PUSH UP DAYS 390-397

795 Push ups

• Streak extender
• Streak extender
• Streak extender + a second set of 25
• Streak extender
• Streak extender
• 90 via 3 sets in 3 different States (AR, MS, AL)
• 515 in following sets:  25, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 25, 25, 30, 30, 30, 25, 25
• Streak extender + 15

We went on Spring Break vacation to Arkansas starting Thursday of last week and returned Tuesday of this week -- the Central West and North West of AR, where we were, exceeded our expectations at every turn.  An amazingly beautiful area that is extremely underrated as an adventure wonderland.   Only wish we had been able to stay a few more days.   Oh and YES, the streak extended beyond 391 days, so a new blogged about streak record for me.  I'd pat myself on the back if I hadn't read earlier today that the Iran Hostage Crisis lasted for 444 days....geez.

Cumulative total:    36,247


Running:

Ran once during vacation.  Once.  I am pathetic and way undertrained for a marathon I'm about to sign up for in June.  Truly not sure if doing the marathon is even a good idea for me, but the company will be GREAT (The Rosenlof's) and that's always a better reason than the running part anyway.

Saturday I ran for 45 minutes and 34 seconds towards Jessieville from the RV park associated with this website:  http://colemanquartz.com/   I saw deer on the run and overall felt good about myself for 45 minutes, the rest of the trip was so over packed with various adventures neither Becca nor I got in any other planned exercise.   A somewhat shocking fact considering that even if it was assumed I did nothing it would be very rare.   Anyway, great trip, now have to get back on the training schedule...er...yeah, make one up to follow at least.

Pictures:

PUSH UP DAY 389

355 Push ups

• Sets of:  25, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 35, 25, 30

Cumulative total:   35,452

Pretty pleased with today's effort considering that I was cycling the above push ups with pull ups and lunges...in 1 hour I completed 235 push ups, 99 pull ups and 250 lunges plus did 7 sets of ab rollers.   I think 300, 110, 300 seems like a reasonable next goal, leaving off the winding ab stuff.   Perhaps I'll try that in a month or so.   Also need to get back on the planking as I haven't done any in quite a while.

PUSH UP DAY 388

35 Push ups

• Streak extender +10

Cumulative total:    35,097

NOTE:   Approaching a new blogged about streak record...the 2k everyday running lasted 391 days....hope I didn't just jinx myself.


Running:  

• 4.62 miles
• 0615
• 8:17/mi. pace

I think my minor health concerns over the weekend were allergy related.   They continue, but thinking they're allergy related rather than virus related makes it easier for me to get out the door for a run...I took it easy on the first half of this run and then picked it up a bit to return home.   Still not happy or comfortable about the fact that I missed a long run over the weekend, but I'll get over that.

PUSH UP DAYS 385-387

445 Push ups

• Streak extender
• Streak extender
• 395 in sets of:  25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 30, 30, 25, 25, 15, 20

Cumulative total:  35,062



Running on Saturday:

• 4.5 miles
• 0515
• 9:35/mi.

Tough run, stomach issues, believe it was Friday dinner, had to stop twice.  Took Sunday off, missing my long run, which has me quite concerned.   I don't like missing those when training.

PUSH UP DAY 384

305 Push ups

• Sets of:   25, 35, 35, 30, 35, 30, 35, 30, 40, 10

Cumulative total:   34,617



Running:

• 3.88 miles
• 0530
• 8:51/mi.

Woke up and got out of bed immediately on hearing the alarm, but it took me forever to get out the door...this has been a problem lately and one that I need to fix.   This week I'm blaming Sir Elton John. 

PUSH UP DAY 383

39 Push ups

• Streak extender plus 14

Cumulative push ups:   34,322

PUSH UP DAY 382

310 Push ups

• Sets of:  25, 40, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 35, 35, 25

Cumulative total:   34,283

PUSH UP DAY 381

30 Push ups

• Streak extender + 5

Cumulative total:   33,973


Running:

• 5.03 miles
• 0540
• 8:14/mi. pace

Picked up the pace on and off after warming up for first mile.   I woke up with shortness of breath, which is not a sign of being fit, but is a sign of being on the road to being fit! 

PUSH UP DAYS 378-380

419 Push ups

• Streak extender plus 10
• Streak extender
• 359 in following sets: 
• 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620

Cumulative total:   33,943

Running:  

• 6.12 miles
• 0530
• 8:54/mi

Rained on me, which was fine and maybe even nice, but made me realize that I ran more in the ran last week than I did in the 7 years we lived in Phoenix total.

• 10.77 miles
• 0710 
• 8:38/mi

Dang Daylight Savings jacked up our whole morning, I was supposed to run before Becca went for an 8am bike ride, but I had 10 miles on the schedule and realized after waking up that it was 6:30, not 5:30 as my watch/alarm indicated, which meant I didn't have enough time to run 10 miles and be home by 7:30...yeah, I need to get faster.  A lot.   Another reason to miss Arizona too.  Becca actually decided to do other exercise, so I could have started at 6:30 anyway, but that was hard to do when not talking to Becca until 7.   Anyway this was my longest run in 2-3 years, so I guess I should be happy about that...and I felt pretty good.  I actually think Becca's watch gipped me of some mileage as I ran the alleged 10 minute mile section harder than many of the other miles -- I think it missed many of my sharp turns, oh well, we'll just assume it was a 31 mile effort at 5 minutes per mile then.   Here is part of the route I took, it's on Becca's Strava if greater level of detail is desired:

I was quite proud of myself...you may never guess that I failed handwriting in the 4th grade, but then, they never said I could write with my feet.

