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