Week 9: Day 3 - 2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 9:30am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

I don't feel sore anymore now, but I woke up sore. I think it was from yesterday's run, although I'm not so sure because I should be used to running on challenging hills. I can't think of what else could have made me sore.

Week 9: Day 2 - 2012

cardio:

• hilly trail run (@ 6:20am) = 1.11 miles, time = 14:12, pace @ 12:48
• warm up = 1.1 mile
• cool down = 1.1 mile

It was so cold this morning, just the way I liked it...why can't it be like this every morning that I run??? I was going to run on another hill route, but since it rained pretty good yesterday, I was afraid that part of the trail in that hill route would be muddy and I don't like running in mud. I could have ran that hill route later this week though, but I decided that I'd do that run next week instead.

Week 9: Day 1 - 2012

cardio:

• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

I survived and didn't get sick from walking my dog in the rain today. I'm happy about that. It feels cold out now...will it be as cold as I like tomorrow morning for my run? I hope it will be.

Week 8: Day 7 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:15am) = 5.59 miles, time = 59:56, pace @ 10:43

Total Weekly Mileage: 10.69
Total Monthly Mileage: 55.37
Total Yearly Mileage: 142.95
Total Shoe Mileage: 263.20

I was going to run a bit longer, but I was short on time. I think it drizzle a little bit this morning and it would have been nice if it did drizzle more. 40-something degrees weather used to be so cold to me. It doesn't anymore and I think I probably have a high tolerance to the "extreme" cold now that I prefer that it's below 40 degrees.

Week 8: Day 6

cardio:

• karate = 2 hours
• first (beginner) class = 12pm to 1pm
• second (intermediate) class = 1pm to 2pm

I didn't run yesterday. It was foggy although I would have been ok had I ran in the fog. But it's probably ok to take a break if I felt sorta unmotivated on my last run. Maybe tomorrow, I'll feel better with running.

Week 8: Day 4 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:15am) = 5.10 miles, time = 55:46, pace @ 10:56

I think I need to change my running routes again. I'm starting to feel like those weeks last month where I'm bored and unmotivated in the first two miles of the run before I can feel normal about running again.

Week 8: Day 3 - 2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 10:15am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

Didn't work out yesterday. Just wasn't feeling it, but hopefully, I'll feel better about running tomorrow!

Week 7: Day 7 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:30am) = 6.17 miles, time = 1:07:56, pace @ 11:01

Total Weekly Mileage: 19.97
Total Monthly Mileage: 44.68
Total Yearly Mileage: 132.26
Total Shoe Mileage: 257.51

I think I would have enjoyed the overcast this morning had it been colder, but at least, the air felt/seemed cleaner when it is overcast. I'm not sure if it's going to rain today, but if it is, I'm glad that it didn't happen during my run!

Week 7: Day 6 - 2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 9am) = 3 miles

I didn't get around to doing karate training because I had another obligation at the same time. But at least, I got some kind of work out in today, as light and easy as it was.

Week 7: Day 5 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:30am) = 5.23 miles, time = 54:58, pace @ 10:31

I almost didn't want to run this morning. I felt lazy and wanted to go back to sleep, but I felt better once I got out and started running. Good thing it was just laziness and not tiredness.

Week 7: Day 4 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:30am) = 5.27 miles, time = 56:03, pace @ 10:38

I liked how it was so cold this morning and the wind wasn't that bad either! It was sorta distracting and annoying that my breath kept blowing in my face.

Week7: Day 3 - 2012

cardio:

• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

It'll be super cold in the morning. Great running weather for me! It's suppose to be windy tomorrow also, but hopefully, it won't be that bad when I head out for my run. I'm also glad that I don't have to run in the rain tomorrow or Friday and all that was done today!

Week 7: Day 2 - 2012

cardio:

• hilly trail run (@ 6:20am) = 1.1 miles, time = 13:54, pace @ 12:38
• warm up = 1.1 miles
• cool down = 1.1 miles

I decided to do my hill run today instead of later in the week, just because I felt like it. I enjoyed the weather this morning.

Week 7: Day 1 - 2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 10:15am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

It was so windy today! Luckily, it wasn't that bad when I was out riding my bike, but it seemed worse afterwards. There is no wind now and I hope it stays that way until after I do my run tomorrow morning. It also feels so cold and nice out now. So COLD and no wind, I think I'm going to enjoy that for my morning run.

Week 6: Day 7 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 1:20pm) = 4.46 miles, time = 45:11, pace @ 10:085

Total Weekly Mileage: 9.31
Total Monthly Mileage: 24.71
Total Yearly Mileage: 112.29
Total Shoe Mileage: 237.44

I almost didn't run at all today. It was somewhat raining this morning when I woke up and I decided that I didn't want to run in the rain because I didn't want to get sick. I didn't want to test my immune system. This was also the first time in a long while since I ran later in the day. I usually have a hard time getting out for a run if it was past a certain time (after 10am) because I usually find some excuse not to run and usually laziness kicks in since I'm always running alone. I feel like I want to reward myself with an In-N-Out burger or somethng!

I'm also noticing that I'm running faster. I don't feel like I am, so I have hard time believing that I am. I stopped taking Vitamin B complex last weekend. That used to work in the beginning when I started taking them and I felt faster, but perhaps it lost its effectiveness and I probably need to take a break from them because I've been taking them for so long. Fine, if that's all it takes for me to run faster!

