2013 Update!!!

YIKES!!!! I have NOT written a blog for soooo long now....I guess work has been really busy and picking up since then. (Because most of my blogs I wrote at work when I had TONS of time doing nothing.) And now I'm at home on a Friday night writing this, lol.

Well...I guess a quick update. May 19th 2013 was the 2013 Cellcom Half Marathon! I did great and better then expected. I also ran it nonstop, besides my bathroom breaks. My time was 1:58:15 and I was sooo happy when I found that out. I remember crossing the finish line and looking up at the time and it said 2:02:20ish....I felt so disappointed and upset with myself...just an overwhelming feeling of disappointment, because my goal was to get under 2 hours. After I finished, I just went home feeling like I let myself down....It sucked, like really really sucked. Then I forgot that we have chip times, lol. Good thing Yupper texted me and told me that I did complete it under 2 hours. All my disappointment and sadness cleared up and I felt so happy and accomplished. Mostly when I didn't dedicate or train as hard as I usually do for long runs. But I DID it!!! It's a PR (Personal Record) for me and I plan to beat it! Ughhh, and if I didn't take those 3 bathroom breaks, I could've cut down 10 minutes or so. Next time ey Danny...next time..



Last weekend on June 2nd 2013 was my 1st Triathlon! The Green Bay Aurora BarCare Triathlon. I was so stoked and excited about this event! It was 1/4 mile swim, 15 mile bike and 3 mile run. I've been training pretty hard for this and I always dreamed about doing a triathlon...and so I did it! Well, first thing I found out. Be ready for anything and no matter how much you practice swimming (and I practiced, trained and swam quite a bit for this event), CONTROL your breathing and stay calm. The weather was very very cold, as was the water. During the swim I thought I started fine, then all of a sudden I started hyperventilating. There were swimmers all around, just cluttered everywhere and everyone has the same goal. I lost control of my breathing, psyched myself out and panicked a bit. Half way I had to rest for a good 1-2 minutes to catch my breath and gather my emotions back, then continued on. Finally completed the swim in 11 minutes. Next comes the biking. Now you would think this is the easiest part...think again. Again, it was very cold and windy...so it wasn't the best day to bike. My hands, legs and feet all went numb and it honestly felt like my legs fell off. I completed the bike portion in 1 hour and 3 minutes. After the bike, my legs were shot and felt like jello. This wasn't the most exciting run I've had, but I've had worse. I also thought the running portion would be easy...but after biking so hard for 15 miles, it was painful to take every step. I completed the run portion in 29 minutes and 54 seconds. So about a 10 mile pace...I guess that's not too bad after a swim and bike ride. Finally finished it in 1:51:30!!! I had the biggest smile on my face and loved the feeling of accomplishing it. It was a great way to start my morning! And the feeling is very very addictive...This is my HIGH....

I LOVE the challenge and how much someone can accomplish with a little bit of hope and believing in ourselves. I challenge myself everyday and will continue to do so....The moment you fail, is the moment you tell yourself that you CANNOT do it....and I challenge that and love proving myself wrong.

Then tomorrow is the 2013 Bellin run and I look forward to it!


 

Tough Mudder Challenge!!!!

It has been awhile since I posted, due to work picking up or I'm just getting lazy with writing, LOL.

Back on July 23rd, me, Eazy and Powder completed the Tough Mudder Challenge!!!! (Can't you hear the crowd cheering?!.......cricket. . .  .) Wow! I must say that it was exactly what I thought it was. Fricken extreme and intense, but super FUN!!! There were so much people and the crowd was phenomenal. I ran the event in my spandex black Spider Man costume with Batman undies, it was pretty pimp.

Tough Mudder was held at Devils Head resort, which is a hilly ski resort about 30 minutes away from Wisconsin Dells. We started the run down a very steep ski hill, then run right back up. It was funny because Powder cramped up and it was only the beginning too, haha. We completed the run in over 4 hours, but could've completed it in a shorter time, but we walked a lot of it because as a team, we waited for Powder.

Overall, it was a great experience and knowing you completed it, I am a Tough Mudder!!!

2011 Bellin Run

Completed the Bellin Run last Saturday, June 11th. As usual, it was a great run and great environment! 18,701 registered runners showed up and that is a great amount of runners.

The night before I couldn't sleep, due to people texting me while I was trying to sleep and it was getting annoying. I woke up at 5:00AM, before sunrise, ate breakfast, took a nice hot shower and stretched. At the last minute my brother Jimmy texted me to pick up my nephew Ken, because he also registered and wanted to run. So I decided to run with Ken and run at his pace. I didn't really care about my time, as long as Ken completed it and had a good time.

