5K times

the 5K may become the measure i use for improvement now... years ago it was mile times, one mile, two miles, three miles, all the way up to 15 miles and then a marathon... the fact that the 5K is a popular timed public run these days allows me to get out with other runners and get timed and the fact that 10 times around my apartment community is just over 5K makes 5K the easiest distance to time and measure...

it would help if i didn't accidentally reset the stopwatch as i cross the halfway mark... i did make the first half in under 20 though, i won't claim 19 cuz i reset it, but i can fairly claim 19:30... and the second half in 21:45 makes this a 5K in under 42 minutes... i will do an under 40 minute 5K this year... in fact, i may shoot for an under 35 minute 5K if i actually get my ass in gear...

i sort of committed to under 180 pounds by 2012 too... better get to it, aye?...

run twoo

as in second also... or maybe third, but anyway, another run tracked since living alone... this time was more moderately paced and finished five laps in 20:35.9... very long day and very hot night in the mid-eighties and way humid even for florida... sweat sweat sweat... eating to bloat yummy but to bloat... heading for four softball leagues a week in a few weeks, so increase the exercise... gotta run more... but carefully, the body is at that sudden death age with inconsistent exercise... drop weight, increase stamina and strength, then consider another stress test and whatever else the doctor orders... take care of yourself, right... i care, how about you?... alphas?...

starting over?

inspired to run by (what is her blog name, anyway?... well, sweetness comes to mind, but i can be {and probably have been} more creative than that... later) someone i might like to sleep with someday (did i write that?) and i focused (on the run, back to the run report) enough to actually drive the lap around the apartments to gauge the distance and so each lap is approximately a third of a mile and five laps came to about 1.6 miles... the first lap was finished in just over 3 minutes and the second lap in just under 4 minutes and i ran both in right at 7 minutes... walked the third lap in about 5 and a half, then ran the fourth lap in... forgetting... about 3 and a half... i do remember run/walking the fifth lap to finish in right at 20 minutes, so 1.6 miles in 20 minutes which is about a 40 minute 5k and reasonably pitiful for being as out of shape as i am by my standards...

looping a loopy loop

yeah, the work load leaves me burning out physically at work leaving little time or energy for exercise beyond the softball so the daily fat burning and aerobic work is lacking so the weight rises not helped by the rushed meals in the evening and seldom eating any other time and lately even more, the sharing of decadent foods with jackson the last month or few as she too took the workaholic path and also indulged in the end time before her relocation north for a new life and now the emo eating as i adjust to the new solitary (and much much lonelier) life (at least until i adjust) and so, bigger than a breadbox, for sure...

so it's been a long cycle of up, down, turn around...

and now, change ahead, we hope :)