stachedwalker’s BodyBlog

In less than 2 weeks I’ll be on a plane to Phoenix for the RnR Marathon & 1/2 marathon (I’m doing the half).  2 weeks from Sunday is the big day (13th of Jan).  After being a total sloth this month, I was on the road for 1:57 today, racking up 8.5 miles.  It wasn’t raining (or sleeting or snowing) for change so I wasn’t bad weather to be outside in.  Oh yeah, 40 degrees, too.    The distance/time wasn’t too bad.  I would like to have broken 9 miles but it just didn’t happen.  

I also didn’t think the times were too bad given not a whole lot of sleep last night.  I’m taking care of an abandoned cat right now and let it sleep with me last night.  This cat has NOT figured out how to lie next to a human, it needs to be ON the human.  As in starting on the stomach, progressing up the chest, front paws either on the chin or around the neck and purring nose about 5-6" from your face.  It wants to make sure you FEEL the LOVE.   I’d feel it better if I got some more shut eye.  LOL.  

Maybe one more long walk and the rest of the time will be 1 hour walks aiming more for speed than anything else so that I get more used to walking fast.

Relaxing … but not really inactive.  While I didn’t do any training for racewalking I was running around a lot and got some 3 hours of hiking in the desert into Tuesday’s activities … with 20 lbs of a backpack with camera gear strapped to my back.  Wed. I got to meet Ian (secondfocus) as he noted in his bodyblog.  What he failed to mentioned was that two camera geeks (well, at least me!) with cameras sitting outside a coffee place means everything going by was photographed for comparisons, analysis, etc. LOL.    I sure learned a lot!  And, assuming I don’t mess this up, here’s a non-gym photo of Ian.

Another long session on the treadmill.  It was supposed to snow .. but nada!  Anway, 10 miles today.  about 2:07 to get that done and used up about 1225 calories.  Since you need to replenish your carbs when you finish this off … what better way to do that than head right on down to your local McMenamins have a nice pint of Terminator Stout while waiting for your Grilled Chicken Brewers salad to be prepared.   Hey, It’s my excuse!  LOL   I was reasonably happy with the workout today.  About 6 more weeks until the 1/2 marathon.