Another hotel treadmill

Another treadmill run with American Idol on the TV. That's inspiration for you. 30 minutes 3.2 miles. Running on consecutive days really hurts when you are not in shape. Agreed on the weight question. The best I have ever been as an adult was coming ome from the Army...197. Or as my wife likes to day, you mean your Army body?

Get out the oil can...

First post 2007.

My weight has fluctuates more than the Dow Jones Industrial Average (222.5lbs on 4.28.2005 down to a lithe 168.5 lbs. on 9.02.06 and back to a corpulent 202.5 2.28.07.) Problem is I don't pay dividends and I can't sell short.

Time to recalibrate.

2/28/07 - two months until my 36th birthday. Let's get back to respectability, shall we?

3o minutes Sole Elliptical trainer Level 4. It's a start.

Tuesday

I hit the treadmill in the hotel. Ran for the first 20 minutes and then got lazy and walked for 4 minutes and then hit it for another 6. Total distance: 3.17 miles. Total times 30 minutes. Felt okay, but a little sore from from Friday's run.

Keep on moving.....

Tough Morning

Time not recorded (~35 minutes)
avg HR not recorded
Peak HR not recorded
3.5 miles
6:35 AM start
Training Effect not recorded
Temp 23 F

It was a beautiful winter morning -- the trees were covered in snow from yesterday's little snowfall, and the sky was a very cold, wintry, flat blue. Suburbia's beauty notwithstanding, it was a tough run. I forgot to start my stopwatch so have no data to share and it felt like I was running through sand -- 3 runs in 4 days may be a little much right now but it's got to be done to increase frequency.

Back To Back

27:46
avg HR 154
Peak HR 169
3.2 miles
2:07 PM start
Training Effect 4.2
Temp not recorded

On a quick visit to Cape Cod on Sunday 25 February, I snuck in a run along one of my favorite routes: along the sound, up by Bass River and then inland. It was a great day and I took full advantage of the weather, no waiting for darkness. It was my first back-to-back days of running in months. Everything was washed in golden light, and the blues were intense.

Friday First Run in a while.

I went on a three mile run. Total time: 26 minutes and finished with a decent sprint. Felt slow and heavy, but I am on the way.
Watch out for the PHAT man a coming!

Saturday Run, 2/24/07

32:25
avg HR 155
Peak HR 178
3.5 miles (I clocked it 2/24)
6:07 PM start
Training Effect 4.7
Temp not recorded

Saturday was a gorgeous, crystal clear day with nice temperatures so of course I waited until after the sun set and the temp started to drop to go running . . . Nothing like running in the dark when it's icey, though this was a good run. I find it's actually easier to run near the end of the day -- I'm more limber, more awake. Venus was setting in the west when I went out -- she's been huge in the sky the past couple of weeks and lots of folks in town were having fires on a Saturday evening if the smell of wood smoke was any indication.

Agricola, 2/22/07

33 minutes
avg HR 157
Peak HR 177
~3.5 miles (I need to start clocking distance)
6:40 AM start
20 F

A great day for a run, not too warm, not too cold, and got a workout in before the next snow. It was icy, but it lead to some fun sliding.

What Is This?

As it says in the header of this blog, this is an experiment. We are a bunch of guys who all went to college together and now live far apart from one another. Most of us have families, all of us jobs and commitments that make working out somewhat challenging. Depsite that we are trying to work out, run, whatever in order to stay in shape. This blog is our training diary where we can log our workout, reflect on the effort required, talk a little smack and basically keep up on one another's training effort.

The hope is to foster a sense of camaraderie and friendly competition that each of us can use as a motivational tool. We are all at different points in our training and each has a different level of fitness, goals etc.

Nobody wants to be a laggard. Let the training begin.