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2010/07/07 Body Fat Results

π 2010-07-07 00:00 in Exercising

Since I've lost some weight after my surgery, I figured I'd take a few readings.

Weight: 152lbs, body fat: 14% on my scale, 13.2% on the handheld (pinch testing said 16% but I'm confident the guy did it wrong).

2010/04/18 Bike Ride around Baylands, Palo Alto Airport, and the Duck Pond

π 2010-04-18 00:00 in Exercising

It had been a while since we went biking in that direction, so the beautiful sunday was a good excuse to go with out road bikes and go around the baylands.

There were lots of birds building nests.

I should I brought score cards to rate the takeoffs :)

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2009/12/05 My Knee

π 2009-12-05 00:00 in Exercising

I ran a mere 4.8 miles today to go with Jennifer, and after getting home, the left of my left knee has been quite painful.

This is getting irritating, I pretty much can't jog more than a 5k without ruining one or two knees, it seems :(

2009/11/19 Turkey 5K

π 2009-11-19 00:00 in Exercising

We had a 5K run today. I was on the fence as to whether I should have done it since I haven't been running a lot recently, especially after having been sick, but my coworker went and that was enough incentive for me to go too so that I could hopefully stay ahead of him.

In the end, I did meet that goal, but my 5K time was about 24mn, which is bad compared to peak times of 22:18, but it's at least under the 25mn benchmark.

2009/05/03 Recent Biking

π 2009-05-03 00:00 in Exercising

After messing up my left hand pretty badly while biking almost 2 months ago, it's been slowly recovering, but it's still not back to normal. I'm still in pain when opening a door handle that needs to be grabbed tight and twisted but the rest is mostly ok now.
Since I was able to do regular road biking two weeks ago, I tried mountain biking this time, and we went to Fremont Older for our usual loop, and some little wine tasting and shopping on the side for Jennifer :) (oh, and pony molesting too :) ) Biking was mostly ok, I just wasn't too comfortable going downhill on a steep gravel path where I had to squeeze the brakes very hand (my left hand wasn't super happy with that part), but otherwise the ride went fine and we got home almost dry (rain fell down a bit later).

weather did look menacing

2009/04/23 5k run

π 2009-04-23 00:00 in Exercising

Over the last months I did take a little bit of weight, first due to not really being able to run much since about 8 months ago when I injured my knees, and then recently my bike/hand injury.
Today was the first time I got to run a 5k at boot camp. I did it in just under 25mn, which is far from my 22mn record, but eh, at least it was barely under 25mn :)
Hopefully I'll be able to build this back up soon.

2009/04/19 Bike Ride to Duck Pond by Palo Alto Airport

π 2009-04-19 00:00 in Exercising

Despite the very unseasonable heat, even by leaving after 16:30, we went out for a bike ride to Palo Alto airport and its nearby duck pond where people were happy to ignore the multiple "do not feed the ducks" signs. Sigh...

Good news is that while my left hand still hasn't fully recovered (it still hurts to open a door knob with it), it good enough for most tasks, including biking on normal roads (not sure about mountain biking yet).

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