Hey, Old Timer, would you like a ride?

Warranty... I found one that works!

2012-01-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

My Springfield Armory Micro Compact broke during the last run at the range. I emailed the Repair people, outlining my problem, the SN, and my address. I received a reply that parts were on the way. Sure enough, I got an invoice for zero cost listing all the parts in the mail today, and by the time I returned from my heart walk the parts were under the porch rug where the UPS guy left them with another box with books. The pistol is reassembled, function checked and locked away until the next time I go shooting. Wish my printer, computer, monitor and other things didn't need extended warranty service. But when I think about it, most of my firearms work far longer well without replacement parts needed.

So what am I doing this year?

2012-01-05T09:31:00.000-08:00

Seems my wife thinks I need a machine to make me work out enough to keep the feet from swelling. Normally, they don't swell unless I am locked into the motorcycle position or an airplane seat for hours. But she worries, and I know that one must move to get the muscles of the legs to move the fluids from lower to higher. So, MOVE! My mother had major problems but all they did for her was encourage (not demand) her to walk a bit more and take Lasik, which drove her crazy with trips to the bathroom and accidents.

This is the second day of using it, fifteen minutes yesterday, and twenty today, what I found is that it slides and needs stabilized, but it is interesting and does work muscles. And since it also elevates my heart rate and breathing just a bit, I am tempted to try jogging between the rain clouds, if I can't I can still finish walking, right?

So afternoon, I start out with a five minute jog, no staff, and steady walk for a total of one hour and nine minutes. No shortness of breath, not pain in chest, no real faint light headed feeling. Very good. Third day in a row on the route, distance same time dropping but mostly feeling very much better.

Concealed Carry... you just can't hide that weight...

2011-12-13T12:09:00.000-08:00

I did this little video to see what I really look like. First there is the image in my mind, and that can't be right since it is stuck at about twenty-five to thirty-five. Then there is the image in my mirror when I shave and clean up for exiting the house - too close and concentrated and backwards of reality, no that isn't me either. So I take a quick video to see what I look like. Sure enough an old man, wearing loose fitting clothes (room to layer or grow into), and still following that bursting belly and breast fat through the door. Sigh.

This mornings weight, 234.2 pounds, blood pressure 152/81 and resting heart rate of 38 bpm. I did go for a heart walk, found I still want more air, but it could be my heart is just not efficient again. I had lots of foggy breath on the exhale. I stopped about two-thirds the way up the big hill and the minor ones, rested a bit at the top of the big one. Had no trouble going down hill. Didn't wear a watch, still thinking I am blessed to be able to meander around the block. Keep on working it.

My wife wanted to seriously talk, and she did...

2011-11-05T23:34:00.000-07:00

Mostly about my failings, how our finances are, and that she was going to retire and wouldn't be able to buy groceries any longer. All things I have known about for years, and when I was young I would have been upset about it, I am very calm now. It all doesn't matter, I will be dead soon enough and she will be a widow and will have it all.

So we went over the money, the need for updated wills, and what she would expect to have to live upon when I am dead. She doesn't really understand, her friends have to tell her what she needs to do to get what she should have had me do long ago. The Disability came up again, seems she knows some other women that their husbands get disability payments and why am I not going to the VA to get mine. That was added to my plate, I will check into it.

I ended up going and chopping down the old garden, it will be grass next year, and moving the fence, the bricks I will get later for bordering the new garden. Then I went and got my walk in today, a very nice afternoon for it. Didn't need to stop before the top of the hill, makes me wonder if I should start moving out smarter, but I didn't bring my watch so I didn't even clock how long I was walking, but even if I recorded it, will I ever use that record for anything? Nope, it was the walk that was most important.

Not missed if you aren't there... they think you...

2011-10-29T21:31:00.000-07:00

changed your exercise or the drill time. I was walking today, and it isn't as easy as it once was -- the breathing isn't good enough, or the heart doesn't pump enough, and I am resigned to getting worse until I get better. As I walked I waved at a lady from my old church - and I was sure I was visible but she never acknowledged the wave or my existence. Kind of like the Sixth Sense, I am dead and don't know it yet.

But I must keep walking and I must do better about preparing for my wife's widowhood. That will be tough. I can hear her telling me that if I had only listened to her, had checked with my doctor and did exactly what they said I had to do... she will be upset, and that has never been my intent.

The special reading glasses are from my mother, for Y2K and the special day, and I was looking for something in the Yellow Pages, probably a restaurant to go out and eat at. Gosh, I was so much younger then, only eleven years and a few months ago.

2011-08-24T17:20:00.000-07:00

19 August 2011 woke 0623
weight 225.0 pounds
Blood pressure 140/67 Hr 44
Jog 42m47s 1 cent, Max 147 Avg 111, Above 5m32s Below 7m50s
INZONE! 29m24s, Calorie burn 557

20 August 2011 woke 0630
weight 226.4 pounds
Blood pressure 148/82 Hr 35
Jog 1h05m06s 3 cents, Max 148 Avg 112, Above 3m45s Below 18m43s
INZONE! 42m39s, Calorie burn 842

22 August 2011 woke 0700
weight 229.2 pounds
Blood pressure 151/72 Hr 38
Jog 46m58s, Max 136 Avg 103, Above 1m56s Below 33m43s
INZONE! 11m18s, Calories 517

24 August 2011 woke 0630
weight 227.6 pounds
Blood pressure 156/83 Hr 37
Jog 44m33s 51cents, Max 148 Avg 107, Above 2m21s Below 20m24s
INZONE! 21m49s, Calorie burn 533

Can't get the government to make me healthy...

2011-08-18T12:46:00.000-07:00

13 August 2011 woke 0645
weight 226.8 pounds
Blood pressure 141/81 Hr 36
Jog 42m19s, Max 141 Avg 116, Above 5m51s Below 5m10s
INZONE! 31m18s Calorie burn 587

15 August 2011 woke 0630
weight 222.6 pounds
Blood pressure 147/76 Hr 43
Jog 1h01m57s, Max 137 Avg 115, Above 4m22s Below 6m22s
INZONE! 51m12s Calorie burn 850
Mowed yard

16 August 2011 woke 0745
weight 223.6 pounds
Blood pressure 143/90 Hr 46
Jog 42m00s, Max 135 Avg 109, Above 2m34s Below 9m56s
INZONE! 29m30s Calorie burn 525

17 August 2011 woke 0645
weight 223.6 pounds
Blood pressure 135/76 Hr 38
Jog 1h05m46s, Max 140 Avg 111, Above 3m47s Below 22m09s
INZONE! 39m50s, Calorie burn 847 27cents

18 August 2011 woke 0640
weight 220.4 pounds
Blood pressure 140/85 Hr 38
Jog 1h05m29s, Max 143 Avg 108, Above 5m33s Below 38m47s
INZONE! 21m08s Calorie burn 783 1 cent

Moving to Walk Plus... no longer jogging gently...

2011-08-11T14:23:00.000-07:00

5 August 2011 Woke 0655
weight 223.8 pounds
Blood pressure 140/66 Hr 36
Jog 42m33s no heart monitor signal

8 August 2011 woke 0650
weight 224.0 pounds
Blood pressure 144/89 Hr 38
Jog 42m06s 1 cent, Max 143 Avg 114, Above 3m18s below 6m20s
INZONE! 32m28s Calorie burn 570

9 August 2011 woke 0645
weight 226.2 pounds
blood pressure 141/83 Hr 38
Jog 1h04m31s, Max 144 Avg 112, Above 6m19s below 21m38s
INZONE! 36m34s Calorie burn 840

11 August 2011 woke 0750
weight 225.8 pounds
Blood pressure 131/76 Hr 40
Jog (walk plus) 1h12m41s, 1 dime, Max 150 Avg 112, Above 7m34s below 31m12s
INZONE! 33m55s Calorie burn 950

Don't have a heart attack...

2011-08-03T10:38:00.000-07:00

I was gently jogging and a woman called out from a bus stop to me, not to have a heart attack. Okay, I gave her a 'thumbs up'. Slow jog today.

1 August, 2011 woke 0630
Weight 223.0 pounds
Blood pressure 144/77 Hr 40
Jog 1h06m30s, Max 130 Avg 99, Above 06s Below 64m20s
INZONE! 02m04s Calorie burn 645 one penny

2 August, 2011 woke 0530
Weight 226.0 pounds
Blood pressure 148/78 Hr 41
Jog 58m42s, Max 154 Avg 122, Above 16m03s Below 1m31s
INZONE! 41m08s Calorie burn 897 one penny

3 August, 2011 woke 0635
Weight 225.6 pounds
Blood pressure 152/86 Hr 41
Jog 1h11m45s, Max 150 Avg 106, Above 2m50s Below 51m29s
INZONE! 17m25s Calorie burn 817 three pennies

I did get a thumbs up on my valient try at jogging today...

2011-07-29T13:28:00.000-07:00

First the postman commented on how far I run (part of it is his route) and then a boy on a tricycle with his buddy in the back and his hat on backwards, gave me a thumbs up and a cheerful 'carry on' with his bright smile. I chuckled and thanked him for the encouragement.

