Tag Archives: running

Cardio, Fitness, Plyo, Running, Treadmill

“It’s Against the Law”

October 2, 2013 Kim 70 Comments

Today for my 44 I tried a new to me move – a football stomp with an axe jump (plyo jack). The football stomp is basically fast feet for about 5 seconds and then you do a plyo jack.

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(Still can’t figure out why all the early morning videos are so yellow – better do some playing around with my camera!) This was a fun 44 and it went really quickly!

I haven’t been running a lot lately (mental block & babying my Achilles) but thought I should get in a few more runs in the next week and a half so that’s what I did this morning.

The run was great – I did 6 miles at a quick pace and then an easy 1.75 miles for 61:00 total minutes of running. (1.5% incline) Hopefully another couple of runs will happen in the next week and then it will be time to see what I’m made of!!!

I rarely have any type of controversial post and political stuff isn’t a big topic for me. However, I couldn’t totally let this whole government thing go.

As you all know, Chris is a pilot for the United States Air Force – he is in the Kansas Air National Guard. For 27 years he has served our country.

Now, thanks to a very unsettled government, there are many military and other government people who are being furloughed and are looking at a few days, weeks, whatever the time period ends up being, of not getting paid.

The way I see it, if the government is shutting down, Congress should definitely not be getting paid – all of them not just the few who have offered to waive their pay.

And, with a shut- down there should at least be some extra days off.

Here was the conversation between Chris and I last night:

Kim: I think the US military should stage a walk-out if they aren’t going to get paid.
Chris: That’s against the law.
Kim: The law made by the same government that is now not paying you?! Oh – well that seem’s ~~fair~~ completely RIDICULOUS!!!

Obviously I tend to exaggerate things a little since (supposedly) the military will still get paid.

So – yesterday I said I was thankful that Chris still had a job – and I am. However, I’m not thankful for the way things are being handled in our country right now. Just my very un-educated point of view on the matter!!!

And, for the record, I think that all government employees should stage a walk-out!!!

Happy Wednesday!

Kim

Back, Fitness, Running, Treadmill

WooHoo!! It’s My SITS Day!!!

September 23, 2013 Kim 104 Comments

Today for my 44 I did a hyperextension rock. This move is designed to strengthen the lower back which is sometimes a problem area for me!

Lay on your stomach and extend your arms and legs off the ground. Rock back, lifting your arms up as high as you can and then rock forward lifting your legs. (a front-back rock = 1 rep) To complete all 44, I had to stretch back into child’s pose a couple of times!

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And, for the first time in a week (since my 44 miles!) I ran. Yesterday afternoon Jordan, Hunter and Chris all went running. Jordan told me that I should run, too since it had been a week – nothing like having a kid to keep me in check!!!

I ran with a 1.5% incline – 6 miles in 37:28 and then did a nice easy 1.5 miles to cool down. It felt good to run again and after the first mile I found my running grove!!!

Today is my SITS day!!! That means I’m featured the featured blogger @ The SITS Girls (where women get social).

This site is a great site that 2 women (Tiffany & Fancesca) started to help women bloggers really share their blogs. This community is over 40,000 and still growing.

Over the past few months I’ve met some incredible women thanks to this site!

I will always be grateful to the first SITS girls I followed for introducing me to this incredible site and one in particular who didn’t let me just make comments about needing to check it out – she said “Just do it!!” Thanks, Joi!!!

So, if you have never checked out the site, feel free to head over and visit today!!! Good day for it, since I’m over there!!!

Happy Monday!!!

Kim

Fitness, Running, Treadmill

44…..

September 16, 2013 Kim 89 Comments

The start of a new year – my year of 44 and year #2 of blogging!!!

Today’s 44 (and it counts as today because even though most of it was yesterday, I finished after midnight!!!) was a 44 mile run (truthfully, it ended up being a run and then a walk).

All happy before I started – CRAZY!!!

I’m not gonna lie – THIS 44 SUCKED!!!!!

I started off running and was right on pace for my goal for the first 24 miles – not fast, just an even 6 mph. Then, things started to go really south. My left Achilles, which has been giving me trouble for quite awhile was killing me and my stomach was not happy. I decided to switch to a run/walk combo which I did for the next 4 miles.

At mile 28, I stopped for a minute and went in the room where Jordan was (Chris & Hunter were at small group but Jordan stayed home) and told him I wanted to quit. I told him that running 44 miles was stupid and I didn’t want to do it!!!

