross Training

Well I'm barely into my marathon training and I already have some minor tendonitis, time to be extra careful and really focus on my stride and landing. Last night I ran for about 3 minutes for my 3 mile run...close enough? (P.s. I didn't do 3 miles in 3 minutes) My local ski resort stole a good 36" of snow out of the sky yesterday so I had to make a trip there today. Sadly it was already up to 34 degrees F (thats above freezing folks) that means that the precipitation was rain, I got soaked! I was able to find refuge in the woods, oh glorious woods. A whole 20 inches had fallen since the resort closed shop the night before. That meant that with enough searching I could find fresh lines and fast chutes. I was doing laps on this one trail Tumbler Woods, sounds so inviting eh? I kept pushing more and more towards out of bounds. My last run of the day I spotted this epic shoot, trees lining both sides, and about 100 yards of untouched "powder" (sticky heavy powder.) It was more than worth it, although sticky, it was steep enough that I was cruising and I wanted to scream out as if this was my last run ever. AWESOME. I get to the bottom of this chute, yepppp I ended up off of the beaten path. I find myself looking more out of bounds to my right, and a hill to my front and left. I opt for trying to find my way back to the "trail" aka the woods. The snow as I said was super heavy, so I couldn't lift my skis out of the snow (up to my waist (I'm 6'3.)) I take my skis off, well I ended up deeper. Chest height easily. I truthfully got a little worried how far I would have to go. (also wish I had a camera to document this) I had to use my skis like snowshoes for my hands, putting all my weight on them and lifting each foot up and pushing my self into this packed chest deep powder. I had my ipod on through this, and I went through about 2 lengthy songs (10-12 mins total) before I had advanced back to the trail (75-100 ft) I don't want to calculate my milage for that...56 minute miles? Prob even worse than that. I also did leg strength training the night before...foolish.

Hidden Runs

Today I was at my gym looking at Map My Run and I was looking for a nice 6 miler to do. I found a loop that was along a main trucking route and on a busy road where cars go way past the speed limit. One of my coworkers told me about a 6 mile loop that is on the "Ti Trail." The Ti Trail is a trail that the Ticonderoga (ship) was brought out of the water and taken to the Shelburne Museum. Its a beautiful trail that viewed the awesome frozen lake champlain and held 4 white tailed deer today as I was running. I was more than pleased with this awesomeness. At the end of the run I was dissapointed though because my foot has been killing me...solution: having your boss be a physical therapist. God I love free advice, he gave me pointers on my running gait and explained to me where I may have been messing up my stride. Thanks Brian.

Multi-tasking

So today I had to run another long run for training. I forgot to bring any outerwear so after my shift at my gym I closed the doors to the outside world and prepared for my run. Being that the gym is recently renovated I checked tvguide.com for the listings after my shift. I set up the 4 brand new flat screen t.v.s with hockey, curling, Pirates of the Caribbean and some celtics v. nuggets. The treadmills have receivers to plug headphones into so I was able to transfer from channel to channel as commercials came and went. I also had my 2 ipods (I lost one and bought a shuffle then found my other...cant complain) I had constant entertainment. So I embarked on my run but soon biddies were blowing up my cell phone, (one girl and my mom) and I found myself texting while running on a treadmill at a cozy 8:25 pace. I have no idea how my texts came out, probably awful. I ended up running around 6 miles on a treadmill and it wasn't too boring. The t.v. and multiple ipods may have helped, I'm just gonna have to suck it up and breath fresh air and run outside more...ugh.