<p>It looks really difficult but also really beautiful. I would love to do that!</p>
<p>Approaching the summit 1 – Nice </p>
<p>Approaching the summit 3 – You mean to tell me I’ve been climbing for how many hours and now this??? Aw, c’mon.</p>
<p>Another impressive hike, iDad! Thanks for sharing.</p>
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<p>Interesteddad, great photos. Those trails don’t look that safe to me. </p>
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<p>I love that calculator. I like the mention of net calories. If I workout at 450 calories an hour, that is only a net of 375 calories. Those 375 calories are tough to burn off.</p>
<p>Some of the runners on this thread running marathons are burning off fewer calories than 100 a mile by the actual running. Amazing.</p>
<p>I worked out twice in a gym for 2 hours and 15 minutes today and walked for 3 hours today. Probably burned off 1800 calories (gross). I had two full meals today though. I dislike doing that right now, but a friend asked me to lunch. I said before that I like to go to bed weighing less than the night before, but tonight that isn’t going to happen. Kind of bums be out considering how hard I worked out today.</p>
<p>Swam with Masters at crack of dawn this morning. Nope, no way, not for me. Will paddle thru my private laps a couple times a week – in the afternoon.</p>
<p>Abbreviated stretching, abs and strength-training this morning. I feel a lot better after the stretching. I was going to take an Advil before stretching but I think that the stretching has helped work out the muscle soreness. I plan to run this afternoon but I need to schedule a car appointment (they like to do a service after 500-1000 miles on a new car) and that might kill the workout.</p>
<p>idad should organize an easy NH hike for next summer for local and not so local CCers.</p>
<p>"I worked out twice in a gym for 2 hours and 15 minutes today and walked for 3 hours today. "
-total of 8.5 hrs. Wow! When do you find time? I am thinking about the ways of cutting my exericise time, so far cannot see how. I love swimming, weight machines and walking, but it takes close to 3 hrs every evening. I am at loss what to do, cannot drop any of it. 3 hrs in a evening does not leave much time for my other favorite things to do. I eat whatever in whatever amounts any more, when I swim, food does not affect my weight, actually it is gong down slowly, I guess I have less time to eat.</p>
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<p>Do any 50-something women find their appetite increasing? I feel as if I’m ravenously hungry all day long lately. Yes, exercising more. No weight gain – yet. But so hungry all the time. My dad developed hyper-thyroid in his forties so maybe I should get it checked.</p>
<p>I have time. I have 5.5 hours a day to get exercise. ( I don’t exercise 5.5 hours every day).</p>
<p>8.5 hours a day? My body would crack. :)</p>
<p>sewhappy- I think I felt that way in my early 50s, and my weight gain during those years would confirm it! I was running, and I thought losing weight just wasn’t going to happen in my 50s. I was ALWAYS hungry! I wasn’t overweight, but I was heavy for what I like to be and certainly well above good running weight. Starting in 2008 with Weight Watchers at Work (age 55 for me) I re-designed my eating and lost 28 pounds and got past that always-hungry feeling. Thank God.</p>
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<p>Interesting, MOWC. At first I thought it was empty nest syndrome but no way. Have heard weight watchers is the sanest most effective approach to eating for the long term. Glad to hear this awful hunger eventually passes though.</p>
<p>Idad: Sounds like a good hike–despite the fall. While your photos are gone, I know that Monadnock is beautiful this time of year. Will you continue hiking until it snows? </p>
<p>Walked for 4 miles today–beautiful, crisp morning in New England. Kept up a good pace (for me)–16 minutes per mile. Will spend the afternoon cleaning up my deck garden–pulling out the old plants and putting in some mums. I plugged gardening into one of the calorie counters and was surprised at the number of calories that one can burn with an hour or two of gardening.</p>
<p>Happy to report I have a very mini (compared to MOWC) exercise streak going–have done something every day in October (walking, spinning, workout with weights, elliptical, power class, TRX, etc.) Not setting a goal–just doing it a day at a time.</p>
<p>Walking is almost artistic pusuit this time of the year, it is gorgeous, I have to pick up a lief sometime, just to admire the shape and color. We walk a bit under 4 miles (about 3.8) every day, unless my H. objects, then it is shorter walk. Our pace is about 15min.</p>
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<p>You’d be a natural with our aerobic base. Plus, there are streaks to be had. In his online articles about climbing Monadnock, Steven Smith (editor of AMC Guide to the White Mountains and AMC Guide to Hiking Southern NH) has a photo of a man who climbed Mt. Monadnock 2800 days in a row, until a bout of pneumonia kept him home. I’d post the link, but I don’t know if Steven Smith’s website is authoritative.</p>
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<p>I was never in a any spot where I felt at risk of falling off a cliff or anything, but this hike was challenging enough that I had to pay attention… and, obviously I wasn’t when I did my faceplant! It was like the kind of fall when you think you are at the bottom of stairs and there’s more step you aren’t expecting. Overall, I would say this kind of hiking in NH seems to be safe enough for people of all ages, but there is a learning curve.</p>
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<p>It was really beautiful, but tougher than I expected it to be. I plan to keep doing a little hiking through the winter. My snowshoes arrived, so bring on the white stuff. Although I’ll be backing off the steep rocky stuff when it gets icy. I will definitely go back to Mondadnock. It’s terrific. And, the Garmin says it’s under 40 miles from here, although it takes as long as it does to get to the White Mountains because it’s all in traffic.</p>
<p>I won’t be doing any hiking for the next couple of days. I’m beat up from yesterday. Legs are sore. I’ve got four little spots on hands and fingers where I left skin on the rocks that are smarting a little. And a big area on my palm at the base of my thumb that is black and blue.</p>
<p>The good news is that I hit my lowest weight of the year this morning. After getting down to 160 a few weeks back, it shot back up to the 162 range. And, then, for no reason at all the end of last week, dropped again. Maintenance is crazy like that.</p>
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<p>I had a few choice comments for leaves yesterday on the way down. Wet leaves on smooth rocks are slippery.</p>
<p>^Sorry to hear about your negative experience with the leaves. They are one of my favorite objects to be used in art. Be careful driving on wet leaves, it is like driving on snow.</p>
<p>Can’t post links to pictures now? How about doing a montage of pictures on YouTube as links to YouTube are allowed?</p>
<p>^Describe in words, we have imagination.</p>