Running Pumpkins - Halloween Run Challenge (Page 17)

Baowolf - 2009-10-14 1:23 PM Got in a swim lastnight, as follows:

Warm up for 10 minutes with the setting on an easy flow at 50!
Then set the speed at 65 and swim 6x45 seconds with 15" rest.
Put setting on 55 and swim 6x1:40 with 20" RI
Set on 50 and swim easy for 2 minutes to loosen from previous set.
Put setting on 60 and do ladder of 2:00, 1:45, 1:30, 1:15, 1:00. with 15" RI after each.
Setting 48 for 5-10 minutes easy swimming as cooldown..

It is kind of cool I just program the speed and duration and the pool changes speeds at the appropriate time.  One thing with the swimspa, there is no slacking towards the end of your set.  You swim the programmed speed or you end up at the back of the pool.  Time to get that swim endurance back. 

Rainy, windy and cold out the past few days.  More of the same for today.  Will get a short run and weight training in this pm.  

jsnowash - 2009-10-14 1:33 PM Well..... no long run today. Turns out kiddo #3 doesn't have the same 48-ish hour virus the other kids had, but actually has strep throat. Between getting him to the doctor & pharmacy, etc., I won't have time to get the long run in today, and I'm afraid to push it later in the week because it will put it too close to next week's long run. I'll try to lengthen my planned runs a bit tomorrow and/or Friday to compensate some, but will be a few miles short this week. Good thing it was supposed to be a recovery week!

pilotncommand172 - 2009-10-14 10:17 AM okay so i need to adjust my goal due to being sick. i can't seem to get to feeling 100%. I missed all of last week (expect my mandatory squadron run which made me worst) and the first part of this week. so that 10 days so i requesting to have my goal change to 20 miles and hell or high water i am going to at least walk a mile a day or make my runs. and HTFU for the rest of the month.

My husband and I were talking tonight about long runs in the winter and I asked would you rather do 2-3 hour run outside in the cold or 2-3 hour run on the treadmill. We had some fun discussion about which would be better. I've done 3 hour runs with 2 hours of it on treadmill. I probably could do 3 hours on treadmill but not my first choice.

toddg - 2009-10-15 2:14 PM

Ugh. I don't think I could make much over an hour indoors on a treadmill or trainer.

mav - 2009-10-16 6:37 AM Good morning pumpkins!!!!! Its snowing here this am...ridiculous!!!! Nothing is sticking but its still crazy that we are getting it so early. I am leaving for a warm vacation in St Croix in 24 hours. I will do my running, so no fears. I will also be swimming everyday. So if I dont get a chance to log...I will when I return. Keep up the good work!!!!

Baowolf - 2009-10-17 11:05 AM One fun thing that I do, or it used to be fun was to chart my workouts on the President's Challenge.  It converts your workouts into calories and you get one point per calorie burned.  You then obtain award levels bronze, silver, gold, platinum.  I started about 15 months ago and  I will complete the platininum athletec program. It starts out easy bronze is like 40,000, silver is like 90,000 and gold is like 200,000 or whatever, but then platinum is 1,000,000.  Small jump up there.  I am at 540,000 calories burned so far.  So like 2 1/2 years of ironman training gets you to platinum.  Oh well just something to amuze some of us with.  I will get the medal for the platinum award and then stop.  It is alot of calories.  So if 1 mile run = 100 calories then that would be the equivalent of 10,000 miles run.  But it includes bike, swim, gardening, whatever also.  Or you can stop at gold because that is much more duable.