Today’s weigh-in is about the same and I’m going to log another 262.
I have walked every day so far this week. I also finished all three of my planned strength training sessions, and I’ll likely go for a bonus or two. I am thinking about how to spend those bonus sessions, leaning toward swapping out a normal cardio session for sprints. I’m also thinking of giving a first go at the burpee HIIT session I mentioned a little while back. The results my friend had with his were quite dramatic, and my own results from a lesser version in a distant past were pretty good, too.
OH! I mentioned in the last post that my preferred walking/running path is a little busted right now, and that it seems it will remain that way for a few months. I also mentioned that I want to gear up to try an actual full mile run by my birthday, which is about the middle of the year. I also-also mentioned that the busted path kinda dorks up my plans for the run, but that I’m looking for workarounds. It’s the end of May when I’m writing this, so that mid-June check in is comin’ up mighty quick. Though I’m expecting to fail this goal, that’s not the point. I suppose from a certain perspective that pre-invalidates the goal, but that would also miss the point. Pretty bad point aim, my guy.
It’s really the effort towards to overall fitness goals that matters, with the honest attempt being a checkpoint. I guess it’s more like preconditioning for a starting point evaluation. I want to get a better idea of where I’m actually at, and for my needs, I don’t think starting with an entirely cold reading is meaningful. Like, I already know I came out of the hospital totally busted, that data point does nothing for me.
What I really want to note is that I did get some running in. It wasn’t as much as I’d like, but it wasn’t nothing, and I tested the two most ready versions. The first time, I did the full walk-loop on the detoured path, then went back to the section of path that starts behind my condo. I walked to where the closed off section starts, and interval trained the way back home. The second time, I did the detoured walk-loop, but instead of adding the partial section, I just finished with interval training on the street portion of the way back. Both were a little compromised, as expected, but both were still good. Good enough for my current needs, certainly. But I do have to keep ramping things up to make progress, so think I’ll take a few days next week to try and push myself harder. I’m thinking a combination of longer overall sessions and sessions with longer run-sections in the intervals. I’m also keen to restart my sprint training strategy from years past, though that has some logistic troubles. Solvable ones.
All of that is to say that I’m pretty happy with today’s check in, so you know… stay the course.