I'm a jogger

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

I'm official a jogger! I've been walking/jogging on the treadmill for a few weeks. Today I walked for 5 minutes (warm up); jogged for 30 minutes; walked for 5 minutes (cool down). I'm not jogging fast; but I'm jogging! In fact, I'm sure I can walk as fast as I'm jogging; but it is a great start. Originally I was going to make the transition from walking to jogging over about 6 weeks; but I decided that since I'm not recovering from any injuries and I'm staying on either the treadmill or soft surfaces (trails) I could move up the schedule a bit.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Today I had a great 30 minutes on the spin bike. It is really the first day on the spin bike that I felt I could push myself. It is interesting that, in the past, I've never been to spin class (or on a spin bike at home) more than once a week. I've never felt like I could really push myself hard. I think spinning 3 times a week has helped because my body is adjusting to the spin bike. So I had a great workout.

I still need to get out on the real bike at least a couple times a month. I'm also not swimming. I can only swim Thursday and Friday nights. So I'm trying to decide if I want to wait till spring to pick up swimming again. My Spring Quarter is over March 20th! So that may be the ticket...because I could swim 3 nights a week then. We will see, I still might try to get in the pool once a week just to start building a base. There use to be (and may still be) a masters group at the Pine Lake Club. That might be an option as well. Swim one day a week (in the morning) with them and then one evening at klahanie. Still figuring this out.

Today I did two sets of upper body weights. This has also been lacking!

Tricepts
Bicept curls
and Pec exercise.