Hey Catherine, sometimes it takes up to a few hours for them to post in the challenge section.  Don’t know why, but it is frustrating!  If your still having problems PM me and let me know exactly what you’re doing.

Yah!! I finally got it all to work!! I’m on the board on the nike site!! Logged 3.4 miles today. I usually work in kilometres but for consistency sake I’ll go with miles… have to wrap my head around just how far that actually is being Canadian and all. It was an easy walk and I started off slow (HR below my training zone) but about a half way thorough the hour I started to feel that I could go a bit faster and get my HR up. Ave HR for the entire hour - 120, Cal - 445 (according to my HR monitor/ 574 cal according to the nike+ sensor!!)

The walk was not my planned workout for today. I was planning on doing my Cardio circuit training at the gym, but my day did not go as planned. I got up this morning and got ready for work. Was just about to head out the door when I got hit with some really bad stomach cramps (not female related!). Not sure why… maybe because I ate my grapefruit after my vitamins without anything else in my stomach. Didn’t touch the rest of my breakfast. Normally I eat my oatmeal then my eggs, then the grapefruit. But this is the second bout of this. I rarely have stomach issues… (haven’t tossed my cookies since I was 11 years old and was kicked by a horse! - long storey) Called in sick to work and went back to bed. Got up about noon and took it easy for the afternoon. The pains passed by about 2 but I still feel a bit off. Not interested in dinner but I should try to eat something.

Tammy - what is your nike screen name? I want to know who I am trying to catch up to.

Keep it up and you’ll stay ahead of jacobsmama Candy!

That one girl… she is too fast for our challenge she has a 10 min mile!

Yay Catherine!  Congrats on the 3.4 miles!  I know that one girl is fast, I’ve been watching her, but she’s only run once in weeks.  So, I’m not too worried about her.  We’ll start another competition soon so you can start at the begining.

10 minute mile, that my dear is not walking it’s running, a good time for 5k is 32 to 35 minuets(running) average walking speed is 3 miles per hour. Good job Cathrine, do you need an Ipod to get that nike thing to work?

Ya - the nike+ kit is only suposed to work with the iPod nano.  It has something to do with the type of memory drive in it.  The nano doesn’t have any moving parts (flash drive?) so it can take the josling of a workout.  The iPods with more memory have moving parts inside so they don’t fair as well.  That is what I just learned/read somewhere recently.  Luckily I already have a nano - found my 30 G too big to carry around.

Quick Post - have homework to do!!

Yesterday - Day 76 - CCT - did it late in the day at school long after everyone else had gone home for the day. Found it really mentally hard to get through. Wanted to just go home too… but I didn’t.

Today - Day 77 - Woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Not ticked at anyone in particular and managed to keep myself in check, but felt grumpy. I was successful at keeping a lid on it at work. Headed to the gym after. My workout was very therapeutic today and felt like I wanted to go for a long time but not hard. Did a CCT again but kept the weights on the lighter side so I would feel like I could keep going and get frustrated with it again. Then did a 45 min cardio session on the crossramp. Didn’t push myself hard, Ave HR 137, but once I got going I did get it up into the 140’s for a bit.

Hoping for a swim partner tomorrow… haven’t arranged it yet.

Good stuff Cathrine, good job in using that negative energy and making a positive.

Workouts are the best medicine for the grumps. Glad you kept yourself in check and got a good workout.

Day 78 - (may 8) - finally gave in and took a rest day. Didn’t even go for a walk. Did do about 20 minutes of stretching and abs. Didn’t break a sweat though.
Knees are sore after yesterday’s crossramp session. Did some research on tendonitis (quad tendon above left knee) and I was generally on the right track for treatment… I need to continue icing after workouts and strive to find ways to keep moving while giving them a good rest… think I will try to get more swimming in during the next few weeks while I still have free access to the pool.

Keep up the good work Catherine!  Hope your body starts to be nicer to you soon!

Thanks Candy… I’ll have to be nice to my body so it will be nice to me!! I have to give the knees a rest.

