11/6 through 12/28!

12/28 Wednesday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up, 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes of cool down, exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  150  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/27 Tuesday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes cool down... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  149  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/26 Monday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes cool down... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  148  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/25 Sunday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes cool down... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  147  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/24 Saturday - Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes cool down ... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  146  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/23 Friday Elliptical machine for 15 minutes warm up 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes cool down... exercising every day until new year's should help make up for a slow month...
Total  145  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/18 this was a boo-hoo-ey day... I went to the SFSPCA and walked a couple of miles fast...
Total  144  Sedentary Nature 14    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/17  - I think I might have jogged 2 miles this day... not sure though

12/16 Friday
The goal was to jog 30 minutes, regardless of pace... I jogged 34 minutes...and covered 3.25 miles!  Go me!  Lots of stretching, hot shower...and then icing?  And hopefully I'll do 2 miles tomorrow and 3 miles Sunday... the old long-term goal was exercising consistently for a year (accomplished October 15, 2011)...I'm not sure what my new goal is... 5 miles at once? doing some kind of fun race?  hmmmm
Total  143  Sedentary Nature 12    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/11 Sunday - Jogged 3 miles, I was jogging for 30 minutes straight!!! Yay!  stretched, hot showered, and iced my shins...
Total  142  Sedentary Nature 12    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/4 - Sunday - my legs hurt and i was completely exhausted... and so I did yoga instead for about a half an hour... not sure if it was exercise, but I hot tubbed before and iced my legs afterward in the hopes of decreasing pain before the coming week!
Total  141  Sedentary Nature 12    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/3 - Saturday - woke up before a crazy busy day and got out and exercised! 2 miles in 22-23 minutes!  Go team!
Total  141  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

12/2 - Friday - Jogged 2.23 miles with less than 10 minute miles!  Go me!
Total  140  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/27 - Sunday - Jogged 2 miles and walked home with groceries...and walked to movie and back...
Total  139  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/26 - Saturday - Jogged 2.5 miles, and walked half mile warm up and cool down...core muscles very sore from yoga...ooowww....
Total  138  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/25 - Friday 1 hour of yoga, followed by traveling 2.7 miles home... 1.65 miles jogging...
Total  137  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/20 - Sunday - walked .42 miles, jogged 2.15 miles in 24 minutes...picked up stuff from the grocery store (multiple poundage) and walked all of that stuff home.  2 birds, one stone!
Total  136  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/19 - Saturday - walked 1.2 miles...jogged 2.1 miles back from animal shelter in 24 minutes
Total  135  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/18 - Friday - Jogged 2.2 miles in 24 minutes
Total  134  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/12 Jogged 2 miles with a hill involved while visiting DC!
Total  133  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

Celebrated my one year of continuing fitness on Oct 15!

11/6 Jogged 2 miles a little faster than usual... 21 minutes instead of 24... that's good!  felt lots better in my breathing....no pain in my lungs!
Total  132  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/5 Jogged 1.2 miles home from volunteering at animal shelter... felt better...
Total  131  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

11/4 Jogged 2 miles; I have started pre-treating for asthma ahead of my runs with increasing success...
Total  130  Sedentary Nature 11    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

I don't know what happened here... i probably exercised a bit, but stopped a bit too.

10/14/11 Friday Jogged 2.2 miles to earn my Indian Food.  Jogged from Coolidge Corner to Packard's Corner and back.  Overcame terrible weather and got soaked to the bone, waded through street's disgustingly deep with gross water.  It was awful.  But I did it.  Go me.
Total  129  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

10/7-10/9 Workouts lost due to illness... sad.
Total  128  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury/Illness 8

10/2 Sunday - Jogged from School Street to Packard's Corner and back to Coolidge Corner = 2.6 miles!  Score!
Total  128  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

