Category: personal

Lost week

The workouts were of little consequence:
July 8 2.1 walk, weights (highlights: 10 x 225 low handle, 17 x 134 bench)
July 9 4.1 at 14:25 before the road
July 10: 2 mile treadmill 28:10 (15:20 mile 1)
July 11: Mabel Davis: 4.2 at 15:23
July 12: Mabel Davis 10k 1:37 (15:46) dumbbell routine
July 13: 2 /miles 15:47 plus hotel dumbbells
July 14: 2 miles in 28:15 (15:40, 12:35) on the road hotel treadmills

The trip: down, Temple was a mess. Up: Texarkana was a mess; accident on 255, and I got myself stuck across a rural 2 lane road.
Trip: Dinner with Olivia on Friday, LBJ and dinner and movie (hotel room) on Saturday, lunch and Texas Memorial Museum (natural history) on Sunday.
It was quite the whirlwind and I did a lost of wheelchair pushing, and Barbara got some walking in as well.

Finally, a timely post!

I’ve been writing in my paper journal. That is appropriate for what has transpired over the past 2 months. But maybe it is time to return to online writing.

The nephew is finally gone, I think. So, now to clean up; lots of recycling and stuff that is being thrown out due to decluttering.

Today’s workout: easy 2 mile walk, after:
pull ups: 3 loose sets of 10, 5 sets of 5 chin ups. Quality is not there today.
bench: 10 x 134, then 5 x 160, 3 sets of 6 x 155
high incline: 10 x 94, 5 x 105, 5 x 105
curls: 3 sets of 10.

Age wise, I am in a funny place. Every time Barbara feels bad, she wonders if she should be in assisted living. I can say that she has physically declined over the past 3 years or so. I am hoping that she can hold out long enough to land an independent living place; she admits that she needs me to do that.

Oh, how time flies

Well, “the nephew” is here, and will leave tomorrow.

We saw some Chiefs games: Impressive 6-2 win on Thursday, discouraging, multi-error 9-3 loss on Friday (in a box, no less), a stunning, rain delay start 2-0 win on Saturday (with in-game fireworks no less!) and a painful 4-0 loss on Sunday. The visiting Timberrattlers are a very good team.

Workouts: Friday: 10, 5 sets of 6, 3 sets of 5 pull ups, bench: 10 x 134, 1 x 180, 3 sets of 6 with 154, high incline: 5, 6, 7 with 105, 3 sets of curls, 2 mile walk.

Saturday: 1.5 mile walk, 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 225 low, 10 x 265 4 inch, 10 x 300 6 inch. 1 mile walk at Dozer with Tracy.

Sunday; kind of disgusting 10.2 miles at 16:47, then a game.

Just the facts

Sunday: Chiefs game rained out. 2.5 mile walk.
Weights: low 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 225. 4 inch: 10 x 270 (tough)

Monday: some decluttering. 2.5 mile walk.
Weights: unremarkable pull ups (53 reps), bench: 10 x 134, 1 x 175, 3 sets of 5 x 154. High incline 3 sets of 6 x 105, curls: 3 sets of 10

Tuesday: more decluttering. Lots of photos. Walk: hilly 7 mile walk in West Peoria (featuring the Cemetery hill) 14:56 pace (75/65). I like this route and will add it.
Wednesday: deccluttering, Odd Couple play, workout 2 mile walk.
Pull ups: 6 sets of 5, 10, 2 sets of 5, set of 4 (penalty)
bench: 3 sets of 10 x 134
high incline: 3 sets of 6 x 105
trap bar dead: all low: 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 3 x 225 (gave up), 10 x 225 (got it)

Thursday: bank closing at Redbrand. walk: 5.1 in 1:15:16, 14:46 pace

Uncertainty

Sunday: deadlifts kind of sucked: 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 225 low

6 inch: 1 x 300, 3 x 300. Legs were fatigued. 5k walk afterward.
Monday: pull ups were a strain 5 sets of 6..make that 7 sets of 6, 2 sets of 5. Trying to get stricter
Bench was 10 x 134, 4 x 155, 3 x 155, 1 x 155, 5 x 150, 5 x 150
high incline: 3 sets of 5 x 105
curls: 3 sets of 10
2 mile walk

today: 6.3 miles (in rain) in 1:37. Got my new prescription. Chiefs tonight.

I’ve done a TON of navel staring, and a little bit of math. I might write about that instead of trying to reconstruct my crazy 1994.

Old battles

I have a weekend to report.

Workouts:
Saturday: 10.2 in 2:37 (15:25 mpm); out and back, 2 mile loop, another 1.1 then a modified “Barbara”. It was slow given how cool the morning was.
Sunday: trap bar deadlifts. I started with:
low: 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 234
4 inch: 10 x 265
6 inch: 10 x 300 (finally)
None really tested me. But I do have the “too tight of a belt” feeling around my waist; need to watch that.
Then an easy 2 mile walk.

Today: so far, weights (2 mile walk to follow): pull ups: 8 sets of 5, 1 of 10. Better quality. Got up there on chin ups.
bench: Swiss: 10 x 134, 3 sets of 5 x 154, 10 x 134
high incline: 10 x 94, 5 x 110, 4 x 110
curls: 3 sets of 10.

Peoria Chiefs baseball:

Saturday: no Barbara. But it was a nice Chiefs win. They shelled the Kernels pitching for 11 hits in the 7-2 victory. The key was a 5 run 3’rd inning.

Sunday: this was more nerve wracking. But the Chiefs belted some home runs to take a 5-2 lead going into the top of the 9’th, and the pitching held the Kernels to 1 run in the 9’th. I was nervous as they had the tying run at the plate but got that final fly out.

Personal: fun cookout at Mike and Shelly’s.


Lazy Dog

I am trying to remember what I’ve done, and on Monday I wrote that report. Yesterday: lunch out, and a visit at Hertis assisted living.

And this is where we will have some tension: most at this community really do need assisted living. I thought that what was offered was too much for Barbara, but she does NOT see it that way. And here, it is her view that counts.

Chiefs game tonight: yay!

Workout notes:

Monday: pull ups were good: 4 sets of 10, 2 of 5 (chins)
bench: 10 x 134, 3 sets of 5 x 154 (Swiss)

high incline: 2 sets of 5 x 105, 5 x 110. (much more even!)
curls: 3 sets of 10

Tuesday: I tried a course where I did St. Mary’s cemetery hill twice: 6.7 miles in 1:42. It was slow but it was kind of wet.

Today: pull ups: 6, 10, 10, 10, 6, 6, 6, 4 chins trying to touch the chest, and failing.
bench: 3 sets of 10 x 134 Swiss
trap bar: 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 225 (NO BOUNCE)
high incline: 5 x 105, 5 x 110, 5 x 110
curls: 3 sets of 10.
Then an easy 5k walk in West Peoria (16:30 or so pace)

Sometimes, it is our turn to give

And yesterday: 7.1 miles in 1:52:18 followed by a Dozer Park mile.
I saw the rain delayed end of the Bradley vs Southern Illinois game (10-1 loss) and the first 6 innings of a 6-2 loss (it was 4-0 when I left). The game was marred by a broken ankle from a second base slide.

This morning: 2 miles of walking and some light deadlifts:
10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 230 low, 10 x 260 4 inch. I was all good.

Then after Indian buffet I watched Bradley go out to a 4-2 lead only to lose 13-5. The game got away in the 6’th and again in the 9’th.