So, I'm thinking about rewarding myself when I really hit my goal weight, which shouldn't be too long now. So, sometime after I run the American River 50 mile race on April 14th I'm considering seom more body piercing. Not ears, as I've had my left ear pierced for about 15 years. This would be something more like nipples. If that goes well, perhaps a little foreskin piercing, or a scrotal ring. I'm not really sure, yet.
Anyway, I've found this great place that local. http://www.bodyexotic.com/
I've read some great reviews about the place, but I haven't found anyone that's done anything like this before. The last thing I want to happen is the recover to affect my running. If there's no way to protect the piercings from my sweat and clothing while I run, then all bets are off.
Anyone out there have any information, or comments?
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Feeling great!
Well, I thought my recovery would take a lot longer after setting a new PR at the 50k on Saturday, but everything is feeling great. I did Yoga yesterday and that went well. Nothing too sore and nothing too tight -- although my gluteuls are getting to be rock hard with all this running and loss of body fat. ;-)
It was really windy in San Jose today, so instead of heading out onto the trail to test out my new Garmin 305 and heart rate monitor, I whimped out and stayed on the treadmill in the gym.
I think I must have overdone my celebrations this past weekend because I'm back up in weight by a couple of lbs. Not to worry though, this weight loss thing is all about 2 steps forward and 1 step back. I needed those calories to get through the run and to recover. Now it's time to hit the road and get back into weight loss mode again.
It was really windy in San Jose today, so instead of heading out onto the trail to test out my new Garmin 305 and heart rate monitor, I whimped out and stayed on the treadmill in the gym.
I think I must have overdone my celebrations this past weekend because I'm back up in weight by a couple of lbs. Not to worry though, this weight loss thing is all about 2 steps forward and 1 step back. I needed those calories to get through the run and to recover. Now it's time to hit the road and get back into weight loss mode again.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Uh-Oh
So, I just found out that an old running friend of mine, who ran the PCTR PC 50k with me yesterday, spent quite some time runing with a new friend of mine, Addy, who I met through SparkPeople. Addy & I share an interest in weight loss and a love of running.
Anyway, even though I'm happily married and I'm not expecting to date either of these women, I get this creepy crawly feeling that it's like the old girlfriend meeting the new girlfriend situation and wondering what they told each other about me.
Of course, their conversation was probably all of "oh you know Terry?", "Yeah, I know him, too", "Oh, Cool", "Hey that's a really nice Lavendar outfit your wearing", "Thanks"... and they never spoke about me again.
I'm weird, huh?
So, back to running....
Tomorrow is Yoga and a couple of easy miles on the treadmill. Then I have a dental appointment in the afternoon.
Hey, did anyone watch Battlestar Gallactica tonight? Ugh! That was the finale and they're not showing anymore episodes until 2008!!!!! Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!! That's my favorite show. This sucks!
Although, we almost missed the episode, too, because earlier in the day, my son & I moved his basketball hoop from the back yard into the front yard. He wanted better access to the hoop where he didn't have to worry about a glass topped patio table and letting his ball drop into the swimming pool. Well, on the way along the side yard, we hit hte satellite dish with the backboard of the hoop. the dish looked OK, so we kind of forgot about it. The afternoon progressed and there were no complaints about the TV, so I really forgot about it. 7pm rolls around and we sit down to watch the BSG episode. Turn on the TV and switch away from the video games that the kids have been playing all afternoon. The TV screen simply says "Searching for Satellite signal... Press select for utilities and setup". Uh-Oh! Then I remembered about the dish. Oh, dear.
We spent the better part of the hour fixing up the dish. We figured out that it was mis-aligned. We had to find the right Azimuth and Elevation settings for our location, find a compass and a socket set, then realign the dish until we got a reasonable signal report from the system diagnostics. Fortunately, because we get the East Coast feed of the Sci-Fi channel, we could wait until 9pm to see the rebroadcast.
I really don't think they finished that episode very well. I hate season Finales where they leave you hanging like that. Especially when they go and tell you that the next episode isn't going to be for at least 8 months, perhaps 9 months.