Jordan basically told me to SUCK IT UP!!! He said, just walk if you have to but you can’t quit!!!

So, I hopped back on and walked (and walked and walked) and pretty much hated every step but…..I did it!!!

Clearly it didn’t take me 37:55 – my treadmill rolls over every 100 minutes and it had already rolled over 5x. It took me 8 hours 57:55 minutes. Not my original plan/goal but thanks to Jordan pushing me, I met the distance goal.

Today, I’m perfectly happy with a rainy, coolish day for my birthday! I’m all decked out in compression gear – shorts and socks – and planning on being a complete BUM for the day!!!

I’m excited to see what the next year of 44s and blogging will bring! I just went back to my very first post and other than going with a similar title, I can see how my blog changed during the past year and I’m sure that there will be more changes over the course of year #2!!

Happy Monday!!!

Kim

Cardio, Core, Fitness, Running, Treadmill

Self-Doubt

September 4, 2013 Kim 84 Comments

Today’s 43 was a fairly simple one!!! I just did a twisting knee repeater with a band on my arms so that they had a little resistance!

This was a quick move – cardio based and good for the core!!! And, of course, a double!!!

It’s nice to have quick simple moves for my 43 every once in awhile!!!

Today I did a trial run for my upcoming 44 miles!!! It did not go well!!!!

I’m not sure what the problem was. I’m hoping to run about 10 minute miles for the whole run (44 miles). Today I started around 9:13 pace and played around between that pace and 10:00. Nothing felt good. Nothing was easy. WHAT?!

In the end, I only ran 6 miles and walked 1.5 for a total of 7.5 miles which is about 1/6 of the distance that I will be running in less than 2 weeks.

I’m not feeling very confident about my ability to run (or even finish) all 44 miles. And, the 44 is supposed to be my final training effort for my 50 mile race in October!

I’m going to spend a lot of time the next few days trying to prepare myself mentally. I know that I have done the physical training and put in the time and effort, now it is just a matter of making sure that I don’t psyche myself out!!!

I’ve always said that these super long runs are as much mental as physical and I think that right now I need to focus on making sure that I’m prepared to push past the self-doubt and negative voices in my head!!!

I’m going to keep telling myself that – “I got this!”

What do you do when you start to doubt yourself?

Happy Wednesday!

Kim

BOSU, Core, Fitness, Running, Treadmill

Why do I stay up till midnight?

August 29, 2013 Kim 44 Comments

Today for my 43 I decided to do a move that Kristen @ Stuft Mama demoed. This move involves one of my favorite pieces of equipment –

Kristen called the move a scissor move on the BOSU – I’m not sure if I did it exactly the way she did but either way it is an incredible way to work your core!!

Just balancing myself was a challenge!!!

I counted a right leg up and a left leg up as 1 rep. 43 of these were hard!! And, I had to hold lightly to the ball otherwise I kept rolling off!!!

I also taught Garage Boot Camp this morning. We did another repeat workout – 7 mini workouts or 1 Super Boot Camp one of my favorites!!! (I really do have a lot of favorites, I guess – oh, well all the favorites match all of my exclamation points!!!)

I decided to do another short run – I’m so happy that I’ve been able to run on consecutive days again. I’m trying to not get too crazy with the running though because I have some big runs coming up – 44 miles in about 2.5 weeks (birthday run) and 50 miles in mid October – no time to end up injured due to running too much!!

Today I just did 5 total miles – 4 hard (24:19) + 1 much easier (almost 12 minutes) all with a 1.5% incline. Other than my left Achilles which stays swollen all the time, my legs are feeling really good these days!!!

For the past 6 years, I have become one of those people who gets up at the ~~butt~~ crack of dawn and therefore, I rarely stay up past 10:00pm. This works well because Chris has gotten up early forever so he likes to go to bed fairly early, too.

However, lately, I haven’t had time during the day to spend blogging so when Chris (and the boys) go to bed at night I sit down with my laptop (and HGTV!) to play catch-up. All good until this happens –

Midnight!!! 12:00 am!!! 5 short hours before my alarm will start screeching at me and I will start all over with another day!!!

Yikes – how did it get to be so late with me still up?! And why am I up? Maybe tonight will be the night that I don’t ring in the new day!!! (doubtful but…..)

How late do you stay up on a normal night?
What time do you get up in the mornings?
Alarm or natural wake up?
How many hours do you generally sleep at night? (I’m to the point where it is rarely more than 6 & staying up till midnight is making it even less!)

Happy Thursday!

Kim

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