{"id":91,"date":"2010-04-30T19:52:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=91"},"modified":"2015-03-21T22:19:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T13:19:27","slug":"april-2010-fitness-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/april-2010-fitness-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2010 Fitness Diary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, April 1:<\/strong> My April fitness campaign began with a 65-minute gym session: 4 km on the treadmill, a legs workout, and one skipping set of 230 jumps. 22 days, 19 hours, and 42 minutes to my first half marathon!<\/p>\n

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Saturday, April 3:<\/strong> Today was my first time time to use my new SwimP3 in a 50-meter pool and the experience was simply amazing. Best electronic since my automatic bread slicer.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, April 4 (Easter):<\/strong> A quick morning\u00a0twenty-minute back and biceps workout in the gym followed by a swim later in the afternoon. I’m not sure exactly how far I swam, but I spent about an hour in the pool so I’ll call it 1.5 km:<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, April 6:<\/strong> Seventy minutes in the gym. 2.5 km on the treadmill and then chest, shoulders, and triceps. Then for a change I hopped on the cross trainer for 7 minutes and ended the session with 2 skipping sets of 125 and 115 jumps:<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, April 7:<\/strong> Longest abs session in my life while watching abs. I did 8-minute abs twice plus some planks and side raises.\u00a030 minutes all up and I certainly felt that the next day!<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 8:<\/strong> A super cardio and leg strengthening session this morning: 3.5 km on the treadmill followed immediately by 2 skipping sets of 150 and 160 jumps. Then hamstrings, groin, and buttocks exercises followed bya\u00a0 grueling 9 minutes on the crosstrainer; that last minute felt like ten. I ended with a few sets of calf raises. I later rode to work and walked up to my 4th floor office. That doesn’t normally count as exercise, but after this morning’s effort I think an exception is justified.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, April 10:<\/strong> Forty-five minutes in the gym this morning: back, traps, lats,\u00a0 and biceps followed by two skipping sets of 170 jumps each. Then a 90 minute bike ride stopping half way to swim 2.1 km, my longest swim since buying my beloved SwimP3.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, April 11:<\/strong> My first outside jog since last June’s Dokdo marathon where I placed in the top 500 in the 10 km event. I wanted to test out my new running shoes, see how my shins felt, and simply experience the feeling if\u00a0running outside again. Forty minutes all up and although the beginning was a struggle, I found a rhythm near the end which gave me hope for the half marathon in two weeks:<\/p>\n

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Monday, April 12:<\/strong>\u00a0 A morning home workout consisting of 35 minutes of abs: 8-minute abs twice, side raises, planks, and twists, and a short shoulders and triceps workout because I still had plenty of time before class.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 14:<\/strong> Back on my exercise bike for the first time this month for a solid 35 km while watching the American Biggest Loser<\/em> Season 4:<\/p>\n

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Thursday, April 15:<\/strong> At the gym by 8 a.m. for an 80-minute session. Three skipping sets of 100, 200, and 150 jumos to start things off. Then a back, lats, traps, and biceps workout followed by two more skipping sets of 150 jumps each. SOme lower back extensions and then I finished with 3 km on the treadmill up a steeper incline that usual:<\/p>\n

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Friday, April 16:<\/strong> Thirty-two minutes of abs in the morning before work while watching The Biggest Loser.<\/em> 8-minute abs twice, planks, side raises and some twists. Hope I’m sore tomorrow…<\/p>\n

Saturday, April 17:<\/strong>\u00a0Eighty minutes at the gym starting at 10:40 a.m. for one of my hardest gym workouts ever! An intense chest, shoulders, and triceps workout followed by 3 skipping sets (200, 150, & 150). Then my fastest and steepest 2.5 km ever on the treadmill followed by hamstrings and calves.<\/p>\n

Normally I’d be satisfied with that amount of exercise, but with my first half marathon a week away I wanted to do more. I rode to the 50-meter pool behind HomePlus and swam 500 meters. I planned to swim much further than that, but my shoulders, still\u00a0tired from the gym, complained a lot and my SwimP3’s battery was flat. So just a short swim, but I went for a longer bike ride afterwards to make up for that. All up I spent about 3 hours on my bike riding around Daegu. Diet-wise it was a good day as well: Popeye’s chicken salad for lunch and a salad sandwich plus a protein shake for dinner.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, April 18:<\/strong> My half marathon training stepped up a gear with a 90-minute run! To HomePlus and back which was much further than I had hoped to run when I began. I felt good the whole way and had enough in the tank to speed up at the end. I’m feeling much more confident about next week’s half marathon after that. Yay!<\/p>\n

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Monday, April 19:<\/strong> 40 minutes of abs in the morning consisting of planks, side raises, twists, and two 8-minute abs sessions. Surprisingly I didn’t feel very sore the next day and that bothered me.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 21:<\/strong> An early morning skipping session in front of my apartment building (which I filmed), but it was pretty windy so I stopped after 4 sets (150, 140, 100, &\u00a0130) and then went back inside for a pretty quick 20 km on my exercise bike watching episode 1 of the American Biggest Loser<\/em> season 5:<\/p>\n

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Thursday, April 22:<\/strong> My last exercise session before Sunday’s HALF MARATHON was a home workout consisting of chest, shoulders, triceps,\u00a0twenty minutes of abs, and 25 km on my exercise bike watching The Biggest Loser<\/em> season 5:<\/p>\n

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Sunday, April 25:<\/strong> My first half marathon! A slow and steady pace the whole way except for two quick toilet breaks necessary because I drank too much before the\u00a0race. Two hours 38 minutes at an average pace of about 8 km an hour. The big surprise for me (apart from finishing) was that I never really felt like stopping:<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, April 28:<\/strong> Twenty minutes of abs in the morning before\u00a0class.<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 29:<\/strong> Back in the gym this morning for the first hard workout since the half marathon. Back, lats, traps,\u00a0 and biceps followed by a pretty steep 2.5 km on the treadmill. Hamstrings were next followed by 2 skipping sets of 150 jumps each. I finished up with lower back extensions and some calf raises. Eighty minutes all up and it felt great to be exercising again:<\/p>\n

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Friday, April 30:<\/strong> I ended April with\u00a025 km on my exercise bike before my 9 a.m. class and then\u00a0a gym session immediately after it for a chest, shoulders, triceps, and sides workout with two\u00a0skipping\u00a0sets of 130 jumps each thrown in to get my heart rate up:<\/p>\n

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