5-5-14

3 mile lunch run with 2 work associates. Yesterday's walk seemed to have set it up for me. I felt really good and enjoyed the cool sunny weather. Even reclaimed mine land looked good today. Time was 40:35 and it was pretty relaxed. Anticipating a good stretch at tomorrow's yoga.

5-4-14

Walked the neighborhood circuit with Tate today. Finally remembered to use my GPS watch to measure and time the route. I had estimated 3 miles, but it is 3.33. Time today, for a walk that was interrupted by a problem with Tate's harness was 59.16, a 15:56 per mile pace. If I take 4 or 5 minutes off for the repair, I'm at 55 or 56 minutes and a more respectable pace. Highlight was coming across a pileated woodpecker working on a dead birch tree along the street. Awesome bird.

5-2-14

An hour of yoga during lunch. Satisfying as usual. Latest discovery, after starting to do forward folds with knees bent rather than straight, is that my hamstrings are really sore. Intuitively I thought that keeping legs more or less straight would focus the stretch on hamstrings, while bending knees puts more of the stress on quads. Somehow though, that doesn't seem to be true. After months of straight leg bends with no real progress in flexibility, I am now feeling the work coming from bent knee folds.  Hoping that in a few weeks, the increased flex follows. We'll see.

4-30-14

Yoga today. Other than yard work over the weekend, my first workout since last thursday. I did ok, but am not progressing much and clearly need to get it together to make more time for conditioning. It's on me.

4-24-14

Missed tuesday's yoga due to a minor business crisis. Caught it today though and am still feeling it tonight. There was one other guy  today and 4 women. None of them except our leader is in great shape, nonetheless, they outdo me on all the flexibility poses and seem to hold their own on the strength moves, where I think I should shine, as well. Are we actually about equally strong per pound weight, do different proportions give them leverage, or, god forbid, am I not  the man I like to think I am? About the only superior quality I seem to have is stiffness and maybe an unproven ability to  hold my liquor better. I need to work harder at this.

4-21-14

3 mile neighborhood loop with Tate on a day off from work. Pushed it a little harder than recent intervals. Got the time down to 40 minutes from a prior recorded time of 42. Goal is 36 minutes by Halloween. Long way to go to get there, but it is doable. Looking forward to yoga tomorrow to get the kinks out.