Lets get caught up

On Thanksgiving day, I did 4 miles with my nephew. He's 9 years old. We had a good run, but it started raining HARD about mid way through. We pushed through it and finished the 4 iles. The little guy was more prepared than I was he had a jogging suit, long sleeves and pants. I had on shorts and two small short sleeve shorts. When we were done, my hands were like ice.

Last night I did 5.63 miles on the treadmill.

This morning I ran 6.11 miles on the treadmill. So far I'm at 65.42 miles for the month. I have never ran this much in a month before.

Today is the last day of our running competition. I'm currently leading by 3.02.

I also have one full week left of the weight loss competition. I weighed myself last night and I was 190lbs. So I have about 5 lbs to go to meet my goal. I'm looking forward to setting up some new goals after both of the competitions are over.
Hope everybody had a great thanksgiving!

Chuck

I have taken the lead!

Today I ran 3.10 miles in 28:21 min; this is my best time for a 5k. Sure it would be different it was outside. But regardless I'm happy. I'm currently 2.46 miles ahead of my co-worker. It looks like I will hit 50 miles this month or more.
Need to keep it up, and hopefully lose some more weight. The running is increasing my appetite; I hope I'm not eating too much. Either way I'm very happy with the progress I have made since June 1st. I was 219lbs, today I weigh 194lbs.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Chuck

Welcome to the Chaffing Club

This morning I knocked out 5.68 miles. I'm .64 miles behind my coworker!! Need to figure out a way to pass her up. (I got an idea, run more miles than her)
I had a good run this morning. Since I have been increasing my running, I have decreased my push ups and haven't done my jump rope workout as much. Oh well for now I'm enjoying the running. After November I'm going to start including more weight training.

MAN! I have joined the Nipple Chaffing club. Somebody help me! I don't think I'm wearing the right kind of shirts. Thats all I got for today.

Chuck

Yesterday!

Yesterday I ran a total of 4.47 miles. This was done in two seperate runs. The first run was at 6:45 in the morning in a Forrest... I was up at a lodge during a Marriage retreat with my church. And one of my friends who is an athlete to say the least asked me if I brought running shoes. I told him yes. He wanted to go for a run, so I met him at 6:30am. We went outside and it was Freezing! Windy! and Raining! And it was pitch black, and this was supposed to be a nice stroll in the woods. We waited a little longer to see if the sun would start to shine. So 15 minutes later it was a "little" brigher and we went for it.

It was very cold, windy, and wet. Mid way through the first loop, my glasses started to fog up, so I was having a hard time seeing where my steps were going to be. The good thing is that he was leading and everytime he jumped over something, I knew what to TRY next. A couple times I slipped really bad, but luckily somehow I didn't totally crash and burn. We did 3.25 miles. It was rough, but afterwards once I was done. I realized that I had a great time. Then last night I went with another friend to play some basketball, and afterwards I did 1.22 miles on a treadmill.

It was a great weekend! Oh and I'm 5.32 miles behind my co-worker, I need to make a push soon! I wanted to run this morning, but I was just too tired.

Thanks for reading,
Chuck

Tree Trunk Legs???

This morning I ran 6 miles on the treadmill, took me 63 minutes.
So since I was a young boy, I have always had what they call "Tree Trunk Legs" People would make jokes about the size of my legs, I would join them in the fun.
But yesterday my wife looked at me and started laughing. I asked her what she was laughing at. And she said your legs are skinny! What a compliment!

My 6 mile run was good this morning. So far I'm less tired compared to yesterday.

Anyways lets get back to business, I have ran 16.13 miles this week. As of right now I'm .59 miles behind my co-worker! Time to turn it up!

Everyone enjoy your weekend.
Chuck

MapMyRun.com | bring it!!

So today I ran 6.63 miles. Here is a link to the challenge with me and my co-worker. She is ahead by 6 miles and some change. I must catch up!!


MapMyRun.com | bring it!!

