Rusty's Blog

…not just longer.

As the astute reader will note, I’ve been participating in C25K. Today I started Week 8. I was originally planning on doing that on Tuesday this week, but last week I signed up for a session at “The Gym” with a personal trainer, and I wanted to be able to focus on that yesterday, an drecovering from a run would not have helped.

So I did what I could of the run today. Since I had been at the gym yesterday, and worked fairly rigourously on a full body workout, I’m actually recovering from that a bit today as well. Not so happy about that.

The work out started well enough. Other than whatever is going on with my phone. I think I will need to discard a feature that I installed a couple of weeks back. First I listen to the podrunner intervals podcast with the phone, and that seems to work out OK. I also added the Buddy Runner app to the phone a while back, in the hopes that I would be able to use that to keep track of my running progress. So far so good. Somewhere along the line I also added a ‘shake’ app manager. The idea is neat, want to switch to a different app that’s running? No problem, shake the phone. Well, there is a bit of a problem. Shaking the phone is almost a given when running.

So I started the podcast. got the buddy runner app launched, and ready for me to hit the ‘start’ button as I’m doing my warm up walk. I get to the end of the 5 min walk, reach over to hit the ‘start’ button, and… that’s not the buddy runner app. Ok, rip the phone off the upper arm. Close a bunch of apps that I had not intentionally opened, and finally There! I can start buddy runner. All the while I’m trying to both manage the phone and run. Not a good combination.

I headed south on the lake today, and one of the things that Buddy Runner does is gives you status updates for where you are on the run. I got a half mile update, followed by a 1 mile update. I go along to where I planned on doing my turn around, and start comming back, and realize that I should have gotten another update. OK, pull off the phone, App close, app close, app close, … Ah, buddy runner isn’t tracking any more. Wonderful.

I don’t think I got a full 2 miles into the run before I switched to walking. I am not sure if the reason that buddy runner stopped tracking was because I had gone 1 mile, or if there was something else happening. We’ll see now that I’ve removed the shake based task manager.

While I think that part of my early drop was due to the recovery from the workout at the gym yesterday, I do note that while running, and in the walk before and after, I actually felt a bit more fit. I’ve got sore arms, legs, and so on, but they are mostly good sore, rather than incredibly painful sore. We’ll see how the run goes on Friday after I’ve had a full day of recovery.

Well, been doing more “workout” related stuff over the past couple of weeks. I have gotten some mall walking in, though with the good weather I think tomorrow I will use some time to just walk about ouside. I have a couple of walking routes that get me up to four miles (or more) so doing them twice will allow me to hit ten or more miles walking.

Also picked up a mount and back to mount my Garmin GPS on my Bicycle. Considering I have seen it “loose” me, then adjust, it is possible that I may have some stray distance added in. One time I watched the GPS “locate” me four blocks from my correct location, then a couple of moments later it figured out where I really was, and the resulting map has a spike of some 800 feet, or more (combined) that I covered in a couple of seconds, with near right angle adjustments to my course. I would hate to experience the type of G forces required to actually accomplish such a feat.

The Wiki is up, I also have a sbs blog running at work (for whenever the powers that be consider this blog to be a potential hazard) and more to follow.

If you are wondering about new treats for your dog(s) I have found that the new Chew-lotta’s from “Meaty Bone” a Del Monte Pet Protducts division of Del Monte Foods, are my dogs favorite treat these days. Of course my Lab polishes off the “Medium/Large” size in about 20 min, but the “Small” size can take my Eski overnight to finish. If my Eski is not careful though, he sets his down, my Lab takes off with it, and it is gone in seconds.

A side effect is that both of them have much better breath these days. I would say that they are far more effective than the Pedigree DentaBones, or even the various rawhides we have gone through.

Another favorite of both of them is the rawhides from “DingoBone”, website. My lab likes the “boomerang” style, and my Eski can get just about one of the knots off of a “Meat in the Middle” small bone in the time my Lab has polished off the boomerang.

Ah well, time to publish, and get things going I guess.

Have a good time.