Ralph's Health

It is a while since I posted anything up, feel like I have lots to say but where to start. Here are a few highlights: 1. Been maintaining my weight at between 80 and 84kg consistently for 2 years now. Currently at 80.6kg. I still weigh pretty much every day 2. Running regularly but not obsessively at the moment, I keep running with my friend L which makes for slower and more enjoyable runs. 3. Been focusing on my mental health with much mindfulness, buddhism and happiness practices 4. My llife is more balanced, with changes at home, with S and L, T and E. 5. Drink is no longer a part of my life, I will never go back to that old life I will post more details at some point soon.

Here are my previous years results: 2010 - 1:00:10 2011 - None 2012 - 1:01:17 2013 - 1:04:00 2014 - 1:00:34 2015 - None Trying for sub one hour tomorrow.

Not feeling great recently due to anxiety leading to other complications. On the plus side I did a new PB for the Kerridge Ridge run on Saturday of 38:37: https://www.strava.com/activities/605780496 I tried a pressup test to exhaustion this morning, only got 38 before failure. I was able to get another 12 shortly after in two lots of 6. My waist measurement this morning was 85cm. It has been stable at that for a little while now. Had a good race last week at Boars Head:

I just had a flashback to Fridays gone by which would have included beer at lunch, then the US Call and a trip to the offie. Not a good memory! I had a good running month in May, totalled over 7500m of climb. Mentally been up and down with a lot of anxiety, stress and guilt recently. I want to get this stuff sorted out. Yesterday I sort of managed 50 pressups, but didnt quite to them all in one go. I took little breaks after number 40.

I was just looking through some old posts and spotted one from 2011 about a 5000m metre challenge and how hard it was. I just looked at my Strava data to see how I have been doing recently and was surprised at how much climb I am logging each month: Oct 15 4558m Nov 15 4281m Jan 16 6696m Feb 16 4317m Mar 16 5609m Apr 16 2827m May 16 6461m So with a few days to go until the end of May I can get my new record for climb in one month!

Last time I actively tracked my press-up ability I eventually got to 45 press-ups to exhaustion, back in December 2011. I just thought I'd have a go to see what I could do, and achieved 32 straight off, then a 5 minute break and another 32 which was to exhaustion. Then took a 10 min break and did another 30. 94 total straight off not too bad. See how many I can do to exhaustion tomorrow.

I have recently run a few races and got some PBs. I ran the Rainow 5 in 42:24 which was a few minutes off my PB set in 2012. Here are some charts to show for other races: