First week of unofficial training

My goal is to start training now and getting into the habit of exercising multiple times per week. The training plans I have been looking at have me working out 6 times a week. This was my first week of unofficial training. This is what I ended up with...

Run: 24m 40s - 2 Mi
Bike Trainer: 50m (2 25 minute sessions)
Elliptical Training: 20m
Walking: 1h 30m (4 miles)

I logged close to 1000 miles

I went to the Christmas get together today for the Wednesday bike riding group. There were maybe 20 people. Three weeks ago I had randomly asked for this day off not knowing about the gathering. I'm glad I was able to go since I couldn't make the summer pool party. M was able to go to since he's on evenings this week.

So in the group... one guy rode 11,000 miles this year, one girl rode 8,500. That's a lot of miles! I think I got close to 1000. Which I'm proud of given how crazy my schedule was. Last year I was around 1200. So now it's time to map out my goals for next year... I'm going to say that 2000 miles is realistic.

Finally set up my trainer... I don't know how to track my miles on that... so I'll just have to track the time.

Happy Winter Training!

Getting ready to start...

My travels are over, it's time to become serious. I have found a couple 16 and 18 week plans to use while training for the Kansas 70.3. So it looks like I would need to start "training" in February. So I guess I will consider this period right now as my pre-training. My time to see what I can do and what it's like to train 6 days a week and to be fully committed. However, not to make excuses, but I caught a cold on the last day of our cruise, so I need to get healthy first.

I had my third appointment for my asthma a week ago. All of my numbers have improved! I had gone to the gym the day before that appointment and was able to run/ walk on the treadmill. I wasn't able to take deep breathes, but at the same time I didn't have the sharp pains in my chest. I felt like I was able to keep everything under control for the first 15 minutes. The final 8 took a little more concentration. But slowly, I will get there.