Well, at least Stargate will be back on in a couple of week. Although it's the last season for SG1. I really hope they wrap things up properly before they quit. Otherwise that'll suck, too.
OK, that's enough rambling for now. I'm off to bed. Zebedee just told me to go.
Anyway, even though I'm happily married and I'm not expecting to date either of these women, I get this creepy crawly feeling that it's like the old girlfriend meeting the new girlfriend situation and wondering what they told each other about me.
Of course, their conversation was probably all of "oh you know Terry?", "Yeah, I know him, too", "Oh, Cool", "Hey that's a really nice Lavendar outfit your wearing", "Thanks"... and they never spoke about me again.
I'm weird, huh?
So, back to running....
Tomorrow is Yoga and a couple of easy miles on the treadmill. Then I have a dental appointment in the afternoon.
Hey, did anyone watch Battlestar Gallactica tonight? Ugh! That was the finale and they're not showing anymore episodes until 2008!!!!! Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!!! That's my favorite show. This sucks!
Although, we almost missed the episode, too, because earlier in the day, my son & I moved his basketball hoop from the back yard into the front yard. He wanted better access to the hoop where he didn't have to worry about a glass topped patio table and letting his ball drop into the swimming pool. Well, on the way along the side yard, we hit hte satellite dish with the backboard of the hoop. the dish looked OK, so we kind of forgot about it. The afternoon progressed and there were no complaints about the TV, so I really forgot about it. 7pm rolls around and we sit down to watch the BSG episode. Turn on the TV and switch away from the video games that the kids have been playing all afternoon. The TV screen simply says "Searching for Satellite signal... Press select for utilities and setup". Uh-Oh! Then I remembered about the dish. Oh, dear.
We spent the better part of the hour fixing up the dish. We figured out that it was mis-aligned. We had to find the right Azimuth and Elevation settings for our location, find a compass and a socket set, then realign the dish until we got a reasonable signal report from the system diagnostics. Fortunately, because we get the East Coast feed of the Sci-Fi channel, we could wait until 9pm to see the rebroadcast.
I really don't think they finished that episode very well. I hate season Finales where they leave you hanging like that. Especially when they go and tell you that the next episode isn't going to be for at least 8 months, perhaps 9 months.
Well, at least Stargate will be back on in a couple of week. Although it's the last season for SG1. I really hope they wrap things up properly before they quit. Otherwise that'll suck, too.
OK, that's enough rambling for now. I'm off to bed. Zebedee just told me to go.
Forty Four
I ran the PCTR Pirates Cove 50k on Saturday. This was my 44th Marathon or longer distance race. What a race! Lots of hills compared to most of the other 50k runs I do. This one has about 6000 ft of climbing, whereas the others have had between 3000 and 4000 ft.
I had adjusted my expectations for the run based on this increased difficulty and decided that it I could finish in under 7 1/2hrs that I would be happy with the result.
I'd been planning to see Addy, a friend that I've been chatting with online since we found each other on a forum and discovered that we'd both been running the PCTR Woodside run at the beginning of February and hadn't realized it at the time. She's a senior at UC Berkley and preparing to attend Grad School at UCSC in July. She's only recently started running trails and is doing a fantastic job with her running and her weight loss program, using SparkPeople.
The weather wasn't that great in San Francisco yesterday. We have a low overcast and some brisk winds. With all the hills that we climbed paired with the low overcast, we were actually running in the clouds for a good portion of the day. It was interesting watching the mist being blown sideways across the trails ahead of us.
We started at 8:30am, or there abouts, and the 30k and 50k competitors were off together, since we all complete a 30k loop before the 50k runners head back out for an additional 20k loop.
There were probably 200 runners in that initial wave. More than half of them were only running 30k, which meant that I had to be careful not to latch onto one of them and find myself out of energy for the second loop.
All the weight I've lost recently certainly seems to have helped my performance, though. I was able to slowly run up the initial hills and stay with, or ahead of, some of the runners that I would normally trail far behind. I ended up playing leaf frog with one guy, Chuck Wilson, who I've met a many, many runs before, until I finally pulled away from him after the 30k aid station and didn't see him again until after the finish. I was very impressed with myself.
