Zombie 5k Week Five

See My Experience with All The Weeks Here:


Day One

PROGRESS!!!
I jogged the entire first 5 minute free run.  And I did 2 minutes and 3 minutes respectively in the first 15 minute free run, followed by a full five minutes again in the last 15 minute free run.

I know it's not really enough at this stage, but it's major progress for me.

But oh my - those first heel lifts about killed me.  And it didn't get much better by the last set - they HURT today!

I did a full 3 miles today too.  My time wasn't great -- but keep in mind that there is 5 minutes of stretching in the middle here... not that that makes it look much better, but it's something.  :-)


Compared To the C25k Plan:
Day One
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
Walk 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)

Day Two
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
Jog 3/4 mile (or 8 minutes)
Walk 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
Jog 3/4 mile (or 8 minutes)

Day Three
Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then jog two miles (or 20 minutes) with no walking.


Week Four
Week Five
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight

Quick & Easy Calzones


The secret to a good calzone?  Don't skimp on the cheese - and make sure one of the cheeses is Provolone.

Preheat your oven to 375. 

Mix up a batch of pizza dough.
Ingredients
1 cup warm  water
1 (2 1/4 teaspoons) envelope active dry yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
(I mix the above 3 together in a measuring cup)
1 tablespoon plus 1 1/2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 cups  flour
1 teaspoon salt

Add all of the above ingredients to a kitchen aid mixing bowl, mix together, then use the bread hook and let the kitchen aid run for a few minutes.  Or, optionally, mix by hand and knead.


Let it rise for a few minutes - but it does not need to be a full rise.

Roll into a rectangle (you can get two out of this recipe, it depends on how large you want to make them) and top with ham, pepperoni, & cheese (I use mozarella & provolone)
You can add others too - suggestions include mushrooms, onions, peppers, sausage...
Sprinkle with italian seasoning & sea salt

Fold in half, shape slightly into a crescent.  Seal the edges using the flat side of a knife, or a fork.
Slice vents in the top
Sprinkle the top with more coarse sea salt & italian seasonings
Bake.

I make two of these most friday nights all fall and winter.  I like to dip strips into sauce, but the boys like theirs plain, as is.

Because I make these so frequently, I get the ingredients in bulk and freeze them.


5.5 lbs of provolone is about $15 at Sam's club.
I bring it home, and chop it roughly with a large knife into 6 or 8 pieces.  
Place those pieces into a ziplock bag, and freeze - it will last for months

I do not like preshredded cheeses normally (they have an additive to keep them from clumping, which keeps them from melting as well) but this one is decent, and it's the cheapest option, and I keep it in the freezer.  $13.50 for 5lbs. 

This bag of pepperoni will last for months in the freezer.  It's around $10 at Sams's Club.

This is my favorite ham for calzones
Cut the packages in half, and put one in the freezer for later.
One package will easily make 2 calzones
This two pack is around $6 at Sam's Club


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Zombie 5k Week Four

See My Experience with All The Weeks Here:


This week takes more time - plan accordingly!  With the C25k workouts were all about the same length - around 30 minutes.  With Zombie 5k, you need to leave yourself about an hour for some of the work outs.  47 minutes for today.

The walking surprised me, as well as only 30 second run drills.  I'm not complaining - I don't know that I could do much more than this at this point, and I'm certainly not running the entire 15 minutes - not even half of that - at the end.  The two sets of drills do make this work out feel a lot longer, and it IS longer, but it's still not tedious.  I love this format.

It's amazing how difficult the walk fast drills are.  I'm using different muscles when doing this, and I'm feeling it.

Adding knee lifts, instead of heel lifts, this week:


Check out the temperature!  61 degrees in July.  I love it.
Pace is 18.3 by math, I still don't know how the pace is figured in this app.

Day One
Loving the lower temps and lack of real humidity this week.
But I need to carry my inhaler with me.
Today I had some blurred vision, light headedness...  I kept hearing the voice from the WiiFit - "Don't hold your breath, or you may raise your blood pressure".  I think that is what was happening.  I wasn't holding my breath, but I wasn't getting enough oxygen - I was wheezing like mad and having a lot of trouble getting air into my lungs.
I've been thinking I may need to make an appointment and see about a different prescription?  I have used this same brand inhaler for  a couple of years, maybe it's less effective?  Or maybe if I carried it with me and used it along the way....  I know, I know, it's just a pain to carry things!
  

Day Two
I did it!  I "run" the same path almost all of the time.  I have for a few years now.  In my head, I have the path broken into sections.  Today, for the first time, I jogged an entire section.  It's been a goal for me, but I just have not been able to do it until this morning.  This is a super short section.  I'm guessing it's about 1/5 of a mile.  Less than 1/4 of a mile.  But I did it.  The humidity is MUCH lower, and the temps are also lower, which help.

I still walked most of the free run session, but I jogged a bit at least, at the end.  I try to jog at least one full song, and then the chorus of any other songs that play, in this last 15 minutes.  For the first 3 minutes today though, I walked to catch my breath from the 30 second run drills.  

Today the program takes you out with Sam for the first part.  My husband is doing this program with me, but he's usually following me on the path, not where I am watching him.  Today when Sam was making fun of the knee lifts, Dan was laughing out loud..  and then for the last set I could see Dan doing them and I got it - it really does look funny.  :-)

Took my arm band off today at the end of this work out and thought once again that I really need to sew my own.  This one isn't quite big enough for my fat arms, and if I made my own I could add a pocket to carry my inhaler beside my phone.


Day Three

When I headed out to start day 3, I was having a miserable morning.  Then when I got to the canal, my bluetooth battery was dead and my headphones were not in the car.  I started about 2 minutes, and just turned around and went home.  I had so much to do that day, I was already overwhelmed and irritable.

It was Monday when I finished Week four.  And I started week five on Tuesday.  Back to back is not really a good idea for me, but it worked this week.

I loved how after meeting Runner 6 and having her do some of the work out with me, this installment was about saving her.  This app is SO well done, I'm continually impressed.


Compared To the C25K Program

Brisk five-minute warmup walk, then:
  • Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
  • Walk 1/4 mile (or 2-1/2 minutes)
  • Jog 1/4 mile (or 3 minutes)
  • Walk 1/8 mile (or 90 seconds)
  • Jog 1/2 mile (or 5 minutes)
At no point have I ever been able to jog half a mile in 5 minutes.  Ever.  I certainly couldn't now.  But I am curious to try this and see how well I could do at this point..  I think the most I have jogged on a free run in the Zombie 5k program is 3 minutes straight.


Week Four
Week Six
Week Seven
Week Eight



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.