<p>My husband agrees with you, Hops.</p>
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<p>Dad II, do you like to play with numbers? I do. 
Anyhow maybe you’d be interested in plugging numbers into an age-graded results calculator. Here are a couple of links. Somebody else here with more experience could probably tell you which age graded calculator is best or if there is something else they’d use instead.</p>
<p>[Age-Graded</a> Results Calculator](<a href=“http://www.heartbreakhill.org/age_graded.htm]Age-Graded”>http://www.heartbreakhill.org/age_graded.htm)</p>
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<p>Congrats Deborah and glad the shirt is cool.</p>
<p>Please remind me next year that I do NOT want to do this again! It is just SO HARD!!! I finished with my slowest ever time- 5:14. 56 minutes slower than 2009 Monkey. My daughter thinks it’s a pretty good Monkey time for what I’ve been running in the recent marathons. I just can’t tell you how brutal the course is. Some of the really experienced runners say that you can’t even call it a road marathon because of all the climbs. I ran with some friends (we walked a lot even early on) but lost them at about 7 miles and one of them wound up dropping out and the other one got by me at 13. I lost complete touch with the race at about 14-18 and only passed 2 groups of early start (1 1/2 hours early) walkers. I was almost afraid I was off-course or something. Picked up some people at 18 before a 2 mile climb which most of us mainly walked. I ate a bunch of crap- Coke, donut holes, PB&J and some chocolate covered raisings- that they had at some of the aid stations. My husband had bike duty with the lead female, who finished in about 3 hours and then he came back and got me at 20 miles and rode with me. He could barely pedal slowly enough, but he said I kept passing people. It was a gorgeous day, but cold at the start. 32-58 degrees or so. Fun after-party with tons of food and local beer. My friend set a course record with a 2:34. I was so slow I got to see him on the course twice! I am so glad it’s over. I am dead.</p>
<p>You did it! A full three marathons this fall, including the next near impossible Flying Monkey, and a slew of extra races you snuck in there! Congratulations, MOWC!!!</p>
<p>Now rest. :)</p>
<p>Did Blank have a race today or is that later in the week?</p>
<p>MOWC, it was pretty wet this morning and before the race got started I was thinking, “5K is one thing, I can’t imagine having to worry about whether I’d be contending with a downpour for nine times this distance.”</p>
<p>InterestedDad, He’s walking on the treadmill – 3 to 4 miles per day at about 3.8 mph with a pretty high incline of 4 or 5. I’ve talked him down from the incline and got him lighter weight shoes. He was walking in Merrill trail shoes, sturdy but very heavy. </p>
<p>I think guys his age are strong but fragile and don’t want to see him with a big injury.</p>
<p>^ Sounds like a repetitive stress problem. A treadmill allows you to get in a zone and make every step exactly the same.</p>
<p>Does your treadmill have any program modes that would continuously vary the speed and slope?</p>
<p>Yay Deborah and MOWC and Emeraldkitty’s kids. Successful races all around.</p>
<p>MOWC: I would say that just finishing that race is a big win. The total elevation gain would be tough to do just walking, I can’t imagine running…</p>
<p>sewhappy:</p>
<p>When I started walking, I felt some discomfort in my knee walking uphill. I’ve outgrown it – a combination of losing weight and getting a lot stronger. Specifically, I think getting the hips working better is a big help to the knees.</p>
<p>MOfWC: CONGRATS!!! I admire your determination and willpower. Great job. I hope you give yourself some rest - the stupid bunny ain’t goin’ nowhere! (Something tells me you will subject yourself to this torture at least once more 
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<p>Deborah - very brave of you to run in the rain! A shirt well earned, indeed. </p>
<p>Sewhappy - he definitely needs to get lighter shoes and vary the speed and elevation during his walks, which will make his exercise more interesting.</p>
<p>sewhappy:</p>
<p>I don’t know what stage of fitness your hubby is in, but – for me – walking 3 to 4 miles on a treadmill, every day, would be a lot of walking. I am very big on not doing the same thing on back to back days. I think that’s a recipe for soreness and injury.</p>
<p>If I used a treadmill, I would increase the elevation and decrease the mileage. I’d probably do walking intervals with a minute or two with the slope cranked up followed by a minute or two flat.</p>
<p>Two days of walking in NYC–will count it as exercise. One day we walked from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (83rd St. and Fifth) to our hotel on 26th and Park. Don’t know how many blocks equal a mile, but it was a good trek downtown. </p>
<p>Deb T and MOWC: congrats on your races. MOWC–your Monkey Run sounds grueling. Impressed with your stamina and ability to keep on going.</p>
<p>Another day of “Mix 3” on the elliptical. Then I spent some time laying on the foam roll. Some nice upper extremity stretching…</p>
<p>InterestedDad and Bunsen – Thank you both for your advice on my DH’s sore knees. It helps me to get the reinforcement to encourage him to vary his workout more and switch to lighter shoes. A lot of the challenge is his job – lots of long hours and stress make it harder to think thru the exercise strategy and follow-thru so he’s just going by rote too much, I think.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck full of monkeys, but no specific injury type soreness, thankfully.</p>
<p>Sewhappy- I know a lot of people have knee problems on treadmills. It really might be the repetitive motion, but also uphills are a little tough on knees. </p>
<p>I did 1.1 miles this morning, which was about all I had in me, so the Streak lives on!</p>
<p>I guess that the workout on Saturday was pretty good. I was sore from my knees to my hips Sunday and today. Just did stretching Sunday and some work assembling a digital keyboard at my mother’s house. Normally I’d just lift the keyboard myself (it weighs about 60 pounds and is about 5.5 feet wide) but I had help from my son given relatively wobbly legs. Today is root canal day so we’ll see how I feel later this afternoon.</p>
<p>I did get an invitation to hit singles this afternoon but I’d probably be better off not doing so.</p>
<p>On the road to relief, BC.</p>
<p>I actually feel better - in the form of not going through life in a fog - the antibiotics do that. I hopefully won’t have to take those after the RC. The antibiotics generally mean that I need more sleep. Maybe they could be used as sleep aids. When I go to sleep, I’m out like a light until the morning. I recall taking Penicillin for the first time back in the 1990s for an infection (new baby + working very long hours). I took the first dose and was out like a light for a day. Cleared up the infection pretty quickly though.</p>
<p>Still have the cold too. But I feel good enough to run and lift. I think that the cold temps and less light are adjustment things too.</p>
<p>Looks like everyone else is still plowing through.</p>
<p>Nothing today at all, what a change, but a very positive reason - D. is visiting and we are going out to eat. Sushi time, yummmm! So, because of all the salt in soy souce and ice cream, etc., couple of lbs tomorrow for sure. I do not care! They come and they go…almost without my input to this process…</p>
<p>Recumbent, elliptical, and weights at the gym today.</p>