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Jumping Jacks, originally uploaded by machaggis.

1 Calorie, 2 Calorie…

I decided to take the week off from snowboarding. Instead, G and I went out for a short trail run at Discovery Park this morning. I realized it was my 1st trail run in 6 weeks. We only went for about 45 minutes and it was hard work at times. We ran down along the beach at Gs request. Normally, Im totally happy to do 2 laps of the loop trail but G thinks its too boring, Anyway, the beach trail was nice, but it got very windy and rainy when we were there. The rain was so hard it hurt and I had to take me hat off and hold it as the wind was threatening to blow it away.

I wore my heart rate monitor during the run. That thing is great! It told me that I burned 494 calories during our run. G laughed as I did a few jumping jacks at the car- I really wanted to get it to 500! Im hoping to find some time to mess with the settings this weekend. I still dont know much about what my target heart rate (or range) should be. Incidentally, I also wore the monitor yesterday while walking on the treadmill. I walked a pretty brisk pace for 45 minutes and burned a stinkin 150 calories. Whats the point!!?? My heart rate didnt exceed 105 during the walk so I guess I wasnt working hard enough. None of which compares to the supposed calories burned while snowboarding. One of the days it reported nearly 1600 calories burned. My latest Runner’s World magazine proclaims training with a heart rate monitor is ‘in’. Cool.

I have been greatly disturbed over the past few years by the governments increasing infringement on our privacy. I wont go on at length about it but I do keep one eye on the developments. It is with no uncertain pleasure that I heard about Googles latest run-in with the Department of Justice in which they refuse to give up supposedly anonymous search data. The subpoena that was issued to Google was also issued to AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft, all of whom complied with the request. Its about time someone stood up and challenged the governments right to personal information! Go Google!