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Friday, April 9, 2010

Running and Tacos, soul mates?

CRUNCHES: Week 1: Day 3: Column 2 www.twohundredsitups.com
Total: 84

Did good today. Around sit-up #74 I felt like I started losing the technique, I guess I was just getting tired from it all, so I did the last 10 as best I could and went out for a run.

PULL-UPS: 10 sets of 1 negatives

So, pull-ups are reeeaaally hard to do if you're a weakling like I am, and untill www.twentyfivepullups.com is up and running, I'm on my own. I used this article from www.artofmanliness.com. But now that I'm surfing a little bit, I just found www.twentypullups.com! Looks like I'll be trying this out.

Right now I'm attempting to do them from this stand-alone bench swing that my parents have in the back yard. The bench swing hangs from a bar, so I take the swing off and do the pull ups from the cross bar, but it's pretty low to the ground to begin with, so that I can't even hang from it without practically sitting on the ground (the curse of long monkey-arms). So I try my best, but I really have to set up something better.

JOG: Today I began and ended with 5 minutes of brisk walking. I jogged for 4 sets of 4 minutes with 3 minutes of walking between sets.
Total: 3.48 miles in 35 minutes Walking: 1.45 miles in 19 minutes Jogging: 2.03 miles in 16 minutes

I can't believe that two days ago it was 87*F! Such a difference today at 63*F, I felt like I could just keep going and going, but alas. I felt good through the run, my legs were a little chilly because it was pretty windy. Towards the end I was getting a little pain in my right foot ankle. Got to watch out for that. After the run, I made some killer tacos for the fam. It's not an exact recipe, and I changed it a bit, but I guess that's what real taco's are, just throw together whatever you got, wrap it up in a tortilla and eat it. May not always be pretty, but it sure is tasty!