Wednesday 30 July 2014

Quick Start Training, Berries, and Some Cake

Today, it would have been time to end my training program by doing the fitness test but because my training program and fitness tests of this project are not in line anymore and I should do the fitness test and weigh-in again on Friday, I planned to postpone the training program ending till Friday and do a quick start training session of 30 minutes instead. I have tried the quick start sessions only once or twice before and I think previously it was only 5 or 15 minutes that I tried so it was a nice variation to usual sessions. 

I planned to do some moderate level dumbell training and I think the game picked me some drills quite randomly. I ended up doing three or four different variations of planks, men's pushups more than once, squat with and without dumbbells and different kind of deadlifts.  It was nice to try some drills that haven't been included in my program since I started in January and realise that it's peace of cake nowadays. For example, during one and a half lunges I got aha effect about the easiness of it. And it haven't been poorness of the game that all the repetitions haven't been counted earlier, but my poor technique I had due to missing muscles..

I've been also picking and freezing the strawberries of our garden lately. And today I went with the kids and my dad to pick up some blueberries to the forest nearhood. So it was time to freeze some blueberries also. And in the evening I tasted a peace of cheese cake today in a birthday party. Yum yum!

Sportterfly

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Monday 28 July 2014

Finally It Is Raining

This morning I went for Nordic walking in very nice weather, at least the exercising point of view. It was raining a lot and there was only 21 degrees outside. The rest of the day there was even harder rain and lighting so I decided to get exercising out of the way before that. But it haven't been so easy to breath and exercise for weeks now so I really speed it up and enjoyed it. Last week I felt my energy storage emptied in 30 minutes but today I could continue with the same steady pace till the end and I ended up doing couple of minutes longer exercise than previously.

Sportterfly

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Saturday 26 July 2014

Snail Style Continues..

Last night I went to run when sun was already going down and it was a bit cooler. It was over 30 degrees in shadow daytime so for the first time I postponed my exercise till the evening. My heart rate didn't raise too high anymore and I could ran 25 minutes with the same pace as usually so I have mainly recovered from the quarter marathon now and tomorrow I'm ready for longer, 60 minutes, snail style running again.

We have painted part of the house but only the parts from the south side which suffer from the sun shine most. Tomorrow the painting still continues. I'm looking forward to do hard running exercises again! And my scale already shows lower result even if the official weigh-in date is on next Friday.

Sportterfly

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Wednesday 23 July 2014

Project Speed Up!!

I did my first running exercise after the quarter marathon and I ran 20 minutes with the pram. Even if I felt I could have ran longer the heart rate was higher than usual and I ran even slower than usually. 

I have been behind my weight losing goals for eight weeks already which is shockinly longer time than I had been thinking it was and even if it stands there in my weigh-in table I haven't realised that this project has been so unsuccessful so long time. But after the last week's weight gaining and running event I have got new power to concentrate on weight losing again and this time I'm pretty sure that I do better weigh-in result next week than for long time! I'm sure that if my weight losing was in schedule I would have ran faster in the last week's event. Now I want my weight down faster to break my half-marathon record in September.

Sportterfly

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Tuesday 22 July 2014

First Nordic Walking and Some Recovering Activities

On a Sunday evening we went for a walk with my husband and kids. Husband taught our oldest daughter to bicycle without training wheels and I walked and run with the pram when youngest daughter were bicycling too and I tried to warm up my leg muscles at the same time after the Saturday's running event. We stopped by to the nearhood forests couple of times to check if there is already some blueberries. BTW, in a week, I think, the blueberries are just perfect to be picked up.

Because the Sunday's walking felt so good I decided to try Nordic walking on Monday. I have dreamed to replace some home trainings with the Nordic walking now that the weather is so nice and it's more fascinating to exercise outdoors than in the hot living room. The first 20-30 minutes of my Nordic walking I could keep faster pace than during my snail style running exercises but then my pace slowed down and in the end I walked only 300 metres longer in 45 minutes that I would have proceed in my corresponding snail style running. The quarter marathon still felt in my body and I should have stopped the exercise earlier, I think.