Week 6: Day 6 - 2012

cardio:

• karate (@ 12pm) = 2 hours

I hope I sleep ok tonight. I didn't sleep well enough on Thursday night and couldn't get myself out for a run yesterday morning.

Week 6: Day 4 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:20am) = 4.85 miles, time = 49:33, pace @ 10:13

I only missed one run this week. I decided that I'd miss out on my hill run which was short to begin with, so it wouldn't affect my endurance. I didn't feel like I had a runner's high, but I felt unusually happy during my run this morning. Maybe that helped with my speed, though I didn't feel like I ran faster than I actually did. I like happy runs.

Week 6: Day 3 - 2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 10am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

It's starting to get lighter earlier. Does this mean that I get to go run at 6:10am now instead of at 6:25am? I don't like running in the dark. I like to see my surroundings better when there is some light, more than just street lights.

Week 6: Day 1 - 2012

cardio:

• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

I heard that it would rain tomorrw. I'm not sure if it will be in the morning or later. Since I don't run in the rain, perhaps I should make it into an unscheduled rest day. I've kept telling myself these last several weeks that I need an unscheduled rest day or rest week anyway, so I should take it.

Week 5: Day 7 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:30am) = 6.6 mile, time = 1:11:34, pace @ 10:51

Total Weekly Mileage: 20.29
Total January Mileage: 81.49
Total February Mileage: 15.40
Total Yearly Mileage: 96.89
Total Shoe Mileage: 222.04

I slept normal last night and I felt good running this morning. I was also somewhat worried that it would be windy this morning because it was unexpectedly super windy yesterday morning. There was slight wind this morning, but it didn't bother me. I also had minor shin splints last night from walking around, but I didn't have that problem this morning. My mild shin splints seem to come and go whenever.

So, I decided to run on this route this morning. Between mile 2.9 and mile 3.3, there was challenging enough uphill. It was challenging enough that I thought I would want to take a break at some point of the hill or even at the top of the hill. I powered through without stopping or slowing down to a walk. I felt so accomplished, happy, and like I had a runner's high that I didn't want to stop for a rest or walk, and I kept running. I hadn't done this route in a long time and the last few times that I did, I had to break during the uphill because I had a hard time with it and didn't have enough endurance to keep running.

I thought I would take a break from running this following week. I'm not sure now because I feel like I still want to run. I think I'll just keep running until I really get bored and my motivation crashes.

Week 5: Day 6 - 2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 10am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 12pm) = 1 hour

I slept normal last night! Hope tonight is the same so I can run normal tomorrow morning!

It's not windy this afternoon, but it was so windy this morning! I hope it's not windy tomorrow morning. I don't like to run when it's so windy.

Week 5: Day 5 - 2012

cardio:

• hilly trail (@ 6:30am) = 1.1 miles
• warm up = 1.1 mile
• cool down = 1.1 mile

I don't know what happened to me, I couldn't sleep until after midnight last night. I woke up feeling tired and not really in the mood to run. I decided that I'd feel better if I just ran because it would be short. At the end of my warm up, I thought about just skipping the hill run and just turn around (2.2 miles round trip), calling that a run. I decided against that and ran the hills. Should have listened to myself because I felt worse. I barely made it past the most challenging part of the trail/hills (near the beginning) when I stopped for a break because I felt so unhappy and really unmotivated. I hadn't done that in a long time, taking a break near the beginning on the most challenging part of the run. I sorta felt a little better after the short break and kept running the rest of the trail/run, but I took another break at the halfway point before finishing my run. I hope that this bad mood was just from lack of sleep, and I hope to sleep better tomorrow night so I can run normally on Sunday morning. I'm wide awake now and don't feel the need to rest or go back to sleep.

I did time my hill run, but I'm not sure if I even recorded it right after starting/stopping my stopwatch. It says that my run was faster than past hill runs, but I don't believe it, so I'm just going to record my run distance and not the finish time.

Week 5: Day 4 - 2012

cardio:

• trail/road run (@ 6:30am) = 5.5 miles, time = 1:00:05, pace @ 10:55

I didn't expect fog this morning. My laziness was kicking in at the sight of fog and I wanted to go back to bed! I told myself that I would feel better if I went out for a run and I'd get over my laziness. The fog was dense enough that I couldn't see 500 feet in front of me, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. Around mile 2.5, I got concerned that it would rain on me. I felt some water drops fall on me, but that was from running under trees. At that point, I had an option of changing my route...I thought about sticking to my original distance (5.5 miles) or cutting it short, making it a mile less. I decided that the water drops I felt came from the trees because I felt nothing in open areas, so I stuck to my original plan/distance. I felt better and relieved for making that decision after a few minutes because the fog got thinner and the sky got brighter.

I also decided that I don't want to run the L.A.-Chinatown Firecracker 10K race next weekend (Feb. 12). For now, I think I fixed my boredom and lack of motivation. I think I just needed to change my running route and distance (adding more miles). It seemed that was all I needed to do because I feel normal again with running.

Week 5: Day 3 -2012

cardio:

• bike ride (@ 10:15am) = 3 miles
• karate (@ 7pm) = 1 hour

I like running in cold temperatures with a sunny sky. Will it be cold in the morning? I guess I will have to find out in the morning.