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At gym at 6:00Am

So I had my Free Fitness Orientation with a trainer today. I was looking forward to it, to get some more information and perhaps some guidance on what exercises I should do. They took my weight and my body fat %. They said my body fat % is 20.2 which I was happy about. We have been taking it at work and I thought it was higher. Who knows its probably somewhere in between.

After that we did some warm up exercises. Then we started doing some core exercises on one of the huge exercise balls. Man I was dying! We did one where you had to go into a plank position with forearms on he ball and then move our shoulders in tiny circles. Then we did another one where I lay on my back and put my feet up on the ball. I had to bring my feet in and point my knees up to the sky! I thought I was going to die... After that we sat down and she tried to sell me a Trainer package. I declined. Too expensive. I didn't tell her that my wife used to be a Physical Trainer and actually worked at 24 hour fitness. But I got a good core workout. After that I ran 1 single mile, and did some chest press with dumb bells.

I would have liked to run more but didn't have enough time. My plan is to run 3 more times this week and try to pass my 16.99 miles from last week.

Chuck

its a New Week

This morning I did 1 mile on the elliptical machine and 1.5 miles on the treadmill. I weighed in at 195.4 lbs. I have 10.4 lbs to go to reach my goal by Dec 7th. The guy I'm going up against has 7lbs to reach his goal. I'm keeping this short. I ran 16.99 miles last week. My goal is to increase my miles each week.

Chuck

6 miles today

I cranked out 6.0 miles today at the gym. I'm 3.5 miles behind my co-worker. I'm planning on running Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Hoping to catch up. I'm going to try to keep on slowly increasing my miles.

thanks for reading,
Chuck

Now I know for sure that I ran 4 miles

Got up at 5:35 this morning. Went to the gym. Its a 5 minute drive to the gym. I did 7 pull ups!!! I know its not a lot. But I gotta start somewhere.

Then I got on the treadmill and ran for 4.23 miles. The machine said I burned 505 calories. I failed to gather my total time. It was probably somewhere around 42 minutes. Actually in the middle I was trying to change the view of my pace on the treadmill, and I was pressing the pause button and I ended that session. But I gathered my distance at that point and had to start over. I was slightly annoyed by this, but who cares!

I'm 6 miles behind my coworker for total miles.

Later,
Chuck

Converted today into a run day

Last night I went to the local 24 hour fitness and signed up myself and my wife on a Month to Month deal. I was pretty excited! So my plan was to wak up early this morning and get some miles in. I was so amped to go to the gym that I was up at 5 am. Part of that was because infant was waking up too.

So anyways got to the gym, I did 1 mile on the eliptical trainer to warm up and then did 2.5 miles on the treadmill. I was a little light headed when I got off the treadmill. I don't think I was hydrated enough. I got some water felt fine. I ran into a ex co-worker of mine. It was cool to chat with him. So far I'm up to 10 miles for November, Must Run More Miles!

And I plan on playing a little bit of basketball today as well.

Thanks,
Charles

Tuesday - Run 3.26 miles and THE HILL

So today I ran 3.26 miles in 41 minutes. This is the same route that I took last week that I thought was 4 miles. Towards the end of the run I was feeling really good. And I started to wonder if I messed up on the route and if it was really 4 miles. turns out it wasn't its only 3.26. Oh well I still took on the hill. It was a pretty good run. My endurance is getting much better. If I had more time I would have ran for a longer distance.

I'm pretty excited, we are going to sign up for a 24 hour fitness today I think. And I'm looking forward to getting access to weights and treadmills.

I started another side competition with another co-worker of mine. She has been running a lot the last 2 years. We decided that whoever has the most miles by the end of Nov will win. The loser has to complete a 7 mile run. SHE'S TOTALLY KICKING MY BUTT! She's at 19 miles I'm at a total of 6.55. I believe that I can catch up with her. But even If I lose I just have to run more which I'm starting to like. thats all I got.

Later,
chuck

Monday

So last week was kind of weak. I only did my jump rope workout once, i played basketball twice, and ran 4 miles. Saturday and Sunday I did a biggest loser tv workout. So I was pretty active, but didn't run as much as I would have liked. I want to make sure this week I run more.

