RU-4

Last week was pretty good, resolutions-wise. Perhaps it was the process of forcing myself to put down in words how badly I had done the week before that propelled me to do better.

-Running: I ran 5 times in the week. W00t! Ran on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The first three times, I ran for 24 minutes each time - 4 minutes of walking followed by 4 sets of 5 minute runs. Each 5 minute run was a 3 minute jog at 6 mph and a 2 minute walk at 4 mph to catch my breath for the next set. But on Thursday, my feet and calves and shins were hurting so bad that I had to ask myself the question that my friend Atracus asked in a comment on RU-2. Should I really set a pace goal this early on? After all, I was over 200 lbs and now that I'm in my 30s I should be more careful how I push my body. So after resting and giving running a break on Thursday, I ran again on Friday and Saturday. This time I ran for 28 minutes each time - 3 minutes of warmup walk followed by 5 sets of 5 minute runs. Each 5 minute run was a 3 minute jog at 5 mph (which was significantly easier on lungs and legs than the 6 mph pace) followed by a 2 minute walk at 4 mph. This week I want to make it 6 sets of 5 minutes each.

- Weight: I am down to 200 lbs. It was fluctuating between 199 lbs to 201 lbs on Saturday and Sunday. So I'm averaging here. A little progress, but a long way to go.

- Book: Read a couple of chapters. Around 50 pages. Now halfway through chapter 4 - natural selection. I'm gonna consider that progress, although anyone who is into reading books would laugh.

- Textbook: Did not touch it.

- Blog: Have written a post on the Sonoran, but then I had a deadline for it. So it probably doesn't count. I need to work on the ones without a deadline, sitting in draft status. Started a new one on Gandhi coz I was thinking about him on Jan 30th (the day of his assassination) and on how my opinions on him changed over the years.

- Comments: Found a ton of new blogs via carnival of the arid. So task of commenting may become slightly more difficult, although currently it is the easiest of the resolutions.