1000 miles in the books.

Let me first clear something up. I did not get out on Christmas Day for a run like planned. To be honest this big body (more on that later) needed a rest. 10 days in a row was a lot for me and the body was happy to take the day off.

But I was 10.6 miles away as of Christmas Day and I got in 5.6 miles at about 8 pm last night and since I am off today and will not be able to run tonight, I got up and out this morning for 5.5 miles. So that completed the 1000 for the year. Last night was on the treadmill and it was actually a good run. Today was in a little rain and not as good. Don't think the body was as recovered as it would have liked to have been. But none the less I got it done.

As for the big body comment above. My weight is climbing and I really need to focus on that. And that is going to happen now. I have started (just yesterday) logging all food that I take in with my trusted www.calorieking.com site. It may seem obsessive to some but it is a necessity for me if I am going to keep the weight in check. I hit 217 in the summer, and although this was after a long run that I didn't hydrate well for, it was a major accomplishment. Well yesterday morning I tipped the scales at 241.6 pounds. Can't imagine what that wight would have been if I wasn't running. Knowing myself I am sure I will drop 10 pounds real fast. It is the other 30 I need to work real hard to shed. So the two big things I need to do log the food and go back to recording my weight everyday. This also worked well when I was coming down from 330 pounds. The good news is I know what I have to do to lose the weight and now I just have to stick to it.

I have to go now as I have a date with a 5 year old girl today. I am taking one of my twins daughters to see her first play in Philadelphia today. We are seeing Peter Pan at the Walnut Theater. Kim took Liam to see The Lion King and we will find one to take Kelsey (the other Twin) to. We are trying to do some things individually so they get special time.

My site appearance. I am not set on this skin but until I find what I want (a three column skin) this is what you get. I think it is easier to read then the last one. But I am missing the links to my fellow bloggers. And I am not updating that until I get the skin I like. Yes I lost them as I didn't save them correctly.

Well time to focus on 2008. Swimming and Biking will begin very shortly. I am still working on the 2008 schedule and plan of attack.

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Merry Christmas to all

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And to all a good night.

It is 11:30 pm and Santa just got done putting all the presents under the tree for the morning madness that will ensue in about 6 1/2 hours from now. I better get some sleep now so I am bright eyed and bushy tailed.

It doesn't look like I will finish mile 1000 on Christmas. I didn't get in as many miles as I would have liked to have gotten in yesterday (Sunday). I will get in a run on Christmas, maybe about 5.5 miles or so. And that will leave me with 5 miles to go. I have now run for 10 days in a row and will be happy to take a few days off from running when the goal is hit.

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New Skin

I am in the process of changing my blog appearance, so I will hope to find one I like shortly. I think I lost all my side bar stuff so that sucks and will take a lot of time to re do. What are rainy days for.....

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18 miles to go

I believe I am at 18 miles left after this run. And if my math is correct I have 9 days to do them which would be 2 a day. My goal is to finish Christmas Morning, yes that would be a lot of consecutive days for me but oh well. I wanted to post a comment from Andrew who is part of the BIM site that I use for these great charts. I am posting his comment as a PSA to anyone who might be thinking about using the site. Andrew said... Congrats on your progress Dan and thanks for the kind words about BiM Active! You are a man on a mission... The service also works on over 40 GPS phones including new Blackberries and uploads your stats wirelessly to your personal journal at the bimactive.com site. Full disclosure: I work for Bones in Motion. Cheers, Andy -- Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 145 ft Location: Williamstown, NJ Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 12/22/07 Up/Downhill: [+114/-114] Time: 10:34 AM Difficulty: 2.3 / 5.0 Weather: Overcast 40 F temp; 85% humidity 40 F heat index; winds NE 10 Performance Distance: 7.43 miles Time: 1:15:07 Speed: 5.9 mph Pace: 10' 07 /mi Heart Rate: 147 bpm (Avg) Calories: 1287 154 bpm (Peak) Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Heart Rate (bpm) Heart Rate Zones Zone Range (bpm) Time In Zone Distance In Zone Zone 5 163 - 181 0h 00m 0% 0.00 mi Zone 4 145 - 163 1h 03m 84% 6.44 mi Zone 3 127 - 145 0h 11m 15% 1.03 mi Zone 2 109 - 127 0h 01m 2% 0.12 mi Zone 1 91 - 109 0h 00m 0% 0.02 mi (none) out of range 0h 00m 0% 0.01 mi Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 12 -0' 55 6.5 +0.6 143 +22 ft 2 9' 45 -0' 22 6.2 +0.2 148 -3 ft 3 10' 09 +0' 02 5.9 -0.0 145 -26 ft 4 10' 01 -0' 06 6.0 +0.1 151 +9 ft 5 10' 36 +0' 29 5.7 -0.3 146 -3 ft 6 10' 29 +0' 22 5.7 -0.2 149 +16 ft 7 10' 42 +0' 35 5.6 -0.3 146 -3 ft end 9' 39 -0' 28 6.2 +0.3 152 -13 ft Versus average of 10' 07 min/mile

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The S.S.D run.

