Walked to work today

This morning, I dropped off the car at Downtown Toyota and decided to walk the rest of the way to work. That was actually a good work out (by my low standards). If I walked directly from home, it would be another 15 minutes and 0.8 miles for a total of 3.5 miles and 68 minutes by Google Maps standards (it was actually pretty accurate for today's walk time).
 
I'm definitely feeling the pains of being overweight and old. I think I'll incorporate this walk a couple of times into my week's sparse exercise schedule. One thing I'll definitely NOT do is lug my backpack with a laptop in it. My legs and knees are fine but my shoulders are killing me.

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Weigh-in-Wednesday, 1/14/09 - 194.5 lbs

A little bit of a backslide this week - gained 2 lbs from last weigh-in. I guess I'll need to add another day of exercise to the regimen. I'm going to try doing BART on Thursdays from now on. It's about a 10 minute walk to BART from our place and then another 10 minute walk to the office. On the way back, I think I'm going to try and foot it all the way home. It's 3.5 miles so should take about an hour and a half. Let's hope that puts a dent in next week's weigh-in.

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Weigh-in-Wednesday, 1/7/09 - 192.5 lbs

In keeping with my New Year's resolution to lose some weight, I'll officially post my weight status every Wednesday. Here's the inaugural posting with a screenshot of Weightbot. As you can see, I was fairly steady state until today when I dropped 2 pounds. What was the secret? About an hour and a half of full court basketball plus a salad for dinner last night.

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