Past and Future Update

I know it has been a while since I posted a blog, but I am back now and hopefully back to a regular schedule. Since the last time that I blogged, I have actually gotten a new computer because my video card decided to crap out on me. This actually happened the morning after I posted my last blog. After I finished BodyBeast, I started focusing on my cardio to prepare for the half marathon that I am running at the end of the month. I started off doing Insanity and fitness classes at the gym because the weather was not nice enough to go outside and run. There was still snow on the ground until the first couple days of May, which is ridiculous. I was finally able to get outside and run properly, I did do a few runs before, but I was having to dodge the puddles and ice all the time. I have been running four days per week for the last two weeks and next week I will be running five days as it will be my last week of training before the race. The final week before the race I will be focusing on core and stretching to relax my body and prepare it for the race. I have actually been feeling really good about my running this past week. My times have improved and I am still hopeful about my goal of completing the half marathon in 2:10:00 or less. I know my runs are not the fastest that I have ever had, but with the limited amount of running I have been doing lately I think I am doing pretty good. My room mate has been having troubles with his training lately because his calves have been super tight. He has tried a lot of things to loosen them up, but the race is fast approaching and he is running out of time to get some serious training in. Another friend of mine who is joining us in the half marathon has not been training at all. When he first signed up for the race, he sent me a text message asking me how long a half marathon was, after he had already signed up for it. He has not been running at all and I am not really certain how good he is going to do in the race. This summer I will also be competing in a mud run, this one is called the Dirty Donkey Mud Run. This run is a 5km obstacle course in the mud and I think it will be pretty fun to do. There are a couple guys from work who are going to join me in the mud run as well. We all had already singed up before we talked about it or we might have all signed up as a team. I will also be doing my third round of P90X this summer and I am hoping to get fantastic results from it, all I need to do is really focus on my diet and I should do great.

Work Issues and Running

So this past week has been pretty interesting at work. On Thursday I found out that I was moving to the Feed Plant with that position that I applied for a few weeks ago. I will be heading over there on May 8th. It will be nice to have a Monday to Friday job for once, but I am not quite sure how long I will be working their because of all the things I have heard about that place. I figured I would give it a shot because if I do not like the place I am allowed to just go back to my current position and it will be like nothing changed. My supervisor wanted to keep me for a couple weeks before I moved because right now we are in the middle of  a big tire sale and they need all the help they can get. T he tires are going out pretty fast this week and there are times where I am sweating from moving all the tires. When they told me that I got the position, they also had me book my holidays, because my supervisor is convinced that I will not like it at the Feed Plant and I will be coming back shortly. We also got paid this past Friday and I found out that my paycheque is still not fixed from about six or so months ago. I even got a letter a month ago saying that everything was fixed effective February 17th, 2013. I really do not understand how it is not fixed by now, somebody in payroll needs to be talked to and possibly monitored.

I started my running training yesterday even though we still have a few feet of snow on the ground. I had an 8 week scheduled planned out for a while now and I told myself that I would follow through with it no many what the conditions. I had to run around snow, mud and puddles. Training this year is going to be interesting because we got a lot of snow this year and the streets are going to be pretty wet when it all melts. I am thinking that next year I might get a membership to the track at the University so that I can do my training all winter instead of just two months before the race. I am also thinking of doing a second Half-marathon this year, there is one called the Mogathon in late September. I can use all summer to train for that one while I also do my third round of P90X.

Nutrition Blog?

So I was thinking of starting a weekly themed Blog. I want to do a nutrition style blog every week, giving tips, what's new and maybe even some vitamins and minerals. I was thinking of going over what each vitamin/mineral does, where you get it from and why you should get it in your diet. I know I don't get that many views yet, but for those of you who actual read these let me know what you think of this idea. I will most likely do it anyways, but if you like the idea, I might put more effort into it. Let me know what you think and even give me some topics to talk about.