<p>It was a busy day at the office with lots of visitors and I had a few errands to run so I got outside later in the afternoon than I like (going by the amount of sunlight out) and kept things short. I didn’t feel great today so that will have to do. It’s crunch-time at work so it will be less sleep for the next week.</p>
<p>I wish that that smokehouse wasn’t so far away from Southern NH. Closest thing we have around is RedBones (I think that it’s the same as the one in Somerville, MA).</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s a long haul from I-93, although I’m finding that once you get up 93, nothing east to Maine or west to Vermont is that far. My problem is that I’m so pitted out from sweating and insect spray after an all-day hike that I couldn’t stand to eat until I’ve hit the shower. It would be like eating dinner after a run.</p>
<p>Bromfield: </p>
<p>Not in the cards for this fall, but I think I’ll be ready to try Mt. Chocorua next summer. That round trip is about a mile longer than what I did Saturday, but about the same elevation gain. Looks like a bit more rock scrambling…</p>
<p>My husband just showed me an interesting chart in a nutrition text he has. It shows activities (sprinting, 100m dash, 1500m race, 10k race, marathon, and day long hike) in the left-hand column of the chart. In the right-hand column it shows pie charts for each activity with % contribution to energy to perform activity. For sprinting it’s showing ATP/CP (adenosine triphosphate and creatine phosphate). For 10K the pie chart just has carbs. Marathon shows mostly carbs, some fat, and a little other. The day long hike pie chart shows almost twice as much fat as carbs.</p>
<p>That energy system/fuel usage stuff is all really interesting. And, from what I can gather, some of it might even be true! My hiking, at least the mountain hiking, is a strange hybrid of long conditioning cardio, but with strength training aspects. I had numerous step ups Saturday that were right at my physical limit: probably stepping up 24 inch steps with 20 pounds on my back. That stuff will get your muscles burning big time, which is more like sprinting. In fact, the idea behind the “rest step” is to give the leg muscles enough recovery during each step that they don’t start burning.</p>
<p>New Rules of Lifting workout for me today. The fun one with single leg squats (gotta be the hardest exercise ever – still a work in progress), chin ups, and so forth. I’m doing punch the clock workouts. I’ll kick it up a notch this winter.</p>
<p>My free weights are happy - I played with them today. Took a day off from running, but did some fast walking around the UW campus. Saw the new dorm with a grocery store on the first floor - the stuff displayed in the windows looked healthy.</p>
<p>Yay, sewhappy. It’s nice to be able to keep up with people who will talk and distract you! Congrats.</p>
<p>One thing about aging is that you don’t recover from hard efforts as quickly. This morning I was not fast. It was dark and I used one of the knuckle lights, which was great. Got light by about 2 miles and I shut it off. 6.5 miles done.</p>
<p>The crazy thing about this geezer fitness stuff is that it never feels like you are making any progress until, all of the sudden, one day, you realize you can do something you couldn’t do a few months earlier: keep up with the neighbors, or lift a heavier weight, or whatever. The trick is believing that day will come so you can stay motivated on all the days when it seems like progress is impossible!</p>
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<p>I am not worthy! I don’t know how you guys crawl out of bed and run 6.5 miles. I started hiking a little after 9 am on Saturday and felt like the Tinman without oil at the start.</p>
<p>Well, it was around 40 degrees early this morning up here. I prefer to run in the 70s.</p>
<p>Not sure what I’m going to do today. I have put away my sleeveless shirts and am just going with short-sleeve for workouts until the spring. I’d like to run and do a little P90X. Maybe that will work out.</p>
<p>I’m around 475 miles for the year. So I only need two miles per week for the rest of the year to hit 500. I think that it won’t be too difficult to do that.</p>
<p>For me, anything from 50 to maybe 60 is fine, but above 65 I tend to overheat and begin to peel off clothing. 65 for me is a tank top and shorts kind of running. :)</p>
<p>Deborah, oh, yes, we do! I’m not complaining that the weather turned a bit cooler. Soon I will be able to hit the Beer Trail in my running dresses without feeling like I need to pull them off. Ahhh, with my neon pink knee high socks, purple shoes and lavender dress I will look totally stylish. :D</p>
<p>Speaking of dresses… I want this one (but I really do not need it):</p>
<p>Cool dress. I wore one of the Nuu-Muus this morning with a short sleeved tech shirt from a race over it. The look was like a running skirt and top. I liked it and it was comfortable.</p>
My hiking, at least the mountain hiking, is a strange hybrid of long conditioning cardio, but with strength training aspects. I had numerous step ups Saturday that were right at my physical limit: probably stepping up 24 inch steps with 20 pounds on my back. That stuff will get your muscles burning big time, which is more like sprinting. In fact, the idea behind the “rest step” is to give the leg muscles enough recovery during each step that they don’t start burning.</p>
Took a day off from running, but did some fast walking around the UW campus. Saw the new dorm with a grocery store on the first floor - the stuff displayed in the windows looked healthy.</p>
Soon I will be able to hit the Beer Trail in my running dresses without feeling like I need to pull them off. Ahhh, with my neon pink knee high socks, purple shoes and lavender dress I will look totally stylish. :D</p>![http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/Osceola%20Trail/OsceolaHikeofmaxHR.jpg]heart](http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/Osceola%20Trail/OsceolaHikeofmaxHR.jpg%5Dheart){kind=link}