The run started out great and I didn't feel no knee pain...yet. Ken did great and almost ran 4 miles non stop! But we had to take a bathroom brake and Ken's feet was hurting. It was funny how he thought it was only 2 miles and kept asking if we were finished yet. He was tired but kept trucking along and much props to him on his first Bellin run. He said it was the most difficult thing he's ever done and he doesn't want to do it again. LOL.

We both finished in 1:12:44 with a 11:43 mile pace. Not bad for a 10 year old!

2011 Cellcom Marathon completed

My time - http://results.cellcomgreenbaymarathon.com/index.php?year=2011&disp=finalsplits&bib=1313

Completed the Cellcom Marathon!!! I was so happy and stoked to complete it, except the only downfall is, I honestly feel I didn't do as great as I should have. I completed it in 05:56:48 with a pace of 13:31, ughhhh.....I know I should be proud of myself and I really am, but deep down inside, I don't feel satisfied with my time and I dont feel it's good enough. Maybe I'm just being hard on myself because I expected more....hmmmm

The run was great though. I woke up at 4:45am, sat in the tub with warm/hot water to loosen up my muscles, ate breakfast and stretched. The weather was really windy and chilly and it sure wasn't the best weather condition to run in, but oh well. I felt amped and really good during the first half of the run, but once I hit mile 15-16, my right knee and both my thighs started giving out. I couldn't understand why, because on all my long distance practice runs, I felt great. The pain was intense and felt like a throbbing stabbing pain, so I had to walk a lot of the second half and I was so disappointed. At around miles 20-24, the thought of giving up crossed my mind a couple of times because the leg pain kept getting worse and stretching and walking weren't helping either. I did my best to mentally block out the pain and kept pushing through. Also remembering and telling myself why I'm running the full marathon in the first place helped as well. It was also quite amazing watching the bigger, heavier runners pass me up, LOL. They're fricken machines!

Right when I got to the De Pere bridge, this very nice old lady named Gail was chatting with me. She was from Miami, FL and was running for a little girl that was diagnose with cancer. I thought that was very nice and sweet of her to fly all the way to Green Bay, with the terrible weather and run for a great cause. I love meeting people like her that are making a cause and difference to someones life. It makes Life so much more worth it when there's a reason behind it all. There was one thing Gail told me that I'll remember and she said "Don't compare yourself to the runner in front of you, but compare yourself to the person sitting on the couch."...haha, I thought that was very interesting.

So, they say mile 20 is called "The Wall"...hahaha, I could honestly see why. Most of the runners around me were either in as much pain as I was or were gassing, but they all kept trucking! I wasn't fatigued at all, neither was I gassed. Just my legs were jello and throbbing in pain.

I finally made it to Lambeau Field and I could see and feel the finish line. Running the tunnel and into Lambeau field was really cool and Lambeau field looks so much bigger when you're down on the field. After passing around the whole field, I sprinted as fast as I could to the finish line and all I felt was relief and accomplishment. After that, I was looking for the beer tent, so I could slam a beer. I don't drink beer at all, but I sure as hell deserved one, except I couldn't find the tent. But I did find the massage tent and got me a massage. That felt so good and if I had money on me, I would've tipped her. LOL

My sister Jamie, Ann, Ken and Makayla were at the finish line to pick me up. Thank god for them because my legs were shot.

This was the most intense pain I put my body (mainly legs) through and it was way well worth it! I had a blast running it and I can't wait to do it again for The Cellcom 2012! Except next time, I'm killing my 2011 time!

99 MILES!!!!!

HOLY SKITTY!!! This article is soooo fricken crazy, or should I say this guy, Sam Robson, is crazy. Dude completed a full marathon, then ran an extra 99 miles back home. Wow! Talk about determination.



LOL...he shit himself!

