Training for New Years Eve

I ran 4 miles this morning in Mrytle Beach, SC (moms house). The run was flat with no hills and the weather was in the 60's. My time was 36:44. I also will do some stomach crunchs later today.

Training log for Dec 26 and 27

Sorry for the delayed post, but Dec 26 I did my weightlifing workout including leg curls, arm curls, brench press, and lat pull downs.

Dec 27 I ran 6 miles on the Kemper street trail. This trial has a 1.1 mile hill climb and is pretty intense workout. My time was 55:10 and I ran in the morning.

Christmas Eve Training Run

Today, I ran 4 miles on the Blackwater creek trail. My time was 35:59. My times are improving slowly. Today, I pushed myself to run harder than normal. I did not run the whole time, but I was running a 8:20 mile which is fast for me as much as I could during the run. I did walk a little about every 1/4 mile after the 3 mile mark. I am trying to get my time per mile down to around 8 min miles for at least 3 miles before I run the ten miler in April.

Today I also did my light weighting.

Training today

Today was very cold here in Virginia. I usually run 3 mile, but instead did inside work on the elliptical machine. I did it for 35 minutes and burned about 500 cal. I also did my weightlifting which included leg curls, quad curls, arm curls, lat pull downs, 50 situps and 40 stomach crunchs.

Jingle Bell Training Run

I ran a local Jingle Bell 5 mile run/jog today. It was located on Rivermont Ave.

Distance: 5 mile
Time: 42:30

Training log

Today was my weight lifting training. Brench press, leg curls, quad curls, sit-ups.

Tomorrow 5 mile run

Training log

Today, I did my weighting lifting workout.
Bench press, sit-ups, leg curls, quad curls, arm curls

Tomorrow 5 Miles run

Training log

No training today DAY OFF!!!

Background Continued..

I started running in May of 2007. I started out on a flat section of a local running trail. I set the distance at 3 miles, and I would run until I felt I could not continue. I usually would run for about 10 minutes and walk for a minute or two, then I would procede to run until tired again. I ran 3 days a week, and each time I tried to run further than I ran before I started walking. My time for my first 3 mile run was 38:00.

Today:
50 sit-ups
40 stomach cruches
3.2 mile run 30:53

Weightlifting: Brench press, leg curls, lat pulldowns, quad curls, military press

Background

I wanted to start running for health reasons, basically to get in better shape and health. I have never run any type of distance races or trained for a distance race. I start running when I was 36 and weighed about 215 lbs. I am not a fast person and never will be a fast runner. I just do it for the fun of it and to lose some weight. More tomorrow.....

Training today:

5 mile run
Ed Page to 2.5 mile mark on Kemper Street Trail. Rolling with some hills.
Temperature about 42 and sunny, time 315 pm

Running time: 47:46

Purpose of this Blog

I setup this blog to tell how I trained for my first 10 miler coming up in April 4, 2009. Over the next few days I will tell some background about me and facts about me. Each day I train I will list what I did and also anything new that I discovered to help me complete my goal.


Training log:
50 sit-ups
40 stomach crunchs
2 sets of 20 of weightlifting: Brench press, Leg curls, Quad lifting, Military press, Lat pull down, Arm curls, and legs curls for hamstring.