I went to my first power yoga class today. I LOVED IT! it was super hard, but i was impressed with my flexibility. We did lots of standing poses, and core strength. My ankles were having a tough time in the balance poses, but it was good - they need to firm up, hopefully help with some of these pronation issues. The worst was I could feel my IT band pop over my femur head during pigeon. grrrr. But they have this class 2 days a week - so i'm hoping for strength and length.
Yoga put me in a super good mood - but it was already a busy evening so I hadn't yet eaten. Rushed home to let out the dog and eat and no all my energy is gone! still have to pack for my trip to NYC this weekend!!!! zzzzzzzz
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Need for Speed
This is my last week of "pre-training." Next week begins my half marathon training program. I'm really excited. I'm choosing a longer training program - 18 weeks, because I'm horribly inconsistent and I knew I'd slack off over the holidays. I need something to keep me on track, particularly since I have massive IT band flare ups when I don't run regularly.
I have spent the last several weeks treadmill running. At first I dreaded it- but the obnoxious amount of snow we've had in Albany this summer is putting a damper on out door running- not to mention most people here seem to have some sort of vendetta against clearing sidewalks and people that run/cycle in the road. So, as boring as treadmills are, I choose life. HAHA!
I've been doing a lot of pace-pushing on the treadmill - running for an hour at one pace is excruciatingly boring. So I've been amping up the speed intervals, and doing short high-tempoed runs. IT. IS. AWESOME. I really wanted to get my pace down to about a 10minute mile for the half marathon (I'm running the Lake Placid Half in June, it'll be my first at this distance). I am so surprised at how quickly I've become stronger and faster! It's so COOL!
Now, I can't wait for it to warm up so I can run some HILLS! omg, i'm nuts!!
:)
I have spent the last several weeks treadmill running. At first I dreaded it- but the obnoxious amount of snow we've had in Albany this summer is putting a damper on out door running- not to mention most people here seem to have some sort of vendetta against clearing sidewalks and people that run/cycle in the road. So, as boring as treadmills are, I choose life. HAHA!
I've been doing a lot of pace-pushing on the treadmill - running for an hour at one pace is excruciatingly boring. So I've been amping up the speed intervals, and doing short high-tempoed runs. IT. IS. AWESOME. I really wanted to get my pace down to about a 10minute mile for the half marathon (I'm running the Lake Placid Half in June, it'll be my first at this distance). I am so surprised at how quickly I've become stronger and faster! It's so COOL!
Now, I can't wait for it to warm up so I can run some HILLS! omg, i'm nuts!!
:)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Quick Follow Up....
for the 0 people that read this:
I did it - i got up and ran this morning! I even did speed work, and did 4 reps at last week's high speed, and 4 reps at a pace 11 seconds faster! WOO!
Then tonight I did abs, foam roller, and stretching tonight! woo!
Two in a row? can i handel it?! i'd put money on it :)
I did it - i got up and ran this morning! I even did speed work, and did 4 reps at last week's high speed, and 4 reps at a pace 11 seconds faster! WOO!
Then tonight I did abs, foam roller, and stretching tonight! woo!
Two in a row? can i handel it?! i'd put money on it :)
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Lame
I am off to a very annoying slow start this year. I haven't been running as much as I want or should. I haven't been reading. I just watch tv and fb chat. LAME. I suppose it doesn't help that I am constantly worried about when the funding will run out, or change, for the program I work for and am constantly stressing about finding a job. Which is also lame.
I just hung my new calendar. I wrote out my half marathon training program. I have hung it right next to my bed. Literally, right.next.to. As in, if i toss and turn to much i'll probably knock it down. I'm hoping this helps because the hardest part about running is getting out of bed in the morning. I hate going to the gym in the evening. I want to relax, and the gym is always packed after work- generally with douches. It's empty in the morning, the people that work at the front desk are very chipper, and no meat heads try to talk to me. It's also dark, and negative a million out at 5/6AM. Running outside that early in this cold is just not something i'm going to do. Long runs mid-morning on the weekend are ok. But that probably won't happen this weekend because the high on saturday is 10. TEN!!! ahh!
So calendar next to bed so when I roll over, away from my alarm, I'll see it - and theoretically be motivated to get up, and my caffeine pills on the bedside table to get my ass going.
Here's to hoping I get out of this rut, and stop being a lazy, excuse making fat ass.
