Face one's fears

Early rising, six o'clock and the Sunshine is waiting for lazybones. I weigh 208.0 pounds (blaming my reluctance to run or jog on my foot) my blood pressure is 119/70 (!!!!) with a heart rate of 37 bpm. I sip on my coffee, look at the blogs and decide I have no reason not to go jog. So I put on the heart rate monitor chest strap and get my shoes on, sweat pants and sleeveless yellow shirt. I won't hurt many people's eyes - there really aren't a lot of folks out watching me. Only one jogger who was dashing down the drive, a walker that could have been a lightweight boxer once, and two bicyclists out for their health.

Well, the foot isn't that much pain, but the fear is foolish but constantly trying to build my excuse for not going far enough. Well, I do the longer route, and think I have forgotten how far the distances were - no longer a very familiar distance and friend. I find three pennies and one of them when I was thinking about carrying a pistol today, a sign! Well the numbers are 524 calories, 50% of them FAT ones!, Hr average 117, in Zone 49 minutes 39 seconds, Exercising for 54 minutes and 34 seconds. I worked on what Doubletapper had encouraged me to do - sprint then jog when I couldn't, then sprint again. Now I remember dimly that the purpose of Fartlek was to put play back into tough training for better racing, but going back and forth was refreshing and allowed me to increase stride and pace knowing that I could back off when I became a heart attack waiting to happen. It was a good run work out and the foot feels fine, funny but fine. Look at the lady flying over the bridge, lovely morning.

Garbage Day, taking out the trash...

For motivation and fitness we watched WWE RAW on the cablevision last night, I still can't believe I am older and so much younger looking (?) than Rick Flair, the Nature Boy. But my wife and I laughed loudly at the pretend punches being thrown (she can really punch and I am always too willing). Ah, well, humor is in the head of the happy. I weigh 206.5 pounds, bp is 149/89 and heart rate is 41 bpm. I write and read about Tam's future broomstick (DR-Z400SM looks likely), something about the Supreme Court's Day today, and then eat gruel, watch the weather and go for my heart's jog.

A little gray sky, misty rain falls, and I jog vigorously but gently, saying hello to another heart walker and pretending the children waiting for school bus pick up aren't going to laugh at my feeble efforts. I stretch the stride a few times and keep the pace and breathing up as I day dream about writing blogs - yeah, right. 677 calories burned, 45% should have come from FAT (1600 calories in one pound of fat), average heart rate 120 bpm, in Zone 1 hour 3 minutes 52 seconds, exercise time total was !:05.23 and I am happy, my wife unlocks and opens the front door for me.

One morning news show has a bit about zoo animals put on a Weight Watchers diet because they can't get the exercise they would in the wild. But looking at human beings most of our health issues with weight are because we aren't hunter/gatherers in the wild anymore with a twenty miles on foot per day looking for food as the natural norm. But we live in modern cages: the car a cage on four wheels, the home a rambler in the neighboorhood development, the job in the cubicle or office without the window - another cage. Don't start thinking about mental health in the cages, they have problems with social issues among the zoo animals, too.

Sinus explosion!

I wake and read email, return comments and send a new, then my head blows up and I am coughing, all I did was take my medication. Anyway I could declare a rest day and clean up the computer cave and pay my bills. My weight is 204.5 pounds, blood pressure under coughing 152/86 and the heart rate is 47 beats per minute - I am alive working on minor miserable...

Well, my sister writes that I am a jerk and an idiot, so I slink back into the darkness and cold. It is cold outside, frost on my windshield and roof, the fog is ground bound and I decide that after my morning gruel I will go an jog my heart into better condition. Yesterday I noticed the old man jog step - short and no push from the trail leg, and everyone knows you only go faster by how much time you spend in the air between your feet touching down, so I pushed off more yesterday and I would work on that on my short jog this morning. 436 kCal and forty percent of that fat (didn't I read that before?) Average Heart Rate (Hr) 124 bpm, time in zone 38 minutes and fifty-five seconds, exercise time total 40 minutes.

I did have an angry big black dog problem, any dog barking and snapping teeth within two feet is a problem. I wondered if I should come back and shoot it, if I should hit it hard with my handweights, or just keep running backwards facing it until the dog got bored - I chose the last, and the dog lives another day and I got clean away. I have only been bitten by one dog in many years of running, and it surprised the dog as much as it did me - but the bruise was a bad one and I only need one for a story - repeating the mistake makes me that idiot my sister thinks I am. I should always disappoint my sister's lower expectations.

Walked for thirty-four minutes down to the dock, stood on my feet all day working in the library playing catch up, come nightfall I am tired and my sinus problem needs more liquid and sleep.