10/1 Saturday - Went to the gym at 9:30 AM despite being a little hungover... exercised on the elliptical for an hour... at 1 for 15 mins, at 8 for 30 mins, at 1 for 20 mins.  Feeling good about that... go Laura!
Total  127  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/28 Wednesday - Jogged 2 miles before work!
Total  126  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/25 Sunday - there was no brunch... but i jogged 2 miles to verndale st!
Total  125  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/24 Saturday - Walked 3.25 miles.  Have a busy day today, feel the need to rest for a bit.  Need to run tomorrow morning.
Total  124  Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/23 Friday - So exhausted...slept from 2 pm to 7:00 PM.  Whoops.
Total  123 Sedentary Nature 5    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/21 Wednesday - Jogged 2 miles before work!
Total  123 Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/18 Sunday - Jogged 1.5 miles to brunch, and then walked 1.6 miles back.  Feeling back on track, but worried about keeping up my self-care... planning to exercise wednesday morning, thursday morning, friday & saturday, sunday... but 2 of those need to be at the gym so I don't get injured again!
Total  122 Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/17 Saturday - This is more like it... jogged 1.8 miles today, again forgetting that i need to go to the street before verndale... whatever that is...good job, and i stretched well after since my hips were angry yesterday.
Total  121 Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

9/15 - Thursday - Got up early, jogged from walgreens to verndale and back...2.12 miles in 25 minutes (5.17 mph) sad to weigh myself and realize I'm 8 lbs up from when I started work 6 weeks ago... boo...work is stressful, eh?  Oh well, getting back on track, go me!
Total  120 Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 20     Injury 5

Whoops, forgot to update...recommitting to the cause!

9/13 - Tuesday -
Got up early, jogged from the walgreens to thorndike and back...apparently it was only 1.8 miles, but whatever...battle won.
Total  119Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

9/4 - Sunday - walked 3 miles
Total 118  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

9/3- Saturday - ran 2.5 miles
Total 117  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

8/26 - Friday - 15 minute warm up walking at 4.0 mph, 30 minutes at 5.0 mph, 15 minutes at 4.0 mph.  My heart rate was good for a solid 30 minutes.  I walked and definitely cooled down well, but I didn't really stretch.  I haven't been eating consistently enough, so I felt really weird later.
Total 116  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

8/21 - 48 minutes on the elliptical... 30 minutes in a heart rate program to keep me at 75% of my max heart rate?  That does make you work hard, doesn't it!?  18 minutes just warming up and cooling down... Really getting sporadic here... it is tough to work and exercise... I'm going to have start exercising after work... which is going to stink...but probably be worth the sexiness/healthiness...
Total 115  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 14     Injury 5

8/12 - over an hour of ellipticalling, 30 minutes of fat-burn, and over 30 minutes of Target heart rate program...which somehow got me on 10 difficulty. That got pretty challenging, and my heart rate was definitely up there... Despite my lack of exercising the past couple of weeks, my weight hasn't gone up at all.  Phew!
Total 114  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

8/6 - jogging, unknown speed or distance... up in Maine
Total 113  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/31 - jogging, unknown speed or distance... up in Maine
Total 112  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/30 - jogging, unknown speed or distance... up in Maine
Total 111  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/26 Tuesday - 15 minutes ellipticalling at 1, 10 minutes at 6, 10 minutes at 7, 10 minutes at 6, 15 minutes at 1, stretching
Total 110  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/25 Monday - 2.5 miles of jogging for roughly 30 minutes.  And I finished it with a little walking and stretching... I am really impressed that I jogged 2.5 miles in 70 degree weather at 5.0 mph.  I couldn't have done that last October! Good for me! Yay!
Total 109  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/23 Saturday - 12.5 minutes at 1, 35 minutes at 6 or 7, 12.5 minutes at 1... felt good, did some stretching... went to a red sox game and sweated for 3 hours doing nothing. Next workouts: M, T, W, R - 2 higher intensity, and two lower.
Total 108  Sedentary Nature 4    Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/20 Wednesday - 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 6 and 7, 15 minutes at 1.  Felt really good.  Also did crunches & stretches.
Total 107  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/19 Tuesday - 5 minutes at 1, 30 at 6, 5 minutes at 1.  Okay, so... that is only 1 time this week, so I am planning to exercise W, F, & Sunday.  4 times in the week! That is the goal. (update... didn't happen, but I did 3 times!)
Total 106  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/18 Monday - I think I didn't exercise this day.  I know it was just yesterday...but all these days are blurring together...

7/17 Sunday - I did exercise this day... 15 minutes elliptical at 1, 30 at 6, 15 minutes at 1... but that was 4 times in the week.  So that is great!
Total 105  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/16 Saturday -I built part of a dresser this day... so...no exercise.

7/15 - Friday - Um, I don't think I exercised this day...

