Scales.

Ok.  So I’ve wanted to start over on the home blog for a while, so let me just link you over there and give you a heads up that this will happen by the end of this month.  Probably on the first of August.  That’d make it a year for this blog.

ONE.  YEAR.

In any case, you probably already see that blog comment on yours.  It’s marckusmadulidus.  My name is CLEVERLY hidden in the blog title, and that will also change sometime.  Possible names:

• markusaurelius (or marckusaurelius, heh)
• marckthree (like…version three, lols)
• markusmaximus (or, again, marckusmaximus)

I went and ran 1.6 mi earlier this week, on Monday.  It was new.  So many hills.

I just weighed in a few minutes ago.

It’s actually kinda hard to read their (Erin and Chris’s) scale.

…

It read 161.

Which is down about five (FIVE) pounds from about two weeks ago or so.  (Does this mean I participated in Weigh-in Wednesday finally?)

In the morning, I normally have oatmeal.  For lunch, I usually pan grill/sear some chicken and put it on top of some salad with some cheese (mmmmm) and salad greens (romaine, spinach, red cabbage).  My dinner kinda whatever, knowing that I’ve had maybe about 600 calories throughout the entire rest of the day and won’t break 2,000 or so (which is what I would have been shooting for when working out and running), so…

…

Whatever it is, it’s working.

What’s not working: having the wireless router 25-something feet away with some walls inbetween.  %$#@.  I get a signal, but ping is normally high-ish and I’m pretty sure download speeds are affected.

In any case.

My calves were still feeling really tight this morning, so the run will be either later this afternoon or tomorrow.

I train 3:30-10:00a on Friday and Saturday, and then work two 11p-5:30a shifts next week.

Overnight stocking team, alright.

(Hey, it’s a job.  And I kinda like working with the boxes; I got sorta nostalgic during the tour about my times in the Toys “R” Us stockroom back in Tyler.)

So I’ve got to figure out a way to eat healthy in the middle of the night, get used to a night schedule, keep running (and start it back up again; 10k/halfs in the fall THEY’RE GOING TO TEMPT ME) and learn to get better at this living away from home thing.

I kinda already like it.  (Until the bills come in.)

Ugh, bills.

BUT HERE WE GO

In the mean time:

• Pokémons trainings and breedings
• Guild Wars
• Rift (<— I’m on Byriel!)
• StarCraft 2
• Rereading one of my books (Name of the Wind, Twelve Kingdoms most likely)
• MOAR GAMES

:D

Convention weekend complete!

And I didn’t screw up my conducting, either.  :D

…also, I ran 1.9 mi on Sunday morning because I woke up too early.  My calves hurt.  ~21ish minutes.  Not bad, for not running for an entire month.

I think running will be my main form of exercise (for a while, anyway), in Austin, considering the exercise room in the apartment complex doesn’t have any free weights of any kind.

More later, maybe.

I’M EV TRAINING MY LUCARIO WTF IS THIS TEDIOUSNESS

And…packing!

I thiiiiiiiiiiiiink…

I may be starting a new Tumblr.  Probably.  As soon as I come up with a cool name.  I’ll send messages your way and you should totally follow me back (again) when it happens.  

I envision having 100 tabs open in Google chrome, all at once.  xD  Maybe I can break 200 processes in Windows Task Manager…  (I don’t think I’ve broken 100 on this computer.)

In any case, longer slower run today.

It sucked.

It was hot, I didn’t drink enough water, and I went too slow and was out there for too long.  Also, my calves were still kinda sore from Saturday.  OK, excuses done.  :P

• 3.57 mi // 5.75 km
• 42:15
• I KNOW WTF AMIRITE
• Mile 1 - 10:27
• Mile 2 - 12:03
• Mile 3 - 13:06
• Lots of walk breaks.  Like, five of them.  Totaling 8:30.

Drink more water.  Find shade (85% of this run was in the sun, ew.)  Go faster.  My average pace can get down to 9:17 - maybe if I shoot for 10:00 (still pushing, not being lazy), I’ll be able to keep going farther without taking so much time.  I may try going back to 9:1 intervals and slowing increasing distance that way.

Huh.  I think I found my plan.

Also, I need to start lifting weights.  Again.  I know I said this last time, but I think if I get to starting my run too late (and it’s too warm outside), I’ll go lift instead.  Or something like that.  Maybe?

