Zombie 5k Week Three

See My Experience with All The Weeks Here:




I need to figure out how to use google voice to record my thoughts on my drive home, and convert them to text.  I'm working on that.  It's so insanely busy around here, getting ready for football season, and our sons wedding, I am not making the time to write down my thoughts after a work out as frequently as I would like.  
I don't know what is up with the pace?
Using a calculator, I come up with 18.50 a mile.  Better than week two!

44.33 divided by 2.31 is 19.28 - not 23.26?  
I'm not sure why the pace is not calculating correctly.  Unless that's my pace when I hit stop mission?

Overall, I am truly loving this program.  So much.  
I don't like to pay for apps.  I paid $1.99 for this one, and honestly, it is worth so much more.  This is like a $10 app.  Really.  It's worth it.


Two and 1/4 miles in 43 minutes?  I walk faster than that.  It is frustrating for me - last year I was jogging this entire path, this year I can't even jog full sections of the exact same path.  Mostly I am having trouble breathing, but today my muscles hurt too.  I'm starting to think I should start the program over.  I feel like i"m just to the point of fitness where if I did this again now I could maybe do it "right"?  I worry that I walk WAY too much of the free run portions.  I'm feeling certain that at the end of eight weeks there is no way I will be running 3 miles.

But every step in this program is so much better than nothing at all - even if I don't do it well enough, at least I'm trying.  I can always start again once I finish it.  I won't give up - but I do hope I can do better.

Compared to the C25K Program:
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then do two repetitions of the following:
  • Jog 200 yards (or 90 seconds)
  • Walk 200 yards (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 400 yards (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 400 yards (or three minutes)
(at this point, I don't think I could complete the training above.)


Week Three
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight

Zombie 5k Week Two

See My Experience with All The Weeks Here:

Week Two
Week 2 of Zombie5k adds heel lifts after 30 second runs. 

Roughly 1.9 miles today. 




I'm really loving this program.
After this run, I was walking back into the house and dropped my phone, shattering the screen.  It broke before this run synced so I am glad I had uploaded this pic to facebook before I drove home.  However, this run is now not marked as complete on my new phone - that will drive me nuts, and I'm likely to go back and redo it.


Notice my distances are shorter and shorter..  partly due to the very high humidity, but also because the longer I "run" the slower my overall time.  


We missed one of our regular work out days, because of schedule issues, and then major storms in our area.  I'm off schedule, and it makes me a little nuts.

Had a rough time this morning. Forgot my inhaler. Super humid. But loved the "extras" in the story today - it stays interesting. I wasn't prepared for the extra long run at the end though- I thought my phone had stopped working.  


I don't always catch what they are giving me at the end of the broadcasts.  Probably in part because I'm breathing so hard it's hard to hear anything.  :-)  It's nice that a picture of the gift is shown on the board when the workout is complete.  It's the little details like that that make me REALLY love this program.  Although I'm still not exactly sure what the point is in collecting all of this stuff..  maybe after I listen to the intro that I missed at the beginning, that will make a bit more sense?

Missed another work out day.  This means I am now TWO work outs behind, & when I switched to a temporary phone while my phone was broken, I forgot to sync the app before I switched back to my new phone.  So I'm 2 work outs behind, and my phone shows another 2 as incomplete.  I'm torn between doing this every day to catch up, and just starting over... 





I'm really worried that I am not working quite hard enough.  I'm pretty sure the Zombie would have gotten me.  In the free runs, I am mostly walking.

Compared To The C25K Program:

Brisk five-minute warmup walk. 
Then alternate 90 seconds of jogging and two minutes of walking for a total of 20 minutes.



Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight

Zombie 5k Week One

See My Experience with All The Weeks Here:

Week One

First morning running the zombie 5 k training.  It's  a lot different  than the coutch to 5k. I'm liking it.  You walk for 1 minute run for 15 seconds.  It doesn't sound like much, but it's harder than I expected. When it was over, I felt really good.  I don't love running, but I love the way I feel when I at least attempt running regularly.

The story line is minor - it doesn't interfere much, and it plays your playlist between talks.  It might all make more sense if you watch The Walking Dead, but that's just a guess.  I tried two episodes of that show and would rather be eaten by zombies, or run, than sit through another.  Zombies are really not my thing.  Even so, this is interesting, simply in that it is different.  I've done the c25k so many times, I was ready for something different.
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I used the accelometer, Dan used the GPS mode.  His recorded that he went 2.18 miles.  Mine says 6km - over 3 miles.   We weren't together the whole time, but I'm pretty certain his is closer to correct.  I switched mine to gps/miles for next time.  (The horses were out when I got up this morning,  so I was running late & didn't have time to look at the app settings before I left.)


Compared To The C25K Program:
Brisk five-minute warmup walk.
 Then alternate 60 seconds of jogging and 90 seconds of walking for a total of 20 minutes.



Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight

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Making Mountain Pies

Mountain Pies are typically two pieces of white bread, buttered, with filling between them, cooked over a campfire, in a mountain pie maker.

