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Well, I'm going to start using this again.  I'm tired of letting my injuries discourage me.  I'm going to do some crosstraining with the indoor bike.  I need to get a bike so that I can take it outdoors but it's going to get cold in the near future anyway.  You'll get todays report after lunch.

Biked indoors for 30 minutes.  I did 2 easy minutes and then one very hard minute, which forced me to stand up.  I repeated this 10 times.  It was a very good work out and will help balance my leg strength, better supporting my knees.

I then ran for 20 minutes.  I ran slow for 4 minutes and then picked it up for a minute and repeated this 4 times. 

Total workout was 50 minutes and 15 minutes were high intensity. 

Hopefully this mix of biking and running will give my legs what they need to recover.  Running only 3-5 miles per day has allowed me to gain some weight that I had previously lost back so now I'm working to get rid of that again plus some.  I don't lose weight easily so this will be a challenge.

Ran out to Liberty Park and did a couple of loops.  I felt a little weak but held a reasonable pace for 7 miles.  It's going to take me a while to get my body used to running more than 45 minutes again. 

It was a beautiful day.  My knee tightened up the last mile or so but no pain.  I just have to be careful.

Time = 54:30 or ~ 7:47/mile.  It's amazing how much better it feels outside.

No running day.

Rode the spinning bike for 60 minutes. 

Did a series of intervals (major sweatful experience):

3 X 4 minutes at moderate to easy resistance & 1 minute challenging (had to stand up)

4 X 3 minutes at moderate to easy resistance & 1 minute challenging (standing up)

5 X 2 minutes at easy to moderate resistance & 1 minute challenging

A couple 1 minute easy and 1 minute challenging

Last 5 minutes or so - cooled down.

It was a pretty good workout.  I did notice that, unlike with running, I stopped sweating to death pretty quickly after finishing so even with the challenging intervals, my body recovers quicker.  If I had time, I would up this workout to an hour and 1/2.  It's probably a terrific aerobic, fat-burning pace though.

Tomorrow I run long again.

Ran east attempting to climb as many hills as possible.  I didn't actually measure the run but with the downhill coming back and running about 55:30, I believe it was about 7 miles. 

I felt pretty good though it will be a while before I'm where I'd like to be.

It was a beautiful day.

Biked for 30 minutes and then did a 20 minute tempo run on the treadmill (after a short transitional warmup).  A tempo for me now is slower than it's traditionally been.  At any rate, I had a good run whether a tempo run or not.

Haven't measured it yet but i think I ran about 11.5 miles.  I went pretty slow and enjoyed the rainy weather.  I ran out to Saratoga Springs by the lake along some trails on the east side of lake mountain and then came back on Rt 68 to the road with the new high school and ran home.

Anyway, it was a little more than I should be doing right now but it was fun.

Ran 3.75 on the boring treadmill.  Felt a little out of it.  My right leg didn't feel the best (not just the knee, which was so so), which was probably due to running too far on Saturday.  It wasn't terrible or anything but I just wasn't myself.  I ran for 31.5 minutes and then decided to bike for 18.5 minutes.

Total exercise time of 50 minutes. 

Biked 50 minutes.  Legs felt fried afterward and did a lot of sweating but my recover is much faster, which makes it clear to me that running is much more rigorous.  Oh well, I just need to keep doing this for a while.

Ran for 30 minutes and biked hard for 20 minutes.  My right leg continues to cause me problems.

Ran 5 out to Liberty park and back and 1 mile on the treadmill.  Total time was approximately 53 minutes. 

Biked 50 minutes.  Worked hard.

Biked 30 minutes and ran 20 minutes

Biked 50 minutes

Stuck working too much - no exercise and very upset about it.  I think I'm addicted.  I wish I could run more.

Biked hard for 1.5 hours.

Very busy day and I was upset to miss another exercise day.  It totally affects my mood when I can't do it.  I was a bit grumpy the whole day.  I've got to plan better to ensure that I can do everything I have to do plus run.

58 minutes.  Pretty slow but it was good to run.

Biked for 50 minutes.  Worked pretty hard.  I'm enjoying the biking diversion but looking forward to better leg health.