<p>I had so much fun grocery shopping. The store was a such a zoo, it was hard not to get in the holiday spirit. Some lady got all verklempt and walked off with my cart. I chased her down and reclaimed my cart (and my LL Bean tote bags). She panicked because she couldn’t find her cart and purse. So I helped retrace the steps to the aisle where I had left my cart (the stuffing aisle), where she found her cart! Crazy…</p>
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<p>You’d change your mind about creamed onions if you tried my Julia Child recipe. Onions braised in white wine and tarragon. Folded into a homemade bechamel. It’s to die for. It’s also one of the most time-consuming recipes in my arsenal, between peeling thousands of tiny onions, braising them, and making the bechemal sauce – right before I stand there and make a roux for the gravy. I’m happy to leave it out of the rotation. I’m doing stuffing the night before. Stuffing the bird and putting it on the rotisserie, and that’s the extent of my cooking until it’s time to make the gravy. I’m gonna watch a lot of football and then head to LLBEAN for their midnight opening. 30% off everything in the store – I think I can snag the down comforter I’m giving my daughter for XMAS and save $75. I’ll just take back the one I bought a few weeks ago. I might find the Brooks neon yellow Nightlife half zip irresistable at $35.</p>
<p>I’m going to go very heavy on the onions, celery, and granny smith apples in the stuffing, lighter on the bread crumbs. I got a dwarf turkey (9.2 pounds). I’ll turn the carcass into turkey soup lunches in the freezer.</p>
<p>LOL, idad, what an adventure! I had a lot of fun at the grocery stores today, too. Had to meet some buddies for lunch who (not very wisely) chose the food court of the local Whole Paycheck (“because it is quick and convenient and not that crowded”). I did not have the time to comment that any grocery store will be a ZOO a couple of days before Thanksgiving. Ha, guess who does food shopping and prep in their houses? It took me longer to find a parking spot than to drive to the store! After the lunch, I decided to check what was on sale - loaded up on chanterelles, which were the same price as at Costco, but I could pick and choose, then grabbed some pears (guess I will make the poached pears) and some minor things - to fill one grocery bag. On the way home I stopped by the TJ. Good lord, I can only imagine how bad that place will be tomorrow! Walked out with 2 packed bags for 50% less than what I paid for the one bag I filled at the Whole Zoo. Tomorrow, I will pay a visit to my local Top Foods to pick a few items that neither of the two abovementioned grocery stores had. It looks like the big kiddo wants a pumpkin pie… Should I cheat and get one at Costco, or should I invest some effort into a homemade one? As they say, easy as a pie…</p>
<p>Creamed onions… Well, if I had some of THOSE, I’d probably change my mind :)</p>
<p>We are having about 20 family and friends over for Thanksgiving. In the past, my sister-in-law brought the turkey and I would grill fish outside. This year, it will be just the more traditional turkey except for my son who has to make weight the next day at a weigh in for a ju jitsu competition. I still get to grill Chilean sea bass for him. Maybe I’ll sneak an extra piece on for myself. The closest I’m going to get to Whole Paycheck on Thursday is to leave on a 45 mile morning group bike ride from its parking lot. There will be about 3900 feet of climbing so I should be able to have a guiltless Thanksgiving no matter what I eat!</p>
<p>Have been studying about the heart rate a lot lately. One article says the HR should come back to the base line after the same amount of time of your exercise.</p>
<p>According to that, if I ran 30 minutes on treadmill, my HR should back to normal after 30 minutes. That is not happening. If I finish my run at 8:45, my HR will still about 10% higher than Resting HR at 11 PM. </p>
<p>I am worried. Is that normal and should I see a doctor about teh poor recovery time?</p>
<p>Thanks Idad. The fact is that I am still way over weight as it is. The weight loss has been painfully slow. May be I should just be happy and stay at this level.</p>
<p>Steady Dad II. That will get you there. I would not worry about a 10% over resting HR in the evening. I suspect we all have that. Resting is usually still in bed, no caffeine yet, no stress. My resting is about 52 and I won’t see that through the day at all.</p>
<p>Well, the bear got me today. I’ve been fighting off vague cold symptoms – runny nose, sneezing, etc. And, this afternoon was first I felt a little “sick”, headache, little chill.</p>
<p>I knew, early into my workout, that I didn’t have it. So I gutted it out through the warmup, through the core (twisting side planks) and power (DB snatches) and decided to get through the first (of two) supersets and call it a day. Front squats. DB 3-pt row. Single leg squats. TRX elevated presses (pushups with the hands in the straps). Reverse lunges with DB press.</p>
<p>I made it through one set and that was that.</p>
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<p>My resting heart rate is 48 - 52, but I never see that during the day. It’s more like 65 or 70, even without exercising.</p>
<p>My heart rate is always elevated for some period of time after exercise. I think that’s normal. The heart is pumping extra to restore oxygen levels that have been depleted in your muscles. It’s a good thing as it means that you are burning more calories (raising your metabolism) even after you have finished exercising.</p>
<p>My exercise today consisted of wet leaf removal from the communal driveway (if BB doesn’t do it, the leaves will be there until eternity - my neighbors do not give a rat’s behind about the issue). I discovered that a plastic snow shovel is much better for picking up wet, stuck to the asphalt leaves than any leaf-removal tool in my garage. :)</p>
<p>Baking the pumpkin pie now and prepping some veggies for tomorrow…</p>
<p>Today’s workout was bringing a desktop in, taking it apart, going out to buy a new power supply, returning it because it was defective, going to a new computer store to buy another power supply, installing it, adding another disk drive (because the power supply can now handle it), bringing it home and setting it up. Not the toughest of workouts though. The hardest part was carrying my backpack, gym bag and computer down to my car. I didn’t feel like making two trips.</p>
<p>Good luck on the cold. It might be a new one - sounds a little more potent than the older one.</p>
<p>Thanks MOWC and Idad. The higher HR is proventing me to fall asleep quickly. </p>
<p>It seems that I must complete my exercise by 8:30 PM or I will not be able to sleep by mid night. Did not have this problem earlier in the cycle.</p>
<p>When I get to the gym by 7:45, there is a line to use treadmills. By 8:15, most of the people are done. If I finish my 5K by 9:00 PM I would just feeling a pounding heart beat until early in the morning. </p>
<p>I need the sleep to function normally at work. Would love suggestions to work out this problem.</p>
<p>Do they have a sauna at the gym?
