ECKHART PARK

My daughter trains a few times per week at a local pool near our home at Eckhart Park.   In order to drive there, the trip is 2.5 miles and should take 13 minutes by car in city traffic.   I decided to meet my family at the park at the conclusion of my daughter's practice today.  I left more than two hours early.  I didn't exactly take the shortest route, as I was determined to walk 10 miles.

This map above shows the most direct route to get from Point A to Point B.  That was not the route that I took!

My route also did get me from Point A to Point B.  My route was exactly 10 miles.  My route took me 2 hours and 3 minutes walking.  My route burned 2121 calories.  Once I arrived at the park, I made use of their elliptical machine for a very mellow, relaxed 30 minutes session, at the highest resistance level of 20 but only for one half hour.  The machine reported that this thirty minute workout burned an additional 503 calories.   Ever since my Half Dome climb, I have been a calorie burning machine!

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 Monday MENU

breakfast   cheese omelette, center cut bacon, 3 small apples                   707 calories
lunch         spinach salad, multigrain rice cakes, homemade chili             663 calories
dinner       manhattan clam chowder chunky, pickled herring                   974 calories
SNACK    8 L'CHAIMS                                                                            560 calories
        

total calories consumed 2904 calories                                                              

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CALORIES BURNED

2 hour, 3 minute walk 10 MILES                                                                  2120  CALORIES
Eckhart Park Elliptical Machine 30 minutes, level 20, relaxing pace             503  CALORIES

TOTAL CALORIES BURNED 2623 CALORIES

Monday net calories 281 calories

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fitbit day 33

27363 steps

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Part of my 10 mile walk yesterday took place at Washington Square Park.  I have found a new way to create 'art' with my MapMyWalk Application.

I FORGOT HOW MUCH ENERGY A YOUNG PERSON HAS

The past few weeks I have been crowing about my sixty minute, 90 minute and even two hour workout sessions.  Last evening I got a bit of a reality check.  I watched my daughter practice with her water polo team and the coach had 30 kids swimming non-stop for 90 minutes!  (And Monday is the short day....Tuesday's session will be for two and one half hours!)  I met my wife and daughter at the pool where practice was held and I watched my daughter swimming back and forth in the pool for a solid 45 minutes without a break!  It did get me to thinking, that maybe my workout sessions have not been quite as stupendous as I had led myself to believe!  I appears that I have forgotten just how much energy a young person has.  Still, I remain convinced that my workouts have been somewhat impressive for someone whose 58th birthday is approaching in four months.

The difference between a 57 year old man working out for  90 min and  a 13 year old girl working out for 90 min is that that girl does not have the need to blog about it to the whole world.  I am 57 and I do feel the need to brag a bit about it (at least little bit...)

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 Monday MENU

breakfast   three poached eggs, center cut bacon, oatmeal, Rice Cakes   1070 calories
lunch         Turkey Bacon Club Sandwich                                                  382 calories
dinner        Blackened Fish, lentils avoacado,greens, bulk foods               1711calories
SNACK     pear, two apples                                                                        302 calories

total calories consumed 3467 calories

calories burned

HOME STAR TRAC ELLIPTICAL 90 minutes, level 20                    2250 calories

CALORIES BURNED 2250 CALORIES

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Monday net calories 1217 calories

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