08-11-2014, 09:25 PM
Lux Interior wrote:
Retreated back to the treadmill now that the sun refuses to rise before 6 am. So much easier to maintain a 10 kph pace with no hills and a steady, reliable breeze from the ceiling fan. It's just so boring.
Have 7 weeks to train for the VA 10-Miler. Hope to drop below 200 pounds by then. Makes that mile-long hill at the end a little easier without the extra weight.
Back to the gym, so back to a regular stretching routine. Was pleasantly surprised that I haven't lost much flexibility since May.
Also trying to walk at least 20 km/week.
Put a desktop on your treadmill for your computer, etc. 10 kph is quite brisk!!! I barely manage a third of that at my fastest; at your pace a desktop for your treadmill would probably be impractical.
Stretching. I need to stretch, which I find so boring. I believe basketball player Michael Jordan spent hours stretching. A local TV human interest fluff piece was about a mid-70's guy who was a marathoner. The reporter kept going on about his workouts and the subject kept interrupting and interjecting, "and lots of stretching;" it was actually humorous when he repeatedly stuck his face into center frame to interject. But it showed how important he felt stretching was to his regimen. He looked like he was 40.
A ten-miler? Are you sure you're in the right club with all us fatties?? Maybe you could run in the opposite direction so that that last uphill mile would be your first downhill?
I got in 41.86 miles on the treadmill at a bit over 2 MPH. 11.3 miles of light interval training out on the road with my wife (weather and activities didn't cooperate so fewer miles than last week.)
My wife wants me to work on upper body strength training so that eventually my belt buckle can once again be seen. In my case, upper body is above the knees. And stretching. And more stretching. My ultimate goals are to have a belly measurement smaller than my chest measurement. And to run/walk a marathon which I first and last did 34 years ago.