The Chances

How a 250+ Pound Couch Potato Got Healthy

Saturday, April 26, 2008

I'm back from this morning's 5k, the Run Drugs Out of Town for my area. There were about 200 people there. There wasn't any official timing, which was a shame, but here's my results:

Time: 25:09:12, my fastest 5k time! Once again, I blew my old time out of the water, this time by 2:11! My pastor ran with me and wasn't too much farther back than I was, he finished only 15 or 20 seconds after I did.

Oh, and my bib # was 42. See, now THAT'S why I got the time I did...

Diggin' the 5k's so far. :) 301 calories burned.

Greg

Friday, April 25, 2008

I wanted to burn 600 calories tonight but that would have been another 30 to 45 minutes of cardio. I'm in a 5k tomorrow at 9, so I figured I should take it easy tonight.

So in the end I did 20 minutes on the treadmill @ 6mph, then another 25 on the stairclimber, all while watching Babylon 5. Only one episode left until the end of Season 1.

350 calories burned.

Greg

Thursday, April 24, 2008

...and another thing:

30 minute treadmill, 6mph
10 minute stairclimber, level 5 regular action
Calories burned: 429
Total for the day: 678

"You take Zathras? Zathras die. You leave Zathras? Zathras die. Either way... things not good for Zathras."
Finished up in the gym a little while ago. Same workout as Monday with one humungous difference: no wooziness! Thank goodness, the sprint intervals were looking mighty scary today, but even at 12mph they weren't a problem (Monday I only did 10mph because of the bum treadmill).

At any rate, 36 minutes, 249 calories burned. That means I get to burn 350 tonight while watching... Babylon Squared!