7/14 Thursday 15 minutes of elliptical at 1, 30 minutes at 6, 15 minutes at 1
Total 104  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/12 Tuesday 15 minutes of elliptical at 1, 30 minutes at 6, 15 minutes at 1
Total 103  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/11 Monday 15 minutes of elliptical at 1, 30 minutes at 7, 15 minutes at 1
Total 102  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/8 Friday 2.6 miles of walking around town, 2.5 minutes warming up on the elliptical at 8 incline to work the booty and back of the legs, then 25 minutes at 10 resistance, then 2.5 minutes cooing down... and very quick walk home for a shower in this crazy heat... I was really struggling to keep going on this workout...
Total 101  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/7 Thursday 10 minutes walking, 24 minutes jogging at 5.0 mph, 11 minutes walking... good for me!
Total 100  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/5 Tuesday 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 10, 15 minutes at 1, go me!
Total 99   Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

98 workouts down... 2 to go!

7/4 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes at 1 go me!
Total 98   Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/3 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes at 1 go me!
Total 97  Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/2 Saturday 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 8, 15 minutes at 1
Total 96   Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

7/1 Friday Resting...knee feels not so great...took my test and passed it!
Total 95   Sedentary Nature 3     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/30 Thursday - 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 10, 15 minutes at 1 go me!
Total 95  Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/29 Wednesday - 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 9, 18 at 1...tired...
Total 94   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

New june workouts!

6/28 Tuesday- 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 10, 10 at 1...felt good...weight going up, boo... Home food tasting too good!
Total 93   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/27 Monday - 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 8, 15 at 1...felt good...
Total 92   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/26 Sunday - 17 minutes at 1, 30 at 9, 13 at 1...did not feel super good...pretty tired.
Total 91   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/24 Friday - Elliptical 17 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 9, 2 minutes at 1... body very tired, need to eat/drink pre-exercise...
Total 90   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/23 Thursday - Elliptical 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 9, 15 minutes at 1
Total 89   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/21 Tuesday -  Elliptical 15 minutes at 1, 30 minutes at 9, 15 minutes at 1... and hiked from 10:15 until 11:15 PM
Total 88   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

New June exercises!

6/20 Monday - 16 minutes at 1, and 30 at 10, and 14 at 1
Total 86   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/19 Sunday - 46 minutes at 8, and 14 at 5...lowest weight in a loong time!
Total 85   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/17 Friday - The days are blurring together here... when did I exercise, what did I do?  I'm not sure.  But today I definitely did 15 minutes at 1, 30 at 9, and 15 minutes at 1 again...
Total 84   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/16 Thursday - Not sure how long I exercised, but I think it was an hour.  I know I was cranky because I hadn't eaten and I got annoyed at my sister in the morning...and her day at work did not go so well.  Not sure these were related, but magical thinking says...obviously yes.  The exercise was between 30 minutes and 1 hour.
Total 83   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

New workouts! I've lost 1 inch on each of my measurements since February!

6/15 Wednesday - Elliptical for 30 minutes at 10, then 5 minutes at 1
Total 82   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/14 Tuesday- Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 8, then 15 minutes at 1 for 550 calories.
Total 81   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/13 Monday-Elliptical for 35 minutes at 1.  Burned 260 calories.  Have been feeling a little pressure in my joints...part of me is concerned about repetitive motion problems, and another part of me thinks I should suck it up...maybe I should start throwing in jogging, but if I did it from my house, it would involve incline...so I might have to drive somewhere to run...or I could just walk from my house... hmmmm...
Total 80   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/12 Sunday-Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 8, then 15 minutes at 1 for 550 calories.
Total 79   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/11 Saturday-I'm not sure I exercised this day.
Total 78   Sedentary Nature 2     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/10 Friday-Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 10, then 15 minutes at 1 for 600 calories burned.
Total 78   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/9 Thursday- Elliptical for 17 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 9, then 15 minutes at 1 for 600 calories burned.
Total 77   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/8 Wednesday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 9, then 15 minutes at 1 for 550 calories burned - I was running before I ate or drank to artificially decrease weight, which I probably shouldn't keep doing because it makes it hard to keep my energy up for exercising.
Total 76   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Lots of new workouts! Down to 172.6 lbs!