Under a rock.

A few days ago, I started listening to Arcade Fire.

Yes, *started.*

A few days ago.

Today?

Deadmau5.

I feel sad because no one’s really told me about them before.  :(

Anyway, with the 5k just this past weekend (wow, was that yesterday), I think I’ll be starting to push the distance higher.  Again.  3.11 mi in 29:01 was ridiculous.  With a pace per km at 5:46, I’m sure doing four miles at 6:30 won’t be too bad…right?  xD

How do you guys do this?  I could go and track either a 10:30 mile (multiples, or maybe an 11:00 straight run) or a 6:30 km.

Also, parkour popped up on YouTube.  I saw this for the first time about two to three years ago and never thought I’d be able to do it.

Well, there were a couple of things I’d never thought I’d be ever able to do, two years ago.

I’d still probably not be comfortable free running until I’ve lost a good bit more of weight.  You know, less mass to carry around means cooler stunts, right?  :P

For the record, Guild Wars 2 looks totally badass.

Race recap: Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k

Aahhhhh, so I didn’t sleep enough, but that’s OK.  I was still pretty pumped.  I had never seen so many people gather in the same spot here in Tyler, TX.  Got there early, found some friends (one of them ran the Marathon last October!) and saw some other people I don’t see too often.  Got some comments on my Vibram KSOs (whoooo!) and made small talk with random strangers about them.

I had to go potty, so I separated from the group that I had been chatting with.  I didn’t see them again until the finish line.

The course started down hill, mostly.  Took my time weaving in and out of runners and walkers alike (needed to get ahead, get some room) so my first mile was very nearly the fastest.  There was a GIGANTIC downhill slope and I went and took my momentum with me and used it to pass a boat load of people.  A small boat, anyway.  Not a cruise ship, or anything.  Took my first walk break at 8:00 (I tried an 8:1 this time) and kept on keeping on.  Mile 1 at 9:15.

9:15.

NINE.  FIFTEEN.

I was in the middle section and had some more room to prance about (hehehehe, prance is a funny word) and took it easier knowing that I had run the first mile pretty fast.  For me.  Maybe not for you, but that 9:15 mile (even with the huge lot of weaving and walking I had to do at the start) is freakin’ awesome.  AWESOME.

Again, the second mile was slower.  Actually, looking at the graphs, it was even the highest part of the run.  It was actually pretty uphill from 0.82 mi to 1.45 mi, with an ascent of around 89 feet.  I’m not sure if that’s a big deal or not.  It felt like it.  It showed.  Mile 2 was 9:59, apparently, with a walk breaking coming in (a bit early) at 17:40 and ending also a bit early at around 18:30.  S’cool.  I found some people to talk to, haha - some of them went to my church!

Mile two came at 19:10.  ”Seriously?  Dude, cool,” I thought.

Which, now, brings us to mile 3.  Mile friggin’ threeeeeeeee.  It was mostly downhill, but there was a hill leading to the finish line but then backed off.  I don’t remember when it was…maybe around ~23ish minutes or so when the random awesome lady came by and kept pace with me.  I had a walk break at 27:00, but we played the Fartlek and it came later.  We took a short, short walk break at 27:30, but at 28….it was go time.  At 28:00, I had crossed three miles.  (As an aside, I kinda almost threw up here again after stopping running, heh.)

Three miles, in in just a bit under 28 minutes.  (27:58, to be exact.)

I just realized HOW MUCH FUN IT IS looking at all this data that the GPS picked up.  Best running purchase ever?  Probably.  So far, anyway.  :3

Anyway, the last 0.11 mi.  I hit very nearly 9 mph (hehehehe, yay data!) and powered through to the end.  I stopped my watch at 29:17. 

29:17.  WHOOOO!  The clock said 30-something, but to my credit, I passed the start line a minute after we started (so many people).  There were supposedly around 6,000 people there (not all on the course, mind you), so to think that some races have 15,000 people is RIDICULOUS.

Anyway, 29:17!  The printed sheets say 30:23, so I’ll have to see what they end up with, but the 5k split on my watch says 29:01.

That’s right.

29:01.

Sub 30-minute 5k?  Check.

To beat that by nearly a minute, at 29:01?!

WHOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I slept A LOT.

