2008, Week Thirty-Five

Monday, August 25: Home treadmill for 1.277 miles; morning bike ride for 8.32 miles; no after-work stop at the Y.
Tuesday, August 26: Became a rest day, although right now I don’t remember why.
Wednesday, August 27: Home treadmill for 1.345 miles; morning bike ride for 8.03 miles; after-work stop at the Y for an upper-body workout (plus, of course, the two hip machines).
Thursday, August 28: Home treadmill for 1.607 miles; morning bike ride for 6.54 miles; no after-work stop at the Y.
Friday, August 29: Home treadmill for 1.471 miles; morning bike ride for 7.86 miles; no after-work stop at the Y, which is normal for Friday.
Saturday, August 30: Home treadmill for 3.251 miles; no bike ride; no stop at the Y.
Sunday, August 31: No walk because I straightened out a book case in hopes of finding two of my Harry Potter books; bike ride for 23.00 miles; no stop at the Y, though I’d planned to, until my BFFs called mid-ride to tell me that our favorite English tea house was open today, so we met for afternoon tea, and the Y closes at 5 on Sunday. Which means I won’t get to the gym before Tuesday because of the Monday holiday, so no weigh-in yet for August.

Total distance for the week: 62.701
Distance from Bag End: 3178.490
Distance to Minas Tirith: 272.51

August Accomplishments:
I exceeded July’s mileage on the treadmill (43.165 for August v 35.045 for July), and squeaked past July’s mileage on the elliptical by a few hundredths (August 11.41; July 11.37). But I was down by one strength-training session from July. And, of course, the cycling mileage is down (256.92 in August v 315.35 in July) from July because it really is unreasonable to think I could increase my mileage when I have less time to ride! It’d take a lot of riding on weekends to make up the difference.

September Goals:
Increase the treadmill and elliptical mileages. Increase the number of strength-training sessions. At least meet August’s cycling mileage. The NCIS FanFest is this month, so I don't think I'll get much riding done between the 17th and the 21st, but the venue does have a gym.

High point of the week: One of my BikeForums.net cycling buds, Mr Beanz, PMed me to tell me that when he and his DW Gina saw me last week on SART, he hadn't been completely certain it was me and wanted to know if I'd lost some weight. Thank you, Fred; I needed that!!!!!.

2008, Week Thirty-Four

Monday, August 18: No walk this morning because I stayed up late watching the Olympics (and still didn’t get to see everything I wanted to see!), so I slept late; no morning bike ride; and stuck late at work, so no Y stop, either. I guess that makes it a "rest day."
Tuesday, August 19: Home treadmill for 1.164 miles; morning bike ride for 7.91 miles; after-work strength training at the Y.
Wednesday, August 20: Home treadmill for 1.701 miles; morning bike ride for 5.8 miles; after-work stop at the Y to ride the elliptical for 3.58 miles.
Thursday, August 21: Home treadmill for 1.501 miles; morning bike ride for 7.96 miles; after-work strength training at the Y.
Friday, August 22: Home treadmill for 1.256 miles; morning bike ride for 7.89 miles; no after-work stop at the Y because that just doesn’t happen on Fridays.
Saturday, August 23: Home treadmill for 3.251 miles; no bike ride; no Y visit.
Sunday, August 24: Slept late and lazed abed, so no morning walk; bike ride for 34.28 miles; no Y visit.

Total distance for the week: 76.293
Distance from Bag End: 3115.789
Distance to Minas Tirith: 335.211

2008, Week Thirty-Three

…and a brief nod to the Olympics.

Monday, August 11: Home treadmill for 1.415 miles; morning bike ride for 8.14 miles; post-work visit to the Y for the upper-body-plus-two-hip-machines workout.
Tuesday, August 12: Home treadmill for 1.306 miles; morning bike ride for 7.47 miles; post-work visit to the Y’s elliptical for 3.81 miles.
Wednesday, August 13: Home treadmill for 1.404 miles; morning bike ride for 8.12 miles; post-work visit to the Y for the upper-body-plus-two-hip-machines workout.
Thursday, August 14: Home treadmill for 1.481 miles; skipped the morning bike ride for reasons I forget now; post--work visit to the Y’s elliptical for 4.02 miles.
Friday, August 15: Skipped the morning walk; morning bike ride for 6.74 miles; and no post-work visit to the Y because it’s Friday.
Saturday, August 16: Home treadmill for 2.504 miles; no bike ride; no Y visit.
Sunday, August 17: Home treadmill for 2.752 miles; nice long bike ride down SGRT and into Long Beach (Naples) for 25.87 miles.