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Man-runs-99-miles-home-after-completing-London-M?urn=oly-wp125

Article:

Sam Robson did what most people do after completing a marathon: He went home and fell asleep. Except rather than drive to his house, 99 miles away from the finish line of the London Marathon, Robson ran back. All the way.
The 28-year-old from Central England finished Sunday's official race in 3 hours and 45 minutes before starting on the 99-mile second leg. He arrived to his home in St. Ives Cambs about 25 hours later, greeted by a cheering crowd. In total, he ran 125 miles in 29 hours, a pace of around 13 minutes per mile.
That number sounds insane, but it's even more mind-boggling if you really think about it. Think back to what you were doing five hours ago yesterday. Now imagine you've been running since then. I don't know if most people could stay awake that long, let alone do anything remotely physical.
Robson, a medical researcher, completed the super-marathon to raise money for the UK Epilepsy Society. In all, he raised a little more than $5,000 for the charity. Robson has suffered from the condition since he was a teenager.
He told reporters that the running itself was easy, but staying up, keeping hydrated and ingesting calories (to make up for the 15,000 he burned) was the hard part.

"I had to have regular breaks to refill my water and whenever I stopped my legs seized up so I couldn't rest for long. In terms of tiredness, my legs felt pretty good and the worst bit was I had to keep eating to replace all the calories I was burning.

One day after his mega-run, Robson said he was doing fine except for some soreness. That's to be expected. It wasn't just his first 99-mile run, it was his first marathon tooSam Robson did what most people do after completing a marathon: He went home and fell asleep. Except rather than drive to his house, 99 miles away from the finish line of the London Marathon, Robson ran back. All the way.
The 28-year-old from Central England finished Sunday's official race in 3 hours and 45 minutes before starting on the 99-mile second leg. He arrived to his home in St. Ives Cambs about 25 hours later, greeted by a cheering crowd. In total, he ran 125 miles in 29 hours, a pace of around 13 minutes per mile.
That number sounds insane, but it's even more mind-boggling if you really think about it. Think back to what you were doing five hours ago yesterday. Now imagine you've been running since then. I don't know if most people could stay awake that long, let alone do anything remotely physical.
Robson, a medical researcher, completed the super-marathon to raise money for the UK Epilepsy Society. In all, he raised a little more than $5,000 for the charity. Robson has suffered from the condition since he was a teenager.
He told reporters that the running itself was easy, but staying up, keeping hydrated and ingesting calories (to make up for the 15,000 he burned) was the hard part.

"I had to have regular breaks to refill my water and whenever I stopped my legs seized up so I couldn't rest for long. In terms of tiredness, my legs felt pretty good and the worst bit was I had to keep eating to replace all the calories I was burning.

One day after his mega-run, Robson said he was doing fine except for some soreness. That's to be expected. It wasn't just his first 99-mile run, it was his first marathon too

Injury...MCL sprain?

Holy f*ck!!!! My right knees been hurting for 2 days now. This is the worst pain I've felt in my knees and my right knee is my good knee too. It started flaring up after a weekend jog on the Fox River trails, WTH?!

So I've been reading about knee injuries and symptoms, it seems to match more of a MCL sprain, which is the inner part of the knee. It hurts when I'm walking, bending it and twisting it. I'm walking like a gimp with my right foot straight. This f*cking sucks and my run is coming up in a couple of weeks too. Please, please, please heal by then!!!

Inspirational Record!!!

Kudos and my hats off to Kelly Gneiting! This article is truly inspirational and amazing! It defines the guts and glory, determination, drive, unwillingness to give up, and heart.

Oh...Epic!!!

Article:

The heaviest person to ever complete a marathon weighed 275 pounds. Add that weight plus the total weight of a great long-distance runner (about 120 pounds) and you'll get Kelly Gneiting.
Gneiting, a three-time U.S. sumo champion, tipped the scales at 400 pounds when he began this weekend's Los Angeles Marathon. Nine hours, 48 minutes, 52 seconds later he crossed the finish line and set the Guinness World Record for being the heaviest person to ever complete the 26.2-mile race.

The 400-pound American jogged the first eight miles of the race and walked the last 18, often stopping at intersections and stoplights because he was well behind the 13-minute-per-mile pace set by race organizers. He says he became delirious after mile 10 and only realized he hit the 15-mile mark when a friend gave him a clean pair of socks.

"I was really struggling in the last five miles," he said to the Los Angeles Times, "but I said to myself, 'If I have to crawl, I will.'"

When he finally finished, he had set the weight world record and a personal best by over two hours. "I'd like to see the Kenyan improve his marathon time by two hours," he joked.

Gneiting weighed 200 pounds in college but says he packed on the weight after getting married. He became a sumo wrestler 11 years ago and won his first national title four years later. Despite his weight, Gneiting says he's still fit and wants to prove it by competing in other competitions. Next up? Swimming the English Channel.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Sumo-wrestler-becomes-heaviest-man-to-ever-finis?urn=oly-wp14