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Week 2 - upping the miles November 19, 2007

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Today is the beginning of week 2 and the beginning of the mileage increase. today’s run went from 3 to 3.5 with the rest of the week the same as last.

with the holiday week might be a little off, and I might actually repeat week 2 next week.

Looks like my pace change is also helping. By running a little slower pace, I’m feeling more comfortable and although the run is hard by the end, it’s not like it’s impossible. In fact I think I could have easily run 4 miles today.

A lot to be said for working at your own pace. I understand this in yoga but coming from competitive running  in school it’s a little hard not to go out and try to “win” the race.

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End of Week 1 November 18, 2007

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today is the last day of the first week of the new training and that means a 40 min cross day. Took the dog for a long walk before the seahawks game and according to favoriterun.com it was just over 3.25 miles. Actually ended up doing more the 40 minutes of cross training given the walk probably took about an hour.

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Upper Body Yoga November 13, 2007

Posted by balbert Flexibility, Strength Training, Yoga Digg! this story! Digg! this story. , 1 comment so far

Today’s yoga concentrated a lot on the shoulders, upper back and chest. Lots of modifications to promote opening the chest like a modified triangle with hands clasped behind the back before leaning forward into triangle.

of course i have such tight shoulders it was both a good class for opening but also extremely frustrating when i can barely straighten or pull my arms away from my back.

baby steps… life long practice… no cover of yoga journal for me

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Upping the milage November 12, 2007

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been wanted to increase my distances so decided to start a new program and “train” for a 10k. I don’t have a race in mind, but just want to get up to running more distance. Currently i’m only doing 4 to 6 miles a week… basically 2 miles a day (m, w, f).

So first did some research on the net for some programs and found a training program from sweat365 and one from Hal Higdon’s site:
http://sweat365.com/library/training-plans/running/10k/beginning-runner/

http://www.halhigdon.com/10ktraining/10knovice.htm.

The schedules didn’t match up exactly with the time i have during the week. Basically I wanted to have my off days on Tuesday and Thursdays when I do Yoga. Thus came up with the following which seems reasonable.

Today is the first day and today’s run was the the longest I’ve done in a long while. Decided to take it a little slower and took my pace down from 5.9 on the treadmill to 5.5. I think I might be running a little too fast a pace for were I am as it was a much more comfortable run.

So we’ll see. Today was good and Monday’s always seem to be easier for me. Wed will be the test to see how i feel.

The Program
week 1
Mon - 3m run, tues - yoga, wed - 2.5 m run, thus yoga, fri - 2m run, sat - rest, sun 40 min walk

Week 2
Mon - 3.5m run, tues - yoga, wed - 2.5 m run, thus yoga, fri - 2m run, sat - rest, sun 40 min walk

Week 3
Mon - 3m run, tues - yoga, wed - 2.5 m run, thus yoga, fri - 2m run, sat - rest, sun 50 min walk

Week 4
Mon - 4m run, tues - yoga, wed - 3 m run, thus yoga, fri - 2.5m run, sat - rest, sun 50 min walk

Week 5
Mon - 4.5m run, tues - yoga, wed - 3 m run, thus yoga, fri - 2.5m run, sat - rest, sun 60 min walk

Week 6
Mon - 5m run, tues - yoga, wed - 3 m run, thus yoga, fri - 3m run, sat - rest, sun 60 min walk

Week 7
Mon - 5.5m run, tues - yoga, wed - 3 m run, thus yoga, fri - 3m run, sat - rest, sun 60 min walk

Week 8
Mon - 6.2/10km run

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Exercise for Free July 29, 2007

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Sometimes it’s nice when regular activities count as “exercise”. Dad was in town and we all went to the Mariner’s game. I like to park at my work on the water front and then walk down to the stadium. sometimes we take the bus down and then walk back after, but this time, we decided not to wait for the bus and plus we needed to get down to the stadium early enough to get our free cap.

In the end with all the walking at to and from the game and taking the dog after dinner i got in just over 5 miles of walking.

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Good Yoga July 28, 2007

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did a lot of shoulder work. Lots of inversions - hand stand, head stand and shoulder stand.

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Brain Work out July 27, 2007

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well i’ve missed the last two day’s workouts due to all day meetings. But I’ve definitely been working out the old head, thinking really hard. Trying to solve some of those complex computer things that seem easy on the surface but hard when you get into the details.

we have yoga tomorrow… exercise for the soul.

Tag you’re it… July 27, 2007

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Jobs I’ve held-

1. MacDonalds McNugget boy
2. Rock Star
3. Technology Evangelist
4. Program Manager

Movies I Can Watch Over & Over-
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. A Christmas Story
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. This Is Spinal Tap

My Guilty Pleasures-
1. Chocolate
2. mindless tv
3. Rum
4. wine

Places I Have Lived-
1. Sunnyvale, California
2. Santa Barbara, California
3. Berkeley, California
4. Seattle, Washington

Shows I Enjoy-
1. Heroes
2. Weeds
3. Lost
4. Ugly Betty
5. Rome

Places I have Been on Vacation-
1. Hawaii: Maui/Kauai’i
2. Brazil
3. Mexico
4. Canada: Whistler

Favorite Foods-
1. Sushi
2. Pork Carnitas
3. Indian
4. Cake and fried cake

Websites I visit Daily-
1. film.com
2. film.com
3. google.com
4. gardenhelp.org
5. Sweat365

Body Parts I have injured-
1. Kidneys - with the stones
2. bruised coxis
3. pulled hamstring
4. cut open my head

Awards You’ve Won-
unfortunately, I have not won any awards.

Nicknames you’ve been called-
1. e-bob
2. balbert
3. bobala
4. summer bob, winter bob

Now I get to pick 4 other blog buddies to do this!

1. Jeff
2. Brad
3. Elaine
4. Christine

run forrest run July 23, 2007

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regular run cuz got a late start cuz the man is putting me down.

1/4 mile warmup
2 mile run
1/4 mile cooldown

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Walk’n the dog July 17, 2007

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hadn’t spent some quality time with the pooch and she was wanting some Bob time (don’t they all). Tooled around the neighborhood for the usual and met an nice golden. Also found the neighbor’s cat that likes to go on walk about when they are gone. Picked him up and dropped him off a the house and he ran for the food bowl.

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