I didn’t want run today. I told myself all morning that I had already accomplished my distance goals for the week, so it was fine to sit this one out. But when I went outside to bring the garbage can back in, I knew I needed to spend some time outside. It was another beautiful “winter” day. I decided I would ride my bike, since that is much more fun than running. I debated it for about 30 minutes until I finally admitted it is still too cold to ride, so I got dressed for running. It’s been a long time since I’ve been out running on real roads. I ran my old loop from last spring, and I didn’t let myself walk even once. I don’t remember how long it took me to get to the point where I could do that last year, but it certainly didn’t happen my first day outside. I didn’t push hard or run fast at all, but I didn’t walk, and that made me happy. I took my phone with me and caught the run on RunKeeper.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/jtalbot\/activity\/71185796<\/a><\/p>\n After coming home I got on the treadmill and walked another mile to cool down and to make it so I hit at least 4 miles every day this week. That’s pretty awesome. I don’t think I have ever gone this far by foot in a week before, except maybe when I was in high school and we ran 3-5 miles as a warm-up before starting our real workout in the pool. I can’t believe how tough I must have been.<\/p>\n On another positive note, the push-ups were pretty easy again today.<\/p>\n Weekly Totals: Next week is going to be interesting. We’re planning on skiing Wednesday, and I want to get in as much skiing as possible, so I probably won’t run on Tuesday (or Thursday, depending on how dead my legs are after skiing). I may not run at all the week after that as we will be scuba diving 3 or 4 times each day the whole week. I can’t complain, but I am nervous that I’ll lose a lot before I get back into my routine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t want run today. I told myself all morning that I had already accomplished my distance goals for the week, so it was fine to sit this one out. But when I went outside to bring the garbage can … Continue reading
\n24.0 Miles (+6.5 from last week)
\n500 Push-ups (+0 from last week)
\n250 Jumping Jacks (+250 from last week)<\/p>\n