I have also stretched my leg muscles now four days in a row to recover from the running. This evening I walked a bit before stretching. Our daughters are again spending couple of days in my parents and we have done shopping and planning of some painting and other small fixing that we should do in the house during this summer.

Sportterfly

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Saturday 19 July 2014

The Day of Running Event and Circus

I just came to tell you that I overcame the fair to fail again in quarter marathon in a hot day as a couple of years ago. I didn't meet my target of 75 minutes but it took a bit over 80 minutes all together. But I can't plame, it was hot weather again and I'm so lucky that I ran all the way to the finish line. I should soon write down the feelings that went through my mind during the running. It would help me in future to run faster. Now I felt that I wasn't very tired after all but I have some power storage in my body that I cannot release to run faster in the end of the route.

Anyway, now I do stretching and then it's time to sleep. We were in circus with the kids today after the running and I'm quite tired just now.

Sportterfly

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I'm So Exited..

..that I cannot even write down all the feelings I'm going through. But it is nice to have these various feelings after two years break in running events. The starting shot is coming under three hours, wow!

Have a nice weekend all of you!

Sportterfly

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Friday 18 July 2014

Weight Gained

Just when I decided to speed up my project a bit, I gained some weight for the first time after January when this project started. Unbelievable! Somehow the tricks I've been using this far is not enough to the weight losing anymore because the weight have been stucked to the around 77 kilograms. I haven't fell into eating even any summer delicacies even if I was a bit afraid of it beforehand. I haven't eating any candy for weeks now and when the others take ice cream, I eat fatless curd and berries. Hopefully this is some phase after which the weight losing speeds up again.

Sportterfly

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Wednesday 16 July 2014

Crocodile Hunting

I came to tell you about my new activity I've been using to reach my target of this project. It's crocodile hunting. I'm doing it midnight when others are sleeping, except our 3 years old daughter, who is helping me with the hobby, because she can see the crocodiles, but I can't. They are hiding under or behind her bed and makes her impossible to sleep.. So, the preparing to the quarter marathon haven't been too easy because of the lack of sleep I've got. And because this is not enough to cause enormous lack of sleep, our son has his first ear infection, autsch! Well, it cannot get worse, can it?

Otherwise my life is pretty and all the exercises I've been doing to prepare myself goes fine. I have realized that I cannot get my heart rate up anymore when walking. Maybe it's a sign of my condition getting better. Today I walked with the pram and two bicycling kids to my parents and I mostly walked but also ran few steps and my average heart rate was 117, only. When I started the running exercises it was hard to keep the heart rate under 130 even if only walking.

And today, I got extra time of my own and I did 45 minutes whole body stretching on the terrace. Only three nights to the starting shot!

Sportterfly

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Sunday 13 July 2014

News after 25 Weeks

Running Exercises

The running exercises have continued in hot weather. I did my 30 minutes basic running on Friday and 60 minutes long run yesterday. Both exercises went ok, even if I was running in the hottest time of the day and actually I tried to start the exercises the same time as my event will start next Saturday. There is only six days left!

Fever

Our son had suddenly fever today. Hopefully it's not any flu I could get for Saturday when I should run the quarter marathon but it's because of the coming teeth.

Birthday

I should have some kind of age crisis going on because I turn to 32 soon. Actually, it feels better than 31. It felt more awful to turn to 31 than 30, I felt old and I was in bad condition but now I haven't got any crisis. Maybe last year I was the most terrible condition in my life due to the back problems and my pregnancy. I had to admit for the first time that I need help from the others. Now I feel, that I'm coming to better and better shape all the time and life is getting easier as I can do so much more myself after a long time. And my dream of becoming into best shape will come true this year!

Sportterfly

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Thursday 10 July 2014

Power Outage

We had a power outage of few seconds today when I was just doing my training session. Now I have tested how the program continues if the console is turned of in the middle of the session, and it worked better than I was afraid of. I had just ended my warm up when the outage came and I was just guided how to do the first drill of the actual workout. The program started from the beginning but I had to do only a short warm up of three drills instead of starting totally from the beginning of the long warm up I had already done once. I used totally one and a half hour to my exercise even if it should have been 45 minutes long. Luckily I wasn't exercising in any hurry.

