Long Run and Wood Chopping Bee

My long run of the day was already 80 minutes long. Somehow I've been more tired this week and the running exercises have been harder than last week when I almost flied on the route. I have to think slow jogging again that my heart rate stays on the low level.

After the running exercise we chopped woods for the next winter. I carried the woods and stocked them to our shed. And in between I carried some rocks while I cleaned up more room to the woods. I enjoyed pretty much of the activities. It makes me so thrilled that I am able to do all kind of hard things after the quit hard pregnancy and back problems.

Sportterfly

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Barbeque Season Kicked Off

Today we spent the Ascension's day by starting our barbeque season properly. We made food and spent the whole day outdoors with the neighbours. I'm afraid that the barbeque season will become the stumbling block of my greatly started project if I don't concentrate properly on my eatings. I should forget unhealthy things and the next challenge will be to learn to do healthier foods and prefer vegetables when planning the barbecued dinners. Otherwise I will gain the lost weight back during the summer. If you have any good barbeque recipes for vegetables, I would be glad to receive them all..

Before the food I made my basic 30 minutes running and aerobic exercise with Nike+ Kinect Training, so maybe I burned a few calories today, too.

Sportterfly

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Hill Run and New Muscles in the Arms

Today I have found new muscles in my arms because of the yesterday's muscle training and the drill of woodshops. But if the arm muscles are hurting, it doesn't keep me from running and I did my second hill run exercise and again with the pram as couple of weeks ago. I ran a bit longer spurts today than previously but I felt that I recovered sooner and the heart rate dropped to the low level easily.

My husband has also done the first real training session with the Nike+ Kinect Training and now he really admits that it is real sports. Well, it is easier to watch the movements than do them. Now I have also experience in being in the training audience.

Sportterfly

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Long Run of 70 Minutes

Today I did my long run of 70 minutes. It felt (again) so much easier than last week and I had to lengthen the route quite much compared to the last weekend long run. Then I ate cake and all the best delicacies in our granddaughter's birthday party. Then in the evening I gathered data of all my comparable long runs I have done this spring. Below, there is times, distances, average paces and average heart rates of four different long runs. And there is obviously a big improvement to the pace if today's and previous long runs are compared. Little by little I'll become a faster snail..

19/4     00:58:40     4.34km     13:38min/km     HR avg 129

27/4     01:02:09     4.41km     13:57min/km     HR avg 133

17/5     01:15:02     5.31km     14:17min/km     HR avg 134

25/5     01:23:27     6.36km     13:03min/km     HR avg 131

And below is an exercise from old days, just before the previous half marathon. I'm almost in the same level already today..

21/4/2012  1:30:00     7.11km   12:45min/km       HR avg 133

Now it's time to follow the ice hockey game of Finland vs. Russia. Let's see, which one is the world champion this year..

Sportterfly

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My Weight After 18 Weeks

It was time for the 10. weigh-in this morning, if the initial weigh-in is counted. My weight was 78.5kgs, meaning -0.5kgs in two weeks. Again I'm a bit behind the schedule as I presumed yesterday. But again I have lost weight, and that's the most important.

Sportterfly

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Too Low Heart Rate? Me? No, Can't Be..

My husband tried Nike+ Kinect Training for the first time yesterday. He also did fitness test to create personal training program. He was shocked how bad his balance was and even if he has ran and thought to be in good condition, part of the drills were hard. He got fitness score of 50 and athleticism score of 57, if I remember correctly. We talked afterwards that training the balance is good for the future and may help the days of retirement better than only jogging. Today I have tried to get him admit that the muscles are hurting, but I don't hear any complaining yet. Maybe it comes tomorrow..

I ran today my basic 30 minutes exercise, it felt again easier than previously. And something very historical happened. My heart rate alarm reminded me of too low heart rate while running!! I couldn't believe that I could sometimes be reminded to run faster because the heart rate decreased under 120. OK, it was a downhill, but still! After I returned home I did my training session with Nike+ Kinect Training and it was so fun to beat old records with the well warmed muscles. This week the training has shown its best sides. It feels I could reach the sky while training.

Tomorrow I should do the weigh-in. Again it seems that there is no change to expect. Now I feel that it's every other weigh-in feels more difficult and every other gives proper weight loss results. Now I'm again feeling a bit swollen even if I eat all the time same way..

Sportterfly

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Aha Effects

Nike+ Kinect Training

I could continue my program with Nike+ Kinect Training without doing any extra fitness test. Maybe I'm finally learning to use the program properly. And I got so many new movements now that I'm again very excited to face the next training session on Thursday. I have new love-hate relationship with the drill where I have to go from blanks position to the pushup position and back..

Running

I did my first interval exercise this morning and I was able to run my half marathon pace without exceeding the heart rate limit of 160. This might mean that I could except better performance in my next half marathon in autumn. It's so enjoyable to run with higher pace after this snail style period I have had.

Next Event

Today I realized that there is only 60 days left before the next event, that quarter marathon I'm going to run in July. Maybe I should be more in panic already..

Sportterfly

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