We’ve been going to the YMCA for 2 weeks now, and I’ve done the full week’s worth of the Podrunner Intervals trying to work up to running a full 5K. Over the last 2 runs on the treadmill, I’ve done 1.8 miles each time, and also found that my wireless HRM that I got from woot.com works with the equipment there. It makes it much easier to have the machine automatically read my heart rate than grabbing those akwardly placed sensors. Entering my age & weight on the machines is also a nice feature, since I think it adjusts the # calories burned for those factors.
Here’s a graph from fitday.com of my weight between 11/24 and today. I didn’t enter all the data points, just some along the way. I’m going to try to remember to update that site often, as this is a good tool. I’ve decided that I’d like to try to set a goal for my 33rd birthday in August. I’m shooting to be down to 225 by then. That may be really pushing it, but I think I can get close with better eating and continuing the workouts.
Weight Graph
Big props to NCN and his nocaloriesneeded.com blog for the link to fitday.com.