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Ok I went for a run today. One mile at about 11 minutes, and 2nd mile at about 10 minutes. I logged my food and I ate a bit healthier today. Did 30 push ups. Haven't read yet, but plan to later this evening.

Hey Terinatum! I'm two chapters in with The Autobiography of Malcomb X, but I also just started rereading A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz... I should probably just focus on one haha.

Thanks Strickland5!Yeah, I used to do sprints/intervals twice a week, but I've been busy and so I've done them more or less haphazardly. So I'm just trying to get back into them/make them more of a priority. With weights I am currently using the assisted pull up machine so my goal is to reduce the amount of weight assisting me from 90 to 70 pounds (there isn't really anything in between 90-70). I'm also trying to do the push up challenge-30 push ups a day. I don't really have anything specific set with food. I usually eat pretty healthy stuff, but I'm trying to really make diet a bigger focus than it has been in the past. Lately I've been cutting out rice at lunch (I live in Korea so rice & sodium are two things I'm trying to reduce in my diet.) My main goal is just to track what I'm eating and see A) what changes I can make and B ) how that corresponds with weight loss and workouts.

Thanks! Tracking my food went pretty well today I definitely made some better decisions than I would have if I hadn't been tracking my food.

In six weeks I want to be stronger and I want to be a faster runner. I also want to improve my diet. My goal is to stick with my workout plan and keep plugging away at my dumbbell workouts. With running-on the treadmill I'm going to try to get down to a solid 10 min/mile for 30 min. (The eventual goal will be to run an 8 min mile pace and hold that for a while.) With diet and nutrition I finally got on myfitnesspal so I've been tracking my food, weight, exercise, and water for the last week. I'm going to keep that up throughout this challenge and see where I am on the other side of six weeks. Side Quest: Read more.

Rose: I started working on 1 leg squat progressions! I feel like the day I can finally do 1 pull up, 1 pistol squat on each leg, and run an ultra I will fall down from joy (and considerable exhaustion). Bud: I finally got on my fitness pal so hopefully that will be a simpler way for me to track my food and count calories rather than doing a log in excel every so often. Bud: For this weekend I've got a workout planned for tonight and a run for Sat. and Sun. Thorn: I cannot wait until it's cooler here in Korea... The treadmill is terrible but the track is wicked hot. (Eventually I would really love to find some trails to run on, but I've not found any so far.)

Ok this week got super busy but I managed to do all of my workouts even though I didn't get the cardio in that I wanted to. Today I'm revamping my playlist and making a grocery list for the week and then heading to the gym.

Wednesday I did dumbbell workout B1 & Thursday I went for a walk.

Today I did dumbbell workout A1 I've got a few kinks to work out like finding the right weight for me and hopefully figuring more out in the gym... learning Korean would be helpful.

Ok I'm crossing over from the academy so I've been doing NF workouts and trying to get on board with diet since the end of March. My stats: F 25 145 5'8" Location: South Korea as of May I've been doing the body weight workouts, but just joined a gym so I'm going to start with the dumbbell workouts. Here are some of my fitness goals: (Some seem like pipe dreams, but hey if I dream big, train, but don't quite get there then at least I trained.) -Run an ultramarathon -Do a pull-up -Learn how to swim laps -Become more confident on the bike & do a tour And finally, my battle log: Yesterday: Ran 3 miles

Yesterday I ran 3 miles in about 33 min. Today I'm doing workout A2. I had a salad, eggs, and some soup yesterday and worked on some of my personal goals.

Woke up today super sore from yoga, but I did my B2 body weight workout today. I'm having a super hard time finding an appropriate substitute for inverted rows. (There isn't really a sturdy table or anything similar where I am living.) I've been doing dumbbell rows, but where I am only has a 10 lbs dumbbell and since I'm moving soon I am not going to invest in any equipment. I did some body weight dips before with my legs propped up on some stairs and my arms on a chair and that felt challenging, but I'm not sure if that is working toward the same goal more or less. Any suggestions? As for the rest of the challenge components I looked at teaching mat. today. I've been eating pretty healthy. I had a drink free day yesterday, but today I'm going to have a drink with a friend so I might make tomorrow a drink free day.

I ran 2 hilly miles today in about 25 min. Not great, but good anyway to get the hills in. I had some awesome soup made by a friend. And I went to a hot yoga class that was an intense workout but nevertheless not really my kind of thing.

Alright so I ran 3 miles today. The good thing is that it wasn't pouring down rain and it wasn't super muddy like I thought it was going to be. The kind of frustrating part is that I ran a bit slower than I wanted to today. I ran 3.02 miles in 33:40. I'm still working on getting that time down to a solid 10 min./mile. I had some low fat greek yogurt for breakfast and a salad for lunch.