Diet/Exercise/Health/Wellness Support Thread - Page 1082

MomofWildChild · 03-17-2012, 01:45 PM

18 miles. Longest run since marathon in December 2009. It was a supported group run, but I never found anyone to run with. I am among the slower runners who go that far in these group runs, and the others my pace seemed to be way behind me. At least it was on a greenway, so I could see people out and back. I never put my music on, although I had my Shuffle with me, because I kept hoping to run with someone. I went a little faster than I wanted to, but I just didn't want to be out there forever. 50 seconds a mile slower than August 2009 on same course (which was a spectacularly bad idea on that hot day with hills and led to a pretty unpleasant last few miles), but I felt relatively OK the whole way. Well, as OK as you can feel running for 3 hours and ending up with 2 miles of hills! 55 to start, 72 at the finish. DONE!!! Went to Sonic for a giant iced tea and to Dunkin for 2 donuts.

BCEagle91 · 03-17-2012, 01:59 PM

Okay, for 18 miles you can eat whatever you want.

interesteddad · 03-17-2012, 02:07 PM

18 miles, a giant sweet tea, and two Dunkin Donuts!

We're not worthy!

CJaneRead · 03-17-2012, 02:18 PM

I did the lactate threshold and VO2 test a while back. Treadmill and mask until you feel like you are going to drop. Weirdly enough, right after you get off, you feel like you could have done just a little more. I was told everyone feels that way.

I used my results to help me determine optimal HR zones for marathon training. (basically concluding that for most of training runs I was running way too hard) They were also able to determine my basal metabolic rate, which turned out to be significantly lower than what they would have estimated. Partially explains difficulty losing weight.

MomofWildChild · 03-17-2012, 02:28 PM

I thought about you, BCE, while I ordered the donuts!

Unsweetened tea, but I add lots of lemon and chemicals to sweeten.

interesteddad · 03-17-2012, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Unsweetened tea

Blasphemy, I say.

Maybe you can get away with unsweetened tea in Connecticut for somewhere, but not in Tennessee!

MomofWildChild · 03-17-2012, 03:23 PM

Love the kitties, iDad. No sign of yours? So sad.

I love sweet tea, and often do half and half. I would rather eat my calories, or if I'm drinking them, they need to be alcoholic!

BCEagle91 · 03-17-2012, 03:30 PM

I haven't had tea with sugar for almost a year. We have sweetened tea, zero-calorie sweetened tea and the regular old tea bags of english and herbal varieties. I drink the latter, hot.

Though the kids are drinking some Whole Foods stevia drinks and they are pretty good.

interesteddad · 03-17-2012, 03:34 PM

No, I'm afraid my kitty is long gone. It's been almost two weeks. I've kind of pieced it together. She probably slipped out when the door blew open late afternoon. That would have been fine. She would have wondered around for a few minutes and come running. But, right after that, I left and a bunch of house lookers showed up and walked all around the house, multiple cars in the driveway, and so forth. I'm sure all the commotion freaked the cat out and she high tailed it to the woods right at nightfall.

Nothing I can do about it. Just one of those things. The remaining kitty is super lovable and enjoys the extra attention.

BCEagle91 · 03-17-2012, 04:50 PM

1.25 miles. Going to do weights in about an hour.

No donuts.
No sweetened tea.
Going for a glass of chilled water.

momof2kids · 03-17-2012, 05:33 PM

Sorry about the cat, interesteddad. Did a "trainer with a group" tough interval work out last night and some squash today. Both kicked my butt.
First weight watchers meeting today. I will need to chunk my goals as was recommended above. Feeling like I have a long way to go. The program discourages under 26 point days, which is consistent with what is being said above about too low cal diets. Program looks smart from a food science and emotional support point of view.

interesteddad · 03-17-2012, 05:44 PM

In honor of Zuzanna (she's Irish, isn't she?), I did Burpee Fusion this afternoon. The hard version.

12 swings
6 burpees
12 swings
6 burpees
12 swings
6 burpees

Starting every minute on the minute for six minutes. Rest til the heart rate falls to 60% and go for the next set. Three sets total.

Mid 50s and sunny today, so I carried stuff up from the basement and did the workout out on the deck, which was nice. Still brutal, though. Only pegged my heart rate at 90% of max, but that really doesn't capture how tough this short little workout gets in the third set. Burpees will make an old man out of you. These two exercises are working a lot of muscles and leave me gasping for air.

the Garmin graph

Supposed to be sunny and 70 tomorrow, so definitely a 5K hilly walk/jog day...

MomofWildChild · 03-17-2012, 05:57 PM

Zuzanna's Irish like all the basketball players I'm watching are Irish! I think we'll rename Vandy's big man Festus O'Ezeli.

VeryHappy · 03-17-2012, 06:58 PM

Today's workout was a a continuation of removing things from BIL's flooded basement. I counted the number of times I climbed the stairs -- 30 -- each time carrying at least 15 pounds; usually more like 35 or so. Those wet magazines and phone books are killers. Also discovered dozens of old Time Life books that got flooded as well. Luckily, BIL hadn't looked at these things (much less even remembered that he owned them) for at least 10 years.

Told DH we will never do this to our children. DH promised to spend as much time cleaning out our house as we have BIL's.

BCEagle91 · 03-17-2012, 07:06 PM

In the Greater Boston area, everyone just wears their Celtics T-Shirt.

Got the weight workout in and I feel good afterwards. I'll do some more stuff (video) this evening. I need to make up for last week.