PUSH UP DAYS 376 and 377

339 Push ups

• Streak extender
• 314 in these sets:  25, 35, 35, 35, 35, 35, 35, 35, 34, 10

Cumulative total:   33,524


Running:

• 5 miles
• 0525
• 8:53/mi pace

I believe I nearly worried myself sick....Case was throwing up yesterday, which concerned me so greatly that I was worried all day and woke up worried I too may catch it.  Not as sympathetic as a Father should come across I guess, but while I truly want him to get better and would do most anything to facilitate that, I might draw the line at sharing the illness with him....as long as it's not too serious.  Anyway, I took it easy on my run, which was rather nice, perhaps I should always run easy?   I intend to for the next few days anyway, but that's mostly for fear of not being properly trained to run 3 days in a row, which I plan to do because that's what's on my not yet written up self created training schedule -- Becca gets Monday, Wednesday, Thursday mornings, I get Tuesday and Friday mornings...we both have lofty goals to share the weekend days.  

Related, literally, Finn is on the opposite end with relation to Case's illness....he wants so badly to be just like his brother that he insisted on getting in on the game despite no symptoms.   See Becca's sick ward below:

On the great news side, Case woke up feeling well today and miraculously so did Finny!  
 

PUSH UP DAY 375

260 Push ups

• Sets of:  35, 35, 35, 30, 30, 35, 30, 30

Cumulative push up total:    33,210

PUSH UP DAY 374

30 Push ups

• Streak extender +5

Cumulative total:   32,950


Running:

• 4.1 miles
• 0540
• 8:38/mi. pace

Went searching for hills, they weren't hard to find, only hard to run up.  

PUSH UP DAY 373

315 Push ups

• Sets of: 25, 25, 35, 50, 50, 40, 25, 25, 40

Cumulative push ups:   32,920

PUSH UP DAYS 371 & 372

55 Push ups

• Streak extender
• Streak extender +5

Cumulative total:   32,605

Running:  

• 3.1 Miles
• 0800
• 14 min/mi.

First 5k race for me in possibly 10 years?  Not much for intense pain I guess...anyway, this was Case's first ever 5k and he did very well....on no training he only took two short walk breaks totaling maybe one tenth of a mile combined and finished 3rd in his 0-9 age group, winning a 12 oz. glass, which made him quite happy.   Finn sat in the stroller for the 5k saving his legs for the 1200 meter "fun run," which he ran with his Mother...managed a solid hard run throughout and was the big winner regardless of any other related facts, they gave him a "Winner" ribbon and that was more than enough, but to be safe the event organizers had a giant banana split for everyone afterwards.

• 8.77 Miles
• 0500
• 8:54 min/mi.

Longest run for me in over 2 years, wasn't as miserable as I feared.

PUSH UP DAYS 369 & 370

450 Push ups

• Streak Extender
• 425 in following sets:  25, 30, 30, 30, 30, 30, 25, 25, 30, 10, 25, 25, 25, 25, 10, 25, 25

Cumulative total:    32,550

Running:

• 5.1 miles
• 0545
• 8:50/mi pace

From Home around Municipal Park and return via Brawood.  

PUSH UP DAY 368

275 Push ups

• 9 x sets of 30, plus an additional 5

Cumulative total:   32,100


Running:

• 3.77 mi
• 0600
• 9:08/mi pace

From hotel to Memorial Park, ran in the park a bit and returned.  Training plan said run easy, so I did so happily.

PUSH UP DAY 366 & 367

50 Push ups

• Back to back streak extenders, yesterday and today.

Just felt like letting the left shoulder heal one more day even though it doesn't feel that bad.   I did start a marathon training plan today, so I felt that was enough mental focus for this morning anyway.   Yes, I'll go ahead and bore you with running details now as well, but in an effort to maintain formatting I'll do so beneath the "Cumulative total" line following this paragraph and future posts:

Cumulative total:    31,825    [an additional note on this figure...since mid-summer last year I decided it was best to add 1 extra rep to every set just to make certain my cumulative total figure was an "at least" figure...yes, that is fairly weak on the accuracy scale, but it makes me feel better, so I thought I'd pass that along to my 5-ish readers....of which I only know for certain 2 identities -- maybe there is a way to see who is auto receiving?  Anyway, until I see comments I'll be content to just know the two, who I consider my 2 favorites naturally.]

RUNNING DAY 1 (not a streak!) of marathon plan culminating with a June 11 marathon if all goes well enough:

5.78 miles

• 8:21/mi. pace
• 0610
• Houston, TX (near Memorial Park, but not in the park)
• Training plan called for a Fartlek and or hills....no hills visible so I did some terrible 2's, but didn't make them that terrible.

NOTE:   I will attach my training plan once I transcribe it onto a calendar, just as FYI.