Exercise Goals for 2008

If you can get in 1000 miles of running, maybe I can talk myself into riding when it's below 45 degrees and the wind speed is above 20 mph.

I'm thinking. I'm thinking.

For the last few weeks I've been more a slug than a sloth.

My aspirations should rise higher than "sloth"--but the days are so dark and dreary.

Walk 500 miles (10 per week avg)
Weights 2 - 3 times per week

I was doing much better in 2007 than in 2006... but finished averaging about the same amount of exercise.

For 2008:

Run more than 750 K.
Run the 5 K. in less than 30 min.
Run a 10K. race

These all look like realistic goals. Decide on yours yet, Noddy?

I aim to get out of bed each day without going "Aaargh".

My target date for this is March 4th.

Schedule:
20 miles per week for 50 weeks, leaving 2 weeks of slack.
Typical week to be 5 days, 4 miles a day.

Restrictions:
Treadmills, ellipticals and rowers don't count.
Maybe cross-country skiing and snowshoeing will count if I can figure out
a good ratio.

Risks:
Bad weather and dangerous conditions.
Injury.
Loss of interest.

Mitigations:
In good weather run extra miles, extra days to bank miles to cover bad
weather days.
Two weeks of slack.
Always keep bad weather gear in the gym bag.
I may run a 6th day, but never a 7th. This old bod' needs a sabbath.
No running in hazardous conditions.
Post progress here to keep up my interest.
Run with a friend whenevr the opportunity presents itself.

March forth?
Good exercise, that.

Why not?

Mine is to go to the YMCA at lunch time twice a week. You all hold me to that now.

I got a head start on the New Year by doing five reps of each of my exercises. Now I'm off to the exercycle.

I'd like to work up to fifteen repetitions at least three times a week--plus daily walking or cycling, depending on the weather.

Purely arbitrary decision on my part.
I want to log a thousand on the roads.

I'll be using them as crossing training in bad weather, though.
Except for the treadmill. I hate treadmills.

Checking in so that I have something concrete down. My goals are similar to Noddy's.

Exactly. It's like asking "How many miles did you do on the trainer (bicycle) this week?" The correct answer is alway "zero".

Here's something like that, roger. I had a wrist-mounted GPS device that
kept track of mileage and rate. While on a cruise ship, I wore it once while
jogging around the promenade deck, just to see what the result would be.

Of course it showed that I had averaged exactly the same speed as the ship.

2008 shuffled in like a sulky teenager.

I pulled on my running gear and headed out. Might as well make a good
start to the year, so I took a run around Spot Pond. That comes out to a little
over six and a quarter miles. It was a slog. I can feel all the cookies, cakes,
pies, candy I've eaten this week bouncing along with me.

But it's done. Not a bad start.

I should have known that, George. Exactly like riding in Farmington. It always averages out to be perfectly flat by the time you're back to your starting point.

Reminds me of:
When I was your age, sonny, I had to walk five miles to school.
Uphill.
Both ways.

Gym 3 X a week... sustained. (I keep starting that, and then something interrupts. Lately holiday scheduling.)

After that's actually been sustained for a while, plan to add stuff. Walking or running on non-gym days, and/or adding more gym days.

But short-term -- say the next month or two -- just want to sustain the 3 X week gym schedule.