The big news today, is that Lyle is back in the game with his first post on the Weight Loss Death Match chart in several weeks. With Christian and Kelly (and even Dad) training to run in a 10K this spring, we need to figure out some way to track our times and running the way Lyle does on his blog. Our problem is that none of us have iPhones. Well, he is the king of that kind of stuff, so maybe we will ask him for some ideas. With all our summer travels coming to an end, we are moving back into a more normal routine and I have adjusted my eating habits to start trying to shed some of last winters fat in time for this winter.
School starts today. I made out some GREAT schedules for Kelly’s and Christian’s the first two weeks. I am sure they will require a little adjustment because they are significantly different from anything we have done before. We have tried to kick up the intensity a little in terms of the reading load because that is something they will have to deal with when they go to college. Kelly’s history/literature theme this year is Western Civilization. I am particularly excited about her first book. It is Rodney Stark’s The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success. I have started a search for other such books that both cover the material we want to cover and are not saturated with a humanistic, post modern worldview. It should be great fun.
The iPod nano and touch both support Nike+. There are some cool gps running units. Since you will be doing most of your running in the same area you can mark out the distances you want to run and use a stop watch the log it by hand. They are some good running programs to follow so you do not go to hard to soon and cause burn out. Build distance the work on time. For distance use two weeks gain then drop back the thrid week them two more weeks gain drop back until you are running the distance you want. After that do the same for speed
Hey Lyle. We have an iPod. We will check out some GPS units and keep you posted. We are pretty excited about this. Even I, now that our buddy Troy (and Steve) have explained how to defeat shin splints, I am fired up about this running stuff again. Stay tuned!