28 July 2011 woke 0717
Weight 228.0 pounds
Blood pressure 149/74 Hr 40
Jog 40m16s, Max 142 Avg 119, Above 10m22s Below 5m1s,
INZONE! 24m52s Calorie burn 584
Mowed yards

29 July 2011 woke 0755
Weight 224.0 pounds
Blood pressure Max 143/97 Hr 41
Jog 1h18m53s, Max 125 Avg 106, Above 7s Below 57m59s,
INZONE! 20m48s Calorie burn 915
yard clean up for the weekend of shooting instruction

Gee, don't I look like I need to lose forty more,,,

2011-07-26T14:42:00.001-07:00

23 July 2011 woke 0433
Weight 223.6 pounds
Blood pressure 141/90 Hr 39
Jog 1h10m58s Max 150 Avg 108, Above 1m34s Below 47m41s
INZONE! 21m44s Calorie burn 852

24 July 2011 woke 0558
Weight 224.8 pounds
Blood pressure 143/80 Hr 37
Jog 40m37s, Max34 Avg 115, Above 1m54s Below 5m56s
INZONE! 32m46s Calorie burn 557

25 July 2011 woke 0745
Weight 220.4 pounds
Blood pressure 146/81 Hr 38
Jog 1h4m8s, Max 150 Avg 112, Above 5m34s Below 24m20s
INZONE! 34m15s Calorie burn 829
Blood pressure after (3+ min) 126/77 Hr 56

26 July 2011 woke 0445
Weight 228.6 pounds
Blood pressure 138/82 Hr 37
Jog w/HW 40m16s, Max 133 Avg 115, Above 1m35s Below 4m58s
INZONE! 33m43s Calorie burn 550

Took a day...

2011-07-21T21:07:00.000-07:00

19 July 2011 woke 0718
Weight 226.8 pounds
Blood pressure 141/88 Hr 37
Jog 57m40s Max 150 Avg 121, Above 9m31s Below 28m46s
INZONE! 19m23s Calorie Burn??? 452!
Edged and mowed back yard

20 July 2011 woke 0605
Weight 226.4 pounds
Blood pressure 148/95 Hr 37
Read all day until 1 in the morning!

21 July 2011 woke 0845
Weight 224.6 pounds
Blood pressure 138/77 Hr 40
Jog 1h10m55s Max 135 Avg 118 Above 2m20s Below 10m15s
INZONE! 58m19s Calorie Burn 946

Foolin' myself... trying to out run the fat old man...

2011-07-18T16:25:00.000-07:00

Doesn't work at all, he catches me at the finish line...

16 July 2011 woke 0630
Weight 226.2 Pounds
Blood Pressure 140/78 Hr 37
Potlatch State Park Picnic Bible Study

17 July 2011 woke 0500
Weight 233.0 Pounds (cream filled doughnuts!!)
Blood pressure 146/96 Hr 39
Jog 42m35s, Max 142 Avg 112. Above 1m25s Below 13m21s
INZONE! 27m48s, Calorie burn 547

18 July 2011 woke 0610
Weight 232.0 Pounds
Blood pressure 14982 Hr 37
Jog 40m32s, Max 144 Avg 122, Above 15m32s Below 3m8s
INZONE! 21m52s, Calorie burn 612

Working harder on Empire & Allies than jogging...

2011-07-15T23:09:00.000-07:00

13 July 2011 woke 0450
Weight 229.0 Pounds
Blood Pressure 152/73 Hr 36
Motorcycle returned at Service Department

14 July 2011 woke 0635
Weight 227.6 Pounds
Blood Pressure 138/84 Hr 41
Jog 41m42s, Max 145 Avg 121, Above 12m38s Below 4m45s
INZONE! 24m20s Calories burnt 620

15 July 2011 woke 0730
Weight 227.0 Pounds
Blood Pressure 139/84 Hr 38
Jog 42m02s, Max 147 Avg 110, Above 2m43s Below 11m25s
INZONE! 27m54s Calories burnt 528
(a period of 54 bpm during part of jog - impossible?)

Just birds watching me as I jauntly jogging.......

2011-07-12T11:25:00.000-07:00

10 July 2011 woke 0650
Weight 232.6 pounds
Blood pressure 136/90 Hr 39
Rest Day, it is Sunday

11 July 2011 woke 0645
Weight 231.6 pounds
Blood pressure 146/89 Hr 38
Jog 1h04m51s, Max 140 Avg 106, Above 1m10s Below 47m44s,
INZONE! 15m57s Calories burnt 730
Did exercises and stretches during commercials !!! Rock on!

12 July 2011 woke 0620
Weight 229.6 pounds
Blood pressure 161/88 Hr 38
Jog 1h12m35s, Max 143 Avg 110, Above 3m54s Below 38m22s,
INZONE! 30m18s 1 penny Calories burnt 904
Motorcycle is in Tacoma somewhere

Falling apart, sigh...

2011-07-09T12:36:00.000-07:00

8 July 2011 woke 0520
Weight 229.8 pounds
Blood pressure 144/88 Hr 39
Jog 1h13m28s, Max 137 Avg 101, Above 2m24s Below 57m54s,
INZONE! 13m10s Calories counted 728

9 July 2011 woke 0515
Weight 229.0 pounds
Blood pressure 147/88 Hr 35
Jog 45m21s, Max 142 Avg 113, Above 7m36s Below 18m26s,
INZONE! 19m19s Calories burned 596

Seattle to Portland racers are all faster and thinner than I am.

Time to get back to work.

2011-07-07T20:05:00.000-07:00

5 July 2011 woke 0650
Weight 232.0 pounds
Blood pressure 149/94 Hr 38
Rest Day

6 July 2011 woke 0536
Weight 230.8 pounds
Blood pressure 143/95 Hr 38
Too much eating, wife's friend visits
Rest Day

7 July 2011 woke 0830
Weight 235.2
Blood pressure 140/92 Hr 36
Jog 44m12s, Max 150 Avg 117, Above 15m24s Below 11m45s,
INZONE! 17m05s Calories burnt 625

Just the ol' man jog -- kind of.... jauntly...

2011-07-04T11:06:00.000-07:00

3 July 2011 woke 0505
Weight 233.8 pounds (CAKE!)
Blood pressure 137/84 Hr 38
Jog 1h10m20s 1 cent, Max 133 Avg 106
Above 1m02s Below 48m04s
INZONE! 21m14s Calories burnt 823

4 July 2011 woke 0608
Weight 231.6 pounds
Blood pressure 129/87 Hr 39
Jog 1h06m48s 2 cents, Max 134 Avg 110
Above 3m24s Below 36m37s
INZONE! 27m48s Calories burnt 827

One Holy day, one holiday and just too much to drag around in the training ZONE,

Don't let them change the rules....

2011-07-02T17:08:00.000-07:00

2 July 2011 woke 0653
Weight 228.0 pounds
Blood pressure 140/85 Hr 36
Jog 1h03m55s, found dime, Max 138 Avg 114,
Above 4m03s Below 14m 55s, INZONE! 44m57s
Calorie burn 858

Went to church games in Spanaway Lake Park,
the Referees kept changing the rules our team
came in last

Last two days of June, 2011

2011-07-01T07:07:00.000-07:00

29 June 2011 woke 0730
Weight 230.4 pounds
Blood Pressure 122/75 Hr 44
Jog 43m05s Max 140 Avg 119, above 9m44s below 3m15s
INZONE! 30m06s Calories 626

30 June 2011 woke 0633
Weight 230.0 pounds
Blood Pressure 117/72 Hr 38
Jog 1h05m54s Max 147 Avg 116, above 8m38s below 8m21s
INZONE! 48m55s Calories 916 found one penny
Cut the lawns

Towards the end of the month, gains in jogging, Hr and breathing, for the year the trend is down about ten pounds from what it was the first four months of the year. Still need to make body weight exercises and stretching part of the daily routine.

The picture is from 17 July 2006, I don't look that slim now...

1 July 2011 woke 0650
Weight 228.4 pounds
Blood pressure 134/81 Hr 37
Jog slowly 43m43s, Max 142 Avg 115, Above 5m56s Below 12m05s,
INZONE! 25m46s Calorie 599

My wife moved the suitcoat buttons, taking up slack

2011-06-28T11:03:00.000-07:00

Didn't seem that long ago I had moved the buttons back to the expanded position because the jacket wasn't hanging right and I was too, too big. But since the jacket needed cleaning, and some stain removal and my waist is shrinking again, she kindly moved the buttons, still roomy enough to carry concealed if I need to, and if I lose more weight I could get two guns under the coat.

28 June 2011 woke 0550
Weight 228.6 pounds
Blood pressure 136/74 Heart rate 38
Jog 1h12m48s, Max 158 Avg 116, Above 8m30s Below 7m33s
INZONE! 56m45s, Calorie burn 1011, seven cents found

27 June 2011 woke 0450
Weight 231.8 pounds
Blood Pressure 138/87 Heart rate 40
Jog 1h01m25s, Max 159 Avg 123, Above 18m12s Below 1m21s
INZONE! 41m52sm Calorie burn 944

26 June 2011 woke 0600
Weight 231.8 pounds
Blood pressure 132/73 Heart rate 44
Officially REST DAY

I am only braggin'....

2011-06-25T12:34:00.000-07:00

Weight 229.0 pounds Woke 0630
Blood pressure 134/87 Heart rate 40
20 reps of basic 3
Jog 1h03m21s, found one penny, Above 4m37s Below 9m34s
INZONE! 49m11s Calories burnt 831, HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!

Got to get away from the house and the TV/Computer

2011-06-24T14:03:00.000-07:00

Thank God for another beautiful day to gently jog, Amen.
Jog 1h07m29s, Max 141 Avg 111, Above 3m14s Below 17m37s. INZONE! 46m37s, Calorie Burn 863

Back home without my motorcycle, still...

2011-06-23T21:31:00.000-07:00

The jogging was pretty consistent during the trip and back. Doctor's visit went well today, no more blood thinner, blood pressure is fine and no colostomy needed.

