Another Mini Run

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
1 Mile Easy - 7:21 - 7:21 Pace

Another jog though the neighborhood today, actually, it was faster than a jog, but still pretty easy, other than the heavy breathing and painful muscles. Knee felt ok though.

Working up a Sweat

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
Exercise Bike - 20 Minutes
1.04 Miles Easy - 8:23 - 8:01 Pace

Another beautiful day in Grand Rapids today. Got a really good sweat going during abs and biking. Abs was tough because the woman running it was not doing the exercises with us for some reason, but that made her cadence really fast. so we were pumping through them quickly. Then on the bike I started at about 80 RPM, and ended at about 115 RPM....good sweat.

I think the fast biking may have been why I had a little pain in my right knee, right in the last place I want to feel it as I started my run. It went away about half way into the mile, but something to pay attention to, keep my speeds down on the bike, and see how it goes.

Other than that, running is going well.

Need to retrain myself with pacing

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
Exercise Bike - 20 Minutes
1.01 Miles Easy - 7:50 - 7:44 Pace

Abs felt good, biking felt good, running felt great. However, I was visited by an old friends of mine, that guy that just takes off and runs as fast as he can, not worrying about what pace I should be running. Yeah, so 7:44 was probably a little quick for my pace at this stage in my comeback, still, I did feel good. It just reminded me of how hard it was to curb my natural instinct to get the runs over with as quickly as I could. Shouldn't take me a year this time to relearn pacing, I am, in fact, a little more knowledgeable of a runner than I was back then.

Oh yeah, and have I mentioned, I am out of shape :-)

Wednesday Kinda Swim

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
Swimming - 20 Minutes

With my knee still hurting, I have decided to give up biking and still to swimming, yoga and abs classes. With swimming today, I also decided to use a floaty between my legs and not to kick to prevent any other sort of motion that might hurt my knee.......did quite work up the same sweat as I do when I kick....but it's all of the greater cause. The good news is my arms and shoulders got a great workout.

Morning Workout

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
Upright Bike - 30 Minutes

Wow, 5 am comes early. Decided to go in before work to do abs class and bike so I could check the Riverbank run expo out after work. Man that was early. Knee felt good though.

More Biking

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
Upright Biking - 40 Minutes

Another moderate pace bike today........wow I really miss running. I am feeling good on the bike, it's just not the same. My knee is a little sore again too, this is starting to make me nervous.

Biking

Upright Bike - 60 Minutes
Abs Class - 15 Minutes

Got a good sweat going on today. Kept a pretty fast pace for 60 minutes, didn't feel anything in my knee, got some good reading in too.

Biking

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
Seated Biking - 60 Minutes

Abs was great again today, I really like that class. Seated biking or an hour was good too, however, now my knee is hurting a little. Something about the seated one, I will have to stick to the upright ones from now on.

Visit to the Ortho

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
Water Running - 30 Minutes

Visited to AD the Ortho today to get my legs and feet analysed. He recommended some different shoes, and they are making me some orthodics. He says it's pretty obvious what is hurting my hamstring, and a couple of weeks in the new shoes with the orthodics should take care of it.....now if my knee would cooperate.

Abs was tough today, I think I need to take Wednesday off.

Water running, I was a bit uninspired, and beat. I helped Tom from work chop wood for 8 hours on Sunday, my body was sore.

Getting Wet

Abs Class - 15 Minutes
Water Running - 40 Minutes

It was just me and the instructor today in abs class, so no slacking. She did a number on me that's for sure.

More water running, today was more like a tempo run, fast for the entire 40 minutes, I was at about a 130 steps per minute pace.

Water Running

Abs Class - 20 Minutes
Water Running - 40 Minutes

Figuring this water thing out more and more, today I did some interval workouts, which got me sweating quite a bit. The abs classes are killing me though..in a good way