11/5/14 official weigh in
177 lbs
Change: -2 lbs
Total loss from heaviest: 140 lbs
Current BMI: 27.7 (overweight)
Change: -.3
Today I wanted to get a run in, but with my injury from my last run I didn't want to push it. I decided to head to the gym for the first time since February or March and get my foot pod calibrated for indoor use. The indoor track at my local YMCA is 9 laps to equal a mile and even though it is so much better than running on a treadmill but it can still get a little monotonous. I walked a couple of laps to get warmed up and then turned my GPS off and linked my shoe pod. To calibrate the shoe pod I first ran 9 laps at an easy pace. When I finished that ninth lap I stopped my watch, which showed a final distance of 1.09 miles. Through some minor mathematical calculations I got from my friend Katie's blog runsforcookies.com . I reset the calibration on the foot pod and ran another 9 laps at an easy pace to see if I needed to make another adjustment. What do you know, it was spot on. Each lap was calculated as .11 of a mile and the total added up to exactly a mile.
Now that my foot pod was calibrated, I really wanted to get six miles in for the day and I also wanted to see how the pod would do on an extended run. I had two miles down, which left me 36 laps left to get my six miles in, well my knee / IT band had other ideas. I was doing just fine until I got started on mile three. I started to get light pain on the outside of my right knee again, but it felt like a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10 so I continued. When I got to mile 2.5 the pain jumped up to 4 or 5, but stubborn me wanted to keep going. I stopped when I got to the end of mile three. I just couldn't do it anymore, the pain was up to a 6 or even a seven. It almost immediately went away when I started walking, but an aching pain slowly returned. As far as the foot pod goes, it was pretty damn accurate after the three miles. When I finished, the watch registered a distance of 2.99 miles. If the pod stays that accurate throughout this winter, I will be a happy runner.
Closer and closer I get to that "Goal Number" I have chosen as my stopping point. It is strange to think that I am only four pounds away from my freshman wrestling weight. Yes that is right, I said my freshman wrestling weight. When I started wrestling my freshman year I weighed in at 200lbs, which was the heavy weight division. I was getting my ass handed to me because most in that class were six foot or taller and no less than 260lbs. I spent that first month working my ass of getting down to the next weight class, which was 175. When I finally achieved it I pretty much hovered right around the 173 mark for the remainder of the season. Why did I choose that as my goal weight? Well mainly because that was the last time in my life I remember being in such great shape, so it seemed like the best place to get to.
Today I wanted to get a run in, but with my injury from my last run I didn't want to push it. I decided to head to the gym for the first time since February or March and get my foot pod calibrated for indoor use. The indoor track at my local YMCA is 9 laps to equal a mile and even though it is so much better than running on a treadmill but it can still get a little monotonous. I walked a couple of laps to get warmed up and then turned my GPS off and linked my shoe pod. To calibrate the shoe pod I first ran 9 laps at an easy pace. When I finished that ninth lap I stopped my watch, which showed a final distance of 1.09 miles. Through some minor mathematical calculations I got from my friend Katie's blog runsforcookies.com . I reset the calibration on the foot pod and ran another 9 laps at an easy pace to see if I needed to make another adjustment. What do you know, it was spot on. Each lap was calculated as .11 of a mile and the total added up to exactly a mile. Now that my foot pod was calibrated, I really wanted to get six miles in for the day and I also wanted to see how the pod would do on an extended run. I had two miles down, which left me 36 laps left to get my six miles in, well my knee / IT band had other ideas. I was doing just fine until I got started on mile three. I started to get light pain on the outside of my right knee again, but it felt like a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10 so I continued. When I got to mile 2.5 the pain jumped up to 4 or 5, but stubborn me wanted to keep going. I stopped when I got to the end of mile three. I just couldn't do it anymore, the pain was up to a 6 or even a seven. It almost immediately went away when I started walking, but an aching pain slowly returned. As far as the foot pod goes, it was pretty damn accurate after the three miles. When I finished, the watch registered a distance of 2.99 miles. If the pod stays that accurate throughout this winter, I will be a happy runner.
As for the knee, I guess I am pushing myself to quickly since Columbus. These little nagging injuries are starting to piss me off when all I want to do is run. I am not really sure what I should do. I am sure the smartest and best option is to just stop running for a while, but that is like asking me not to eat.
I'm glad that calibration formula worked out so well! I can't believe how even your splits were for that test mile.
ReplyDelete"...stop running for a while is like asking me not to eat..." Haha! I bet a few years ago, you never thought you'd say those words!