Like, four less than five hours or so.  I kept wondering how fast I’d need to go, what I’d need to shoot for…raaaaaaaaah.

When it’s all said and done, really, I’m just going out there in an hour and running.

That’s it.

:D

(If you can’t tell, I’m pretty excited about this.)

5k in ~9 hours!

…and I’m not in bed yet.  Of course.  :P

By midnight, anyway, I will be.

Maybe.

:3

STILL ALIVE

I am; not the catchy song by Jonathan Coulton.  :3

Uh…intervals tomorrow (not Tabata, heh.  Just…not as killer ones).

Then Saturday is 5k race day!

A week late to Fitpocalypse.  S’cool, though.

Also, I just learned today that the musical I’m playing for is in two weeks.

fffffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Not gonna lie…

I’m kinda sad I didn’t have a race on Fitblrocalypse or whatever it’s being called tomorrow/this weekend.  (My next [second!] 5k is a week from today.)

In the spirit of the weekend, I set out to run a 5k.  I tried out the Galloway method for a 9-10:00 mile, which is a 4:00 run and a 1:00 walk.

It was going pretty well until I realized I hit 1.55 mi at 15:00.  Exactly.  On the dot.  …  If that doesn’t raise your eyebrow (it should o.O), multiply the distance by two.  3.1.  And the time.  30:00.

I was on track for a 30:00 5k.

…so I pushed on.

BUT HILLS.  ah well, and I pushed a bit harder int he first half.  (My last break was actually 1:30, though; that was probably my downfall, honestly.  Also, my two miles was at 18:59.  Whoo!)

• 3.11 mi // 5 km
• 30:02 (SO CLOSE.  :P)
• 6.21 mph // 9.99 kph
• 9:40 per mi // 6:00 per km
• Mile 1 - 9:37
• Mile 2 - 9:22
• Mile 3 - 10:14
• I really should start aiming for 9:40 or even 9:45 per mi.  ><

It felt awesome!  I even picked up my speed (a lot) in the last 10 seconds.  After stopping, I kinda dry heaved.  (Pushing myself so far as to dry heave…would this be an NSV?)

Anyway.  5k next weekend, I’ll do some shorter runs this week.  I think I convinced three of my other friends to be at the race to, and I don’t know who else will be going that I know but don’t know until I may or may not see them there, like at the last race.

HOORAY.  Shower, practice, music run through, church, wedding music playing, hangage.

Here we go.

4/27 runnings.

Ran with my friend Erin.  I think I make her feel, bad, because half the time I go on running after she stops and takes off.

• C25k W2-ish; 90s run, 90s walk
• 1.35 mi // 2.17 km
• 20:54
• 3.88 mph // 6.24 kph avg
• 15:28 per mi // 9:37 per km

We went around the mall here 1.5 times using this interval thing.  I may need to back it off to the actual C25k W2 dealie (90s // 120s), since I just had to guess at this.  Maybe next time?

Anyway.  After this, I ran back to their apartment from where we had stopped.  (She and Chris took the car home, since we had driven out there.)

• 2.09 mi // 3.36 km
• 20:38
• 6.08 mph // 9.78 kph avg
• 9:52 per mi // 6:08 per km
• Mile 1 @ 9:34
• Mile 2 @ 10:06

I *still* need to sign up for the 5k next week.  …  I’m going to do that.  Right now.  IN THE MIDDLE OF MAKING A POST.  OK, signed up.

You can find my page RIGHT HERE.  You should also read it, because I removed the default (boring-ish) text.  It’s probably not an improvement at all (by an extremely long shot), but hey, there it is.

OK.  Signed up.  

Car is having battery problems.  Hopefully.  And not alternator problems.  Yay money out of my account!  Miscellaneous things will have to wait (but omg mechanical keyboards sound so sexy).

I need to practice.  More.  I also want to try to get into parkour.  That’d be awesome.  Or some sport.  I need to get more active.

Anyway, back to this thing.

I feel bad (sorta) on the days where I want to run farther than what we run together…so I do.  I’m not sure if I should, but like earlier, for the C25k run, she asked when I told them that I was running the 2 mi-ish back if the run we just did was juts a warm up.

I’m not sure whether to be all “yup, I’m a badass” or “yeah, but don’t fret - I like being supportive!”  Ish.

So…what do you think?  Eh?