Day 342, 23 To Go

December 8, 2013

Yesterday, other than my run, I was a captive.  Honey was helping to organize a baby shower for her friend Andressa.  Since Honey is such a wiz with the arts and crafts, she usually ends up doing most of the creative things.  Of course she complains about it, but she really loves it.  I, on the other hand, did not love spending my whole day on baby duty.  Yeah, yeah, I'm a dad and I should love to spend time with my kids, blah, blah, blah.  Do you have kids?  Do you have 4 kids?  If you do, I'm sorry.  What were you thinking?  I know what I was thinking, but this is a family blog and I don't think I can properly type out what my orgasm sounds like, so I'll leave that to your imagination.

Anyway, today isn't too much better since Honey will be at the baby shower.  There is some good news.  Honey's mom will be coming to stay with us for a while through the Holidays.  This will keep Honey busy and it will take some of the child care duties out of my hands!  Yay!  If only I had something to do with all the extra time.  Oh, I know.  I can work more.  Yeah...that's right, I am going to work more.  Why?  Because I work for the man and they said I have to.  Seriously, this will be my busiest month of the year.  Don't they know it is Christmas this month?

I hate my job.

What I don't hate is Christmas!  I have some new gift ideas for you all today!  Yay!!  Check out these fantastic gift ideas for the runner or athlete in your life!

How about you buy your runner a training plan?

Training Plans

You can find these on Runnersworld.com.  Most runners won't buy a training plan even if they need one.  However, I bet they would take advantage of one if you bought it for them!!

How about you introduce them to minimalist running with a pair of Vibram running shoes!

Bikila

If you want to find out more about these great shoes, which I use, you can go to their website Vibramfivefingers.com

And finally, how about you splurge and get your love a GPS watch!!

Forerunner® 910XT

This is the top of the line Garmin GPS running watch.  You can find this on the Garmin site.

Personally, I can't live without my GPS.  I don't actually have this model, I have the Forerunner 310XT.  Other than a few software glitches, that I have mentioned in my blog before, I love it.  That 910XT looks way cool though...

Here are my numbers:

Time: 30:00

Distance: 3.03 miles

Pace: 9:54/m

Max Pace: 8:22/m

Calories: 323

Avg HR: 128

Max HR: 134

I again ran nice and easy today again.  I am pretty sure I can do this polarized training...at least I can do the slow part!  I have done plenty of speedwork before, so I should be fine.  It's the recovery that I have trouble with now.  Looking forward to getting it going!  Only 23 days left to the new year...

Run for Life!!