"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall." - Vince Lombardi

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Day 61 - Trying out the treadmill

Today I thought I would give the treadmill a try. Just a little try, so it was only about 5 min. I've never really ever used the treadmill for my cardio workouts. My back isn't very partial to the pounding impact a treadmill gives. It didn't feel too bad though, and maybe next time I'll try 6 min. We'll see how I feel tomorrow.

I used the rest of my time at the gym to get a full HIIT workout on my wonderful ArcTrainer. I was pretty dead after the session today. It's amazing what that extra 5 min. on the treadmill took out of me.

Anyway, here's today's pics.

Day 61

Get your game face on!

4 comments:

Joni said...

Hey, just stopping by to say hi! I dont' know if I already told you this, but you have a really cool name. I thought it was just your screen name, but it's your real name? That's so cool it's like a video game name. Anyway, your pics look great, keep up the good work, and see you with us on the next shred, right? Talk to you soon!
-JP

KaliLilla.com said...

Raiden,
Nice job - your pics look great! How do you get them to post side-by-side? I'm able to do it if I go thru all the steps on Photoshop that Adam discussed. But your pics look like they are simply uploaded to blogger.

Keep up the good work!
Lilla
http://shekhinahdivine.blogspot.com/

Raiden said...

Joni:
thanks for stopping by! Yes, my name has made several appearances in video games throughout the ages. I do look forward to joining in on the next shred. I think the timing will work out perfectly!

lilla:
thanks for stopping by as well. You've got some good looking pics yourself!
To get my pics side by side, I just resize them first to make them 200 pixels wide before I upload them to blogger. I think the width of the blog entry space is about 420 pixels, so this makes 2 pics x 200 pixels wide a nice fit. I also use the "none" option for layout. Once they're uploaded, I then edit the post in html mode.
Here's the only semi-tricky part. I fish out the part of the code that starts with
"<a onblur=..." and ends with </a>

The code for each pic is contained with that whole statement. If I want two pics side by side, I just make a backspace so that the two consecutive pics that have code that looks like:

"<a onblur=...></a >
<a onblur=..."

end up looking like:
"<a onblur=...></a ><a onblur=..."

Basically, as long as there is no space between the "</a >" and the "<a onblur=...", then they will be side by side just like letters in a word, rather than being like two long words with a space in between them.

If I confused you, it may be easier to just keep doing what you do in Photoshop, but I personally find it easier to do it this way since I can just do this in iPhoto (on a Mac) rather than fire up something like Photoshop since all I need to do is crop and resize rather than create a new image, resize, paste pieces onto a new image, resize new image, etc. Ok, so it's not really that many extra steps, but I like to keep it simple.

KaliLilla.com said...

Thanks Raiden! I got the pictures side-by-side. Now I can cut out the Photoshop steps! :D