Weight 225.2 pounds, Blood Pressure 131/76 Hr 41
Jog 42m05s, Max 145 Avg110, Above 2m25s Below 17m43s, INZONE! 21m56s, Calorie Burn 518 Felt good, and like flying, nice pace and stretch, still just an old fat man but happy and needing a shower. Edged and raked yards before dinner.
June 23 at 9:25pm

Weight 226.0 pounds, Blood Pressure 126/76 Hr 42
Cut the yard with mower
June 22

Jog 1h5m14s, Max 121 Avg 101, Above 0m0s Below 62m25s, INZONE! 2m40s
Calorie Burn 669, Slow and steady -- Reunion Afterglow I will workout harder on the way back home. Y'all take care, I start packing now.
June 19 at 4:51am

I am a slacker, no umph in my step this morning, take a hot shower and eat, sleep.
Jog of 49m28s Max 123 Avg 106, Above 0.0 Below 35m25s, INZONE! 14m2s4
Calories gently heated up 569, found one penny, finches, redwing blackbirds and robins and some little dog's walking area - totally uncleaned after. Good Mornin!
June 18 at 5:33am

Jog 1h9m12s Max 152 Avg 111 Above 1m2s below 23m56s INZONE! 44m14s Calorie burn 873, Gold Finches, robins, squirrels, goslings and proud parents, Looks like it is going to be a hot one. Have a great day, because it is your day!
June 17 at 5:34am

From Laurel, Montana

2011-06-15T05:42:00.000-07:00

13 June 2011
Jog 44m08s Max 145 Avg 113
Above 1m37s Below 9m21s
INZONE! 33m10s Calories 577

15 June 2011
Jog 51m26s Max 143 Avg 117
Above 1m46s Below 2m55s
INZONE! 46m45s Calorie Burn 729
Found one penny at WalMart

Working it a bit...

2011-06-11T15:10:00.000-07:00

10 June 2011 weight 232.4 pounds, blood pressure 136/82 Hr 36
Jog 1h16m01s Max 130 Avg 104. above zone 4s below zone 63m32a
IN ZONE! 121m01s Calories 841

11 June 2011 weight 233.2 pounds, blood pressure 136/72 Hr 42
Jog 42m36s Max Hr 142 Avg 113, above zone 3m41s below zone 7m6s
IN ZONE! 31m50s Calorie burn 559 Dime found!

Gotta keep goin'

2011-06-09T20:03:00.000-07:00

8 June 2011: Weight 233.0 pounds, Blood pressure 135/83 Hr 43
Jog 45m45s Max Hr 123 Avg 105, Above Zone 0.0 Below Zone 33m17s
IN Zone! 12m28s, Calories Burnt 515

Mowed both yards

9 June 2011: Weight 231.8 pounds, Blood pressure 131/89 Hr 42
Jog 44m37s Max Hr 133 Avg 112 Above zone 35s Below zone 7m42s
IN ZONE! 36m19s Calorie Burn 581

Edged and raked a bit

Did not feel like jogging, measurably...

2011-06-07T08:59:00.000-07:00

Oh, I did want to jog before the rains come in, I did want to sweat and lose weight. But I felt a little tired. So I decided on a fun run, attitude is almost everything in perception. No hand weights, no constant pushing when the heart rate monitor says you aren't in the zone, and I took a camera, in case I saw something to take a picture of.

So I took a picture of me and some Scotch Broom in bloom. And I jogged, stretching out some but mostly ignoring the slow pace. Results? Well, the distance was the same as yesterday and I stopped for one picture, and then at home noted (recorded the lack of difference).

7 June, 2011 weight 233.0 pounds, blood pressure 134/88 Hr 40,
Jog free Run Fun, 44m29s Max Hr 119 Avg Hr 104,
Above Zone 0m0s, below zone 36m58s, IN ZONE 7m31s.
Calorie Burn 490

Need a shower and a nap. Thank you very much.

Ever onward!

2011-06-06T16:34:00.000-07:00

5 June 2011, weight 231.6 or 234.2 pounds, blood pressure 141/77, Hr 42
Jog 1h9m11s, Max Hr 137 Avg Hr 111, above Zone 4m57s Below Zone 30m52s,
IN ZONE 36m22s found 1 cent Calories 873

6 June 2011, weight 234.6 pounds, blood pressure 144/95, Hr 41
Jog 44m13s Max Hr 137 Avg Hr 112, above Zone 2m22s below Zone 9m47s,
IN ZONE 32m4s Calories 577

Recording what I am feeling doesn't happen...

2011-06-04T09:19:00.000-07:00

Okay, I missed a couple of days.

2 June 2011 weight 238.4 pounds
Blood pressure 36/80 Hr 39
Jog 44m13s Avg Hr 118
In Zone 33m10s Calories 638

3 June 2011 weight 236.6 pounds
Blood Pressure 131/90 Hr 41
Jog 44m29s Avg Hr 115
In Zone 32m6s Calories 600
cut front yard with reel mower

4 June 2011 weight 236.2 pounds
Blood pressure 140/84 Hr 42
Jog 1h14m33s Avg Hr 110
In Zone 46m29s Calories 926

Weight is getting solid as muscles start to tense and build,
need more exercises done instead of thought about, feeling like
I am not doing enough hard enough, but I was in the Zone longer today than I have been in the three preceding days. So I keep trying.

Can't smoke me! says my ol' Gunnery Sergeant...

2011-06-01T11:16:00.000-07:00

1 June, 2011 woke at 0607
weight 237.2 pounds
blood pressure 138/91 Hr 38
Jog 1h9m13s found 2 cents

so slow that passing a fencing crew they called out "Slow down!" I responded that if I went any slower I would be stopped. They laughed and I smiled.

Slow pace but a longer distance. Max Hr 136 Avg 107
above zone 1m45s below zone 48m37s
in the Zone 18m52s
Calorie burn 817

Using lighted magnifier for check my watch results, the eyes are going?

Fear got to me yesterday... so I didn't go out...

2011-05-31T11:46:00.000-07:00

I did exercises, the basic three, but couldn't get my butt out the door.
30 May 2011 weight 235.4 pounds,
blood pressure 139/93, Heart rate 43
Exercise 25x basic3

31 May 2011 weight 234.8 pounds,
Blood pressure 136/79, Heart rate 44

Gentle jog 46m54s found two pennies Max Hr 146 Avg 116
Time above 125 5m, time below 110 6m52s In Zone 35m01s, Calorie burn 655

Move furniture for dry fire practice, forty rounds at AQT, positions done

Took a rest day, bought Hr Monitor for pace...

2011-05-29T08:11:00.000-07:00

27 May 2011 weight 235.6 Blood pressure 139/100 or 140/94 Hr 41
Rest Day, just because I was lazy

28 May 2011 weight 239.6 pounds Blood pressure 138/88 Hr 39
Jog long 1h19m31s found one dime and five pennies
wore 36x30 Dickie blue jeans cause I could, still fat
bought a Polar RS300X for pushing training pace

29 May 2011 weight 234.2 or 235.8 pounds Blood pressure 144/95 Hr 39
Jog with Hr Monitor 43m44s found one penny
Max Hr 131, Avg 110, Max 83% Avg 70%, Hi 79% Low 70%
Time in Zone Above 125 1:33 Below 110 9:12 In ZONE 33m46s
Calorie burn 562

Hello, how is your improvement coming?

2011-05-26T14:31:00.000-07:00

Mine is limping along, my wife and I laugh a lot about that. I am so lazy.

25 May 2011 weight 233.0 pounds, blood pressure 137/73, Hr 46
Jog 47m29s found one nickle

26 May 2011 weight 234.4 pounds, blood pressure 142/85, Hr 43
Jog 1h11m49s no coins found

I lie to myself and tell me that I am stretching out a bit, a very small bit, have to think about it to make it happen but I am glad I went the longer road today, nice day for it and have to thank the Lord for that.

Good intentions, bad form..

2011-05-24T16:14:00.000-07:00

23 May 2011, weigh 234.0 pounds, Blood Pressure 128/80 Hr 41
Jog 47m27s Yard and Roof work

24 May 2011, weigh 236.0 pounds, Blood Pressure 131/88 Hr 48
5x3, 10x3 Jog 46n10s

Sunday and God is Good, all the time...

2011-05-22T19:16:00.000-07:00

Took the rain day as a goof off day yesterday, it really wasn't bad enough to stop me, but I am easy to sway to the bad side. I did some experimenting with the Furey exercises.

21 May 2011, weight 239.0 pounds (upon second weighing, warming the machine up)
BP 136/69 Hr 39
Rest day

22 May 2011 weight 238.4 pounds (see above) BP 147/85 Hr 43
second wake up weight 237.4 pounds, BP 148/92 Hr 45
Morning 10 reps of Furey/Atlas basic three - need to work on form
Jog in evening 46m52s felt stronger push off and stride, but it is only an illusion

Big Belly Billy has been missing on this blog...

2011-05-20T10:23:00.000-07:00

Which hasn't helped this person's fitness for living a bit longer.

19 May 2011 weight 240.4 pounds, BP 145/94 Hr 38 Jogged 48m33s

20 May 2011 weight 240.0 pounds, BP 149/95 Hr 43 Jogged 48m21s

My wife answered the telephone at 6:30 this morning, and spent thirty minutes talking to her minister from Germany, who has been preaching in Alaska fhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifor the last few years. When it came time to sending their regards my wife referred to me as "Big Belly-ed" no longer a slim trim fighting machine, which is long ago and far away. Sigh.

Anyway, I am a little excited by the idea of doing USA4corners in September, while my wife is in Korea. And stopping in San Diego to see my son's family after the last corner, recovering and then riding north on I-5. Sounds like a plan. Cost for record is $100, then gasoline. Practice for this run is the Dungey Family Reunion in Illinois near my cousin's home.

I need to start exercising during the fuel and rest stops, because the body doesn't move enough while seated on aircraft or motorcycles, so Matt Furey is a basic three, and I will have to do my first today. Wish me luck, going to do it or die trying.

A sad mess I am...

