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Day eight of fitness plan
Weight: 282 pounds Exercise: Week 2, Day 1 of Couch-to-5K plan. Five minute warm-up walk, followed by 20 minutes of alternating 90 seconds of running with 2 minutes of walking. (Obviously, that doesn’t come out even, so the last walking section only lasts 1 minute.) Jake and I went to the Bridger track together today.…
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Day seven of fitness program
Weight: 279.5 pounds Exercise: Took Ollie for a 25 minute walk around the neighborhood. It’s my off-day from both the pushups and the running. We’ve had our English Setter, Ollie, for 10 years this month. He was a full-grown stray when we took him in. Michelle’s sister Billie found him outside of her work near…
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Day six of getting in shape
Fallling back to the wimp category allowed me to finish the Week 1, Day 3 workout of the hundredpushups.com plan but just barely. I did five sets of pushups (4,5,4,4,5) and I just barely managed to do the fifth pushup in the last set. Although the plan is six weeks long, I suspect that I’ll…
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Day five of exercise program
I think my bathroom scales must be broken. I weighed 283 this morning, and two days ago I weighed 277. But I did overeat again yesterday afternoon and evening. I really have to cut that out. Jake and I went running together this morning. I’m on Week 1, Day 3 of the Couch-to-5k running plan,…
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Day four of my exercise program
Apparently I tried too hard on the initial test I did on the hundred pushups program. I ended up in the second category, but I’m not able to do all the sets called for in the plan for people who are in the second category. Today, I was supposed to do five sets of 6,…
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Day three of the exercise program
It’s cold and rainy today, but I ventured outdoors to do the workout from Week 1, Day 2 of the Couch-to-5K running program. I did a five-minute warm-up walk, followed by 20 minutes where I alternated 60 seconds of jogging with 90 seconds of walking. By the end of it my fingers ached, but I…
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Happy Monday 🙁
I did Week 1, Day 1 of the hundred pushups program this morning. I didn’t do very well. I did five sets (6,6,4,4,1). The last set I was supposed to max out but do at least five. I only managed to do one. And the bathroom scales say that I weigh 280 pounds this morning.…
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Getting in shape
First a brief history: I’ve had neuropathy in my feet for about five years, I was diagnosed with high cholesterol a couple of years ago, and I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes last year. In the fall of 2007, I started an exercise program but I only lasted a couple of months and I…
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Aren’t they cute?
Weekend before last, we had a family get-together at my in-laws’ house. This is a short video of my very cute great-nephew Julius and great-niece Lola chowing down on strawberries.
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George Carlin on religion
A couple of days ago, I was talking about how it was sad that some good people had to die so young. Well, George Carlin was a cantankerous old bastard, but it’s sad that he had to go too. Here’s one of his rants on religion that I find particularly amusing.