Day 24

Did StretchX yesterday, this morning was YogaX. Did it in the dark with my eyes closed - a surreal experience. I was able to focus a lot more on what I was doing and it felt like a much better workout. I actually enjoyed it.

Planing to hit the Tobacco Trail today for 13-20 miles at lunch.

Have a great day!

ACTUAL CONVERSATION:
"Dude, I'm having a really hard time finding the right gear today, I'm struggling!"
"Oh hey, you're back tire is completely flat"

That was at mile 9 of the Tobacco Trail. I probably would have noticed sooner if it wasn't a dirt trail. Probably. Awesome workout though! 70.5 Miles to go.

Was a fairly long walk back, ended up conducting a conference call for work out in nature. Yay for blackberry!

Day 22, Recovery week.

Core Syn this morning, feels like I haven't done this workout in a long time. Went well, even did the bonus at the end.

Raining pretty hard this morning, don't know if the Tobacco Trail will get ridden today or not. Going to be muddy if the Mighty Tim and I do go, that's for sure.

BTW, I DID get yogax done yesterday, and it was not too bad for a change.

Tobacco Trail was pretty damp, was filthy when I got home. Good ride though. 13.5 more down, 82.5 Miles to go.

Sunday

45.5 ridden this morning. In the rain. And the wind. By myself. All things considered not a bad ride, only 96 miles to go.

YogaX sometime today. Oh BOY.

I'm going to go lay on the floor for a little while.

Saturday, Day 20, playing catchup.

Lots of house and yard work gettin' done. Did the last Total body and Kenpo for a while and tomorrow's Yo-Gax will end Phase 1 of the Hybrid P180X+. Next week should be fun with a lot of Core/Stretch/Yoga. 8 Days from now I expect to be flexible enough to stick my elbow in my ear. I'm glad it's a 'rest' week, I'm going to have to spend a lot of time on the bike with only 11 days left and 141.5 to roll. Tomorrow's ride will be a big one and should get me well under the 100 mark.

I've probably mentioned it before, but check out www.mapmyfitness.com sometime. It's awesome for mapping out runs/rides/walks and logging your exercise. You can also take physical challenges like the 300 miles in 30 days to push yourself and win prizes. Good stuff.

Time to organize this office and get the house cleaned up some. Catch you later!

Day 17 I NEED MILES

Swapped StretchX for Kenpo this morning, yesterday my sides didn't feel up the all the twisting (after Total Body the day before - Try it, you'll see what I mean). Kenpo went great, feeling great, needing some cycling miles today. Hopefully the rain will hold off and the Mighty Tim and I can hit the American Tobacco Trail again.
The P180X+ routine has seemed to kicked me off my plateau - I'm down 6 pounds from where I finished P90X. Let's hope the train keeps a rolling!

Have a great day, dear reader.

Met up with Tim on the tobacco trail today, ended up doing 20 Miles. Tougher today, trail was wet and I guess I'm tired. We had a good haul though! 141.5 to go.

Day 15, Total Body

Upped the weight and reps some today. Kicked my butt. I got done with judicious use of the pause button and the 13000 cubic foot per minute ceiling fan. Feeling sorta cranky for some reason right now.

Here's an interesting thing, when I first started P90X in Jan I could do 3 unassisted reverse grip pullups. During today's workout I did 41. Eight of those included doing a crunch, bringing the knees to to chin up bar at the top of the pull up, Seven doing 3 'runs' at the top, but most clean pullups.

Bet I sleep good tonight.

Day 14, YogaX and admitted defeat.

Well yesterday was interesting, I rode out with Gene and Dave for a 35-45 mile road ride. Straight out of the neighborhood it was clear that they had had their Wheaties and today was going to be an eye opener. We covered a little over 20 miles in the first hour, faster than I've ever ridden that distance before. At our first break I mentioned that and got surprised looks and 'O RLY?' from them.
Then things got interesting. By interesting I mean painful and embarrassing. :)
Around mile 35 climbing the 6th or 7th long and ugly hill, as I contemplated the seemingly inevitable event where both of my quadriceps exploded like over inflated and rotten inner tubes in a hot sun, when Gene makes a remark about the young guy should be pulling us up the hill. He was talking about Dave who turns out to be 3 years my senior. Later I found out that Gene was 12 when I was born.
The ride ended up being 46 miles all told and they didn't seem to mind waiting on me at the top of the last few mountains we discovered. I've got a lot of improving to do.
161.5 Miles left to ride.


In semi related news, I'm admitting my over ambitiousness in taking on two 30 day challenges along with P180X+. In trying to do all three, all three are suffering. So I'm dropping the 100 miles in 30 days run challenge. The cycling can be done in an hour 2-3 days a week at the distances I'm used to riding with a big weekend ride, but the run is another hour just about everyday.

YogaX today and I swear on my daughter's Garfield plush toy that I'm getting through the whole thing.

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Yoga is done, Garfield lives another day.