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Back in my ultimate frisbee days, I found that if I didn’t keep my toenails really short, they would get popped off from the pressure. It didn’t hurt, but it was kind of weird, and they take months to grow back.</p>
<p>10 miles, wow. That’s amazing.</p>
<p>Gorgeous sunny day. Perfect for a hike.
4 miles round trip. 1,700 feet elevation gain. Mountain and lake views.
Felt great!</p>
<p>Half Marathon DONE! 2:07, which is better than I’ve done in a few years (a far cry from 2009’s 1:53 and my other life PR of 1:29) and I’ll take it! Clicked off sub 9:30 miles and right at 9:30 miles through 7, then lost a little stopping to open my HammerGel and then started to slip. Never went over 10:00 pace, even though the last 3 miles were torture. Finished on LP Field (the Titan’s stadium) with our finish on the jumbotron, but I forgot to look. Got 3rd in age group and missed 2nd by 16 seconds. I’m not sure I had 16 seconds in me, but I didn’t know anyway since she started a minute behind me and I never saw her. That’s one problem with chip timing. The winner of my age group actually bumped up to win Grand Master’s with her 1:32 (she’s national class) so I was really 4th. I got a neat mug with the race logo on it. H won his age group in the 5K and got a mug and socks. Awards took long so we did NOT have time to go back home before the Vandy basketball game, so I wore a very strange outfit to the game- a NuuMuu with the race tech shirt over it, green LuLu capris and shamrock compression socks (and bright yellow Brooks shoes). I looked like a little kid dressed me. Oh well.</p>
<p>Ran the race in the NuuMuu with the shrug sleeve thingy over it until I took it off at 10 and tied it around my waist (the sleeve/shrug). The green capris and Hoka Stinson shoes (cheated on Brooks because I needed the cushioning after the marathon 2 weeks ago). 43 degrees at the start up to about 54 with sun out last couple of miles. Nice day.</p>
<p>Excellent, MOWC.
People probably think you are cutting edge on the fashion front with your outfit at the game. Look for copy cats in the future ;)</p>
<p>Good job to all the great fitness going on here! Dstark, Ohio and KMC–that’s great progress! And lots of impressive running–BCE, MofWC, blankmind. </p>
<p>I’ve had a busy few days, so I put in only two miles of walking yesterday and three today. Entertaining, out to theater, etc. Today I tried making a new dessert, a chocolate avocado pudding. Easy and quite tasty. H looked at the ingredients before the preparation and commented that it might be a waste of perfectly good avocado and cocoa powder, but after eating the final product topped with fresh strawberries and toasted walnuts, agreed that it was unusually good. Hoping to do my final C25K week 7 run tomorrow.</p>
<p>Congrats on the half marathon, MOWC.</p>
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<p>CJANE. That’s a pretty nice hike. Plenty of uphill on that one!</p>
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<p>I took advantage of yesterday’s foot of snow to get in one more day of snow shoeing. Did 3.6 miles on soft snow at the Audubon Center. 55 degrees when I started, 45 degrees when I ended. Tons of people out snow shoeing on a cloudless sunny day. Almost all of them were way overdressed.</p>
<p>Started out in just a long sleeve tech shirt and a [Brooks</a> running vest](<a href=“http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81pxnkTnf4L._SL1500_.jpg]Brooks”>http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81pxnkTnf4L._SL1500_.jpg). Later, when the sun got low and it got a little cooler, I switched to this cool [Marmot</a> Fusion top.](<a href=“http://i.stpost.com/marmot-fusion-jacket-for-men-in-slate-grey-steel~p~5392t_02~1500.3.jpg]Marmot”>http://i.stpost.com/marmot-fusion-jacket-for-men-in-slate-grey-steel~p~5392t_02~1500.3.jpg) It’s like a stretchy tech running top, but with windbreaker material on the front, shoulders, and upper arms. Just a little warmth, but breathes really well. I’m starting to be big fan of just an extra layer on the torso. Just a baseball cap and light gloves.</p>
<p>Pretty flat terrain, but that a pretty long walk on snow shoes for me, so I got a nice little workout.</p>
<p>Great job MOWC, but no cat pants?</p>
<p>The tabby tights are going to a casual dinner gathering tomorrow night! (runners)</p>
<p>PlantMom, I’d love that pudding recipe.</p>
<p>Nice work, MOWC! Have fun at dinner tomorrow night.</p>
<p>What a great job this group has been doing sticking with it this winter. Pretty cool. :)</p>
<p>Nice race and nice that your husband ran today too.</p>
<p>1 mile and a ton of strength-training for me today. I didn’t really feel like running today and my son was using my running shoes at the Y.</p>
<p>1327 calories yesterday.
