Week Totals 8/23-29, 2009 & Summary

SWIM: 1 15 minutes 600 yards/.31 miles
BIKE: 5 233 minutes 67 miles
RUN: 6 299 minutes 28 miles
TOTAL: 12 547 minutes 95.31 miles

SUMMARY: Not a stellar week, broke the streak of running at 218 days. Lets face it I am fatigued and unmotivated for some unknown reason, have to go with it and get through it. I managed to maintain total minutes over 500 which is spectacular considering how I am lacking in desire to get up and go out and exercise. Goal this week, just keep on at least a bit and get over the lack of mojo whenever it decides to return. Mild depression? I do not know. Stay tuned to find out how this guy gets through the next week.

August 30, 2009

Today's Workout:
X60
BIKE: 40 minutes strong on stationary for 13 miles.
RUN: 20 minutes hard and easy for 2+ miles on the treadmill.
SWIM: 10 minutes, 400 yards.
WALK: 10 minutes, treadmill.
That's it.

August 29, 2009

Today's Workout:

X60, M

RUN: 52 minutes, road run.

Thats it.

August 28, 2009

Today's Workout:

BIKE: 35 minutes, 11+miles, stationary at medium effort.

RUN: 46 minutes, 5 miles, treadmill at hard effort.

Today's Thoughts:

I have been reading a biography about Ted Williams, the great baseball player. It is a fascinating read about a complex man. From an early age, Ted decided to concentrate all of his efforts towards baseball, mainly hitting. His record in baseball attests to his success in that endeavor. The other parts of his life are even more interesting. His relations with fans, the regular Joe on the street, sportswriters, his own children, teammates, are varied and range from lifetime battles to lifetime friendships. Perhaps this is no different than the many relationships we all share both good and bad throughout our lives. His last years are lived with increasing struggles and debilitating health problems. He lived a very full and mostly very healthy life for 75 years, complex and confusing full of himself and helping those less fortunate along the way.

It is a great book about a most interesting man living life always by his own rules. Living by his own rules brings him both great fame and fortune as well as suffering. There are a number of lessons to be learned from this book, I am still reading and working to absorb it all, don't know that I will figure it all out, but if I do, I'll let you know. In the meantime, do the best you can and be great.

August 27, 2009

BACK ON TRACK...

Today's Workout:

X60,M

BIKE: 33 minutes, 10.57 miles, stationary.

RUN: 35 minutes, industrial road run, easy.

August 26, 2009

Ted Kennedy

The man was a United States Senator for 47 years. He was a political hero for the poor and the working class. He has passed away. There is no one like him now.

We need him now more than ever. We miss him. We will remember him. The Liberal Lion of the Senate. The last brother. A fighter and a leader has gone.

Today's Workout:

None

A Day of Rest

A Day for Reflection.

The streak ends at

218 consecutive days of running.

August 25, 2009

Today's Workout:

M

RUN: 35 minutes, 3+ miles, streets in the early AM, easy jog.

BIKE: 33 minutes, 10+ miles, stationary, easy spin.

Not a big workout today, light in fact. Tired AGAIN! Slow to get moving and non too motivated.

Somehow I roll out and roll on. Call it habit, persistence, guilt, or whatever you want. I managed to get something done, 68 minutes of aerobic activity, this morning. Time to go, bye.