<p>Since my body is shot anyway, I stopped to get the Dreaded Flu Shot this morning. (I’m a wimp about shots) It hurt, but I survived. I don’t have too much soreness from the marathon (except for the bump on the head) but am VERY fatigues. I did a “streak” 1.2 miles this morning and might do a couple easy, flat miles after work. Legs are tired, needless to say.</p>
<p>veryhappy:</p>
<p>You are doing the hardest workouts of any of us right now. That packing is crazy tiring.</p>
<p>mowc:</p>
<p>I can’t even imagine. I was so stiff last night after walk/jogging a 5K that I could barely get up out of my rocker after watching football. Now, I know why you keep your streak going. You probably wouldn’t be able to walk, if you ever quit!</p>
<p>Re posts 20568 and 20569 (yikes, this thread is huge!), MOWC is absolutely right when she suggests tracking what is eaten. For me, diet and nutrition are 75% of weight control and fitness and I am always amazed about what can "sneak in " to my daily food plan if I don’t use some system to monitor what I eat. Unless you are a pro level cyclist riding hundreds of miles a week (or some such similar level athlete), who has to struggle to be able to physically eat enough each day to meet their expenditure demands, nutritional planning and monitoring will have a far greater impact on meeting your goals than exercise. Obviously, you need to do both, but using myself as my own “case study”, even though I was working out intensely 6 days a week and generally was eating healthfully, I didn’t start achieving real results until I implemented a nutritional plan that I monitor daily.</p>
<p>I have no doubt that this has been discussed somewhere among the 20,000+ posts on this thread, so for what it’s worth, I use Weight Watcher’s online including their smart phone application to monitor what I eat. It’s easy and convenient to control portion sizes (my previous downfall) and to monitor total intake and by having it on my phone, it’s with me whenever and wherever I am eating. I tweaked my daily points once I hit my target to provide a good maintenance level and always eat all of the exercise points I gain through my workouts. I also combine club/sport level bicycle riding 3-4 days a week with weight and TRX training 3 days a week and try to vary my workouts to keep things fresh and prevent my body from getting acclimated, thereby losing the intensity benefits of my workouts. The net result has worked well for me.</p>
<p>BTW, now that fall/winter weather is rolling in on the mid Atlantic region, if anyone is looking for some ideas on very effective and time efficient indoor cycling training, let me know. I just revamped my whole approach to indoor cycling - both equipment and programs - and couldn’t be more pleased.</p>
<p>I’m thinking about increasing my activity level, and this seems like a good place to check in, given the range of abilities and experience (both of which greatly exceed mine). I started running a year ago for the first time, after having been generally somewhat active but not doing as much as I thought I should be from a fitness perspective. We started out running 2 miles three days a week, and are now at 4 miles three days a week and a 5 mile run on the weekend. I’ve won a couple of 5K’s in my age group (I’m 57) with a time of around 29.30 (which only puts me in the top third of the whole field) and am planning to enter some 10 K’s early next year. I know I have to add more interval work if I want to improve my speed -and I HATE intervals; it breaks up my relaxing run! I wish I had started this sooner -but am very glad to have started at all. I am feeling great and hoping I continue to remain injury-free. I am very careful about taking time to stretch and cool down post-run. I’ll continue to check in here for tips and inspiration.</p>
<p>Channeled MOWC this a.m. (with a lot of poetic license). But did run for 45 minutes.</p>
<p>The weather continues to be such a gift, and it will soon be over, so I felt like I just had to get out there. A little Van Morrison on the iPod, lots of sunshine, gorgeous foliage, all in all just a great start of the day.</p>
<p>Hoping you feel 100% soon, MOWC.
You, too, Deborah-- I am avoiding a 2 family members who have caught something. I HATE being sick.
Looking forward to idad’s hike report.