2011-05-07T06:02:00.000-07:00

Almost Mother's Day, and I weigh 244.2 pounds, let me blame it on my Thyroid and its destruction at the hands of the blood pressure medicines. Probably no truth in that, but it would be better than I thinking that I am not moving enough or eating too much or just sitting around watching mindless television for my education.

7 May, 2011 woke 0530, wife is off to early prayer and church cleaning.
Weight 244.2 Pounds, all mine, sixty extra pounds to lug around.
Blood Pressure 146/86 Heart rate 40 bpm

Have two priorities for use of computer, Family Tree, and Quicken Accounts

Have one priority for exercise - daily jogging, getting better, faster, longer

Still can I concentrate on so little or will I be distracted? Yeah, don't bet on it.

Yep, not hard enough on myself yet....

2011-04-30T11:47:00.000-07:00

Weight 240.8 pounds, Blood pressure 143/79 Hr 37, jogged yesterday 46m47s jogged today 49m27s found no coins on either day. Mowed and edged backyard. I am just fading away. Think I will go shooting this afternoon, my wife wants me to attend Men's Bible Study tonight.

Beautiful Day in the neighborhood, would you like...

2011-04-12T11:03:00.000-07:00

to be my neighbor? In FarmVille, although I am never sending a broadcast out again, disturbing the tranquility of the FORCE and the FARCE.

12 April, 2011 WEIGHT 243.0 Pounds, BP 131/74, Hr 36
Jog gently 1h13m13s no coins, one walker, one lady jogger, six dogs and Sunshine!

Need to fix cabinet hinge, shave & shower, change firearms registration on Post, continue to live outside the walls = edging and mowing backyard.

Need to try exercises 3x X reps and chinups and pullups --- TODAY!!

National Propaganda Radio is not in the KNOW...

2011-04-11T16:26:00.000-07:00

Before my jog today, I was listening to KPLU for Jazz, but at three the NPR comes on to dull the education of the masses. The phrase that caught my ear was "and even if you could get a balanced budget with income meeting the expenses, you would still need to borrow money to pay the interest due on what we borrowed before." I know there is someone being paid lots of money for balancing the NPR budget, and that he/she isn't the same person writing the Liberal Lies for NPR release. Sad, and Congress agreed not to cut that out of the budget, and you wonder why the Chinese are improving every year, and we aren't? Congress doesn't know what an education is... hmmm.

Just saying people working the broadcast at NPR, I have my personal budget made so I pay my interest, bills and liabilities against my income, and when that isn't enough I go and find more work at higher wages, you probably need folks like me to start talking on NPR, don't you? At least highlight the errors before they rock the economy.

11 April, 2011 Weight 241.8 pounds, BP 151/84 (income tax prep) Hr 40 woke 0610
Gentle Jogging in the gentle showers 47m20s no coins and I was looking.

Standing here a little light headed, eat a cookie...

2011-04-09T11:39:00.000-07:00

It was a long drive yesterday to Bickleton, Washington for a meeting of the RWVA instructors to pick a new State representative for Appleseed. I wanted to donate my two Liberty Training Rifles, Remington 597's and a dummy drill rifle for positions. Then the long drive back.

The long time thinking, long conversation with wife upon my return made me want to look at the side effects of my medications, sure enough one of them looks bad - that will no longer attack my body, it is gone. I also need to continue to jog, and work on the diet, lose the weight and stay off the recliner in front of mindless television and commercial interruptions - why am I paying for cable? Oh, my wife has some entertainment choices. They do commercial interruptions too, but the women are hot.

I needed to look at carrying the heavier pistol, so I started looking at belts to use for concealed carry under the fat man trousers, I had to start laughing, when I was looking good at about 193 pounds (still running like an old man, but better than now) I had cut new holes in my belts so I could continue to wear them, too cheap (I like to use frugal but cheap works) to buy new, now I don't want to tell you which holes I am using but they aren't the once self cut.

I did jog with hand weights for the fourth day in a row. Sure Jogging shoes should be well cushioned so they aren't Jarring shoes.

9 April, 2011, weight 237.0 pounds, BP 124/84 Hr 52 (left over from dream? or time to take a one day rest?) Jog, felt slow and I was ponderously plodding... my wife says walking would be enough, but she just doesn't want me to hurt myself unless I could get more disability pay... which the incompetent Congress decided not to pay if the government shutdown. Ah, well, the Republicans and the TEA PARTY have CAVED they are as Craven as the Democratic Party, time to bring the Legions back and restore the Constitution of the United States against its domestic, no matter where they were really born, enemies. Oh, got carried away, the jog was 49m56s no coins found but the dogs were in fine form.

8 April, 2011, weight 236.2 pounds, BP 116/64 Hr 47, jog was 48m44s 1 penny found. Spend much of the day driving to center of Washington State and home.

I only have to get a job, work, pay taxes and die...

2011-04-07T14:18:00.000-07:00

My wife's anger at my position in life is almost unbearable.

Weight 239.0 pounds, BP 128/65 Heart rate 45. Gentle jog 47m29s 1 penny.

FEAR!! all that holds me back is FEAR!

2011-04-06T17:44:00.000-07:00

6 April 2001 weight 241.4 pounds Blood pressure 120/84 Heart Rate 44 bpm.

Jog 49m00s

April Fools, and that is all that needs to be said...

2011-04-01T14:05:00.000-07:00

Don't you know that I Xtrmly dislike (HATE being too strong an emotion) being a fat waddling old fool jiggling down the road. But I have to thank the LORD, that I am gently jogging down the road - for my betterment and in spirit with all those that can't, don't or won't do what little I am able. Amen.

I have a Prayer Breakfast invite from the International Gideons, Tacoma Chapter, at Elmers at seven tomorrow morning. I will be there, although since I have a new translation red letter edition of the Bible I will likely let them give their Blue New Testament to another seeker. I hope I can find some utility for the distribution of the Word. I will see.

March 31, 2011, weight 241.0 pounds, BP 105/63 Hr 43. Did not exercise, saw doctor for drop off of X-rays, no consultation, test for clogging, oops! clotting, I passed, thirty days til next test, continue 9units in the evening until. Watch for side effects. Don't read those things, you won't take the medicine. Kind of like those software agreements. I did go see Sucker Punch, went to sleep, woke and enjoyed the strange feast of beauty and ugly before my eyes. Movie is only recommended for 18 to 24 year old males in the military in Afghanistan - send them a copy before the bootlegging takes over - which I am probably too late to advise.

1 April, 2011, weight 242.4 pounds, BP 122/69 Hr 44. Reading two Bibles comparing the translations and flow of words and song (poetry). Maybe I should read more and dump the pills? I finally get off my fat.... and put some jogging shoes on, Adidas of course. My jog is between rain storms, wet road, the pump beneath the house has turned on and is pumping out water. The day is good and gray, but no droplets nor pelting precipitation. My mind is on war and remembrance, not the television show but explaining why I do what I do when I do it. Like preparing a testimony for a trial or a sermon on why something is better than something else. My mind doesn't run on empty, my body can only drag it along. Happy jogging, jiggling, giggling and gasping on down your road. My son races tomorrow, hope he feels fine. I will pray for him.

Today

2011-03-30T16:04:00.000-07:00

My Healthiness.

Yesterday's jog was 47m57s and a penny found.

Not really using my watch except to time my jog...

2011-03-29T08:56:00.000-07:00

I often thought in my once regimented life that when I retired I would never wear a watch again. Or, that I would wear three piece suits and have a large gold pocket watch with a fancy fob, that I would sport around town impressing the beautiful young ladies. They are all glued to their latest electronic tether, for socializing beyond bacterial reach. The world changes but not my view, I seem so locked into yesterdays.

March 26 I weighed 240.0 pounds, BP 123/72 Hr 46, Bible Study and rains no run.

March 27 I weighed 241.0 pounds, BP 136/87 Hr 44, Church and day of Rest, no run.

March 28 I weighed 243.0 pounds, BP 124/83 Hr 43, watching my grandson (who is bored watching two little old people on a computer monitor - talking!) show us how he can JUMP! off of the floor now, his mother laughs proudly. It makes me want to get to Hawaii and see it for real. So I go jog, just 47m45s and find one quarter on the ground. Good feeling about being out, the day and the run. So good that after a shower I take my rolled coins to the Credit Union and visit the hospital to get a copy of the report of the chest x-rays that seem to be bothering their fine staff. The emergency room was full! I went to x-ray and found that they will burn a disc with the report for me to give my doctor or study at my leisure, like I know what I would be looking at. Yes, of course I will look, and remain sure that I will not do much but continue to run. The medications are too much about symptoms and not about cures. In the end, no one can cure death, and all the wrinkle creams and make ups may make me seem beautiful - but I am only good looking when I share my love. That doesn't come in a bottle with child proof cap.

Beautiful day for jogging gently...

2011-03-25T18:32:00.000-07:00

Contractor came by, found something broken, fixed it. He was given the four things we want done, in the order of need, with the idea we need him to give us estimates and bids. I went for my jog at two, came back in 47m57s, pleased with the day, the thoughts and the jog. Felt strong and readier than the first two times this week. What has changed was a rest day, except for digging, and no medications except for thyroid one. If my blood pressure was too low yesterday I can blame it on the drugs - look at the warning labels for side effects. You would begin to wonder if they forgot the "do no harm" part of the doctor's oath. I bought Lotto tickets, $312 Million on winning MegaMillion tonight, wish me luck. Picked up my blood thinner and Cow Manure for the gardens, looking for chicken but they didn't have it where I looked.

Strange day, only going to putter around in garden...

2011-03-24T15:32:00.000-07:00

March 24, 2011 woke 0610

weight 239.0 pounds, blood pressure 125/85 Heart rate 49
take medications
feel faint and light headed
blood pressure 91/61 Heart rate 49
nap, eat breakfast, read
1050 blood pressure 111/75 Heart rate 69
lunch -- go putter in garden, sweating too much
1500 blood pressure 132/80 heart rate 70

Day two, a beautiful day for daydreaming...