6/6 Monday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 9, then 15 minutes at 1 for 575 calories burned
Total 75   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/5 Sunday - Walked to the bus stop, cleaning up trash, then got onto the elliptical for 35 minutes at 9 to burn 350 calories.  I'm enjoying being back on track exercise-wise.  I think if I was on vacation all the time, it is possible I could exercise a lot more.  Alas.
Total 74   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/4 Saturday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 9, then 18 minutes at 5/1...for 600 reported burned calories.
Total 73   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/3 Friday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 8, then 10 minutes at 1 for 500 calories burned.
Total 72   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

6/2 Thursday - Elliptical for 15 minutes at 1, then 30 minutes at 8, then 15 minutes at 1...and a few extra minutes until I hit 600 reported burned calories.  First day home, planning to exercise a lot more now.

Total 71   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

Kept moving... moved on saturday...very hot.  Could not exercise.

5/24 Tuesday - moving lots of stuff... involved lots of stairs and lifting and soreness...counting as exercise.
Total 70   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

5/20 Friday - 5 miles walked with Mully, rough day, too tired to run.
Total 69   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

5/16 Monday - Jogged from appt. in Coolidge Corner... thought I had traveled 2 miles, but I guess I only went 1.82 miles... an hour earlier I started to jog and traveled over .25 miles... so I figure together I got to 2 miles... (I'm getting less strict about this, but my goal is to be just getting active and more fit and able to just go jogging without planning too much, so... this is a good start!) and I probably walked .5 mile too...
Total 68   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

5/14 Saturday - Okay, I did not run today, but I walked over 30 minutes in the morning... and then I walked a fair amount during an apartment crawl...
Total 67   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

new posts... I had a lapse in keeping track & exercising!

5/13 Friday - Went on a long walk/run today... note to self.  Wear sunscreen, even after 2:30 pm... got a touch of color, but not too bad, phew!  traveled 5.11 miles! Legit jogged 2 miles, though there was some extra jogging, quick walking, sprinting, resting, water grabbing...felt good, lungs really feel like the weakness, still fighting off this cough that seems related to allergies, but it is difficult to make it die when i keep coughing! grrr...  but it was a beautiful day, and Mully was such a good boy to run with!

Total 66   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

5/11 Wednesday - I have no explanation for this lapse in journaling.  I think I ran a mile somewhere in there, but clearly, I didn't record it.  So, today I was on the elliptical machine for 50 minutes, with 30 minutes at 8 difficulty.  I traveled 4 miles, and burned 500 calories according to the machine.  Yay.  I am at my lowest weight since 2010, so I must be eating better.  Hoping to keep that up and keep up the exercising.
Total 65   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

more runs after Birthday Break!

4/24 Sunday - Okay... jogging may have gotten a little harder!  walked 2 miles, and then ran 2 miles in 23 minutes... which is 5.2 mph!  So maybe running faster made it a little harder?  Anyway, feeling good... traveled 4 miles!  Hopefully burned off some Easter chocolate!
Total 64   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

4/22 Friday - Wow, it really doesn't feel like I haven't exercised in 11 days, lots of birthday fun, eating out, etc. ... but I took a few shorter walks with Mully on Wednesday... today I ran 1.65 miles...maybe I'll try to add in .5 miles later?  I don't know... For some reason I thought I was running longer... but hey, any running is better than no running!  Adding 3 to scheduling difficulties for the past week...
Total 63   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 8     Injury 5

New Runs!

4/10 Sunday - traveled 4.43 miles... jogged 2 miles! With Mully, go Mully! Had some knee pain, so had to take a couple of breaks...hoping to work in more
Total 62   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

4/8 Friday - 3.77 miles traveled... jogged 2.25 miles in 25 minutes! Go Laura!
Total 61   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

Spring is here! Fun to run in the sun!

4/3 4.5 miles traveled during dog walk with Mully... probably only jogged 1.8-2.0 miles, but all of it faster than I would generally go... I was really pushing my lungs! Now icing my rt. shin, which is ouchy... on the way over there I felt a little pain in my right hip... hoping to use stretching/icing to avoid injuring!
Total 60   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

4/2 Saturday - jogged nearly 2 miles, minimal warm up, minimal cool down, in a hurry, hope I don't hurt myself, last mile run in 12 minutes for a 5.0 mph pace
Total 59   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/27 Sunday - Jogged with Mulligan Osher (Spring Spaniel) today... jogged 2-2.3 miles... traveled 4.85 miles! woweee! and it was so nice to have a doggy partner in crime, even when he sometimes wanted to go the wrong direction!
Total 58   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/26 Saturday - I know I was at the gym for roughly 90 minutes... I was actually ellipticalling about 70 of those... go me! 70 minutes? that sounds insane!
Total 57   Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/25 Friday - Really thinking this weekend should involve three exercising days.  No reason it can't.  Jogged outside today, but miscalculated my distance, so I only ran 1.88 miles, in 23-24 minutes... which is under 13 minutes per mile... I felt pretty winded by the end...the way back is a bit of an incline I suspect.  But my legs felt good.  And I caught my breath quicker than usual.  Go team Laura!
Total 56    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5


