Still No Kayaking this Fall

Have my "kayak bag" by the front door with all I need for a quick kayak since I bring them back from ACA camp.  Still no kayaking.    It just don't hold my interest anymore.   I am concentrating on training for March 18 marathon in Virginia Beach. I may have bite more then I can handle with the training plain I choose. 

I find this plan on the internet: Sixteen week schedule to break 3 hours in the marathon

I have so many questions about this plan.  I am very loosely following it with major adjustment.  The biggest difficulties is the AM run.  I don't do AM run. I have been drop that left and right.  Getting up at 4:30 AM so  hard especially when I can't get myself to bad by 10 PM, Midnight bed time and 4:30 AM get up time is not happening. 

I joined the gym for when it is completely impossible to run. I also need to do more upper body conditioning.   I joined the NY Sport Club -Belt Parkway (NYSC) near my apartment last Sunday. It is a bout 15 minutes jogging distance away.  On the initial tour it look like a great facility.  I did not have time to actually use the equipment till this Sunday.   The facility is very large, with a couple of racket courts, a full basketball court, the lower lever is where all the weight exercise machine are - as well as the free weights, the locker room with showers & sauna.  I ran to the gym in my running clothing so I don't have to use the locker room. I wasn't planning on stay long, just long enough to figure out where all the equipment that I want to use are.  I found out one thing right off, the equipment are not very well maintain.   Three or 4 out of a dozen machine don't have the pin that change the weight, so if you use one machine for your exercise i reality you use two since you have to take a pin from another machine making that machine unusable.  It always upset me when a gym can't keep up such simple maintenance so that a machine don't became unusable.  A couple of machine are just complete disable due to broken cables.  This should be take off the floor.  It look so bad when there is one or two machines that is complete bust sitting on the exercise floor.  I try a couple of upper body exercises.   I search around to see if they have my favorite machine, the hip rotation machine - which I am told is bad for your spin while search for this picture: 

torso rotation machine

I spending 1 and a half hours trying some of the machine out.  I send a couple of minutes using a treadmill  and Elliptical Machine.  The treadmill machine stop button have a tendency to be stock on the off position.  Like I say, maintenance at this facility is lacking.  

I hope to find time to put in some upper body exercise this winter.  

Back to my 16th weeks to a sub 3 hours marathon plan.  Part of the plan call for what the author call an Oregon Circuit.  I have no idea what it mean.  I have been writing this out of the first three weeks of the plan but incorporate this back into the plan starting this week.  I see a couple of videos that show varies exercise in an typical Oregon Circuit but apparently there is not set rules.  I will have to see what I can do.  The premise is the exercise the weak minute muscles to improve running form.   

Is this still a kayaking blog.

I have not kayak in a while so don't really have much to write about.   I think I kayak 5 time this how kayak season.  I have been doing a lot of canoe sailing up at the lake.   I am down to one kayak seating in the side alley of my parents' house.  Beside inertia I really should sell that one too.   I know have two sailing canoe, one of which turn out to be a large investment after a tree branch fail on it a week before my birthday.

I have my winter kayak bag pack and ready for kayaking but have not have any incentive to take myself down to the club.   I need to rededicate myself to kayaking more this winter.  I remembered how much I love it after forcing myself to deal with the weather condition.   Part of the problem is people I used to go out with in the winter are also growing old and not as adventurous as they use to be.  I need new and more adventurous kayaking friends.   

Kayak is good cross exercise for running. I am trying to put serious time and commitment to achieving a sub-3 hours marathon in 2019.  

Mostly I need to kayak more just to keep my people interaction up.  I am reverting to my pre-kayaking day of spending way too much time over thinking a wallowing in my misery.