Participants can earn points for eating right or being active (running/walking/swimming/etcetc) and win prizes. I only glanced over the points system briefly, but there are Advanced/Intermediate/Beginner levels, regular challenges for participants to earn extra points, and points for getting your daily value of fruits and veggies, among other things. It's a kewl way to motivate myself to work out and track my progress.
Since I'm still in the initial phases of physical therapy (more on that later), I have to take it easy on the weights. I realized that just the act of pumping my arms while running was very tiring after several minutes because it involved more movement than my left shoulder is accustomed to post-surgery...so no crazy arm-flailing sprints for a while :)
I ran 2 miles at a 2.0 incline on a treadmill and worked on my core for 20 minutes. While I was proud of myself for being able to run that much after over a month of sitting on my butt, a 2.0 incline is not very impressive considering San Francisco has hills insane enough to hold an annual event like this:
(The video is from an event called Bring Your Own Big Wheel which is held on one of the city's more steep and twisty inclines. It's basically a bunch of adults riding down a twisty hill on their kids'/nephews & neices'/best friend's kids' toy bicycle. It's free and draws a huge crowd every year on Easter Sunday. )
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