AM - 6 miles. Ran 5 around campus, did some tests at the PEAK center, then another mile back up the hill to HCI. PM - 2 miles shakeout. We have a really good wellness program thorugh the U - by participating in a few easy things, we get a massive discount on health insurance premiums (essentially making it no cost). Today I did the Bod-Pod (measures % body fat) and resting metabolic rate tests. Last year's Bod-Pod test had me at 1.5% body fat, which was obviously way off. This year - even worse! For a machine that costs more than a brand new car, its amazing how inaccurate it is at the extremes (ie. very lean or very heavy people). They ran the test 5 times and the average was 0.1% body fat :-) Ahhhh I think I'd be dead if that was anywhere near accurate. The Bod-Pod manufacturers like to say that the margin of error is 1-2%, but that is across groups of people... in individuals, it can be off by 5-6%... so add that 6% on for me and I think that is probably a more accurate number. 
Then I did the RMR test - where you just breathe into a tube for 10 minutes. Its very boring! That one said that at rest, I burn 1728 calories per day. That seems to make sense. Overall, the only real piece of worthwhile information I got out of these tests is that I'm ~6 pounds lighter than at this time last year... but I was already well aware of that fact - Andrea reminds me every day :-) I also tried to get them to test my cholesterol for free... no luck on that request, though.
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