So I need a goal in my skating, here it is 50 miles in 30 days. I started yesterday, 6/15, so I’ve got until 7/15 to reach the goal. Why 50 miles? Well in the past year (after yesterday’s skate) I had done just around 50 miles on my K2’s. 50 miles in thirty days shouldn’t be too hard to do, but the key will be to actually continue to keep skating. As of right now I’m at about 12.6 miles, skating 6.3 yesterday and today both. Yesterday’s account is posted on Connect.garmin.com, but today’s isn’t, apparently my Forerunner didn’t charge last night, so it didn’t last at all today.
I skated the same route as yesterday, Grant’s Trailer, today hurt though. I had to stop and rest for a while, whereas yesterday I felt fine the whole way. I don’t know if it was the heat, 90+, the fact that I slept 4.5 hours last night (was up late reskinning www.dnnvoice.com) or that I had two granola bars and a smoothie to eat all day.
Lesson learned, sleep more, eat better, and move somewhere cooler!
I likely won’t skate again until Sunday, at least not outside. I’m hoping to play inline hockey tomorrow night with the old gang. We’ll see how I adjust back to hockey skates, it’s been a year or so since I last played.
What’s that? The motion based content has finally moved over to Garmin connect? And GC now accepts the Forerunner 305???
http://blog.motionbased.com/2009/05/garmin-connect-opening-to-all-garmin-fitness-devices.html
Whoooooohoooooooo now I need a dry day to go skate!
So Sunday Natalie and I headed up to Creve Coeur park. She walked the dogs and I skated for the first time this year. Boy did I hurt by the end of it, I think most of the pain was caused by a loose frame on my skate, which I didn’t notice until before I went to go skate today.
Sunday I went ~5miles in just over 30 minutes, with an average heart rate of 178, burning in excess of 1000 calories in that time period, at least according to the software.
Today I went ~4.8 miles in just over 28 minutes, a better pace than I did on Sunday, with an average HR of 179, though I did have a break during today’s session as I ran into an old friend on the trailer and stopped to talk for 5 minutes.
You can check out the results from Sunday and Today online at http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/user/chrishammond it even has a map.
So I’m back in the fitness game, hoping to skate 4-5 times a week, I’ll try to get back out tomorrow, and might even try to get some in during the trip to Colorado this weekend, we’ll see how that goes.
I need to get on the Wii fit so I can track any weight changes, and do some other workouts, perhaps I’ll do that in the morning.
Well, it’s been almost a year and a half now since I purchased my Garmin Forerunner 305, it has performed flawlessly the whole time, I’ve had no trouble whatsoever with the hardware.
The word from Garmin the company however has been extremely lacking. Garmin has a site that you can upload content to called Garmin Connect, and while it appears to do everything I want with an online provider, it doesn’t work for the Forerunner 305. Initially it was supposed to only work for the Forerunner 405 and 50, which it does, but they were gradually supposed to add support for other devices from Garmin. Well Garmin, when will the 305 support come? I’m not buying a Forerunner 405 until the 305 is supported, once that occurs then I can get the 405 and 305, so Natalie and I both have a GPS device to use. But why waste any money on the 405 if they won’t add support for their existing devices.
Garmin, are you listening? Don’t even get me started on the “Motionbased” conversion that I doubt will ever happen.
So this morning I was down 4lbs from my starting weight, down to ~259.9lbs. I figure getting down to 250lbs will be fairly easy, controlling my diet alone will probably get me there by the middle of the month if not earlier. I was 250lbs most of the summer, I think the trip to Vegas did that in last November. To win the contest though I need to do more than that, my personal goal for the end of the month is 240lbs, with 225lbs the goal for June 6th when the book is due to be published.
So today after class I went to the YMCA again and walked another 3 miles today at a pace of under 15 minutes/mile, faster than yesterday’s three miles.
I’ll be hitting the YMCA again tomorrow, perhaps before work this time? We sorta turned the alarms off and slept in this morning ;)
So with my striving to win the Fit In February Developer Challenge I started back up with www.hundredpushups.com again. Day 1, week 1. Here’s my count for pushups today. 10/12/7/7/9/25 Day 1 Week 1 calls for Pushups totalling 10, 12, 7, 7 then maxing out with a Minimum of 9. Day 2 will come Tuesday!
So with my striving to win the Fit In February Developer Challenge I started back up with www.hundredpushups.com again. Day 1, week 1. Here’s my count for pushups today.
10/12/7/7/9/25
Day 1 Week 1 calls for Pushups totalling 10, 12, 7, 7 then maxing out with a Minimum of 9. Day 2 will come Tuesday!
