Erasing my high scores

I am a huge fan of the Expresso Bike system and have said many times that it is my favorite video game. The concept is simple: take a stationary bike and attach it to a computer generated environment, then make it interactive. It is easily one of the most fun things you can do while trying to be active and staying in one place. The system remembers your last ride and saves it as a "ghost" which races you the next time you choose that map. This has been a great motivation for me every time I have climbed on the bike, but because of my aforementioned heartrate problem, I decided tonight to erase all of my fastest times and set up new times with my heartrate between 127 and 140bpm, which translates to 65 to 75% of my maximum heart rate. As far as I can tell my true maximum heartrate is right around 178 to 180 so I'm about right on there.

It was pretty disconcerting to watch "old me" zoom by and beat me by minutes on the maps. On the other hand, I was still well ahead of the pacer which the program gives you as a guide for how fast to go. It is still a reminder of how far out of shape I am and how far I need to go to get back to a reasonable fitness level.

I made it through 4 maps and I intend on clearing out all of the maps that I have run so far, and there are several. It will take me hours to get through them all. I will be starting fresh though and that is a good thing.

I also stopped by the assisted pull up machine and did 7 pull ups with the machine taking care of 150lbs of my weight. I still have a long way to go before I am doing one unassisted, but that is progress and I have all year to get myself up.

I finished out the evening by walking for 30 minutes on the treadmill. The treadmill, however, decided that it could help me out by having me install their app on my iphone so I could listen to music while walking. It's an interesting app, which says it will record my workouts, but I have not explored it in depth yet. no doubt there is more to come on that front.

I do realize that I am over 7 days since my last post, so keep an eye out dear reader for a second post before the end of the weekend. I can promise some blacksmithing updates.