I couldn't get to the Nimitz trail fast enough this spectacular Sunday morning.
Out the door a little past 8am, stop for coffee and gas (Aaarg!) Up up up Marin Ave (rivals any steep hill in San Fracisco!) to Tilden. Saved a few minutes getting to Inspiration point by cutting over to Grizzly Peak. Finally, after a few minutes warming up, I hit the trail, this time keeping to the single track dirt trail as much as possible, except where it was too soggy after yesterdays downpour.
I don't know but I'm guessing faster times come with familiarity, cuz today I shaved 8 minutes from last weeks time. That's right 8 miles in 1:22:19 oh yeah!!
I'm thinking I might just finish my 10k in an hour! (or better) I'm a little superstitious though and feel a kinda weird putting it out for all to see.
Friday was an easy maybe 3 miles w/and a 30 minute gym workout; emphasis on lowerebody.
On the quilting front, I've cut all my strips for baby quilt #1 and plan to get all 36 Roman stripe blocks finished today. This quilt has to be done by 3/10.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Thursday, January 12, 2006
I registered for the Marin Trails 10K @ China Camp. 3/11
Impulsively, I might add.
Having a race on the horizon should help focus my training more.
Stumbling into my first race was both and blessing and a curse.
A blessing because I didn't have time to get freaked out.
A curse due to my lack of racing experience.
The next race was planned, went much better and gave me a taste for it.
(It happened to be a trail race too.)
Running my own race is a definite race goal for 2006. And figuring out how calibrate my damn pedometer!
China Camp is one of those beautiful gems tucked away only an hour or so outside the bayarea. I've never seen it before. Nor had I ever been to the Presidio and I'm a native!
Races in cool relatively close venues work well for the family time too. It's very cool how my running is taking me and my family to beautiful places..........
that we never seem to get our butts to on our own!!!
It's the same reason I became a girlscout leader, to get my kid out in nature. With T's allergys hikes in the redwoods are rare. He really loves nature and it's evident in his paintings, but the poor guy is cursed with freakishly bad pollen allergies.
So now, I need to go to bed. I'm trying to get there by 9:30 - 10:00 everynight.
Running my own race ranks high on this runner's wish list.
Impulsively, I might add.
Having a race on the horizon should help focus my training more.
Stumbling into my first race was both and blessing and a curse.
A blessing because I didn't have time to get freaked out.
A curse due to my lack of racing experience.
The next race was planned, went much better and gave me a taste for it.
(It happened to be a trail race too.)
Running my own race is a definite race goal for 2006. And figuring out how calibrate my damn pedometer!
China Camp is one of those beautiful gems tucked away only an hour or so outside the bayarea. I've never seen it before. Nor had I ever been to the Presidio and I'm a native!
Races in cool relatively close venues work well for the family time too. It's very cool how my running is taking me and my family to beautiful places..........
that we never seem to get our butts to on our own!!!
It's the same reason I became a girlscout leader, to get my kid out in nature. With T's allergys hikes in the redwoods are rare. He really loves nature and it's evident in his paintings, but the poor guy is cursed with freakishly bad pollen allergies.
So now, I need to go to bed. I'm trying to get there by 9:30 - 10:00 everynight.
Running my own race ranks high on this runner's wish list.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Firstly, I gotta come clean, my run on Sunday took more like 90 mins vs 77mins. I started at 8:40 and finished at 10:00 , so 8 miles in 1.5 hrs! I'm not sure how I miscalculated that one, I blame it on the cows! Still I gloat..That's the farthest and the longest I've ever run .
Seems our dry spell has run it's course as we gear up here in the bayarea for more rain. It's my day off today but I gotta hang around home between 1-5 for the Sears repair guy to come fix the fridge......It became "incontinent" over the holiday and there's been a constant stream trickling across the kitchen floor. So, in order to get an early start (6:30am) I gave M. specific instructions to make her bed, eat breakfast and get her backpack together while I headed over to the gym for a treadmill run: 4miles in 38:58. A quick stretch afterwards than home to take M to school. Brandy got a short walk afterwards up in the Berkeley hills, and along the way I found 3 perfectly good ceramic pots...Berkeley is famous for it's free piles.
It's a perfect day for quilting, I need trim and even up all my blocks before assembling the quilt top and maybe go to New Pieces for fabric to add side sashes and the border.
