Hangin' Loose

Now that football is over its time for some bball.  We had a great showing for our first game which was great.  9 guys so I was able to get in some playing for about half the game and the back felt good.  Looking forward to next week and got a few runs planned aready.  Just nice and easy.:)

Well it didn't go as planned.  Only wanted to play for a hr.  Ended up staying for a bit over 2 hrs.  I got in on the first game and we lost.  Next game didn't get in on.  But the third I did.  We won that one.  Then the next one.  And won the 3rd one in a row so was out again.  Got chatting and ended up getting in on the last game.  Boy can I see that my fitness level has dropped a bit.  Or at least it seemed like it in the first game.  Wasn't as bad for the later ones.  One good point was that my shots were at least going down more often that last year at this time.:)

Late bball game.  Start time was 9pm.  We had 10 guys show up so played about half the game again.  Great team this year its looking so far.  Won 69 to 40.

Yep running miles.  I know its been a while.  But yep I got in some miles.  Was going to go with 1 of 2 things tonight.  2 miles or 4 miles.  Felt good after the first mile.  Small pains here and there.  After that I was able to relax some so I thought I would go for 4.  Wasn't much relaxing though on that 2nd mile since it was the uphill mile.  Pace was slowing a bit but still kept going.  So I am happy that I didn't stop on it.  Just chugged along.  Next mile is somewhat flat.  And was somewhat surprised by how slow it actually turned out.  And the last is downhill.  One that I normal can easily get a sub 7 I was hoping for a sub 8.  Overall though felt really good with the first real run back at it after about 2 and a half months.  Last run on watch was SGM.

Mile 1 8:33

Mile 2 9:42

Mile 3 8:42

Mile 4 7:39

TT 34:38 AP 8:39

Well didn't go as planned again for bball.  Wanted to play only a hr or so since I was going to need to go to work at 5am to do snow removal.  Problem was there was alot of people that came so half court ball.  Lost track of the time playing kind of non-stop.  Till around 10:30 and got into another game finally of full court.  Got home at 11pm.  Bed by 11:20 oh boy.

4 am alarm came way to early.  Got about 3 inches at the house and 5-6 at work.  Think I will be passing on running tonight.  Doing alot of shoveling and tring to push more then I lift.  The back is feeling pretty good.  Still taking it easy on it though.

Basketball game again tonight.  Late game again at 9pm.  This game was a bit tougher for us.  It was a battle from the beginning to the end.  With 2 mins left we finally pulled away and ended up winning by 7 pts.  But again it was a good tough game.  Had 10 guys show up again so I think we just beat them in the end with being fresher.  Back is feeling great.  Not really any pain or soreness to speak of.

Hit the gym a bit later in the day.  Started with a mile running.  Then hit the bike for about 10 mins.  Back to the TM again for another 1.2 or so before hitting the eliptical for 12 mins.  And back to the TM again for another mile.  This mile I changed it up though.  Starting at 7.0 for .4 miles then kicked it up to 7.5.  At .5 up to 8.0 .6 to 8.5 .7 to 9.0 .8 to 9.5 .9 to 10.  Felt pretty good to do the progression like that.  Was a bit frustrated on the runs.  Weighted myself before the workout and didnt like that I was 190.  I have been sitting around 175 this past year.  So with the time off it seems I have got some weight to lose.  So my focus for the next while will be to lose some weight.  And then work on speed and such.

For the coming year we have only got Ogden Half on the schedule paid for.  We might do a ealier spring tri.  And in Aug-Sept do a half ironman.  Not some many races this year.  With a good build up to our first HalfIM.

Counting the snow removal as my workout.  Since it took the time of my workout.:(  So 2 hrs of snow removal.:)

Another 2 hrs of snow removal.  The snow was alot heavier today.  Felt it a bit in my back though.  ARGH!!  Took a nap for 2 hrs before going to play bball tonight.  Wake up at 4am is tiring and then playing at 9pm is late.  Got in 2 hrs of hoop.  Feeling pretty good about where my game is right now.  Slow starting but finishing strong.   Had a younger guy ask me last night if I have ever ran a marathon.  Or if I was just wearing the shirt.  LOL  I just replied that I had ran a couple.:)