hooterville75 said:
Grendels said:
About to go on a 5 mile bike ride, followed by a one mile run......
Thats about four and three quarters more then I could make it and about three quarters of a mile farther then I could run before I needed to stop and get some oxygen ha ha ha
. Im so out of shape these days and about fourty lbs over weight then I should be. Always wish I could do all that stuff but I have a current heart problem. I have the will to do it but the ole heart says NO lol. Wish I could get over that and get the ambition to shed the pounds and have the ability to be able to ride and run like that. Any suggestions on beating this heart condition ha ha ha. I thought about attempting P90X but dont know if the budget will allow me to do so with all the special foods you have to purchase to successfully complete a program of such nature.
I started off slow. First the bike ride. It was not too taxing on the old heart, and I slowly built up the distance and the speed. When I started off 5 years ago, I could barely finish the five miles and it took a half hour to do. Now it takes about 12 minutes.
I started the run about two years ago. It was at first a fast walk, and now it is close to a fun run. It just takes time and patience at our age to do these things.
One other thing, if you skip a day, it is much harder to get back to where you were the week before than it was at 20. Back then I could skip a month of running and just pick it right up again.