Starting Date: 2/1/2009 Current Date: 2/1/2009 Starting Weight: 263.9lbs Current Weight: 263.9lbs
So February First marks the start of the Fit In February Developer Challenge, and I am starting up my fitness goals again, so why not try for the challenge!
So I’ve been a Forerunner 305 owner for almost a year now. I used it heavily in the beginning of the year, and kind of slacked off lately as I haven’t exercised much. I have however been waiting for Garmin Connect to open up to 305 users. If I recall correctly, it was supposed to be done in February of last year, then pushed out a few months, then to September, then December 08, and now they are pushing it out to February 2009.
WTF Garmin. I mean really? I understand software delays, but seriously, do you have a single developer working on this? If so, fire that guy and hire someone else.
Last summer I started the HundredPushups.com challenge, I made it two weeks I think before I quit following the program. Tonight I started back up. I am starting from scratch, it is a 6 week program, so my goal is to attempt my 100 pushups the week of Christmas. Though, if for some reason I get delayed or have to redo a week for not meeting goals I will attempt to complete the challenge before the end of the year. That still doesn’t leave me much time!
Week 2 Day 2 went alright, 16-13-11-11-15+
I managed the match the requirements, I couldn't do any more than 15 at the end, it's fairly late and I played softball tonight, maybe I'm just worn out?
Today I started Week 2 of the www.HundredPushups.com challenge, a day late, but better late then never!
Today's challenge, 12-12-9-7-10+
I must say, I can feel a difference. I felt great through all my sets, and ended up with 12-12-9-7-20 for a great start to Week 2. I will probably do Day 2 tomorrow and Day 3 on Friday in Milwaukee (heading up there for a race this weekend).
So last week I blogged about starting up a program that I read about on www.hundredpushups.com, tonight was "Day 1" for the program, based on the test I did last week I was supposed to start up with the following sets of pushups.
10-10-8-6-7+, the 7+ meaning as many as I could do, but at least 7. The first 4 sets weren't too bad, but I tell you, that last set was difficult! I managed to do 11 on the last take. Day 2 will come on Wednesday, meaning 12-12-10-10-10+
I'm starting to get some normal feelings back in my arms a few hours later, I'm sure about this time tomorrow night I will be very sore!
Earlier today while browsing Twitter (the INETA folks got me started on it a few weeks ago) I saw a message from Joe Brinkman about www.hundredpushups.com. Being that I was at work, I decided to read about the site (putting off work of course) (hi Rich, how's Florida? for the uninformed Rich is my boss). After reading about the site I though, wow, I should do that!
So here's the basic premise. First step, you "test" yourself, see how many pushups you can do from the get go, then, for the next 6 weeks there is a program you follow to build up your numbers, over those weeks you end up testing yourself again and adjusting the program as you go along, with the ultimate goal of being able to do 100 pushups in a row.
So I've started, today is day Zero, I did my "test" and will attempt to do Day 1 tomorrow. For my test I did 20 pushups, I should have pushed myself further, I figure I may have been able to do 2 to 3 more tops. Based on the numbers in my test I am supposed to do the following for Week1 10-10-8-6-7+ tomorrow, 12-12-10-10-10+ on day 2 and day 3 15-13-10-10-15+.
Headed off to Creve Couer park again tonight after work. I did my first mile in 4:37 or something close to that, second mine I had done by 9:00. Third mile i hit a brick wall. My shins started to get tired out, which rarely happens when I skate anymore. I think the third mile took me over 6:30 to do, the wind sure didn't help, I might have been better off doing my normal look backwards today.
I ended up doing the 4.79 mile loop in less time than I did on Wednesday, though I don't know the exact number off the top of my head, I think I was only 9-10 seconds faster due to the wind and pain! I'll plug my forerunner in later and see what the exact numbers were.
Funny thing about the park, the weather was much nicer today and guess what, there were more people! I had to dodge a few folks walking on the wrong side of the trail as well. I did the same distance tonight in a minute less than I did yesterday, according to the Garmin Forerunner 305 I burned an additional 10 calories as well.
Tonight after work I headed home to grab my skates and go to Creve Couer Park. I skated my normal loop, though not in as fast a time as I have done in the past. It was quite windy, and a bit chilly, which I wasn't expecting, there were also some parts of the trail that were still wet so I had to take it easy on those sections to keep from falling. I wish they made some "wet" inline wheels, perhaps they do? I stopped and adjusted my skate once, and I think I've managed to figure out how to pad my ankle enough to keep my skate from rubbing.
I hope to go again tomorrow, but we'll see how that goes, it will depend on the weather.
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