Core Commit to Health & Fitness 2016, Round One: Jan 4 - Mar 6

[ergophobe]

Great week

2 out of 1 on my primary goal - skate skied 6 miles before work on Tues and 12 miles after work on Wed, that last third or so in the dark. I'm proud of that last one.

5/4 on my secondary goal - a couple long climbing sessions and a short backcountry ski day with some full-on faceshots

Plus about 1.5 hrs of snow shoveling and a really short climbing session

[Rupert]

you folks are doing well:

2 hard swims...
1 easy cycle.

3/4 poor... but busy week. food and alc consumption excessive. 3 good parties.

[Rumbas]

4/3. Yay.

[simplytheresa]

Oh dear. With the new job settling in, I seem to be failing miserably. I was doing OK until last week, when I was traveling for work and went 0/3, though I know that's no excuse. I could have at least done some stretching or popped down to the hotel fitness center for a quick jog. This week is slipping by quickly too... better get to it!

[ergophobe]

3/1 on my primary goal (one ski day on a working day) - AT skiing Monday morning and Wed evening, skate skiing on Friday

4/4 on my secondary (four days of activity total) - mellow classic XC on Sunday

[Rumbas]

Meh.. 0/3

[littleman]

did 4/4

Ergophobe, that seems quite intense.

[ergophobe]

Not really. It's mostly the getting my ass out of bed early that's hard. I typically ski for only about 1:15 or so.

Honestly, the "outdoor time" is the goal more than the exercise. It's about being in nature and exercising the soul. What happens to the body is #2. If I go AT skiing, I shoot for at least 1000 feet of vertical and if go skate skiing I shoot for at least 10km (6 miles). On a good day with a good surface, I'll go 11.5 miles RT to a super great viewpoint (with good snow conditions, I can do this in about 1:15, so it's right at my time limit usually).

Monday was fantastic - great snow and wild weather (listen to the sound on the video in this album from that morning - https://goo.gl/photos/4LYFX2rG94zraESu7 )... but then I got in a slow accident on icy roads on the way to work. Guy with chains on the rear wheels of his front-wheel drive car stopped in the road around a corner on very slick ice.

[Rupert]

Guy with chains on the rear wheels of his front-wheel drive car

ha ha ! We are all different.

It does seem quite intense, agree with you there Littleman  

Last week, seems so long ago...

2 runs
2 swims.
0 bike.

But getting out there. 

Agreed on the outdoor time.  Good indeed for the soul. I got to walk the dog. Its not a hit, or hard exercise. But good.  Especially when it ends at a pub, we play cards as a family, east and chat.

[ergophobe]

Good week - skied about 35 miles Fri - Sun (14.8 + 8.4 + 12.1.... = 35.3)

2/1 - two pre-work ski sessions. A short by steep climb up the local ski area b/c the cross-country tracks weren't groomed and 14.8 miles before work on Friday. As the days get longer I hope to push that to 21 miles.

5/4 - managed a short run midweek and two skis on the weekend.

And a first run at taxes which, by far, was the most difficult run of the week.

[littleman]

>taxes

Yuck!

4/4 here

[buckworks]

"Tax" is the wrong spelling. It ought to be a four-letter word.

[simplytheresa]

Oof! You've got that right, Buckworks!

I'm having a private discussion with myself about what counts as exercise vs what counts as activity, but not exercise. Going for a walk - activity, maybe not exercise. Going for a walk up a steel hill as fast as I can - definitely exercise.

Still, it was a good week. My semantic issues aside, I'm calling 4/3 in the last week. Not everything was gasping for breath, leg burning, exercise, but I got a little of that too.

Speaking of which - is it possible to pop a lung? I think this may have happened. 

[Drastic]

Trying to jump back in. Had a death in the family (FIL) which naturally blew up our life for a while. A couple weeks later I suffered a low ankle sprain landing on someone else's foot after a vball block.

All healed up and life getting back to normal, still playing twice a week and got back into the gym once this week for the first time in a while.

Goal for next week is 4 total, 2 vball and 2 gym. Good to be back in the fray and glad to see all the torches being carried on.

[rcjordan]

Lots of travel and the holidays blew my diet.  Prior to Halloween, I was stable at 173. Monday, back from yet another motorhome rally which featured yet another carb-crawl for some great food & beer, I was 199.  As of today, I'm 189.

**NEED** to be 170 before Hanoi.