The weather is still very warm but it was easier to do the long aerobic session when I hadn't run before the exercise. I'll run again tomorrow. Otherwise the life is now on summer break and every day we are finding out good activities for the kids to do outdoors now that it's finally warm there. So it's swimming pool, ice cream, biking, snacks, etc. going on all the time.

Sportterfly

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Tuesday 8 July 2014

Running Exercise in 29 Degrees

Today I did the last hard running exercise before the quarter marathon, which is coming in 11 days. I ran 45 minutes with 140-160 heart rate and did few faster spurts. The most challenging thing was the weather, 29 Celsius degrees in the shadow, which was after all OK. I've been more careful with my eating and drinking before the running exercise lately so the stomach and the whole body deals with the weather better. I have also started to run all the exercises couple of hours after the lunch to run the same time as the running events start so it means running in the hottest time of the day.

Now on I do only 20-30 minutes running exercises and 60 minutes long run before the opening shot of Move Maraton.

Sportterfly

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Monday 7 July 2014

Training Program

Training program for the next four weeks updated here.

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Sunday 6 July 2014

Long Run of 105 Minutes

I did my long run again yesterday and it was the last proper one before the quarter marathon. I tried new way for long running, instead of just running with steady pace, I increased the pace in the end and ran with heart rate of 140-160 the last 30 minutes, and the last few minutes as fast as I could. At first it felt a bit crazy, because my legs were already sore after the first 75 minutes, but then after 15 minutes faster run I felt I got extra power and I could have continue the jogging more than 30 minutes. I easily ran my previous half marathon pace then. 

Nice to have some new things also to my long run trainings as I have ran many years and done the long runs always the same way. I found tips for this fast end long run here.

Sportterfly

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Friday 4 July 2014

Fitness Test

Today, after 24 weeks, my Fitness Score was 55 and Athleticism Score was 34. The more detailed results, once again:
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Endurance 68 (earlier 77, 68, 53, 52, 42, 01)
Flexibility 55 (earlier 55, 36, 55, 55, 55, 27)
Strength 60 (earlier 38, 51, 51, 34, 21, 09)
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Balance 50 (earlier 69, 59, 50, 45, 36, 58)
Power 53 (earlier 63, 51, 54, 53, 24, 01)
Speed/Reaction/Agility 11 (earlier 05, 10, 9, 10, 37, 12)
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Have a nice weekend!

Sportterfly

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Stomach Problems Have Returned

In Wednesday, I ran my interval training at home because I didn't have time to run in Tuesday in Vuokatti. Or actually I ran quite a lot but only after my kids in Angry Birds Activity Park, and still we lost the middle child for few minutes. There was five of us in the car when we drove home so all's well that ends well. 

Anyway, I felt I was well-rested when I started the interval exercise, because I had ran only in Leppävirta but all the home trainings I had missed due to the travelling. Running itself felt okay but then my stomach problems returned and I had to rush home and end the running 10 minutes before I was planned. Then my stomach hurted the rest of the day and also yesterday I rest to have good fitness test result today and to make sure that my stomach has time to recover. Not so nice, that the stomach problems return just before I have to run the quarter marathon which I failed two years ago due to stomach cramps. BTW, it's only 15 days to the event!

I have to think about my eatings better and I have to do my running exercises now on in the afternoons to let my stomach get used to running after lunch and other meals than just breakfast. I just had my lunch and now I'll wait again couple of hours before my 30 minutes basic running and the fitness test. Hopefully this was the only time I have stomach cramps this summer!

Sportterfly

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10 Kilogrammes Weight Loss

It was hard, but now it's done. I just did my weigh-in this morning and finally the scale showed -10kgs result! I'm not going to celebrate any longer and I already decided to speed up a bit because I haven't been in schedule for weeks now. I have to think my eatings more and I have to break the 15kgs target in schedule. This means 5 kilogrammes in 6 weeks!

I'll return later with the fitness test results and latest news!

Sportterfly

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