Day Off?

Today may have been a day off from work...however, not so much a day off from anything else. This mornen I had a geology class...let me tell you how much fun that is at 9am.....lol.....so that was about two hours long.... So I returned home for a few min to let the boys out and to change into my gym clothes...I had an appointment with Norm at 12......So I got to they gym about 15 min before training...so I did a little cardio...just to get my heart rate up...at about 5 after Norm came out and we began to work out......That guy truly knows what to do...I pride myself on my lower body strenght...but as soon as we get going...I wear out.....I suppose that is a good thing... So today was all lower body and abs...so all things I'm strong in...but once again I was quite tired at the end of our hour session.....but wait...I STILL HAD TO DO MY RUN! Great..... now mind you I only had to run 3 miles...but thats a hell of a long way after an hour long lower body work out session........ So I ran hard...averaged about 7.5 mph...right arround what Bryan and I did the other day...so all is good! Now I'm done working out...and I have the rest of the evening to do whatever still needs to be done!

What I look like after a Long Work Out

"Either get busy liven, or get busy die'n"

~Red

COLD RUN

Just a quick update today.....My buddy Bryan and I got out and did our run today....as you can read in his blog http://reeser1838.blogspot.com/ it was a touch on the chilly side...as well as our first mile being strait into the bitterly cold wind......oh well...we got'er done.......
Before going over the the Reese's house...I had a training appt with Norm.....upper body today...not gunna lie.. I think I did a whole lot better than last week....still lots of improvment needed...but I'm sure if I keep up this addiction to fitness I'll be A OK...

Sweet Dreams World
D
: of team D&B race team

Week 2

Today was the start of the second week in my training for the marathon...and let me tell you, Mondays are my new favortie days....why you may ask? OFF DAY! This training schedule has me running six days a week...so Mondays will always be the off day...gotta love that!
Yesterday I finnished my first week with a solid four miles....I didnt have to run too hard..but I tried to finnish strong at the end....for those of you who run on tredmills...you'll recognize 8.8 as pleanty fast........>Anyways, this week should be decent....I meet with the trainer tomorrow..and then Bryan and I ( the other guy who's running Grandmas) will be getting our run in outside...should be interesting, seemings though I haven't run outside since October....

Well, I hope all of you have a great week...and hopefully my training will keep going great as well!
Best Wishes,
Dave

Happy P.O.E.T.S. Day

Happy P.O.E.T.S. day to all of you! In case you didn't know what it meant; piss on everything tomorrows Saturday! Unfortunatly, I work tomorrow, so it isn't much of a Saturday. Oh well...gotta help make the money to pay the bills.
Anyways, today was a good day. It all started at 4:30 this mornen when I got up to go to work. Fortunatly they were cutting some hours today..so I only had to work until 12:30....So not too bad. There was however a little nervousness today...my brother inlaw had surgery on his heart at Duke University..I guess it went quite well...however he was experiencing some pain later, so he has to stay over night....I hope that he will be ok....I'm sure he will...but I still hope everything ends up ok.
So after waiting for Jenny to get home from work, we left for the gym. I added a picture of the cardio deck at the gym...it's where I have been spending an awful lot of time lately.... Ran my three miles...Jenny was on the elipticle behind me...she said I looked good while running...good form and all....I love to get a compliment every once in a while...sure makes it a lot easier to keep working.

So until we meet again! Happy Weekend!
Dave

Another Day Another Mile

Well today was a "day off" for me. I only had one class that needed me to be there for...and then after class I had to meet with the personal trainer..but after 2 this afternoon I had absolutly nothing I NEEDED to do. So I decided to put Jen's picture frames up on the wall. She hasn't seen it yet..so i hope she likes how I did it. I just went off the layout she had taken a picture of earlier this month. Oh well we'll find out!

On to my running and training. Like I said earlier, I had to meet with the trainer today. Thank GOD it was lower body workout today. After the other upper body workout, I dont think I want to do that again;-) (of cource I do). Anyways, it was an easy run today, only three miles. I was able to do it in segments due to time allowed with the trainer. So I did the first mile and a half for a warm-up before workout out with Norm, and then followed my hour long workout with the second half of my run. I have to say I'm pretty confident on how this is going to turn out. I mean that in the sence that I feel as though I can truly do this. Here's hoping that I stay injury free and I'm able to keep a possitive, up beat attitute until June.

Until we meet again, I'll be sitting here eating some pizza. Because that is what I do when Jen isn't home :) I suppose not for a while after tonight!

~Dave

"Keep on Keep'n on"

-Joe Dirt-

Day Two

It isn't my intention to write a blog every day. However, since I'm so new at this, I figure I had better write more often than not.
So today I had my first appointment with Jen's and my trainer. So I got to the gym an hour early and did my warm up, and followed with my next run. Only two miles today, however, tomorrow it goes up to three and then up and up and up. Afwer I got done running I met with Norm(the trainer). I'll be meeting with him twice a week for an hour each time this month. His plan is to do upper body one day, and then lower the next session. Today happend to be upper body. Let me tell you! I worked some mucels that hadn't been used in a long long long time. I suppose the pain i feel tonight is a good thing. But the session went well, and now tonight I'm pretty proud.
One other thing. For those of you that don't know; after running the TC 10 mile, and running it poorly, I was upset with my effort, my time, and my weight. That afternoon after the run I weighed myself and to my shock I was running at the HIGHEST weight I have ever been. Two hundred and seventy eight pounds. I'm not proud of that, however, I'm proud of how I reacted. That day I decided I needed to loose some of these excess pounds. So I made the commitment to have some live altering changes. Mostly eating habbits, and so on. As of this morning I weighed in at 253lbs. I may not be great at math, but to my calculations that puts me at -25lbs.
Until tomorrow!
Dave

First things First

First things first, today is Monday February 18, 2008. In approxamatly 123 days, 12 hours, and about 10 min, I'll be running my very first marathon! Grandmas Marathon is June 21, 2008. My plan for this little blog, is to take you on the journey with me. Through all the pain, and atempt at being lazy on days that I need to be running, to the fantastic feelings as I finnish all 26.2 miles!

Today is day one in my training schedule. I only had to run 2 miles, which has been done already! The way it looks is that I will only have one day off a week, which is Mondays. Jen and I returned from New Jersey about 3, and then headed to the gym before picking up the boys from the kennel. The trip went fine, however, hard to get to the gym when you don't have a car. But oh well, I made it today when it counted.

Finnaly, I want to apologize for any gramitcal errors you may encounter in my blog. Since it is my blog, I get to do whatever I want to!

Until tomorrow!
Dave