2 miles

According to my Shuffle Training Schedule I was supposed to run 2 miles today. So I ran 2 miles today. Lapped the Bally's track 24 times (woof). Only thing is, I was going too fast. Total time 16:56, that's about an 8:30 pace. Could it have been that Miami girl who was cruising, despite holding her arms rather high and stiff? Was I actually trying to keep up? Maybe, I dunno, I just know that it went by really quickly. Too much too soon they tell me, and they are right. For that reason, the next workout will hopefully be done on a treadmill, where a machine can govern my speed since I obviously can't.

In addition to the run, I lifted. Hit pecs times 3, rest of the upper body, and legs too.

up next: dinner, no workout ;)

mo-bile post

I didn't run this weekend. no good reason for being that lazy. I just wasn't motivated to leave the apartment.
did get to watch the Superbowl, why is that significant? simply because of the almost half a chicken, 6 beers and tons of other food I consumed. oy, after that celebration I needed to workout.

For that work out I ran a short 1.5 miles (my left quad has been a little wonky lately), then lifted upper body and hips.
up next: time to make a training schedule for the Shuffle.

Hurts so good

Ok, I am down to 158 now (which does not include shoes, so add an extra couple of pounds there). That makes my to-date weight loss a whopping 2 pounds; or does it? This is a somewhat interesting situation I find myself in. In a previous post, I weighed in at 162 with gear, but before that post, when I began the countdown, I actually weighed 157 (less than I weigh now). So, it seems to me that the impact on my body has not yet really started to take shape, in fact I continued to go up for a while. Sure tc says my arms look more muscular, but that can’t account for what my scale is telling me.

It is a little frustrating to think that I’m putting a lot of effort into it, but I am not yet seeing tangible results. I know better than to give up at this point, it’s just like learning to run, where the front end is the most difficult. Once things start happening, it’ll get even easier, until then it’s a bit depressing. I feel like I just need more cardio, need to burn that fat that I have accumulated.

Last night I did the bike for 30 minutes and it felt good, tons of sweat and maybe even a little stink. I noticed that my RPMs were generally around 105-115, more than double the lady next to me, who was, not coincidentally, not sweating at all. Also fit in a bunch of lifting, mostly lower body (lying hamstring, leg extension, seated leg press, seated hamstring, bench press, and seated row), then hit the abs, real focused, real effortful, definitely real painful.