<p>completed another full 3.1 miles on treadmill under 30 minutes. The trick, for me at least, is to start slow. </p>
<p>After several experiments, I found that I could run a lot longer if I started at 6 mile/hour speed, after one mile, go to 6.5, then 7. Always run 7.5 for the last 1 minutes.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if I started with 7, could only run 1.5 miles even if I slow down later. </p>
<p>On this weekend, I will try to run at 6 speed for 5 miles. In other words, I would try to get to 20 mile/week in Nov.</p>
<p>“completed another full 3.1 miles on treadmill under 30 minutes. The trick, for me at least, is to start slow.”</p>
<p>DadII, absolutely. Me too.</p>
<p>I was feeling very tired this morning. Had to wake up early. I did a morning workout. It was ok. Afterwards, I was still tired and was going to blow the rest of the day off. Late afternoon, I just told myself to walk to the gym and see if I had the energy to workout.</p>
<p>It was going ok when my ex boss and his partner called me. I talked to the partner for 10 minutes while I worked out on the bike. Probably
irritated people next to me. I noticed everybody near me split. I was getting annoyed by the phone call. Finally I said that I had to go. I hung up and looked at the bike. I had burned an extra 20 calories in 10 minutes over what I normally burn. I was pepped up. I went to the gym hoping to burn 300 calories and I burned 800 calories. I should get annoyed more often. :)</p>
<p>60 minute upper body routine tonight. My daughter revamped my routines a month ago and has me alternating weeks between very heavy and more moderate weights and it seems to be working. There have been noticeable gains. And then every few weeks, with great glee, she personally puts me through a session just to show me she can grind me into the ground. Little did I know the monster I was creating during all those years of her growing up when she first would come down to my basement gym as a little girl to watch me work out and then later as a young teen to work out with me. It’s very funny to see the role reversal as she is now the trained professional guiding me!</p>
<p>I can relate, Michael. It’s pretty cool. My daughter was giving me advice on resting up for the next marathon… Never thought I would see the day.</p>
<p>The temperature started with a 2 this morning- as in TWO. Short run done.</p>
<p>" Little did I know the monster I was creating during all those years of her growing up "
-yes, we do that and we are proud of that. Mine at 8 would outswim most adults. I cannot even swim in her presence, she would laugh at me. She does not have time to swim anymore, but had an instuction session with few of her classmates who asked her for a swimming lesson. The smell of chlorine will be my favorite for the rest of my life. Swimming is much more to me than just a mere exercise, although it is the best one.</p>
<p>TRX small group class/workout this morning (60minutes)–felt great. Came home and did a 3 mi walk. Sun was out, which was nice after the last few days.</p>
<p>Hugs to you, BB. </p>
<p>IDad: put the candy in the trunk of the car. Found out today that T&T in our town is now scheduled for Sat. Gonna keep candy in the trunk.</p>
<p>Problem with trunk of car is that it will melt if the sun comes out.</p>
<p>Of course that doesn’t seem to be a problem today.</p>
<p>Morning forecast was for sun from noon until 4. The forecast has moved the sun back to 1 PM. I brought warmer clothes today for an outside run but only if the sun comes out and it’s not windy.</p>
<p>Bromfield, update on Tough Mudder? Do you think you’re going to do it? Definitely sounds challenging – understatement. Would you form a new team or try to find one to join?</p>
<p>Oh, and for the public record: I am not going to be on anyone’s Tough Mudder team. Those people look nutso! I was upset when I dropped my Brooks baseball cap in a mud puddle on the summit of Mt. Osceola. It is funny though. I avoid the mud puddles when I’m fresh, but on the way back down to the car, when I’m tired, I usually just say “screw it” and plod thru the mud…</p>
<p>Signed up for my next 5K today. Was shown the full line of winter apparel, or what must have been at least 75% of it. Overwhelmed enough that I escaped with my checkbook fully intact. </p>
<p>Considering joining in on one of their group runs sometime. We’ll see. Does anybody here go out with a running group regularly?</p>
<p>1.5 miles on the treadmill. The sun did come out for two hours but I had people in my office most of the afternoon. I got into the gym late. Unfortunately I’ve been under some pressure lately and I’ve wanted to do some home workouts. I spent time last night and this evening getting my new computer (it’s actually several years old but it’s new to me) to connect to the office. I still have work to do to make it more productive (installing XCode and Synergy mainly). I also have had more chores to do around the house recently and a list of maintenance things to do. If I can get in a short run everyday, though, it will at least keep the blood flowing.</p>
<p>You guys might be talking me into the red. I brought it home from TJ today, hanging next to the gray one to decide. The gray is gorgeous in person (so is the red), but I do have gray jackets and black jackets, so the red would be definite change of pace.</p>
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<p>Basement workout for me – although it was nice enough to get my outdoor workout and medicine ball slams in. This was my second time around without the training wheels on the single leg squats. I think I’ll get the hang of these things.</p>
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<p>I might get a shot at some cold weather hiking next week. Monday and Tuesday are forecast to be sunny (we’ll see how that holds). Gotta vote on Tuesday, so the only clear hiking day for the next week is Monday, with a high of 42 here, 38 up north. I’ve been getting equipped for cold weather hiking, so I should be good to go.</p>
<p>I meant gray clothes! :). A color pop is always good.</p>
<p>Deborah- over the years I’ve been on and off with running groups. It can really be fun and motivating, and on longer runs can be what gets you through. These days I seem to like the flexibility of just doing my own thing- or running the longer runs with my daughter.</p>
<p>Idad, FWIW, a red jacket will make it easier to locate you, if, god forbid, you get lost during one of your hiking expeditions.</p>
<p>Got an excited update form my ex-pat D. She says that joining a water polo team was next to impossible, so she joined a coed rec soccer team, but she is the only female on the entire field during their practices and games. Now I have to go through my closet and find some tech stuff for her to wear when it gets a bit colder (I hope they do not play when it snows :eek:).</p>
<p>Deborah, I tried to run with Mr B in the beginning, but I ended up running around him in circles, since I was a bit faster. I’ve been thinking about joining a group, but my schedule is so out of whack that I can never find the time for a group run. If you can find a group with people of similar speed, you might find it fun.</p>
<p>Ever since I got off the trail (really just the wrong side of a brook) a while back, I’ve become much more pro-active at making sure that doesn’t happen. For almost every hike now, I download an actual GPS track from someone who has hiked that trail and load it into my Garmin. So I have a very accurate track of the trail and my own moving arrow/track super-imposed. It’s now very clear if I get off track. So, knock on wood, they won’t have to send out the search parties! Now, that I’ve started repeating some of the hikes, I have my own saved GPS tracks. I also have the Appalachian Mountain Club maps for all the hiking trails in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts. They are super accurate (mapped with GPS) and I track distances to the next marker as a backup. So if the map says I should come to a trail junction in 1.2 miles and I don’t come to it, I would get a heads up that I’m on the wrong trail!</p>
<p>It is interesting reading the reports of search and rescue in the White Mountains, though. People are really idiots. Most of the folk who get lost have no map, take a wrong trail (often hiking down the wrong side of a mountain from the summit), and end up stuck after dark (with no flashlights, etc.).</p>
I was getting annoyed by the phone call. Finally I said that I had to go. I hung up and looked at the bike. I had burned an extra 20 calories in 10 minutes over what I normally burn. I was pepped up. I went to the gym hoping to burn 300 calories and I burned 800 calories. I should get annoyed more often. :)</p>
I was upset when I dropped my Brooks baseball cap in a mud puddle on the summit of Mt. Osceola. 
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