Body Fat: 22.464% (calipers)

Measured body fat this evening with calipers: 22.464%.

Derelict in duty

Well, I've been derelict in my duty at posting. Mostly becasue I have a new (and pretty kick-ass) girlfriend.

It's always a struggle, though, to mix girlfriend and copious workouts (and diet). But I actually weighed 218 today, so in the weight department I think I did OK.

ROWING
Today I actually tried to set a new 30 min record (Personal Best, I should say) for myself on the rowing machine and I just didn't have it in me. I may go for it tomorrow.

I still really enjoy rowing as an additional method for working out. It gets a good sweat going and I get a pretty good full body workout from the machine. To date, I've rowed 734,000 meters -- I'm fast approaching the 1,000,000 meter mark (for which, the folks at Concept 2 provide rowers with a much vaunted t-shirt).

TRIATHLON

I think my triathlon season is done -- mostly by default. There's another race or two in San Diego, but to be honest, my training really hasn't been there with the new GF -- so it's tough to make that work.

I have seriously considered -- and I do imagine -- doing a half-ironman next year. I still have a serious commitment to breaking 200 pounds by my graduation date (and/or breaking down below 20% body fat). My goal, long term, in the next 6-12 months remains to get down into single digit body fat, ideally into the 5-6% range. This would definitely help the half-ironman prospects. I also think using the rowing machine as a way to maintain weight -- and to keep in decent shape over the dark winter months -- should work pretty well this winter. What a pleasant surprise that relatively simple machine has been for me.

Indeed, I think I'm going for my 30 min record in the am, when my food has fully digested :-).

k

No post in a while

I haven't posted in a few weeks now. Reason: Girlfriend, M, now in the picture. She's really good. But, as always seems to be the case with me, the first few weeks of courting removes a significant amount of my training time (though certainly not all of it -- I've done some pretty good running in the past 2-3 weeks).

Here are the current numbers:

weight ~223 this morning, I think 22 or 23% body fat (it's in the picture log of the past 3 weeks. (with sporadic entries for weeks 4 and 5).

Body dimensions, as of 09.21.2005, 1220am:

N: 15.75
B: 13.25
C: 43.25
uw: 41.00
lw: 38.00;
T: 22.25
H: 39.75

My body fat measurement via calipers is: 23.693%

I'm sure that's up from something.

I was also dreadfully sick over the past weekend. Indeed, I had a 103 deg fever. Bad times.

More to come I suppose.

kc