Amanda's Running Journal

[ajarvis]

February 5th

breakfast - bowl of cheerios and egg sandwich 3 eggs, 2 pieces 7 grain bread, and 1 piece cheese

workout - 5 min warmup 6.0
4 mile run
- 37:07
- hr 179
- 352 cal burn
3 min cooldown

30 min ab class

lunch roasted chicken sub from Subway

dinner pasta and sauce with lean ground pork

*pain started about 20 minutes in to run, was suppose to be alot longer!*

[ajarvis]

February 10th

6:45 - Breakfast 2 packages oatmeal, skim milk and a coffee

10:00 - yogurt

11:00 - lunch - roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables

1:00 - Arby's regular roast beef sandwich

2:00 - workout
- 10 minutes treadmill
- 10 minutes stairmaster
- Bench Press 60 lbs (DB) 3sets/10reps
- Bent over row 30lbs 3sets/10reps
- Deadlift 60lbs (DB) 3sets/12reps
- Squat (machine) 60 lbs 3 sets/10 reps
- Squat 40 lbs (db) 1 set/10reps

4:00 - Soup, yogurt

6:00 - Pork chops in cream of mushroom soup, rice, vegetables

Later on some bread with peaunut butter

*could not do my scheduled run, the knee hurt way too much!*

[ajarvis]

February 11th

6:45 - breakfast - bowl of cheerios, yogurt

11:00 - lunch - pork goulash on rice, 2 pieces bread with peanut butter

12:30 -organic strawberry yogurt

1:30 - workout
- 5 min warmup - 6.0
- 4.5mile run
- 43:17
- 494 cal
- 182 HR

5 min cool down + stretch

3:00 - Soup, yogurt

7:00 - dinner - chicken cooked in cream of celer, and cream of chicken soup. Mushroom rice, corn

later on ritz crackers
*No real pain in the knee, but a general discomfort, at the end of the run my quad was very tired and sore! I am going to take Friday off and the weekend*

[ajarvis]

February 12th

8:00 - breakfast, 2 bowls cheerios 2% milk

11:00 - lunch - Campbells Chicken and rice soup, and turkey breast sandwich with cheese.

11:50 - workout
- 10 minutes stairmaster
- 30 min ab class
- Bicep curls, 15 lbs 3 sets/10 reps each arm
- dips 3sets/20reps
- shoulder press - 30lbs (DB) 3sets/10reps
- upright row 30lbs (DB) 3 sets/10 reps

Cool down and stretch

3:00 - roasted chicken sub from subway -no sauce, and V8 juice

6:30 - dinner - marinated pork tenderloin, mushroom rice, brocoli with cheese

9:00 - crackers, bowl of just right cereal

[ajarvis]

February 17th

6:45 - breakfast 2 packages oatmeal with skim milk and coffee

10:00 - yogurt

11:15 - Pasta and sauce, and ribs

12:45 - yogurt

1:30 - workout
- 5 min warm up 6.0
- 4 mile run 39:28
- 494 cal burn
- HR 182
5 min cooldown
3 sets 15 crunches

Stretch

4:30 - Bread with peanut butter

6:30 - dinner - Chicken breast, and pasta with meat sauce
Stretch

[atherjen]

looking good girl! I admire you for being able to run like that! I used to run alot for basketball along with tons of sprints. my shins are really bad now after a bad injury with them this past fall.
Keep up the hard work!

[ajarvis]

Thanks! It is a bit discouraging being a tad injured right now, but I'll get there!

[SurfinAmy]

Sheesh! That's a lot of running woman! One day a couple weeks ago I took a 5 1/2 mile WALK so I now have a better appreciation of what you're doing! Although - RUNNING that far (can't imagine!) I was just wondering how your knee is doing and also, when is the marathon?
-Amy

[ajarvis]

At the moment the knee feels fine. I think it may also be because of my knew shoes so I'm just taking it easy for a couple of weeks, and slowly building the mileage back up. I only made it to the gym once last week because of some surpises at work changed my schedule so that gave it time to rest. I'm hoping for a marathon in September, I am still checking out different times. It needs to be close by since I don't own a car.

[ajarvis]

February 23rd.

7:00 - breakfast 2 packages oatmeal with milk and large coffee

9:00 - 1 yogurt

11:00 - lunch - scalped potatoes, vegetable goulash, tuna sandwich glass of milk

1:00 - yogurt

1:30 - workout
- 5 min warmup- 6.0
- 5 mile run
- 50 minutes
- 172 hr
- 543 cal burn
- 5 min cool down

Knee started bothering me around the 3.5 mile mark. Gradually got worse so I cut my run short (was suppose to be 8 miles)

3:30 - protein bar (power bar protein plus)

6:30 - dinner - baked chicken, corn, pasta side dish

later on more crackers with peanut butter

[ajarvis]

February 24th

7:00 - 2 packages oatmeal with milk and 1 large coffee

11:00 - lunch - pork chop, roasted potatoes, mixed veggies, salad.

1:30 - workout - 5 min warmup on bike
- Bench press 60 lbs (2 30lb DB) 3 sets/ 10 reps
70 lbs (BB) 1 set 10 reps
- Bent over row 30 lbs 3 sets 12 reps (each side)
- Bicep curl 15lbs 3 sets 15 reps
- skull crushers 35 lbs 3 sets 10 reps
- reverse pec dec 60 lbs 2 sets/ 10 reps
- Pec dec 60 lbs 2 sets/ 10 reps
- tricep push down 1 set 60 lbs.

2:30 - crackers and peanut butter (16 crackers) 1 glass of milk

6:30 - dinner - pasta with meat sauce (pork)

9:00 - crackers

[ajarvis]

February 25th

7:00 - breakfast - 2 packages oatmeal with milk and 1 large coffee

9:00 - yogurt

11:00 lunch - Sandwhich salad, stir fry noodles and veggies, and beets

12:30 - more yogurt

1:30 - workout - 5 min warm up 6.0
- 2.5 mile run 25 min.
- stairmaster for 25 mins.

Had to cut my run short because of my knee. It wasn't pain, but it was uncomfortable so I didn't want to push it.

3:30 - Shrimp soup

6:30 - campbells Chicken Cacciatore with a couple pieces of bread and crackers

[SurfinAmy]

Amanda,
I heard running on concrete is bad for the knees. Are you running on concrete?
-Amy

[sillyme]

Wow - I wish I could run like that! How did you work your endurance up?

How many calories a day are you eating?

[ajarvis]

Amy - I run on the treadmill, I am thinking my knee problems may be a symptom of too much too soon. I had tendonitis back in sep/oct so I had to stop running for about 6 weeks, and then with the holidays I slowed down becaue of lack of time. Then I started the half marathon training program and bought new shoes the combination may have something to do with it.

Sillyme - I don't know how many calories exactly, What I record in my journal isn't always 100% accurate since I don't have computer access I sometimes can't remember everything, I am going to start (soon) writing down what I eat so I can figure it out. I've tried using fitday but it doesn't seem to accurate, some things I can't find and then I forget when I get home from work to look them up and write them down. But I'm going to try and rememebr