Weight Lifting upper body and core

It went well this morning I was able to up the weight on some of my sets today. I do 3 sets of 10 for everything except for Ab curls where I do 25 - 25 - 50 also also do Pull-ins, Dumbbell curls, Seated dumbbell presses, Dumbbell pull ups and Pull downs. My scale at home has been given me erratic reading and disagreed by 3+ pounds with the balance beam scale at Rex - I may try to replace it - Rex's scale showed me of weighing less - I was on the zone food plan except at 1:30 AM when I woke up for no know reason I decided I needed to eat something - I was not hypoglycemic but was worried I was going to be but I am still not happy I ate at that time of night - must do blood sugar this morning - I may need to adjust my insulin again

Avg HR: 100 bpm
Max HR: 127 bpm

Weight Lifting upper body and core

Slow Spokes Thursday evening ride

Good ride and very unusually weather - it was nice and almost cool - we had a good sizes group most likely due to the MS Tour being less than two weeks away and folk are trying to get in a few miles - I moved the seat forward and believe it helps a bit but I am still having trouble with circulation on the right side and a bit of pain due to this - I fell I can ride the Tour since I can stop every 12 or so miles if I want to and even a few minute off the seat relieves the pain - we got a ting bit of rain but not even enough to get wet - Turtle seems to be function well

Time:	01:38:24
Distance:	29.56 mi
Elevation Gain:	1,004 ft
Calories:	696 C
Avg Temperature:	79.4 °F

Slow Spokes Thursday evening ride

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Thursday Lunch Run

WOW GOOD RUN! - no idea why this run felt so good - I felt great felt like I was running fast and with NO pain - I am really beginning to love KT Tape - I just hope it keeps working and works this well on longer runs - it was sort of cool and just a little muggy but not bad and no Sun - completely over cast - thanks Earl I think - don't get me wrong I love the Sun just it does make it hotter - I was feeling so good I tried lenghting my stride a tiny bit and that seemed to work well - I also tried pushing off a bit harder flexing my ankle a bit more to do this - I am making these changes in very small amounts just enough to feel a difference at the same time taking note on how I fell and making sure I am not doing anything to cause injury - I know that there is a limit to how long ones stride can be and still be a forefoot runner - I also know that to incease my speed the most effective thing to do is to increase my cadence but for me just like with cycling higher cadence means more energy to move my heavy legs so I am mostly working on finding what will be the most efficient combination of stride length and cadence - too high a cadence and I will expend more emery than is effective - too long a stride length and I begin to heel strike which slows me down and increases the impact to me feet and legs - well that is what I am doing on the runs I am feeling well on.

I have had a couple of folks ask me about how I tape my heel and why I use three pieces of tape instead of two. I combined two of the taping methods shown on the videos to come up with this taping method and it seems to be working for me.

Time:	00:18:32
Distance:	1.10 mi
Elevation Gain:	130 ft
Calories:	211 C
Avg Temperature:	81.7 °F

Thursday Lunch Run by ashby3 at Garmin Connect - Details

Thursday morning run

Good run - it was really nice out the coolish and not muggy - I felt good and felt like I was running well - I did not feel like I was running real fast but I was running as fast as I felt I could run this morning - nothing hurt - I put KT Tape on this morning - I used the new blue take I got from Amazon - I worry about wearing it too much of if I can wear it to much - it does seem to really help but does wearing it make one dependant on it - does it make the area weaker depending on the tape - I looked on the website but there was nothing about wearing it too much just that it will last 3 to 5 days - I stuck to the food zone yesterday but I did have three pieces of cheese as part of my last meal - I really need to find something else I can eat at that time - I have been making some small changes in my food to try to get to losing weight again so far nothing is working - it is real annoying - when I think about how much what and how I eat has changed and to not be losing weight it just annoying - I really want to get to sub 300 pounds!

Time: 00:18:57
Distance: 1.07 mi
Elevation Gain: 48 ft
Calories: 204 C
Avg Temperature: 64.8 °F

Monday morning run by ashby3 at Garmin Connect - Details

Wednesday Lunch run

I had a good run felt good and felt I was running well - tiny bit of pain in right Achilles at the start but this lasted less than a minute and was then gone - no other problems or pain - I did remove the KT Tape last night - next time I will leave it on in case I run Wednesday - I was feeling a little down and a bit uptight for no reason that I could think of so I decided what I need was to run - it was good - feeling better now - I stuck to the food zone yesterday except of a little Peanut Butter after the Brick but that was the last of it and I will not buy any more for a while - I registered for the OBX Half Marathon yesterday - last day before the cost went up - I am still concerned about doing two Halves one week apart but my friends think I can do it - I hope they are right.

Time: 00:18:37
Distance: 1.06 mi
Elevation Gain: 37 ft
Calories: 202 C
Avg Temperature: 86.5 °F

Wednesday Lunch run by ashby3 at Garmin Connect - Details