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not part of the training regiment
July 29th, 2010 at 01:24 pm by wRitErsbLock in TortureI was talking to my mom last night who, you’ll recall, is training to do her first half marathon with me. We are talking daily to keep each other accountable in our training. I’m so proud of her. Anyway, I encouraged her to take measurements of her body for comparison at the end of her training. I tend not to lose weight, but I do lose inches, which is more important to me anyway. (I’ve ranted before about weighing myself.)
Mom said she was also going to eat healthier. I laughed! I told her I run to enable me to eat crap! LOL! But, hey, if she wants to change her diet, more power to her. Heck, she could take Lipovox if she wants to. Although I tend to be skeptical of all diet products.
I’m going to try to get a run in tonight since the gravitational pull of my bed was strong this morning. My goal is to avoid running on Fridays at all cost. But I need to get in one more run this week before my Saturday run. So, running in the mid-nineties heat looks unavoidable.
Mom is using a treadmill in air conditioning. I wonder what that’s like? I’ve never really used a treadmill before.
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I think she owes you a treadmill! Fair is fair!
Okay- so maybe that won’t work. But I bet doing the running when you can stop quickly might take more effort. I mean, when you run outside, you have to keep going just to get home, right?
Rave, she has a gym membership. I’ve never been good at driving to a gym to work out.
i’m an avid fan of getting my cardio in the a/c in the summer. however, when you get to the halfway point, and the race is getting closer (and it should, theoretically, be getting cooler up there), i would strongly advise her to start moving her training to the streets. at least once or twice a week and definitely the long runs. she may not be able to do so because i assume she’s training on her own and may not want to be out running alone but it would be much better for her. treadmills are great for fitness but they do not translate well at all to pounding the pavement and racing. i’m afraid that she will find herself ill-prepared on race day if she does all of her training on the treadmill.
/my$.02
I’ve urged her to get involved with the running group at her church. They’re currently traning for a September 1/2. I told her once she starts hitting 6 and 7 miles, she needs to get off the treadmill, but that I don’t want her out alone. I stronly suggested she get in with the runners, explain she’s a noob, and ask one of them to join her for her higher mileage runs.
I also lamented her sister is completely unmotivated to do this with her, as they’d be well matched for pacing and such, given their ages and physical states. She laughed and laughed at the thought of her sister doing this.
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