I don't get it.
I just ran a 7km loop around a local portion of the Avon River. Admittedly, there was a larger proportion of 'power-walking' than I would be aiming for, but I still averaged 7.13km/hr
When I did the Round the Bays 8.4km run in Auckland I did it in 66mins.
So now I wonder why it took me months of training to prepare for Round the Bays...
Here's my run:
Monday, August 4, 2008
Tuesday morning, up with the lark
Okay, so I wasn't up with the lark today, but I got a generous 10.5 hours sleep.
I have been sleeping more lately, since all of this exer-ma-cise began. I'm used to being able to sleep 8, 7, or even 6 hours... but 6 hours sleep wouldn't really be very good at the moment.
Woke up to discover that I have lost even more weight. From what I can tell (since I only started measuring a few days ago), I seem to have lost 2kg so far this month. That's cheating a little by comparing min/max during the day weight-cycle, but my minimum is STILL down anyway. So I current weight 86.5kg... my goal is between 70kg and 75kg; probably happy with 75kg including goodly amounts of muscle.
Oh, and my jeans are getting baggy. Sharyn tells me in another -5kg I'll start seeing the difference on my body.
MapMyFitness tells me my average monthly morale is HIGH
=)
I have been sleeping more lately, since all of this exer-ma-cise began. I'm used to being able to sleep 8, 7, or even 6 hours... but 6 hours sleep wouldn't really be very good at the moment.
Woke up to discover that I have lost even more weight. From what I can tell (since I only started measuring a few days ago), I seem to have lost 2kg so far this month. That's cheating a little by comparing min/max during the day weight-cycle, but my minimum is STILL down anyway. So I current weight 86.5kg... my goal is between 70kg and 75kg; probably happy with 75kg including goodly amounts of muscle.
Oh, and my jeans are getting baggy. Sharyn tells me in another -5kg I'll start seeing the difference on my body.
MapMyFitness tells me my average monthly morale is HIGH
=)
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Slow and steady...
I walked around Hagley Park today, the ENTIRE park (north and south parts). It was a massive 5.5 km that I ended up walking (knowledge thanks to Map My Run).
The best part is, even though I took something like 2 or 2.5 hours to walk it (i.e. not fast) the total energy burned was the same as an entire can of baked beans: 1,661 kJ.
The best part is, even though I took something like 2 or 2.5 hours to walk it (i.e. not fast) the total energy burned was the same as an entire can of baked beans: 1,661 kJ.
Training Aid
My friend Sharyn put me on to a great website called Map My Run a while ago and I've been fossicking around the site today.
It looks really good: it uses google maps to enable a person to set (and save) their favourite walks, hikes and runs and provides the user with data such as distance, kilojoules burned, and so on. It's free to sign up and once you do that you get all the little perks.
Best part of it is that the website also does all sorts of other 'Map My...' ideas, the best one for me being Map My Fitness. This enables me to use a calender that shows me how my gym workouts, runs, and walks are going; it tracks my daily weight, my heartrate, the kilojoules that I have burned through exercise, and even my sleep quality and mental state.
It's pretty neat. Hopefully I can use this to get a good overview on how well my fitness regime is working for me.
It looks really good: it uses google maps to enable a person to set (and save) their favourite walks, hikes and runs and provides the user with data such as distance, kilojoules burned, and so on. It's free to sign up and once you do that you get all the little perks.
Best part of it is that the website also does all sorts of other 'Map My...' ideas, the best one for me being Map My Fitness. This enables me to use a calender that shows me how my gym workouts, runs, and walks are going; it tracks my daily weight, my heartrate, the kilojoules that I have burned through exercise, and even my sleep quality and mental state.
It's pretty neat. Hopefully I can use this to get a good overview on how well my fitness regime is working for me.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
We have contact
I went to a party and talked with a guy, Brad, who has been a policeman now for three years. He helped 'ground' the ideas that I have tried to glean from the Newcops.co.nz website and the Police.govt.nz website.
Still lookin' good, there's no stopping me just yet.
After talking to him, it looks like I will be wanting to move out from general duties and specialise as soon as I can manage (one man's pleasure...), but that depends on how well things go with regards to police-related studies while I'd be working general duties. Sounds good, though, there is a lot on offer career-wise.
...oh, and it appears that there may be a BIG wait to get selected to enter recruit training college depending on where I choose to be posted. Christchurch, with a wait, or Auckland? Still, I have a good road ahead of me yet.
Still lookin' good, there's no stopping me just yet.
After talking to him, it looks like I will be wanting to move out from general duties and specialise as soon as I can manage (one man's pleasure...), but that depends on how well things go with regards to police-related studies while I'd be working general duties. Sounds good, though, there is a lot on offer career-wise.
...oh, and it appears that there may be a BIG wait to get selected to enter recruit training college depending on where I choose to be posted. Christchurch, with a wait, or Auckland? Still, I have a good road ahead of me yet.
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