5 minutes walking
3 minutes jogging/2 minutes walking x 2
1 minute jogging
*sound of me hitting wall*
17 minutes walking

Total time: 33 minutes
Total distance: about the same as I’ve been doing

I’ve been hitting the wall, so to speak, a little quicker lately, because I’m being more cautious with my shins. I was pushing myself past more pain than I should and paying for it for weeks at a time. Trying not to do that now. Gonna build from here. Today also sucked because it was so goddamned humid, but not warm enough. It’s like running in a sauna when you’ve got humidity but not heat.

Onward to Thursday.

5 minutes walking
3 minutes jogging/2 minutes walking x 3
2 minute break to fill up my water bottle, stretch and have a quick drink
2 minutes jogging then I crapped out, might’ve been more like 2:30
10 minutes walking

Total time: 32 minutes
Total mileage: finally going up after being stalled for a while, but still no pedometer. Cleaning my room, so it’ll turn up.

It was about 95 degrees out when I did this workout, with very little shade on about two thirds of my course, and amazingly, I felt pretty great. Drank the fluids I needed to, and I really don’t mind the heat. Best workout of the week. Ran until I started feeling some minor soreness in my calves and shins, then walked it out the rest of the way. Iced my left calf for 10 minutes when I got home, no Advil or the like, and I feel great now.

I’m still not doing the entirety of the recommended workout yet, but that’s fine, because I am making progress and feeling better. I’ll stick with my current workout level until I can get past it comfortably and easily, then move on.

5 minutes walking
3 minutes jogging/2 minutes walking x 2

Then thunder and lightning mercy-killed my workout.

More on Saturday. After almost 4 months (even with the obvious interruptions), you’d think I’d be making more progress than this. Not getting frustrated or disappointed, just learning my body and its current limits.

It was hot as hell out, and I’m still healing, so I kept myself at last week’s pace in the book, and did it sparingly.

5 minutes walking
3 minutes jogging/2 minutes walking
2 minutes jogging
some stretching because my right calf was tightening up
walking the rest of the way

Total Time: 36 minutes
Total Distance: exactly where it’s been for weeks now, but still no fucking pedometer. Oh well, I am cleaning this week, I’ll probably turn it up.

I am taking it very easy lately, because I’d like to finally heal and be able to run pain-free or damn close to it (my left knee barks a lot, and did even before I started running, so totally pain-free might always be asking for too much) in the near future. I’m getting closer. I still feel like I’m half-assing it to get there, but I’m trying to have patience with myself.

I may walk again in the other park tonight, depending on what my energy level’s like (my sleep’s shot at the moment), no jogging, and see if I can get myself back to a Mon./Wed./Fri. schedule, which is what I’m most comfortable with. Stay tuned. I know the suspense is killing you all.

…look no further than the newly relaunched Tokyogetter site. Whole bunch of dirty, filthy Japanese stuff for you weirdos. Tell them we sent you. Maybe they’ll throw in a Tootsie Pop.

Well-done video by George’s friend Evan Cohen.

I have to find out what games George is playing so I can play against him, but it looks like he’s got an XBox 360. Maybe I can bogart my sister’s for a while.

In space, no one can hear me calling you a cocksucker.

5 minutes walking
3 minutes jogging/2 minutes walking x 1
1 minute jogging/3 minutes walking x 2
2 minutes jogging
10 minutes walking

…give or take.

Total time: about 30 minutes
Total mileage: same as usual, no pedometer yet.

I took 2 extra days off, and took it easy today, because I’d like my calves and shins to heal at some point. I’ll see how I feel tomorrow and Tuesday (I’ll be running Tues./Thurs./Sat. this week), but I’m just about totally pain-free right now, so at least for now, it’s paid off. The goal now is to get as close to pain-free as I can, or totally pain-free in an ideal situation, by the end of August, while building up my endurance at the same time, slowly. Even if it involves more walking than running while I heal, I’m cool with that. Just gotta keep at it, and make adjustments as I go.

Went to Burger King just now, and figured “Eh, fuck it, I’ll leave the iPod home”. Turn on the radio, and Strapping Young Lad are on, so I’m like “Hey, bonus!” and I left it on WDHA. Then, they said that they were giving away a copy of SYL’s new hits CD/DVD and their last album, “The New Black”, to the 5th caller.

