8th Alumni Race @ MC

Well to begin, I need to say that I have been running but have not written in here fro a while. I am alternating my days with 5 and 4 miles. I started doing work outs also. This leads me into my first race/workout. I ran ~3.25 miles in 21.17 which was a little disapointing, cause I never thought i would see a time like that. Doesnt mean im done though. Actually with my new learning about running I see this as a very good beginning. The conditions were heavy rain, about 50 degrees. I had cereal and a banana. The race its self was muddy in parts, but most of it was made of good gravel. the course was filled with meny uphills and down hills. My warmup consited of 10 minutes in the rain. The major thing I noticed was that my leggs felt fine for the whole race. It was my heart and lungs that couldnt keep up with me. This tells me I need to work on my tempo running, which was evident since i have only started doing harder workouts. The other thing was my audiogenics. I was focused on everything else but my focus on my form. I concentrated on who was passing me and how far up the person was in front of me. I think If i concentrate my workouts while enforcing my audiogenics I should be better in the future. So, lets see what happens this week. Overall the results showed me where I need my work, and I am glad I can now pinpoint why or how to try to fix my findings.

Fast Run 9/21/05

Todays run was...well maybe to fast, but felt real good to feel that again. I started with a 1 mile warm-up. Then streched, my legs right behind the knees felt tight and soar. Im not sure if it was due to my butt kicks or starting the side kicks. I started the run and opend up the first mile in 7.21, 7.15, 7.18, and 6.59. This was all marked, I did it on my highschool cross country course. Now I will rest a few and do some shadow boxing later tonight. That should take care of the night and get me into tommorrows run.

Morning Thought

In order to become stronger and unserstand your self better, you should find what makes you weak and gives you fear. Find it, reaserch it, learn it, and live with it. Find its weakness and strengths and then use what you learn from it and never be afraid of it, because now you know what its weakness is and can control it. When you have done this you now are stronger than before.

Side Kicks 9/20/05

I got to do some kicking tonight, starting with jump roping (3 rounds of 1:30 w/ 1 minute rest). I practiced the side kicks standing still, then went into the quick advance side kick. It felt good to kick again, I felt slow but power full. My balance was good nto great, but thats what practice is for. Over all it was a good practice night. I did some but kick drills, and just kept repaeting side kick after side kick after side kick. Just feeling my body and trying to feel what feels good and ackward. Till tommorrow, again rest rest rest.

Run on 9/20/05

This afternoon the weather was muggy, cloudy, cool breeze, and about to rain. Almost perfect weather except for the muugy part. Again I worked on my arm swing and again I cam back faster on the out and back run, but this time only 20 seconds. I found some good trails, but there isnt many paths to go about that I saw that i could do withing my time limit. Today I ran 3 miles (24 minutes). My breathing needs some work, but this all will come with time. I think after tommorrow I will concentrate more on my legs part of the game. Now again rest and work till tonights workout.

Training&Bugs

So, tonights training starts to go well with lifting, although driving up I was brain dead from work and had no energy. I lifted with my arms endurance. Then I went to go start my Martial arts training tonight. I finally get to start kicking, I was going to start doing side kicks. Well, one thing...I have no gym so my fiance and I have to go outside. Well, there were 5 BILLION mosquitos out there. Now because of this stupid bug, people around here are ding from Tripple E and West Nile. Whats up with this? Since when cant I go outside and enjoy myself. Soon we will be confined to our houses and cant leave cause of the filth thats being spread around. I am so upset....Good thing my Fiance has a place she found that we can go and practice, but its inside. I like to go outside, we sit inside over half of our lives. I want some fresh air, and now i cant because of stupid mosquitos. I say we make them extinct, who needs them....there are plenty other bugs out there that bats can eat. I wouldnt miss a mosquito, would you? Id swat every last one of them if i could. Okay im done complaining, I hope my martial arts workout goes better tommorrow. Till then....I guess i rest till tommorrows run 3 miles.

NoonRun9/19/05

Todays practice I still concentrated on arm swing, but today it didnt feel as smooth. But my pace just kept picking up, just like the old days. The more i told my self slow down this isnt about speed, i just kept going faster. My run was a straight out an back, I came back a minute faster than out. I ran total of 32 minutes (~4 miles). Now to rest till tonights workout. My calf isnt bad, just streching it as of now.

Sunday 9/18/05

Today was a day off from all activities. My calf feels a little tight, but i should be fine for tommorrows run and workouts. I will still be concentrating on the arms swing for another week. Can not wait.

Alumni Visit

Me and my friend Jay when to a race to see my old college team run. We knew some of the girls but just few of the guys. They did good. Jay and i ran spot to spt sprinting...yeah I am definitly not used to that but it felt good. The hills were definitly something else. We did a total of 40 minutes the first 20 stop and go sprinting here and there to cheer on the team and the last 20 was continuouse. My achilies didnt hurt, and i just felt my right one a little after running. I should be fine. The nest time we will se them will be at the Alumni race, that should be fun. Every year me or both jay and I do something crazy to make it fun. Last year I made a creative shirt with velcro detachable sleeves. The whole team loved it, they all wanted one. Oh well, tommorrow is a rest day...My body should enjoy that.

Frunday

Frunday...Every run i do on a Friday i call it Frunday. Fr-day for Friday and Run for running. These days I run as slow as possible and actually enjoy the run from start to finish. Today i did the three miles(24 minutes) and again concentrated on my arm swing, I feel as if i alomst got it down. My achliies ach a little bit, let see how they feel in tommorrows run, if they hurt I will lay off...if not I will try to do 4-5 miles. I hope everyones training is going good as well.