April 29, 2011 - workout update/general update
Hi Everyone,
What a week this has been. I missed my Tuesday treadmill workout and I certainly paid for it last night. I drove all the way back downtown to my cancer hospital/Buffalo General where we do our outside runs around the 2 hospitals on Thursday - guess what! They cancelled it. We had extremely high winds (not where I live but north - Niagara Falls had wind gusts of 85 mph - trees where dropping. Power outages. It was alittle windy when I got there. Didn't anyone hear that running into the wind makes you stronger? I guess not with these people. Makes me wonder if they would cancel it again for strong rain (then I wouldn't come). Actually, the building blocked a lot of the wind. I went home, grabbed my gym bag with my clothes and hightailed it to the gym.
I was suppose to run 3 min and walk 1 on tuesday. I kept the same workout so I did that on the treadmill last night. 1min 30 seconds on 2.5, and 1 min 30 sec on 0.0 grade. 1 min walk - All at 5.5 speed. I did ok but found myself extremely winded as I kept up this pace. I know I need to push myself alittle bit so I can get stronger. Infact, this saturday I plan on increasing the distance by 5 minutes on the treadmill. Instead of being on the treadmill for 35 minutes it will increase to 45 minutes. I should do ok. I might have to decrease the speed by about .5 in order to get use to it. I'll go back to 5.5 sometime next week.
I mapped out a 4.1 mile walk in the neighborhood to coordinate the extra minutes the sunday walk schedule contains. Im gonna have to plot out a 4.5-5 mile walk pretty soon
I think today I will go back to the gym and do some rowing to make up for tuesday's missed workout. Maybe do 30 minutes.
I received my results from my 24 hr urine culture test. Looks good and some not so good. Yes, I am a bit discouraged about it but thinking maybe my #'s haven't caught up to my body yet. My Kidney function level is 37% and creatinine level is 1.5. Yes, I am a bit frustrated but its only been 8 weeks (6 weeks when I took it). I think it may take a solid 3-6 months for better #'s. I definitely need to drop more weight. Im on my way right now. Will see what Dr Ryan has to say about this when I see him on Thursday.
Im sure you all watched the royal wedding. I was up at 4:30 watching it. The wedding actually started at 6am. Now I am extremely tired...Yawn.....
What a week this has been. I missed my Tuesday treadmill workout and I certainly paid for it last night. I drove all the way back downtown to my cancer hospital/Buffalo General where we do our outside runs around the 2 hospitals on Thursday - guess what! They cancelled it. We had extremely high winds (not where I live but north - Niagara Falls had wind gusts of 85 mph - trees where dropping. Power outages. It was alittle windy when I got there. Didn't anyone hear that running into the wind makes you stronger? I guess not with these people. Makes me wonder if they would cancel it again for strong rain (then I wouldn't come). Actually, the building blocked a lot of the wind. I went home, grabbed my gym bag with my clothes and hightailed it to the gym.
I was suppose to run 3 min and walk 1 on tuesday. I kept the same workout so I did that on the treadmill last night. 1min 30 seconds on 2.5, and 1 min 30 sec on 0.0 grade. 1 min walk - All at 5.5 speed. I did ok but found myself extremely winded as I kept up this pace. I know I need to push myself alittle bit so I can get stronger. Infact, this saturday I plan on increasing the distance by 5 minutes on the treadmill. Instead of being on the treadmill for 35 minutes it will increase to 45 minutes. I should do ok. I might have to decrease the speed by about .5 in order to get use to it. I'll go back to 5.5 sometime next week.
I mapped out a 4.1 mile walk in the neighborhood to coordinate the extra minutes the sunday walk schedule contains. Im gonna have to plot out a 4.5-5 mile walk pretty soon
I think today I will go back to the gym and do some rowing to make up for tuesday's missed workout. Maybe do 30 minutes.
I received my results from my 24 hr urine culture test. Looks good and some not so good. Yes, I am a bit discouraged about it but thinking maybe my #'s haven't caught up to my body yet. My Kidney function level is 37% and creatinine level is 1.5. Yes, I am a bit frustrated but its only been 8 weeks (6 weeks when I took it). I think it may take a solid 3-6 months for better #'s. I definitely need to drop more weight. Im on my way right now. Will see what Dr Ryan has to say about this when I see him on Thursday.
Im sure you all watched the royal wedding. I was up at 4:30 watching it. The wedding actually started at 6am. Now I am extremely tired...Yawn.....
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You are doing so good and so disciplined. I\'m really proud of you. You will do just fine. I\'m sorry about your numbers. I hope they get better for you. I didn\'t watch the wedding. I got tired of hearing about it. LOL.