New workout
06-30-07
With my running days officially behind me, I’ve needed to come up with a good cardio workout that’s easy on my joints and that I can do outdoors for much of the year. I do live in the Pacific Northwest, after all. My next choice would be bicycling. So, I decided to tune up my Diamondback Voyager I that I purchased back in 1999. I rode that thing quite a bit the first few years I had it, but lately it’s just been sitting gathering cobwebs. Funny how my disuse of that bike coincided with my weight gain. Here’s a picture of my ride; it’s amazing I was able to find a picture of it on the net. Same color and everything. Anyway, I’ve taken it for a couple of spins now, and so far so good. I’m using different muscles than I was running, but my CV endurance is definitely there as a result of my previous workouts.
I’ll do this for the rest of the season, until the weather turns cruddy some time in October/November, then I’ll figure something else out. Until then, though, this will help me keep my weight down as I turn to maintenance in the next few weeks.
Well, it’s time to finally comes to grip with it all. My bid for a comeback has fallen a bit short, so I’m officially done with Couch to 5k. After taking a day off yesterday, I went out this morning to see how it would feel on the track. I stretched out well and started out at quite an easy pace. I wasn’t even to the end of Johnny Lang’s “Still Rainin’”, though, before all heck broke loose and the tendons in my right ankle were demanding that I stop…or else. 
Couch to 5k: I’ve got some tendons in my 40-year-old ankle screaming out in protest from the beating that I’m giving them every other day. They’re pretty tight for the first mile or so of my run, then loosen up reasonably for the rest of my run. After I cool down, though, they’re hurting more than before. I could go to the doctor, but I KNOW what he’s going to say about that one. I’m considering whether or not I should even try this 5k in three weeks. It’s a mountain I’d definitely like to get over.
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