Over the past weekend I took part in a few exciting events. It started off with a 6 person ride around Fort Collins hitting up the local breweries on Friday. Adam, Eric (networking post-doc), Doug, Kate, Jesh, and myself took part. We started off by stopping by New Belgium but it was a bit too busy for our tastes. We skipped out there and headed straight to Odell’s. We had a few interesting conversations over a few beers (Nukes!) and then headed off to Fort Collins Brewery. Again, as is usual with our group, interesting conversations ensued. We ended the touring at Coopersmith’s with food and more beer. The night wound down at Adam’s by playing a telephone-like game that uses small drawings/descriptions on post-it notes. Adam’s crazy (but cool) neighbor stopped by and played some songs on guitar for us. It was a good start to what turned out to be a great weekend.
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After a week off (for various reasons, rain, birthday, etc), I started working out again this morning. I ran my usual 2 miles, did some crunches, and did 20 push ups. I’m hoping to get a good ride in tomorrow, the forecast says only a 20% chance of rain.
No run today. I woke up and discovered we had a few inches of snow and it was still coming down. It’s starting to melt now, but it was enough to kill my motivation to run this morning…
Same workout this morning as I did on Monday. Recovering much faster after running, so either I’m not pushing myself hard enough or my lungs are getting more used to being used. Hopefully it’s the latter…
Rode down to Loveland and back up through Masonville yesterday:
The ride took about 2 hours. It was quite windy, and heading south/west was a lot of work, north/east directions were quite nice though.
I decided to attempt Rist today after getting some code written. I left a bit later than I would have liked (~4:45), but the sun is setting around 7:15 now so I figured I would have enough time. I have been using MapMyRide for about a year, and here is the route I took:
I’m definitely not ready for a full ride up rist, but I did pretty well considering this was my first attempt this season. My legs started cramping towards the place where I turned around. I felt like I was out of energy (only my legs though, my lungs were great) and didn’t want to push myself past what I was comfortable with, so I decided to turn around. The descent was cold, but the temperature differential between start and end was enormous, and I warmed up quick. My legs were cramping on and off the whole way home.
Overall though, I’m pleased with how I did. I think I will finally hit the top after a few more attempts.
Beautiful morning for a run. We’re looking at near record breaking highs this week, and I can believe it after the warm morning air. It was interesting, as I was running, the air would be chilly at times, then the breeze would come and blow in warm air from somewhere. I’m guessing the sun was warming the upper level air and the wind would blow this warmer air down closer to the ground. Anyway, I’m planning on doing this same workout (listed next) on Wednesday and Friday as well as this morning:
- ~2 mile run
- 500 crunches/sit-ups of various types
- 25 push-ups
Tuesday and Thursday I’m going to either ride my trainer or hit the roads (I’m guessing the latter as it’s going to be so nice).
Enjoy the week!
This mornings workout:
- ~2 mile run
- 500 crunches/sit-ups of various types
- 20 push-ups
Since I started last week, I can already tell I’ve gotten stronger. The 2 mile run doesn’t kill me anymore and I can do the crunches/push-ups without terrible pain/agony. Exciting!
Last week Rachael and I started working out every morning. Along with the workouts came our push to start eating/cooking healthier. Anyone who thinks eating healthy implies bland, boring, tasteless food better think again. Some of the dishes we’ve cooked the last few nights have been some of the best we’ve ever cooked.
Here is a taste of some of the recipies we’ve based our meals/snacks on lately:
- Southwestern pasta salad
- Sweet potato crisps
- Chicken burritos
- Mexican Manicotti
- Cilantro lime salsa
- Chicken veggie southwestern wraps
- Fruit smoothies
We’ve also got some great ideas for the coming days/weeks.
I hope to develop a recipe database soon. This will allow each of the above listed items to be described in detail, including name, ingredients, preparation details, comments for making it next time, etc. All this will be easily searchable for easy recall later. I can then link to the recipe the night it gets made and comment on it in a blog post. Now I just need to find the time to write the code for such an application…