Seems our dry spell has run it's course as we gear up here in the bayarea for more rain. It's my day off today but I gotta hang around home between 1-5 for the Sears repair guy to come fix the fridge......It became "incontinent" over the holiday and there's been a constant stream trickling across the kitchen floor. So, in order to get an early start (6:30am) I gave M. specific instructions to make her bed, eat breakfast and get her backpack together while I headed over to the gym for a treadmill run: 4miles in 38:58. A quick stretch afterwards than home to take M to school. Brandy got a short walk afterwards up in the Berkeley hills, and along the way I found 3 perfectly good ceramic pots...Berkeley is famous for it's free piles.
It's a perfect day for quilting, I need trim and even up all my blocks before assembling the quilt top and maybe go to New Pieces for fabric to add side sashes and the border.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Well I can see I'm not gonna get away with NOT setting some kind of goals for 2006. Catching up w/posts,so many thoughtful and motivated bloggers! How can I not take time to plan,dream, conquer,breakthrough...........
Brown Socks really summed it up for me with developing a healthier relationship with running. I've been very focused this past year overcoming that 10 week wall!! I guess I needed to obsess for awhile, to get solid with this running thang!! I feel fully committed but now it's time to reintroduce some other interests of mine into the mix..Namely quilting.....Don't laugh!
Quilting is a bit like running a marathon, completely daunting overwhelming in fact if you focus only on the finished product. And then there are those times when you are in the zone and the creative juices get going it's almost magical! I recently pulled out some blocks I started for a twin sized quilt for Miranda 3 years ago....I have to make five more pinwheels and side sashes to finish the quilt top.
The goals:
#1 Finish this quilt and 2 baby quilts by May.
#2 watch less HGTV.....True, while I am inspired by all that organizing and redecorating, I also
feel more critical of my home as a result....Goal #1 ties in nicely with my need to create
beauty for myself and others.
#3 X-train more, do more biking and lifting. (and maybe learn to swim)
#4 Do well in a 10K by Spring.
#5 Last but not least, continue to strive for BALANCE (this will be my word/theme for the
year, thanks Susie!)
This weeks recap:
Wednesday: 50 minute run along various urban trails and total body workout at gym.
Friday: an easy 3.5 outdoors yeah!
Saturday: Total body workout at the gym (w/my sweetie!) was careful not to overdo the legs, in anticipation of Sundays long run....Nevertheless my legs and arms were sore!
Sunday: Incredible breakthrough for me!
I ran 8 miles in 77 minutes. Nimitz trail in Tilden is a hilly asphalt trail that winds it way through eucalyptus trees and open cattle fields the first 4 miles. So gorgeous this am w/fog drifting across the trail . On the turn around a family of cows, mammas and 2 babies lumbered along in single file........not exactly running with the bulls but no less exhilarating!!
ps: I finished the last 5 blocks of Miranda's quilt top too!
Brown Socks really summed it up for me with developing a healthier relationship with running. I've been very focused this past year overcoming that 10 week wall!! I guess I needed to obsess for awhile, to get solid with this running thang!! I feel fully committed but now it's time to reintroduce some other interests of mine into the mix..Namely quilting.....Don't laugh!
Quilting is a bit like running a marathon, completely daunting overwhelming in fact if you focus only on the finished product. And then there are those times when you are in the zone and the creative juices get going it's almost magical! I recently pulled out some blocks I started for a twin sized quilt for Miranda 3 years ago....I have to make five more pinwheels and side sashes to finish the quilt top.
The goals:
#1 Finish this quilt and 2 baby quilts by May.
#2 watch less HGTV.....True, while I am inspired by all that organizing and redecorating, I also
feel more critical of my home as a result....Goal #1 ties in nicely with my need to create
beauty for myself and others.
#3 X-train more, do more biking and lifting. (and maybe learn to swim)
#4 Do well in a 10K by Spring.
#5 Last but not least, continue to strive for BALANCE (this will be my word/theme for the
year, thanks Susie!)
This weeks recap:
Wednesday: 50 minute run along various urban trails and total body workout at gym.
Friday: an easy 3.5 outdoors yeah!
Saturday: Total body workout at the gym (w/my sweetie!) was careful not to overdo the legs, in anticipation of Sundays long run....Nevertheless my legs and arms were sore!
Sunday: Incredible breakthrough for me!
I ran 8 miles in 77 minutes. Nimitz trail in Tilden is a hilly asphalt trail that winds it way through eucalyptus trees and open cattle fields the first 4 miles. So gorgeous this am w/fog drifting across the trail . On the turn around a family of cows, mammas and 2 babies lumbered along in single file........not exactly running with the bulls but no less exhilarating!!
ps: I finished the last 5 blocks of Miranda's quilt top too!