2011-03-23T14:14:00.000-07:00

So I didn't go as fast as I should have, but I was out there. My weight today is 241.4 pounds, blood pressure while reading about Joshua, 112/64 my heart rate was 48. The heart rate means I am not catching up to yesterday, I am so out of sync. I did the normal morning medications, wandered the internet, played one war game. Then I moved a couple of chairs, knocked out 20 reps of the basic three, need to do minimum of fifty but am taking it slow and the stomach is really in the way. I go for a jog, slowly and gently and drift off into daydreams, so 50m33s. But I was out there, the day was just beautiful and my sweatshirt was too hot. Now about the economy, either I am losing my telescopic vision or people don't throw coins away like they once did. But two jogs and no coins? Something isn't right.

My son once asked about my marathon time, this was the first one I ever ran, still remember the fourteen year old girl that ran with me about five miles before we hit eighteen miles, she turned and said good-bye and ran off leaving me in the dust. I was probably slowing down too much. I was thirty at the time. A bunch of family was waiting patiently in the October cold, and I ate a whole half gallon of ice cream as my just reward.

I am unraveling... just like that favorite sweater...

2011-03-22T14:07:00.000-07:00

Yeah, really. So today is March 22, 2011. Weight is 241.4 pounds, blood pressure after sitting reading some Bible verses, 127/87 with a heart rate of 42 beats per minute. I call a Handyman, he comes out to do the hard stuff, draining the swamp under the house, my wife decides she wasnts new flooring in the kitchen and bathrooms, linoleum not tile (anther day, getting rid of the water is primary now). When he goes off to buy the sump pump and hoses I go for a jog. Just a gentle jog. Still need to do it daily, not skipping large pieces of my life. Around the block, 47m17s, no coins found, no breathing problem, no heart attack that I know about. I do think that crossing intersections I go faster if a kind motorist is waiting on my passage. Feel good about the distance, the time, the jog, feet are fine I don't hurt. Washed all the clothes when I get back. Sent in the report on my evaluation of the treatment I received from Mr. Allen, PA at the emergency ward at Madigan Army Hospital. I rated him high, only expressing my disappointment in not knowing what is wrong with my lungs and the xrays that isn't showing up in my doctor's office nor on the xrays on the St Clare Hospital machines. But I figure if I am dying I don't want to know, I am committed to that end and living is all I can really affect.

Okay, feelling better so this is where I tell my secrets...

2011-03-01T11:34:00.001-08:00

I am disgustingly FAT!. Weighed in at 247.6 pounds yesterday, sigh (that was the sound the scale made as I stepped off). So I went out and gently jogged around the big block, 49m49s and one penny found. It was good when I got back showered and changes I noticed almost all the swelling in my feet was gone. That is an indicator.

So today, weighing in at 241.4 pounds, in this corner of the world, Earl!!! Loud applause. Raining outside, hope for a break in the afternoon, but after Bible reading and breakfast, chased off of television by demented Charlie Sheen and Momarra Qadaffi, I started the treadmill and healthrider exercising, ten minutes on treadmill, 3 degrees, three mph or more, 5 minutes on HealthRider do it four times, result, light sweat and one hour of exercise done. Life is good, Thank the Lord.

Ah, it doesn't rain on my head...

2011-01-24T16:48:00.000-08:00

Went and got out of the house, mail and banking, and getting put on the Space A list at the AFB (for Hawai'i) came back and later went to jog gently. Total time on the road, 48m 29s no coins found. Good to be out, tightened up too much Sunday by not exercising, but one has to return to physical perfection slowly.

I have been feeling better so have no excuse...

2011-01-22T14:49:00.000-08:00

I am a very fat old man, the scales shout at me that I am too heavy, get off! 236.4 pounds this morning. Blood pressure isn't bad, 133/80 and heart rate is 43 beats per minute, sitting. I did my farmville chores and got out the door and down the road, and jogged a whole 47 minutes and 10 seconds - slow jog but I was back on the road. Good stuff for many reasons.

I showered, shaved and put my teeth in -- got my pistol case with lots of ammunition and went to the range to exercise my skills. I love the accuracy of the Ruger Mark III and the Colt .45, the 9mm is okay but I am not shooting competition with it ever. But then I don't compete much anymore. Just glad to be alive.

Ah, my medical condition report...

2010-08-29T21:20:00.000-07:00

22 Aug 219.0 pounds BP 124/77 Hr 43
walked Ruston Way with wife, she nagged me about sweating, slow and looking bad

23 Aug 216.4 pounds BP 138/80 Hr 46

24 Aug 218.8 pounds BP 120/75 Hr 44
Heart Walk 58m1s

25 Aug 216.4 pounds BP 135/80 Hr 47
Heart Walk 1h6m2s

26 Aug 214.8 pounds BP 131/76 Hr 46
Heart Walk 1h6m59s

27 Aug 214.6 pounds BP 140/90 /hr 52
eight hour drive to Vales

28 Aug Appleseed in Vale Oregon,

Driving back on the 29th, I decided I didn't have a heart attack, but some kind of obstruction that when I am seated caused air to go into my stomach which I burp back up. And when standing the obstruction makes my cough response trigger and I cough up nothing for no reason. If the obstruction is removed (?) I might even be able to jog again. Breathing with open mouth seems to help. Will schedule a doctor visit, but no more pills. I seem to have posted my complaints about the direction of the RWVA and Appleseed on the Shoot Boss's area of the internet, have had some interesting responses.

Reporting once a week will work...

2010-08-22T07:32:00.000-07:00

15 Aug 2010 wt 216.6 pounds BP 124/70 Hr 43
Jog/walk 6m39s 16m21s sick? I think the recliner is going to kill me.

16 Aug wt 215.6 pounds BP 125/87 Hr 49
25x3 Walk 1h9m39s

17 Aug wt 215.0 pounds BP 117/76 Hr 50
Old NFO visit at Ruston Way RAM

18 Aug wt 218.2 pounds BP 130/81 Hr 44
Heart Walk 1h4m35s 1penny The Rehab Shuffle
faster today and still not ready for Primetime

19 Aug wt 217.4 pounds BP 117/86 Hr 45
took wife to doctor for pain, operation needed

20 Aug wt 215.4 pounds BP 131/96 Hr 41

21 Aug wt 218.0 pounds BP 138/88 Hr 43
Heart Walk 57m51s good improvement
Picnic with Men of Wife's cell group

Doing this once a week could be good, was missing a good fast walk, found it on the 14th before I drove to Stevenson for Appleseed Recon

Time to shape up or crawl off and die...

2010-08-16T07:05:00.000-07:00

Didn't exercise nor jog while on my mad motorcycle trip across the US. It really shows. But if I want to live longer I need to get back on the feet and on the road.

9Aug Weight 218.8 pounds BP 144/87 Hr 42

10 Aug Weight 218.0 pounds BP 132/79 Hr 46 25x3

11 Aug Weight 213.4 pounds BP 109/81 Hr 52

12 Aug Weight 215.0 pounds BP 123/92 Hr 50

13 Aug Weight 216.4 pounds BP 112/72 Hr 51

14 Aug Weight 218.0 pounds BP 116/74 Hr 43 Walk/jog 58m11s

That last day and jog/walk was alarming, didn't have any jog left after about twenty minutes - just gone, I walked back home. Walking counts but the recliner and electronic noise is going to kill me. I need off the computers and the television, really.

THINGs getting better all the time...

2010-04-09T16:41:00.000-07:00

9 April 2010 weight 222.0 pounds BP 138/84 Hr 43
Jog 452 calories, 45% fat ones, Heart rate 119 Zone 1h3m32s Exercised 1h8m112s mocked by one teenage girl and her friends, found 11 cents, came home sweaty but happy.

Y'all don't need a picture of me, just my pride...

Getting it better each day, step at a time...

2010-04-08T20:57:00.000-07:00

8 April 2010 weight 223.0 pounds, BP 128/85 Hr 49

Jogging 224 calories, 50% fat, Hr 111, Zone 30m20s, Exercised 38m56s

It's Running Season... really

2010-04-07T18:41:00.000-07:00

7 April 2010 weight 227.2 pounds BP 142/91 Hr 45
25x3 and Jogging in the afternoon 177 calories 55% fat Hr 100 Zone 9m25s Exercised 43m58s raining lightly but one has to get out there and jog on, jog on, jog on.

Back from Appleseed Weekend

2010-04-06T21:24:00.000-07:00

1 april 2010 wt 228.2 pounds BP 145/92 Hr 53

2 April 2010 wt 229.2 pounds BP 144/95 Hr 46

5 April 2010 weight 226.8 pounds BP 137/85 Hr 43
Jog 376 calories 55% fat Hr 107 Zone 21m22s Exercise 1h13m42s 11cents

6 April 2010 weight 226.8 pounds BP 139/85 Hr 46
Jog 204 calories 55% Hr 104 Zone 16m55s Exercise 42m26s 1 cent

It is a beginning. Now to make it a habit.

End of March and they missed me at the Senate..

2010-03-31T09:47:00.000-07:00

31 March, 2010 disgusted with my poor discipline and fat body which comes from it. Yesterday I retired to Gentleman FarmVille Farmer - spend less time, it is only playing dolls, but I have a nice little farm. I spent most of the day reading about Genghis Khan, good author and good read.

31MAR10 weight 226.2 pounds, BP 128/82 Hr 40 bpm

Jog with handweights, basic block 234 calories, 50% fat, Hr 110, Zone 22m2s Exercise 42m43s

Now to work the remainder of the day away...

Visiting the doctor today.