When I was going 3/4 times a week, I would go after dinner @7 and stay till closing at 10. Aerobic activity before bed actually helped me sleep. Using the sauna for 20 min or so also helped.
( I would do 15 of aerobic, followed by 30 min of weight training or stretching & repeat until I had 45 min total of aerobic)</p>
<p>My Monkey legs bounced back for the Turkey Trot 5K. 28:38 and won age group. WildChild ran 16:38 for 5th overall. He never runs short, so that was pretty impressive. Daughter ran with her husband and then had a fun race. My husband ran a 10:00 pace off of his bike training. The awards were crap- cheap little dog tags. No matter…</p>
<p>Sounds like a good day of Wild Family running! I was wondering how your legs were bouncing back after the Monkey. I figured that it was probably a pretty sore week!</p>
<p>The only turkey trotting I’m doing today is trotting the bird out to the Weber grill and back. I’ve definitely got a little bug, taking ipubrofen and sudafed for the first time in about three years. Not too bad, but no Airdyne for me today before turkey! And, believe me, that breaks my heart… (not).</p>
<p>I think it was two years ago this week that I did my first burpee. I guess I’ll have to do one sometime today to commemorate.</p>
<p>Stuffing is made. Now I’ve got to go stuff the bird and fire up the Weber. Amazingly, I was able to locate the spit and rotisserie attachment… I had a salad for lunch. That’s practically un-American!</p>
<p>A beautiful low 50’s morning for a 45 mile ride. Beautiful fall foliage, sunny skies, lots of hills. Time to set the house up for our T-Day festivities. Then refuel to my hearts content!</p>
<p>Did my turkey trot this morning, my garmin says 28:51, but I’ll have to wait to see the official time. I’m really happy with that after all my time off for my calf problems. It was so fun to be back in a race. My hair woke up looking kind of exploded, so I decided to complete the look with a turkey drumstick head piece (they sell all kinds of strange things at these races). I figure if I have to see horrible pictures of myself running, I might as well pretend I planned to look that bad.</p>
<p>Good race, blankmind, and good cooking iDad! My legs were very tired this week. I was sore on Monday, especially my calves, but not too much after that. That’s one of the benefits of all the walking breaks- minimizes the soreness. GO BURPEES!!!</p>
<p>Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow CC athletes! </p>
<p>Great run, MOfWC!</p>
<p>Blankmind, that sounds GREAT! Congrats on a very successful turkey run!</p>
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<p>This thing is really nasty. I do not remember the last time I had to do the same. Stopped by a Target last night to get something for the cough, boy, I have not shopped for cough syrups in a loooong time, and things have changed - I had to produce my ID and get it scanned into some sort of a database to buy a bottle of Robitussin DM. No sales to anyone under 18. Holy cow… I hope these drug abuse prevention measures work at least a bit. Scary what kind of stuff kids use to get high (or low) nowadays.</p>
<p>Anyway, it looks like the rain eased a bit, so we have some sort of a bike ride/run planned for today. We’ll see.</p>
It took me longer to find a parking spot than to drive to the store! After the lunch, I decided to check what was on sale - loaded up on chanterelles, which were the same price as at Costco, but I could pick and choose, then grabbed some pears (guess I will make the poached pears) and some minor things - to fill one grocery bag. On the way home I stopped by the TJ. Good lord, I can only imagine how bad that place will be tomorrow! Walked out with 2 packed bags for 50% less than what I paid for the one bag I filled at the Whole Zoo. Tomorrow, I will pay a visit to my local Top Foods to pick a few items that neither of the two abovementioned grocery stores had. It looks like the big kiddo wants a pumpkin pie… Should I cheat and get one at Costco, or should I invest some effort into a homemade one? As they say, easy as a pie…</p>
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