Day 683-The will of the human spirit is at times indomitable

Take today for example....I had errands to run prior to my work out. So after I did all I determined to give maximum effort during the workout.
I came charging out of the gate. Yesterday I burned 172 in the first 10 minutes, today I burned 169. In the second 10 minutes today I burned 181 for a total of 350 calories burned in the first 20 minutes - Now, that is a freakin record. I have never burned that many calories in 20 minutes. Folks I did not slow down that much in the 3rd 10 minute interval. In the 3rd 10 minutes I burned 166 calories. For a whopping total of 516 calories burned in the 1st 30 minutes.
Can I get an AMEN? After burning that calories I knew I was on pace to burn 1,032 calories in an hour. Holy smokes! That is what they call in horse racing a break neck pace. To say the next thirty minutes were eventful would be an understatement. I felt great after the first thirty minutes. I set a goal of burning at least 450 calories in the final 30 minutes of the ride. I did not want a repeat performance of yesterday. Yesterday I started stronger than I did today only to fizzle out. I was determined to do way better today. In my mind and heart I knew I could burn 1,000 or more calories in the hour. In the minutes between 30 minutes and 40 minutes I burned 159 calories.
At that time I thought I was going to slow down and not make it. However, my thought did not stay with me long as I put out a great surge and burned 165 calories in the next 10 minutes. When I hit the 50 minute mark I had burned 840 calories. I said to myself all I need to do now is burn 16 calories a minute for the last 10 minutes and I will have burned 1,000 calories in an hour again!
Then calamity hit, the freakin pedal broke on the lifecycle. I was in such a state of will and determination that I quickly thought okay, what are my options? I looked to my right at the other lifecycle but it was occupied. I thought for a second of asking the person on it to get off but decided to jump off the broken life cycle and try pedal on a recumbent life cycle, but I quickly jumped off of that when I realized there was no way to gather enough speed on that type of ride. So I got to my next option, as fast I could. It was an unoccupied life cycle with a broken seat. I jumped on and started pedaling like crazy. I was full aware of my goal to burn 160 calories in the next 10 minutes. If I burned that amount I will have burned 1000 calories in an hour.

I did it, in fact I burned 166 calories in the 10 minutes. All totalled I burned 1,006 calories in 60 minutes. Can I get an AMEN?

I did this around noon and here it is almost seven pm and I am still all fired up about it!

Today goes up a list of big calorie burn days- Here is a look at the other times I burned at least 500 calories in 30 minutes or burned 1,000 or more calories in 60 minutes:


Day 324 Sunday January 11Th 2009=1003= special note in 2ND half did a 508! (508/495)
Day 399 Friday March 27 Th 2009= 1006 (508/498)
Day 408 Sunday April 5Th 2009 did 520 on the 1st 30 WOW! - then 1,013 (520/493)
Day 478 Sunday June 14Th 2009 did a 507 in 1st 30 minutes finished with a 927. (507/420)
Day 563 Monday September 7, 2009 did a 501 in 1st 30 minutes finished with a 958. (501/457)
Day 574 Friday September 18, 2009 did 502 in 1st 30 minutes finished with a 963. (502/461)
Day 667 Sunday December 20, 2009 did 511 in 1st 30 minutes finished with a 1008. (511/497)
Day 669 Tuesday December 22, 2009 did 507 in 1st 30 minutes finished with a 960. (507/453)
Day 683 Tuesday January 5, 2010 did 516 in the 1st 30 minutes finished with a 1,006. (516/490)

As I look at this I see that today was only the fifth time in 688 attempts to burn 1,000 or more calories in 60 minutes that I have accomplished that feat. I also noticed another challenge I have yet to meet. Can you could find it? I have yet to burn 500 or more calories in each of the two thirty minute intervals!

As I said at the top: The will of the human spirit is at times indomitable.
Perhaps, sometime soon I can muster up enough human spirit to burn 500 or more calories in 30 intervals, back to back!