Saturday, June 25, 2022

Never ending fatigue? Will this ever end? How about daily running??

 I'm getting slower and slower.  I don't know why

I stopped to walk over 15 times in three miles today.  My HR went up to 130+ quickly after I would start walking again.  I cannot seem to run at all without a high breathing rate.  I'm hoping that this will all come back - eventually - but it's discouraging to keep running slower and slower.  




you can see all of the walk breaks I took from the very start.  Even now - at 6 pm today i'm very tired, my eyes are dry/sore, I've felt light headed the entire day.  


Sunday, April 10, 2022

Fatigue




I was going to call this post "extreme fatigue" as that's how I feel, but that seems too dramatic. While i'm happy that my weight finally dropped back below 170 (to 168.8 today) the past few days have been an exercise in self discipline.  I'm light-headed and extremely fatigued by short (5 mile) flat, slow runs.  Even walking up the stairs has made me light headed. On the run my HR went up to it's "flat line" of 134, but even so, I was panting like a dog.

Just went on a dog walk (2.3 miles) and will try a bike ride now. 

Saturday, April 02, 2022

Still plugging away in April 2022

 "It's always a struggle" Roberto Padovani

After the ups and downs physically over the past two years I have a remarkably similar time today as the days when I was 175 and running 9 min miles:


I was feeling really good near the end of Jan, but the issue with the pulled back from Ryan Hall's workout plan set me back a few weeks, followed by travel - including Barcelona, etc., has been hard. But been doing more structured workouts these days, a couple times a week until the body adapts, then will ramp up frequency.

TTFN...draft day!


Saturday, August 01, 2020

August 1 2020 - Striving for regular workouts

Trying to establish a regular life routine today on 8/1 and have it last forever - but - there are a few obstacles:

  • May get additional ablation surgery in August due to more AFIB
  • Work meetings in the morning are hard to workout around
  • Bruno walks 3X daily need some of my time and that's when I'd ordinarily run
  • motiviation

I'm working on that last one!

Here's today"comeback" run: 

Monday, May 25, 2020

Memorial Day 2020 Running: not getting any better

I "ran" 5 miles this morning in Redwood city and like the past several months - especially the past several weeks - I feel like i'm getting worse quickly.  Never quite feel good and easy.  Strategies for overcoming this will be even slower, but longer runs.

I read in letsrun.com that as runners approach and pass the 60 year mark it gets worse quickly. I've been pretty lucky to have been able to keep running fast - until 2016 when I started at FB. Then it got bad quickly.  Three years of sporadic training has been hard.

new goal is 6 days/week of aerobic training and 3 days to include strength training.

Saturday, October 05, 2019

Back from Malaysia...Thailand...Japan...not in that order.



sticking with blogger before I convert back to using my own wordpress sites. I'd say - "stay tuned" but like so many other items, this is still on my todo list as it's been for years.  So how about just "check back"

I have to update my workout log (an excel spreadsheet) as I've been lazy and not contributed for a YEAR now. But I'm committing to get this up to speed by my 59th birthday on 11/16/2019.

For now, working on getting back into shape for the napa valley marathon next year in spring.  

Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Sept 17 2019 Redwood City


Weighed in at 172 today.  Been eating too much chocolate and cookies after dinner :) Slept 6 hours.  no Afib today. 

strava - https://www.strava.com/activities/2716684304

Ran 5.7 miles - felt ok - mostly 9 min miles.  

Stopped a lot - I liked that. guilt-free walking. 

Tried out the new galaxy/samsung ear buds today.  Sadly, they are like the bose buds - oniy work WELL (as in no audio dropouts) with the garmin music watch on the right hand. I attribute this problem as much to the watch as the earbuds bluetooth radio, but I've also noticed similar complaints with the apple watch and the bose buds. so it's not entirely the watch's fault..but apparently the product leads at Dre/Buds are better than those at Bose & Samsung. At least they use the buds while wearing a watch.