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Tennis

dominic.griffin — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:30:11 +0000

Played an hour of tennis with my mum. She hasn’t played for a while so I spent a fair amount of time chasing wild shots. It was fun though, and my serve and forehands were great!

Workout:

Type: General Cardio
Date: 07/11/2008
Time: 17:00:00
Total Time: 1:00:00.00

Run

dominic.griffin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:21:51 +0000

Went for a run this morning. I was hoping to avoid the heat by going out before noon, but no such luck! I guess 9:30 is still late enough for it to be hot. I found this run tougher than my first one last Friday. I was very active all weekend (in fact I didn’t do anything yesterday because my legs were aching so much!) so it’s not as if I regressed in fitness or anything! I think it was mostly because the path I ran was, for the most part, much straighter than Friday’s path. For me, it’s a little disheartening to look up after 5 minutes and not have the next turn seem any closer!

I also played with running for ten minutes and walking for one, but I cheated and walked a lot more than I was supposed to. But at least I got out. The whole psyching myself up to run and then actually DOING IT is probably one of the things I’m happiest with … usually that second part doesn’t come!

Workout:

Type: Run
Date: 07/08/2008
Time: 09:30:00
Total Time: 00:40:00.00
Distance: 3.36 miles
Average Pace: 11:55.71/mile

Golf

dominic.griffin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:09:59 +0000

Played golf with a couple of my ski coaching buddies. It was good, and I shot fairly well. Talk about hot though! I have no idea what the high was today, but man was it sweltering!

Workout:

Type: Walk
Date: 07/06/2008
Time: 09:00:00
Total Time: 4:30:00.00

Soccer

dominic.griffin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:42:56 +0000

Played soccer for 3 and a half hours with some of my friends in pretty oppressive heat. We played 3 on 3, plus goalies, on a really small field. Great for ball control! Even though it’s a small field, you still run a ton.

Today, with a round of golf in the morning and an afternoon of soccer, was just about as perfect a day as it could have been.

Workout:

Type: General Cardio
Date: 07/05/2008
Time: 13:00:00
Total Time: 3:30:00.00

Golf

dominic.griffin — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:40:00 +0000

Had a round of golf with my dad. As always, shot much better on the back 9!

Workout:

Type: Walk
Date: 07/05/2008
Time: 08:40:00
Total Time: 4:00:00.00

First run

dominic.griffin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Two words: it sucked.

I managed to run the first 10 minutes before having to start punctuating my running with bouts of walking (about 1 minute each) because it hurt. However, I was pretty happy that I managed to run the last 5 to 10 minutes - I was walking and realized that the reason I wasn’t running wasn’t because I was still hurting (which I consider a valid reason to walk) so much as I was just bored of running (which is not such a valid reason). So I forced myself to run the rest of the way home.

I checked it out online and I did 6km. Which I guess is really not that much, but it’s a start!

Workout:

Type: Run
Date: 07/04/2008
Time: 13:00:00
Total Time: 00:35:00.00
Distance: 3.73 miles
Average Pace: 9:23.38/mile

Tennis

dominic.griffin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +0000

Played tennis with my dad for an hour. He’s good with ball placement so I ended up running around quite a bit. Running is always more fun when it’s part of a sport!

Workout:

Type: General Cardio
Date: 07/04/2008
Time: 12:00:00
Total Time: 1:00:00.00

Hi, I just joined the Sweat365 community

dominic.griffin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:35:28 +0000

I’m a man from Gatineau Quebec Canada, born in 1984.

My favorite sports include: cycling swimming hiking team

My goals are: Exercise regularly.
Overcome my hate of running.
Triathlon August 30th.

My other favorite activities include: Skiing (coach racing), soccer, tennis, golf.

This is my training blog which I am using to keep track of my fitness progress.

Please come by and read my blog. It will help me stay motivated and keep me on track as I achieve my fitness goals!