Monday, January 31, 2011

It's official!

I received notification that I am registered in the Blue Nose 10K, part of the Scotiabank Blue Nose Marathon on May 22, 2011!

Our blogs should be online soon, but I will keep posting on here to keep a personal copy of my progress.

Good run last Saturday, same route as the week before but we ran more of it, almost all 5 kilometres. It wasn't nearly as cold as last week, so it wasn't a dealbreaker that I forgot my gloves.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Team Myles Run

This was my first Saturday run with Team Myles. We started at Push Fitness, walked as a group to the corner of Young and Inglis (1.6 km), then ran to the end of Young Avenue and returned to Push. The run was 3.4 km, for a total distance of 5 km.

It was sunny but very cold today, -16 with the wind chill, so I am glad I had fleece on under my outer layer. My calf injury did not flare up, so that is a good thing!

Unfortunately, I will be double-booked on Wednesday with my Cub pack, but I will do the 4.2 km run either Tuesday or Thursday.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Team Myles - First Run!

Well, it was my first run with Team Myles. The inaugural team run was actually on Saturday (January 15), but I was already committed to running a camp with my Cub pack when I found out the date of the first run.

Before tonight's run, we warmed up with Devon Norris of Push Fitness (he played for the Rainmen last year, my other blog has numerous Rainmen entries). Devon got us ready to go and I enjoyed doing the stretches as a group, it reminded me of my rugby-playing days!

Tonight's run was 3 laps around the Commons, 1.4 kilometres each time around, for a total of 4.2 kilometres. We had to buddy up for the run, my run buddy was Peter Harrison. We ran at a good pace, did each loop in about 10 minutes. My calf muscle that I injured last year flared up again (I tweaked it last week, so this was not a surprise). Luckily for me, it did not disable me from running, although when I lengthened my stride to speed up a bit while passing some other Team Myles members, I felt it get close to tearing again. I am going to have to be careful with this thing, I don't want to miss out on training because of a preventable injury!

After the run, we visited Lifemark Physio to have our gait analyzed and to measure our feet for the Adidas running shoes we will get with Team Myles. Sara was very knowledgeable and I guess I have the biggest feet of all the Team Myles members, what an accomplishment!

I felt really good after the run, actually invigorated. I look forward to Saturday morning's run!

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Round 4, Day 38

Well, I missed a couple weeks due to injury and general insane busy-ness with Christmas, but as of yesterday I am back at it! Taking care to not re-injure my back; I figure I have to build up my abs to support my back muscles.

One week until Team Myles kick-off!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

January 1, 2011

First time writing 2011 and I got it right! Usually it takes me at least a few days to get the year straight when I write it down.

Well, it has been a busy few weeks with Christmas and everything else. I have been fighting injuries (back and hip), had a few chiro visits and dealt with a cold.

I ran my own personal 5 km Resolution Run at 8:30 this morning. Not surprisingly, the Salt Marsh Trail was pretty quiet on New Year's Day. What a beautiful day, though: +4 degrees, sunny and no wind! Pretty awesome weather for January 1st!

I will be running 10 kilometres at the Halifax Bluenose Marathon in May, and I am fortunate enough to be on Team Myles, which is a group of people who are chosen to run and blog about their goals, obstacles, progress and the run.

I think I will switch to P90X Lean while I also train for the 10 km run, I find that I push myself too hard in the regular P90X and tend to injure myself occasionally in the process.