Friday, April 20, 2007

Training Continues...

I'm up to running a half mile before taking a 1 minute walk break. This will continue to ramp up on a predetermined schedule until it climaxes at running almost 3 miles before taking a walk break. When I get into actual marathon training, I will do walk breaks every 1.6 miles, as this lines up to the aid station on the marathon course. This weekend is supposed to be beautiful. I just may take my first outdoor run.

I was trying to hit 200 for Margo's wedding. I'm not sure I'm going to get that done. I was 202.5 this morning. I don't think I'll lose 2.5 lbs in a week, but we'll see.

Also, I'm going to test my body fat meter tonight. I was VERY discouraged when I plugged in Cathy's height and weight and let her test, then I tested using her stats and it showed the exact same body fat %. That's just not possible. That would mean that Cathy and I truly have the exact same body fat, i.e. if I really was her height and weight we'd be twins. I don't think so. I think it's more likely that the device simply calculates based on the height and weight that was input. Right now, Dan and I are the same height and within a couple pounds of the same weight. I KNOW we don't have the body fat, at least not exactly the same. So I'm going to have both of us test on it using the same height and weight and it had better not display the same body fat. If it does, it's a worthless device.

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