Day 69b – Exercise and Tools

June 15, 2008 by Bill Wallace
Filed under: Challenges, Exercise, Friends, Goals, achievement 

Exercise Summary

Run: 5.05km   Time: 24:49   Push Ups: 41 (10, 10, 8, 6, 7)

Today was supposed to be a high exercise day. The plan was:

  • breakfast in town with the FBH
  • church at St Georges Cathedral in the city
  • 10km run around the bridges
  • start the 100 Push ups Challenge (go here to sign up! Go on, you know you want to!) :)

But CN2 (child number 2 (son, almost 18, very independent) ) wanted us to spend some time together as a family this morning. So we did. No breakfast in town. I decided to make oats, banana, honey and cinnamon. Sensational and easy to make.

We did make it to church, amid the pouring rain, but it didn’t turn out to be the service we were looking for. Well close but the “singing service” was, well, just not for us. We’ll keep looking.

And as it was POURING, I decided to run later in the afternoon as the forecast was “showers clearing”. Yes, weak, I know! :)

TOOLS

I’d been wanting a way to measure distance for a while but just can’t do a GPS like the Garmin Forerunner. I’d been either doing the Google Maps thing, much like Andrew does or driving the distance at some time to get a fairly close measure. But I wanted something to take with me. I decided on the nike+ foot pod. So, during the rain, we headed off to get one.

I “modified” my Adidas running shoes to take the pod and set off for a run. I really like the footpod and it seems to be accurate enough for me. I decided on a 5km run and that’s exactly what I did. This really cool voice telling me: “1 km completed; 2 km completed and so on.” Until I reached the end. I then simply attached it to the ever faithful MacBook Pro and it automatically sent the data through to my Nike+ site.

I didn’t walk at all during the run. Most times during my exercise there will be a section where I do walk but thinking this might adversely affect the foot pod, I kept up a reasonable pace. In the end I did a 5.05km run in 24:49. Pretty good!

And, in case you think I’m weak for not running in the rain, you’ll be smugly satisfied to know the last 2km of my run was in stinging rain and wind! :)

MORE EXERCISE

And then it was time for the push ups.

Theses were pretty hard to do but as they are only short reps at the moment, I got through them okay. But there was enough puffing that I know tomorrow I’ll have a sore and tender upper body. One of those good feelings.

So, a good weekend even though I didn’t get to do the 10km run. And the nike+ Foot Pod is a “so far so good” proposition.

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3 Comments on Day 69b – Exercise and Tools

  1. Andrew is getting fit on Sun, 15th Jun 2008 6:32 pm

    2. Seeing as I am about to go and do my pushups I’ll critique your efforts now: 7 on the last rep! That was a minimum eh!

    I have this nasty feeling that I’ll be doing the bare minimum as well. :)

  2. Weigh in & Let’s do some push-ups | Andrew is getting fit on Sun, 15th Jun 2008 9:02 pm

    3. [...] 10, 10, 8, 6 and then my max (min 7) with a minute break in between each set.  I saw over on Bill’s blog that he completed his yesterday and did the minimum for his max.  I was determined to beat him [...]

  3. Bill Wallace on Sun, 15th Jun 2008 11:13 pm

    4. Damn! I got found out on day 1. Yes, 7 was the minimum and (sheepishly) yes, I may have done 1 or 2 more. So that’s it Andrew, the challenge is ON! :) see on Day 2! :) LOL

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