Here we go

Today I began my plan to simply follow the workouts Michael is doing at Activedge, but just be a week behind.  I have never seen the results I would like when I attempted to create my own work out plans so I am gonna steal theirs : ).  The workouts as originally designed can be found out activedgetaf.blogspot.com, I will change them when I need to simply because my circumstances are much different!  So this afternoon after morning battles with the lawn mower and 2 hours of mowing grass, I headed to the track.  On memorial day they did a 200 track workout.  So today I did 3 sets of 200 hard, 200 jog, 200 hard, 200 jog.  Between sets I took a 2-3 min rest.  Both warm up and cool down were half mile jogs.  It was really hot and I was beat when i finished but I got it done.  unfortunately i forgot to take my watch with me so i have no idea what kinda of times I hit.  oh well, I ran hard and thats what matters.  After running some errands while I was out I attempted the lift they did last week as well.  It was a challenge both because it was hard and because I certainly dont have the same equipment at home they have at the gym.  Started with 4 sets of 5 bench working up from 115-130 lbs, accompanied by 4 sets of 6 lance step up with each leg with a 45 lbs weight.  Then, did my best to do decline DB bench.  Managed to do 3 sets of 8 working from 8 lbs weights to 15 lbs weights because thats all i've got!  Next was 3 sets of 8 dips  with 3 sets of 8 back squats (since i dont have a BOSU ball) working from 130-150 lbs.  After that I did 3 sets of 10 plyo (clap) push ups with 3 sets of 10 row the boat (frog) abs.  Finished up with 3 sets of 20 DB curls, since I only had 8 lbs DBs!  Then decided to add 3 sets 0f 25 side cruches on each side, because my abs felt left out! It was defa lot of work, and I'm pretty exhausted now, will be sore tomorrow!!

Back on the run!!

After a nice week off I decided that I needed to get out of the house and move a little bit.  Especially since my high school team is hosting an all-comers meet the day after memorial day, where I will compete in something, looks like it may be as part of a 4x8 at the moment.  But since that is only a week away and im putting in some hours at work this week I wanted to get a run in today.  The plan was to run a 2.5/3 mile loop.  unfortunately in order to leave my house I have to run up a pretty steep nearly 300 meter hill, which does not all for easing into runs.  But once I got going I was feeling really good.  Around the 2 mile mark the same breathing issue I had one my last run with Michael hit me again, but since I was by myself I had less motivation to push through it, so I only got through just over 2 miles.  Did discover a pattern in the two episodes though.  Both times I had not prepared to run during the day.  I had not eaten much and was very underhydrated.  Also, both times I had done some level of activity for the few hours before I attempted the run, last time walking the mall, this morning cleaning the pit.  So I can blame myself and make sure I don't let it happen again!  Also tried my hand at the bench challenge the activedge team used as part of their race last weekend.  As many reps of bench as possible with half your body weight.  So I weighed myself and set it up. But once again was stupid and did not warm up or anything.  Only did 40 reps not quite the 50 I wanted :)  but thats ok, I have not lifted in about a month, Ill hit it before the summer is out, maybe even before i leave for cali!