3/20 Sunday - Laundry day...at the gym from 2:10 pm to 4:00pm...but I only kept track of roughly 70 minutes of ellipticalling... so it is a mystery what I was doing the other 40 minutes... Some of it may have been stretching/warming up... doing the laundry part, I don't know...just know I was tired after all of it.
Total 55    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

SPRING is here!

3/18 Friday - Oh my! What a busy week it has been! So my exercise schedule took a hit... but I'm back at it and I ran outside for 2 miles and did some warming up and cooling down too... The second mile took roughly 13 minutes, but I had to stop covering ground at one particularly long stop light... so my pacing is pretty much the same as I do inside on the treadmill!  Note to self, use vaseline before run to avoid chafing!
Total 54    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/10 Thursday - Decided to mix it up and save time by exercising on the way to my appointment.  I warmed up walking for 10 minutes-ish and then started jogging and jogged roughly 1.4 miles in about 20 minutes?  Then I was at my appointment and still felt pretty good, so I thought I could just jog back... I jogged about 1.1 miles (according to MapMyRUN) and walked the rest of the way home... so in total I jogged about 2.5 miles.  But I really should start using my inhaler again...boo cold air on lungs...
Total 53    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/6 Sunday - I'm pretty sure I exercised this day... yes... I did, it was after making a video with Jill May... I jogged for 2 miles after warming up for 15 minutes... I forget the pace, but I totally did it. Phew!  6 miles in one week! With minimal pain! Yay!.
Total 52    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

3/5 - Saturday - warmed up for 15 minutes walking, then jogged for 2 miles at 4.5 mph... then walked for 15 minutes...
Total 51    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

More Workouts! Having trouble keeping track there are so many!

3/2 - Wednesday - warmed up for 15 minutes walking, then jogged for 2 miles at 5.0... then walked for 15 minutes...
Total 50    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

2/27 - Sunday - The great thing about exercising so regularly is that I am forgetting to journal it!  That is an accomplishment and a sign that I am making a routine here!  I think I went to the gym and saw Amanda R and talked about stuff on the ellipticals... it was pre-oscars and I was rushing home... but I don't remember exactly how long I did anything.
Total 49    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

2/26 - Saturday - warmed up .5 miles...jogged 2 miles at 4.5 mph, cooled down... stomach and shins hurt pretty bad...but I forged on! Go me!
Total 48    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 5     Injury 5

2/20 - Sunday - I know I exercised... I think I ran 2 miles this day even though I thought it might be a little too much!
Total 47    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2 more workouts! Go Laura!

2/19 Saturday - went to the gym... 15 minute warm up, 2 miles at 5mph...15 minutes cool down...good for me... stretched everything out, hoping not to be hurting too badly tomorrow... when I want to go to the gym again and go running again!  I read an article about how long it takes to develop a habit... 66 days they said.  So, I'm definitely through that period...though I haven't done 66 days of workouts...so, we'll see...
Total 46    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/17 Thursday - went to the gym despite being up til 3 am studying last night... 15 minute warm up, 2 miles at 5 mph (faster than usual!), and 15 minute cool down... stretched after, did some sit-ups...
Total 45    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

February workouts!

2/13 Sunday - Thanks to a frustrating conversation with my mom and the suggestion of my roommate Leia, I went to the gym today! 60 minutes of ellipticalling and I must have done a little something else since laundry takes 27 minutes +50 minutes, and I was doing stuff until my laundry had 10 minutes left... good for me!
Total 44    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/12 Saturday- I'm a little confused about when I last exercised... I think it was last Saturday or Sunday... and then this was a pretty rough week and I didn't get to it again until today.  But... today I went to the gym, warmed up for 15 minutes, ran 2 miles...right shin keeps feeling sharpish pain on food landing, walked 10 minutes, stretched...got a bad weight this morning...might reflect the rough week.
Total 43    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/6 Sunday - Thanks Facebook... I did run this day... ran 2 miles, traveled 4 in total
Total 42    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/5 Saturday... forgot to ice it.  I could go to the gym and do the elliptical... hmmm... we'll see how it goes...

