Push-ups and Sit-ups

Pushups - 14-16-12-12-20 - 74 total

Situps - 21-24-18-18-30 - 111 total

In at 3am out by 1pm
Slept from 2-5:30.
Off to Cordele around 8pm.

100 - 200

Started today.

100 pushups and 200 situps

Figured why not...Starting both with week 2 column 3. Just finished Day 1.

Not running at all right now. Working crazy hours. Third shift for now. Still not looking good for the future. Could be as early as next week now.

Wonder what it will be like to sell insurance...or to be unemployed...this sort of sucks.

False Starts

How many of these am I going to have? Too many so far.

At any rate, I'm starting the grease the wheels again. 3.2m in 29'17". It's over a 9 minute pace, but hey, I had a jalepeno/mushroom ladened bacon cheeseburger today for lunch...one that i almost had come back up as i was coming back up the east end of country club.

The 100 pushups will start tomorrow...follow the link in the previous post to view the details. I'll post that tomorrow.

By the way, things at the foundry look imminently terminal. That will work itself out in the coming weeks.

pax vobiscum.

Saturday 4 miler

4 miles this afternoon before Ed's game. Two fig.8's around the park in 34'11". Actually ended up with about an 8'33" pace. That's about 1 minute faster than my runs earlier this week. Of course the park is a flat track, so that helps, but I did run it so that I caught the uphill on the SW side of the track.

I'm starting to look into when some races are so that I can get some on the calendar. Hopefully I'll have a couple picked out next week.

By the way, I'm starting the hundred pushup challenge tomorrow.

3 runs this week...one to go.

Alright, I'm not saying that there is anything certain here, but I'm laying the groundwork for a comeback.

2.25 on Tuesday and 3 on Thursday.  I'll get in another 3 or better Saturday.

It feels good feeling good about exercising again.

Also looking at another opportunity.  100 pushups.  I did 37 yesterday as the initial test.  I think I'll start on week 3 like they recommend and see how things go.  100 pushups, here we come.  A couple of years ago, I was doing 50 without stopping with no problem.  We'll see how long it takes me to get back.  I'm guessing 2 weeks or so.

starting again, again.

ran 1.5 yesterday and walked another 1 down at the park. Ed had baseball practice on the track fields so it was convenient and I could find a reasonable excuse. weighed 219 this morning. time to get back on track i guess.

Twilight 10K

It was a beautiful afternoon up at Callaway for the race. Temp was right around 70F and with the run starting at 5pm, the setting sun against the changing trees around the lake was just perfect. As for the run, I'm still struggling with the chest congestion, but I managed to avoid problems with it until the end of the 5th mile. Then I started having trouble getting clear breaths and started coughing a bit.

The race seemed just a bit longer than 6.2 miles, but being my first official 10k, I don't know for sure. All I know was that there was a 6.2 mile marker about .2 mile short of the finish. I kept my splits on my watch. See below.

Splits:
Mile 1 - 8:54
Mile 2 - 9:35 (I intentionally slowed here wanting to stay above a 9:00 mile pace)
Mile 3 - 9:30
Mile 4 - 9:37
Mile 5 - 9:21
Mile 6 - 9:32
6.2 mark - 1:56
To Finish - 2:04

Total Time - 1:00:30

This was much slower than I wanted to go, but with the chest issue, I was intentional in not pushing it. If nothing else, it gives me a good benchmark to improve on.