Christopher Hammond
06.04.07
So far I've been on my new K2 Radical 100s for probably 10-12 miles. I went out Friday after work for a lap around Creve Couer lake. By the time I was done I was completely exhausted. The Radicals definitely have far less ankle support than I am used to, and after my first day on the skates that made a huge difference.
Today I went out again with Eric and we skated our usual two laps. These skates are fast, exceptionally fast. The fit is great though I'm going to Heat Mold them later this week, probably before I skate again. If you're in the market for a pair of long distance fitness skates definitely look into the Radical 100s. The biggest change for me so far, besides the ankle support, is the turning radius. I am far less nimble on these than my older skates with much smaller wheels. But these skates weren't made for agility, so if I want to do some hockey stops I'll throw on my other pair of K2s or my hockey...
Christopher Hammond
01.14.08
So 2008, the Year of the Hobby, is also the year of the fitness!
Goal: Run 1 mile, consecutively, by the end of January. 2 miles in February, building up to 12 by the end of the year.....
Tonight I went to the YMCA for the first time (to our local one rather than Chesterfield to play racquetball). I ran around the track. I ran 1/3rd a mile, walked 1/6th, ran 1/6th, walked 1/6th, ran 1/6th. Walked 1/9th, ran 1/18th.
Total running 13/18ths of a mile. Tomorrow, repeat the...
Christopher Hammond
01.15.08
Well, after the previous two days of running (I didn't blog about running around the block on Sunday) my body was sore today! Mainly my legs, but a little bit everywhere.
Tonight after work I headed up to the YMCA and made my way around the track. As best I can remember I ran the following (all in 1/18ths of a mile
Run
7
Walk
2
Run
3
Walk
2
Run
4
Walk
4
Run
3
Walk
3
Run
3
Walk
3
Run
2
Walk
4
40 laps
2.22 miles total
1.22 miles running
1.0 miles walking
I'll go again tomorrow after class. I think tomorrow I will take a swim suit and hit the hot tub after my...
Christopher Hammond
01.16.08
After class tonight I went to the YMCA again to run. Natalie came up as well and worked on a treadmill while I was on the track.
I went 46 laps around the 18th mile track, so that ends up being 2.55 miles.
7 Run
3 Walk
3 Run
3 Walk
3 Run
6 Walk
3 Run
3 Walk
3 Run
6 Walk
3 Run
3 Walk
Another 1.22 miles running
1.33 miles walking
I weighed in after my run at...
Christopher Hammond
01.17.08
According to this site I need to get down to 199 pounds to be of normal weight for my height.
I haven't weighed 199lbs since senior year after hell week in football! That will be my goal.... if I don't kill myself getting there!
My Garmin Forerunner 305 and Footpod came in today. Charing now so I can use it tonight and see how well it tracks my...
Christopher Hammond
01.18.08
I had intentions of going to the Y after I got home from work, I really did! I wanted to try out the new Forerunner. No luck though. I got home and slept for 3 hours. That is why it is 2am and I'm still up....
Though I am getting some good work done on my DotNetNuke to CommunityServer...
Christopher Hammond
01.19.08
Well, since I fell asleep Thursday night and didn't go run I felt I must punish myself on Friday and run, EARLY. I woke up just after 6am and went to the YMCA for 30 minutes of running.
I'm still trying to figure out all the software for my new Garmin Forerunner 305. It was easy to use and tracked a lot of data, with some cool graphs, but I need to figure out how I can use that data on a DotNetNuke module for my new website which I hope to finish up today! Anyways,
I went 40 laps Friday morning so that is another 2.22 miles, with at least 1.0 mile of running.
I'm not sure if I'm going to run today or not. I'll be working on my website and hopefully starting to work on the Insteon hardware I got this week to automate the...
Christopher Hammond
01.19.08
47 Laps at the YMCA today (2.61 miles). I also remembered to use my heart rate monitor for the Garmin Forerunner 305 today, I just need to figure out what it means. I'd post my max heart rate but it would probably freak my mother out!
SCCA Banquet tonight and then a road trip with Nick to Chicago tomorrow to pickup a...
Christopher Hammond
01.21.08
Goal #1 down, 1 complete mile run! And I did it with over a week left in the month!
I successfully ran a complete mile tonight, for the first time in almost 13 years. It feels great! I set a goal of running 1 complete mile this month, 2 miles in February, 3 in March, etc.
After the St. Louis DotNetNuke User's Group meeting tonight I came home. I needed to run after breaking down with three pieces of pizza at the meeting.
I'll run again tomorrow, not yet sure if I'll do another complete mile or if I'll break it up more. I guess now that I've done 1 mile I should keep doing...
Christopher Hammond
01.22.08
I went to the YMCA again this evening and did some running. I ran another complete mile again this evening!
Lots of work to do tonight so I'll keep this short. It looks like I won't have the conversion done tonight as I don't have time to work on a new skin for the DNN site...
Christopher Hammond
01.24.08
It looks like I forgot to post about my running for Wednesday, now that it is Thursday morning I'm officially a day late for posting the data!
Lucky for me my Garmin Forerunner 305 keeps track of all of that for me so I don't have to worry about forgetting how much I ran!
Tonight, according to the Garmin I ran/walked 2.5 miles. Unlike the past two days I did not run a complete mile in on spurt, tonight I ran harder for shorter amounts of time, still running 19 laps (18 laps to a mile at the YMCA).