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Happy New Year...
Apparently I've been having "unsafe" internet use cuz the computer crashed big time on Christmas Day......One download too many....the computer had 7 viruses!! Plus my spyware software expired....blah blah blah.....I admit practical things continuously elude me....But it's a new year and I've go a clean slate and a clean computer.
No, I did not get an ipod for Christmas. However, a sweet friend at work gave me a mini AM/FM radio the size of my palm and it's pink!!
I had a totally awesome 75 min run last Sunday morning on the Bayside trail..It's off a frontage road that runs parallel to HWY 80 depending on the direction you take beautiful bay on one side ugly noisy HWY 80 on the other, so the radio was the perfect solution......kfog's 104.5 FM acoustic sunrise is the perfect station for long Sunday runs........I swear at the 65 minute mark the lyrics "Lord I get so tired, but that's when I know what I've got to do is ramble on and sing my song" from Trains cover of Led Zepplin's "Ramble On" got my tired butt home.
The new year is off to a good start, my schedule at work is back on track (yeah). Rain has been an issue until recently, the last 2 days have been amazing, and one day last week the sunset was so beautiful I actually hurried home so I could run after work!!!
Yesterdays run was equally sweet, 50 mins and a full workout at the gym.
Life is good.
Apparently I've been having "unsafe" internet use cuz the computer crashed big time on Christmas Day......One download too many....the computer had 7 viruses!! Plus my spyware software expired....blah blah blah.....I admit practical things continuously elude me....But it's a new year and I've go a clean slate and a clean computer.
No, I did not get an ipod for Christmas. However, a sweet friend at work gave me a mini AM/FM radio the size of my palm and it's pink!!
I had a totally awesome 75 min run last Sunday morning on the Bayside trail..It's off a frontage road that runs parallel to HWY 80 depending on the direction you take beautiful bay on one side ugly noisy HWY 80 on the other, so the radio was the perfect solution......kfog's 104.5 FM acoustic sunrise is the perfect station for long Sunday runs........I swear at the 65 minute mark the lyrics "Lord I get so tired, but that's when I know what I've got to do is ramble on and sing my song" from Trains cover of Led Zepplin's "Ramble On" got my tired butt home.
The new year is off to a good start, my schedule at work is back on track (yeah). Rain has been an issue until recently, the last 2 days have been amazing, and one day last week the sunset was so beautiful I actually hurried home so I could run after work!!!
Yesterdays run was equally sweet, 50 mins and a full workout at the gym.
Life is good.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Merry Christmas!
Miracles do exist, as our little house is actually clean and sparkly and ready for company!!
I didn't make it to Oakland this morning, but I did squeeze in a 3 miler right after opening presents.
Mom has been rolling out empandias (the Puerto Rican version of a meat turnover - yummy!!) all morning and now I'm back to help.
This will serve as my upper body workout since mom only rolled out 20 and theres 40 more to go!!!
Peace and Love to all
Miracles do exist, as our little house is actually clean and sparkly and ready for company!!
I didn't make it to Oakland this morning, but I did squeeze in a 3 miler right after opening presents.
Mom has been rolling out empandias (the Puerto Rican version of a meat turnover - yummy!!) all morning and now I'm back to help.
This will serve as my upper body workout since mom only rolled out 20 and theres 40 more to go!!!
Peace and Love to all
Friday, December 23, 2005
I was able to maintain a 9.2 pace for the better part of 4 miles this morning,
followed by a good stretch and (drum roll please, this is hard for me people!)
(2) 15 x 15 lunges, biceps,
(2) 10 X 15 triceps and
(2) 30 X 15 squats.
I'm slowly getting to like wt. lifting.
I'm pretty solid and tend to think I don't need to lift wts., but I'm coming to appreciate the various benefits.
I usually don't have time in the morning and well I'm just not motivated to workout after work.
So, I've been trying to hit a few major muscle grps whenever I use the gym's treadmill.
Hi Ho Hi Ho Off to work I go.
followed by a good stretch and (drum roll please, this is hard for me people!)
(2) 15 x 15 lunges, biceps,
(2) 10 X 15 triceps and
(2) 30 X 15 squats.
I'm slowly getting to like wt. lifting.
I'm pretty solid and tend to think I don't need to lift wts., but I'm coming to appreciate the various benefits.
I usually don't have time in the morning and well I'm just not motivated to workout after work.
So, I've been trying to hit a few major muscle grps whenever I use the gym's treadmill.
Hi Ho Hi Ho Off to work I go.
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