Weekend in Review

You may recall my Row v Run post from a couple days ago... and by "you" I mean "probably not you unless you're Kelly".  This post will be a bit of a follow-up, as well as a weekend-in-review post, since I was busy (lazy?) and didn't get anything posted all weekend.

First, another exercise to compete with running... but is it really better for you?  Below are two workouts of about 35 minutes at a sustainable/moderate page ... You be the judge:

A)



B)



Any guesses on what the new workout is?  If you guess mowing, you got it!



For the record, "B" was a recovery run.  So yeah, running is probably a better workout than mowing.  In related news, I purchased, assembled, and used a lawn mower for the first time at our new house on Sunday.  And yes, I wore a GPS watch and a heart rate monitor to record the activity.  I'm a dork.  (also, the above map is probably my favorite GPS map ever).

The recovery run was a nice easy "twilight" (not a book/movie reference) run with Kelly.  Nice to have an easy run after Saturday... which was a good bit tougher.  I ran a 5k in 26:00, then had a nice easy finish home for the last 1.5 miles (mostly because it was against a headwind and uphill and I thought I should sort of take it easy).  The knee started to act up a bit just beyond the 4 mile mark, which was disconcerting.  Felt better on Sunday though.  We'll see...

Distance: 4.6mi on Saturday, 3.25mi on Sunday (not counting mowing)

On Friday, I attended my first ever Chicago Rush Arena Football League game.  Great seats... second row.  Tons of fun with Kel and Browning, but I had to have my customary beer and soft pretzel at the ballgame.  Probably not great for the nutrition.  Also, I had a big HUGE (and delicious) Easter dinner.  Saturday was healthy though.  Overall on the weekend, I'd have to try to average it out... Food: B-

Made good progress again on weight, although I was hoping to hit a bit of a milestone.  Just short... 220.6 lbs.