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103 Days

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Today marks 103 days of doing push-ups everyday.

The first 99 of those days I did 100 push-ups a day.

On the 100th day, April 10th, I did 1,000 push-ups.

Today the 103rd day of the year marks my 100th day of running so far this year. In the month of March I took off 3 days. One when I wasn’t feeling well and had a fever. One before I ran a half marathon, and one day off for recovery after my half marathon.

Today marks the 13th day in a row I’ve run 5 mi each day. I’ve convinced myself that I’m trying to ‘bank’ miles for the month of April because I’m having another daughter born any day now in my schedule will be a little off or a lot off after she’s born.

But I like that I’ve hit these milestones and that I’ve kept at it. Leaves me feeling accomplished.

Food Tracking

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When I decided to work on getting in some sort of summer shape to go along with my biking I started to do push ups and sit ups again.

I did them for about four months last year (September – December) before winter killed my ambition.  I started at two sets of 25 push ups and 2 sets of 30 sit ups and increase it every week based on how I feel.  I only do them during the week, and take weekends off.  This last week I did sets of 30 push ups and sets of 40 sit ups.  Feels good.

But in addition to that I started tracking my food again.  This too is something I did in the past to help me be aware of what I eat.  I’m not one for diets.  I just can’t picture restricting myself to any degree.  But keeping track of what I eat helps me subconsciously make better decisions about what I eat.  I don’t track calories, portions, or anything like that.  If I feel like putting small or large down to describe portions, or know exactly what I ate then I’ll put it down.  For example, a kid at work gave me ten French Fries the other day.  Why ten, I don’t know.  But I put ten down.

Anyways, I keep it online.  I do all my food tracking with google calendar, its easy to enter from my phone and only takes a few seconds for everything I eat.  So take a look if you care to.  You’ll see I thought about starting at the beginning of the month, and only kept at it a week or two later.

AJ’s Food Calendar