<p>Re paczki…several comments at the office about the fact that I turned up at the office without my annual bakery box filled with paczki! I told them I started lent early ;)</p>
<p>4 miles, pushups, abs, Abs Roller +, Smith Machine, Curls.</p>
<p>2180 calories, 30% carbs. It was a day on the high side for calories. I have a group lunch today so today will be a challenge, both in getting a workout and controlling calories.</p>
<p>Kinklings, who knew? What would I do without the likes of wikipedia.</p>
<p>If you can figure out a way around the boredom (do it with a friend so you can talk, figure out how to use your iPod without getting it wet etc), deep water running (don’t touch bottom) is an excellent exercise and good for just about any injury or issue. Use one of the flotation belts like an AquaJogger. I have spent many an hour in the pool going nowhere with my iPod under a baseball hat during injury or rehab spells.</p>
<p>^It is funny, why people get bored? I get bored watching TV, I never get bored while exercising, I just let my brain to work on either technical problems at work (this is the fastest time to solve anything, when the brain is in relaxed mode) or on the design of my next artsy project, actually sometime it is so much that I know that some of it will be forgotten, so then I am trying to memorize it. All of it sometime make me completely forget that I am swimming (as an example) even that I have to count laps to make sure to get out of the water at some point of time. Isolation of any non-group exercise activity is very refreshing. I never listen to anything, but many do while swimming.</p>
<p>I listen to music or to podcasts when I work out. Most of the podcasts I download are sports medicine or athletic training related. Occasionally some fitness stuff.</p>
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<p>I’ve got to find some new ones. I officially hit the wall yesterday with Gray Cook and Lee Burton on the interminable FMS segments of the StrengthCoach podcasts. :)</p>
<p>Party time here! 500 days of running without a miss. Today was a little tricky Had 7am Ash Wednesday church so couldn’t run this morning (and nasty 38 degree light rain). Vandy game tonight so that cuts out after work. Lunchtime it would be! Got down to the little locker room (still 38 and drizzle) to discover that I had not packed my running tights. I rarely mess up in my packing, but I sure did today. So-it was either do a mile at 10pm tonight to keep the streak or go out in shorts. I was dressed for winter from the waist up and for summer from the waist down. And-there were the Smartwool crew socks that would have looked fine with the tights- not so much with the shorts. And these were LITTLE shorts! Surprisingly, I was really OK out there. Legs really do stay pretty warm. 4.2 miles (easy day today) and the STREAK CONTINUES!!!</p>
<p><strong><em>Go MOWC!</em></strong></p>
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<p>Looks like you’d fit in with my hometown crowd, MOfWC! Shorts seem to be in style any time of the year here in my neck of the woods. It is not uncommon to see a guy wearing shorts with a really bulky down parka :)</p>
<p>GREAT JOB ON YOUR 500 DAYS!!! way to go!</p>
<p>(Ran some and then some more, did a few pushups here and there, learned not to fall off the Bosu ball - my biggest fitness achievement to date)</p>
<p>Amazing consistency.</p>
<p>I saw a guy in Boston on Monday night at my son’s apt with shorts and a heavy Nike fleece - looked like he just came in from a run.</p>
<p>Time for my run.</p>
<p>The group lunch didn’t happen. Apparently everyone else in the group forgot.</p>
<p>Another wow to MofWC’s 500 days. That’s a feat!</p>
<p>Sabaray, your diligence is paying off. Nice job!</p>
<p>Day 2, Week 4 of C25K complete with an added mile of walking. I usually listen to music while I work out. Today it was all Pearl Jam. Noticed little blue dayflowers blooming in the grass. It’s 86 degrees, and going a bit higher. Too hot. Too dry.</p>
<p>MOWC - long may you run! Congrats</p>
<p>So a family just moved in and the mom whose son is a big b-ball star around here joined us and she is just this huge tall ATHLETE lady in her fifties and that made the other ATHLETE ladies in our group get their motors running and off we went!</p>
<p>Yikes.</p>
<p>I’m running with THOSE people from high school. You know the ones.</p>
<p>Yikes. I’m the oldest in the pack. I keep reminding them of that.</p>
<p>Yay. I love a good 500 day party!.</p>
<p>The weatherman says tomorrow is the day to climb a little snow covered hill in the White Mountains. Mostly sunny with a high of 36 and a minimal 3 mph wind in Lincoln. So I’m heading up to Franconia Notch to climb [Mt</a>. Pemi/Indian Head](<a href=“MT PEMIGEWASSET WINTER HIKE - YouTube”>MT PEMIGEWASSET WINTER HIKE - YouTube). It’s just a short 3.7 mile round trip hike that I scouted out back around Thanksgiving. Nothing terribly steep. No rock ledges to climb.</p>
<p>I’m expecting that the trail will probably be packed down by now so hiking boots/microspikes will suffice. But, in the unlikely event that few people have hiked this trail this week, I’ll have the snow shoes lashed to my pack. I think I can make it to the top, even if I do have to snow shoe it the whole way. If nobody has hiked it since the blizzard and I have to break trail in a couple feet of snow, then, I’ll probably go a little ways, turn around, and go drink beer in Lincoln or something!</p>
<p>3.6 mi run on treadmill. Mt Pemi will probably have more scenic views. :)</p>
<p>How about the effects of soda. I love it but it is terrible for you.</p>
<p>[Soda</a> And Acne, Does Soda Causes Acne, Acne Causes](<a href=“http://www.clearskinhq.com/does-soda-cause-acne-and-pimples.html]Soda”>http://www.clearskinhq.com/does-soda-cause-acne-and-pimples.html)</p>
<p>I don’t know about acne, but I think that soda and soft drinks are probably the single worst “food item” you can eat or drink. Really horrible. And, the advice in that link to switch to fruit juice is lousy advice. Fruit juice is just as bad as Coca-Cola. It’s all just sugar water.</p>
<p>MOWC, I am in awe!</p>
<p>I drink a cola about once a year if I’ve done something really strenuous like pack up a dorm room. My kids love orange juice, I think I have the leftovers since Christmas. I should really cook with it if it hasn’t gone bad.</p>
<p>The dreaded Airdyne intervals for me today. Can’t use my cold as an excuse anymore. Had to hop on it for four 1/2 mile intervals and pant like a dog a little bit. And, that I did. Saw heart rates of 95% of max on the final two intervals.</p>
<p>Not the fastest 1/2 mile intervals I’ve ever done, but right in the ballpark, which is good.</p>
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<p>Doing a Bobby Flay inspired version of my chicken fajitas (hold the tortilla) for dinner. Fresh tomatillo and serrano chile salsa from queso fresco sprinkled on top. Time to cook!</p>