ESH... The Running Man

First Jog of the season

2009-10-05T19:06:00.000-07:00

My Jogging season has begun! I can't go during the summer - it's too dang hot and I'm afraid of getting heatstroke, so I jog in the fall. Tonight was my first run, ostensibly training for the Yavneh Fun Run in November - though I think I want to do another run before then if I find one nearby.
Google Pedometer clocks it at 1.6 miles. It's a start.
My route:
http://www.walkjogrun.net/routes/current_route.cfm?rid=27A59663-B152-A6C1-3EA220F7F9DB3442

2009-09-25T13:17:00.001-07:00

Woo! Just registered for this:

Sunday November 8, 2009

9:30 am

Garden State Plaza Mall

Paramus, NJ

Actually, the boys will be in that one. I'll be doing:

Sunday November 8, 2009

8:45 am

Garden State Plaza

Paramus, NJ

Now that I have proper running shoes, I hopefully won't kill myself like last year. I seriously could've RUN the whole thing if not for my feet killing me due to improper shoes.

2008-12-14T14:20:00.001-08:00

Mild weather last week led to a good run, but the cold is back again. Supposed to let up again in the next few days, so we'll see if that leads to another good run. I really need a pedometer, so I can see how long I am going on each run.

2008-11-17T20:12:00.000-08:00

I've been letting my foot heal up - my left foot had been in agony since the 5K. I got me some proper running shoes (pictured) and I took my first brisk walk since the race without a hint of pain. I will either stick with fast walking or get back into a very simple jog. But I am not sure I will do another race any time soon.

Results

2008-11-09T19:37:00.000-08:00

Results are up at http://www.bestrace.com/results/08/081109pr5.HTM

OVERALL RESULTS - Garden State Plaza 5K
SPCL CODE: U=USATF, Grade, F=Faculty    
                                                                                   AGE   GROUP     M/F   
PLACE    TIME   BIB# NAME                     CITY/STATE            M/F AGE PACE   GROUP  PLACE    PLACE   
170    34:26.1 0076 ELIE HIRSCHMAN           BERGENFIELD          NJ M 31  11:06  30-34M 26/26    123/134

As you may notice, I was dead last for my age group, placing 170 out of all 209 runners. It is my first one after all, but my son fared a bit better on the 1 mile run:

                                                                                  AGE   GROUP     M/F    
PLACE    TIME BIB# NAME                    CITY/STATE             M/F AGE PACE   GROUP  PLACE    PLACE   
41    10:17.5 0731 IZZI HIRSCHMAN          BERGENFIELD          NJ M  6  10:17   1-14M 22/57    30/89

Nice work, Izzi mano!

5K run done!

2008-11-09T07:36:00.000-08:00

The 5K Run was today -
It was quite hard, but alternating between walking and running, I was able to finish -but I need better running shoes as my feet were killing me during the race (and right now, in fact).

I finished in 34:17.

My son, inspired by my run, decided at the last minute to run the 1 Mile Fun Run, and he finished in 10:20.

Ankle=A-OK

2008-11-05T18:44:00.001-08:00

Back in '95, I was jogging at night with my friend Solomon. I missed seeing the downslope of the sidewalk into a driveway, came down wrong on my left ankle and sprained it pretty badly. Now, my ankle returns the favor by letting me know when it is about to rain. It's been throbbing/burning all day long, and sure enough, the evening brought with it the rain.

But neither the rain nor the ankle were able to keep me from doing my run tonight. I was careful not to slip and to stay on the smooth, visible parts of the road, slowing down as necessary, but overall, tonight was a good run. Here's the breakdown:

Stretching
6 minutes of fast walking
8 minutes of jogging - felt effortless and only dropped back into a walk when I started feeling a little tightness in the chest
3 minutes walking
6 minutes running - this was a little tougher. I had to make sure I wasn't overexerting and didn't push to move faster than I was comfortable with.
3 minutes walking
3 minutes running
5 minutes walking and cooldown

Overall, it felt like good pacing for me. I was surprised I went 8 minutes on the first running set. But the weather was perfect - cool, light breeze - so I am sure that helped.

Many thanks to my friends who helped me through the session with their rousing tunes:
Marc Pattison, Bjorn Lynne, Megadeth, Roderick Gray and Blue Man Group. This is part of a fast-beat music mix I put together on my Sansa mini-player, which I plan to be listening to on Sunday for the 5K run. And my ankle feels fine now - I took Advil before the run, felt a little discomfort at one point, but not again after.

lazy

2008-10-31T09:57:00.000-07:00

I have run ONE time since creating this blog. The race is a week from Sunday. Any chance I can actually do this? Perhaps. It's a "Fun Run", which means they won't hit people with sticks for choosing to walk instead of run, but I would've liked to have done more. Weather, a cold, and general EHHHHHHHH contributed to my not jogging as often as I could've. Let's see what this week has in store.

Well, not yet

2008-10-20T11:44:00.000-07:00

OK, so I am not running YET. I just signed up for a 5K run, which is to be the motivation for me starting to exercise on a regular basis. I hate exercising, and so setting a goal like this is a method of trying to force/shame me into actually beginning to run/jog and get in shape.
I had a gym membership for a year and never used the gym - only used it for the pool, which was fun, but the one time I tried to do laps, I couldn't catch my breath and actually had the lifeguard ask if I was OK. It's time to cut the nonsense - exercise and diet are the responsible way to live, and for no other reason than to NOT feel like crap from walking up a long flight of steps.

I'm using this article as my guide for beginning: http://www.active.com/running/Articles/How_to_Run_Your_First_5K.htm
and using this event as my motivation: http://www.practicehard.com/EventView.asp?eid=527

Not much time to get it going, but I'll sign up for another 5K (or more) run after that so I have something to build towards.
Here's we go!