I think you bitches can guess who the 5th caller was. Yeah, that’s right.

All this, and bacon cheeseburgers, people.

$65 million to make an average, 75 minute episode of the TV show? I’m fairly confident that the FCC wouldn’t have fined Fox 50 million dollars because Marge said “God damn it!” and Bart had his wang on-screen for a second.

Don’t get me wrong here. I don’t hate The Simpsons. They’re not a religion to me like they are to some, but I can usually laugh when I watch the show. However, I can think of much better things to do with 50 million dollars of Fox’s money. Maybe not more profitable things (the movie grossed half a billion dollars…), but better things. I could make a really big bong or something. I don’t know. Maybe that would make a lot of money, if you marketed it to the same audience.

It starts at 7 AM local time TODAY, people. That’s in 6 hours and 24 minutes over here on the East Coast of the States. If there are 7-11s near you in foreign lands, then Free Slurpee Day may have already started for you.

You know what to do.

“No friggin’ way” week continues…

5 minutes walking
3 minutes jogging/2 minutes walking x 3
1 minute jogging
*sound of me hitting wall here*
8 minutes walking, give or take…did a little cooldown walk, hit the water fountain, walked a little more and decided not to push it.

Total Time: 29 minutes
Total Distance: whatever. Damn pedometer.

I’m about 2 hours removed from the workout now, and I’m still a little achey and fatigued in the shins/calves, but nothing really awful. I think I’m going to stick with this run until it makes sense to move on, which still puts me further ahead than I was, and I’m happy with the progress, even if I’m not hitting the program’s goals. I’ve got time to build up to that, and while my lung capacity is getting better, I am still running through soreness and a possible injury here to some degree. More stretching is definitely in order (I’ve been easing into it, getting used to the idea of doing more than I had been before/after), I may throw some insoles in the Kayanos until I lose some weight, and I’m not going to push my luck until I feel good about running at the level I’m running at. I do love that I’m doing 3 minutes at a time rather than 2 now, though, because I pissed and moaned so much on some of those 2 minute jogs (and someday, I will laugh a hearty laugh about this), and the difference between 2 and 3 is pretty negligible.

As an aside, no running club folks out today, just the high school kids who have cross-country practice there.

Onward to Friday.

20 situps (I’m sticking with a consistent 20 for now, just to get comfortable with doing them), then…

Remember that week’s workout I said “no friggin’ way” to in Grete’s book, way back on Day 7?

Well, here’s how I did on my first attempt:

5 minutes walking
3 minutes jogging/2 minutes walking x 4
30 seconds running (out of a possible 4 minutes)
4 minutes and 30 seconds walking (originally 2 minutes)

Total time: 30 minutes (workout called for 31)
Total mileage: whichever. I’m doing, give or take, the same amount of distance in each workout lately, which is about a mile and a half, maybe a little less. I should be doing more than I am after 3 months of this (not counting the month or so of downtime), but I’m not mad at myself for that. Circumstances beyond my control and all that. As evidenced by my last walking time, I should probably do the 3rd 3 minute run into the course, then turn around and do the home stretch rather than doing 2 and 2 there. Otherwise, I’ll be running past my house.

For someone who hasn’t jogged 3 consecutive minutes since, well, probably grade school, I did the first 3 tries pretty well. The 4th got a little rough, but I did it ok. My shins feel as fine as they usually do right now (though they may feel differently once the adrenaline wears off), and my breathing is mostly back to normal. I feel like I worked out, that’s about it. I’ve modified my gait a bit, not using my full strength to press off on each step when jogging, going with a softer step, and it’s working wonders for both the runs themselves and my recovery time.

I’m going to stick with this for Wednesday, and see if I can improve upon it, pain levels permitting. I could end up feeling like death later, but right now, I feel like I turned a corner, even having not completed today’s workout properly.

There is no cock ring in cuddling.

5 minutes walking
1 minute jogging/1 minute walking x 4
2 minutes jogging/2 minutes walking x 2
1 minute jogging/1 minute walking x 2
2 minutes walking (yep, timed it wrong)

Total time: 27 minutes
Total mileage: still no pedometer, but near-identical to Wednesday

Nothing to report, aside from that it was humid as hell out there and I’m still sore. Hopefully the weekend off will ease that some.

Onward to Monday.