Hang in there, DadII, patience is the hardest part.</p>
<p>Welcome to the new posters. Eager to hear your perspectives. If there is one thing that is clear, it’s that there is no “one size fits all” approach.</p>
<p>Welcome back, Michael and welcome, Cooker! This is a great thread with lots of ideas and a range of interests/abilities. I really appreciate our little community here.</p>
<p>Good run, Jane! Boy, is it hard to get out of bed on these cool, dark mornings. I may be resorting to more after work running until the time changes…</p>
<p>35 mins. Upper 40s when I started, 55 by the time I was finished. Shaping up to be another sunny SoCal day here in the PNW. ;)</p>
<p>I cannot believe this - my legs are sore, but not form running! I did a lot of mall walking this weekend. I must have got out of mall walking shape! :)</p>
<p>Luv the weather! The only downside is that I have to water some plants - which I have never done in October! With Amazon shelling out $1B for downtown real estate and the current weather we are becoming the Silicon Valley of the North. :)</p>
<p>Welcome, Michael and Cooker. Cooker, I started running at the beginning of May using C25K and have done three 5Ks since then. I, too, do the stretches, 5 min warm up walk, run (that was the 35 min part), 5 min cool down walk, and more stretches at the end. After doing C25K, I started adding on a few more minutes and then chose to shorten up one or two of my three runs for the week, sort of Hal Higdon style. My body liked that a lot. Maybe you’d like to peruse the Hal Higdon 10K training plans? [Hal</a> Higdon Training Programs](<a href=“http://www.halhigdon.com/training/]Hal”>Hal Higdon Interactive Training - Stay on Track for Race Day)</p>
<p>Bunsen, I, too find serious mall walking to be excellent exercise. Also trying on clothes. Nothing sedentary about it. I guess that’s one benefit of going to the mall vs shopping online.</p>
<p>I marvel at the jocks on here. I just can’t do exercise that intensively. I’m an exercise dilettante, I’ve decided. A little this, a little that, then on to something new.</p>
<p>One of my co-workers was telling us today how sore she was. She is running a half-marathon here in St. Louis in two weeks. Friday she had a 11.2 mile run and so on Sunday she decided to run 4 to “work out soreness.” She said she’s worse after the 4 than she was after the 11.2…</p>
<p>I gotta get back on the wagon this afternoon…</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>The weatherman flipped the script. Now, the forecast is for mostly cloudy and showers up north tomorrow, now calling for clearing Wednesday and 100% sunshine on Thursday. The hike I’m doing is a lot of exposed rock. Not good for a rainy day. So, I’m rearranging the schedule for the sunny day. Saturday is also supposed to be sunny, but I don’t really want anything to do with driving to the White Mountains on a peak leaf-peeper weekend day if I can help it. Traffic will be backed up from here to the outlet malls in North Conway…</p>
<hr>
<p>As for Van Morrison on the iPod, I always love when my shuffle percolates a little Van to the top of the play list. One nice thing about these all day hikes is an opportunity to plow through chunks of my iPod playlist.</p>
<p>BB, personally, I hate shopping. I always am more sore from mall outings than from running. </p>
<p>Only in one area, however, it’s an injury I call “purse shoulder”. No matter how small, light weight, ergonomic, etc. the purse, I always end up with a cramped shoulder/neck after shopping.</p>
<p>I think it might be psychosomatic.</p>
<p>I think that I found the perfect place to post this!
I lost 15lbs since June and my husband told me I needed to loose 30 more pounds. I’m looking for choice comments to let me husband read to show him how wrong this was to do.</p>
<p>My husband lost more than 35lbs over the summer months mainly by barely eating anything and some days making better choices. He has done this in the past and gained the weight back and gained even more than before he started. I’ve told him not a good idea. </p>
<p>At nearly the same time he started to do this I started to cut back on my diet and increased my exercise. I used to drink green tea but I’d put in 3 Tablespoons of brown sugar in each glass. Now, I’ve cut out the sugar. I cut my breakfast from 2 slices of bread to 1. From 2 eggs to 1 egg with just yolk on the 2nd egg. The dog gets to eat the 2nd yolk! </p>
<p>I was already walking 4 miles a day when I started.