Total distance for the week: 75.032
Distance from Bag End: 3039.496
Distance to Minas Tirith: 411.504

I’ve been able to watch some of the Olympics, too. Congratulations to the USA men’s and women’s swim teams. And to Constantina Tomescu Dita of Romania in the Women’s Marathon.

I also bought the grocery panniers from REI and gave them their first trial today when I stopped at Whole Foods in Naples (a neighborhood of Long Beach across Alamitos Bay from SGRT) during my ride today.

2008, Week Thirty-Two

Monday, August 4: Home treadmill for 1.511 miles; no morning bike ride (took the desktop computer to shop because the USB ports went crazy); no post-work stop at the Y because of crisis control.
Tuesday, August 5: Home treadmill for 1.276 miles; morning bike ride for 7.95 miles; no post-work stop at the Y because of crisis control.
Wednesday, August 6: Home treadmill for 1.426 miles; morning bike ride for 7.97 miles; post-work stop at the Y for strength training: all upper-body machines plus the two hip machines.
Thursday, August 7: Home treadmill for 1.503 miles; morning bike ride for 7.97 miles; no post-work stop at the Y because of crisis control.
Friday, August 8: Rest day: the water heater went out and Jill got married.
Saturday, August 9: Home treadmill for 2.1 miles; bike ride for 21.84 miles.
Sunday, August 10: Home treadmill for 2.101 miles; all-day class at the LNS.

Total distance for the week: 55.647
Distance from Bag End: 2964.464
Reached Isengard with Merry and Pippin; continuing to Minas Tirith with Gandalf and Pippin. Distance to Minas Tirith: 486.536

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I really, really dislike these late-in-the-shift crises that keep me at work past 8! Two nights in a row I've had to skip the Y. Bleah.

2008, Week Thirty-One, and July Recap

Monday, July 28: Home treadmill for 1.257 miles; morning bike ride for 14.84 miles; post-work stop at the Y for the predominantly upper-body workout.
Tuesday, July 29: Skipped the home treadmill this morning; headed to the park for the morning bike ride, and had a flat about 6.25 miles into the ride. Walked about a mile total, between walking the bike out of the middle of El Dorado Regional Park to the nearest bus stop, rode a couple of buses back to Liberty Park, and walked a few hundred more feet to the van. And left the office too late to make it worth my while to stop at the Y.
Wednesday, July 30: Home treadmill for 1.177 miles; no ride today because the bike was in the shop, and no post-work stop at the Y. I was able to take a “dinner break” and get the bike from the shop.
Thursday, July 31: Home treadmill for 1.503 miles; morning bike ride for 9.92 miles, and a stop at the Y after work for the upper-body (and, of course, the two hip machines) strength training.
Friday, August 1: Home treadmill for 1.367 miles; morning bike ride for 6.94 miles. No visit to the Y because I don’t finish up at work early enough on Fridays to get there. Shorter bike rides before work because I’m officially back on the 10-8 schedule.
Saturday, August 2: BFF-J’s credit union is celebrating their 70th anniversary (and it turns out this credit union includes my former employer’s credit union, the one at the old Long Beach Naval Shipyard!), and so we all went to the Santa Ana Zoo, and then spent some time at her great-niece’s 1st birthday. About 1.188 miles of traipsing around.
Sunday, August 3: Home treadmill for 2.007 miles; nice long bike ride for 30.32 miles; skipped the Y because the banana-and-granola-bar breakfast just wasn’t enough after all of that.

Total distance for the week: 77.769
Distance from Bag End: 2908.817
Distance to Isengard: 25.183

July Recap:
Walking Distance: 35.045 miles (June: 11.9)
Elliptical Distance: 11.37 miles (June: 6.6)
Biking Distance: 315.35 miles (June 347.29)
Cybex Workouts: 7 (predominantly UBWO) (June: 2)
Weight Loss: 1.5 lbs

August Goals:
Increase all distances, especially walking and ellipticalling. Increase strength training occasions. Take better control of portion sizes and snacking. Today, August 3rd, marks the one-year anniversary of joining the Y.