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  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Thu 02/09 - TDEE: 3,037 cals, Steps: 11,252 , Active Minutes: 72

    Too cold to work so broke in those new running shoes.

    10K app - W9D1

    FITBIT CHARGE HR STATS
    • 87 minutes total
    • 72 active minutes
    • 887 cals
    • 8,448 steps
    • 4.31 miles

    • Max HR 176 bpm
    • 20 minutes in peak zone (>149 bpm, peak HR 172 bpm)
    • 27 minutes in cardio zone (123-149, avg HR 127 bpm)
    • 35 minutes in fat burn zone (88-122)
    • the rest out of zone (<88 bpm).
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Fri 02/10 - TDEE: 3,448 cals, Steps: 13,597 , Active Minutes: 138

    Two Personal Bests for 2017:
    TDEE & Active Minutes

    I have a ways to go to break last year's PBs
    TDEE: 5,145
    Steps: 37,334
    Act Min: 394
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Sat 02/11 - TDEE: 2,421 cals, Steps: 3,017 , Active Minutes: 0

  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Sun 02/12 - TDEE: 2,857 cals, Steps: 5,532 , Active Minutes: 0
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Mon 02/13 - TDEE: 3,092 cals, Steps: 11,168 , Active Minutes: 24

    First day of Spring cleanups. Pretty much the same thing as leaf cleanups but more. Digging out beds and bushes hard with blower, plus trimming monkey grasses and maiden grasses, plus removing all downed limbs and twigs, plus a first mow and bag at 3" to rejuvenate winter weathered lawns.

    All about 3 weeks early due to unseasonably warm weather.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Tue 02/14 - TDEE: 2,818 cals, Steps: 6,763 , Active Minutes: 0

    A little drizzly out so did a maintenance day at work.

    Changed out radiator in my work truck which had a small leak. Replaced top and bottom bearings in a deck mounted assist blower for a bagging system and got the old black Ford running again.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Wed 02/15 - TDEE: 2,901 cals, Steps: 8,945 , Active Minutes: 23

    Back to Spring cleanups... four weeks early.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Thu 02/16 - TDEE: 3,371 cals, Steps: 12,893 , Active Minutes: 111

    Beautiful Spring day, if a bit windy. Temps were mid to upper 60s (F)... in the middle of Feb! Weather girl talking about 70s today.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    edited February 2017
    Fri 02/17 - TDEE: 3,262 cals, Steps: 11,843 , Active Minutes: 63

    What can I say? Friday night. Pizza, movies, popcorn. I'm over my allotted calories but only by 265. Could have been (and has been) much worse.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Sat 02/18 - TDEE: 3,169 cals, Steps: 8,627 , Active Minutes: 78

    Outdoor chores on my own place today.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Sun 02/19 - TDEE: 3,061 cals, Steps: 7,983 , Active Minutes: 45

    Tore the rear-end out of my little '94 Toyota pickup. Time for new wheel bearings and grease seals. Also brake shoes and wheel cylinders.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Mon 02/20 - TDEE: 3,114 cals, Steps: 12,406 , Active Minutes: 65

    More Spring cleanups.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    edited February 2017
    Tue 02/21 - TDEE: 2,740 cals, Steps: 6,923 , Active Minutes: 21

    Rained out around noon (after normal winter two hour late start). Spent rest of day at shop on maintenance.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Wed 02/22 - TDEE: 4,030 cals, Steps: 12,945 , Active Minutes: 178

    Two new Personal Bests for 2017:

    old TDEE: 3,448
    &
    old Active Minutes: 138
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Thu 02/23 - TDEE: 3,413 cals, Steps: 12,775 , Active Minutes: 135

    Top four large wild bradford pear trees... three guys, two days, every twig dragged uphill... job done.

    DOMS just starting.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Fri 02/24 - TDEE: 3,338 cals, Steps: 17,143 (PB), Active Minutes: 101
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Sat 02/25 - TDEE: 2,674 cals, Steps: 6,023 , Active Minutes: 7

    Put my '94 Toyota pickup back together. 286,000 miles on the odometer. Rear end should be good for another 250,000.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Sun 02/26 - TDEE: 2,448 cals, Steps: 5,338 , Active Minutes: 0
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Mon 02/27 - TDEE: 3,348 cals, Steps: 15,195 , Active Minutes: 133
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Tue 02/28 - TDEE: 3,393 cals, Steps: 14,249 , Active Minutes: 68
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    edited March 2017
    Wed 03/01 - TDEE: 3,409 cals, Steps: 16,043 , Active Minutes: 80

    Step 1 of our six step fertilizer program is done. 160 x 50 lb bags (8,000 lbs) over three days.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    edited March 2017
    Thu 03/02 - TDEE: 4,041 (PB) cals, Steps: 16,922 , Active Minutes: 254 (PB)

    Client wanted all her old mulch removed and fresh mulch put down. She definitely has a mold problem on the north (front) side of the house. Digging the old out was like chopping through wafer board.

    Had to pick up each wheelbarrow of old mulch into the back of the dump-bed. Then shovel 9 yds new mulch back (after some additional bed prep).

    Four guys, six hours.
  • Out_of_Bubblegum
    Out_of_Bubblegum Posts: 2,220 Member
    I remember putting in 5 yards of soil amendment and 2 yards of topper into my backyard - that's some hard work right there.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Fri 03/03 - TDEE: 3,377 cals, Steps: 13,339 , Active Minutes: 72

    Spent first 30 minutes replacing a blown heater hose that one of our trucks blew on the way back to the shop yesterday. Then on to odd jobs.

    Put down and shaped 2 1/2 yds of topsoil around a client's large front maple which had exposed roots. Added a couple of dozen plantings and then topped the new landscaping with mulch.

    Then spread the rest of the 10 yds of mulch across numerous clients.

    Lots of shoveling off the trucks, pushing wheelbarrows and down on hands and knees spreading.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Sat 03/04 - TDEE: 3,271 cals, Steps: 10,669 , Active Minutes: 17

    Day off but was at shop by 9:30 to let our welder have at my mowing trailer. Been fighting metal fatigue on the side rail risers so rather than me continuing to make a hash out of it, we've hired a certified welder to clean it up and brace it for another season.

    I puttered around doing odd maintenance while our welder cursed our mig welder for the piece of *kitten* it is. After four hours we ran out of weld gas so he'll bring his stick welder in on Sunday after lunch and finish the job.

    Made me feel a bit better that a certified welder's lines were only slightly better than mine using that POS mig.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Sun 03/05 - TDEE: 2,712 cals, Steps: 7,427 , Active Minutes: 8

    Mowing trailer is solid again and I got caught up on a bunch of odd maintenance jobs.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Mon 03/06 - TDEE: 3,542 cals, Steps: 16,984 , Active Minutes: 85

    Spent day running through mowing client list and first mows where needed. Made it into Wednesday's list and mowed fourteen yards.

    Growing season has officially started here on the Ozark Plateau.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Tue 03/07 - TDEE: 3,017 cals, Steps: 13,141 , Active Minutes: 73
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Wed 03/08 - TDEE: 3,481 cals, Steps: 14,182 , Active Minutes: 83

    First run through mowing clients is done. Back to shoveling mulch. Loaded two trucks late yesterday with eleven yards.
  • d_thomas02
    d_thomas02 Posts: 9,055 Member
    Thu 03/09 - TDEE: 4,041 cals, Steps: 16,089 , Active Minutes: 253

    Twenty and a half yards of mulch down. First client (11 yds) was down hill. Last client (6 yds) was uphill.

    Feeling it this morning.
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