I mentioned that some friends are planning to run in a 10K/5K this fall. I looked up the details, and Hit the Brixx 10K/5K is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 29, which is nine weeks from this Saturday. Funny enough, 1D5K is a nine-week program. Running extraordinaire Kristin (who’s running the 10K) informed me that even if I don’t finish the program in time (I may have to repeat some weeks), the race energy will push me through the 5K.
I’m not going to commit just yet, since registration is open through Sept. 25, but I do plan to try for it. I just want to see how, oh, more than one day of the program goes before I say I’m going to do a 5K.
| Day 2 in Week | Target | 22 |
|---|---|---|
| Food | Points | Count |
| yogurt combo | -3 | 19 |
| banana and PB | -3 | 16 |
| string cheese | -1 | 15 |
| turkey sandwich | -3 | 12 |
| pretzels | -3 | 9 |
| string cheese no. 2 | -1 | 8 |
| pizza | -10 | -2 |
| 15 minutes on elliptical | 2 | 0 |
| Total: | 24 | |
| Weekly points used: 8; Remaining in week: 27 in Week | ||
I also did the 30 Day Shred DVD after work, but I decided not to count its activity points since I didn’t need them.
According to my snazzy Nike + iPod system:
Distance: 2.47 miles
Time: 0:29:54
Average pace: 0:12:04 minutes/mile
Calories burned: 286
I calibrated it in the ‘hood using Google Maps, but it wasn’t terribly accurate, so I plan to recalibrate this weekend at my high school track when we’re home visiting.
I’m using a different podcast than the “famous” C25K podcasts by Robert Ullery since those are broken into several tracks and jack up my Nike + iPod system. Instead, I’m using Podrunner Intervals and am starting with their First Day to 5K program. I actually like Podrunner Intervals better than Ullery’s podcast. There are no voiceovers and they use better music that’s less irritating.
For anyone interested, Podrunner Intervals also offers 8K and 10K training programs.
And you know what? I did the first workout this morning with no problem. I mean, it was crazy humid, so I was dripping sweat at the end, but I ran through all the running intervals with no problems. I think I can do this!
Why haven’t I before now? I didn’t want to start a running program until I bought running shoes. And I didn’t want to buy any old running shoes, but I wanted to get fitted for the right pair for my feet. That’s more expensive (though I think I found a way around the extra expense). I didn’t want to drop big money on shoes until something monumental happened, like my reaching my 10-percent weight-loss goal, for example, which I’ve been hovering near for, oh, MONTHS.
I just gave up, though. I had bought some shoes that I roughly fitted to my feet (using Runner’s World’s recommendations) to use on the elliptical. They haven’t been worn lately, though, because I’ve been rather bored by the elliptical lately. What’s nice is they haven’t shown any wear because you don’t *really* move your feet much on an elliptical. So these have become my “new” running shoes. I still plan to get fitted, but I’m being stubborn and waiting till I hit that weight goal (148 lbs., by the way).
So there you have it. I’m excited to change up my workout routine some, and I’m excited to see if I can become a runner. Some friends are planning to do a 5K/10K race this fall, so I might be joining them. Who knows?
Up next: Day 2 of 1D5K on Friday!
I grabbed this off a blog I happened upon today. Interesting. It looks like I have some reading to do, but I already knew that. It’s just sad seeing it in a list!
I must admit, though, some of the books on here make me scratch my head.
Here’s how it works:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE – mine are in blue
4) Reprint this list in your blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them
The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below. Although I have read more than 6, some of these I have never even heard of!
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible – gray because I’ve read a lot of it, just not in its entirety – shame!
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 1984 – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (Isn’t it called “Through The Looking Glass??)
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis – only the first one
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis – wait a minute. This list is rigged.
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery I’ve read it in English and French!
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams –
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
