2018 Fitness Challenge

[hvegasooner]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

4:59.464 mile time today! 30 years and 86 days old, I can once again feel young in just another way. Reached the milestone I've so hoped for! Now it's a matter of seeing if I can break my personal best of 4:50. Might have to wait to be able to post that for the 2019 Fitness Challenge thread haha. Or maybe not, who knows!

Congrats bro! Keep at it buddy

[DJ]

Quote: Originally Posted by Blzer

4:59.464 mile time today! 30 years and 86 days old, I can once again feel young in just another way. Reached the milestone I've so hoped for! Now it's a matter of seeing if I can break my personal best of 4:50. Might have to wait to be able to post that for the 2019 Fitness Challenge thread haha. Or maybe not, who knows!

Looks like you've healed up. But, do me a favor and keep your age to yourself, youngster. LOL

Nice work!

[Blzer]

Quote: Originally Posted by DJ

Looks like you've healed up. But, do me a favor and keep your age to yourself, youngster. LOL Nice work!

I've just had enough recovery days, and by complete accident really. The last three days I missed my bike-run-bike routine because of tutoring and covering classes during my prep periods (I run on the track during my prep period, because really it's the only time that I can). Maybe the two days off before Monday, then the three days off before this really helped.

I think my knee has been causing problems because of the hill runs I was doing on Fridays before the school year started. I'll give it a while before I do those again I guess.

And no yeah I'm just glad that at this age I can still get to "high school self" kinds of speed, but not totally exactly though. I also used to be able to run an 11-minute two-mile, and I don't think I'm nearly close to that at all. I also used to be much faster, like in terms of sprinting. Now I just seem to have no control of where I go; I stumble a lot when running bases in slowpitch softball and I can't seem to round 70 foot bags with rubber spikes (as opposed to 90 feet with metal).

As far as the distance running, I guess I'll just keep pushing and, see what I can get to over the long haul. The important thing is to not give up though.

[Bard]

Little Bard update.

Down 15lbs since my last time in here. Stretch marks are healing and going away again...man I hate those things and they come at the weirdest times of my weight. Feeling good for the first time in awhile.

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[Fresh Tendrils]

A little update on me:

I have not yet started to keep a diary. I bought a book. Even diagrammed a cover page to track different things and challenges. I have a post-it with a couple different writing topics (the most of important of which is My Why), but I simply have not sat down and actually wrote anything down. So that's a little disappointing so far.

The good news is I'm over four weeks into my "No Chips Challenge" which means I'm past my 30 Days. What's funny is I had to start over two days into my first attempt. The family was eating out for a birthday and the table ordered chips and dip. Without a thought I automatically reached across the table, grabbed a chip, sunk it in the dip bowl, and ate it. I didn't even realize what I had done until I got home and was thinking about dinner. The kill-shot, though? At that moment I realized I ate a bag of chips at lunch, too.

Since then I haven't each a single chip. It was hard last Thursday at the local Mexican place to just sit there and let the chips and salsa sit still on the table. I checked my calendar and I was past my mark, but I told myself it wasn't worth breaking my streak.

Outside of the chips I've done much better in either limiting poor snacks (popcorn & cereal are still vices, but thankfully they are only about once a week) or substituting chips for other dippers (ie: carrots, celery, etc). So now I'm eating more veggies at home in the evening which is nice. I'm not "hungry" and I don't feel guilty for it - mostly anyway.

To coincide with my change in diet I've been doing a 30 Day Ab Challenge App which features 3 different 30 day challenges. I'm finishing up the first "round" (get rid of belly fat). I'm still a little flabby, but my obliques are tightening up very well and I can see some toning/definition regularly now.

I've also started "running" more regularly. Basically I run for 15 minutes alternating between jogging and sprinting splitting time evenly. It's a great start to my workouts, but I try not to do them more than 2-3 times a week depending on how much other cardio/leg workouts the routine is calling for.

[RockinDaMike]

Keep it up Fresh you're doing good.

Reached a milestone, weighed in at 198 so I'm officially out of the 200 lbs club.

I think I'm about halfway there, I'm 5'8 so would ideally like to be 175 to 165 range. Haven't been that weight since Elementary school. Crazy.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Ah. I forgot the part. Weighed myself sometime last week just to update the abs app. Down to 180 from 185. Not in the "good green" range for BMI, but close.

Thanks for the encouragement.

[DJ]

Started my Half Marathon training last week, which is off to a bit of a rough start as I hadn't been running a ton recently due to all of my work travel, and coming down with a viral/sinus infection that I'm still taking antibiotics for.

But hey, we're still putting in the miles and I am slowly feeling better, so hopefully in the next week or two I'll be back at 100%.