I exercise daily. I began to run/walk and have gradually increased it to run/walking 5 miles every other day. Each weekend a moderate to severe hike of over 2 hours. I just keep adding to the intensity of the workout. When I can I exercise 2 times a day.<br>
I’d rather exercise twice a day than cut back on my eating.</p>
<p>After I lost 15lbs. my husband said I need to loose 30 lbs. more. </p>
<p>I don’t want weight loss advice from someone who doesn’t know much about the subject. I told him in many ways possible what a dumb thing that was to say. He defended himself. He said he is only trying to encourage me to loose more. Meanwhile, he lost all his muscle mass and I’ve increased mine. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, my weight chart tells me I only need to loose 11 to 21 more pounds.</p>
<p>Somebody must have some choice words for him?
I’d like to stand him up on the table at The View on tv.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p>BunsenBurner, had to laugh at your post. During the riding season, I will put in 150 miles over the weekend with 2 30+ mile rides during the week. All sorts of structured training, intervals, endurance, H.R., wattage. Thought I was in pretty good shape. Then I went to Italy with my wife in August. I never imagined how exhausting it would be walking and standing in museums, churches and piazzas. Must have something to do with muscle specificity! At least you didn’t suffer an over use injury to your wrist reaching for your credit cards. ;)</p>
<p>Speaking of muscle specificity, boy did I learn a lesson in that this summer. Once upon a time I was an avid runner. Got injured in my mid 20’s while running a marathon in the cold rain in late October at a stupid pace for me. Stopped running as a result and spent about 15 years doing indoor cardio. Started cycling at 40 and have been consistently doing that for the last 19 years. Over the last year, decided to get myself back into the kind of shape I was in at the time I stopped running. Got myself down to the same weight I was at when I was 26. Am in the best shape of my adult life.Took a family vacation with my wife and adult children and told my daughter I was going to start running again while we were away. When she’s not auditioning and in shows, she works as a certified personal trainer. She told me I should run a bit on a treadmill before I went outside with her. Nah, what did she know, I felt great! So off we went running one day on vacation. In my deluded state, I thought I would do a 5 mile run with her. If I can ride 75 hard miles, I can run 5, right? So 8 tenths of a mile into it, I’m feeling great, so good that I remembered how I used to love running using a forefoot stride instead of heel to toe. So up I went onto the balls of my feet — and 3 strides later I pulled my Achilles tendon so badly that I could hardly walk for the rest of the vacation (and several weeks after). I was such an idiot. Was reminded a bit about muscle specificity and that, regardless of how I thought I had recaptured my “youth”, damn, I don’t heal at 59 the way I did at 26! No more “dangerous” running for me; instead, I will do something sensible like carving down curving mountain roads at 45 mph on tires 3/4" wide.</p>
<p>Loosing a pound a week since June is fabulous! I would ignore your clueless hubby and keep doing what you’ve been doing. It’s obviously working. You should feel like a million bucks. </p>
<p>Oh, and it sound like to me that you are due three 5-pound parties! :)</p>
<p>Michael- you sound a lot like my husband. He does a lot of distance cycling and is very fast. He just finished a 2 day weekend ride for MS (80 out and 62 back). He ran a little last weekend because we were visiting family in PA and he didn’t have his bike. He was sore for days. I did a fair amount of cycling the 2 summers before this and have done spin class a lot over the years, but I am not nearly as good a cyclist as I am a runner and I’m afraid of it on a lot of levels. I think my husband was very glad I wasn’t cycling this summer so he didn’t have to deal with me!</p>
<p>Got back into the gym today…</p>
<p>Some dumbbell stuff, some single leg deadlifts, and then onto the dreadmill. 1/2 mile run, 1/4 walk, 1/2 mile run, 1/4 mile walk. 17:38</p>
<p>Now I’ve got to maintain and build from it…</p>
<p>Interesteddad</p>
<p>I lost my internet and lost my post
I do feel a lot more energetic than I used to
so that’s a good thing for me to remember.
I’ll have to do the three 5-pound parties!</p>
<p>thanks for the support.</p>
<p>MOWC, the shame of it is, I used to love to run, particularly on off road hiking and mountain biking trails. It was exhilarating. The 2 day MS rides are great. I used to do them from Cherry Hill NJ to Ocean City and back. The only down side was that Ocean City is a dry town and to get a beer and seafood afterwards, I would have to ride my bike over to Somers Point, not something I felt like doing after riding 100 miles the first day, and then ride back to Ocean City at night, not something that seemed too prudent at night and after a few beers!</p>