Exercise feels so good
Today I was allowed to exercise again so I did!
The first thing I wanted to do was get back into the 100 pushup challenge. I neglected to mention that I completed week 02 last Friday morning just before my enforced hiatus. Today’s aim was to do the end of week 02 exhaustion test. In my initial pushups test I managed to do 20 and could probably have done 21. Today I did 30 and could probably have done 31. So a 50% improvement. I’m quite pleased with that.
The downside of managing to do 30 was that this still leaves me in column 3 of the program. As those of you who are doing this know, column 3 is the killer column so I suspect I’ll be doing week 3 and week 4 multiple times. But I’m fine with that. As long as I’m improving then it is worthwhile.
And I managed to get in a run today! I decided to restrict myself to a gentle 5K as I have a 10K race on Sunday and I really didn’t want to get injured. I also did it on the treadmill so as to reduce impact stress. I’m pleased to report that everything appears to be fine so it looks like I’ll be able to do the race. I really wanted to do another 5K but decided to be sensible and stop after 30 minutes of running. I’m so glad I can exercise again. I was going a little stir crazy.
With regards to the race, this will be my first 10K run. My aim is to try and do it in under an hour but we’ll see how I go. From the comfort of my desk I will say that I am not going to be stupid and try and really go for it but come race day…who knows eh? Any time I get will be a PR so first priority is to finish!
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July 11th, 2008 10:40
Sounds like you had a great workout! Yay!
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July 11th, 2008 11:22
Know that feeling about not being able to exercise, I am so frustrated already and it has not even been a week in the cast LOL only 6 weeks to go….. Good luck for the run on Sunday
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July 11th, 2008 12:14
Must be great getting back into it.
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July 11th, 2008 12:21
Glad you’re up and about and that, in this case, absence did make the heart grow fonder.
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July 11th, 2008 14:06
Going stir crazy? Would you have said that a year ago?
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AndrewE
reply on July 12th, 2008 12:48 pm:
Hell no.
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July 11th, 2008 18:22
Good to try to convince yourself that you’ll take it easy at the race. You won’t, but that’s ok too.
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July 11th, 2008 21:23
Column 3 looks like a killer – I’m glad I’m in column 2
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AndrewE
reply on July 12th, 2008 12:50 pm:
How did you end up in column 2? You’ve been doing more than me!
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July 12th, 2008 01:18
Yay for the good workout, and good luck on the 10k! I will be trying my first 5k come August….and I can’t wait!
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AndrewE
reply on July 12th, 2008 12:50 pm:
You’ll never look back!
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July 12th, 2008 01:57
welcome back to the worldofworkout!
(she types even though life precluded her from HERS this morning…)
Miz.
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AndrewE
reply on July 12th, 2008 7:45 pm:
Thanks Mizfit! It’s great to be back.
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July 12th, 2008 03:14
Ha ha, I totally know what you mean about being in column three! I did my initial test last weekend, and didn’t know where the lines were. I managed to barely squeak out 15 push-ups, which put me in column three for the first week. I got through the first session on Tuesday, and my arms are still a bit sore! I have to move on to day two today, but I’m a bit scared.
Good luck with the 10k. I’m hardly a very experienced running, but having done a 5k, a 10k, and a half, I found the 10km to be the most enjoyable distance– it is long enough that you can get into the zone, but short enough that you’re not spent for an entire week afterward.
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AndrewE
reply on July 12th, 2008 7:46 pm:
Thanks David. I’m looking forward to it.
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July 12th, 2008 06:02
Good luck on the 10K tomorrow. 10K is a good distance.
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July 12th, 2008 15:34
Great job Andrew! I’m doing my end of week 2 test tomorrow – I don’t see myself getting to 30 yet though!
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AndrewE
reply on July 12th, 2008 7:46 pm:
I did week 01 twice so I’ve had a bit more practice! Good luck!
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John's Weight Loss Blog
reply on July 13th, 2008 4:44 pm:
I managed 25, which puts me in column 2 for week 3. I hate to admit that I probably could have eked another one out if I really wanted to. But I didn’t, lol.
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July 12th, 2008 18:37
All the best for the run tomorrow!
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July 12th, 2008 19:47
And to you too! If you see me come over and say hello.
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July 14th, 2008 02:23
Yay for getting back to exercise! You are doing great on the push-up challenge and you’ll nail that 10K in under an hour.
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July 14th, 2008 09:29
Hey, Andrew, sounds like we’re in just about exactly the same place in the Pushup Challenge. I did 29 in my end-of-Week-2 trial, which, as you said, kept me in the dreaded Level 3. And boy is it dreaded…. I had a hard time with Day 2 and am really wondering about Day 3 tomorrow. Despite my trial results, I may have overestimated the appropriate level for myself — might have better success dropping back a level.
Point to ponder: That would make it easier; is “easier” what I really want???
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AndrewE
reply on July 14th, 2008 9:51 am:
I have to admit that I don’t really understand the rationale behind the various levels.
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