Turkey Stuffer

This Thanksgiving turkey stuffer had over 1600 turkey stuffer register walk/runners

    

It was a crisp clear cool morning here in Springfield Or. today was my second annual turkey stuffer race. The temps were about 35 degrees great running weather no rain in sight. There were over 1600 register to walk/run this event which made it a very exciting. I had two goals for this year turkey stuffer. My first goal was to of course finish the race with a better time than I had last year and to come in under 30 mins. Well I met both goals this year finishing time was 26:57 which was a 8:41 pace, last year time was 34:50.65 which was a 11:13 pace. What a big difference a year makes. I will run more 5ks and improve my time next goal will be to run it under 25 mins easily. I know that it will take some time but I can do it and I will do.

 

 

 

What is Next????

Today, I am trying to decide about running in what will be my third half marathon on Saturday November 22. I think I am going to do because the forecast will be perfect and I think my body can handle it.

I am moving closely to the end of the year and so grateful that I have been healthy and on track to keep running half marathons. It is a great feeling after I reached that finish line. Going into the next year I probably will do a couple, I thought I wanted to travel with them but now I don't know. I don't want to get all the injuries that I here other runners complaining about after doing several marathons.

I do want to focus more on the 5ks, 8ks, & 10k and try to figure what would be a great competing distance for me. Once I do that I can establish my own personal goals and where I want to go with them.

What I am planning on doing is the following races:

11/22/08 Eweb Run to Stay Warm 13.1 (half marathon)

11/27/08 Turkey Stuffer 3.1 (5k)

12/13/08 Jungle Bell Run 5.0 (8k)

1/1/09 First Run 6.2 (10k)

Next year I want to focus on doing a lot more shorter distance races. Hopefully this will give me an idea on what races I will focus on in 2009.

 

11/10/08 – refocus

Well Today is off to a fresh new week. I had a bad week or should I say weekend this past weekend it was our anniversary and I over did everything. I feel so bad now but I know I can pick up where I left off on Friday. Just don't understand how I blew it so bad on Saturday and Sunday. Now I am suffering and all my challenge teams are doing well and I had this big slip up. I feel like I am letting everyone down because I slipped up so bad. They are celebrating and I am trying to pick up the pieces and start over again urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg!!!!!!! I will do better, I must do better. After all I have did this before nothing new just need to get a handle on everything.

This week my plan is to get more runs in need to run about 25 this week. Schedule will look like this:

Monday 3 mile run – 60 min group power - 90 minutes

Tuesday - 45 interval run - 60 min group cycle – 105 minutes

Wednesday 3 mile run – 60 min group power – 90 minutes

Thursday – 5 interval mile run – 60 minutes

Friday – 60 min cycle - 60 minutes

Saturday 11 or 12 mile run maybe group power – 120 minutes

Sunday – off

Goal is to work out 500 minutes this week.

Food plan is to continue to drink 8 glasses. Eat five fruits and vegetables, Eat two dairy products, take vitamin and eat only lean protein and include at least two health fats for the rest of the month.

Goal is to eat about more than 1200 calories not more 1500 calories a day and to log and journal all food daily.

Sample Breakfast

3 egg white omelet with mushroom, tomatoes and spinach & Kashi vanilla oatmeal ½ cup of skim milk with strawberries

Snack

Yogurt

Lunch

Chicken stir fry or Chicken salad & cantaloupe

Snack

Apple with 1 tsp peanut butter

Dinner

5oz Chicken breast, Asparagus & broccoli

Just a sample /template to follow for the week.

2 dairy ( ½ cup of mile & yogurt)

3 vegetables (Aspargus & Brocolli & salad or stir fry vegetables) & 3 fruits (apple, strawberries & cantaloupe)

2 fats (1 tsp of peanut butter & 1 tsp of olive oil?

8 glasses of water