Training Week 10, Day 2

Woke up at 5:00 am- weight 183.8 lbs
Shower and left house by 5:45
Arrive at work at 7:00 am

Breakfast: 1 low-fat blueberry/peach muffin (approx. 200 calories)

Lunch: 2 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers. That's right, Wendy's. You'll see a lot of this. I used to work at Wendy's. Most folks who worked there got sick of the food. Not me. I'm a square burger junkie. No tomato for two reasons: I can't eat tomatoes due to my acid reflux and... I'm avoiding that salmonella that's going around. (about 600 calories)

Finish Work at 4:00pm
Arrive home at 5:00pm - Our sweet little doggie got into the trash, so I had to clean that up- BAD DOGGIE!!!

Snack: 1 cereal bar (90 calories)

Chiropractor/Physical therapy- 6:15pm - 7:00 pm- Lower back pain being treated with the back crack and mad ab workouts to strengthen my core. If I lose ten more lbs, I'll be JACKED. The back crack isn't as bad as I thought it would be. They do it with a machine, so there's no worrying that the chiropractor will pull a Steven Segal and try to twist my head off my neck.

Workout 7:15 pm to 7:45 pm

Dinner: Pizza- 3 slices (about 600 calories)

Total Calories - about 1500

Training Week 10, Day 2

Running today. The workout plan calls for:

5 minutes walking
10 minutes as (45 seconds jog, 15 seconds faster than jog, 30 seconds jog, 1 minute walk)
4 x (20 seconds stride, 1 minute walk)
5 minutes warm down

My sprinting is fine. I'm still playing football and softball (a total of 2-4 games a week), so I'm getting plenty of speed work in. I adjusted the workout by running for 8 minutes, then doing the 10 minute set as called for, then jogging for 5 minutes and walking for 5.

The workout felt good. My main focus for this workout was shortening my stride length, as I tend to overstride. Too many years of sprint training. I did this by counting my stride cadence while jogging. I tried to keep it between 80 and 90 cycles (count of right foot hitting the ground) each minute.

I felt kind of like the roadrunner spinning his wheels right before he takes off. Despite that, I kept the pace the entire run. Weather-wise, it was warm, but not HOT, which helped.

The only drawback was the amount of foot traffic in my suburban "'hood". I was dodging ankle-biting dogs and Escalade-sized strollers about every half block.

Towards the end of the run, I experienced foot arch pain for the first time. Because I was concentrating on that cadence, I think I was snapping my right foot down akwardly. If the pain springs up again, I'll throw a Dr. Scholl's arch support in my New Balance tennies.

That's all for tonight!