2/4 Friday... Fail. I would have exercised today, but I was busy all of the hours that I would have been able to go to the gym. Boo. And my shin hurts... should ice it.
Total 41    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 4     Injury 5

2/1 Tuesday... went to the gym... ran 2 miles... didn't feel great...right shin bugging me again...
Total 41    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

more workouts!

1/30 Sunday... went to the gym, walked for .75 miles for warm up, jogged 1 mile at 4.5 mph, then changed laundry loads and went back to the treadmill...ran 2 more miles at 4.5 mph, then cooled down for 15 minutes at 3.0... both warm up and cool down included 5-10 minutes of incline at 3.0-4.0, felt good, middle mile felt best... rt. shin hurt a bit, but not too bad on a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a 2-3...
Total 40    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

1/28 Friday... went to the gym, walked for .75 miles for warm up, jogged 2 miles in 26 m 30 s, and then walked close to 1.25 miles as a cool down, with part of both of the walks being uphill at 3.0-3.5 incline.  Felt good... though a 2 mile run doesn't get to that "easier place"... so it is like 25 minutes left, 24 minutes left, ugh... next run Sunday...
Total 39    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

1/25 Tuesday... hard day at work, didn't eat soon enough before running and then drank 16 oz of water right before I started jogging... so I got a bad cramp and had to just jog through it... and my leg hurt a bit (rt shin), but I just kept saying, mental game, keep going)
Started with 15 minute, uphill walking warm up. 2 miles at 4.5 mph on level ground...fighting for it...25 minutes of walking for cool down... with some stretching in between before full cool down.  Then waited for the bus for 28 minutes. boo.  Forgot to ice, icing now...took an ibuprofen...
Total 38    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

1/23 Sunday - Had an inspiring talk with my brother... need to step up my running a bit here... goal: not being injured...so this week I'm going to try to do that...Tues(2m), Thurs(2m), Sat(2m or more), Sun (elliptical or running)...

1/23 Sunday - 90 minutes of elliptical machining... 33 minutes of "fat burn"... then 9 minutes of ellipticalling at manual, stopped to fill water bottle, then back on the machine for 55 minutes? I'm not sure... It was a lot... I saw at least an entire episode of tabatha's salon makeover and half of a housewives of atlanta/interview on cnn...cuz housewives sucks. and then 15 minutes of stretching...
Total 37    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

New workouts posted!

1/17 - Monday - 65 minutes of elliptical machining... trying to drown a little sorrow in exercise...then I found ice cream and a cupcake...oh dear.  My right shin hurt this morning, but hurts less now...

Total 36    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

1/15 - Saturday - 60 minutes of jogging at 4.5 mph... plus 10-15 minute warm up and 10 minute cool down... I finally got back that mysterious warming feeling in my legs that might be related to a "runner's high" of sorts.  It was funny to feel it, not pain, not really numb, just like, strong and energized...hmmm...  had to really fight for the last 10 minutes of the run.  Just kept telling myself it was mental and kept going.
Total 35    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

1/14 - Friday - 50 minutes of the weird elliptical machine that doesn't lock you into a particular movement... with a little stretching afterward...
Total 34    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

1/11 Tuesday - elliptical for 45 minutes... including warm up and cool down!
Total 33    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

Continuing my late in the year resolution!

1/9 Sunday - too long in between entries here, but I was in transit for 4 days and working for 2... so hopefully I can get back on track with a more regular schedule.  I went into the gym today after declining dinner with a friend knowing I should go exercise. So I went in, walked for 10 minutes (.5 mile), jogged for 60 minutes averaging a 4.1 mph pace, with a half a mile of it uphill... cooled down, now taking an ibuprofen, icing my shin in the hopes of avoiding worsening shin pain
Total 32    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

1/2 Sunday - elliptical, 5 minute warm up, 30 minutes at 10, 5 minutes cooling down at 1, did situps, going to be on a plane/traveling for 15 hours... so, trying to tire my body out a bit... it's not running, but at least I'm exercising... I'm going to try running before I leave for Minnesota on Thursday!
Total 31    Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5

1/1 Saturday - elliptical, 5 minute warm up, 30 minutes at 10, 5 minutes cooling down at 5
Total 30     Sedentary Nature 1     Scheduling difficulty 3     Injury 5