2010-03-30T15:21:00.000-07:00

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)
That is what my skin cancer was, I no longer have the staples, but another appointment to lose more skin to the doctor in a month. I don't go out into the Sun, I think it is a fabric softener problem.

Working on it slowly, but surely....

2010-03-26T19:35:00.001-07:00

26 March, 2010 weight 226.4 pounds Blood Pressure 135/83 mmHg Heart rate 39 bpm

Slow Gentle Jog 279 calories 55% fat ones Hr 103 Zone 15m58s Exercised 1h17m59s
very slow, but I was out there, that counts double, picked up a quarter and a penny, saw the Sun most of the jog, and one black leathered motorcyclist riding on a twin of my Trusty Triumph good day's work, need more of these.

Went and dug up the UMC God's Garden for about fifty minutes, then the rain returned.

Napped and then convinced my wife to walk in the park with me - she has been having minor problems and walking will help a bit, I think. So for fifty minutes we walked and watched the paired Mallards and a few people in Spanaway Lake Park.

Only one cookie and piece of cake, two great salads and fruit. It will show.

Today under Government Healthcare.... not much...

2010-03-25T11:12:00.000-07:00

Totally unfair, since I have had government health care ever since joining the military in 1967, I have appreciated it and its care of my family. That was part of the bargain between me, the soldier, and the government that hired me to fight its wars. Good deal for me.

Somehow, the laptop computer eats my words, something to do with the extra keys from Microsoft and Toshiba. Anyway, I slept well last night.

25 March 2010, weight 225.6 pounds, Blood Pressure 123/84 mmHg Heart Rate 41 bpm.

FarmVille is getting ready to close shop or force its players to pay more. Since I am one of many players that won't waste my money in a virtual world, I won't miss it much, and I have saved pictures of how well I built the farm and became a gentleman farmer... so helpful.

I shut the computer down and watch a little GMA before jogging, the television has a two hour special about a NEW SHOW about the coming FOOD REVOLUTION. If it is on television and television sells advertising space to foolish foods (Coke, Pepsi) how much revolution do you think will be there? Might as well watch Oprah. More vegetables,more fruit, less refining, meat and dairy in moderation, no refined carbohydrates (sugar, alcohol). More water.

Jog 389 calories, 50% fat ones, average heart rate 110, in Zone 35m15s, Exercised 1h10m37s
picked up a quarter and a penny, felt good and thought about Israeli Independence... good.

Health

2010-03-24T08:00:00.001-07:00

20 March wt 225.6 pounds BP 138/94 Hr 46

21 March wt 226.2 pounds BP 136/83 Hr 45

22 March wt 226.2 pounds BP 140/90 Hr 52
Jog 290 cal. 40% Hr 120 Zone 27m22s Exercised 41m39s

23 March wt 226.8 pounds BP 139/101 Hr 57

24 March wt 228.0 pounds BP137/102 Hr 53

Doctor Chang is worried that he didn't cut enough healthy flesh from around the growth, but the biopsy says that there was healthy flesh all around the cancer, at least to 0.2 cm which works for me.

My focus must be that forty-eight fat extra pounds I am hauling around, which can feed cancer, time for it to go. Which means to get out of the house and on the road, running and riding. Today I need to send messages for the Appleseed first weekend of April, get out and this is on the laptop, through home wireless -- Cool, huh?

How to prepare for Zombies, proper camo....

2010-03-19T15:48:00.000-07:00

Well, I want to go jog and will but thought the current picture looks like I am getting into being less than lovely alive. So I share, back soon (about an hour, okay?)

March 18, 2010 weight 226.8 pounds BP 149/83 Hr 46
Rested all day, what a waste.

March 19, 2010 weight 226.4 pounds BP 132/83 Hr 38
Jogged because it is beautiful outside and I have to cut the grass and de-moss
258 calories 45% fat ones, Hr 115 Zone 34m44s Exercised 41m3s

Now to get the grass chopped up

Running in the green, sweatshirt anyway,,,

2010-03-17T14:14:00.000-07:00

No, I didn't run in a St. Paddy's Day run, but I did jog gently.

17 March weight 228.0 pounds BP 139/87 Heart rate 45 bpm
Jog 355 calories, 45% fat ones, Hr 113 Zone 45m 6s Exercised 59m 14s

Now if I can walk with my wife.

Getting Well

2010-03-16T05:18:00.000-07:00

March 12, 2010 weight 227.0 pounds BP 141/80 Hr 38
Surgery at Saint Clare Hospital, wife drove and attended, drove back was upset by friendly nurse in recovery, and I only thought Britt was interesting in post op recovery room.

March 13, 2010 weight 229.2 pounds BP 158/100 Hr 48
Think I am better, but don't do anything, movement limited, arm a bit painful, certainly ugly, took and posted pictures disconnect the coffee pot to limit sucking down caffeine.

March 14, 2010 weight 232.2 pounds BP 139/95 Hr 38
Believe I am like the SoldierMage of Robin Hobbs, growing fat in response to magic, but I am eating too much moving too little. I go walk with wife a bit on Ruston Way, after watching Alice in Wonderland in 3D, it is our wedding anniversary.

March 15, 2010 weight 230.4 pounds BP 148/94 Hr 42
Feeling like walking around, take video of same - walking around Ft Lewis parking lot, visited two libraries, also talked wife into walking around Spanaway Lake Park one time. The weather is cooperating, very nice day. two pads of fluid on ends of wound from operation, red and inflamed, but not as bad as before op infection.

March 16, 2010 weight 229.2 pounds BP 1330/89 Hr 41
Feel good, make tea with honey to start the day. Plan on jogging or long walks twice today. Not sure about yard work, not willing to strain the wound, need to make appointment with doctor for Thursday or Friday followup.

Trying to catch up on stuff...

2010-03-11T08:31:00.000-08:00

5 March 2010 wt 221.6 pounds, BP 123/82 Hr 47

6 March 2010 wt 222.2 pounds, BP 131/90 Hr 47

7 March 2010 wt 224.0 pounds, BP 132/82 Hr 40

8 March 2010 wt 223.0 pounds, BP 127/77 Hr 41
Jog 260 cal. 50% Hr 113 Z 33m44s X 42m12s

9 March 2010 wt 223.8 pounds, BP 115/78 Hr 43
Jog 218 cal 55% Hr 106 Z 16m28s X 42m37s

10 March 2010 wt 224.6 pounds, BP 129/81 Hr 46

11 March 2010 wt 225.0 pounds, BP 126/85 Hr 47

Can I do better today? hope so...

2010-03-04T06:20:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I was distracted, so by the time I stopped being distracted and left the house to go shooting it was already after one, I should have finished the exercises and jog in the morning - but was waiting for the Sun, I told myself.

My weight was 223.4 pounds BP 126/82 heart rate of 46 bpm. I did come back home after making videos of my shooting style, with all my mistakes. I changed quickly since it was a beautiful day and went out on the road and did an hour, slowly so slowly. Still, I was out and jogging. Picked up a beagle as I jogged, no collar no tag, liked running on the asphalt better than the shoulder and wouldn't listen to me - he took off with a lady walking in a different direction. Although I was running slowly, I still think a longer legged hound would be better for my dog. FarmVille is promising a dog, and Carolyn Petty has started a group for putting a church into FarmVille. Somewhere there is a disgruntled politician that will want taxes.

Today my weight is 217.8 pounds, I really believe that jogging daily will continue to burn the fat right off, until I get much of the excess gone - anything over one hundred and eighty is excess, but loss after one ninety will be difficult but possible. My blood pressure was 135/84 and heart rate of 46 bpm. Devotions done with some special requests for others. My wife wants me to see a doctor about the super wart/growth on my right forearm. I guess I should. But I don't have a health plan, save for Tricare for Life. Hmm, but I have some money in the bank. Okay, we will go see the doctors. It could be cancer, for sure it is infected.

Visited three doctors' offices, and finally met a surgeon that was very willing to cut into me, it didn't go the way he was hoping, so another visit after taking antibiotics for a week then surgery next Friday to remove the growth for examination. He was pretty good with the scaple and sliced an X in the growth to allow drainage and the blood, red and rich just poured out. I could have done that. I felt a bit rocky so went and picked up my antibiotics Cephalexin two twice daily and went home to pout.

I had time between doctors offices so I stopped to get ammunition for the pistols, a hundred nine millimeter and three hundred fourty-five APC, since I don't shoot competition that should be enough for refining my dry fire and confirming my shots. I have books by Andy Stanford and Gabe Suarez on pistol shooting for effect. Two different styles but I will be okay learning from each. In the end when it really counts, just be able to get the shots on the target.

Still like a fat grey lamb...

2010-03-02T11:43:00.000-08:00

I weigh in at 225.4 pounds today and snarl that I should have jogged yesterday, or used the treadmill, but did neither, so it shows - fat fool follows. Blood pressure with snarls is 147/87 but the heart isn't troubled 41 beats per minute.

I have gruel with wife, she finishes her shows and I watch General Powell and his wife talking about taking interest in the children's education - geting out and doing something with children as well as the current Obama program, they want seventy percent graduation from high school. They could have a hundred percent, just give out the diplomas. I would rather all the youth learn as much as they need for a fine life. Which might have only a little to do with the school systems. I wrote too much on my blog about it, so my exercises were late.

I knock out 26 reps of the basic three twice, and then belt up for gentle jogging. 227 calories burnt, 55% fat ones, average heart rate 108 bpm, in Zone 18m9s,eXercised 43m3s, found one penny. I see and wave wildly at my old Gunnery Sergeant now Postal Carrier, he hollers back. I am ashamed I am waddling along so slow but happy that he sees me trying anyway. I am starting up the hill at home when my wife is coming down, driving to her work, I wave and smile and wish her a great day. When I get home I sit on the porch step watching the Robin's mating ritual (the part where he drives off the competition - I understand that so well) and listen in the quiet neighborhood to the songs and cries of the other feathered creatures. I think about the rest of my day, working in the yard and garden for my home and wife. Don't turn on the television - it is so worthless - no reality upon it most of the time and it just eats at my better intentions.

