After wrecking on my Mt. Bike and injuring my ankle I was still able to run this week. However after my run on Friday I had a lot of pain in what i believe was my left adductor muscle. Obviously I was favoring my right ankle more than I thought. So with this I decided to skip my long run on Saturday and have a true day of rest, cross-trained on the Mt Bike today.
6/21 3.46miles 33.47 minutes
6/23 3.41miles 33.23 minutes
6/25 3.76miles 35.55 minutes
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Set back already
Sunday morning I wrecked on my MTB coming off a drop. When I crashed I hit my Lateral malleolus on my right foot directly on a rock. It is twice the size as my left foot. It is feeling better today so I am going to try and go on a short run tonight.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
A brief history
Over the last one and a half years I have changed my life in many ways. Those of you that have known me for a long time, know that around the age of 30, I had reached my peak weight at 237lbs(5'10"). At that point I still thought that I was in decent shape and had just added on a few extra pounds. I was playing racket ball, and basketball every once in a while with friends and I would notice that my surgically repaired knee would always hurt. Obviously there must be something wrong so I made an appointment with the doctor. Thank god he was honest, after taking x-rays and moving my knee in multiple different directions, his comment was something like, you are fat and you have no muscle supporting your joints. This was a real eye opener, so I immediately signed up at the local gym and began to change my life.
In November of 2008, now at the age of 35, my family and I moved to Round Rock(Austin) TX. At this point I was still going to gym on a regular basis and had brought my weight down to 195lbs, not to bad for a guy who never used a trainer. Here I was again thinking that I was i good shape and at most a few pounds over weight.
In March of 2009 my wife and I picked up the sport of Mt. biking and soon after joined the Austin Ridge Riders. At our first event I remember thinking how I went to the gym 4 days a week so I would be ready to hang with the fast riders. At about mile 3 with the beginning group I was ready to die, obviously not ready for the fast group. See, even though I had been lifting for the last 4 years I had not been doing any real cardio for the last 3 years. Of course with my logical thinking I came to the conclusion that if I just kept riding once a week I would be able to hang with the fast group, ha ha. Fast forward to January of 2010 and I still could not ride with the fast group, but at least I was riding with the intermediates.
In the first week of 2010 on my way to work I heard a local DJ talking about how he was going to set a goal to work out for 45 days straight, that was just the motivation I needed and this time I was going to add cardio into my workout just to see if it improved my riding. At the end of this journey I had not worked out 45 days in a row, I actually went for close to 60. For those 60 days I lifted and ran one mile Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I went to a spinning class Tuesday and Thursday, and I would Mt. Bike Saturday and Sunday. At the end I was down to 167lbs, and I had never felt better in my life, and I could now ride with the fast group, yeah!!!
Once this time was up I made a trip back to Idaho and went on a Mt. bike ride in the foothills with my cousins, well myself and Fabian Rode, Karen and Kelly hiked, and Todd ran. Afterwards Todd and I were talking and he was telling my how much he enjoyed running outdoors. Since this is supposed to be a brief history I will cut to the chase and let you know that I decided to give it a try.
Here I am two months later and I have been running 3-4 times a week, generally in the morning, and enjoying it as some of my most peaceful time of the day. Now I have set a new goal, to run the Austin Marathon, Feb 20th 2011. I am a slow runner and my only intention is to finish the race, which will be a major accomplishment. My intention is to use this blog to help track my goal and allow others to track it as well, today was the first official run for my training.
3.58Miles 33:05 minutes 9.14pace
In November of 2008, now at the age of 35, my family and I moved to Round Rock(Austin) TX. At this point I was still going to gym on a regular basis and had brought my weight down to 195lbs, not to bad for a guy who never used a trainer. Here I was again thinking that I was i good shape and at most a few pounds over weight.
In March of 2009 my wife and I picked up the sport of Mt. biking and soon after joined the Austin Ridge Riders. At our first event I remember thinking how I went to the gym 4 days a week so I would be ready to hang with the fast riders. At about mile 3 with the beginning group I was ready to die, obviously not ready for the fast group. See, even though I had been lifting for the last 4 years I had not been doing any real cardio for the last 3 years. Of course with my logical thinking I came to the conclusion that if I just kept riding once a week I would be able to hang with the fast group, ha ha. Fast forward to January of 2010 and I still could not ride with the fast group, but at least I was riding with the intermediates.
In the first week of 2010 on my way to work I heard a local DJ talking about how he was going to set a goal to work out for 45 days straight, that was just the motivation I needed and this time I was going to add cardio into my workout just to see if it improved my riding. At the end of this journey I had not worked out 45 days in a row, I actually went for close to 60. For those 60 days I lifted and ran one mile Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, I went to a spinning class Tuesday and Thursday, and I would Mt. Bike Saturday and Sunday. At the end I was down to 167lbs, and I had never felt better in my life, and I could now ride with the fast group, yeah!!!
Once this time was up I made a trip back to Idaho and went on a Mt. bike ride in the foothills with my cousins, well myself and Fabian Rode, Karen and Kelly hiked, and Todd ran. Afterwards Todd and I were talking and he was telling my how much he enjoyed running outdoors. Since this is supposed to be a brief history I will cut to the chase and let you know that I decided to give it a try.
Here I am two months later and I have been running 3-4 times a week, generally in the morning, and enjoying it as some of my most peaceful time of the day. Now I have set a new goal, to run the Austin Marathon, Feb 20th 2011. I am a slow runner and my only intention is to finish the race, which will be a major accomplishment. My intention is to use this blog to help track my goal and allow others to track it as well, today was the first official run for my training.
3.58Miles 33:05 minutes 9.14pace
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