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Cartwheel in Antarctica!!!  That's a great one!

 

Keep up the good work Jeanette!!

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Monday May 26, 2014

 

Activity:

• Jog - 2.14km, 15:07, 7.3min/km, 20m elevation
  
• Dog walk - 15 mins (forgot to track...)
  

Notes:

• Downloaded running tracking app "mapmyrun" to record jogs today. Wow google earth measurements are not accurate, I've been running less than I thought. This app tracks so much information I didn't think an iPhone could track (pace, splits, elevation). I feel so backward.
  
• Wonders if I should bust out excel to get graphs for tracking purposes.
  

 

Battle log template credit goes to jrickards. Hey Jules~

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Thief!!!   LOL

 

 

I use MapMyRide for cycling and I have found that my phone GPS is not so accurate so I just create routes in MapMyRide and after a ride, I log that I did that route. When planning to work towards a long ride (such as the 100km metric century last year), by researching routes and creating them, I could plan the series of rides that led to the event. Even if my GPS was accurate, if I take a corner longer one time than another, the extra few meters difference each time was of no consequence to me so that's why I fall back on created routes.

 

Good luck with the running, my co-worker is doing the same.

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Hey Umodiel!

 

We chatted in IRC, thought i'd come say that Im watching you.

 

In a nice way! In a 'Hey, I know this person and I saw their post' way.

 

As a student, I can 100% confirm that sleep is very, very, very important. As is diet.

 

I'll see you in IRC, or in the next 6 Week Challenge! Good luck!

 

 

 

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@Jules  

 

I figured forgiveness is easier to get then permission heehee *slinks away in thief-life fashion*    

How did you plan the series of rides? Did you do them progressively longer each ride or do the same distance in a series before doing a long bout at one shot? I don't really have a clear idea how to train for long-er distance events and don't find the planned programmes useful (e.g. couch to 5k) because I rather go at my own pace if this is to be a long term lifestyle change. I usually can't stick to the planned programmes out there. How's your planning for your goal going by the way? Looking forward to see your plans.

 

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eeps. *looks over shoulder* Nah, I joke. Yea man, I'll keep an eye out for you *laser eyes*

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@Jules  

 

I figured forgiveness is easier to get then permission heehee *slinks away in thief-life fashion*    

How did you plan the series of rides? Did you do them progressively longer each ride or do the same distance in a series before doing a long bout at one shot? I don't really have a clear idea how to train for long-er distance events and don't find the planned programmes useful (e.g. couch to 5k) because I rather go at my own pace if this is to be a long term lifestyle change. I usually can't stick to the planned programmes out there. How's your planning for your goal going by the way? Looking forward to see your plans.

 

Forgiveness works for me, you're good!

 

I wasn't following a plan or at least a "commercial" one, I just added more distance every once in a while. So, I'd bike to work and back (16km each way at the time) and then one day, I'd do an extra long ride home such as 30km. After doing a couple of those, I'd add a 50km weekend ride and then the next week, another couple of 30km rides home with a 50km ride on each day of the weekend, repeat with a single 70km ride on the weekend, repeat the week with 2 70km rides on the weekend, then a 100km ride on the weekend for a couple of weekends.

 

I read that you should only increase your distance 10% per week but that is very small as far as I am concerned, I'd go 25% at low distances such as from 2 to 2.5km but when you're comfortable with doing 2.5km 3x in a week, go for a longer run on the weekend (for example, Monday 2km, Wednesday 2km, Friday 2km, Sunday 4km, rest until Wednesday 2.5km, Friday 2.5km, Sunday 2.5km, Tuesday 3km, Thursday 3km, Saturday 5km, etc.). Run at a pace that you can finish, not run to race.

 

I write out my plan on paper and then I try to map out routes that fit the plan. I found it better to map it out a bit longer than a bit shorter so that when I have finished the planned distance before I got home, I could use the remaining distance as a light cooldown.

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If you guys are after cycling advise, hop on the IRC and ask for LorenWade, the guy bikes everywhere. He had a challenge/daily battle log on the forums somewhere as well, a search will turn it up

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[Guzzi]

Haha! Awesome goal!!!! That's it, I'm in!

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Haha! Awesome goal!!!! That's it, I'm in!

 

Haha! Be warned pretty lady, this is no overnight goal, it's going to be a loooonnnnngggg road.

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That's ok with me, slow and steady wins the race.

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Notes:

• Found alternate jogging route, it's flatter, prefer the original hillier route.
• Noticed left hip flexor is tighter then right when stretching.
• All this reading up on muscles and pictures is making me think of chicken. Might be cannibalistic. 

