D156: 02.26.22

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~7mi/~32min
Driver: Night In Gales -  Thunderbeast
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Was super amped last night for this one last workout before the trip, but was not feeling it at all this morning. Guts a touch crampy and Legs pretty chalky, along with some allergy nonsense, but I still went for it anyway. Wanted to hit it hard last night, but Legs and motivation both definitely not there. 

From here, will be taking off until March 8, at least. My schedule will be to drive all day Wed, Thurs free (will be exploring Santa Fe and ABQ), Fri/Sat both the Fiery Show, and trade shows tend to involve a lot of walking, maybe some exploration also, possibly. Sunday is driving all day back. I don't intend on going to the hotel gym at all during that time, due to COVID and all. I will be relaxing the diet somewhat, as is usual for traveling, but not to a great extent. Planning on a couple of beers Mon/Tues, but nothing after that. Of course, all the unpleasant stuff is waiting when I return, save for getting a gym membership, which I don't think will be likely until maybe April.

Mileage for 2022 is now at 141, way off the pace I'd hoped. I forgot to do a weigh-in recently, but another I did after the 229 was 230 or 231 (forget which now), so I'm guessing somewhere in that neighborhood. March 23 is the one year anniversary of the first weigh-in, so I have that definitely in mind.

D155: 02.24.22

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~7mi/~33min
Driver: Led Zeppelin - Song Remains The Same
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Sleep was really screwy the night before last, so still not feeling all the way back. Legs were ok, not great. Pretty casual, Air not really tested. 

Mileage for the year now at 134.

D154: 02.22.22

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~8mi/~38min
Driver: Led Zeppelin - Song Remains The Same
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Legs were not all the way back, but good enough to go, so we went. Air was not really challenged, as this was a pretty casual workout, more to try to resume rhythm.

Mileage for the year now at 127.

D153: 02.20.22

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~11mi/~48min
Driver: Led Zeppelin - Song Remains The Same
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Still can't seem to quite put consistency together. A touch coughy this morning, but Legs were good, so we went. Air was fine throughout. Whatever I did to my Traps is slowly getting better, but not quite all the way back yet. Yesterday was intensely problematic, partially due to me waking up with a headache, which is always a bad sign. Today was fine, however, so maybe I'm pulling out of this thing. 

I have decided that the 26th or 27th will be the final workout day before my trip and I doubt I will be working out on it. I certainly have no plans to do that, even if the hotel gym is open. Positivity is higher than I would like and if I wasn't going somewhere that required masks, I probably wouldn't be going at all. When I get back, I need to go find work, finalize a divorce, and if the numbers are good, also resume the gym, though that might not be until closer to April. Workouts might be catch-as-catch-can.

On the plus token, weigh-in today was 229, which is -4 from last time, probably the single biggest drop since I started all of this and one I am at a loss to explain...hopefully it was not an anomaly...mileage for the year now at 119.

D152: 02.15.22

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~10mi/~46min
Driver: Led Zeppelin - Song Remains The Same
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Still kind of waxing and waning with allergies...or at least that's what I'm guessing it is...Air was not great today. Legs ok for about 3/4 of the workout, then dropped off pretty hard. 

Weigh-in was 233, -1 from last time and I will need to check but if the fall continues, then I should reach the -30 mark from when I started soon. Mileage for the year is 108.

D151: 02.12.22

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~8mi/~35min
Driver: Placebo - Once More With Feeling
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Wound up sleeping in much later than usual, which sort of threw off my rhythm a bit. Legs didn't feel all the way back and I ran out of content on the DVD a touch early, so I just bagged it. I need to get back into the groove again and a lot of that is mindset. Being thrown off by whatever ailment put a huge wrench into that and hopefully by getting back to routine, I'll start to come around a bit more there.

Mileage now stands at 98 for 2022.

D150: 02.10.22

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~10mi/~44min
Driver: Placebo - Once More With Feeling
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Really hoping whatever was laying me kind of low for a bit has finally run its course. It was quite bothersome wanting to get going again and being unable to do that. Air was not super great today and I either tweaked a nerve or pulled something in my Traps, so using the handles was not something I could fully run, but Legs were fine and it was all systems go otherwise.

Last weigh-in was 234, which is the lowest mark since I started this...I didn't have much of an appetite, which was probably helpful there...just need to keep pressing on now that I'm feeling better. 2022 mileage is now at 90.

D149: 02.01.22

Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn AirDyne
Duration: ~9mi/~41min
Driver: Yes - 9012Live
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: Well, certainly did not mean to take an impromptu week off, but I seem to have caught something that I couldn't throw back, which disrupted everything. Coming down with anything lately and the immediate fear turns to COVID, but I take incredible precautions, am vaxxed and boosted, and though the likelihood of that somewhat low, buuuuut, I also took immediate precautions and tried to emphasize rest, though I could not have done any workouts at all, even if I wanted to.

On the plus side, last weigh-in was 235, which is -2 since the last time. Need to drop at least another 25, but hopefully that means we're back on track there. Mileage for 2022 is now 80. Obviously, I missed the soft goal for January, which leaves February to catch up. I'm also taking a trip in early March, so will have some off-time there, either will start the pause Feb 27 or March 1...still TBD. I also will need to change jobs again, so workouts may be getting really disrupted after I return for the trip...at least for a time.