Exercise Goals for 2009

I hope you put up a good fight!

There is a "1000 Mile Club" user group on RunningAHEAD, an online exercise
log. The club provides a graphic showing everyone's relative position, including
a virtual runner known as the Pace Bunny. The Pace Bunny moves ahead each
day by enough miles to keep a steady pace towrd a 1000 mile per year goal.

I'm 16.9 miles behind the Pace Bunny. I've got some catching-up to do.

2.3 miles today in run through the parking lots. Tonight Clive and I will do
some weight training.

You'll outshine the Pace Bunny once spring arrives, George.

Yeah, the devil in me had the better arguments yesterday, but today I shut him
up good and this morning I went 20 min on the treadmill and 20 min on the bike.
greetings!

Yowza

Good going, CJ.

I just completed goal #1!



Third, more-perfect one found. Membership obtained. Working out there now. (Went today -- 25 minutes running, 25 minutes weights: biceps, triceps, lunges w/ 10-lb weights, and 3 sets 10 ball crunches.) Canceled gym #1 membership. Canceled gym #2 membership. Streamlinin'.

Henry David Thoreau would be proud.

Excellent. Gonna gym today.

Clive was at the Leg Press machine, his right arm on the back of the
seat, his left leg on the deck. His head was turned a bit to the left
and his eyes looked off into the middle distance. At what I wasn't
sure. Inside I was doing a Ralph Kramden slow burn. Just at this
point Ralph would have slapped Ed Norton on the back and yelled "WILL
YOU JUST GET ON THERE AND DO THE SET!" But I just waited. He got on,
got into position, adusted his position, did a press, adjusted the
position of his feet, and continued.

"What are you on?" he asked when he had finished.

I told him 375 and he said "Whoa."

I went through my psych-up routine and pushed. There was a split
second in which I thought I wasn't going to move it. But move it I
did. Five times. It was the most I'd ever done on that machine. We
set the weight for Clive and I wasn't the least bit impatient as he
got himself in place. I was too busy recovering. I did two more sets
and noted "380" for next time.

"Whoa" is right! 375???

George ,are you going after the "Superman" position?
I can't even imagine 375, let alone anything above that.

Sozobe, what was different in gym # 3 that # 1, and # 2 didn't have?

I will have to wait for tonight to work out, I am too busy during the day.

It's not as much as it sounds. You're in a seat moving at an angle on rails.

Missed a workout this week but added another mile to the mall walk. Hopefully it'll balance out. I've lost 2 lbs. this week. Yay.

Yay is right!

Double yay for eoe!

George, I use a machine like that. I push 120 on a good day (when my knees feel good).

I know I don't need to say stuff like be sure to warm up and always listen to what
your knees tell you and the amount of weight doesn't matter as much as the
quality and consistency of the effort and all like that.





So I won't.

And that's with the pralines, eoe! Good job!

CJane, Gym #1 was close and had abundant parking but had limited equipment. Gym #2 was absolutely fabulous in terms of the facility itself but it was really really hard to find parking and also was kind of far away. Gym #3 is a bit less-fabulous equipment-wise than #2 but it's perfectly adequate (gym #2 had way more than I needed) and it's much closer and has abundant parking.

Finally, a day to run. I did. Well, not really. I trotted. I moseyed. I meandered. I stopped to take pictures. I went up stairs just because they were there. Such a nice day.

6.1 miles

Joe(there was a big hawk floating over Ft. Tryon today.)Nation

gym tomorrow. can't stop me.
i submitted a dissertation abstract today.. that was workout enough.
found a boxing coach at my gym who'll do 7 workout s with me for 30euro. sweet. and if i show up 7 times in under a month, they will refund me. sweet!.

George, do you feel that lifting for only 5 reps is having any impact on your strength. I know you said that it was the most you'd ever lifted on that machine, but do you feel you'd have hit that weight today doing your normal 10 rep workout?

Mos' def'

Clive and I just got back from the gym. We did bench-presses on the Smith
machine and I had 175 loaded. The last 3 reps of the last set took everything I
had. Ten reps? I think not.

After the last push, I sat up, let my head clear, and said "Well, that was fun."

"Why was it fun?" asked Clive.

"I'm just being ironic, Clive. I wasn't fun at all."

"Oh."

Clive doesn't do "ironic." His taste in humor runs to the silly and the obvious.
Fortunately, silly and obvious are two of my best things.