Today (day 79) was supposed to be a cardio circuit training day, but life got in the way and I didn’t get to it. Was thinking of going to the gym tonight but just couldn’t get excited about it so I decided to go back to the school during the parks and rec public lane swim. Got a better swim in this way because I didn’t have to worry about keeping an eye on a swim partner and I could go for as long as I wanted. Got close to an hour in.

2 km total. (Tammy and Candy - too bad I couldn’t count that toward the nike challange!! ... along with all the distance I put in on the elliptical and the bike!!))

250 m warm-up & stretch
1 km in just under 22 min (a minute under my last attempt) HR in the 150’s
250 m cool down,
500 m kicking with fins.

Not including warm-up - Time: 43 min , Ave HR: 145, Cal: 466!!

I’ve never realized just how good swimming is as a cardio exercise - it’s quite easy for me to get my HR up there when I’m doing more than just paddling about.

Good job Cathrine, swimming is awesome exercise, it’s low impact,burns a boat load of cals. and exercise all the muscles!

Great work Catherine.  I love swimming but don’t have my own pool so I don’t get to do it much.  When I’m at other people’s houses we just usually hang out.  It’s rude to splash in other people’s margaritas. 

lol… I couldn’t “swim” in a backyard pool… just soak as you say… I’d swim 3 strokes and it be time to turn around again.  I’d have to get a teather and anchor myself to something solid and swim on the spot.  Never tried that before but I know they sell them.

Catherine, I’m so glad to read that your sticking to your program and still doing awesome creative things.  Very very motivating lady; keep up the great work and stay cool!

Thanks Suzzy - I’ll have the check and see what you’ve been up too. I see you are only on during the weekends… did your daughter commandeer the computer again??? How are the weights going at the gym?

Yesterday (Day 80) - unplanned rest day. Had intended to go to the gym for a CCT session, but ran out of time. Had plans to meet up with a few girlfriends downtown and I didn’t want to be late so I opted for another rest day. I think I still benefited from it as my back was still tired from Friday night’s 2 km swim.

Today (Day 81) - made up for yesterday’s extra day off. Double up day - 1st was a session with my trainer, then a swim during the Parks and Rec public swim again.

Today my trainer took my waist and hip measurements which he hasn’t done since mid February (just before I started on this site) and I am down about 6 inches in those two areas combined. (Also I finally saw a drop on the scale this morning after hovering around the same number for the last two weeks. If it stay there for a few days I will call for a big celebration because I will officially have reached my first 10% mini goal!! But I’m not ready to declare it yet.)

Still taking it easy on the knees so Mike modified a few of the exercises again. Today he had me doing quad exercises on the bosu ball with front delts using bands at the same time, then he flipped it upside down and had me balancing on it. Once I learned the trick of getting on and off safely it wasn’t too hard, actually kinda fun! And he didn’t kill me with heavy weights or worrying about always getting to 30 reps today so I guess maybe I was pushing too hard in my CCT sessions and need to give myself permission to lighten up a bit so I don’t exhaust myself continually.

After my session with Mike I drove over to my school and went for an easy swim - didn’t even attempt to beat my time for 1 km from Friday night. Lost count of my lengths early on so I didn’t even bother to keep track - just kept moving.
Got about 45 min in. Ave HR 136, Cal 398.


Then it was over to my brother’s and sister-in-laws for Mother’s Day. It was a “make your own pizza” event. OK - did I mention that I’ve already had pizza 3 times this weekend? Made one Friday night for my dinner and had the left overs yesterday for lunch. Then last night with my girl friends we had pizza for dinner.. and then again tonight making that 4 times in one weekend! I have definitely had my cheese quotient for a while!!

WAY TO GO CATHRINE!!!! Great job, now if you could just curb the pizza eating !

Great job, Catherine!

Wow, now “make your own pizza” night sounds good to me! I haven’t had some in a while. But agreed, anything eaten that frequently gets a bit old.

I think it’s cool that the Nike Challenge is motivating you in new directions… though you already sounded like you had a pretty full plate of exercise. It’s been a good lesson to me to remember to rest.  Not just get enough sleep, but give all the muscles some down time.

Did I miss it, are you using a swimming heart rate monitor? Very interesting.

Catherine,
Congratulations on the 6 inches lost and though it is not official congratulations on losing 10%.  That is fantastic!