As I continue to experiment with heart rate training (my current bit of reading is the Heart Monitor Training for the Compleat Idiot), I am finding that my initial reaction to training with the monitor is common–that I feel like I’m going too slowly when I do my “easy” days. What I’ve noticed, three weeks […]
I’m working really hard and hoping that I’m learning something. I’m on an ambitious workout schedule and I’m seriously watching my diet; in fact, I’m also testing my sugars before and after meals as I try to figure out what will raise my sugars and what won’t. I usually run four days a week now: […]
I’m inspired. The combination of last weekend’s 5K, my new heart rate monitor, decent weather, some reasonable training runs and rides, and considering the Livestrong Challenge in Philadelphia has lifted me out of my doldrums. And to make it even better, a bunch of my friends ran in the Honolulu Marathon on Sunday. Right now […]
I was excited not just for myself, but for my buddies. It was great to place in my age/gender group at the SAM’s 5K, but seeing my pace was much more exciting, and seeing how well my buddies did in the same run was even more exciting. Seeing how fast John was–and hearing how he’s […]
I’ve got the doldrums, but I’m shaking them off. One of the things it’s too easy to do when it comes to my morning workouts is to roll the other way and hit the snooze button until it’s too late to actually work out. Having some peer pressure is helping me do that, as well […]
A few years ago, one of the ministers who served at Kane’ohe Higashi Hongwanji said during the week of American Thanksgiving that really, every day was for giving thanks. So that said, this week I give thanks: to my family; to my health and that of those around me; to my readers and followers; to […]
I still hate running, but I’m doing it anyway. The peer pressure of having someone to meet up with has definitely worked, I’m doing a couple of relatively hard runs during the work week in the morning and showering at work (one of the side benefits–I love showering). I have entries for a 5K, an […]
I’m regaining lost ground. My weight which had gone over 190 is now back in the high 180s and I’m hoping back to my baseline 185 soon. Part of that is hard work–getting those 7:15 am runs in last week, as well as making sure I continued on the bike. Part of that was also […]
It’s the end of the season, so that means it’s time for me to take stock of what’s going on with my fitness equipment and figure out what to do. As usual I’ve gone through a small box of tubes–ten in all, so I’ll be ordering some of those. My front headlamp also is dead […]
I slipped again. After a pretty nice week in terms of working out and diet, I encountered illness and stayed up way too late on Saturday night. In the process, I went out for a bite to eat and the only places open anywhere close to me were Jack in the Box and Denny‘s. And […]