weight:191.8

Zumba yesterday

Today ran 1.94 miles in 27:49 averaging at 14:20 per mile.

No pain today except for some tight muscles.

Weight: 191.6

No running but a lot of other stuff!

Swam two mornings for 30 min, went to 3 Zumba classes and 2 days of strength training on the machines at the gym.

Need to look at the gym schedule for Sunday and find a Zumba to go to and get in some more strength training.

Thinking I'll start running again on Wed...

and with that, I'm out.

I set out for a 10 mile run this morning, mapped it from the house to the trail and back.

I've rested most of this past week, with my long run on Mon and a swim on Tues, that was it, so no pounding or stressing.

Within the first mile the pain in my foot started to scream, so I found a street and turned around and ran about our neighborhood for around 3.5 miles. By the time I was home, my knee started to ache and my hip was starting to give way. So, I'm out.

Too much, too soon, on a frame with too much to carry around.

So the new plan consists of swimming and running 2-4 miles three times a week and Zumba 2-3 times a week with some strength training before. If I can get myself off the couch in the evenings, I have a bunch of yoga routines I can do at home while watching my favorite shows.

The fourth round of Biggest Loser started Fri on my Mom's board, so I'm back there with a bunch of women cracking the whip and throwing out support and help.

In a nutshell I'm going back to trying to lose weight and not worrying about the training. I'll give a couple of weeks and probably start getting ready for the Turkey Day 10K, and find some 5 or 10K's to get me through until summer. I know I can finish those and I can work towards getting a little faster without the stress of a 10 mile run hanging over my head.

weight: 192.6

Umm, ouch...

9.7 miles in 2:30:??? averaging out to be depressing....

So the first 2/3 of my run weren't going to bad, just under half way in I could check mileage to time and it was looking like a good pace. The last 1/3 went to crap.

If I were 40 lbs lighter, I probably wouldn't be having such issues, but I'm thinking it's too much too soon.

No final decisions yet, partially to see if I can walk tomorrow, but I may be looking at gifting my entry to some other, better trained person.

Now don't worry, I'm not going to stop running all together. But thinking I'll jump back to the 5K and 10K crowd for a long while. Getting to a pace that I'm happy with, then maybe, big maybe, I'll shoot for it again.