<p>I went out and did a couple of the “core exercises” with the cable machine.</p>
<p>Then I went to the track and did a “sprint workout”
100 meters
(Rest time of 100m run)
200 meters
(Rest time of 200m run)
400 meters
(Rest time of 400m run)
Repeat two more times for a total of 3 sets…</p>
<p>Total time of 17:30…</p>
<p>Bunsen, those are some serious distances you’re traversing. </p>
<p>I feel as if my life won’t stop being busy and so am having to condense exercise to the essentials. I long for slower days, more leisurely workouts. Have been doing about 25 minutes/300 calories on the treadmill, then arm weights on the Hoist, then the plank at night after dinner for as long as I can go without turning into a quivering heap of flesh.</p>
<p>Week 7 workout 2. It was warm. On days like today I’ll need to be sure to get out earlier.</p>
<p>Deborah, you are definitely consistent in your training. My 5k buddy has flaked on me 
Do you have a race in mind, since you will be ready soon?</p>
<p>Thanks for the support, CJane. At the end of 9 weeks I may be able to jog for 30 minutes straight, but I will still have a long ways to go to be up to a 5K. On my way home from roastificating, I was thinking fall, not until fall for sure, when the weather is good and dismal. ;)</p>
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<p>You’ll be way ahead of me… </p>
<p>I’ve been jogging for about a year now and I can jog for 3.5 minutes straight! :)</p>
<p>You people should all get Tumblrs. There’s a great “fitblr” (fitness tumblr) community that offers great information/inspiration to lose weight/get fit.</p>
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<p>6-7 MPH is running, not jogging.</p>
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<p>I can only do that for about 2 minutes! Yesterday was my longest interval ever. 3:18 at an average speed of 5.8 mph (or about 10 min/mile). That was only to a heart rate of 90% of max, so I could probably have gone a bit longer – although 90% on the first interval of the day is up there. I need to try one even slower (I was trying to go really slowly, but obviously not as slow as I thought!).</p>
<p>I’d like to push that interval further and see how far I really can jog, but I’ve got to find a different route. At the end of the 3 minute interval yesterday, I was starting a pretty decent continuous one mile climb. I jogged two more intervals on that uphill stretch, but that’s not conducive to long intervals!</p>
<p>Interesting thing yesterday. For my final jogging interval, I was running out of real estate, so I started the final interval when my heart rate had only fallen from 90% down to 85% of max. I started jogging very slowly and my heart rate actually continued falling as I jogged. I had to kick it up a notch to get it to climb back up to 90% so my Garmin would record a completed interval.</p>
<p>I typed jogging into Google and the first entry indicated that jogging is about 5 MPH. There’s a big difference between 5 and 5.8 - effort goes up exponentially with speed.</p>
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<p>Turn around!</p>
<p>MOWC…heading to NYC next month and we will be in the financial district. D2 will be with us and planning on running. Did you like the route along the river? Does it have a name so we can find it?</p>
<p>BC:</p>
<p>Yeah, turn around was definitely the answer on yesterday’s route. Looking at the Garmin graph, it was basically uphill all the way to the halfway mark and then downhill on the return. Here’s the elevation graph with my jogging intervals superimposed:</p>
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<p>Pretty tough on the outbound leg because both the jogging intervals and the walking recovery are constantly uphill. The homeward leg is nice, but I’m pretty much toast by then!</p>
<p>What do you all do for exercise?</p>
<p>Jogging is not a word runners (even really slow ones) like.</p>
<p>NMinn- the Hudson River Trail. West side. In Battery Park you are actually on the promenade by the water and not the HRT. You head north and you wind up being on the trail. It’s good, but you have to be careful of bikes. Bathrooms and water are limited but there are some.</p>
<p>How about trot? ;)</p>
<p>Amble? Lope? I can’t lay claim to skipping, and I’ve got to call it something…</p>
<p>For now I think I’m stuck with the dreaded jog, although I did earn run or sprint there a few days ago for about 40 seconds at the end. Today, um no, survived. That’s about it…</p>
<p>Goirish, in high school I was on the varsity badminton team. I have to be able to keep a sense of humor about my athletic abilities…</p>
<p>Deborah, you were a mega athlete in high school compared to me.
In high school, my main e.c. was smoking cigarettes in the parking lot… In fact, when we had softball in p.e., I headed to the outfield and chainsmoked during the game. Charming!</p>
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<p>Rear foot elevated split squats, side plank, and burpees… :)</p>
<p>Well, I’ve been dying to fire up the smoker for months, but couldn’t because it would have required putting the grill in a place our house-stager didn’t want it (actually, he didn’t think a grill belonged on a deck at all, but that’s another story).</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m going “whole hog” for father’s day weekend. Two slabs of baby back ribs and two small boneless pork butts. The pork butts will probably take 10 to 12 hours to cook, so they’ll go on tomorrow morning. Ribs will take 4 to 6 hours, so they’ll join the party after lunch. Definitely some good low-carb eatin’ this weekend and a freezer full of easy-grab bar-b-q.</p>
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