Kramday’s Blog

Monday Check-in

Well time kind of slipped away from doing the updates here. However, I had a pretty good week otherwise. Here are the highlights.

Tuesday – May 10th
I meet with a personal trainer, to set up a schedule for the summer. While we talked we walked around the neighborhood, doing a mile loop. She also set up a 15 min stretching routine for me. Finally, she reviewed some of my old food logs I have on here and made some suggestions for tweaks. Later on I went grocery shopping to try and implement some of them. The only downside was that my knee didn’t feel great that night. But I wasn’t sure if it was from the walking, the stretching, or something.

Wednesday – May 11th
I rode with Jen with the first time this year. We had to cut the ride short since she wasn’t feeling well. Still, it was my first ride out with a kinda, sorta hill and I was pretty please with how the knee did. I had to shift into an easier gear much sooner than I had hoped, but I did make it up the hill before having to use the granny gear.

Distance: 3.54 miles
Time: 00:20:33
Avg Speed: 10.2 MPH
Max Speed: 20 MPH

Thursday – May 12th
Part of the issue with the Wednesday ride was the ridiculous weather. Thursday was just as hot so I didn’t ride. I should have done the stretching routine, but that is something I still need to work on.

Friday – May 13th
Another ride that felt really good. It was the same six mile loop that I had been doing, and my legs felt pretty fried at 4.75 miles. But the bike computer showed that I was above 14 MPH for my average speed, and I really wanted to keep it there. So I kept going hard for the last 1.25, and actually raised the average speed by a couple of tenths. I was in a pretty good mood after that.

Distance: 6 miles
Time: 00:25:11
Avg Speed: 14.3 MPH
Max Speed: 23.5 MPH

Saturday – May 14th through Monday – May 16th
I actually went carpet and couch shopping on Saturday. The weather was nice when I was doing that, then turned to crap when I was done. My knee doesn’t really like that type of weather change and has bothered me a bit since. Unfortunately, the weather doesn’t show any signs of clearing up until Friday. Maybe I’ll have to actually use the gym membership a couple of days this week.

Overall Stats
Current Month Bike Mileage: 29.69 miles
Current Month Total Mileage: 30.69 miles
Pct of Monthly Goal: 30.69%

Weight: 267.5
Pct Body Fat: 37%

The weight is down 2.5 pounds since last Monday’s check-in.

I am meeting with the trainer tomorrow night (probably tonight by the time this makes it to Facebook) to review my food log from last week. Lots of room to improve there still, but I think I made some better choices this week.