....I miss you!

So after I made that post last night i actually did lace up the nasty Adidas and I went for a 3.5 mile run. I just went to the gym and ran on the treadmill but I ran pretty hard and ran it in 28 minutes or in other words at an 8 min/mile pace. I took a long time warming up and stretching though because my calves were so tight. Really what are tight are the Achilles tendons, my calves are actually okay, I guess from all the running, but that was the first time I had ran stairs in like 3 years.
Today I just did a really quick workout after work and then tried to get home to do some much needed homework (which I have yet to touch). I ran 2 miles at a little slower than 8 min/mile and then just did three sets of low weight high rep curls and called it a day. I just wasn't feeling very motivated at all. That's why I really need to find someone to do these triathlons with me. So that way we can motivate each other and working out won't be so boring.
On another note I was looking at the UVU Baseball website today. I really miss baseball, there really isn't anything a whole lot better than a warm day and a baseball game. I really need to find some kind of a hardball league and get playing a little bit again...or at least find a batting cage around here and go hit some balls. I miss you baseball.

Freakin Stairs from Hell

So like I mentioned in my last entry I ran those stairs at BYU and I had thought that I would probably be a little tender from doing so...well it turns out that it just about killed me; I don't think that my calves have ever been so sore in my life. You need to remember that I've been doing sports since age 6 or younger, I've been through some pretty intense workouts before and trust me I've been pretty sore before too. This though, I have never felt. I seriously could hardly walk today. I'll stretch them out (which hurts horribly) then two minutes later they are as tight as ever again, its killer.
As a result of my tenderness I talked myself out of doing anything athletic yesterday and haven't done anything today either. I did just watch Cinderella Man though and I feel "inspired" to go for a little jog. It is almost 9:00 pm though, thankfully Gold's Gym is open 24 hours a day though! I don't have class until 9:00 am tomorrow so what the heck? Why not?

Oh the stairs

Running on a treadmill can get extremely boring...and it is. Due to the unfortunate circumstances with the weather the treadmill has been my main source of running workouts. Tonight however I thought it would be a good all round workout to run some stairs, as this would work my lungs, heart, and quads. I figured that stairs would be good for all three events. So I went to the indoor track on BYU campus and ran the bleachers for quite a while. It was actually a pretty good workout and I'm sure I'm going to be a little tender in the morning from it. I also got a short jog in on the track. Let me just say that it is so much better to run on a track and actually move than it is to run on a machine. Mentally its just a million times easier when you can actually see the progress that you are making instead of having to look at some number on a screen! Not only that but while running on a track you get to pass all the people that run slower than you and that just feels pretty good.

Another blog?

Well yes it's another blog...by me. In this one though I'm only going to write about my preparing for swimming, cycling, and running events; or all three at once. So you won't be getting many rants or hearing about how my social life sucks in this one...just athletic stuff here.
I've been trying to jump start my body into shape by doing a number of things since I got back from Guatemala a year ago. When I first got home I seriously couldn't handle any kind of physical workout, I had zero stamina. However once I moved to McMinnville, OR I began doing short runs; just 1 mile runs up to around 3 miles on a good day. These runs were sparatic at best and I made slow progress, but by the end of July I had got myself in good enough shape to be running over 4 miles in under 9 min/mile's. At that time I was running between 4-5 times a week and rotating between 3 to 4.25 mile runs.
I then moved back to Klamath Falls, OR where I'm originally from and ended up running only 2-3 times per week and doing about the same miliage or a little less. I now live in Orem, UT and have recently started working pretty hard once again. I was swimming steadily through December but let that get away from me as school has now began and my time is crunched for workout. But I've rededicated myself withing the last couple of weeks and though I haven't been swimming still since Christmas I've picked up a decent workout with running and cycling.
Today, Monday, I only ran, but it's the most I've ran in quite a while; today I ran 6 miles in 50 minutes. Not a bad pace I say but if I'm going to start doing triathalons (which is the ultimate goal here) then I'm going to really need to fully dedicate myself to this and incorporate the other two events more thoroghly into my workout plan.