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We have all heard of the L.S.D run but tonight was the S.S.D run. Yes that is the short-slow-distance run. I did 3.5 miles in 39:30 for a 11:19 avg mile. Not sure if it was the 5 days in a row of running or if it was our Christmas lunch at THIS PLACE. I had a great lunch and didn't skip any of the course today. I will most likely run tomorrow and take Friday as a rest day.

So I am down to 32.25 miles left and 12 days to get them done. That works out to be 2.6875 miles per day.

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And then there were 39

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Yes I am down to 39 miles left for the year to reach the 1000 goal. Yeah I know you are as tired of hearing about it as I am writing about it. But since I am not doing this any time soon you will have to deal with it until I "GET R DONE".

Some other things.

You know what I have found to be pretty fun. Watching these game shows while having my laptop on hand. I was watching the show Duel for the first time tonight with the lap top. And yes I knew some of the answers like what does a "Scoville Scale" measure. But for the ones I have no idea I try to battle the contestants and see if I can find the answer before it is revealed. Yeah I know I live a real exciting life. Hey the family is sleeping and I already logged 5.1 miles tonight on the treadmill so leave me alone. I will be turning Monday Night Football on soon.


Books.

Although I am not much of a reader I picked up two books from Amazon and received one of them today. I had waiting for me Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook.

I also picked up but have not received John Mora's Triathlon 101. I look forward to reading these two and hopefully use the knowledge I gather in the up coming season.


2007 Goals.

Well you know I am trying to reach 1000, but my blogging buddy Pat is also trying to reach his goal of 800 miles for the year. Please be sure to check out his blog and wish him luck.

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Getting Closer

Raining and cold. Not as cold as yesterday or last weekend. Only did 4.40 but that is 4.40 less to do to get 1000. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 140 ft Location: Williamstown, NJ Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 12/16/07 Up/Downhill: [+98/-98] Time: 10:54 AM Difficulty: 1.8 / 5.0   Weather: Light Rain Fog/Mist   43 F temp; 96% humidity   43 F heat index; winds E 16 Performance Distance: 4.40 miles Time: 0:45:18 Speed: 5.8 mph Pace: 10' 18 /mi Heart Rate: 142 bpm (Avg) Calories: 748 154 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)   Heart Rate (bpm)   Heart Rate Zones Zone Range (bpm) Time In Zone Distance In Zone Zone 5 163 - 181 0h 00m 0%  0.00 mi Zone 4 145 - 163 0h 23m 51%  2.31 mi Zone 3 127 - 145 0h 21m 46%  2.09 mi Zone 2 109 - 127 0h 04m 8%  0.29 mi Zone 1 91 - 109 0h 00m 0%  0.02 mi (none) out of range 0h 00m 0%  0.00 mi Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 29 -0' 49 6.3 +0.5 138 -3 ft 2 9' 58 -0' 20 6.0 +0.2 145 -3 ft 3 10' 34 +0' 16 5.7 -0.2 144 +7 ft 4 11' 25 +1' 07 5.2 -0.6 140 +13 ft end 9' 52 -0' 26 6.1 +0.3 148 -13 ft Versus average of 10' 18 min/mile

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Saturday Run

Getting out for my Saturday run. I really didn't know how long I would go, just went out to see how long I can do in the cold. Got in 6.25 miles, did the route around the development. I notice people in different parts of the country call them sub divisions but here in Jersey they are developments. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 140 ft Location: Williamstown, NJ Elev. Gain: -4 ft Date: 12/15/07 Up/Downhill: [+127/-131] Time: 10:37 AM Difficulty: 2.4 / 5.0   Weather: Overcast   33 F temp; 51% humidity   33 F heat index; winds NE 10 Performance Distance: 6.22 miles Time: 1:03:54 Speed: 5.8 mph Pace: 10' 16 /mi Heart Rate: 141 bpm (Avg) Calories: 1086 151 bpm (Peak) Map   Elevation (ft)   Pace (min/mile)   Heart Rate (bpm)   Heart Rate Zones Zone Range (bpm) Time In Zone Distance In Zone Zone 5 163 - 181 0h 00m 0%  0.00 mi Zone 4 145 - 163 0h 13m 20%  1.29 mi Zone 3 127 - 145 0h 50m 78%  5.02 mi Zone 2 109 - 127 0h 03m 5%  0.24 mi Zone 1 91 - 109 0h 00m 0%  0.00 mi (none) out of range 0h 00m 0%  0.00 mi Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 45 -0' 31 6.2 +0.3 140 0 ft 2 9' 57 -0' 19 6.0 +0.2 139 -6 ft 3 9' 59 -0' 17 6.0 +0.2 142 0 ft 4 10' 50 +0' 34 5.5 -0.3 138 +3 ft 5 10' 00 -0' 16 6.0 +0.2 145 +9 ft 6 10' 37 +0' 21 5.7 -0.2 140 0 ft end 9' 18 -0' 58 6.5 +0.6 144 -9 ft Versus average of 10' 16 min/mile

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A 5K a day left to go.

