Third Times a Charm

aka. 3rd Turkey Trot training run or When running feels good

Today's run went off way better than I had hoped for. My legs didn't hurt so bad, my hips weren't aching for me to stop, my back felt fine, my shins did not feel like they were splitting open.... all was good. Granted running is still running and there for I still had to stop and take breaks. Sometimes when I'm running for a while I get light headed or dizzy which is never good and I always take it as a sign to slow down or stop. Today was a 2.5 mile run done in 40 minutes, not the greatest but better than last time (besides being less painful). My legs actually kept begging me to keep on going when they're usually telling me to stop.

Here's the breakdown:

Mile 1

• walk 3 minutes (warm up)
• run 7 minutes
• walk 2 minutes
• run 1 minute
• walk 2 minutes

Mile 2

• run 1 minute
• walk 2 minute 
• run 1 minute
• walk 3 minutes
• run 2 minutes
• walk 4 minutes
• run 1 minute
• walk 1 minute

Last .5 Mile

• walk 5 minutes
• run 1 minute
• walk 4 minutes

That's a total of 14 minute running and 26 minutes walking. I'm hoping to at least get to where I can run 3.1 miles in 45 minutes (even though I'd really like my time to be less than that). I'd say today I would have been right on track until the last half of a mile :) Hopefully Thanksgiving will be a good running day for me.

Today's To Do List

• Finish reading Mockingjay
• Clean my room to find my running pants
• Make a short Christmas list (not really asking for much this year)
• Read some of The Help
• Make a grocery list
• Do load of laundry
• Workout/Run
• Complete a rough draft of my Family History Paper
• Finish at least 1/3 of my Article Summary
• Paint my nails

Now I'll leave you with this....

Second Day Log

Wednesday night I went to the gym for another training run. It was harder than the first one. The second day of working out is always harder than the first one. I still managed to do 2 miles that took me an even more time than the last time (didn't think I could get any slower).

Here's the breakdown:

• 5 minute warm up walk
• 1 minute run
• 1 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 1 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 2 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 4 minute walk
• end of mile 1 and quick water break
• 3 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 2 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 3 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 3 minute walk
• 1 minute run
• 8 minute walk

I ended up walking a lot of the time because my body was just not feeling the whole running thing. Something was really off about my stride and it threw everything else off. I have no idea what my problem was, but I only ended up doing just over 2 miles. One of these days I need to run the whole 3.1

Music Update

I have been listening to so much Aunt Martha lately. Not only do they do a lot of great covers on their Youtube channel but their original songs are perfection.

Cross over Humor

This still cracks me up every single time. I love both of these things so much and the fact that they intersect makes me happy. 

First Documented Turkey Training "Run"

"run" aka a jogging pace

2 miles took me 33 minutes tonight. Yikes that's slow, I feel like people walk the whole thing faster than I can semi run it. I have started out by alternating running and walking because that seemed to work on previous occasions.

• walk 5 minutes
• run 2 minutes
• walk 1 minute
• run 2 minutes
• walk 1 minute
• run 1 minute
• walk 2 minute 
• run 1 minute
• walk 2 minutes
• run 1 and a half minutes
• walk 2 and a half minutes
• run 1 minute
• walk 3 minutes
• run 1 minute
• walk 3 minutes
• run 1 half minute
• walk 3 and a half minutes

I think that's right.... it should total to 10 minutes of running time and 23 minutes of walking time.

Even though I have a ton of homework I knew I needed to find time to train and just plain get exercise. I'm just making excuses if I say I have too much homework because I still take breaks and I might as well spend one of them working out.

I just got back today from a weekend with my great grandma. I love spending time and getting to talk with her.