California July 2009...Goal: recover from the house disaster

We went to California in July this year. Had a great time. Here are a few pictures I put together in a collage to test it out. The picture of us was taken one day when we stopped along the coast of the PCH and snapped a self portrait. It has become our favorite. It represents our future goals of living near the beach. While we were there we ate at Bubba Gump's restaurant in Santa Monica. I had a great shrimp meal. During the weekend the US Open was happening at Huntington Beach so we stopped at Newport beach instead where I was able to capture a great picture of the record breaking waves that were happening that weekend. We stopped at all the little beaches along the PCH. I snapped a picture of Mariner's mile.

Half Marathon Week 2 - Update

Week 2 was a total bust, we're human and it sucks sometime. Only one workout was completed. However we repeated week 2, and below are the stats. Last week and this week together made one good week. I don't think it's supposed to work like that.

OMG we actually finished our first real long walk. We went at night, it was hot and it seemed to go on forever but an hour and 30 minutes isn't bad for 5 miles! Next week is 6 on Sunday.

Week 2 (repeated)- Total 14 miles
Monday - Rest
Tuesday - 3 miles (missed - lazy)
Wednesday - Rest
Thursday - 3 miles (completed 53:49/avg 3.38 mph/3.03 miles)
Friday - Rest
Saturday - 3 miles (completed 52:24/avg 3.46 mph/3.02 miles)
Sunday - 5 miles (completed 1:30:03/avg 3.37 mph/5.05 miles)

Week 2 (original) - Total 14 miles
Monday - Rest
Tuesday - 3 miles (completed 59:59/avg 3.12 mph/3.12 miles)
Wednesday - Rest
Thursday - 3 miles (missed - lazy)
Friday - Rest
Saturday - 3 miles (missed - lazy)
Sunday - 5 miles (missed - lazy)

Half Marathon Week 1 Update

We completed week 1 of training. We actually went a total of 10 miles not 13 because we missed Thursday's training session. Saturday and Sunday were tough because neither of us are morning exercisers but we made it through. After Sunday's walk I have huge blisters on the back of my heels which are almost healed in time for tonight's walk (Week 2 covered in next post). Wish us luck this week in completing week 2!

Week 1 - Total 13 miles
Monday - Rest
Tuesday - 3 miles (completed in 56:25/avg 3.23 mph/3.03 miles)
Wednesday - Rest
Thursday - 3 miles (missed due to scheduling conflict)
Friday - Rest
Saturday - 3 miles (completed in 52:46/avg 3.12 mph/2.74 miles) lost data due to texting :(
Sunday - 4 miles (completed in 1:17:13/avg 3.21 mph/4.13 miles)

Slight disturbance

Today we completed our 2nd training session for the half marathon. During the run I ended up texting with a friend so the map my run program on my phone lost about 5-6 minutes worth of data. We walked the exact same path today as the first day so I know we probably kept up around the same pace. It was hot, and a little difficult to get out the door this morning since we stayed up so late but we did it and got it out of the way. Hooray for us! We missed Thursday's workout due to scheduling conflict but we're going to try our hardest to stay on track. Tomorrow we will do our first long walk. Afterwards I will post the weekly stats.

The Myers are training for a half marathon...follow our progress!

Today was the first day of training for the PF Chang's half marathon. We tried last year and let the trainer talk us into trying to run it. Very quickly we became discouraged at the daunting task and we dropped out. This year we decided to do it at our pace (Walking). We will be walking 13-24 miles each week. I will be updating on Sunday's after our long walk. I was able to track all of our stats using iMapMyRun app on the iPhone and also MapMyRun.com. Show us your support by leaving a comment if you like!

Week 1 - Total 13 miles
Monday - Rest
Tuesday - 3 miles (completed 56:25/avg 3.23 mph)
Wednesday Rest
Thursday - 3 miles
Friday - Rest
Saturday - 3 miles
Sunday - 4 miles