10/04/2007 - RUN

First day back, my legs felt good, my breathing was a little forced!

2.54 Miles
21:27 Minutes - 8:26 mile avg

Total Miles 2007: 91.64 Miles

Back from NJ, Back from being Sick, and a September Recap

Well, being sick and being in NJ got me 4 days off from running and working out. Probably a needed break. If not needed, it was welcome, though the body aches I had were not fun! Atleast the pain and difficulty of running has a pay off! Body aches and waking up in sweats does not! Hopefully those days are behind me now!

Total Miles in September: 39.65 Miles
30 Days in September, so 1.32 average miles per day
Longest Run: 4.10 Miles
Shortest Run: 1.50 Miles

Out of 30 days, I ran 15 times. Thats 2.64 Miles per run.
In September, I spent 337 minutes running. Thats 5 hours and 37 Minutes. 6 hours a month, not such a huge commitment right?

How was YOUR September? ;)

9/30/2007 - RUN

I have been sick and not running or working out. It hasn't been until now that I felt good enough or any desire to update my blog! I ran on Sunday and about a couple hours later things started going downhill (except of course for the Phillies). My run was good:

3.30 Miles
27:34 Minutes - 8:21 mile avg

Total Miles 2007: 89.10 Miles

All in all, September was a pretty good month....

Off to NJ for work tomorrow so I won't be running or working out, back to work on Thursday.

9/28/2007 - WORKOUT

Shoulders and Triceps

3 sets of 10 shoulder press (couldn't get 10 on my last set)
3 sets of 10 3 way arm raises (10 each way)
3 sets of 20 Shrugs

4 sets of 20 Dips

New schedule! Workouts will be cut to 3x per week. I will try to stick with Mon/Wed/Fri as best as possible!

9/27/2007 - RUN (Exploratory)

So, my longest run of the year, and longest in a while. I had a great run this morning. It was dark and sort of foggy but there was a full moon. It was a really great atmosphere!

Felt great, ran slow, goal was to run for 40 minutes, I ran out 20 minutes, well 20:10, and turned back.

4.11 Miles
39:53 Minutes - 9:44 mile avg

Total Miles 2007: 85.80 Miles

I had to slow myself down on the way back, I could feel myself naturally wanting to get into a stride. I actually saw a woman running, she was about 200 yards ahead of me and normally I would try to pass her. I easily could have but I slowed myself down and was able to stretch the last half mile out to almost get to my goal!

9/26/2007 - WORKOUT

Back and ABS workout.

3 sets of 15 Situps
3 sets of 12 single arm rows
2 sets of 15 "Dead Lifts"

9/25/2007 - RUN

A strange thing happened today. A route that I was running and thought was 2.0 miles, ends up being 2.2 miles. This makes sense to me because I felt like I was struggle to go faster. This is not an easy 2 miles as there are 2 rather large uphills in there that get me pretty winded. However, I was happily surprised by my run today after I remapped it and found it was .2 miles further than I thought. Did wonders for my per mile average, especially because I felt like I was pushing it.

2.20 Miles
16:26 Minutes - 7:28 mile avg

Total Miles 2007: 81.70 Miles

(no work out today, no run tomorrow)