There would have been spectacular views of the SF Bay area, Sausalito, and the Pacific Ocean, even the Golden Gate bridge, if we could have seen more than 100 yds ahead of us. The course was still spectacular, though. We had a mix of fire roads and single track trails. Oh, and then there was the beach, too. Ugh! Black sand that didn't clump together, no matter how close you get to the waterline. So, at the end of both loops, we had about 1/4 mile of trudging through sand in order to get from the bluff over to the parking lot and the finish line.
My final time? 6hrs 11min. A personal best by 11 minutes. This is incredible really, since I only just set a PR at my last 50k in February, and this was *such* a more difficult course.
So, in celebration, I've uploaded some more progress photos to my SparkPeople gallery. I think my weight loss has played a really big part in my running performance, so I'm again looking seriously at a Boston Qualifier this year. Here's one of the photos I took today to celebrate my race and my terrific accomplishments with weight loss.
I had adjusted my expectations for the run based on this increased difficulty and decided that it I could finish in under 7 1/2hrs that I would be happy with the result.
I'd been planning to see Addy, a friend that I've been chatting with online since we found each other on a forum and discovered that we'd both been running the PCTR Woodside run at the beginning of February and hadn't realized it at the time. She's a senior at UC Berkley and preparing to attend Grad School at UCSC in July. She's only recently started running trails and is doing a fantastic job with her running and her weight loss program, using SparkPeople.
The weather wasn't that great in San Francisco yesterday. We have a low overcast and some brisk winds. With all the hills that we climbed paired with the low overcast, we were actually running in the clouds for a good portion of the day. It was interesting watching the mist being blown sideways across the trails ahead of us.
We started at 8:30am, or there abouts, and the 30k and 50k competitors were off together, since we all complete a 30k loop before the 50k runners head back out for an additional 20k loop.
There were probably 200 runners in that initial wave. More than half of them were only running 30k, which meant that I had to be careful not to latch onto one of them and find myself out of energy for the second loop.
All the weight I've lost recently certainly seems to have helped my performance, though. I was able to slowly run up the initial hills and stay with, or ahead of, some of the runners that I would normally trail far behind. I ended up playing leaf frog with one guy, Chuck Wilson, who I've met a many, many runs before, until I finally pulled away from him after the 30k aid station and didn't see him again until after the finish. I was very impressed with myself.
There would have been spectacular views of the SF Bay area, Sausalito, and the Pacific Ocean, even the Golden Gate bridge, if we could have seen more than 100 yds ahead of us. The course was still spectacular, though. We had a mix of fire roads and single track trails. Oh, and then there was the beach, too. Ugh! Black sand that didn't clump together, no matter how close you get to the waterline. So, at the end of both loops, we had about 1/4 mile of trudging through sand in order to get from the bluff over to the parking lot and the finish line.
My final time? 6hrs 11min. A personal best by 11 minutes. This is incredible really, since I only just set a PR at my last 50k in February, and this was *such* a more difficult course.
So, in celebration, I've uploaded some more progress photos to my SparkPeople gallery. I think my weight loss has played a really big part in my running performance, so I'm again looking seriously at a Boston Qualifier this year. Here's one of the photos I took today to celebrate my race and my terrific accomplishments with weight loss.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Great Weather, awesome run, fabulous weigh-in...
I ran at lunch today. Awesome weather! We're in the mid-70's today wiht a nice warm breeze. Perfect!
Another co-worker joined me today. we started out at a good pace, but it was a bit too fast for him, so after we turned around we slowed quite a bit. I ran an extra half mile just to get a good buzz with the heart rate and then jogged back with him at about a 9:00min.mile pace, after I caught up with him again.
So, I've been following the SparkPeople.com healthy lifestyle program for a couple of months now and making excellent progress. After my run today, I weighed myself on the gym scales -- I've dipped under the 180lbs mark! WhooHoo! It was a solid 179lbs today. Yes, I always check the zero reading on those scales, just to be sure no one is messing with them or has knocked them out of whack. So, that puts me at 25lbs down from when I started at the beginning of the year.