Popular combinations are:
Pizza - pizza sauce, pepperoni, cheese
Pie - Any pie filling (some like cheese with their apple pie filling)
Smores - Marshmallow & chocolate.

But you can really put just about anything in a Mountain Pie.
Tonight we did Chocolate Raspberry, & Bruschetta & Cheese - both using crescent dough in place of the white bread

Crescent Dough, Raspberries, a marshmallow cut in half, an some chocolate.

Crescent dough, bruschetta, cheese, dried oregano & basil


On the fire

They probably should have cooked for another minute or two.  They were good, but they could have been better...

Raspberry on the left, bruschetta on the right



What I'm Reading - Wednesday July 16 2014


What I Am Currently Reading:


What  I Recently Finished Reading:


While this is my favorite type of book - historical references, switching between current day and the past, with a light mystery in the plot..  I just did not really enjoy this particular book.
(I also finished Invisible by James Patterson, and I loved that one!)

What I Think I Might Read Next:

I just loaded my aldiko bookshelf with every book I have that has the word "summer" in the title.  Some of them I read a few pages of and deleted without finishing.  I think I'll probably try Summers Child by Diane Chamberlain next.  




To Play along, just go to:
And answer these questions:

• What are you currently reading?

• What did you recently finish reading?

• What do you think you’ll read next?


Geocaching Challenge - I Cache Therefor I Hike (50 miles)

GC2T4BH  - I Cache, Therefore I Hike! (milestone challenge)




Log 50 miles of hiking to caches

" In your log entry, list the hike(s) or geoaching series you did to complete this milestone.  You do not need to list every GC Number in a series, but include at least one to help promote the series.  Example:  Bear Valley Hiking Series (12 miles) GC39KTD, LOST C&D Rails to Trails (18 Miles) GC33GF7, Hawk Mountain Hike (10 miles) GC16FMB, etc."

Datruck's Crew - Progress
1 mile GC3YD6X Area 51
.5 mile GC2VG9W S J Fire Tower
1.5 Miles Raiders of the Lost Cache and others in Governor Dick GC2NH2H
1 mile GCHVPC  Goosepond (gamelands)
1 mile GCGB2Q Top Of 1,000 steps Bear Paw Trail
1 mile - GC61D Fern Rock
1 mile - GCQ7Z4 Boulder Field
1.5 mile GC13AMQ Watkins Glen Gorge Trail
2 miles GCHVNE Guts (Gamelands)
2 miles GC2BBBB 3 night caches with an event
3 miles GCVYT0 Loop De Loop (Montour Preserve)
3 miles (at least) for the Geoaddiction Series GC12B39  (LOVED this series)
3.5 mile loop GCXG5E Danville Rail To Trail Series
3 miles (roughly) GCWWY9 for the two RB Winter Caches
4 miles GC1VG89 Lake Makoma Conservancy
5 Miles GC9C61 Ricketts Glen Falls Trail
5 Miles GC134XM Ryder Park Trails
7 Miles GCNYNV Worlds End State Park Caches
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46 Miles

Geocaching Challenge - The Top 10 Favorites In PA

GC3T620 - CTJ: PA 'Favorites' Challenge Adventure 


The challenge with this cache is that the favorites change from week to week.  :-)  "The list changes from week to week as more cachers award their 'favorite' points. Find and log the 10 most 'favorite' caches in PA and you are ready to snag this bonus smiley."



You have found 5 of the top 10
Missing caches are in red

The checkers can only check the current toplist.
If you were fulfilled it when you logged it in the past you might get a does not today.
Your log may have been correct but it cant be checked by this checker
On some challenges you when you accept it make a list and compare to that list. If you have done it you might fulfill the logging requirements right now but the checker can´t know that.
It is like if you make a new list right now. That is accepted on most challenges.
Please check the cache listing for the rules.

#gccodeVisitdateName
1GC2HN2H5082015-07-05Raiders of the Lost Cache
2GC184355State Game Lands #109
3GCJ8M8348Auto Art
4GC424129850 State Traveler
5GC14YRW284The Devil's Den
6GC59AF280Thousand Steps Cache
7GCA2502482006-09-14Peace at Gettysburg
8GCKA5M2212006-09-14Unsettled Spirit
9GC88082212006-09-14High On Longstreet
10GC161PZ210Little Round Top

We Need To Find:

State Game Lands 109 is near Erie Pa, 4 hours away

Auto Art - 
    We've been to this cache, I have photos of it and remember our kids loved it...  not sure why it is not logged by us.  Need to fix this!

50 State Traveler - This is a traveling cache.  Ugh.
    This little buggy (bugger?) Is on a whirlwind tour of the 50 states. Along the way he would like to pick up some souvenirs. Please help him on his way from state to state & allow him to hold onto his trophies. Cache is a White PVC section w/a TB Tag # engraved on the outside. Here is my combo Travel Bug/Traveling Cache. Please go to:this link - the TB.