:)
I just hung my new calendar. I wrote out my half marathon training program. I have hung it right next to my bed. Literally, right.next.to. As in, if i toss and turn to much i'll probably knock it down. I'm hoping this helps because the hardest part about running is getting out of bed in the morning. I hate going to the gym in the evening. I want to relax, and the gym is always packed after work- generally with douches. It's empty in the morning, the people that work at the front desk are very chipper, and no meat heads try to talk to me. It's also dark, and negative a million out at 5/6AM. Running outside that early in this cold is just not something i'm going to do. Long runs mid-morning on the weekend are ok. But that probably won't happen this weekend because the high on saturday is 10. TEN!!! ahh!
So calendar next to bed so when I roll over, away from my alarm, I'll see it - and theoretically be motivated to get up, and my caffeine pills on the bedside table to get my ass going.
Here's to hoping I get out of this rut, and stop being a lazy, excuse making fat ass.
:)
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Running 2011
Ok, I'm putting my running goals on paper (virtually) just to solidify them. I've agreed with a good deal of the end-of-the year commentary in that New Years Resolutions are self-defeating. So, I'm setting goals. Right now I'm just starting with running, but there are other areas of life that need goals too. But first thing first.
1. Get my 5k time under 30 minutes
2. Run 1000 miles this year (breaks down to roughly 20 miles a week)
3. Run a half marathon in 2 hrs and 15 mins - already registered for the Lake Placid marathon in June.
4. More yoga - gotta defend against IT band issues.
OK I think that covers all the major running goal areas - time, placement (finish), and fitness.
Happy Trails!
1. Get my 5k time under 30 minutes
2. Run 1000 miles this year (breaks down to roughly 20 miles a week)
3. Run a half marathon in 2 hrs and 15 mins - already registered for the Lake Placid marathon in June.
4. More yoga - gotta defend against IT band issues.
OK I think that covers all the major running goal areas - time, placement (finish), and fitness.
Happy Trails!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
I heart volunteering
Dear MHRHS,
Over the past several weeks I have received several expressions of thanks from the organization in many forms – emails, personalized thank you notes, thank you notes to all at PSG, and the newsletter I just received in the mail. It appears, in no uncertain terms, that you are quite appreciative of our service. However, I’d like to take the time to thank YOU for all that you’ve given me.
My service at the Humane Society is something of a personal 180. I grew up terrified of most animals – particularly dogs, but cats in their curious ways always made me a bit uncomfortable. We didn’t grow up with pets in my house – an alleged “allergy” of my father’s - that seems to have disappeared now that they have a cat themselves. I got my cat during a difficult transition of my personal life. Not having been a “pet person” I was unfamiliar with shelters and the plight of shelter animals. That being said, I got my Dinah on craigslist. I don’t regret it though. She’s changed my life. I brought her home in late August 2007, and I guess you could say my “heart grew 2 sizes that day.” It wasn’t long before ASPCA commercials made me cry, and I was trying to catch the kittens living under my porch to bring to the shelter. After I completed graduate school, nights and weekends that used to be filled with crazy hours of reading and writing papers, now consisted of, well, nothing. I’d thought about getting another cat – trying to convince myself Dinah needed a friend – introducing her to other cats has never gone well, even those I didn’t purposely introduce her to, those wandering by outside, resulted in quite the display of frustration and anger on her part.
It was this past summer that I decided to volunteer. I’m not sure what prompted the decision really. One day I googled the Mohawk Hudson River Humane Society, clicked on the volunteer link, and the rest is history. I know it’s only been since July that I’ve been helping out – but what a difference a volunteer position makes! Stressful days melt away, as an innocent, lovey cat head butts my hand for a petting. Granted, my Dinah does wonders for stress level too, but there’s just something so great about how appreciative the PSG cats are. And something truly wonderful, when I let a cat out of his or her kennel and say “you’re going home today!”
There can never be enough “happy tails” on the MHRHS website, and it’s that thought that drives me. I enjoy chatting it up with people that have adopted cats from us while they are back at PSG getting cat food etc. Each sweet animal deserves a great home, and it fulfills a part of me, I didn’t know needed fulfilling, to be a part of that process.
So with that, I thank the MHRHS for giving me the opportunity to help out, and, perhaps without knowing, giving me the personal satisfaction that one can only get from giving selflessly to those in need.
Thank you, and happy holidays to the management and board of the Mohawk Hudson River Human Society!
