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Ok, it is Monday and I am buried in grading. That will end. Other things will only end for me upon death, which will probably come for me within the next two decades. That is humbling to think about.

But for now, there is some living to do.

Saturday there was a 10.3 mile walk, consisting of my out and back in Bradley Park, one “2 mile” loop, then a modfied “Barbara” plus enough to the get the Garmin to 10.1 Strava got it at 10.6 so we’ll call it 10.3 in 2:32, or a 14:47 pace over hills.

Sunday: after a meeting: (and deadlifts) easy 5K at 16:43.

Today: 2 miles after a rollator effort. Barbara was a real trooper.

The weights:
Sunday: 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 235 (all low)
10 x 265, sloppy 5 x 300 (all 4 inch)

Today: pull ups 7 sets of 6, 2 of 5 mixed grip. Varied the grip
bench 10 x 134, 5 x 154, 5 x 154, 4 x 154, pin press, 4 x 154 (failed rep 5 of step 3)
high incline: 10 x 94, 10 x 94, 5 x 105 superset with 3 sets of 10 curls.

Chiefs Baseball: Barbara went to both games; in game 1 (Saturday night) it was going well until the Chiefs bullpen gave up 5 runs in the top of the 7’th. It was a 7-5 loss.
Sunday: a disaster from the start. The Timberrattlers shelled Chiefs pitching for 15 runs to win 15-8, though to be fair, several Chiefs runs came via wild pitches. Barbara took her granddaughter and great-grandkids to the game.

The Bradley Women used a smothering defense to hold a decent Northern Iowa team to 33 percent shooting and won going away 69-47.

I took Barbara to the game but wasn’t in the mood for a photo. I won’t say any more than that.

In the morning: it was 17 F when I left the house. I did the “5 laps of the inner circle loop plus 2 boxy laps and some smaller laps to get about 6.4 miles (Strava had it as 6.6; Garmin got it at 6.3 but had me doing a 15:50 final mile; I was faster than that. I walked mostly between 14:07 and 14:35 (one sub 14 thrown in) and felt good the entire way. BUT it was outside and not on the fast track.

The long and short of it: a bunch of small irritations (plus sloth) lead to me getting a late start. So it was “walking only.” It wasn’t that bad: I did the 4 mile “out and back” and added a flat 1.25 mile campus loop and the mileage worked out in the end.

I wore knee braces (17 F at the start) and footing was good. This is better than the recent snail-slow slogs. But I’ll find out tonight if I exceeded my limits.

Well, I am getting a bit back into the routine today.

Workout notes: slow 2 mile walk across campus with no knee wraps.
Weights: pull ups: 10, 5, 5, 10, 10, 5, 5. I am not saying each 10 rep set was outstanding quality.

Bench: 10 x 134, 4 x 160, 4 x 155, 4 x 155, 4 x 155
high incline: 3 sets of 10 x 84
trap bar dead; 4 inch 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 234

6 inch: 10 x 280 (got me out of breath).

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Monday: slow 2 mile walk; it started snow free and ended with snow. 20:21 pace (not a misprint)

Tuesday: weights only.
pull ups: 2 sets of 5, 5 sets of 6 (40 reps total) downstairs: high incline: 10 x 85. bench: 7 x 134. incline: 4 x 134, 5 x 134, 4 x 134. trap deads (4 inch) 5 x134, 5 x 184, 5 x 224, 5 x 224 (some knee pain at first)

Wednesday 5K walk (some slick areas) in 1:00:14; 19:36 mpm (not a misprint). No effort, no pain..keeping it that way, for now.

Not sure how I am going to mix it up tomorrow: might try some treadmill walking in the AM. we’ll figure out something.

Night pain in the knee IS down; beginning to suspect my pain was from simple overuse.

And I managed 5K walking (Flat) before work, 2 miles after a meeting.

3.17 in 42:46 (13:29) then 2.03 in 30:13 (14:56).

Illness: better, though I cough like crazy upon waking up for the first time.