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That is what I have left to hit the 1000 miles for the year I had set out to do for this year. At times I wish I had not set this goal but now that it is almost over I am glad I did. I will not do the same for next year. No running mile goal, but I will have triathlon related goals that I will discuss in a later post.

Goal --- 1000 miles
Ran --- 941 miles (you are not seeing things I did fix this)

Left --- 59 miles

Days left in 2007 --- 19

Avg needed per day --- 3.105263 miles

I will do this.

Day 2 of BIM Active

I can see this site is going to get me on the road in the dead of Winter. I still have to work out some of the in & outs of the site but I do like the charts. It takes the info from the Garmin Training Center and makes these cool charts. Then you can do a blog entry on the BIM site and it sends it to Blogger for you. Again I have some things to work out with it but I will use it for a while. I will use only on the outdoor runs (weekends - unless I can get my butt up in the morning). Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 140 ft Location: Williamstown, NJ Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 12/09/07 Up/Downhill: [+104/-104] Time: 09:29 AM Difficulty: 2.1 / 5.0 Weather: Light Rain 37 F temp; 64% humidity 37 F heat index; winds NE 3 Performance Distance: 5.15 miles Time: 0:50:41 Speed: 6.1 mph Pace: 9' 50 /mi Heart Rate: 141 bpm (Avg) Calories: 893 154 bpm (Peak) Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Heart Rate (bpm) Heart Rate Zones Zone Range (bpm) Time In Zone Distance In Zone Zone 5 163 - 181 0h 00m 0% 0.00 mi Zone 4 145 - 163 0h 16m 32% 1.71 mi Zone 3 127 - 145 0h 33m 65% 3.40 mi Zone 2 109 - 127 0h 02m 5% 0.22 mi Zone 1 91 - 109 0h 00m 0% 0.03 mi (none) out of range 0h 00m 0% 0.02 mi Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 31 -0' 19 6.3 +0.2 132 -3 ft 2 9' 48 -0' 02 6.1 +0.0 140 -3 ft 3 9' 53 +0' 03 6.1 -0.0 142 +6 ft 4 10' 26 +0' 36 5.8 -0.4 141 +10 ft 5 9' 41 -0' 09 6.2 +0.1 148 0 ft end 10' 00 +0' 10 6.0 -0.1 146 -9 ft Versus average of 9' 50 min/mile

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8 on the 8th (try again)

I am having user ERROR's so I have to post this again. These are my stats from the 8 on the 8th. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 145 ft Location: Williamstown, PA Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 12/08/07 Up/Downhill: [+114/-114] Time: 08:18 AM Difficulty: 2.5 / 5.0 Weather: Fog/Mist 36 F temp; 92% humidity 36 F heat index; winds W 7 Performance Distance: 8.33 miles Time: 1:25:29 Speed: 5.8 mph Pace: 10' 16 /mi Heart Rate: 145 bpm (Avg) Calories: 1404 156 bpm (Peak) Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Heart Rate (bpm) Heart Rate Zones Zone Range (bpm) Time In Zone Distance In Zone Zone 5 163 - 181 0h 00m 0% 0.00 mi Zone 4 145 - 163 1h 03m 73% 6.41 mi Zone 3 127 - 145 0h 17m 20% 1.60 mi Zone 2 109 - 127 0h 09m 10% 0.68 mi Zone 1 91 - 109 0h 00m 0% 0.03 mi (none) out of range 0h 00m 0% 0.02 mi Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Heart Rate Elev Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 9' 22 -0' 54 6.4 +0.6 140 +22 ft 2 9' 40 -0' 36 6.2 +0.4 146 -7 ft 3 9' 43 -0' 33 6.2 +0.3 147 -23 ft 4 10' 30 +0' 14 5.7 -0.1 146 +6 ft 5 10' 39 +0' 23 5.6 -0.2 146 0 ft 6 11' 27 +1' 11 5.2 -0.6 143 +9 ft 7 10' 30 +0' 14 5.7 -0.1 145 +6 ft 8 10' 21 +0' 05 5.8 -0.1 147 -7 ft end 9' 51 -0' 25 6.1 +0.2 154 -9 ft Versus average of 10' 16 min/mile

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