Damn Heart-Rate Monitors

I'm on my 3rd one. In 2 months.

1st: My first one was a Polar F4 that I bought from Dick's Sporting Goods 1.5 months ago. The interface is AWESOME. 1-button to set everything up and whatnot. Then it broke? I left it in my truck 1-2 days in the HOT BLAZING FLORIDA SUN, I think that's what ruined it. Back to Dick's!

Lesson learned: NO MORE LEAVING THEM IN MY TRUCK

2nd: Bought a Timex Ironman 30-Lap, broke after 1 pool use. It's good for 50M. Why'd it break? Oops, I hit a button while it was under water, I guess that's what did it in. Poor thing. Back to Dick's!

Lesson Learned: DONT BUY THINGS FROM COMPANIES THAT DON'T SPECIALIZE IN WHAT THEYRE SELLING. If Sony came out with a Car, would you buy it or would you buy one from Ford/GM that's been around forever?

3rd: Well, I put in an extra $20 and got the Polar F6 @ Dick's for 109$. Let's see how this one holds up.


Morale of my story: BUY POLAR!

6/22/07 - Training Day (#xx)

I'm not sure if I pulled my hamstring or if it was over -extended during the biking last week. I've been using ICY-HOT and a cold-pack every night.

The training plan I started roughly 4 weeks ago is for volume building.

Each week has been a +10% increase then the previous.

This week though is the -40% decrease as a sort of -- rest week.

So next week, I'll pick it up hardcore again with the showing what i've eaten and whatnot. I need to eat better too. Ill try a new diet starting next week too.

6/14/07 - Training Day (#16) - 74 Days left

1030AM - Breakfast

3 hot cakes

egg mcmuffin

bodytech protein shake

b-12

6/13/07 - Training Day (#15) - 75 days left

730PM - Swim

48min

I'm still here

I realize I missed 2-3 days worth of tracking, but things get lost in translation and my heart-rate monitor doesnt record the past 10 days of training (it DOES however record the aggregation of the past 10-20 days). Not very helpful if I miss a day.

I've been taking some metrics on how long it takes me tocreate a full post and it's at about 7-10min. That's alot of time. Need to fix this. Stay posted, hopefully I can come up with some faster method for posting information like what i've been posting.

I notice that alot of people that train like to keep diaries like the one I've been keeping (where do you think I got the format for mine?) heh. But I do notice that they slack too. And the root of evil I assume is just the whole "formatting" issues with listing out what you do and when blah blah blah.

Hopefully I can come up with a solution to remedy this -- soon.

Milk, does the body good

Neat link that Ashley sent me:

http://www.publix.com/featured/FeaturedProduct/PublixrbSTFreeMilk/Home.do

It goes over some marketing for Publix brand milk, but has some neat facts at the bottom. I like the one that says something about Chocolate Milk is a better choice over a sports-drink when workingout (or after working out).

6/12/07 - Training Day (14) -

8AM - Breakfast

• 1/2cup Grape Nuts TrailMix


• 1/2cup 1% milk

6/5/07 - Non-training day

8:30AM - WAke up
9:00AM - Breakfast

• 1/2 cup trail mix grape nuts
• 1/2 %1 milk

Lack of ... something?

OK, the past few days I've managed to screw up and not notate what i've done, but I can assure you I've been doing something!

Like I said, I have to figure out a better way to enter the stuff into here. Maybe a CSS Template or something for me, cause this sucks. It's not easy for me to update. I'll look into maybe blogger.com's API's to make a little desktop application to enter my info quickly. So I don't miss anything.

Also, swim lessons are needed -- soon. I know how to swim, but I want to make sure I get all the strokes down so I can work the different muscles while training. I don't want to do free-style constantly since that's not good; might hurt myself doing that the whole time.

6/4/07 - Training Day (#11) - 79 left

6:00PM - Bike
total 54min
in-zone 52
avg HR 135
max HR 155
calories 593
7:00PM - Swim
total: 24min
in-zone: 22min
avg HR 146
max HR 159
calories: 288

Total time: 78min (1hr 18min)
Time in-zone : 94% 74min (1hr 14min)


8:30PM - Dinner

• Big ole nasty hamburger with lettuce, tomatoe, pickle, mmm good stuff!
• water
• 12 raw almonds
• 20 rold gold pretzels
• 14oz 1% milk w/ovaltine

Slacker!

I've been SLACKING on keeping track of what I eat and whatnot for the past 2-3 workouts. Man!

I need something easier -- this is annoying! So I'm thinking about building a little webapplication that will make it easier for me. Of course, I'll distribute it to anyone that wants it. It'll take a while to build though unfortunately. But damnit, there's gotta be a better way!

I'll keep you all posted.

6/1/07 - Training Day (#10) - 80 left

Yesterday was a day off, woot.

3:00PM - RUN
40 min
3miles

I forgot my metrics.

6/1/07 - Training Day (#9) - 81 left

bike:
total 74min
inzone for 70
avg hr 131
max 147
calories 774