Over the past several weeks I have received several expressions of thanks from the organization in many forms – emails, personalized thank you notes, thank you notes to all at PSG, and the newsletter I just received in the mail. It appears, in no uncertain terms, that you are quite appreciative of our service. However, I’d like to take the time to thank YOU for all that you’ve given me.
My service at the Humane Society is something of a personal 180. I grew up terrified of most animals – particularly dogs, but cats in their curious ways always made me a bit uncomfortable. We didn’t grow up with pets in my house – an alleged “allergy” of my father’s - that seems to have disappeared now that they have a cat themselves. I got my cat during a difficult transition of my personal life. Not having been a “pet person” I was unfamiliar with shelters and the plight of shelter animals. That being said, I got my Dinah on craigslist. I don’t regret it though. She’s changed my life. I brought her home in late August 2007, and I guess you could say my “heart grew 2 sizes that day.” It wasn’t long before ASPCA commercials made me cry, and I was trying to catch the kittens living under my porch to bring to the shelter. After I completed graduate school, nights and weekends that used to be filled with crazy hours of reading and writing papers, now consisted of, well, nothing. I’d thought about getting another cat – trying to convince myself Dinah needed a friend – introducing her to other cats has never gone well, even those I didn’t purposely introduce her to, those wandering by outside, resulted in quite the display of frustration and anger on her part.
It was this past summer that I decided to volunteer. I’m not sure what prompted the decision really. One day I googled the Mohawk Hudson River Humane Society, clicked on the volunteer link, and the rest is history. I know it’s only been since July that I’ve been helping out – but what a difference a volunteer position makes! Stressful days melt away, as an innocent, lovey cat head butts my hand for a petting. Granted, my Dinah does wonders for stress level too, but there’s just something so great about how appreciative the PSG cats are. And something truly wonderful, when I let a cat out of his or her kennel and say “you’re going home today!”
There can never be enough “happy tails” on the MHRHS website, and it’s that thought that drives me. I enjoy chatting it up with people that have adopted cats from us while they are back at PSG getting cat food etc. Each sweet animal deserves a great home, and it fulfills a part of me, I didn’t know needed fulfilling, to be a part of that process.
So with that, I thank the MHRHS for giving me the opportunity to help out, and, perhaps without knowing, giving me the personal satisfaction that one can only get from giving selflessly to those in need.
Thank you, and happy holidays to the management and board of the Mohawk Hudson River Human Society!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Can we please get over this wikileaks thing?
The latest Wikileaks story is the most unsensational sensational news story of the decade. Honestly, what have we learned (except apparently the military may need to tighten up its security clearance procedures)? A series of things we already knew, or suspected were confirmed, tossed in with a few things we don't really care about. For example:
1. Canadians are begining to distrust Washington. Who cares? It's Canada! Also, welcome to the party, Canadians - most Americans don't trust Washington either (thanks, Nixon - yea, I'm still going there).
2. Diplomats talk trash behind eachother's backs. Oh, because that hasn't been happening since the beginning of organized society.
3. A bunch of world leaders think Sarkozy is a weiner. SHOCKING!!!
4. Americans apparently think the Constitution of the United States of America applies to the whole world.
5. If you look like a perv, someone will accuse you of being one (sorry, Assange - you have that creepster look about you).
6. If you go after the most powerful government in the entire world, they will come back at you. You do yourself no favors by announcing you'll release corporate secrets either. Corporations are, in fact, more influential than the government (oh no, she didnt! I did, I did), and unless you have Bill Gates money and can run your own little world, you're going to need those corporations to keep it going.
In conclusion, can we PLEASE move on!
1. Canadians are begining to distrust Washington. Who cares? It's Canada! Also, welcome to the party, Canadians - most Americans don't trust Washington either (thanks, Nixon - yea, I'm still going there).
2. Diplomats talk trash behind eachother's backs. Oh, because that hasn't been happening since the beginning of organized society.
3. A bunch of world leaders think Sarkozy is a weiner. SHOCKING!!!
4. Americans apparently think the Constitution of the United States of America applies to the whole world.
5. If you look like a perv, someone will accuse you of being one (sorry, Assange - you have that creepster look about you).
6. If you go after the most powerful government in the entire world, they will come back at you. You do yourself no favors by announcing you'll release corporate secrets either. Corporations are, in fact, more influential than the government (oh no, she didnt! I did, I did), and unless you have Bill Gates money and can run your own little world, you're going to need those corporations to keep it going.
In conclusion, can we PLEASE move on!
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