The funny thing about the results from running tonight, the 2.5 measuremant from the Garmin was for 45 laps, which based on 18 laps/mile was also 2.5 miles, I'll have to go back and look at the data and see if the Garmin has become more accurate over the past few days!
Christopher Hammond
01.24.08
Well apparently for exercise my lazy day is Thursday! I came home this evening with no motivation to go and run at the YMCA. I crashed on the couch with Natalie for a few hours and finally got up to move around a little. I need to eat dinner and do some computer things tonight.
One thing I would like to do is provide a full write up of the process used to convert from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke. I'll see if I can't do that! I'm also going to upgrade my Samsung Blackjack to Windows Mobile 6 tonight.
Christopher Hammond
01.25.08
Natalie dragged me to the YMCA this evening. I ran a complete mile, plus 1 lap (1/18th mile laps), then walked for a while. In between walking I believe I ran another 1/2 mile, so tonight was the longest distance I've run since I started. I also went for 40 minutes this evening, up from my usual 30 minutes.
Tomorrow I'll shoot for another 40 minutes and hopefully start doing some other workout things at the Y besides just running.
I didn't get a chance to do anything with my "software posts" today, but I will do that this weekend, discussing the conversion steps from CommunityServer to DotNetNuke, and explaining all the software that I'm using on the site now!
Christopher Hammond
01.27.08
An afternoon trip to the YMCA with my beautiful wife and her sister resulted in the longest distance I've ran/walked since I started this fitness miracle two weeks ago (from today to be exact).
In 40 minutes at the Y I ran/walked 3.4 miles, running roughly 1.83 of those miles, I ended up doing 64 laps in 40 minutes and 15 or so seconds.
After I put a bit more time into my Flickr module I think I'm going to take some time and write a module that will import the XML from my Garmin Forerunner 305 and keep track of my running vs walking time/distance here on the website.
Like my post yesterday said, one project always leads to at least another, if not more.
Christopher Hammond
01.29.08
Natalie and I went to the YMCA again last night. I must say, my legs burned like they haven't burned before, I don't think it was because of running last night too much, but probably a result from the longer distance I did on Sunday.
Monday night I ran/walked 2.4...
Christopher Hammond
01.30.08
So Tuesday was the three year anniversary of our first date. We went to the same restaurant we did three years ago (Applebees in Ballwin). So there was no running on Tuesday. We had a good evening, ran to the mall afterwords and looked for some North Face deals at Macys, but found out the Chesterfield Mall Macys doesn't carry North Face!
After dinner and watching American Idol Natalie went to bed and I got to working. I put together the new skin for the fraternity website. It's not finished yet, but looks better than it has in a while. www.alphadeltazeta.org
It's Wednesday now, and that means the office is going running at Lunch. Currently it's 17 degrees out, so I'm really not looking forward to going on a run in the cold, but if I do I get free lunch!
Christopher Hammond
01.30.08
So, even though it was below freezing at lunch today we went up to Kirkwood Middle School and ran around the track! This was the first real exposure the Garmin Forerunner 305 has had to a real GPS run. If it is accurate the track at KMS is 1/5th of a mile. ran one mile and walked 1.2 miles, though not all at the same time!
We then headed to Tropical Smoothie Cafe (my FAVORITE restaurant) it was excellent as usual. I eat there 4-5 times a week, sometimes more....
Christopher Hammond
02.03.08
Well it's 12:38AM on Superbowl Sunday. In less than 10 hours I'm supposed to be running a makeshift 5k. Why am I not in bed? I can't sleep! I went to bed around 9pm, I think I slept for 30 minutes, and have been up since then!
Christopher Hammond
02.03.08
The first annual www.runwithlynn.com Superbowl 5k was held this morning. Of course I used my Garmin Forerunner 305, and it returned some great results! I've uploaded the results to Motionbased.com, and you can check out all the information here:
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/4902982
I'm really not sure how it knows the Windspeed! I'll have to figure that out.
Christopher Hammond
02.04.08
Well, after last week's poor performance running (only ran 3 days) Natalie and I went to the YMCA tonight. I ran/walked 2.6 miles this evening, my heart rate peaking at 182 when I was sprinting around the track trying to catch up to Natalie.
Christopher Hammond
02.05.08
Tuesday run/walk, 1.9miles. I had some cramping issues, probably related to drinking a soda after I got home from work. My mistake!
Christopher Hammond
02.06.08
Who's got High Blood Pressure? Not me! I went to the doctor this morning for a checkup and has my blood pressure taken, 3 times. 112/80, 112/80, 108/80
No high blood pressure here!
After that Natalie and I went out to breakfast and then I went and picked up the Z06. The window tint looks great, and the Hoosier tires that showed up today are HUGE! :)
Christopher Hammond
02.06.08
Tonight at the YMCA I ran/walked 3.3 miles. I did run 2 miles, which means I walked 1.3, though it was spaced apart.
Christopher Hammond
02.08.08
Went to the YMCA tonight, ran further than I have previously, also ran my fastest mile, probably ever in my life, in roughly 9:10.
Total for the evening I went 3.4 miles. When I got home I weighed myself and weighed in at my 2008 low of 254lbs.
Christopher Hammond
02.09.08
I went down to the park today to rollerblade some.
I went 1/2 mile then turned around! It was DAMN cold out. 55 degrees apparently, but I swear that 20mph wind made it feel like it was below freezing, and considering I was in a long sleeve t-shirt and shorts it was too darn cold for...