Starting on the first of May, I started keeping a “daily log” in this blog of how much I’m walking and/or running (aka jogging). Each day on the last entry for that day I put the daily log in square brackets at the bottom of the entry – see below for today’s. I’m trying to increase my motivation and consistency. So I’m keeping data, here in this blog, the same way as I keep other sorts of daily banalities. Living the public, transparent lifestyle, out there on the internets.
The results are “just in time”: today, I learned I’m borderline hypertensive, because of my blood pressure, which was taken during my drug screening / health checkup that I had to get for the provincial education office (which I’d been procrastinating on).
I found it depressing – I walked 120 kilometers in the month of May, and jogged another 49, for a total 169. Combine that with the fact that I spend most of my working day on my feet (in the classroom) and that I almost always use the stairs (7 floors at home, 5 floors at work), and I don’t think I’m really that sedentary.
And yet… and yet… my weight is frozen with the extra “Yeonggwang 5 kilos” I picked up in 2010, and here I find I have high blood pressure. What’s going on? What am I doing wrong? I don’t think my diet is that irresponsible, either – I’m semi-vegetarian, I’m mostly avoiding alcohol… Well, just plain arghh.
Here’s a graph of my data. You can see how I get lazy each weekend – I knew this, and even accept it – it’s part of the routine I’m trying to establish for myself.
Here’s the data, in summary. Can you tell I used to work as a data analyst?
| date | walking | running | total | |||
| 1 | 7 | 1 | 8 | |||
| 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||
| 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||
| 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| 8 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||
| 9 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
| 11 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |||
| 12 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||
| 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 14 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
| 15 | 3 | 4 | 7 | |||
| 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||
| 17 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |||
| 18 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
| 19 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |||
| 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 21 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |||
| 22 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| 23 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |||
| 24 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||
| 25 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |||
| 26 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |||
| 27 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |||
| 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| 29 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||
| 30 | 5 | 4 | 9 | |||
| 31 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||
| 120 | 49 | 169 |
[Daily log: walking, 5 km; running, 1 km]
