March 29, 2012 at 11:38 am (Outdoor Activities)
Tags: walking
Tue walking 3.8 km
Wed walking 3.8 km
Thu walking 4.6 km
That brings the walking total to at least: 63.3km/39.3 miles
Sun/Mon: 4.6km
Tues: 8.8km
Wed: 3.8km
Thu: 3.8km
Fri: 8.8km
Sat: 11.5km
Sun: 6.0km
Mon 3.8km
Tue 3.8 km
Wed 3.8 km
Thu 4.6 km
March 25, 2012 at 1:47 pm (Outdoor Activities)
Tags: walking
Sunday walking 6.0 km (over to coworkers hotel and then to the market & restaurant)
That brings the total to at least: 47.3km/29.4 miles
Sun/Mon: 4.6km
Tues: 8.8km
Wed: 3.8km
Thu: 3.8km
Fri: 8.8km
Sat: 11.5km
Sun: 6.0km
March 24, 2012 at 4:43 pm (Outdoor Activities)
Tags: walking
Friday walking amounted to 8.8 km
Saturday was a walk to the train station then a couple of hours of walking around Helsinki, then around Hyvinkaa: 11.5 km
That brings the total to at least: 41.3km/25.7 miles
Sun/Mon: 4.6km
Tues: 8.8km
Wed: 3.8km
Thu: 3.8km
Fri: 8.8km
Sat: 11.5km
March 22, 2012 at 7:45 pm (Outdoor Activities)
Tags: walking
Another easy day of walking… Only walked from hotel to HQ building and back.
3.8 km or 2.25 miles.
That brings the total to at least: 21.0km/13.0 miles
Sun/Mon: 4.6km
Tues: 8.8km
Wed: 3.8km
Thu: 3.8km
March 21, 2012 at 2:49 pm (Outdoor Activities)
Tags: walking
Today was an easy day of walking… surely don’t want to overdo it. Only walked from hotel to HQ building.
3.8 km or 2.25 miles.
That brings the total to at least: 17.2km/10.7 miles
Sun/Mon: 4.6km
Tues: 8.8km
Wed: 3.8km
March 20, 2012 at 11:03 pm (Outdoor Activities)
Tags: walking
Nearly doubled the amount of walking today from yesterday. Because we walk a round trip of 3.6 km from the Hotel to the HQ building, anything necessary to get to food in another direction adds considerably more walking.
Today’s total walking was 8.8 km or 5.5 miles.
That brings the total to at least: 13.4km/8.3miles
Sun/Mon: 4.6km
Tues: 8.8km
March 19, 2012 at 11:46 pm (Outdoor Activities)
Tags: walking
Had a long layover at the Chicago airport, so spent a couple of the hours walking through the terminal.
Once I arrived in Finland at the hotel in Hyvinkaa, we did 4.6km walk to get food before catching up on our sleep. We’ll be walking to most destinations, so I expect to rack up a several kilometers in the next two weeks!
July 10, 2011 at 11:10 am (Cycling, Outdoor Activities)
Tags: mowing, Road Cycling
Sunday was a nice mix of activities. After cutting and dragging limbs around the yard, I mowed the grass. The “fun” part was reaching the push mower over the steep ditch and mowing down the jungle in front of the house. I treated it a bit like a high intensity workout with 1-arm rows… a few with this arm and a few with that.
Later, Penny and I loaded up our bikes and went out to East Fork State Park to ride and also scope out some low traffic roads that we can ride together in the future. The “highlight” was the 100 ft drop in elevation from the top of the plateau to the boat ramp and then a climb back up. Penny powered up it, but I tend to “hamster wheel” it in low gear. My cardio endurance seems better than my strength endurance although neither are all that great. It was a nice 8 mile ride though. I expect we’ll be doing more of the roads around the State Park the next time, if we start earlier before sunset.
Since I’m doing a fairly low carb diet and trying to fuel more from fats than carbs, I’m curious if that effects my strength endurance vs my cardio endurance. (I know they aren’t truly separate items, but rather points along a continuum.) I didn’t have any issues when I was deadlifting on Saturday, but those exertions were only a few reps at a time versus trying to power up hills in “big” gears. Even without a lot of hill practice, I wasn’t gasping and trying to die in “high RPM” cardio mode like I would have been a couple of years ago. I likely attribute that to the high rep kettlebell work and rowing sprints I’ve done recently.
July 6, 2011 at 12:58 pm (Outdoor Activities, Workout)
Tags: kb front squat, KB Short-cycle clean, KB Side Press, walking
Lunch Time:
15 minute Brisk walk,
35# KB Side Press x 5/side x 3,
35# KB Front Squat x 5/side x 2,
35# KB Short-Cycle Clean x 10/side
Total: 70 Reps
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