Elizabeth Greene

Yes, I am making progress towards this goal. I’m in $city for the next 6 weeks, and am (ab)using the treadmill daily or every other day.

When I started, a 3 mph walk and 0% incline (i.e. walking downhill) was enough to put me above the cardiac exercise zone (>80% suggested maximum heartrate). Now I’m able to run (4.5mph) in spurts (10%), walking the rest (90%) without exceeding my cardiac capacity. The annoying thing is that my outside calf muscle fatigues much sooner than the rest of my legs. I’m going to have a go with my new boots instead of ancient-and-half-biodegraded-tennies and see if that helps.

Goal for next week: 20% running, 80% walking, 0% dying.

Guerrilla Gardening is the urban-ninja planting and recovery of litter-strewn dead and dying plots of land. I love plants, and the urban-ninja part of this sounds fun too.

Thus one of my 2009 Goals, Guerrilla Garden.

This is so not going well. It’s one of last year’s new-years resolutions and I just can’t seem to get there.

must..
try..
harder.

and every couple of weeks I get this happy bouncy “have you run a mile yet??” emails from myself in care of 43 things. argh.