Another week, and all is well...

What a great week it has been. Training i going well. I did 22.12 miles in 5:52 hours. With a total of over 180 miles since I started at the beginning of March. FIT, the training group I belong, had its second recruitment weekend. That went very well. We have Barbara,Dennis, Kathy, and Marta joining us from St Gregory's. All are excited about training and I look forward to sharing my time with them. Went 2 mornings to walk on the beach this past week. It is so great to be finished with training and do over 5 miles by like 6:15 am. I have talked to the friends I gather with, and we have decided to do it 3 times per week for the next few weeks to see how it works out. I worked with the FIT schedule for June, we do longer miles on Saturdays; and they give us a schedule to follow the rest of week. I calculated the miles by dividing the times by a 15 minute/mile pace. I cam up with week1: 10.67 miles, week2: 12 miles, week3: 13.33 miles and week4: 14 miles. If you recall from last week, I had mentioned that I wanted to keep a 20 mile base during this part of my training. So adding another morning to the beach training I cam up with for week1: 22 miles, week2: 23 miles, week3: 13.33 miles, and week4: 14 miles. I still will take Mondays and Fridays off or for some cross training, like bike riding. I am excited about this schedule, and others are too. Nothing is written in stone though, so as changes occur, I will post them here.

This morning, I did the Daniella's Journey by the Sea 5K. She was an inspirational young lady who's family coordinates this race in her honor. It was fun at John Lloyd's. Beautiful morning, about 1000 entries for runners and walkers. I did well kept a 14:19 minute per mile pace. And the picture at the top is what greeted Barbara and I as we prepared for the race.

I wish Barbara a quick recovery and for all of you that are out there training and sweating continue, you are doing great.

Life sometimes gets in the way...

Good day, it has been about 2 weeks since my last entry. Well like I said in my title, life sometimes throws you for a loop and your direction gets off keel for a bit. But I am back. Two weeks to catch up, but no worries I will edit most of it out. In the last 2 weeks I have done a total of 49 miles in a little over 12 hours. in one week I worked out 5 out of 7 days and the next week I worked out 4 of the 7 days. And I have lost a total of 13.6 pounds. Good considering I had a very rough week. Last Sunday a group of friends from Friends in Training went up to Orlando to do the last Minnie Marathon. It is a 15K or 9.3 miles course designed for women. There were 2,800 women doing it and 250some guys. It was a fun time , we went from Animal Kingdom to Wide World of Sports, through the movies studios, the yacht and boardwalk into Epcot and finished right outside of Epcot. We all got the medal and finished way below the 15 minute pace required by the race director. Yesterday we started the new season of FIT, which is the training group I get together with every Saturday. It was great being back. I am now an assistant coach for the walking group, helping them to reach the goal of finishing a marathon this year. So I continue to evolve and grow. I know it will be an exciting year. I added a picture from last week's event, I was clean by then , but I got to meet my favorite gal there at Disney and show her my medal. Have a great week, guys.