Those of your following my weekly fitness updates know I have committed to a four-race series this spring in the Kansas City North metro area. Sponsored by The Running Well Store, it started last month with a Personal Record mile in Parkvill in January, and the Cupid Run 5K this past Saturday in North Kansas … Continue reading Fitness Update: Cupid Run 2017
Category: Fitness
Fitness Update: calorie counting
This past week was good on running, 2 5K distances outside and a quantity of cycling miles. I managed to not get up early to go swimming any day yet -- my sleep is still short -- but I need to rectify the swimming gap sometime soon. But what I do want to talk about … Continue reading Fitness Update: calorie counting
Fitness Update: Running
Well last week I did one thing: I ran three days a distance of 5K. One was outside in the cold. I took that relaxed. The other two were in the wellness center on a treadmill. Both of the latter I took at 24:30 and 24 minutes respectively. So in good conditions I can do … Continue reading Fitness Update: Running
Fitness Update: Progress Series, Race #1
This week's fitness update will have a few notes of the standard, and a lengthier report of the first race in the Progress Series of four races (sponsored by the Running Well Store). To quickly go through the stats: No swimming yet (hand still in splint -- seeing doctor today to update that status); running … Continue reading Fitness Update: Progress Series, Race #1
Fitness Update: Race Delay
For those of you who paid attention to the other posts on the blog this week, you know that Kansas City was all set for the worst ice storm of the decade. While we did get ice, and are getting a long period of light rain now, the ice storm itself was underwhelming (though did … Continue reading Fitness Update: Race Delay
Fitness Update: Cold Start
Well, the year is getting off to a cold start, and so is my fitness goal. As I mentioned previously, the swimming is starting slow, with the hand in the splint. I ran once on the first, and managed to trip into a hole in the dirt on the shoulder of the road. The bicycle … Continue reading Fitness Update: Cold Start
Fitness Update: 2016 completed; 2017 planned.
Well, I made it last week. Swimming goal completed awhile ago. along with running. Only took last week to finish the bicycle miles. I put 2,400 miles on in 2015, and beat my 3,000 mile goal for 2016 by 16 miles (additional 16 for 16 I guess). So the bike goes into 2017 with at … Continue reading Fitness Update: 2016 completed; 2017 planned.
Fitness Update: Exercise with broken bones
Well, the significant spill from my bicycle that I mentioned on a previous post has mostly healed up. The swelling on the left hand went down, but a nagging pain in the pinky bone within the palm, and the pinky itself, persisted, so I went to the doctor Friday. Turns out the pinky bone in the … Continue reading Fitness Update: Exercise with broken bones
Fitness Update: Cold
Weather was an intervening factor this week to my fitness attempts. I got a half-mile "sprint" in as one of my workouts, and then some 100M sprints the next day. But cold and ice prevented me from my running on Friday. It also precluded doing any cycling over the weekend. I did get out earlier … Continue reading Fitness Update: Cold
A winter vignette
Yesterday we had clue of our first storm of the season moving into Kansas City. Friday was to warm up, and then start drizzling, with the temperatures slowly dropping, but stay above freezing until I would get home from work. Which was fortunate, since I was riding by bicycle home. When I got out to … Continue reading A winter vignette
At The Rainbow 