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How a 250+ Pound Couch Potato Got Healthy

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Intervals - 5.35 miles

Today was tough, and early on I think I tweeted about being worried that my boss wouldn't let me out the door at all.

Well, my boss did let me go, I think I ended up out the door at 2:51pm, heh. It was an amazing day outside actually, temp was 52.7F. I even got to wear shorts and a t-shirt, which was great.

And I nailed my intervals.



13 min warmup + 6 x (1 min hard, 2 min easy) + 15 min cooldown. Hard was a 7:22 goal, I averaged a bit faster than that. Easy was ~10 min/mi. They were:

Interval 1: .14 mi, 7:11/mi
Interval 2: .14 mi, 7:04/mi
Interval 3: .14 mi, 7:00/mi
Interval 4: .14 mi, 7:00/mi
Interval 5: .15 mi, 6:50/mi
Interval 6: .15 mi, 6:50/mi

Total 5.23 miles, 49:24, 9:27/mi average.

I did learn something important: don't do intervals in an area where you have to cross the freeway exit just as rush hour starts. Ehh, I had to wait about 30 seconds in the middle of an interval (#4 I believe) for traffic to clear. I stopped the timer, which I normally wouldn't do, but the goal was to run a minute nonstop. I ended up re-running the first 30 seconds, then starting the timer for the last 30 seconds. Also funny, I accidentally ran an additional sprint at the end, so I think I made up for stopping time.

Then in the last mile, a couple of overweight teenagers driving by in their souped up, lowered, purple pickup made fun of me. Ah, to be young. Whippersnappers!

Today's Tweets

06:30 Wt: 168, RHR: 54 #

06:58 Leaving 25 minutes late. :( #

08:50 Transitioning from low carb to "holy crap I'm eating 300-400g of carbs a day." Needless to say it's a tad rough. #

09:16 Hah! Speaking of carbohydrates, i wandered into the break room to hear someone complaining about how chinese food makes her hungry later. #

10:26 1200lb capacity toilet seat: tinyurl.com/2ovljy #

10:37 Forget reacharound! tinyurl.com/87566g #

12:07 Any good hikers/backpackers worth following? #

12:39 Man I love these: New Dharma Special Access video, tinyurl.com/6sqbho password: holma #

12:39 Alright, time for the gym. Hopefully at lunchtime there aren't too many resolutioners. :) #

14:24 Strange, I just got an email from Fleet Feet about Brooks Adrenaline GTS 9, which isn't on the Brooks website. #

14:58 Indian coworker is listening to his ipod, singing out loud in Hindi. #

15:03 Mmm, kettlebells. #

15:49 3:45 already? This afternoon's flying by! That happens when I'm not at the gym until 1. #

15:52 MapMyFitness isn't spitting my workout onto Twitter today. :( #

15:53 Oh wait, duh, I changed my password. #

15:53 FARRAKHAAAAAAAAAN! #

16:07 Testing my Twitter-MapMyFitness.com Connection #

16:08 Aha, there we go. Back to our normally scheduled tweets. ;) #

16:27 Training, people, training! #

16:29 Or would it be tweeple? #

16:58 Heading home. Diet Dew, where are you??? #

17:04 New post on my blog: Weight Workout: At the gym today, I was totally surprised that there ar.. tinyurl.com/9xjfgl #

17:04 New video uploaded: Running Vlog #1: Something silly I thought I'd try, this is my first Runn.. tinyurl.com/9l7otm #

17:13 Heh, with changing my pwd, twitterfeed is feeding old Youtube videos of mine. Sorry bout that. #

17:13 Got my Diet Dew, I can safely drive home. #

19:34 Finished up with Cub Scouts, now at Target. No way am I spending $60 for a Polar strap! #

19:43 Now @ Walmart. I need a good Reebok HRM Woot! #

19:45 I lost my Polar strap that I use with the Reebok watch. :( #

19:47 Aha! Walmart had the right one. 50 bucks I can handle. The Reebok from Woot is 20, but you never know when it shows up. #

19:50 Stinkin Garmin & their nonstandard strap, and not tracking calories! #

21:16 GAH! 1720 calories eaten today and still barely got to 200g of carbs. BIG transitional learning curve. :-D #

21:16 I mean, what do I do, sit around eating rice all day? #

22:22 Watching: Babylon 5, Season 5: "Secrets of the Soul" #

23:01 You know, Jack Handey must love Twitter. #

23:02 If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone. #

23:16 I'm going to bed. Here's my prediction for morning: weight gain. We shall see. #

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