Archive for February 9th, 2009

I’m in.  http://hundredpushups.com

A few folks on the RW forums are doing this and it sounds like the perfect excuse to finally do some upper body work.  I hate my flabby upperarms, don’t care for dumbbell workouts (or any non-running workout for that matter), my posture is still in need of a major fix, and at my age especially, I need to do something to increase muscle mass, so this challenge suits me to a T.

One thing I love about it is it’s basically a C25K-type program for your upper body.   I don’t even give a crap how many pushups I’ll be able to do at the end, just the fact that I have a schedule to follow is major motivation.   And it only takes 10 minutes 3 days a week  on a little piece of floor! I’ve no excuse not to do it.

On other news, I’ve been researching headband-wearing tips because they’re such a great way to keep your hair back when running, but they always slide right off my head.  Even those Stay-Put bands by Goody with the little gripper things are useless to me.  So when I read a tip to put hairspray on your hair where the band goes, then spray the inside of the band to give it some sticking power, I was on that advice like white on rice. I tried it today for my run and it worked! I couldn’t believe it.  Didn’t budge one millimeter till I took it off.  No more crazy Einstein hair for me, headbands rule!

In actual running news…it’s official, I’ve thrown my hat into the sub 1:40 ring for my Half in May.  There’s a great little ongoing thread in the RW forums for just this thing, so I made my introductions and now plan on soaking up whatever knowledge and camaraderie I can get from it. I’m pretty excited at the idea, now to make it a reality.

Towards that end, I have an interval session tomorrow, 5 x 1000 w/2 min. recoveries.  As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t trust my Garmin for interval work, it’s almost always off by differing amounts, thus my love of the markers in my park.  However, they’re at every 1/4 mile, so for the last few months, my intervals have been comprised of multiples of .25 miles.    That works up to a point, but in reality, I miss 600s and 1000s, so today I tried to find a landmark that matches up with last night’s Google Earth investigation of that extra 200m, so I’d know where exactly to stop the dang interval.  Of course, it’s somewhere between two trees, so no fabulously glaring landmark, but still I suppose it’s better than trusting the Garmin.  Yeah, I know…anal.  But it’s entertainment.