Monday - January 7, 2013
Last night, I set out my running stuff and planned to get up and run 5 miles of speed intervals. 5:15am came around and my legs were still screaming at me from the skiing. So, I hit snooze and forgot about it. I get to work and two co-workers are telling me about their weekends and I was the only one that didn't run. I knew I had to run at lunch.
Luckily, for me, I live 0.9 miles (as the crow flies) from work. So, I can sneak home and change and run, shower, and get lunch on the way back to work, all within my lunch. I ran 5K (3.16 miles) with dead legs in 31:43.51 (10:02mm avg), burned 330 calories, with a 164 average heart rate. When I say dead legs, I mean I found myself accidentally dragging the bottom of my shoes at some points. The muscles surrounding my lower legs just did not want to work. But again, it's only 3 miles, "Suck it up Buttercup!"
I used my new bathroom scale before and after the run. I was curious how much water weight I would lose on the run. My thinking was I could use that information to monitor my hydration intake/outake at races and runs, etc. Before the run, in my underwear, I was 230.2 pounds, with 21.6% body fat, and 58.9% water weight. My weight after the run (and after drying off from the quick shower) was 228.2 pounds, with 21.3% body fat, and 59.1% water weight. That doesn't make sense to me. I'm guessing the 2 pounds has to be mostly water weight, and maybe some glycogen stores.
My triceps are starting to feel the soreness from last night's pushups. I think I'll just try to do these every other night. My lower legs are still as sore as they were, so the lunch run didn't seem to make them worse. I'm hoping for a morning swim - which has turned into my favorite exercise lately.
You guilted me into heading to the gym last night despite my legs still being tender from the last session. Out climbing gym also has a weight room and a cardio room, so we try to hit it up after each climbing session. My triumphant return to the gym was Sunday. After a climbing session, I hit that stand-up thing that lets me do leg lifts and then headed to the elliptical. Afterwards, Alex convinced me to try to do his crossfit with him for the remainder of his time. It was the one where you do circuits of 10 pull-ups, 10 push-ups, and 20 squats. Maaaan were my things burning all day Monday and Tuesday. I was contemplating backing out of going to the gym last night. Then I read your blog about you running anyways, despite your sore things. So I did it! Thanks man.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the gym has an awesome machine called the ski-erg, where you stand up facing the machine and pull some ropes down toward you from over your head and squat and pull until your hands end up just under your butt. It stimulates pushing off with your poles when you are skiing and works your things, abs, and shoulders. It's my favorite machine there, and it helps stay in shape for skiing...the runs out here are soooooooo long.
Nice work Sheena! I was just thinking that if my little blog can get one person working out, then it's a huge success! Keep at it girl. I didn't know Alex did the CrossFit stuff. How does he like it? I need to find a pull up bar...
DeleteEnjoy skiing out there. I was at Perfect North and I bet the runs here take 2-3 minutes. I hear out west some runs go on for an hour or more, if you link lines and do the entire mountain. Man, would I love to do that! Enjoy it for those of us stuck in the Midwest!
He only recently started with the crossfit stuff, but he seems to like it. We have two pull-up bars, one of them has a board with a bunch of climbing holds attached to it, but I can't actually do any pull-ups on that one :(...something about the hand positions, but it really helps keep up my hand strength when I have to stop climbing because of school. I love the pull-up bars cause they are also great for leg lifts, which I prefer to crunches.
ReplyDeleteThe ski runs out here are so long my thighs start burning about 1/4 of the way down! I'll be hitting the slopes with Tony Ralley later this month.