Today I did my jump rope workout, 6 sets of:

jump rope 100
push ups 10
Jmp jacks 40
squats 15

I did 3 more sets of jump rope. Then I did 75 crunches. I weigh in next Monday, my goal is to be between 192 - 195lbs. I will let you k now where I'm at by then. Tomorrow is a run day for me.

good night,
Chuck

Friday Night

Quick post here: Instead of doing my jump rope, jacks, and push up workout tonight. I found a free workout On Demand. It was a Biggest Loser workout, the well known trainer Bob lead it.
It was a pretty good workout. Afterwards I was sweating pretty good. Right after the workout I did 30 push ups and 60 crunches.

looking forward to a run tomorrow.

Chuck

Friday Fall day

Today I played basketball during lunch. I think I fell down at least three times. One time somebody hit me right in the face and knocked my glasses off. Another time I fell on my left side. CLUMSY ALERT!

Oh well, I still got a pretty decent workout. Tonight I'm still going to do my jump rope, jacks, and push up workout with squats.

Tomorrow I'm going to go on a run, hoping for longer than 4 miles.

thanks,
Charles

One of my best runs so far

I just finished a 4.02 mile run. Yes I have to put the .02 in there. It rained and it was pretty windy during the run. I have been pretty hesitant to run in the rain. But told myself today I was going to commit to running no matter what. I took a different route today and it worked out great. Until I was passed the halfway point. I looked up ahead and saw what seemed to be a pretty big hill. This was my first experience with a decent sized hill. I was a little nervous. Once I got to the hill it definitely was harder to keep my pace. I knew I was going to feel it in my calves later on. And I do. I kept on going, I think I walked about 10 steps the whole time and only stopped at cross walks. This was one of my best runs because its one of the longest that I have done in the recent months. And because I was able to finish it with the uncomfortable weather. I'm more confident that I can handle the rain wind and cold on future runs.

thanks for reading,
Chuck

Bad basketball

I played basketball for lunch. I played 5 full court games. I think my team won 1 single game! I was getting frustrated... Oh well I got a pretty good workout in. Tomorrow is a run day for me. It will be my first run of the week. Hoping to get in at least 3 miles tomorrow.

See Ya,
Chuck

Wednesday already...

I have had a slow start to this week. I was supposed to do my jump rope workout Monday night. I didn't. I was supposed to run yesterday but I couldn't. So last night I did my jump rope, jacks, push up workout.

4 sets of jump rope: 80
5 sets of jump rope: 100

6 sets of jacks: 40
6 sets of push ups: 10
6 sets of squats: 10

It was a pretty good workout. My legs are a little tight this morning, but they feel good. Today I will run or play basketball depending on how the day goes. I'm prepared to do one or the other.
I will turn this week around and get some miles in. Still not sure how much I weigh. I was really struggling with wanting to weigh myself last night. Funny how I'm struggling to break this "game rule". Although its not a life or death situation, I still refrained from weighing myself. I will find out on 11/16/09 how much I weigh.

thanks for reading,
Chuck

Jump rope, jacks, push ups, squats

Hey hey hey,

So I was supposed to run today. But we were so busy for Halloween. We had a good day trick or treating with my 2 year old son. I didn't run, but tonight I did my jumping jack flash workout.
Here is what I did, 5 sets of:

jump rope: 100
j jacks: 40
push ups: 50
squats: 12

Then I did at least 3 more sets of jump rope after this. This week has been good. I'm disappointed that I didn't get my run in today. I'm one run short for this week. I'm thinking about forgetting about my rest day tomorrow and running in the morning. This so far I played basketball twice, did my jumping jack flash workout twice and ran twice for 6.63 miles.

Overall I'm happy with this week. Looking forward to another good week.

Oh and I have been wanting to incorporate some weight lifting into my workouts. I don't have a gym membership right now. Hoping to join 24hour fitness, there is a nice one very close to our house. We will see how this goes.

So 2 weeks down, 5 more to go till the end of our competition. I still have no idea how much i weigh. I keep on passing my scale and desperately want to know how much I weigh. But sticking to the rules.

Chuck