C25K and WOGGING

MONDAY 21/10/13

A good day to start off week 2, began with my weighing in at 129.5 kg which was a loss of 3.5 kg! It may have been more however as I was rinsing my plate from breakfast when I realized OH shit! I need to weigh in today, so raced off and stripped down to boxers jumping on scales ha-ha.

Only 1 coffee today and noticed that yesterday I also only had one, which is good and may be why I have slept a bit better. So I am going to try and maintain that.

Lunch was wow fantastic….OK so it was only a grapefruit grilled w/brown sugar but oh boy did it taste great. I have had it before when I was growing up, mum would do one now and again for breakfast. And the other day at the fruit and veg shop I saw fresh ones and instantly the thought popped into my head, for an alternative to breakfast. The fact I had it for lunch weeeellll who cares.

Yesterday I had downloaded an app to help get me started running it’s called C25K-5k it uses a popular beginners running program to slowly introduce you from Couch to five km running (C25K). Anyway so I was going to pick up my girl from school and walk her home as I usually do on nice days, this time I thought I would try it out on the way there (Its also one of my goals for the week)

So I left a 14:00 and headed off via the local gardens and away I went wogging (a the term I have heard and like ha-ha). Now last week I tried adding tiny runs into my walk now and again but made sure NO BODY not even a dog was about before I would wog off and as soon as I heard or glimpsed the tiniest hint of any life other than the birds I would stop. That’s because I am so extremely self conscious of what other's may think or perhaps say it’s also because I know physically I am not a sight to see in a good way,and that’s with shirt on.

But yesterday while reading up on this program and getting feedback on the MFP (MyFitnessPal) website one of the forum topics was about starting out running and why some ppl do it at dawn or dusk and the comments there were 100% correct. WHO CARES! What the ppl in their cars or walking past may think. Whatever they think will only stay with them for a split second like a fish, and what they say doesn't matter either they don’t know you and chances are will not see you again anyway.
This got me thinking and yeah ya know they are right, I am doing this for me not them, let them stay at home and eat or watch TV or go to the shops in their car. I am going to walk and then wog my way into better shape, and ya know what? Next time they may see me, they could very well go wow look he is still doing it and man he looks better; and you know what? I will be better! Now applying this to going to the pools or beach to swim is another block I have yet to even attempt,that’s another day.

So off I went as planned at 14:00 started the app and after the 5 min warm up the dreaded tone said "begin running"……so I did and I took about 4 strides and low and behold ahead was someone working in the garden. So I kept going and it felt good, even better when the tone said "begin walking" phew breath.
This continued for 8 more running laps (60 sec each) and was followed by 90 sec walks. I ran and then stopped in plain view of someone with their dog, but I stopped because my 60 sec run lap had stopped and I was supposed to walk, not because I saw her.
I also ran onto another track as a group of people where in plain view this time I had to START the running so I did. The track I took led me to the main road BUGGER! But I kept going I was struggling but then I had to began the warm down. I had done it!!! I was absolutely sucking in the air even the 3 little pigs hadn't seen so much huffing and puffing.

But I had done it, I had actually completed it and I had to be seen by people too. As I was cooling down the app shut off and closed down for no bloody reason, thus began my day of frustration with phone apps!

So I lost DAY 1 WEEK 1 of the C25K I had just finished, man I was beyond annoyed. So I logged onto Endomondo to track the short walk to school where I could pause it while waiting for the bell to ring before resuming it for the walk back home. At least I would have this data logged…HA! Not likely! The resume never stared; the app closed itself down and the battery was not at fault this time, man now I was fuming! All I could think of was all the excellent effort I had done was now a complete waste of time, how many calories had I burnt etc ahhhhh. I so wanted to smash my phone onto the concrete and then stamp on any parts that survived.

So all today’s exercise logging was estimated as I really have no idea what I burnt, so very frustrating. But I thought about it when I calmed down and OK so I lost any logging etc, but it wasn't a waste of time. I HAD DONE IT! I had done the c25k and the walk today even though I don’t know what I had lost I still had and I feel bloody good about that! Oh yes the phone never did meet the concrete.

