I think I torqued something in my foot a few weeks ago and haven't been able to run much since then. Today I spent a few minutes on the intertubes looking it up, and my totally uneducated butt came up with this. I have no idea if it's accurate, but...
My world is full of tasty good. I've been drinking Scotch. And most days it's either too dark or cold to run (outside). I guess I'll have to burn it all off next year....
28:56.3 is my official time for the 5k I ran last Friday. I'm really pleased that I came in below the 29-minute mark. Wooo!...
I ran my first timed race today. It was almost accidental—earlier this week Layla informed me that we had a 5k charity race sponsored by our company, and since I wasn't actually doing anything this Friday, I jumped at it. My watch recorded the total 5k time at 29:09 minutes,...
As I mentioned a few days ago, I'm a hurt nerd for collecting and tracking exercise data. Come to think of it, I posted some of the actual numbers last month. Anyway, it should be obvious that I track all of this in an Excel sheet. Actually, I track it...
Today is the 50th day of consecutive exercise I've done. The last day I didn't exercise was the 5th of July, a day on which I was most hung over. In the last 50 days, I've run 68.96 miles and have biked a whopping 309.42. Add those together for 36,509...
Somehow—accidentally—my run this morning was almost exactly 10km. Technically it was just a hair longer at 6.22 miles (10km is 6.214). I used my last run as a course (~5.75 miles) and altered a section at the beginning for variety—I'm lucky it landed right at 10km and I certainly wasn't...
I ran across this approximate VO2 Max calculator. It's reportedly expensive to get this measured at a lab so even if it's only a rough indicator, this Javascript app is the right price. The test was straightforward but was frustrating to walk an entire mile in full running gear. That's...
I've got over a year's worth of daily (and consistent) weight data, and nearly a year's worth of detailed distance and calorie exercise data. So, I crunched it. Here' the scatter chart of my weight delta plotted against calories consumed in exercise, both calculated as averages across 7-day sliding windows....
I got a physical today. My blood pressure was 96/66. Apparently I'm pretty relaxed....
I'm trying to figure this one out. It's difficult. The chart at right shows my heart rate (red line, at top) and the speed at which I'm running (blue line, at bottom). In both cases, up is faster. Ignore the weird jaggies in the blue plot. The GPS track isn't...
This is the first year I've started running outside in the winter. Today I did a (reasonably short) 2.5 mile loop in the dark. It sucked. I don't like running in the dark. Washington is so full of trees that the moon and streetlights aren't very useful. But, it's still...
I've been thinking about getting a Garmin Forerunner 405 for about six months now, and yesterday I picked one up. It's a training watch with a built in GPS tracker. Here's the low-down from a day's worth of use.It's beefy. This is a big watch. Anyone significantly smaller than I...
Danny's comment about heart rate monitors reminded me to mention something I've been waiting for since earlier this year: the Garmin Forerunner 405. Before I talk about the Garmin, however, I want to note that my Polar F6 has worked great for the last year and it's given me no...
When I'm running, I typically go for distances in multiples of 2.5km. But since none of the treadmills at the gym work in kilometers (heathens), I get to measure everything in miles. So I work off of the assumption that 5.0km =~ 3.1miles. The thing is that my 2.5km runs...
I've had good times and bad in my exercise regimen. While in the 20/20 program, I had no problem making my training appointments...but exercising outside of my scheduled times didn't really happen, especially near the end of the program. And since I was only meeting my trainer 3 times a...
Layla and Bonnie ran a 5k event this last Sunday, which means that I got to train with Layla for the week prior. And now that the event is over, I've found that I actually dig on running ~5k a few times each week. Running outside is far far better...
I've been using the same pair of running shoes since 2002. Not continuously. But they're starting to get really worn out, and I've noticed that my right ankle and calf develops a dull pain when running. My trainer (and others) have suggested that the shoes are about dead, and need...
I lost part of my vision today in my right eye. I've got absolutely no idea why it happened, but it caused me to flip out. Essentially, I had some distortion in a ring around the perimeter of my right eye, and I had some loss of peripheral vision on...
Remember this post? Well, here's another....
