Rhett

Wake up weight- 166  so I lost 4 lbs (2.35% of my weight- I wonder if I would stay above the yellow line on Biggest Loser this week?) in my first week.  Less than 3 weeks to go to lose 6 more.  AM

10 minutes elliptical

upper body weigts

abs

I cut my workout a bit short so I could go home and register for the Boston Marathon which opened registration at 6am my time today.  I started trying to register at 6:00. I gave up at 6:30.  I tried again around 7, then 7:30.  I finally was able to register at about 8:45.  It will be interesting to see how fast this thing fills up this year.

LUNCH

I got done with my morning patients early, so I headed home, changed into running clothes and took off.  I decided to take advantage of the sun light and headed to explore more desert running trails.  I found some better trails that were a bit easier to run today.  A few times the hills got steep enough that I couldn't run up or down them, but most of it was runable.  I ran 5.5 easy miles.  It was real fun.  I better get back to work.

PM

2 miles in the vibrams.  I had a lot of energy today.

Wake up weight- 163.5  I guess the triple yesterday paid off.  Let's see if I can hold it there for tomorrow.

AM

10 minutes elliptical

Abs and core

Lower body weights- I really worked my legs hard today.  I can tell they are getting stronger... better to run with.

17 minutes elliptical

PM

6 miles easy on a dark windy night with lots of lightning in the sky.  

Wake up weight- 163.5

AM

10 minutes stationary bike

20 minutes stair speed intervals

10 minutes stationary bike

30 minutes jumpe rope and plyometric jumps

Abs

 LUNCH

30 minutes elliptical.  I wish I could sneek away every day for a quick workout

PM

2 easy miles in the vibrams

Wake up weight- 165   Looks like I went the wrong direction today, but I feel stronger today than I have the past week.  I guess that's good.

AM

10 minutes elliptical

upper body weights- I'm starting to put up heavier weights with more ease.  That felt good.

30 minutes elliptical

Usually on Thursday afternoons I go up to our office in Bullhead City, but they don't need me today.  I just found out yesterday, so right now I'm only scheduled through noon here in Lake Havasu City.  I'm sure we'll have a few last minute patients call and be happy to get in today, but I'll probably get done with work early today.  I'm dreaming a fun exploration run throught the desert this afternoon. 

PM

I was able to get away from the office around 2.  I had my running gear with me so I headed straight to the desert.  I changed when I got there and discovered I had forgotten my Garmin.  What the heck, I wore my nice dress watch and decided to run out for 30 minutes then come back.  I have never run out there on that old dirt road before.  For a bit I had to run in a wash, but luckily I got back on a dirt road.  At 30 minutes I turned around and headed back.  After about 10 minutes on the return trip I heard this load huffing noise.  I looked around and saw a wild burro up ahead by the road.  The closer I got the loader it got and it started moving around.  It was close enough to the road that I stopped and started walking.  It continued to get loader, so I turned around and went back a bit.  I sat down on a rock and watched the burro for about 5 minutes.  It just stood there and watched me and randomly made the load burro noise.  I decided I couldn't wait there all day so I grabbed a couple fist sized rocks for protection and started walking down the road.  The burro made it's noises and moved around a bit, but let me pass without charging me.   I finished up my run having run a bit more than an hour.  I guess around 7 miles.  It was fun, but I can do without any more mean burros. 

Wake up weight 165

10 minutes elliptical

Abs and Core

Lower body weights

10 minutes stationary bike

Wake up weight 165

7.7 mile hilly fartleck run.  That is the first time I have ever ran a true fartleck run where I randomly changed between slow, medium and fast efforts based on how I was feeling.  It was kind of fun.