So anyway home and homework done I decided to look into this app more and I was not the only one having linking issues and shutting down, so I have uninstalled it and installed another one called RunDouble C25K which has linking issues due to how MFP logs in FB users but at least it will track and show my progress and I can then copy this over, so that will be trialed out Wednesday my next C25K day.

Eating went well, did less than 1200 cals and was under in my Carbs/Fat & Sat Fat amounts, and I do feel good not bloated and unable to move. Tomorrow will be a walk to school if the weather is good otherwise I’ll make it a rest day. Now the blocks on so I’m gonna bugger off and watch that then Person of Interest before hitting the sack!

TUESDAY 22/10

Had three crumpets with Peanut Butter on two of them and Jam on the other for breakfast this morning, along with my wake up coffee. Did the school drop and now looking about for good blog sites etc… Have decided that tomorrow will be cheese free day and Thursday bread free day.

Not too sore at all from yesterdays C25K session + walk, so may walk to do the school pickup this afternoon, as I think if I don’t I may feel guilty even though I have planned only five days a week for exercise. I may potter outside in the garden or attack the garage later, not really sure yet.

Spent the day setting up my blog and publishing what I have done so far, time will tell how well it is received and I do hope people will feel the need to follow. But at this stage its more about me being able to document my day to day progression and express my thoughts etc. Work in progress!

Did the walk to school, which was good. Did feel a bit more puffed than usual and that may be down to yesterday’s exercise and also perhaps the lower intake of food, which I think my also be why I have felt hungrier today.

So today was a less active day in comparison but still a good one. I did well food & exercise wise, and me and my daughter have invented a new ball game called GO! Tomorrow is my DAY 2 C25K day and also no cheese day. Check back and see how it went……..

WEDNESDAY 23/10

Today saw the recent sunshine we have been blessed with,fail to show. Instead it was a drizzly overcast day, but still a nice temperature. The usual school run was done and dusted with ease, today’s goals were to complete day 2 of the C25K program and also have a day without cheese.

Not sure if it was the weather but I felt a little sluggish mentally, and I was fussing about doing nothing of any real value. I even posted online if people who run use backpacks or anything else all because i was indecisive about running with my bag on. I did eventually take the bag and once my jacket,cap,keys & water were loaded I felt it would be weighted enough not to bounce about to much. After this it was 10:45 by time I got the runners on and changed my top about 4 times before I was happy I would be warm enough in the drizzle before my run started and not to hot once I got going. So any way I eventually made it across to the gardens where I loaded up the RunDouble app and started my training………….

I felt better today doing this program and maybe it was due to the drizzle and cooler day we had or maybe it was also because I had started the app earlier, so when my run started I was slightly ahead from last time which probably made it feel like I was quicker. Who knows; most likely the answer was (D) all the above!

Throughout the training I felt better until maybe the 6th leg of running and then it really kicked in, I managed to just complete the 7th lap and by time I had completed the 8th and final run leg to begin the warm down, I was puffing more than a steam train!!

 

After the cool down I sat, rested and had some water. I had recovered quite well and I was very happy with how I had done and looking at my stats was pleasantly surprised that I had averaged 9:03 m/km for 2.21km not including my warm up and cool down (WU/CD). for a calorie burn of 445 (inc WU/CD). I now have a valid time/distance target to judge my progress by for next time.

I didn’t walk for the school pickup as I wanted to give the legs a rest, but to be honest I still felt good, sure the legs were a bit tender as to be expected but nothing that made it a struggle to move. I guess tomorrow morning will be the test but I still feel good physically now at 21:15 so I have no concerns.

The food went well also, I ate about 1700 cals today so my day totals were Calories 1701/2175 (-474)/Carbs 263/299 (-36)/Fat 44/72 (-28)/Sat Fat 22/24 (-2). I also set myself a food goal today which was to not eat one of the foods I consider a weakness and that was NO CHEESE. All I can say is Mission COMPLETED! and a bonus food goal I had set for Thursday was a no bread day and I also completed that today YEAH! That’s two of my weekly goals I set on Sunday night completed and I am also 75% towards my major exercise goal which is to complete Week 1 of C25K!!!