Pushup gallore

I've been sore for the last week straight but pressing through. Saturday we made it up snowboarding. Going in the spring is pretty awesome to see people riding around in board shorts. We saw a couple girls wearing sports bras, one was welcomed the other we could have done without. We rode for a couple hours grabbed a beer and then went to work on our house for a few hours.

I took a break from workout numbers on Saturday and managed only 150 pushups spread through the day on Sunday. Today I decided to get after it. I did 40,40,20 before leaving the house. 34,33,33 shortly after getting to work. At the gym I did a set of 25 with each set a different exercise. It totalled up to 12 sets between various bicep workouts 3 of which were sets of 10 on pull ups. Back at the office before leaving did sets of 50,25,25. After getting home from work I went for a 3 mile run. It was 85 degrees today and I was absolutely dying and only ran 8:00 miles. I just finished the night with 4x25 to add up to 700 for the day. I'm at 1850 for the month already and for the first time in a long time pushups are ahead of running.

Pushups - 150, 700 / 14350 YTD
Pull ups - 30 / 865 YTD

Running - 3 / 93.78 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 41 YTD
Run total - 136.78 YTD

Rubber legs

As great as my Wednesday workout was I am still paying for it Saturday morning. I've pushed myself to get some pushups in and was able to reach 1000 for a 3 day period which is pretty impressive. I spread randoms sets through out the last couple days to hit that point. 

Thursday

AM 40,40,20

PM 30 w/urijah ,35,35

Before Bed 25

Friday

12:10 35

1:45 35

3:35 35

7:20 35 w/urijah

On the flip side the squats have made it impossible to run. 

Thursday I had a 12 hour work meeting so between that and driving I was out of commission from 6:45am - 8:45pm. The fact that I managed 225 pushups is pretty good.

Today Tasha and I are going snowboarding in what should be 65 degrees of sunshine. I'll try to get some pics because it should be gorgeous. Slushy snow and weak legs will make for some humorous riding but its the last weekend of the year they are open.

Pushups - 225,175 / 13500 YTD
Pull ups - 0 / 835 YTD

Running - 0 / 90.78 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 41 YTD
Run total - 133.78 YTD

May Day

MAYbe May will be my month. I wanted to get a jump start after barely hanging on through April. I did 40 pushups while half asleep before leaving for the park and ride. Did another 40 shortly after getting to work. At the gym during lunch I did 10 sets of 25 pushups, 10 squats holding a 40 lb kettle ball, 8 pull-ups, 90 second rest on the bike. I've never done much for leg workouts in the past. They've been like abs, I ran enough to not feel like I needed to do them. But I'm liking working in a cardio/leg aspect as a way to give my upper body a break but building endurance and all around strength. I joined the work pushup group at did a set of 75 before heading out for the day. I did a set of 40 when I got home, half hour later did 35 w/a naked Urijah on my back. And finally closed with a mini session of 3x40. Totalled up to 600 for a new daily high.

Pushups - 600 / 13100 YTD
Pull ups - 80 / 835 YTD

Running - 0 / 90.78 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 41 YTD
Run total - 133.78 YTD

1/4 complete

Scary, I had to do pushups yesterday to hit the 25% mark. I looked back to the end of March and I was at 8500 on pace for 51k. As of today I am exactly on track. I'm in a little bit better shape on the running side. Starting the month I was at 87.14 and did 46.64.

Pushups yesterday was 4 sets spread through the day to total 134 and I jogged a mile when I got to the soccer field before stretching out. I always feel like it takes me a while to get into the game and I think that doing that helped. We won for the first time this season, which was a welcome surprise. First time we played these guys we were short players and lost like 7-1.

I met up with a buddy of Jamie's and talked electrical house stuff and he is going to help me do the work on his weekends. I was a little shocked because he's guessing it will take about 7 days for 2 people. I'm going to try and run most of the wire myself and have him focus on the more complicated work. Like everything else on the house, it will probably take longer that I'd like.


Pushups - 134 / 12500 YTD
Pull ups - 0 / 755 YTD

Running - 1 / 90.78 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 41 YTD
Run total - 133.78 YTD

A little monkey on my back

I was hoping to hit the 1/4 landmark today but it will have to wait until tomorrow. I don't feel like doing another 134 pushups before bed. I did a set of 35 when I got to work and sets of 50 and 40 with a quick break between in the afternoon. At home I did 4 sets of 25, with Urijah riding on my back for the first 85. I'm really glad he jumped off during the last set because I don't know if I could have finished it. 

During lunch I went running. My goal was to run 5 miles and shoot for 7:30 pace. I was pushing it pretty hard and ended up averaging 7:18. I need to get back to doing some interval workouts and working on form because I can't go a whole lot faster than I did today.

Pushups - 225 / 12366 YTD
Pull ups - 0 / 755 YTD

Running - 5 / 89.78 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 41 YTD
Run total - 132.78 YTD

Back on the 2nd job

I went up and did some work on the house yesterday. I hadn't been up for a couple weeks, which felt great to take a break. But it will be hanging over my head until I get it livable. I did some framing to finish some walls that needed to be fitted around the duct work and also starting the biggest bulkhead that needs to be done. I also was able to use the new truck for truck-like purposes. I took all the old ducts and electrical wire to a recycling place. They paid me $90 for the wire which was a nice surprise. I have some copper to take them but they wouldn't take it yesterday because it still had some of the heating oil in the lines that I need to drain.

Knowing I was going to be sore from the house I decided to do pushups before bed. I was going to do 3 sets for a 100, then upped it to 6 sets for 200, and ended up doing 2 more sets and finishing at 250. 

This morning I was right about being sore but its is mainly my hamstrings. Something about that house murders my hammys. 

Pushups - 250 / 12141 YTD
Pull ups - 0 / 755 YTD

Running - 0 / 84.78 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 41 YTD
Run total - 127.78 YTD

Sunshine

We've had some pretty good weather this week and I took advantage and went for a run during lunch. I went with another guy who is a little slower and did a loop from our office around the Ballard bridge. The loop was 4 miles and he stopped when we got back but I decided to tack another mile on. The first 4 miles was 33:33 (8:23) so I sped up after I left him and ran the last one in 7:10 which brought the average down to 8:08. I'm signed up to do beat the bridge in May, the only other 5 mile race I can remember doing is Torchlight back in high school. Pretty sure I did it the the summer before my sr. year and ran 6:50ish pace. If I can run beat the bridge around 7:15 I'll be happy considering the limited running I've done.

I did 2 random sets of 25 pushups just to get a few freebies in.


Pushups - 50 / 11891 YTD
Pull ups - 0 / 755 YTD

Running - 5 / 84.78 YTD
Treadmill - 0 / 2 YTD
Elliptical - 0 / 41 YTD
Run total - 127.78 YTD