Week to date: 15.1 miles
Month to date: 23.28 miles
Act 1: Return to WiiFit
Wednesday, I wanted to do an alternative activity day. I couldn't get my Yoga Podcasts to work on my iPod Touch, so I used my friend's WiiFit. This spring, I used my old roommate's then-fiance's WiiFit regularly and loved it, so I was excited to get back to it.
Sadly, it was not nearly as much fun as I remembered. :( I did a body test (that I failed miserably. I'm 25 going on 37, apparently...) This was followed by boxing, a few Yoga poses, and some Ski jumping balance games. It was all right, but no where near as fun or challenging as I remembered.
Act 2: Negative Split 4 Miler
Thursday, I went back to the fitness center to use the treadmill again. I wanted to see if I could run a negative split 4 miler. I was doing great until the last mile (I had it set at an 8:56 min/mi pace for this one). 1/4 mile in, and I started gagging. I hopped off long enough to take care of business, and finished my run. It was really discouraging. I mean, my miles were 9:46, 9:30, 9:15, and then 8:56 (I think, I forgot to write these down, but those seem close enough), and THAT led me to the point where I was getting sick? We're not exactly talking speed demon here. Clearly, I have a lot of work to do if I want to get to the point I'd like to be by May.
Act 3: Pre-Snowpocolypse run
Look what we have today up here!
Fortunately, it hadn't started by the time I could peel my eyes open this morning, because this was what my weather app said:
(For the record, all of my top layers are pink. What can I say, I was feeling girly today, in many ways...)
I'd like to say I made the best of not feeling 100% and running in what I have now adjusted to as normal weather for SR, but I can't do that honestly. Half the time, I was mentally whining about something, either being cold, being tired, how icky I was feeling, the street conditions, any number of things. The other half, I was picturing the map I made on MapMyFitness, telling myself how much further I had left and trying to be self-encouraging.
But, for 2 weeks in a row, I hit my target mileage. And, now I can say that I have run during a winter storm warning twice! (The first time was back in May.) Does this earn me some kind of runner or Yooper merit badge? No? Aw, OK.
OK, it is time for a sandwich and to get caught up on blogs from the last few days. My advance apologies for the comment onslaught, ladies. Have a great day, everyone!
i do enjoy the wii fit, but more as a game than anything related to maintaining fitness. we took it home for christmas last year, and we played so much with my parents, and bro/sis-in-law. it was a good activity to break up the holiday lights, watching movies, and card games.
ReplyDeletehope you survive the snow that heading your way! we're under a winter storm watch that is supposed to hit sometime tomorrow. hopefully i'll get my run done before it sets in...we'll see....
Have you tried Wii Fit Plus? There are more games on it, including a marching band one ... I generally play the new games. :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd we should totally make a Yooper merit badge. That seems like something Yoopers should have one for.