Reviewing the weather forecast and it looks like there may be a light starting to shine at the end of the tunnel. 29 degrees on Saturday and 39 on Sunday! It's a mutha'-fuckin' heat wave! Can't come soon enough as I'm grasping onto my motivation by the skin of my teeth.
Still, I'm now on 49 days in a row of straight exercise. Last five days have been over an hour of work. Most of my workouts have been easy-medium intensity and have been going quite well for the most part. My biggest issue has been finding the motivation to get started. I usually talk myself into just doing a 1/2 hour and once I get going I start to feel good and wind up extending the workout more and more.
My treadmill seems to be working better than ever now. It seemed a bit squeaky after I put the new roller in but that's calmed down after a few uses... I think it might have just been the belt lubricant.
I ran 9 treadmill miles on Saturday om 1:15:16 (8:21 pace), which got me to 30 on the week. After I finished my run I drove to the health department and got my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine! I'm so happy about that, I've been waiting for 11 months! The vaccine went okay. I went shopping afterwards and then drove home. By the time I got home I was really tired. I napped for a couple hours. When I woke up, my shoulder was really sore... by night time it was extremely sore to the point that I had issues finding a comfortable position to sleep. It was feeling better by the morning but I still felt a little off during my run. About 7 miles in I started snapping out of it a bit and I actually think the run might have done me some good. Wound up doing 10 miles in 1:18:16 (7:49 pace).
Today I rode the bike for an hour+. Again I didn't feel good starting off but once I got 1/2 hour in I just kept going and going and next thing I knew I was at an hour.
I had a breakthrough performance on the bench press too. I haven't been pushing myself, just doing 5 sets at 155 on Mondays. Normally I've had issues getting 5 sets of 10, but today I started with a set of 10, and then 3 sets of 12 and finally a set of 14. I didn't do any pushups on Saturday or Sunday because of my shot so maybe I was just in a good state of rest.
2021 GOALS PROGRESS UPDATE:
Another Monday, another update
1. 10,000 pushups: 2254/on pace for 17885
2. 7500 pulls ups: 1318/on pace for 10458... took the weekend off and only did 12 today. Got to hit these hard tomorrow
3. 26 Hours on the Bike: With another hour on the bike I'm now at 10:41:00 which is way ahead of schedule. I've been enjoying the bike lately. I think that fact that most of my running has been easy means I'm not ever getting that fatigued so it's not a big deal to go an hour on the bike on my off day. This can be cut back to a 1/2 hour as planned if my body needs it.
4. 2021 miles: 300.02... 45 miles ahead of pace now. Now that my treadmill is back in service the miles are adding up again. Back to doing 8-10 miles on the treadmill each time out. So far my knee issue that was bothering me seems to have calmed down.
No comments:
Post a Comment