Ocean Rowing

Interesting ocean rowing site here. It seems there's a race from Europe to NOrth America via rowboat. Antigua and some other place.

It's interesting. Lots of satellite/tech communication while people are in the middle of the ocean.

k

Marathon Row on Concept 2

I completed my first marathon row on Christmas. It was pretty long. Pretty tiring. Probably too much for this particular phase of my life as it left me completely worn out yesterday.

oh well. I have some photos I'll post later. . .

k

Holiday Challenge

I successfully (mindlessly?) completed the Holiday Challenge this AM. I rowed a 10k in the AM, which brought me just over 200,000 meters since TGiving. I'll probably add some cycling, swimming and running to the mix again.

Pretty stressed out with finals done and my licensing exam fast approaching. I'm just betting everything, that's all :-).

Caliper body fat: 23.169%

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Ironic - I'm a health nut.

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rowing totals

I'm now at about 145,000 meters for the holiday challenge. I figure 15k x 4 days will put me over the top. I'm contemplating rowing a marathon on christmas though. . .

k

Visitors

I notice via a blogcounter that my visitors now average about 17 per day -- so I've roughly doubled my daily visitors over probably the past 6 months or so. That's interesting. What's interesting is how few of you actually comment (or even leave anything on the tagboard I have up).

I suppose, in the end, this blog is much more of a way for me to keep track of things. To the extent it offers something to someone in the outside world great. It's a complete secret to everyone -- in fact, I've told my closest friend that I have a blog but I've completely refused to identify what particular blog. Indeed, that's why some of my details are rather sketchy -- because I would (for whatever reason) like to avoid detection.

So, hey, drop a comment or two!

kc

Holiday Challenge - C2

I now have 129,000 meters in the Holiday Challenge for Concept2, so it looks like I'll make the 200,000 meters as listed in their challenge. I am going to spend the $20 bucks on the sweatshirt, even though it's a bit dorky :-).

Basically, I have 8 workout days that remain to get the additional 70,000 meters in. Realistically, that is about 5 days of 15,000 meters. Perhaps even the next 5 days. Nonetheless, I think I may try my first rowing marathon next weekend. Indeed, I may try it on Christmas Day.

The studying of my life begins on Monday.

k

President Taft

It turns out President Taft, in his twilight years, lost about 70 pounds. . . interesting historical reading.

Weight loss from Diabetes site here

Diabetes article here. Interesting quote within it:

In the future, Pugh would like to see a more hands on approach between health care professionals and patients when it comes to weight loss.

One way of doing this, Pugh suggests, is having diabetes educators or dietitians accompany their patients to the grocery store. There they can illustrate the proper healthy and low calorie food items for their patient's diet plan. "More than just telling a patient they need to lose weight - we need to make sure that they understand how to do this," says Pugh.

Pugh also points out that many health care professionals are not immune from society's prejudices when it comes to the obese. "Many are judgmental and they view obese patients as being weak willed," says Pugh. This can erode the patient/doctor relationship even further and increase a patient's frustration over losing weight.

The article then says what I've known for a long time:

Kris Berg, EdD, professor of physical education at the University of Nebraska, goes as far as to advise his patients to stay in the outside aisles of the grocery store where the fresh foods are kept, so that they will avoid the temptation of fattening snacks. This is sound advice considering that ten peanuts can be a hefty 200 calories and a regular potato chip might have as much as 25 calories in it. After a few high-calorie snacks a day, a person may find that they are gaining pounds instead of shedding them.

Holiday Challenge

Concept2 is running a holiday challenge. Basically, you commit to row 100,000 or 200,000 meters between Thanksgiving and New Years. Turns out, I've already rowed about 80,000 meters. I think I could pretty easily make the 200,000 meter number (you get a t-shirt and can buy a sweatshirt for $20 bucks). I think I'd buy the sweatshirt.

So I have 12 days to row 120,000 meters. In fact, this may spur on my first marathon row.

I figure, 4x15,000 = 60,000 meters (running total = 140,000 meters).

42,000 meters for marathon = 182,000 meters.

