THE PLAN...

So I have officially signed up for the '08 Indianapolis 500 Mini-Marathon (13.1 mile half-marathon). This will be the third straight year that I participate barring injury. I have the lofty personal goal of getting down to 165 pounds by race day. I need to lose about 20 pounds to achieve that goal. And now we are facing falling temps which traditionally lead to gaining weight for me. To buck the trend I have come up with a plan for pre-training this winter. Starting next week I will be following this regimen:

Daily: 150 sit ups, 30 push-ups done once in the morning and once in the evening

M-W-F: pushing stacks: 40 minutes of nautilus training for core muscle groups, 20 minutes cardio on the eliptical

T-H-SAT: Morning running continuing to use the FIRST training philosophy from previous posts (sorry I am too lazy to link to the previous post or the website for the program). T will be a speed workout of some sort, probably intervals on the treadmill as the weather get's less inviting to run outside. H will be a 45 minute tempo run, outside until it is too cold. And the weekend will be a long run. Long runs are done outside regardless of temp or percipitation. I love to run in fresh snow...I like to see the looks on peoples faces as I run past them (they being in their cars of course) on days when it is 10 degrees outside with a negative wind chill temp. Evening yoga. Yoga is Anneliese's second favorite movie after the Madeline series :)

SUN- Football on tv, I may just take some time to rest. What the heck is the matter with the Bengals?


CORPORATE CHALLENGE...

After a summer of training on the track I thought I would put my effort on the line in the Corporate Challenge Sprint Medley. The race consisted of four legs run by three males and a woman. The distances were set out like 400M-200M-200M-400M. I originally planned to do a 200M leg of the race but in the end did the lead off 400M leg. Our team finished in 0:3:23.8 which was good enough for 22 out or 45 overall and 12 out of 13 in our division.

Don carrying the baton on the opeing 400M


I began the day running the 5 mile race. We had four team members from my company for the event. I posted a time of 43:23.2 which I was ok with given that I have been sick since September 2 with sinus problems. I really expected to finish around 45 minutes so I was pleasantly surprised by my time. Keep in mind that my 5 mile personal best was set in Sept '06 with a 40:30 performance at the "On Your Mark for the Parks" race.

Almost finished


Our group improved dramatically in our second year of participating (my first). It turned out to be a fun day and quite warm with temps around 84 by noon.


Coming up...

Saturday Big Weez will make her official 5k debut. I will be pushing her through the course at the Trinity Free Clinic 5k. Liz is thinking about pushing Emmeline through the course too. Hopefully pictures to come

More news...

Emmeline is on the verge of crawling and she is eating solids now. I have some video footage that I will post as soon as I have time to upload.

Thanks until next time.