 

Nice work Jeanette!!

 

I'm more flexible on one side than the other, in talking to my son last night, he (right-handed, me left-handed) finds the same thing but on the opposite side.

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Thanks teacher!!  LOL, I haven't read this stuff for years (maybe as long as you are old!!!)

 

I have naturally visible veins in my hands, under my forearms and temples (maybe elsewhere, I don't know). Part of that, with respect to weight training, is increased blood flow and body temperature (mine seem to be more visible in the warmer seasons). My wife's job used to require her to take blood from patients and she often complained about people with small and hard-to-find veins. Vein prominence may simply be part of your body makeup, genetics. I think it's sexy but that's just me (no, I'm not saying that I'm sexy, far from it as far as I'm concerned but on women, it is sexy). I wouldn't worry about it.

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As for the veins, I'm doomed then. I live in perpetual summer, they'll be obvious forever. *cries in vein/vain?* I remember reading somewhere that there's the type of vein that transport oxygen filled blood to the organs and the oxygen-less blood back to the heart and how the ones we see are the oxygen-less blood ones protruding and increase blood might make it pop out because your blood valves are not working that well or something and that's making me think I have fatty blood veins?? - all the artery chocked related diseases are coming to mind.

 

Arteries and veins are both blood vessels and for the most part, arteries transport oxygenated blood and veins transport de-oxygenated which is what most people think of. However, the true definition is that arteries transport blood away from the heart and veins carry blood to the heart. Doesn't this mean the same thing? In 99% of the cases, yes, but there are two exceptions: the pulmonary artery transports de-oxygenated blood away from the heart to the lungs to become oxygenated and the pulmonary vein transports oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart. Also, the construction of arteries and veins are different: arteries are build to flex with the pressure of each pump of the heart, veins are static in this way. Also, veins have (I can't remember the correct term) baffles that prevent back flow of blood and when the baffles break down, you get pooling of blood in that section of the veins, otherwise known as varicose or spider veins. Arterial blood flows because of heart pumping pressure, venous blood moves as a result of movement of the muscles and tissues around them. Venous blood is like the meat in a sausage "sleeve" where the sleeve has one-way baffles in it so if you randomly squeezed the sausage in various spots along its length, the meat can travel in only one way because the baffles prevent it from going backwards.

 

I have a B.Sc and M.Sc in Biology/Biochemistry but am not working in that field.

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Friday May 30, 2014

 

Strength (Full body):

(sets x reps @ weight / per limb)

Circuit non-stop sucession 

• Squats: 20x5 - good intensity, glutes shaking a little post workout
• Inclined push-ups: 10x5 - alright till last set
• Walking lunges: 10x5 - wobbly, need to work on balance
• Tricep dips: 10x4 - alright, feeling it by the 4th set
• Plank: 20sx5 - alright
• Jumping jacks: 30x5 - alright
• Stretch: calves, hamstring, quads, hip flexors, abs, back, sides, shoulders, triceps, biceps, chest

Notes:

• Haven't really had time to customise a full body bodyweight routine so followed steve's beginner bodyweight workout with some variations. I now realised I misread 20 lunges as 10....
• First ever full bodyweight workout by myself instead of with an instructor. *proud*
• Noticed left tricep is also tighter than the right side when stretching. Other limbs seem fairly even.

 

Very nice routine and excellent work. Toss that instructor, you're flying on your own now!!!

 

You'll find that you'll be wobbly during walking lunges for a while because it is not entirely balance but the smaller muscles in your legs, calves and ankles that stabilize your body are weaker and are straining to keep you in balance. I can now do walking lunges with good balance every time. Sometimes wobbliness is a result of the stabilizer muscles, not the big muscles that you're focusing on but that's why bodyweight and free weight exercises are good, for the big muscles and their stabilizers.

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Sunday June 1, 2014

 

Activity:

• Dog walk: 1.02km
• Stretch: Hamstrings - seated, standing

Notes:

• Thinking of asking neighbour if she'll let me walk her dog together with mine. My dog is very timid and needs so socialise more, but other neighbourhood dogs are bullies/crazies. Shall ask her sometime next week.
• Started an Antarctica fund, put in $8 for fortune.

 

Got a PayPal account? I'll match that!!

 

Dogs seem to behave differently when on leashes, we must keep ours on leashes (I will often let him off if no one is in sight) but I try to let him socialize with other dogs as long as they're not crazy.

 

I'm just getting photos ready now, get some of your dog too.