walking – Life of an old goat

Late catch up

I will talk about my trip (so far) in my next post. This is about my workouts.

Wednesday: Weights then 2 miles of walking at just under a 17 minute pace.

Weights: pull ups : mostly sets of 5; enough to get 50 reps
bench press: 10 x 134, 7 x 150, 7 x 150, 5 x 150 (tired)
trap bar dead: 4 inch: 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 234. 6 inch: 10 x 280

high incline: 10 x 94, 10 x 94

Thursday: hotel in Missouri: 4.02 miles of treadmill walking in 1:00. First mile was almost 16 minutes; .5 miles at 4.1 mph, 2.5 at 4.2 mph (no knee pain that night)

Friday: (Fort Worth) 5K walk in 45:20 (note: increased and decreased incline at .5 to 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 5 using 3 up, 2 down. then 1.3 mile stadium walk, 1.0 mile walk back, then at least 1 more mile of walking to restaurant. I had knee soreness that night.

Saturday: 2 mile walk on the crushed cinder trails round Southpark. Then 30 minutes of weights: 3 sets of 10 for each exercise:
dumbbell curl 25, then 20, 20. Standing press: 30. bench press: 50 (all they had)
machine: curl, row, pull down (130), fly (again 3 sets of 10 each..little rest

July 4, 2024 Firecracker

I’ve done a few of these and today, I did another. Iffy weather lead me to drive to the race, walk 1.2 miles before and after.

The race itself: very crowded on the small path; 465 for so crowded on the small riverfront path. Still, the chip helped (47 seconds to the start line) and while mile 1 was crowded, the crowd helped me stay moderate in mile 1 (11:05). which was good for the 74 F, 87 percent humidity, drizzly conditions. More space meant somewhat faster walking in mile 2 (10:41) but I faltered at about 2.8 (small amount of street walking) but even that mile was 11:01. I tried to pick it up and got under 34 by the chip (33:58) and held off Simon and Gail (though their chip times were 13 seconds faster).

Afterward, I was tired. The left glute was achy afterward. Hanging on the playground rings felt good.

I’ve done a number of these (4’th of July..or 3’rd if the 4’th was on a Sunday) and here is my list (looked these up in my old logs)

23 total Independence Days, 24 events, span of 43 years.

1981: 26:53 4 mile (San Antonio)

1982 42:00 10K (Florida)

1983: 50:08 10K (Virginia)

1997: 43:37 10K (Milton, Wisconsin)

1998: 20:40 5K (Peoria)

1999 5:59 road mile (Sat), 21:33 5K (Sunday, Peoria)

2000 47:04 10K (Milton)

2001 50:05 10K (Milton)

2002 49:20 10K (Milton)

2003 1:06:52 (10K walk) Milton

2004 23:31 run (Kyle, TX)

2005: 40:55 5 mile run (Bloomington, IL)

2006 31:11 5K walk (Galva)

2007 31:35 5K walk (Peoria)

2008 31:33 5K walk (Galva)

2011 30:09 5K run (Peoria)

2012 27:46 5K run (Peoria)

2013 27:40 5K run (Peoria)

2014 27:06 5K run (Peoria)

2015 26:48 5K run (Peoria)

2017 30:05 5k run (Galva)

2018 29:23 5k run (Peoria)

2024 33:58 5k walk (Peoria)

No Bears game for me

Looked at the highways: many were ice and snow covered. So I sold my ticket and watched the game at home..ironically, I’d still be on my way home otherwise.

I did PT and two walks: one indoor on the treadmill: about 45 minutes (3.6 miles via the treadmill measure, 3.08 by my Garmin “indoor” measure, so I scored it as 3.35, then a 2.3 miler outside in the snow.
The indoor portion was tough for some reason.

2019 in review

Here is my 2019 in review. I posted photos that are meaningful to me. The first one is collage of “friend” photos.

Here is the “where” (many of the “wheres” anyway)

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

I can’t imagine doing that

After last Friday night’s trail event (I walked, finished 10 miles muddied but feeling good with a lot left “in the tank”, I though about the 30, mile finishers, the 50, 100, and of course, the 150 and 200 (yes, there is a 200 mile option)

I thought: “I can’t even imagine.” But here is a critical difference between my saying that and a younger newcomer saying that: I finished the 30 several times (2003, when it was 50K, and the fall 2009, 2010, 2014, 2015 (latter is not listed due to an “early start”, but it took just under 12 hours), and I finished the 50 twice (12:46 in 2004, 31:3x in 2008…DNF’ed and then came back the next morning to “finish”, and yes, I got credit) and the 100 twice (34:16 in 2005, 47:48 in 2009). When I DNF’ed the 100 in 2016, I was 15:2x at 50 and came back for 2 more loops the next day..and I also DNF’d the 50 a few years ago.

So yes, I did finish some of these longer events..or at least someone with my name and history did. I just can’t imagine doing that with my current body.

Ah…so onward to do what I can this morning.