Keep On Keepin' On

The brilliance of Joe Dirt really isn't in question here, but perhaps my dedication to P90X has fallen under scrutiny. The fact is however, I'm still going strong. After my original restart after 5 weeks, I am now halfway through week 7 and feeling pretty decent about it.

With the San Diego trip coming up right in my rest week (I won't rest the first half of next week and I'll do week 9 stuff to get workouts in) it's decent timing. I'll run while in SD, but the lifting will have a short hiatus while some moderate, well heavy.....maybe borderline illegal fun ensues.

I think Mauzy is pretty well going along although maybe more hit and miss these days, everyone else seems to have fallen to the side of the road like the pansies in an Ironman race. Alex, you're exempt from this scathing remark with your effort induced dislocation of a semi-important knee related bone. The rest of you, now is a good time to get back on the horse, especially those of you in SD. If you ignore my nearly translucent epidermis, you'll be embarrassed by how good I look and how flabby and pathetic you have become when we're on the beach in 10 days or so....

Improvement

Last night I ran about 3.5 miles with the lady and was actually reasonably impressed with how I felt. I've ran maybe twice in the last 40 days, but have continued doing P90X (strength training at least). During the run I didn't feel like I was in marathon shape or anything, but I felt fine and only got stronger as time went on...maybe there is something to this P90X strength training thing.

I'm going to need it: This weekend I'm dong a mini-triathlon (200M swim, 6mi bike, and 5k run), considering I haven't swam in god knows how long and I use a mountain bike, it should be interesting.

Shout out to my good friend Mick out in Cali, heard about your unfortunate Softball accident, as long as your mended up in time for the labor day bonanza there will be no problems...get well soon buddy.

Appearances

If you follow my blog (and no one does) then you would think that I simply quit working out and eating healthy...this is not true. I am still doing P90X 90% and following the diet 90% and I have certainly improved in strength and general health. I guess it comes down to priorities and again, blogging loses.

I restarted the program of course and am now in week 5. There is a very probable speed bump when I take a trip over labor day weekend to sunny San Diego, but I'll still exercise and that can;t be avoided. Friends in Cali seem to have either quit or been injured in P90X or sports related activities, so I guess I should feel lucky I am relatively unscathed.

I still have the Phoenix marathon in January looming on the horizon, so my training for that needs to start ramping up now. I did Back & Biceps yesterday and today I'll be running with Mel. From now until the marathon, I will run at least 3 days a week while maintaining strength exercises. Once I get done with the initial 90 days, I will move to a more lean based P90X with 2 strength days a week and 4 running.

I could make promises about posting, but we all know how that would work out. I'll try to be more active, but we'll see. Either way, keep pressing play unless your maimed or injured, I'll be doing the same.