This is the Padua Podcast Network. Welcome to Running a Fever. My name is Michael Davis. This is a show about fitness, diet, and medicine. My goal is to live a long, healthy, happy, active life right up to the very end. It’s all about living long and loving life.

That’s what it’s about. I’m hoping to go for two hours today. Two hours. Got to really ramp it up with this new attitude because it’s starting to pork out and get really kind of annoyed at it. So gotta get some movement in. Gotta keep on moving, don’t stop. Yeah, like I said, it’s very windy today. I think the gusts are up to 45 miles an hour

wouldn’t want to be flying today for sure. Had a protein shake for breakfast along with the herbal thing I’ve been doing. So, the plan is to do that for lunch and eat one of the remaining factor meals I have. I have to get rid of those. I’ve paid for them, so I might as well eat them.

But as you know from last time, I canceled my subscription after 3 deliveries. Will get my final delivery today, so four of them. It is a Sunday. I’ve got to work in more exercise on my workdays and on days when I have other things going on. It’s always a way, you know, you can.

Oh, that wind is something else. Maybe it will give me some resistance. I’m fighting the wind, and that’ll give me some strength training today. Who knows?

My voice is shot. I have completely lost my voice, and I’m sick of that. Too young to lose my voice. But you can always find a way, you know?

You can get up earlier. I have a stationary bike I could use. I could get on a stationary bike. I have dumbbells at home that I could use, so there’s really no excuse for skipping out, you know? I could go out at night.

And this path has lights on it. We’re on Dean’s Trail, by the way, today. Right next to my neighborhood. And we’re going to take it pretty far out there, I think, today.

And of course, as usual, I haven’t started my walking up yet. OK, we’re probably like 10 minutes into it now, I don’t know. I remember to do that every time. and get some stats somehow.

I got the feeling my phone and my watch don’t automatically connect, and I need to fix that, manually connect them somehow. Because I’m not getting notifications anymore. The only ones I get are, ” You’ve been sitting for an hour, get up and do something. Words to those effect to that effect. It’s a beautiful day on Dean’s Trail. Weather’s weird, of course, they got all the wind, but apart from that, it’s now, I’m sure it’s well into the 70s, now 77 I think might be the high. I don’t know, but it’s definitely warm for this time of year.

And then it’s supposed to drop to around 23 tonight or something. So, a 50, a 50, 50-plus degree swing in temperature in less than 24 hours. I don’t know. See how that works.

Sorry, I kind of wish it were a little cooler today because I’m going to be going fast. Fast, fast, fast like last time. 2.9. Keep it under 3 today.

3 miles an hour. No more. And get my heart rate up. Hopefully to 113.

So much to do in life. I’ve got to live to 120 to do it. Howdy. That’s nice.

Instead of walking for five minutes, I could just, if I lived here, step out on the trail right from the back door. If there is a back door. All right, still holding, 2.8. Let’s see what we’re like when we get a mile under.

It’s going to be more than a mile. it’s uh so going by the three minute mile rule if i had 10 minutes before i started then that’s a half a mile so just uh tack on half a mile to whatever i’m doing yeah i think we’re gonna go far farther than ever today. I am determined to get my weight down. My new pair of pants today, or wore them for the first time, 38.

I needed a new pair, and I had to get 38 because I don’t fit into the 36 anymore. That is annoying. Frustrating. And the 38’s are even tighter.

It’s tighter than my other 38. So maybe it’s just because it’s new. But first need to fit into that. Then I can think about fitting into the 36.

But Time to get busy. Howdy. I don’t usually pass people. Going the same way that I’m going, but this guy had a dog, and he was letting the dog wander on the side of the road.

Also a smoker, so you know. Maybe I could beat a smoker, I don’t know. Smokers are a dying breed, literally. 2.9, still holding.

Third of a mile, so eighth of a mile. Feels like I’m going faster. Heart rate 92. Got a few clouds up there.

Just want to get some exercise. I don’t think I went out yesterday, probably Friday. But it wasn’t that long ago, and I was on Lake Fayetteville with tons of people. You know, maybe if I stick to Dean’s Trail here, I won’t have to deal with all that.

There’s just not that many people here. I’ve only seen one person actually on the trail. Some people are standing off to the side. Fashion report, I don’t know, it’s a short-sleeved day.

Sweat pants. I did order some long underwear, a base layer, which should come in the next few days. Maybe today. These days, you get stuff on Sundays.

So there’s construction going on over here, of course. Construction is going on everywhere in this area. So it’s always nice to see the progress that comes out days or weeks later. We got this wall built up, and it’s, you know, probably a parking area.

