Yeah yeah...

Okay, so it's been a month almost since I posted. Not like anyone's reading this anyway. :)

Been a hectic month. School is over this week and I'll have a life again for about 28 days and then it's back to the last 2 semesters. Hopefully. It's entirely possible that the schedule will be impossible for me to handle with my job if it turns out the way I've heard it will. And I can't live without the job, so school will have to be the one that bites it if the schedules don't mesh. Anyway, not going to fret about that right now. I'll know more tomorrow.

Starting a new training plan. I'm still going to run in Detroit but I'm going to be very careful about it and be slow and not really do it as anything competitive. It's not like I have a snowball's chance in hell of winning anything...so I'm just going to go and have fun. :) I've changed my mind about doing the Capital City River Run half marathon on 9/30 and instead I'm going to do the Big House Big Heart 5k in Ann Arbor. Much more fun, and I joined a team that is going to do either 10 miles or another 3.1 miles before the actual race so you can get in a half marathon or 10k for the day. I'll be wearing Maize and Blue of course!

I did the Ele's Place 5K on 7/22. Took over 3 minutes off my previous time. My new PR is now 35:55 for a 5K. The reason I'm starting a new plan is because I know that running is something I want to do for life. And I don't feel that I've been making any gains in the last month..mainly because I think I'm pushing my bod too hard for what it's ready for right now. So, I bought Jack Daniel's book and I'm following the White plan starting in the Level III. I could probably start in the Red Level but I've been noticing that my HR is above where it really should be for optimal "easy" training runs, and that's something I really want to improve. If I'm constantly running in an anaerobic zone, then I'm not going to make any improvement. So I went out today and did the first day of training on the plan. Kept my HR below 80% (he states that 65-79% is where I should be during easy runs. My pace was pathetically slow but everything I read says that's what it should be when you're doing easy runs (obviously relative to one's normal pace). So I'm going to just double-fist it for a while and wear my HRM and my Garmin until I am really comfortable with where my HR is in a certain pace zone.

I'm also starting today to try and eat more healthfully. I have been pretty good, but I eat enough that I'm maintaining my weight and I'd really like to start losing. Since I've decided not to really train for the half marathon and instead treat it as more of a fun run/walk, I'm going to fuel myself just enough for my base-building and hopefully drop 10 or 15 more pounds before the end of October. I'd like to drop about 30 but I'll take whatever I can get. :)

Well, that's life in a nutshell lately. I'm off to enjoy some grilling and studying for my final peds exam. Glad this semester is almost over with! And glad that it's the last summer I'll have to give up! :D