Catch-up Post: 2009-05-26 through 28

Man, I've just been off to a bad start this week! On the good side, my Kettlebell is supposed to arrive tomorrow! I'll finally be able to start playing around with this tool!

Tuesday

Cycling

9.53 miles

Took the short way into the office, because I had both my new Gis in my messenger bag (think about 15-20 lbs of fabric), so I decided that the short way was in order. After being in the office for about half an hour, I scooted up to my tailor's shoppe and dropped off my gis, patches and received the receipt for pickup next week. Biked home at the end of the day.

Karate

Missed the beginning warm-ups, but:

• Rolls and Falls
• Assorted Two-Point blocking drills
• Kata: Taikyoku Sandan — at least 5 times, though I can't remember right now

Sword

Again, nobody showed up, so we started working on the first Black Sash form: Traditional Wu Dang Five Element Cascade Fist. It'll be a nice form once I've learned it all, but for the moment I wouldn't say that I really got any workout while practicing it.

Gungfu

• Da Mo Qigong 12 Posture Set x 5 times each posture — about 30 minutes all told
• QinNa practice:
• 6 x Prop Up Elbow
• 6 x Roast Peeking Duck

Taiji/Qigong

• More work on the Cascade form

Wednesday

6.52 miles

Of course, since I packed extra rain gear in anticipation of rain in the forecast we didn't get any. Took my bike back up to Swan's for a quick couple of repairs. Also got a chance to ride his new Big Dummy, which I totally covet. Sweet ride. Also, found out how much a LHT will run me, so I can save up for one. Huge happy hat!

Thursday

Ithaca Fest Parade today, so I won't be making it up to class, but that doesn't mean I don't get a ride in...

Cycling

10 miles

Thunderstorms in the forecast for today. Wore too much clothing on the way in...thankfully I keep spare clothes at work, after getting soaked in the rain more than once...

Wound up going back and forth a couple of times between the garage area and where we were starting for the parade.

Jake's weekend of Cycling 2009-05-23 through 25

With my wife out of town for the weekend, with our car, I was left with the choice of bike places, or do jack and squat. So, I chose the former and had some great mileage days!

Saturday

• 37.35 miles of riding "sweeper" for our local charity training ride. Since Kelly had the car, I wound up biking back and forth to the start point for extra mileage
• 9.62 miles out to our friends house to see a movie, then consume mass quantities. Then, donning lights and reflective gear I biked back home. Total mileage for the day: 46.97 miles. Hardly even really loaded for it, though I was paying for it later on that night. Good night sleep though

Sunday

• 17.8 miles out to Campus, forgetting of course that it was the Undergraduate Commencement that very hour. Campus was quite challenging to navigate with all of the families out and about, but managed to get in to feed Kelly's boss' fish before, before heading back out to hit up one of my favorite loops around my area: Ellis Hollow Creek. About 15 miles of rolling hills, with some beautiful scenery. Got home and hoovered the frozen Pizza

Monday

• 7.1 miles of nowhere. One of the blogs that I follow is Fatty's, and he had a race this year called 100 miles of Nowhere, which I thought about entering this year, but alas the monies were not there. To honor those who went nowhere the day before, I circled our 0.04 mile cull de sac with the occasional jaunt up and down the street for about 7 miles. I think that will be my course next year, though we'll see how it all shakes down

2009-05-22

Cycling

• 14.62 miles. Took Thomas loop, then scooted down Turkey Hill, and over to Stephenson, to Game Farm past the Vet School to the office. Wound up hooking up with another Cyclist just past the horse farm on Thomas. Chatted for a while, so my average speed wasn't as high as it might have been if I was hammering away by myself, but it was a good ride nonetheless.
• I hear tell that there's a lunch time ride today — Got word from the Wellness Program list serve. May go check that out, since they were talking about a 6 mile, or so, ride. Or may go home for "already paid for lunch". Wound up sticking around, so no ride
• May take the long way home (again!), for some extra miles before tomorrow's group ride, but that will depend on what time I get out of the office. Just went the "short way" home, for 2.77 miles

2009-05-21

It's the weirdest thing: I know I weighed myself this morning, but I can't for the life of me remember what the number was. I'll have to weigh myself on Saturday at this point.

Cycling

13.63 miles in 59 minutes. That's about 13.75 MPH average speed. Had to stop a few times to dial in the fit. Made a pretty big difference, but one of the things that I noticed is that not really eating anything for dinner the night before, coupled with warm weather and a good ride is there's a huge desire to hooverize just about any food object within 12 miles of me. I'll have to run downstairs and see if there's anything not laden with chemicals...

Likely will be biking home for lunch, which will add another 6 miles or so to my total for toady, then will bike home. Wound up biking to College Town for lunch, so that's a mile, plus the 3 mile ride home. So that'll bring up my total for today to just over half of what I did all of last week. Nice!

Karate

• Arrived too late

Sword

• nobody showed up, wound up working on the next pair of Qigong forms

Gungfu

• Fairly vigorous warm up, lots of jumping around, and a few Burpies thrown in for good measure.
• 1 set of the same "walks" from last class
• 2 sets of each: White Crane Hoping, Jumping, and Flying
• 6 reps of 4 separate patterns: Partner punching/blocking practice
• 2 x Long Huo Jann Dou Gungfu form #1

Taiji/Qigong

• Wound up talking nutrition with one of our beginner GungFu students, took the whole time, so no practice was had.

2009-05-20

Bike is still being upgraded at Swan's until tonight, so I walked into work.

• Walk into Work: 2.75 miles walking, took about 40 minutes at about 4 mph.
• Walk for lunch: 1 mile out and back to College Town for Vietnam or Aladdin's.
• Walk Home: 2.75 mile walk home. Took about 45 minutes, at about 3.something mph.

Got my bike back!! The Millennium Seagull has returned! Now if I could only find my bike computer... Oh well, I'm sure it's around somewhere...

2009-05-19

Drove into work like a lazy bum because of class later in the day. Walked 1 mile to College Town & back for lunch. Walked 2 miles to Car after work before heading up to class.

Karate

New 14oz Gi came in today! Such a difference, but will need to hem it up. Dripping with sweat from wearing heavy weight instead of Medium weight. Nice!

• Made the kids do Push-ups: 20 regular, 10 on knuckles. Shishou then decided that we should do the last 10 over again until the whole class got to do at least 1 good one.
• Rolls & Falls for about 15 minutes.
• Kata Practice: lead Heian Sandan ~ 10 times for our Green Belt adults.
• 5 rounds of Closed Stance Front Leg Sweep.

Sword

Class no-showed today, so Shishou and I worked on the next couple of Qigong patterns in Yin Yang Medical Qigong: Intermediate set.

Gungfu

Today's agenda seemed to include a workout for the newbies, and ChinNa for me :)

• Calisthenic "walks"
• 2 rounds of Elephant Walking
• 1 round Crab Walk
• 1 round Backwards Crab Walk
• 1 round Side-ways Crab Walk
• 1 round Frog Walk
• 1 round Duck Walk
• 1 round Panther Side-ways Walk
• 1 round Panther Forwards Walk
• 1 round Panther Backwards Walk
• 5 rounds of Forward Upward Turning
• 5 rounds of Upward Elbow Press
• 5 rounds of Large Elbow Wrap

Qigong

Continued to work on more of the Yin-Yang Medical Qigong set.

First Post

Well, friend you've stumbled upon my workout blog. Nothing really exciting to see here, unless you'd really like to hear about the ways that I'm punishing working out on a daily regular basis. So Bottoms Up! Time for you to start hearing about all the exciting things happening in my workout life!