Terrible 3's

Tasha had a follow appointment from surgery so I took the day off work today and helped take care of the kids. The doctor pulled a massive clump of god knows what out of one of her nostrils which explains why she has felt like crap the last couple days. Urijah has hit an age where is a lot more disobedient and I feel like he gets in trouble constantly. It his hard when kids are doing something they aren't supposed to but they are so cute doing it. Today he dumped a big bin of sand out on the patio after I told him multiple times not to do it. So I put him in his bedroom for timeout while I go to clean it up. Next thing I know there he is downstairs with different clothes on saying 'I have blue running shorts  like you do, lets go running'. I think he knows to try and combat being in trouble with funny behavior. Being cute didn't last long as he tried to lock me in the back yard. Imagine that sequence repeated for 12 hours and that was about our day.

After Dawson went to sleep I snuck out to go run. I went down to the track again to run 800's I planned to do 5 this week with the same amount of rest. I was really close to quitting after the 4th one but sucked it up and struggled through the last one. 5 800's 4 minutes rest (3:00, 2:56, 2:51, 2:52, 2:51). My target times were to start at 3:00 and take 4 seconds off each one. I think next week I am going to run 400's instead, it will probably hurt a lot.

Pushups - Wednesday 150 / 22518 YTD

Pull ups -   0 / 1201 YTD

Running - Thursday 4 / 182.67 YTD

Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD

Elliptical -  0 / 46 YTD

Run total - 230.37 YTD

Back on the track

Wow I didn't realize how long it had been since I ran on the track. I looking back I think it might have been all the way back in March. Tasha is staying at her parents house tonight so that I don't have to drop her off really early in the morning before catching the van to work. I took advantage of the alone time and went down to the track. I ran 4x800 with 4 minutes rest. My goal was to go 3:00, 2:55, 2:50, 2:45 and I wasn't too far off 3:01, 2:58, 2:53, 2:47. Starting last 200 of the final one I at about 2:10 and had to kick it into gear to get my time close to where I wanted it. All the other ones was able to keep a pretty consistent pace and not have to sprint at the end. Mile warm up and mile cool down.

Pushups - 0 / 21833 YTD

Pull ups -   0 / 1201 YTD

Running - 4 / 174.76 YTD

Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD

Elliptical -  0 / 46 YTD

Run total - 222.76 YTD

Slacking?

Just because I'm not writing doesn't mean I'm not working out. Saturday I went down to the track and ran 5x400 with 4 minutes rest. It was cold, we're talking sub 40 degrees. And I think that the track is actually a wind tunnel because I've never run on it when it didn't feel windy. The times are on my watch. I'll add them later (edit 1:15, 1:19, 1:18, 1:23, 1:18). I was sore from the gym on Friday and skipped pushups. We spent the rest of the day doing family time. There is a sick park in Redmond called Grass Lawn Park that we went to. It has the coolest ropes for kids to climb. It's a little scary letting a 2 1/2 year up climb up 15 feet of rope and only being able to hold him with one hand. Here are random pictures from online of the park.

Sunday I went snowboarding with Tasha and then convinced her to help on at the house for a whole hour. In that time she managed to cut the tape measure in half. I told her she'll have to do much more damage than that for me to not drag her back.

Monday I spread pushups throughout the day 260 total; 8am 50, 11:30am 50, 3pm 50, 5:30pm 35 (Urijah on back), 9pm (50,25)

I feel like 50 is my limit right now. Funny since I have done sets of so many more. Today is gym day.


Pushups - 260 / 7610 YTD
Pull ups - 0 / 525 YTD

Running - 2 / 43.26 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 31.5 YTD
Run total - 76.76 YTD

Busy Weekend

Saturday morning I went down to the high school's track and ran 8 200's. I'm going to try and do one hard running workout a week and if I can keep up I'll just steal them from Brandon's training. I was aiming for 2 minutes rest between each but messed the watch up between repeats 5 and 6 so that rest period was off. Warmed up for 3/4 mile and then attempted to run fast - 33,33,34,34,36,34,36,36. Soccer starts this week so hopefully I'll regain some quickness from that.

Saturday night I went to the Sounders game with the family. Working for a big company has some good perks, we had the Deloitte suite and more importantly a parking pass. Going any where with kids is rough. Having to pay through the nose to park or walk a mile with two kids is like choosing which testicle to get kicked in.

Sunday I headed to the mountain to work on the house. Before I let I check the conditions and decided to ride for a little while when I got to the pass. My legs were tired from running yesterday so only took 5 quick runs and then headed to the house to work. I'm getting close to the point of working on the plumbing and electrical and need to figure out a few issues with that before I can finish some of the remaining framing on the first floor. So today I ripped out what was left of the entry room and utility closets that was in the way. Cut a few boards of insulation and measure/planned the rest of that. I didn't do a whole lot today but needed to get back home to watch the kids.

Main water supply. Is only a few inches from the concrete wall need to decide how to frame around it and still cover the foam because of fire codes.

Entry way used to have giant shelves under the window

Total hack job on the previous circuit panel to the upper right of the water heater. That foam board has a hole drilled through for the water heater expansion drain

Used to be a closet containing the circuit panel and water heater. Still deciding exactly the layout I want there.

To the right of the door is room for a washer and dryer. The original space was about 9 inches too shallow so we moved the wall back to allow them to completely fit. Now if we want to can add doors to hide them.

As if that wasn't enough for the day I decided I needed to get back on track for the workout goals. I took the dog out and ran 4.17 miles. We took it fairly easy and were right around 8 minute miles. After I cooled down from that I did 140 pushups 7x20 on the minute. Now I'm going to roll around in bed writhing in pain.


Pushups - 140 / 6640 YTD
Pull ups - 0 / 500 YTD

Running - 5.92 / 37.66 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 29.5 YTD
Run total - 69.16 YTD

TGIF

I started out and did 100 pushups in the morning but thats all I managed to muster for the day. After running I passed out on the couch really early.

I set my watch to go run on the track but I'm not much better operating it than Brandon. There was too much rest between laps but I didn't think I could adjust it after the first one. So I have plenty of rest between. I haven't tried to run fast since October and could feel my legs not having much pop. I did a mile of warmup/cool down.

4x400 5 minutes rest
1:16
1:17
1:18
1:14


Pushups - 100 / 5650 YTD
Pull ups - 0 / 480 YTD

Running - 2 / 29.64 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 26.5 YTD
Run total - 58.14 YTD