March. comes in like a lamb...

2010-03-01T10:04:00.000-08:00

So I start the month weighing 223.4 pounds, my blood pressure is 111/78 heart rate 41.

I find news on FaceBook that the grandfather of young people I met in Idaho has passed on to his reward and joined his wife in Heaven, I turned off that computer and finished my morning start. My wife decided to make blue berry pancakes, and I should have stopped eating them at five, but did nine and put two away for snacking later. I did knock out twenty-one reps of the basic three twice, then finished with eleven more - so I covered the fifty reps of the basic three, the day looks very good for long jogging and after a nap to sleep the pancakes into digested sugars, I will write my mother.

I do my exercises, 21x3 twicem then 11x3, but I talk myself into delay on getting out to jog, since the promise of sunshine is for the afternoon. It was a faulty promise, but what kept me wrong was watching television, when I finally finished I walked away from Laura Croft and rode the motorcycle to the Post Office to drop off my mother's letter about FarmVille fools (my sisters and I) and one book to read and one word puzzle.

I told myself I would get exercise by cutting the grass in the front yard, which I did get accomplished, need to sharpen the blades, but I didn't trim and I must kill all that moss, the yard has been conquered. If I were single I would keep the moss, but I like being married so I will kill it. Or beat it back. Television again got in the way of good exercise NCIS and Mondaynight RAW of the WWE, the Diva Pillow fight as fun. Everything else talk about Wrestlemania in twenty-seven days.

Retirement means...

2010-02-28T07:10:00.000-08:00

Well, it does mean that you got off the hamster wheel of normal life, and have lots of time for one's own stuff. So I have been reading, and that is better than FarmVille ForEver. Still I find I need an internal Drill Sergeant to ensure that everyday I am doing all those things I need to get done to be a better fellow. Yesterday I found my mind gone, I was looking for a bottle of Crestor pills I had just picked up. I was looking for the old type bottle, and didn't look for the label. By the end of a frazzled day looking I read the labels and found that it was all where it should have been.

Today my weight is 226 pounds, that is too much, I will have to seriously work on it and the schedule of my life today - otherwise nothing good is going to happen. The blood pressure is 127/87 with a heart rate of 42 bpm, and I am smiling.

No One misses my efforts except me...

2010-02-24T13:12:00.000-08:00

My mind drives the body to the recliner, the television and the computer seem to have my daily fix just waiting my attention. So of course I am falling into fat sloth-like hanging around waiting for the leopard to find me and be hungry enough to climb up after me. Seems like I lack discipline, doing the right thing when no one save self is watching.

Okay, woke at seven or so and began today.

Weight is 223.8 pounds, BP is 133/79 Hr 40 bpm.
Devotions, medicines, computer check
Breakfast gruel with wife
Read Firebreak by Richard Stark
Knocked out the basic three thirty reps, and tried hanging a bit on chin up bar
Went on gentle jog 398 cal. 50% Fat Hr 111 Zone 46m14s Exercised 1h9m21s

Have to really start somewhere...

2009-12-21T05:27:00.000-08:00

Here I am, hear me roar... meek and weak, will have to work on weak this week. Isn't English a lovely language? Today, 216.6 pounds, BP 148/88 heart rate 40 bpm. Prayer, pooh, pills and now to make the coffee and hit the treadmill, ugly sweats worn. Polished my shoes and straightened (just a bit) of the garage, major stuff still to do, throw it away, throw the excess away! I stopped to use the toilet bowl at seventeen minutes remaining, my body is talking to me, it needs much more work, much less recliner and chairs. So forty minutes on the treadmill, program with five pound dumb bells in each hand, then ten minutes on the HealthRider for arms, back and thighs.
Only the fifty reps to do after breakfast, the walk to the dock and dry firing tonight with cat stretches - that recliner is going to be such a big problem. I do know that intentions are good but execution is the only thing that will bring desired results.

Yeah, I am still here... on the road or treadmill...

2009-12-03T21:53:00.000-08:00

Have to do it, Hamster on the spinning wheel, don't run gets fat and sluggish and goes into hibernation, has to run for his life depends on it.

treadmill for forty minutes with five pound dumb bells and good attitude, sweat and thoughts last night and today. logged it and recorded it and working on cleaning up my life and nests at work and home, have to hit the grass and leaves in the yard and hang some Christmas decorations. I am so far behind.

One hour and forty seconds, road work...

2009-11-17T08:44:00.000-08:00

I felt so good yesterday after my jog on the walk to the dock that I thought I should think about doing it much more often. Still haven't talked myself into my best behavior, haven't started weights and exercises with body weight, but it is coming as I wake my body up and feel better.

Yesterday I jogged thirty-nine minutes and 59 seconds, today I did longer one hour and forty seconds, and I think the consistency is going to be the thing I have to regain. If my mother had walked vigorously her whole life she would be better, but she sat too well. If she had swum longer and farther, it would have been better for her. Telling a human being that exercise is a critical portion of one's life and life style, just doesn't happen. But I will keep repeating the message until everyone gets it. I am so boring. All the good things in life mean that one has to be there for them.

Well, if I lost four pounds over night....

2009-11-15T20:36:00.000-08:00

Then hitting the road hard on Sunday would dissolve a couple of more pounds, but I don't really expect it - just some solid no gain of weight. I do jog in the afternoon, almost dusk, reflector belt and bright yellow sweatshirt. Come home and then later do thirty minutes on the treadmill with five pound dumb bells.

Calling me names...

2009-11-15T08:35:00.000-08:00

The latest one is Street Walker, and not because I sell sex, only because I am walking the street to the dock. It won't slow me down. Thursday I had a REST day, I call one when ever I can't find my get up and go, which probably left before I was fully awake. But the remainder of the week, was jogging Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 38m 1h6m 56m, walking to the dock Friday, 30m, and Treadmill for 40m with Healthrider 10m on Saturday. I wake to 211.0 pounds of flabby flesh today.

I have to get to hard running walking every day, sweating and working all the muscle sets to rebuild the blubbery me into the new improved fully functional man. Friday evening, pumping and swaying and pretending to keep rhythm on the dance floor with all those lovely female bodies (almost typed booties - not a word I understand or use) there is reason for feeling strong and silent, and appreciative of real smiles all the way to their eyes... no, I am not going to talk to any of them - break the spell, it would.

Missing me, I haven't been hard enough...

2009-11-10T08:46:00.000-08:00

Started re-reading "Younger Next Year..." before I evolve into the LazyBoy layered in blubber. Sad, so sad, to be sucked into the virtual world on the computer monitor or the other make believe land on your television screen in High Definition, like I needed more reason to wallow in a comfy nest of my own making - ever becoming less than human beings were evolved to become, or very intelligently designed to be... always less if I just don't move enough.

Back in the day (oh, another flash back) when I was running (really running not jogging) and doing marathons for various reasons (almost none of them logical) I told everyone two facts of humanity. The human is designed to jog twenty to twenty-five miles a day, every day of its life, and the pace of the jog is the same as the trot of a dog - before we started fooling with natural selection and producing lap dogs and toys. The second fact was that any healthy human can jog twenty miles - it is always that last 10K (6.2 miles) of a marathon that kills you.

Well, no marathon today - just an hour and six minutes on the road, waving at the heart walker (he wears reflective clothing, too), nodding a greeting to the great-grandfather walking his future to the bus stop - very protectively, good on him! Well, a cuppa coffee, hot shower and out to the real world of libraries inside the cage. Do they have libraries in the zoo for the animals? Nah, unless they have lots of smarter chimps. Next?

Cold day, but the Trusty Triumph purrs on....

2009-10-28T20:20:00.000-07:00

Clear sky or high cloud cover and no heat retention, frost layers thickly on the windshield of the Caravan, and I don't want to scrape it off like yesterday, I will ride the motorcycle for my joy. I don't have a lot, the threat of needing a pace maker doesn't make me happy. The attitude of the Cardiologist's staff and my reception - can you pay? are you sure? doesn't make me think my survival is based on anything save the ability of my insurance folks to pump out dollars. It isn't bitingly cold yet, but it is a wake up and pay attention type, don't fear falling asleep as I lean around the corners and roll on the throttle.

I, says I, need to start to get serious about good exercise program and healthier choices. So I will start tomorrow -- which is exactly the wrong answer. That has been my answer for several months now, the most I have been doing is measuring, taking my medications and walking to the dock, mostly. Hardly a real effort to survive and be a beautiful crabby old man. Which is all I have left, not enough time for chasing women that would be interested in the chase. 214 pounds of more than me should be. I do need to start, tomorrow and that means today....

2009-10-15T04:23:00.000-07:00

One should have his list of medications for people that want to aid him to know about.

Micardis HCT (telmisartan/hydrochlororthiazide) 80mg/12.5mg 1 daily by mouth
Crestor (rosuvastatin clacium) 40mg 1 daily by mouth

Levothyroxine 0.088mg 1 daily by mouth

14 Oct 2009 WT 211.4 BP 127/86 Hr 51
Strange fainting on ferry to work, blood pressure too low? Stayed home rested...

15 Oct 2009 WT 212.8 BP 131/78 Hr Lo BP 121/75 Hr 42
To bed by 9:30, hot shower good sleep, woke at 4:00 AM

Halfway there...

2009-09-30T04:51:00.000-07:00

So the morning routine on Tuesday, not too bad...

Weight 209.4 BP 113/83 Hr 48
30x3 Jog 315 cal 30% Hr 132 Z 19m49s X 40m32s

Heart rate too irregular, band or battery breakdown?