And then an additional half marathon. . . 21,000 meters would put me over the 200,000 meters number. . .

Well, I think that will be the goal. . .

k

Nice Post on Notorious B.L.O.G.

Hi,

Here's a great post on his battle of the bulge -- he ultimately lost 105 pounds by changing diet and running. His epiphany has an eerie reminiscence to my own epiphany here. [scroll down to HISTORY].

CDC Obesity page

the CDC has a nice obesity page. . . you can find it here.

12.11.2005 food king.  

fruit purchased circa 12.07.2005.  

purchase circa 11.30.2005.  

Fruit gets packed up like this. 

weight chart circa 10-24 to 11-13-2005.  

Purchase circa 11.30.2005.  

All you can eat Sushi

The GF and I headed out to meet up for dinner tonight. While fun, surely it couldn't have been that great for me -- too many calories. She cooked a pork roast last night too. It was quite good, but probably too many calories (although, I did have salad with both meals and some rice on Friday).

Went and saw Syrianna which was not nearly as good as I thought it would be. I ended up drinking a medium diet coke and nothing else.

Only 20 mins of exercise on Friday (before the exam) and nothing Saturday. I'll surely do some rowing tomorrow.

My jeans feel tight(er) -- which is bad. I do fear I'm actually gaining rather than losing weight. I've got to be better at this somehow. . .

2 more exams to go :-).

k

Similar goal and avocation

Here's an interesting website with similar goals and a similar avocation (drums).

Denny's

Sort of weird day -- with good and bad choices I suppose.

I spent the night at the girlfriend's place, after spending the day studying for a final I have on Friday. In the morning, I took my vehicle to my pre-arranged appointment and had the brakes fixed (surprisingly cheat at $99 bucks -- only the front brakes though). While waiting for the vehicle to be repaired, I took my bike and rode (good) over to Denny's (could have been worse).

While at Denny's I had the diet-like fare of omellete with pancakes and sausage -- something like that. It was ~500 calories. Then I had a glass of orange juice.

Then I had a diet coke -- which I didn't really drink.

And then I decided I would have the peanut butter chocolate pie. It was a poor choice. While I enjoyed the pie -- it keeps me far away from my abs goal. . . so, there's a disconnect there.

And, I performed that CL expirement again: They flock in droves to abs. Not sure what I would do with that sort of attention -- then, again, not sure what I would do with $100 million -- but I wouldn't mind exploring that problem :-).

k

trouble with blogger

currently I seem to be unable to even review my blog. Unsure why. I click to go to it, and I get errors. . . can't seem to load any other blogger blogs either. . .

hmmm....

Update of sorts

So finals are in full swing. My last set. First one is on Friday.

I'm going to try (as best I can) to keep more regular hours. In actuality, it's my lightest finals load yet -- with only 3 finals over a 10 day period -- and a 6 day reading period. . . so, all told, pretty light.

I keep doing lots of rowing -- because it's convenient, and easy to watch a little TV while I row some. . . so I keep doing it.

My diet seems to be holding up pretty well -- (and by diet, I don't mean a special eating patter; rather, I mean the process of eating food -- that diet). I continue to devour fruits by the pound:

With smoothies, mostly: mangos, pinneaple, blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, bananas, oranges, pears and every once in awhile a melon (honey dew or canteloupe).

Beyond smoothies, some fruit includes: Oranges, apples (granny sith, red delicious and some yellows).

As for fruits: Lots of lettuce, spinach, broccoli, feta cheese, tomatoes, peppers (red and green), carrots and surely more.

I also continue to east some frozen dinners as well.

I do admit I went a bit nuts Friday (after final day of class) -- at El Torrito (the GF was my designated drinker, since I don't really drink :-)). And, indeed, Saturday I actually ate a cheeseburger (and fries) from Carl's. But, I hardly do that -- and it was a bit of a treat for me. Today I went back to the more de rigeur nutrition: Heavy on teh veggies and fruits -- and some protein here and there (realistically, mostly from the frozen entrees I typically cook 1-2x per week).

I'll just have to smartly exercise during the week though. . . it'll be tricky with finals and the like. . .

enough. . .

k