Run, Ben. Run.

8/12

Ben — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:45:01 +0000

Walked to carpool (~1 mile or so). Did the same yesterday too. Not a bad walk and saves even more gas.

8.9

Ben — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:27:07 +0000

Softball practice for 2 hours. Sweaty, sore (couple balls hit me) and covered with red dirt. Fun.

7.20

Ben — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:00:27 +0000

Haven’t been updating at all lately. I have done the Lazyman recently but got out of the habit of logging in to track stuff for the last month. I’ll try to get better at that (even if just for my own tracking).

Unfortunately, when getting home from a weekend trip out of the state, my bicycle (which I fixed the tires on last week) was taken. Really not happy about that at all. Guess I will be doing all my biking at the gym now. The bike rack for my car doesn’t seem very helpful now though.

6.14

Ben — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:43:01 +0000

Ugh, moving lumber and yanking it out of the pile yesterday made my back very angry. Tylenol is making it okay right now.

Went down off Brandywine today to help out the Rivanna Trail Foundation people do maintenance on the stuff down there. Used a scythe sort of thing to hack away at trail-side brush for about 2.5 hours and then moved large rocks to fix a water crossing for another half hour. Very very sleepy right now and worn out. Suffice to say, not going to work out at the gym today then. Lots of good softball practice there.

As a side note, my weight stopped dropping and I haven’t felt like posting it. I still track it and see what’s happening (nothing much). Looking forward to lazyman tri to help get me motivated. Still haven’t figured out a good way to get motivated to really work as much as I feel I should (just doing it for myself doesn’t do it).

6.13

Ben — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:38:47 +0000

Moving lumber at lunch to help Al.

6.7

Ben — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:38:21 +0000

Played washer game with family for a couple hours (like Cornhole but with changes). Canoeing in the afternoon with cousin. Very very windy and lots of paddling. Played whiffle ball for an hour or two later that night. Lots of running.

In general a lot of misc movement during the 4 day camping trip. Drank mostly carbonated water that helped with hydration. Need to figure out how much energy it takes to scratch bugbites… I did that a lot.

6.6

Ben — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:34:31 +0000

Camping weekend. Previous days were driving to IN and then MI and stuff like that.

Went running in AM for a mile and some. Easier terrain but really warm and humid.

6.2

Ben — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:20:28 +0000

Basketball for about 45 minutes at lunch.

5.24

Ben — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:23:01 +0000

Worked on a Habitat for Humanity house (since nobody asks me to help with theirs) :). Put up a new wall, hung drywall, painted, put fronts on the steps for the stoops and just general stuff like that. Oh and some trim work in the bathroom. Good times. 8 hour day of physical labor. Went home and took a nap.

5.22

Ben — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:42:11 +0000

Softball tonight. Lost after 30 minutes. Lots of running in the outfield to get balls, and got to base once. Fly ball caught 2nd time (and fell down to cut my knee up).