The Devils Den - Gettysburg
     Check, we pobably already did this one. I'm terrible at logging earthcaches

Thousand Steps Cache- 2 hours southwest of us
      Be sure to get a cache in Mifflin County for the counties challenge on the way through

Little Round Top - Gettysburg


Bumped from the list - 
Centralia, The Burning Town 190 Favorites

Finding The Final - 

Looking at a map, the final will be about an hour and 45 minutes away from us, and is located slightly northwest of Reading PA.

On The Grill This Summer


I decided to concentrate on new recipe for the grill this summer.  So far, these are our favorites:

Main Dishes:
  Best Pork Chops
Marinade:
 1/3 c soy sauce
 1/4 oil
 3 T Lemon Pepper seasoning
 A little garlic 
 1/2 cup of water

Mix together, add pork chops.  Let marinate, then grill. 
  


Bacon, Chicken, Pineapple Kabobs
  



Sides:


My Day In Pictures


#mydayinpics 9am 6159 steps so far. #fitbit


#farmlife Push mower is broken, so I'm mowing the backyard like the Amish.  Loaded Betsy up to go to auction.   #mydayinpics 10am 8417 #fitbit steps 4th load of laundry


Laundry. Finished the hand mowing. Laundry. Finished the detergent. laundry. Started weed whacking. Laundry. #mydayinpics 11th 9919 #fitbit steps

#mydayinpics 12pm. Cleaned the car. Wow. It was bad. 10808 #fitbit steps

#mydayinpics errands.


#mydayinpics #farmlife livestock auction, bought a goat. Introduced him to the others. Took pics of Maggies babies.


#mydayinpics 9pm.  Fed the boys when they came in from baling hay.  Sorted ALL of those socks.  Ironed the spots out of the table.  Watched the sunset. Folded more laundry.

My Solar Light Obsession.  I like to sit out here at night and read a bit before bed.




On The Farm 6/20/2014

Monday we sold Betsy at the Dewart Livestock Auction.  I hate doing that.  But practically, I cannot keep cows as pets.  Unless they can have babies.  I came home with a little billy goat, whom our son named Norbert.  I'm not a fan of the name, but it appears to be sticking...  We plan to seperate the goats this fall, splitting the goat pen in half and moving the baby girls born here this year to the back with Norbert, keeping the older girls, who are not related to Horton, with him to be bred.


Tuesday I went to the Middleburg Livestock Auction and bought some poultry:
They are all doing really well - I'm rather amazed.  

For the first time all month, there are 3 days in the forecast with no rain.  So the plan is to bale hay on Monday..  we're fervently praying it really does NOT rain this week-end!





C25k Training With Zombie 5k


Disclaimer - I'm not a Zombie Junkie. Zombies really have no interest at all for me.  I'm not a Walking Dead Fan.  What I am is easily bored, and easily entertained.  This app makes running less boring.  It's a couch to 5k program, combining walking and running, working up to running a full 5k.  It's done to a story, but the story is intermittent - it will break into your playlist (or audiobook) to set the scene and tell you to run, or walk, or do some lunges... and then it will return to your playlist.  It's something different.

Then, once you complete this, there is a second app - Zombies Run. It's broken into seasons, with story lines you run to at your own pace.  Just like the 5k app, it breaks into your playlist at times to move the story along, but there are no cues for walking or running - merely some for speeding up if zombies are near.

Full confession - when I heard there was a Zombies Season 2 - I was excited for a new couch to 5k story line.   But most people do not redo a couch to 5k every spring and fall of every year.  Most people work up to running a 5k and then just run.  Huh.  Interesting concept.  LOL!    So  "season 2" (I missed the season 1 announcement, and now they are at season 6 I believe...) is simply a story line, not a run/walk coaching program.  

Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight

2019  Update - I have finished this program, at least twice.  What I have not done is finish blogging about it.  Since I appear to be addicted to couch to 5k programs, perhaps I'll do this one again this year...  It will be interesting to compare how I do at this age, versus how I did at a younger age...

About Me:
I'm a 41 (in 2014) year old farm wife in central PA.  I'm really overweight.  REALLY overweight.  
I have exercise induced asthma, and I too often forget to use my inhaler before I start out, and I never carry it with me.  I need to carry it with me.   (HA!  It wasn't asthma.  It was critically low iron. And it got so bad that I could barely walk up a hill, let alone run, for a couple of years.  All fixed now.)
I've done the C25k plan numerous times.  I've never been able to really run a 5k at the end of the program, ever.  
  I've jogged two 5ks.  I finished before they stopped timing, but just barely ahead of the walkers, both times.
Each Spring it's like completely starting over.  Last year I could jog the entire Canal path at just under 13 minutes a mile.  This year I can barely jog 10 feet when I started this program.
I use an android phone - a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (I've stuck with the brand - using a Note 9 now!) - to run this app.
I also run the Charity Miles app at the same time.  Check it out - it contributes 25 cents a mile for every mile you run or walk, and 10 cents a mile for every mile you bike, to your choice of charities.  I donate to Wounded Warriors.

I completely missed this - I found it at the end of week 2.  There is a background story, you should listen to it while going for a walk/jog before beginning this program.  



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