Weekend warrior
jason, I think you are focusing too much on numbers and not enough on that feeling you have when you are standing at the train station. I am doing the exact same thing so perhaps it is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black, but when I look at you I see a highly successful, highly motivated, and incredibly fit father of two, with like three or four careers. Disney, investor, and church, plus family if you want to go there. Not only that but you look fantastic and young for your age. Anyway, if we keep it up life is only bound to get better and we will stay healthier and live longer, happier. Even if I weigh 15 pounds more than I used to, or can't bench press as much as I want to. As for winning my age bracket, not a chance, I think a large portion of the top ten all came from my age bracket, usually the most competitive at longer distance events. I am not trying to win, just complete it and have fun. No matter what I do it will be a personal best.
So, Saturday I ran 9 miles in 63:20, 7:02 pace, 160 ahr, 170 mhr. I felt great and my heart rate ranges were great. only a 10 beat swing from average to max. Max was at the end when I was pushing a 9.5 mph pace, 170 is not bad.
Today, I lifted chest, had an okay workout, and then biked 8.6 miles in 25 minutes. Around a 20.5 mph pace. Not bad for a Monday. Weight still holding at 182-184 without clothes and bf 23-24%. Whatever. I feel good and like you Jason, I enjoy the feeling of being done with my workout while most people are just rolling out of bed. No coffee necessary. Mike, I will try to call you tonight, it just depends on whether Christy and I do Valentine's day tonight or tomorrow night. I want to do it tonight so that I can still swim tomorrow, but that is just me being selfish, if Christy wants to do it tomorrow night then I will skip swimming. Your break and my break coincide so you shouldn't have any classes to go to. Briefly, Christy leaves this Thursday to drive down to Georgia for a friends wedding in which Jonas/Christy is the ring bearer. Supposed to be Jonas but he is two and my prediction is that he will freak when he sees everybody watching him;Christy will end up carring him screaming down the aisle. After my finals are over, a week from this Friday, I will fly down to Georgia and drive the family back home on Monday night. I need to talk to Christy but I was thinking we would just come out for the weekend, maybe leave Friday morning and then Monday morning from your place. Something like that. We will talk in the next couple of days.
So, Saturday I ran 9 miles in 63:20, 7:02 pace, 160 ahr, 170 mhr. I felt great and my heart rate ranges were great. only a 10 beat swing from average to max. Max was at the end when I was pushing a 9.5 mph pace, 170 is not bad.
Today, I lifted chest, had an okay workout, and then biked 8.6 miles in 25 minutes. Around a 20.5 mph pace. Not bad for a Monday. Weight still holding at 182-184 without clothes and bf 23-24%. Whatever. I feel good and like you Jason, I enjoy the feeling of being done with my workout while most people are just rolling out of bed. No coffee necessary. Mike, I will try to call you tonight, it just depends on whether Christy and I do Valentine's day tonight or tomorrow night. I want to do it tonight so that I can still swim tomorrow, but that is just me being selfish, if Christy wants to do it tomorrow night then I will skip swimming. Your break and my break coincide so you shouldn't have any classes to go to. Briefly, Christy leaves this Thursday to drive down to Georgia for a friends wedding in which Jonas/Christy is the ring bearer. Supposed to be Jonas but he is two and my prediction is that he will freak when he sees everybody watching him;Christy will end up carring him screaming down the aisle. After my finals are over, a week from this Friday, I will fly down to Georgia and drive the family back home on Monday night. I need to talk to Christy but I was thinking we would just come out for the weekend, maybe leave Friday morning and then Monday morning from your place. Something like that. We will talk in the next couple of days.
posted by John J Cherry at 6:35 AM
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Saturday I had to be at the stake at 7:00am for the leadership broadcast from SLC. I wasn't willing to run before hand so when I got home at 9:00'ish I put on my running clothes and went out to enjoy the amazing weather. It was probably in the low 70's and sunny. Not sure how far I went, but I ran for a little over 40 minutes maintaining my heart rate at about 170 bpm. I'm hoping I covered close to five miles based on my time.
It's funny how we create systems for measuring progress, but then focus on the system assuming it really measures progress when perhaps it can, but doesn't always reflect the actual goal. Don't know if that made sense. When I started working out again it was mostly because I didn't feel good about myself in how I was taking care of my body. And for a long time I felt better all the time, but now I'm not feeling as good even though I'm in my best shape since I turned 30. You're right John. It best to focus on the end and not the means in this case.
Because we live in a goal based culture we can get the goal and the reason for the goal out of order. It felt good to just run on Saturday and enjoy the weather and the feeling I can just go run when I've got an hour to treat myself. So keep that in mind when you've finished your triathlon. We don't always compete to win. Enjoy our new personal best and the fact to got to your goal.
All that said I was down to 175 pounds after my run on Saturday. The only reason I feel okay about that is I did a bench max on Saturday and did 175 pounds. I don't love either of those numbers, but at least I'm benching my weight. I’ve never been great at bench. My best max ever was 205 lbs, but I would love to due 225 lbs some day. There’s just something about doing two plates on each side. Bench 225 lbs and run a 6:00 mile are two things I’ve never done that just sit out there. I’ll get there at some point.
This morning's workout got interrupted by the kids waking up early. Kristi was sweet and mostly took them so I could finish up and get to work. It felt like a good workout and that’s my goal this week.
Well said jason, and well done. I love those days, and look forward to 70 degrees. I wanted to run outside this morning but it is still just too cold for me; at some point I will have to suck it up, bundle up, and beat my disdain for running in cold weather. I would so much rather be running outside, even though I don't run as fast and can't control every little variable on a screen in front of me. It is supposed to be 55 this afternoon and I am hoping to go for a short run. It was below freezing when I came to school and while I was running on the treadmill I saw the weather report and promptly stopped running. So I ran 1.50 miles this morning in 11 minutes and lifted back and did some situps. Hopefully I will be able to go for a run this afternoon, and I am planning to swim tonight at 8:30. I am so looking forward to that time when I first jump into the pool and the water is just slightly too cold! Seriously. I love it. Anyway, gotta run. Keep up the good work. We will both see an honest 225 some day, I predict before the end of this year. :)
It's 2 AM and I am still on campus working on a HW assignment. I've been doing a great job at exercising my mental capacity. :) Still no running though. However, if I can actually do 2 more problems before calling it quits tonight I will be completely caught up in both of my classes. Considering that I didn't go to one of them for a month and a half and didn't do squat for the other one during the past 2 weeks, that is pretty darn amazing. The sad news is that it will probably take me another 2 hours or so to do the last 2 problems. Then I have to be back on campus by 8:30 for class. What fun. I'm looking forward to being caught up finally. My intention is to start splitting time between central and north campus again so that I can get in 2-3 runs a week. I would also really like to start playing some more Basketball. I haven't been able to go on Thursday nights or on Saturdays in like a month.
John, I am really looking forward to seeing you when you come visit. I hope it works out and no major catastrophes occur. March 3-5 looks pretty open (nothing that can't be cleared) so I think we are good to go. Hopefully we can get our schedules to mesh sometime in the next couple of days and talk about it some more.
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