DAY 78

Okay today is my 78th day of training (287 days to go)

Update :
Oct 14 Stairs
Oct 15th swim 13 laps and run 1.5 miles
Oct 16th Stairs
Oct 17th - Nothing
Oct 18th - 1.5 mile run
Oct 19th - more nothing
Oct 20th Swim 15 laps
Oct 21st Stairs

On my 76 th day of Training I achieved a personel best by running 2 miles without stopping and then after a couple short walks of less than 50 yards I continued and completed the 3 mile for my total run. I did this the same day I swam 18 laps which is a half mile (plenty of rest in the pool). I think and feel like I am getting somewhere. Still not sure I want to go there. For the first time when I started the run my knee no longer hurts and I just felt strong. I can describe it best by saying I am not sure why but the first hundred yards I was not as winded as I usually am. Without my knee ache and my lungs on fire I looked around for the first time and noticed the scenery. Usually I am in my own personnel HELL by the 100 yard mark.  This time the decent into hell took longer and I now believe I might mange to complete that 5K without walking any of it. I really felt like my lungs are beggining to understand we are not dying here just exercising. The 5K is in 3 weeks on Nov 8th and I only have two more weekends and two more week nights to prepare, that is 4 more runs before I put this new found me too the test of an official race.

Speaking of the new found me I am still swimming and this was my 3rd week of it. I already broke my goggles once and had to tie them together. I think my oversized melon was to much for the strap. My experience in the pool is that while I might resemble a horrible swimmer I don't really see it so I am less bothered by it. Maybe I am too focused on trying not to breath water. I am not AquaMan ! Or rather I am half Aqua Man, I don't have his underwater swim skills but I do have the telepathy. Only my telepathy is without anyone listening. I have mental telepathy and I often send out mental telepathic commands to my wife and children but they are not tuned in. It is as if the telepathic radar waves bounce off them. If they were fish they might listen better? I will save my mental thoughts for the boys goldfish. We have two seriosuly tough goldfish so maybe I don't want to speak with them. They're like street thugs of the fish kingdom. They can go days without food and still live. And in a starring contest they win every time. In fact I imagine they are in their little bowl thinking too themselves.
"Hey Goldie, Come here. You see this guy ?"
"What Whitey, you mean the tall pale one in the red sweatshirt. Yeah see him"
"He still hasn't fed us nothin!"
"I know Goldie ! I am hungry and he is so cheap he hasn't even bought us a glass bowl. Instead we have to use this crappy blue plastic ! "
"Whitey, he isn;t cheap he is stupid. I see our food sitting in that little container right their next to us. He just doesn't remember to feed us. How can he miss us we are on the darn dresser for crying out loud. He comes in here every night!  I swear if he puts his fingers in this tank I am going to bite it off ! "
"Yeah buddy!  Me too! We will show him whose Boss of the bowl. Now if only we had some teeth"
.....I always let Amanda clean their tank. I think its fair. I clean up the dog poop and they are lot busier spreading that around.?

Learning the swimming is not as horrible as the running was. It is still a struggle and most the times I am not breathing enough or correctly or whatever because I am breathing heavy when I take my break at 25 meters. I have noticed that whenever I watched Amanda swim the lake and she comes back she is not breathing heavy or struggling, she just glides in all smooth and relaxed. I really try to be relaxed and let the water do the work of floating my body. I find myself working harder to hold myself up without even thinking about it. When I recognize how tense I am I relax and I can feel the difference. Swimming relaxed is not nearly as difficult as swimming all tense and panicy. As I think of these types of things I get moments of A Ha usually followed by swallowing a mouth full of water because I actually say "Ah" under water.  I am still waiting for the swim instructor to call me so I can schedule my first lesson instruction. I have no idea what I am doing but I think my self teaching is going great. I read a book and now I practice what I am suppossed to do based upon the book. The book forgot to mention "don't breath under water it makes you choke". If I were writing a swimming book I think I would not have failed to leave that one out. In fact I am sure I would have highlighted, bolded and underlined that one. 
How to Swim page 1
step 1 Don't breath under water it will not work for you. You are a mammal not a fish.

If I were to write a book on running I would start with
How to Run page 1
step 1 This is going to suck. If that is okay with you continue reading.

I am considering starting this challenge a co worker suggested. It is called the Burpee challenge and what it is = 1 + 1 burpee a day for 100 days so on day 2 you do 2 and on day 3 you do 3. What is a Burpee I asked and it was explained too me that a Burpee is when you begin in a raised push up position. Then hop your feet up to your chest and now you are in a squat like position from there lift up jump and clap your hands. Return to the lower push up position.
So do One Plus one for 100 days until you are doing 100.

I read somewhere this is how the Ninja trained to jump so high. They jumped over a stalk of corn every day and then when the corn grew they too tall they started again. Eventually they could jump onto roofs and such. They must have some pretty tall corn where Ninja come from.

"Donnie D's on the Backup
So put the Crack up
No need for speed
Im anti d-r-u-g-g-i-e my
Body is healthy
My rhymes make me wealthy
and the funky bunch helps me
to bring you a show with no intoxication
Come on feel the vibration"