You're doing what!?

If anyone has any advice for running the half marathon... please feel free to let me know. Nutrition, running programs, running routes... ANYTHING, your thoughts are welcome. I want to run, but it'd be a first time for me. I THINK Chuck got me motivated, although I can't say I'll go with the run-walk method. We'll see in time. And if the final goal doesn't work out, I'll be in some of the best shape of my life just attempting.

*Sigh*

So about iceberg lettuce.... So when people go to buy their heads of lettuce at the neighborhood Hornbacher's, you're telling me it is completely a waste of time because it's not actually good for them? So all those salad's at the dining center I've been eating just... tasted bad and that's it? I guess it's better than anything they actually COOK at the dining center... Who knows. Anyway, I tried working out this week without my HR monitor because I feel like sometimes it distracts me from focusing on what I need to get done.

Tuesday
Treadmill 2.8 miles - 1% incline - 6.8 mph
15 minutes abs

Wednesday
Treadmill 2 miles - 1% incline - 6.8 mph
abs, upper, and lower body

My HR usually FEELS about 175 at any pace that's above a jog when running on the treadmill.
I'll try some sprinting later.

Let me say this though: I have big plans for the next...... 12 weeks. Maybe.

Ready... Set... Dodgeball!

I played dodgeball in the 2nd Annual Fargo Dodgeball tournament yesterday. We were originally signed up for the co-ed league... but when the other teams found out our team was signed up, they all forfeited on the spot;) So they turned it into the "Adult Dodgeball Tournament" and as it turns out, my team was the only one with girls on it. Three to be exact. There were five teams, played round-robin, a match consists of five games, so best out of five won... And we went 3-1! Being one of the only girls out there, I'm going to have to say that those cocky guys in the football jersey uniforms had to be pretty ashamed at their loss. And the bulging baseball players from the Aakers team probably lost all dignity they had left. We lost to a team of some friends of mine, but it wasn't entirely unexpected. They won at the Prairie Rose State games and have been practicing (literally) together for years. Kudos to them. The moral of the story is... my HR was probably at 120 just sitting there, getting nervous for playing (not because I was scared, because I was excited I'm sure) and during the game it was probably at a good 170. It was a good time, but I'm not gonna lie... I'm a bit sore.

Have a good one!

You're in my dreams Chuck...

So I just had to write about this dream... because it applies, don't worry.

I was sitting next to Chuck and he thought I was some drug addict. So he forced me to shoot up first some heroin, then some cocaine. Of course I refused, but he jammed the needles in my leg anyway and I could not believe what he had done! The veins in my body started visually pulsating so I strapped on my heart rate monitor to get the results. As Chuck completely ignored this, I found my HR to be 297 bpm! I went and shoved my watch in his face and all he could say was "Wow Jesse... you should settle down..." !

So I got a job at the Wellness Center. Hopefully it goes well, I'm kinda nervous.

Here are some different HR monitor activities I've tried...

Up 6 flights of stairs: Start- 120 End- 175

Guitar Hero - Between 100-110... doesn't vary as much as one would think, even on the hard parts in expert.

Halo - 110ish... I definitely get more worked up killing people than playing music. More at stake or something.

Eating lunch at the lovely dining center - Between 90-100

Lifting upper body - Between 120 and 150... never higher than 160

Lifting lower body - Between 100 and 120... never higher than 140

Amongst my group of friends, there's been a debate about whether or not the size of your arteries and heart matters in heart rate... For me, it's logical that if your arteries are smaller than others, the heart has to beat faster in order to get blood where it needs to go. It's like a garden hose and a fire hose. If the garden hose is going to release as much water as the fire hose, then wouldn't it have to "beat" faster? Haha... I just made up this logic now, and it may not make any sense. Maybe I should find out if girl's HRs are on average faster than a guy's. Usually girls are smaller... which means they might have smaller arteries... in which case it would make sense that there's a correlation between size of arteries and HR. Who knows. I gotta go.

First Day of Warm-Ups

So after Tuesday I started considering maybe I should just do like, 6 warm-ups for my workouts instead of busting my ass on the treadmill.

AVG HR during: 165

6 warm-ups of lunges really did me in. It hurts to walk upstairs. I'm such a pussy. Anyway....
I just signed my life away at the Wellness Center... got the job there... should be interesting, but I'm kinda nervous. Hopefully it's a little fun.

G'night all.

VO2 Max Tests

So for the VO2 max predictions I was a little disappointed. I mean... I'm really not THAT out of shape, yet I scored average on the treadmill and bicycle test, and below average on the step test. And I'm just wondering... is the "average" of the entire population or is it for only the population that might have done that testing? Say individuals like us, in a class, or athletes, or people that go in for yearly physicals. But not the general population?

I'm sure a lot of things affect the testing... asthma, what you ate and drank before, whether you had a hard workout the day before, menstrual cycle, drug usage (steroids, amond others), situation (like Chuck said, if there's no motivation to keep going on that treadmill, are you really going to try as hard as would say, in a race?), and many other various things.

Maybe we'll do these tests again at the end of the semester to see if we've improved at all. That'd be interesting.