First Saturday Morning Run

One of the things I will be posting on here regularly are my run reports from RunKeeper.com (follow me @ http://www.runkeeper.com/user/jjpeanasky!). Don't worry, I'm not going to post every run, just runs with personal records (PRs) or at least once a week. Also, part of my plan to keep me focused and honest is to post a weekly graph showing where I am with my weight compared to my goal. So here we go!

Saturday Morning Run

Stats:
     Distance: 1.21 mi
     Duration: 10:21
     Avg Pace: 8:59 /mi (PR)
     Total Climb: 186 ft

Notes:
     This is my first attempt at running in the morning, hopefully I can stick with it. Typically I've been running in the late afternoon/evenings after class, but by then I'm mentally drained and usually unwilling to push myself too hard. It was a beautiful morning, but my shins are beginning to bother me again. I'm not sure if I'm running to often, or my body just needs to catch up with myself. Hopefully this goes away with time. This run was followed by a breakfast of 100% wheat toast and 3 eggs (yum!).

Weight check-in

Confession time: My eating habits are filthy. Five out of seven days in the week I will probably eat decent, but those two days I don't, it can get pretty bad. Sometimes it's just eating unhealthy things, sometimes it's not eating enough healthy things, other times it's straight up over eating. On the worst days, it's a combination of all three. These days usually come after stressful weeks or days when I'm feeling too lazy to eat decent. Wings, Chinese take-out (the ultra-sugary/salty bad kind), pizza, and beer are the biggest culprits for laziness. On the over eating side, brats and burgers are the wurst for me (pardon the pun). Typically, instead of one, I'll have two of them, mostly because of the convenience.

Anyways, typically you'll see here a quick update on me, myself, and I, and the following graph:

This graph will be updated regularly whenever I measure my weight, and will posted here on a somewhat weekly basis. As you can see, I've got a quite a way to go before meeting my goal of 185lbs by the wedding. The plan is to get myself on track in hurry and maybe even build up some "cushion" before the holidays.

Well, this post exploded in size pretty fast, so I'll end it here. Have a great weekend! Go Badgers, go Packers, go Royals, and go Blackhawks!

What this is and why it's here.

The Who:

     I'm Joshua Peanasky, a 24 year old student at UW-Madison. This December I'll be graduating from my dual degree program, receiving a Mathematics degree from UW-La Crosse and a Mechanical Engineering degree from UW-Madison. After graduation I'll be off to Cedar Rapids, IA to begin my career as an engineer with Cargill Corn Milling. Then, in June 2015 I'll be marrying my loving fiancé Kendra. Enough about me, lets move on to the what.

The What:

     This blog will be a few different things, but it will mainly be a place to put down some thoughts and musings, as well as give my opinion on whatever I feel like. This will also be a place to keep me honest about my fitness and well being.

The Why:

     I figured I need to start keeping some sort of track with my life. Things are going to change rapidly in the next year and I'd like to have something to look back on. Also, I'm getting married in 34 weeks! I want to be fit and trim for my wedding! Right now the weight goal is around a pound a week, which would put me in the neighborhood of 185lbs for the wedding. You can expect to find Runkeeper reports, weekly weight checkups, and other random stuff here.

     Please feel free to leave comments or strike up a conversation! I'm also open to (constructive) criticism and suggestions.