<p>So I took advantage of a little window between rain showers and headed out to test my new GPS watch on my 5k hilly walk/jog route (although I did carry a little rain jacket in a pouch, just in case).</p>
<p>The GPS worked like a charm – it even showed where I walked around puddles. Pretty amazing. It returned a distance of 3.18 miles on a route my iPod foot sensor has been saying is 3.19 miles. Not bad.</p>
<p>The software I’m using has elevation correction: it uses separate USGS topoplogical data to produce accurate elevation for each GPS point. So, I finally get to see an accurate elevation plot of this route I’ve been walking. No wonder I spent many an afternoon huffin’ and puffin’ on these hills:</p>
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<p>I did 5 two-minute jog intervals again today. This makes for a nearly picture perfect interval workout, with baseline heart rates in the 70% to 75% range and spikes above 90% on the jogging intervals. Couldn’t ask for a better cardio interval curve:</p>
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<p>I imagine the high heart rate peaks will come down as I acclimate to two minute jogging intervals.</p>
<p>Very nice. The Garmins are just the coolest things. It is one of my essential things in life. When runners fall, before they even take inventory to see if anything is bloody or broken, they hit the stop button on the Garmin!</p>
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<p>I won’t need to. I’ve got “auto-pause” turned on so it stops the timer automatically whenever I stop moving!</p>
<p>The touch bezel worked perfectly today. I have a really simple setup. One screen shows: </p>
<p>Heart Rate %
Total distance
Total Time</p>
<p>A second screen is virtually identical:</p>
<p>Heart rate %
Lap Distance
Lap Time</p>
<p>I just hit the lap button every time I started or ended a jogging interval. The touch bezel alternated between the two screens. I had all the other screens turned off. I didn’t have a pace or average pace display, but even an ol’ (formerly) fat guy can keep track of walking or jogging!</p>
<p>LOL, MOfWC! So true. Can’t have that thing on auto stop - what if I fall and keep rolling downhill? ;)</p>
<p>Wow. This is awesome. Single Leg deadlifts with two 32 kb kettlebells. 140 pounds of weight. That’s more than she weighs!</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - double 32kg 1leg DL](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>This might be the best exercise for the hips and butt in the book – and just brutal in terms of balance. Her technique is flawless. She makes it look easy.</p>
<p>Woke up this morning feeling good!</p>
<p>Why should that be a big deal?</p>
<p>I usually feel awful the day after a tennis match. Tired, aching knees and other joints - walking around in slow-motion. Today I feel like I’ve already recovered. In the past, it would take two or three days. It often made running on Friday feel like a chore as it is no fun to be reusing sore muscles.</p>
<p>It’s nice to have options: tofu, cottage cheese, eggs or peanut butter sandwich. I need my wife to do the first but I can do the others. It’s going to be a busy day for me but I hope to squeeze in a run today.</p>
<p>BC, I’m betting you can learn to handle the tofu yourself as well.</p>
<p>I should try it this weekend. We have two tubs of it in the house and one should survive into the weekend. Everyone in the family likes tofu though. I generally don’t like buying it - I’m always afraid that the plastic and very thin film plastic on the top is going to break and all of the liquid will spill out.</p>
<p>When we go to the Chinese Supermarket (Boston), my wife buys these big plastic tubs (about 48 ounces) and the top is plastic and translucent and I always worry that the top will pop off and spill all over the trunk.</p>
<p>One of the Chinese supermarkets that I’ve been to before had a room in the back where they cut the stuff into smaller pieces to put into containers for retail sale. I don’t know how tofu is made but it’s big business in Chinese supermarket.</p>
<p>Back from the gym. Guess I’ll still go tomorrow morning, too – may as well get in a last workout before the world ends at what? 6 PM?</p>
<p>H would NEVER, EVER eat tofu, no matter what I did to it. Last night I made a really tasty turkey meatloaf with quinoa instead of breadcrumbs. Of course he grumbled about it.</p>
<p>Last night’s workout:</p>
<p>4x8 DB Incline Bench, DB Bench, and Lat Pulldown</p>
<p>Tried doing a CrossFit workout, but quit about halfway through…</p>
<p>As many rounds as possible (AMRAP) in 10 minutes:
400 meter run
30 meter Farmer’s Walk
5 KB Swings</p>
<p>Got 2 rounds in, on the third round I quit running short because my legs just wanted to give out… Probably ran too hard to start…</p>
<p>You know CBBBlinker, I’m really annoyed about the timing of the end of the world. I will be at work. I mean, who wants to be at work when the world ends?</p>
<p>The radio shows are giving it a lot of airtime - mostly humorously.</p>
<p>Tofu is made the same way as cheese, only starting with soy milk instead of animal milk. You add a coagulant to separate the milk into solid curds and liquid whey. You pour off the way and press the curds into a solid block.</p>
<p>[How</a> to make tofu](<a href=“http://www.justhungry.com/2006/03/milking_the_soy_1.html]How”>How to make tofu (Milking the Soy Bean, Part 2) | JustHungry) </p>
<p>It’s quite likely that the Chinese market was making the tofu themselves or buying it from a nearby producer.</p>
<p>Not surprising since it was in Boston’s Chinatown. When I was a kid, my mother took me in, went to a shop with live chickens in wire cages. You picked one and they would kill it for you or you could take it home and kill it yourself. That’s getting your food fresh.</p>
<p>D2 and I went to the gym together this morning. It was a grueling bike ride for me today. My legs must be tired. Did some pushups and KB swings/squats. That was enough!</p>
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<p>Cool!</p>
<p>It’s amazing how some days you have it or recover quickly and other days working out just kicks your butt. As far as the exercise bike goes… every day on the exercise bike kicks my butt! The Airdyne is like a mechanical slasher movie. Every time you think you have beat it, it comes rising up out of the lake to attack you again!</p>
<p>I think that the social aspect of exercise is cool and part of the enjoyment. When we play tennis, we drive to the Y from the office, play for 90 minutes and then sit down and chat in the lobby for about ten or fifteen minutes and then go back to the office.</p>
<p>Whether it’s kids, spouses or co-workers, working out together can help make the mind a little happier, content, calm.</p>
<p>So the world ends tomorrow at 6:00 PM? Does anyone know whether that’s Eastern Daylight Time?? I need to plan.</p>
<p>The weatherman on the radio this AM was joking that he didn’t have to forecast Sunday’s weather.</p>
<p>^You mean I am cutting the grass for nothing?</p>
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<p>Apparently, the wave of doom will be rolling through the globe hitting places at 6 pm their local time.
I will be up in the air around that time. Alaska Airlines, not Rapture. :)</p>
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