One week vacation - Part 1 Chicago

It’s been a while since I did a blog, I just been extremely busy with school last month with finals and took a week off and traveled to Chicago then the Bay Area. Even though I was busy with school during that month, I still hit the gym almost every day. However my diet has gone really bad during the week of vacation especially when I was in Chicago, by the way there is nothing overhyped about there deep-dish pizza. By far the best pizza I had, and the look of the pizza could be deceiving too. The deep-dish is a must have if you ever visit Chicago, however I think you can pass on the famous Chicago Hotdog. It was ok, and I was not impressed at all. Overall it was a great trip out there, since this is not a vacation blog, I will keep my experience in Chicago short. I will make another blog for my trip to the Bay.

First goal achieved. 30 Pull ups

Quick update

I finally achieved my first goal, on 5/9 just did 30 clean pull-ups. I always been able to do 18-20 but the past few months I really focused on breaking into "30". However my other goal bench press is not progressing as well as I would like. Kinda stuck around 265-270. Final is next week. Hopefully I can get 275 by then.

Also I might make a video of completing 30pull ups, I might uploaded it on YouTube.

OC half marathon 5/6/2012

Completed the OC half marathon yesterday, it was the first one I did in the past 2 years. Even though I been training pretty hard, but I didn't really ran outside for a while and I wish I could of prepped for the race a little more. I did hit one of my goal which is make it the top 8% overall finisher. I finished 417 out of 8755 which is the 4-5% tile. However I didn't crack an hour 40mins, I think it would help if our group got to the race a little earlier and had a little time to stretch. Also the pacer helped a lot, if I started on time and stayed with the hour 40min pacer, I think I would finish the race a little bit quicker.



This is the first time I ever ran a half marathon for a time. I did 6 half marathons before, but all of them I ran with a friend that slowed my time a bit. I felt pretty good about my time, but I really want to set a goal for my next half marathon which is the Long Beach half in October. That is about 5 months from now I want to aim for an hour 30mins. Maybe is a bit far reach but after the last race, I really want to set my goal to qualify for the Boston Marathon. To qualify I need to complete a marathon under 3hours and 5mins, so completing a half marathon with that pace would be a good start. I am not sure when I can complete this goal of qualifying for Boston marathon, but I think it will help me with my training when I have an end goal in my mind.

So here it is, I officially listed an hour 30mins for a half marathon and qualify for Boston marathon is my goal.