It's probably not completely kosher to start on a New Year's Resolution a month before the new year, but I refuse to live by your rules. My NYR for this year is to get a perfect score on the USMCPFT. This is a lofty goal, one which I realistically don't have much confidence that I'll meet, but if nothing else it will serve as tunnel-light, a signpost way off in the distance.
Normally I don't even set NYRs since I never manage to accomplish them. Last year I had planned to drink less but, as Bookowl recently tumbled out, that ended in a Tragic Failure. On the bright side, after the official project/resolution was laid to bed, its spirit was carried on throughout most of the latter half of the year.
There may also be a second PFT-related NYR coming up. Los wants to run a marathon next autumn, specifically (if I remember correctly) the Boston marathon. As a tangent from the main USMCPFT NYR, training for and running in a marathon is looking pretty good right now.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
A setback
Things have not gone so well since the last post. Specifically, my jankle1 kept me from running my weekly 5k tonight. In addition to this, I benchmarked the crunch portion of the USMCPFT and found that I do not meet the minimum requirements. In some ways this is bad: I am out of shape and old. In some ways this is good: there is no where to go but up. It's all about optimism, folks.
Instead of the run tonight, I drank a giant beer and followed it up with a dram or so of fine single malt scotch. I also watched an episode of Scrubs.
The ten-pound weight with which I'm training my tiny arms to achieve a pull-up is looking in my direction disappointedly.
1. jankle - portmanteau for janky ankle; for the layman, a fucked up ankle.
Instead of the run tonight, I drank a giant beer and followed it up with a dram or so of fine single malt scotch. I also watched an episode of Scrubs.
The ten-pound weight with which I'm training my tiny arms to achieve a pull-up is looking in my direction disappointedly.
1. jankle - portmanteau for janky ankle; for the layman, a fucked up ankle.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Introduction
About a month ago I started running. This is the third or fourth time I've made such an effort in as many years. Generally I'll be very enthusiastic about it for a week or two and then slowly lose interest until I realize months have gone by since the last run. I've tried keeping performance logs and setting reasonably attainable goals but things never pan out. Enter this blog, which has been established not only to keep a record of my progress but also to provide a place to write extremely boring posts chronicling my self-improvement.
There are currently two sub-projects under the umbrella of ahook fitness. The first is a weekly 5k run (and for the time being partial walk), which is being tracked at ahook.net/prj/5k.php. Also on that project page is the second project, the weekly 1 mile sprint. The (perhaps obvious) goal of each of these projects is to complete their respective events as quickly as possible. My initial goals are a 24:00 5k and a 6:00 mile. If these are met, I'll push for 21:00 and 5:00, but seriously guys. how likely is that? (Not incredibly likely).
Finally, tonight I landed on a page about the United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test (USMCPFT) and have decided to bundle this into the plan as well. This test has three aspects: 1) a 3 mile run, 2) two minutes of crunches, and 3) pull-ups. A perfect score is: 1) 18:00 for the 3 mile run, 2) 100 crunches in two minutes, and 3) 20 pull-ups (not timed). Each time I run the 5k (which is essentially a 3 mile run), I'll also be scoring myself on crunches (which in ahookspeak would technically be sit-ups, but we won't question the marines here (semper fi)) and pull-ups (of which I can do exactly zero right now). I will note here now that the pull-ups will be executed using the hanger-bar in my coat-closet until an adequate replacement can be found.
Once I buy a bathroom scale, I will also be weighing the fuck out of my self every morning. The Ninendo Wii called me frail and I ain't having any more of that shit.
There are currently two sub-projects under the umbrella of ahook fitness. The first is a weekly 5k run (and for the time being partial walk), which is being tracked at ahook.net/prj/5k.php. Also on that project page is the second project, the weekly 1 mile sprint. The (perhaps obvious) goal of each of these projects is to complete their respective events as quickly as possible. My initial goals are a 24:00 5k and a 6:00 mile. If these are met, I'll push for 21:00 and 5:00, but seriously guys. how likely is that? (Not incredibly likely).
Finally, tonight I landed on a page about the United States Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test (USMCPFT) and have decided to bundle this into the plan as well. This test has three aspects: 1) a 3 mile run, 2) two minutes of crunches, and 3) pull-ups. A perfect score is: 1) 18:00 for the 3 mile run, 2) 100 crunches in two minutes, and 3) 20 pull-ups (not timed). Each time I run the 5k (which is essentially a 3 mile run), I'll also be scoring myself on crunches (which in ahookspeak would technically be sit-ups, but we won't question the marines here (semper fi)) and pull-ups (of which I can do exactly zero right now). I will note here now that the pull-ups will be executed using the hanger-bar in my coat-closet until an adequate replacement can be found.
Once I buy a bathroom scale, I will also be weighing the fuck out of my self every morning. The Ninendo Wii called me frail and I ain't having any more of that shit.
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