New Muscles Discovered

It appears as though I found and worked out some new muscles yesterday. I have a lot of inner thigh muscle soreness today for some reason, and as a result I didn't attempt the long run. I did, however, ride the stationary bike for 30 minutes on level 7 for 10.8 miles, and then hopped on the elliptical machine for 30 minutes doing a cross-training aerobic workout at level 4. All in all a pretty good workout even though I am limping around a bit this morning.

Paul

Monday Monday...

So good to me....

Had a massage yesterday, and woke up with a few new aches. I headed out the door anyway and started with a short 2.6 mile run (4.7 mph x 30 miutes), and then hopped on the bike for a 30 minute ride for 11 miles on level 7.

Paul

Cardio

Today I hopped on the treadmill and did 35 minutes of running. I ran about 2.5 miles in that time, and bumped the speed up to 5 miles per hour for a bit. I then hit the stationary bike, cautious not to play with the buttons and to get the foot straps off before I started. I rode 8 miles in 30 minutes on a hilly course at level 7.

Good workout, if not a routine one.

Paul

Damn Bike

I started today on the elliptical machine, which was probably a good thing as I got at least that 30 minutes in just fine. After that I hopped on the stationary bike and started a normal workout there. The shoe strap on my left foot popped off about 12 minutes in to the workout. When I stopped to remove the strap entirely, the bike reset. So I restarted it for another 17 minutes. About 5 minutes later I decided to investigate the pause/clear button. Little did I know that hitting that button twice resets the bike as well. So after a little bit of frustration, I hopped off the bike and decided to do 10 minutes in the sauna instead. I will remember to remove the damn straps on the bike before my workout next time.

Paul

UPDATE: Rowed 5000 meters in 24:49.5

Long Run

Today is my regular long run day. I had planned to try and out-do my 6 mile run from last week, but I think I needed a little bit more recovery. I ran 4.56 miles in 65 minutes and was about pooped out at the end of it. I will see what next week brings me for energy.

On a positive note, I weighed in today at 218 pounds, although this appears to be another scale tease. Guess I'll find out soon enough.

Paul

Back to Business

I had a sore shoulder socket most of the weekend, so I ended up missing several workouts with the hopes that the shoulder would be better by today. Well, it was so I headed out and hit the treadmill for a short 2.2 mile run, and a 30 minute bike ride at level 7 for 8.5 miles. Not too bad a workout.

I did notice a new pain in my left shouderblade. It was muscular in nature, but I couldn't imagine what could be causing it. I wasn't exactly doing anything with my shoulder this morning, and it only hurt for about 5 minutes of my run. Guess I just had to work out a kink.

I was really more worried about an injury to my foot that happened yesterday. Apparently my chair had a loose staple or nail, and I was jabbed pretty hard by it. It bled for an hour it seems. But thankfully, aside from light surface pain this morning when I put on my shoes, I had no pain from it during the run.

Paul

UPDATE: Rowed 5000 meters in 24:49.1

Busy Busy

Work is interfering with today's morning workout, as I had to get to work at 5am to finish a report. I'll row this evening.

Paul

Silver

Last night I had weird fitness dreams. Not to go in to too much detail about them, however, when I woke up, I was pretty darn ready to do my workout. I headed out and started with the elliptical machine, and did 30 minutes on the cardio setting. It must have been the fact I had just woken up, but the machine increased intensity pretty darn fast, and made the workout extremely hard before my heart rate caught up and the machine lowered it back to a normal (for me) range. I did like 3.6 miles on the thing.

I then hopped on the stationary bike for a 30 minute ride at level 7. I did like 8.5 miles on the bike as well.

When I got to work and started logging my activities on the Presidential Challenge Site, I found out that I won the silver award. That only took me about 3 months. One more award and I can start the advanced program.

I hope the rest of my day goes as good as my morning started out to do.

Paul

UPDATE: Rowed 5000 meters in 24:45.5

Strength Training - Upper Body

Woke up this morning, and really wanted to go out and do some more cardio, but as today was a planned strength training day, and I already skipped Monday's strength training for some cardio, I decided to go ahead and follow my plan.

I worked my upper body today, and did pretty good on most of it. I was pretty fatigued at the end so my biceps kind of sucked. Here are the stats:

• Chest - 90
  
• Shoulders - 50
  
• Lat - 90
  
• Tri - 50
  
• Bicep - 20
  

Not too horrible, but definitely not my best today.

Paul

UPDATE: Skipped the row today, was tired and sore.

Long Run - Personal Record

Today I headed out for my long run for the week. I planned adding half a mile to my last run, but ended up running 6 miles instead. Only .2 miles left until I have my 10-K distance accomplished. I ran the 6 miles in 1:20:00 and from 4.6-5 mph.

I will probably drag ass all day long as a result. :)

Paul

UPDATE: Rowed 5000 meters in 25:34.4. And I did drag ass as a result. Going to bed early tonight.