Hey, I'm taking it! So, I'll keep this up and take some pictures on Saturday, after my 50k, to post as progress monitors.
I love it when a plan comes together. ;-)
Hoorah!
Another co-worker joined me today. we started out at a good pace, but it was a bit too fast for him, so after we turned around we slowed quite a bit. I ran an extra half mile just to get a good buzz with the heart rate and then jogged back with him at about a 9:00min.mile pace, after I caught up with him again.
So, I've been following the SparkPeople.com healthy lifestyle program for a couple of months now and making excellent progress. After my run today, I weighed myself on the gym scales -- I've dipped under the 180lbs mark! WhooHoo! It was a solid 179lbs today. Yes, I always check the zero reading on those scales, just to be sure no one is messing with them or has knocked them out of whack. So, that puts me at 25lbs down from when I started at the beginning of the year.
Hey, I'm taking it! So, I'll keep this up and take some pictures on Saturday, after my 50k, to post as progress monitors.
I love it when a plan comes together. ;-)
Hoorah!
San Jose Fit Season Approaches...
I coach marathon runners through San Jose Fit in San Jose, CA.
We meet at the Los Gatos High School at 7:30am on Saturday mornings from mid-April through late October.
Online Registration is open. Logon to http://www.sanjosefit.com
In person signups, in Los Gatos, on April 14th and April 21st 2007 at 7:00am, and at Sports Basement in Sunnyvale, on April 4th and April 11th at 6:00pm.
We meet at the Los Gatos High School at 7:30am on Saturday mornings from mid-April through late October.
Online Registration is open. Logon to http://www.sanjosefit.com
In person signups, in Los Gatos, on April 14th and April 21st 2007 at 7:00am, and at Sports Basement in Sunnyvale, on April 4th and April 11th at 6:00pm.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Physical Exam...
Today I went to the Dr to get a physical. It's been probably 4 years since I went, so I thought it was about time. Especially as I just turned 40. Time to get another baseline measurement, really. I stopped going after I had a few bad cholesterol readings and I didn't want to end up being forced to take medication for it. Silly really, when you think about it.
Well, the good news is that my carido-vascular system looks and sounds fine. Not really surprising with the amount of cardio exercise that I do. My cholesterol level is just awesome right now, so I needn't have been worried about that. However, he had a couple of comments about some of the tests. Apparently my blood glucose level is higher than expected. Even though it's not necessarily out of range, it could be a sign of impending diabetes, so we're going to retest it in about 6 weeks.
In addition to the glucose issue, there are signs of elevated Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, so we're going to retest that too. It's quite a way above the normal range and he wants to make sure that I'm not on my way to a failed Thyroid for any reason. Even though the thyroid palpates fine, so there's no swelling or inflamation that would suggest an abnormality, and usually thyroid issues are accompanied by high cholesterol levels, which I don't have.
Bottom line is that I'm scheduled for a follow up visit in 6 weeks to have these items reviewed.
On a lighter note, I didn't have to cough and I didn't have to bend over. ;-) I expected both of those with the "I'm 40 now" statement, but they didn't appear. Lucky me, eh? ;-)
Well, the good news is that my carido-vascular system looks and sounds fine. Not really surprising with the amount of cardio exercise that I do. My cholesterol level is just awesome right now, so I needn't have been worried about that. However, he had a couple of comments about some of the tests. Apparently my blood glucose level is higher than expected. Even though it's not necessarily out of range, it could be a sign of impending diabetes, so we're going to retest it in about 6 weeks.
In addition to the glucose issue, there are signs of elevated Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, so we're going to retest that too. It's quite a way above the normal range and he wants to make sure that I'm not on my way to a failed Thyroid for any reason. Even though the thyroid palpates fine, so there's no swelling or inflamation that would suggest an abnormality, and usually thyroid issues are accompanied by high cholesterol levels, which I don't have.
Bottom line is that I'm scheduled for a follow up visit in 6 weeks to have these items reviewed.
On a lighter note, I didn't have to cough and I didn't have to bend over. ;-) I expected both of those with the "I'm 40 now" statement, but they didn't appear. Lucky me, eh? ;-)
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