Fitness

I don't have a blog for this. And when I think or work on it (as with most other hobbies), it usually dries up into dust after a while.

Here's the Navy PFT Standard for 35-39 year old males. Pretty interesting.

So I have this book You On A Diet, and it told me that a 40 year old man should be able to do 35 push ups. I put the book down and managed to just do that many. Okay.

I read online that any fit person should be able to run a mile in under 6 minutes. I went out and ran a mile in 8:20. After some additional research, I can see that the 6 minute thing is baloney.

Still, I think that running might be the fitness activity for me. I liked it as a kid when my Dad bought that 70s book on running (photo to your left). We ran some races with him, including Emily's race in Detroit and a thing on Mackinac Island called Run Around The Rock.

Pros for Running

• I hate the gym
• Planning routes and stuff is fun for me
• I like to think while I run
• I can do it anytime
• I hate the gym

Cons

• My right foot hurts (well, not all the time, and the cyst that was there is gone, and if I wear boots while using a shovel it's fine, so--it's just a little tender place where I used to have plantar fashitis and I have to watch it)
• I don't want to hurt my knees
• That's about it