See some flat concrete behind it. Oh, I’m starting to slow down, I know I am. It’s 2.7, it says. Gotta keep stretching out. That wind actually feels pretty good with the sun and everything I would say high temperature because really high it’s just warm for this time of year and I think I went out three times just last week and this is gonna be the first time this week so probably do that again and keep that new attitude going and go for you know eventually where I’m working out every day, either in the gym or on a walk. That’s the goal, anyway. Because beyond that, not much I can do.

It’s all up to the man upstairs after that, what he does. I do have to eat, right? That’s a whole different story. Same podcast, just different story.

What was my last meal? Christmas dinner. Celebrated it a couple of days later. Then Christmas Day.

Thanks to some medical issues. My family. So turkey, baked potato, salad, and that was pretty much it, gravy on the turkey, and a chocolate orange for dessert, so none of that’s really that bad as long as the quantity’s okay. And I didn’t need a whole lot of it, really.

A little reprieve here, downhill slope. Take my heart rate, 88. So yeah, the diet department is pretty much done. I actually did have breakfast with friends yesterday, too.

Two pancakes, four sausage links, or three and a half. The sausage got cold. I don’t want to eat cold sausage. So it was kind of a bigger food day, even though I really didn’t overeat on any one meal.

I don’t think I even made a protein shake for dinner last night. Supper. 30 minutes. And I have a feeling we’re actually going to go on the road today, but I’m thinking about walking on the school grounds instead.

Why don’t I do that? That road is pretty noisy. J.O. Kelly Middle School, I guess, is the…

Here we go in the wind. And they’re on Christmas break, so they will not be here the rest of the week. So I can come out here and walk the rest of the week. Nobody here.

Presumably. Sometimes teachers work when the students are out. Wind is so strong, wind is so strong. I’m guessing you can hear it even with a windscreen on my mic. Feeling it in my legs and my back right now, even though we’re walking this. I don’t know, that first mile it said it was 22 minutes, but the speed on my watch says two and a half miles per hour. So there’s another back entrance here from a different street. Anyway, I don’t really want to get on the street.

I’ll just, uh… There’s no sidewalk there. I mean, I kind of am on the street. But it’s not THE street.

I’m hearing ghosts behind me. Could be just the wind blowing something along. I heard a door rattling, and I just heard something kind of click. All right, well, I’m not going to go any farther out.

I’ve been going for 31, which means 41 minutes. Well, I’m sure my speed is down now. It says 2.6, but I don’t trust it. Do not trust it.

And so I can speed up a little bit. I can put a little more effort into this to reflect the new attitude. New attitudes have to be adopted for fitness, diet, and medicine. I think for medicine, I probably need to get my throat checked out.

It just, uh, just bothers me that I’m still having trouble. I don’t know, people are out driving here on a Sunday. I think I want to, on one of these vacations, I just wanna go not to like a park or a tourist attraction or anything like that. Just go to a small town.

And just get a room at whatever motel they have, and just be in a small town. Or they probably got Air BnBs there too, I don’t know. I’m sure there is somewhere. Just be in a small town, you know?

Maybe go to their local church on Sunday. I really miss small-town life. And this ain’t it. Not anymore.

I had some semblance of it 20 years ago, but not anymore. Back on Dean’s Trail. I think I might just make this my regular route. just for the solitude of it.

All this wind. It’s not tornado season. There are literally tumbleweeds on the trail. I guess those were there when we came by the first time.

Like I said, not tornado season. It’s really quite the opposite. So don’t fear any of that. Big wind.

There you go. I’d call those tumbleweeds. They blew from somewhere. Yep, see it’s tumbling.

Yeah, I’m just slowing down here. It’s gonna be a good workout, even if I didn’t go for two hours. Eyes on the skies. Tumbleweeds on the trail.

Of course, when I start talking, that’s when the wind picks up. No bikes at all today on Dean’s Trail. No runners. Just one lonely dog walker.

Pretty nice day for three days after Christmas. Pretty nice. Lots of dirt. Leveled out for the construction of something.

Who knows what? Even a little road there. It’s a good day to walk on it if I had noticed it earlier, but right now I’m just not having that kind of energy. Not really a good thing about the out and back walk, you know, gotta make it back no matter what. I was more tired on the way back. Well, I believe we’re coming to a close of–tumbleweeds on the trail–that’s something new. Tumble leaves. So anyway as I wait for the wind to go by you got the fever keep it burning if you don’t catch the fever and i will talk to you next time on Running a Fever.