Once again: another Day of Reckoning

Man, these just creep up on me. Almost exclusively a mix of short duration, high intensity and long duration, low intensity cardio these past two weeks, with some weight training thrown in.

	ideal	10/18/08	11/01/08	11/15/08
neck	43	39.5	39.25	39.5
chest	117	108.25	108	107.5
bicep	42	33.5	34	34.38
forearm	34	32	32.13	32.13
waist	82	95	95	95
hip	99	99	99.5	99
thigh	62	60.5	61.5	61.13
calf	40	41	41	41.38
	percentages	91.86	91.28	91.86
		92.52	92.31	91.88
		79.76	80.95	81.85
		94.12	94.49	94.49
		115.85	115.85	115.85
		100	100.51	100
		97.58	99.19	98.59
		102.5	102.5	103.44

It seems like it's been raining almost constantly. Cycling is an exercise in masochism, and even walking to the gym has been a pain. That said, I've been managing longer and more intense sessions, so regardless of the numbers I feel like progress is being made...

Current body weight: 200.5. Hmm.

Friday meditation: Confronting the Cars

Stumbled upon this interesting piece about breaking through the insular barrier that cars create for their occupants and actually talking to drivers.

I'm not nice enough to pull this off. I think I have a great deal of pent up rage towards the many, many incompetent drivers I have encountered over the years, not on a bike, but in another vehicle. Road rage is neither attractive nor healthy, though, so I suppose it'd be better to simply accept that the vast majority of people will never be good drivers, and move on.

Is it that simple? I'm not so sure. Still, there's definitely something to be said to improving driver-cyclist relations.

Numbers for this weekend

	ideal	10/04/08	10/18/08	11/01/08
neck	43	39.25	39.5	39.25
chest	117	105.75	108.25	108
bicep	42	33.75	33.5	34
forearm	34	32.25	32	32.13
waist	82	95	95	95
hip	99	98	99	99.5
thigh	62	61.5	60.5	61.5
calf	40	41.13	41	41
	percentages	91.28	91.86	91.28
		90.38	92.52	92.31
		80.36	79.76	80.95
		94.85	94.12	94.49
		115.85	115.85	115.85
		98.99	100	100.51
		99.19	97.58	99.19
		102.81	102.5	102.5

Last weight: 200.5. I feel like I'm going to be at 200 pounds forever. Not much progress by the numbers, but I actually feel good about the way things are going. I can definitely push myself harder... but isn't that always the case?

And of course, a graph: