Wet Again

This morning I succeeded in beating off the snooze button and headed out to the pool to do a swim. I swam 60 laps in 60 minutes and then lounged a bit in the jacuzzi.

Yesterday, I forgot to log a short 30 minute trail excursion. I was sweating profusely after that workout. Good thing I had to go back to work afterwards :)

Paul

Slaking but still Moving

I didn't run tonight, but did walk briskly for 2 hours. I haven't been doing all that great at my mornings, so either I need to go to be a bit earlier to get up when I want to or I need to re-motivate myself somehow to get my lazy butt out of bed to work out.

Lunch Outing

Decided to take a short post-lunch stroll today. I guess the guilt for sleeping in today was getting to me. I headed out and walked about 2 miles (45 minutes) on the road near my office. Nothing too fancy, and I plan on still taking a longer walk this evening. I may just put some shorts on and do a bit of running too. Guess we'll see.

Evening Walk

As I didn't work out this morning, and it was beautiful out, I headed out this evening to do a walk. I explored the Sammamish River trail a bit more, ending up at a local mall, to which I stopped and did a bit of window shopping. I then headed back and finished my walk. I walked just over an hour, and only at a moderate pace.

Short Swim

Woke up this morning with a bit of expected sunburn pain. I decided to aggravate it by going swimming. Chlorine can only be good right? I swam for 30 minutes, which is about all I could handle this morning.

For those that are curious, I am still weighing in at about 188. I may have finally stabilized my weight loss a bit. Either that or I need to get a bit more motivated. In either case, this is a comfortable weight, although I would still like to lose another 10 lbs.

Sunburn Sunday

Today was just too pretty out to stay inside, so after I took my kids home, I headed out to do a long walk on the Sammamish River trail near my house. I am not quite positive as to the distance, somewhere around 6 miles is what I guess. But I walked briskly for about 2 hours.

Now I just have to recover from the sunburn I got while doing so. Great walk though.

Fun Day

Today I spent most of my day out and about with my kids. We started with a basic swim, in which I lounged around the pool. Yea, I know, not my best shining fitness moment. Then we headed out later and did 2 hours of bowling, and then did an evening walk of 30 minutes. It would have been longer, but one of my kids wasn't feeling all that great, so we called it a short walk. Lots of fun today.

Evening Stroll with the kids

So, I lost to the alarm clock again this morning and as I have my kids this weekend, I waited until they arrived and headed out with them back to the trail I was on yesterday. We did about half the walking that I did the day prior, as my youngest got really tired. Either way, we had a great walk.

Paul

Evening stroll

I didn't work out this morning, as I lost the grand battle of the alarm clock. So, as it was beautiful out this evening, and beautiful days in Seattle are rare, I headed out for an evening walk. I wasn't dressed to work out so I figured that a moderately easy pace would be in order, but I would walk a couple of hours. I am not sure how far I went, but I figure it was about 4 miles. It could have been as much as 6, though. Either way, it was a great walk.

Paul

Swim

Woke up a bit early this morning, and today was supposed to be a running day, but as I didn't seem to get my lazy butt out of bed yesterday in time to workout before work, I went instead to the gym to swim. I swam for an hour and 20 minutes, and had a pretty good workout.

Paul

Woodsy Romp

A couple of co-workers invited me to a short hike through a small nature-trail behind my office. It was a bunch of getting scratched by brambles and trying not to tumble down the hill. Lots of climbing and the guys made quite a pace. It got my heart rate up there and I started sweating a bit. 30 minutes and a few bug bites later, I found myself emerging the forested area unscathed.

I should sleep like a baby tonight.

Paul

Inspired Run

Of course, because I stayed up too late last night that I had a really hard time getting up today. I perservered, but almost hit the snooze. Today was a scheduled run.

I had some inspirational music on when I went running today, and as a result, had a bit of extra energy that I didn't expect to have. I ran for 4.35 miles, 4 of it was running, the rest was warmup and cooldown. I ran about an 11:15-11:30 pace, which is a bit faster than I usually do. It was a great workout, however.

Paul

Short Swim

I had a busy day planned so I only had time to get a 20 minute swim in this morning. Don't know how many laps though.

Paul

Swim Day

Today was a swim day, and I did 75 laps in the pool at my gym, making roughly 3000 meters. Woke up a little sore from yesterday's strength training workout.

Paul

Running Day

I woke up at 5:00 AM this morning and headed to my fitness center to run. My key wasn't unlocking the gate to it and I almost didn't work out as a result. Instead I decided to head to the gym and use the treadmill there. I usually don't like to go to the gym to do my strength training, and I have never done running there. I definitely felt much less self-conscious than I did last year.

I ran about 35 minutes for about 2.8 miles at 5.4 miles per hour. Then did an upper body strength training workout. Details below:

• Chest - 3x8/100
  
• Shoulder - 2x8/60
  
• Lat - 3x8/115
  
• Tri - 2x8/40
  
• Bi - 1x2/50 (Crap)
  

As you can see, I didn't exactly do all that hot on the biceps. I couldn't adjust the machine and got pissed off at it, and couldn't find an alternate machine. Oh well. There is always next time.

Paul

Gold Award

I just finished up working out and when I logged my activity this week, I achieved enough to qualify for the Presidential Challenge Gold award. I have been working since February on that award, and am quite happy to have achieved it. It took like 80,000 points (calories) of exercise to win this. The next award it lists is the Platinum award, at 500,000 points. I figure that is 2-3 years out so I may want a slightly shorter-term goal in the mean time.

Today's workout was a swim, and I did about 75 minutes of it.

Paul

Another Swim

I was sick yesterday, so I didn't do much of anything but lounge around at home and nap. This morning, I was scheduled to swim. I drove all the way out to the gym and realized I forgot my shower shoes, and I am NOT going to walk around barefoot on that nasty gym locker room floor, so I headed back home and got my shoes and headed back to workout.

I swam for an hour and fifteen minutes, and did about 75 laps.

Paul

Losing Count

I swam again today, and did about 1.5 miles. I am not quite sure, as I lost track early on, but swam for 75 minutes which is about that distance.

Paul

A Little Cross Training

Woke up this morning, and didn't feel all that up to running, so I headed to the gym and did a 9 mile ride on the stationary bike for 30 minutes, then for kicks, I jogged for a quarter-mile and then strength trained (upper body).

• Chest - 3x8/90
  
• Shoulder - 2x8/60
  
• Lat - 3x8/110
  
• Tri - 2x8/40
  
• Bi - 3x8/60
  

Weighed in at 188 today. It is nice to see the scale start moving a bit. Even if it is just a little.

Paul

Long Swim today

I awoke again this morning at 4:30 AM and headed out to the gym to do some swimming. I didn't expect to go as long as I did, and I am sure I am going to pay for it a bit this weekend. I swam 75 laps (40 meters per lap) for 3000 meters this morning. It took me about an hour and 15 minutes to complete, and if I didn't have to go to work, I could have done another 25 laps easily. I forgot just how much I love to swim. Great workout today.

Tomorrow is scheduled for a run/strength train day. Lets just see if I can motivate myself out of bed to do it.

Paul