Walk to dock, nap on boat, worked well. Still behind.

Still hiding out back here, but exercising more...

2009-09-28T09:06:00.000-07:00

Weight 208.6 pounds, BP 160/89 Hr 42 that is the bad news

For good news, I fell out of my bed at almost six this morning, thought I had six more inches of mattress and only had one. Interesting, not hurt save the pride.

I kept to a good morning schedule, measure, devotions, check email, breakfast, 30x3 exercises, and jogged for 38 minutes almost 39. 297 calories 35% fat ones, Hr 125 Zone 32m14s Exercised time 38m59s. Good thoughts and shave and shower, time to go.

Walked down to dock, good work done at the library, finished a book cart and turned it in for purchase and processing. Came home to fine meal and wrestling and did forty rounds of dry fire on AQT with my M1 Garand.

Reality is next to bite the dust.

2009-09-27T16:51:00.000-07:00

After church, Hal reminded me that I knew what I should do to lose weight, and get stronger and I had to admit that I do, and if I really believe I should then I shall.

yes, I can't hide nor exercise properly it seems...

2009-08-31T08:13:00.000-07:00

Been wrapped up in self and bombarding me with electronic noise, television and computers, my fault. My friend Hal says I could get down to 180 pounds and I know how, but I just have to do it. Since I don't he thinks I am okay being me at 210 pounds, sigh. Don't you hate it when friends tell you what you don't want to see, but know anyway? Shouldn't, if they will tell you then they really are friends, if they don't they are something like your local politician, go with the friends.

I weigh 211.02 pounds, BP is 133/97, Heart rate 44, did my dry fire for forty rounds, three positions for the four stages, did 30 reps of the basic three, did jog for 193calories, 50% fat, HR of 105 (hardly enough) Zone 24m44s Exercised 40m11s. Might need to think about a new battery or heart rate monitor. Did three Chin up hangs when I returned. See what I can do tonight, stretches would be a good thing, dry fire positions with M1 and leather sling and shooting jacket.

Okay Doctor Oz, I am getting ready...

2009-08-25T08:16:00.000-07:00

Haven't been back here in a long time, but my wife is away and I can play. So I went jogging gently today. Calories only 205, but 50% were fat ones, Hr 106, Zone 26m30s, Exercised 40m39s. So I am not dead yet, although 61 and more than a half years old. Got to keep moving.

What a workout...

2009-07-26T12:33:00.000-07:00

24 July 2009 Weight 206.0 pounds, bp 127/76 Hr 50
W2D vigorously TNT said vigorous walking is better than saunters and meanders

25 July 2009 Weight 205.4 pounds bp 130/79 Hr 40
Jog in the morning cool, 541 cal 40% Hr 123 Z 1h3m45s X 1h12m38s 9cents found

I did go shooting in the afternoon, target above, carrying my pistol concealed under the belt upon the sagging belly flab, by the end of the day I had wear marks, back to shoulder carry for concealment and definitely comfort.

Feeling like I am getting stronger...

2009-07-24T04:47:00.000-07:00

The stomach isn't sagging as much, a bit tighter, the stepping out is longer and stronger, the muscles tighter just enough - of course the fat still sits covering much I wish it didn't, but as I go it will, too.

22July2009 weight 206.2 pounds bp 125/84 or 127/83, Hr 42 or 44
40x3 W2D Jog in the evening 281cal 40% Hr 120 Z 28m45s X 39m32s

23July2009 weight 207.0 pounds bp 125/87 Hr 42 W2D REST DAY!!!

well the sunburn is pealing... but not appealing...

2009-07-22T20:11:00.000-07:00

21 July 2009 Weight 206.0 pounds, bp 130/80 Hr 45
Jog 433cal 40% Hr 123 Z 52m12s X 58m38s W2D

posted my Health Care Program, don't expect the government to approve, no money in it nor control

Talked to one of the younger ferry boat captains, he is looking for a program to get healthier before he feels too old and out of it. I recommend Younger Next Year... for the doctor's wisdom.

Itching must be healing...

2009-07-21T06:50:00.000-07:00

I also have some nice taught to my muscles from exercise, best not skip today.

19 July 2009 weight 207.6 pounds, bp 134/91 Heart rate 45
Jog 242cal 50% Hr115 Z31m13s X38m13s

20 July 2009 weight 209.2 pounds bp 120/86 Heart rate 53
26x3x Jog 267cal 45% Hr118 Z35m56s X39m27s 2cents found
W2D

felt good physically at work, worked well, slept hard after/during RAW

Oh, the ache is better now...

2009-07-19T06:42:00.000-07:00

16 July 2009 weight 209.2 pounds, BP 126/87 Hr 45
8 Dips, 20x3 W2D

17 July 2009 weight 208.0 pounds BP 143/84 Hr 44
W2D

18 July 2009 weight 206.2 pounds BP 127/87 Hr 50
Jog 358cal45%Hr115Z44m36sX55m31s one penny

After jogging went into work mode on yard, good practice for sitting position on shooting. Too much sun, so head arms and hands are burnt, I did finally put a hat on before I got Sunstroke - Mad Dogs and Englishmen came to mind.

Lack of discipline will get me no where some day...

2009-07-16T05:02:00.000-07:00

13 July 2009 weight 209.2 pounds BP 121/89 Hr 47 W2D

14 July 2009 weight 208.8 pounds BP 130/81 Hr 48 W2D

15 July 2009 weight 206.2 pounds BP 114/89 or 127/96 Hr 60 or 62 W2D
Lonely and eat too much while sitting watching the boob tube, so sad, so wrong

Okay I am lazy and sick....

2009-07-13T08:17:00.000-07:00

One of the younger old men of my church (younger than I) had a heart attack and has a stent now. And I spent a half hour talking with Medicare for my wife instead of exercising, but then I didn't exercise all weekend, so it is my fault.

10 July 2009 weight 208.0 pounds bp 126/81 Hr 43 W2D

11 July 2009 weight 206.0 pounds bp 122/85 Hr 49

12 July 2009 weight 205.2 pounds bp 135/80 140/86 Hr 42 49

Proudly reported to Wyatt that I had made 205.2 pounds, but then on the 13th after pigging out on Sunday and rolling around fat I weigh 209.2 pounds on Monday. Sigh.

I wrote about government health care on Just the Library Keeper. Not that I know anything about how difficult it is to herd cats.

Friday, thank God for Fridays...

2009-07-11T07:29:00.000-07:00

It was actually a pay day, but my Earning and Deductions Statement hadn't preceded the day so I was a bit confused, also the day to turn in my reports for June which I couldn't because I had not brought my memory with me... I forgot it.

10 July 2009 weight 208.0 pounds, bp is 126/81, Hr 43 bpm and I would only W2D for exercise

I did enjoy riding the motorcycle, hard and fast enough, leaning into the turns and rolling the throttle to keep it up.

So lazy bones, flabby flesh...

2009-07-09T20:34:00.000-07:00

Tuesday weight 209.2 pounds BP 127/81 Hr 44 bpm
50 x 3 basic exercises W2D

Wednesday weight 208.6 pounds BP 130/84 Hr 46 bpm
W2D

Thursday weight 208.8 pounds BP 110/75 Hr 42 bpm
W2D

Doing too much on the computer, wishing there were some one out there for me, but not really. Best check my Lotto tickets, I did all the updating of my money until tomorrow night, the economy in this home is better although we look like we are in transition (moving stuff!).

Break on Independence Day Weekend...

2009-07-07T04:53:00.000-07:00

So I was calling the Range at Wade's DAR as the Line Boss for the Fourth and Fifth of July, so I went off program but kept on my feet and sounding off.

Saturday 4th weight 207.2 pounds

Sunday 5th weight 208.6 pounds

Monday, 6 July, weight 208.6 pounds blood pressure 128/93 Heart rate 52 bpm
50 x 3 basic Jog 213 cal 55% fat Hr 108 Zone 14m46s Exercised 40m11s W2D

Really slack but one has to get on the road to do the work, so I took the step.

No matter what shape your stomach is in?

2009-07-03T08:35:00.000-07:00

Okay, I am a slug. I did promise myself a good jog on the 2nd of July, and it never happened, what a wimp!

2 July 2009: Weight 208.0 pounds, BP 146/85 or 130/82 and Heart rate of 47 or 19 beats per minute. 3CU hangs, 3PU hangs, 8 dips, 50 reps of basic three and the Walk to the dock, good pace good stretch and that was it.. for the day.

It was a beautiful Sunny warm day, that turned hotter and made me think I should wait until a bit later to go jog after dinner, the slippery slope to non-achievement and I get rolling down it so well. I played a computer war game instead of jogging, a game I could have paused for the thirty-five minute short route. Must remind oneself that the beginning of every exercise event is getting the body into the start position, which seems to be tougher than anything else.

I do feel stronger, like to think my muscles are responding to the exercise and stretching, that as I work out and up I will get better at all of it and not to be too impatient - not only Rome was't built in a day, but most heroic figures had to spend much time in training to get good enough to survive the first parts of battle. Gates of Fire has the best description of the cowardice that comes from fatigue and just a bit of fear, when one saves his last for himself...

To become stronger turn off the electrical noise...

2009-07-01T21:09:00.000-07:00

You want to get that jog in, stop watching television and reading blogs, go out the door and sweat sweetly... the only way to

This morning: weight 206.8 pounds, Blood Pressure 111/88, Heart rate 48 bpm. 3CU hangs, 3 PU hangs, 20x3 basic exercises. Walk to the dock. Jog gently 369 cal. 45% fat, 116 Hr, Z49m11s Ex56m37s. found one nickle, changing stride, impact of foot and push off feels better. Stretches and light dumb bells to finish.