2605 today (felt really hungry today for some reason).</p>
<p>I have been lurking for years (OK, I may have posted once or twice).</p>
<p>Life has dealt a couple of significant blows in past two years but today I am down 6 pounds from this latest start and got below a threshold number. So I am in a celebratory mood!</p>
<p>I purchased an ‘over 55’ pass from my county and get midday access to fitness rooms for $20/YEAR (perk of getting old!) so adding regular exercise back into the mix and it feels so good.</p>
<p>Had an IDad dinner: 6 ounces of grass fed filet mignon, pan seared and 2 cups steamed broccoli with 1 Tbs butter.
I prefer my carbs in Cabernet Sauvignon form. Today’s total carbs 23.18 gms.</p>
<p>I think I can keep this up as long as no-one gifts me any Cadbury Mini Eggs this spring!</p>
<p>Cadbury Mini Eggs - my husbands downfall!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who has put forth such great effort lately!!! Little strides or big strides , they all count.</p>
<p>If its not raining and if I can get in on on-site registration I’m going to do the5k tomorrow. Better go get some sleep!!!</p>
<p>Oops, meant 23.18%</p>
<p>Sweet dreams and good luck tomorrow, Abasket!</p>
<p>Mominva, that’s a great deal. We had broccoli tonight, too, but chicken, no filet mignon. Not to say I wouldn’t be very happy to have the filet mignon. ;)</p>
Great work, everyone.
We had Mexican food tonight at a TN branch of a famous Texas Tex-Mex restaurant. We were both craving it. One of the few things we really miss from Texas. We skipped the $9 margaritas in favor of a Corona Light! Eating was ridiculous today. There was a breakfast buffet at the race (eggs, biscuits, potatoes) but I wasn’t really ready for it after the race. H ate it before I finished my race. I ate some, but not enough. No time for lunch before the game, so I had a soft pretzel and he had popcorn at the game. At 4pm we were starving and, hence, the Mexican food. Oh well- tomorrow is another day.
<p>Little higher today because of the hiking – 3 oz. of cheese as a snack. Had a bit of pumpkin seed butter that I prefer to pb, although don’t like as much as macadamia butter but that is $$$. Protein shake, chicken sausage.</p>
<p>Cals 1396
Fat 109 g
Carbs 15 g
Fiber 5 g
Protein 84 g
Sugars 3 g</p>
<p>Kudo MOWC on the race! </p>
<p>I have to say this is my favorite post, because a literalist could make a great story of it:
Then again, 5 miles LSD in the woods with a bad dog chasing deer would be even more entertaining ;)</p>
<p>So I made a dieting bobo last night that wasn’t even intentional. After working overtime and feeling quite cranky about it (it was dark when we left, 8ish) mch thought it’d be nice to treat me to a quick pub dinner nearby. Which was fine, because there was a steak salad there that I used to always eat way back when I was doing south beach.</p>
<p>Once I saw it, I realized my mistake but was starved. It had egg, cheese and bacon in it. I was so full and miserable after eating it I realized that I have in fact conditioned myself to be satisfied on lighter and less caloriically-dense fare ;)</p>
<p>My micro spikes are in just in time. Is raining and the melting snow is sloppy, so I’m going to try the hill today without the snowshoes,</p>
<p>So, fashion question for Idad – nice water repellent clothing for rainy, vigorous walks? You seem to keep your finger on the pulse of the activewear fashion trends ;)</p>
<p>In keeping with my spring cleaning/simplifying life theme, I took some things from my closet (XL-sized winter stuff that I didn’t wear this winter), the L shorts and XL sweatpants from the nightstand (I put them in a stack and see if I use them for the next few months), and some XL running shirts and moved them to the basement. If I don’t use them for a while, then they either go to storage or the donation bin. I even moved my size L tennis shirts to the basement. I usually like a size up for tennis but they’re getting too big. So I’m going to just use the Nike DriFits in M for tennis now.</p>
<p>I loved my weight yesterday morning, not so much by nightfall. Tried a new BBQ joint for lunch and split a piece of cheesecake at a museum cafe. Luckily today’s a serious gym day! Yesterday’s only exercises was looking at abstract art.</p>
![http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81pxnkTnf4L._SL1500_.jpg]Brooks](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81pxnkTnf4L._SL1500_.jpg%5DBrooks){kind=link}
![http://i.stpost.com/marmot-fusion-jacket-for-men-in-slate-grey-steel~p~5392t_02~1500.3.jpg]Marmot](http://i.stpost.com/marmot-fusion-jacket-for-men-in-slate-grey-steel%7Ep%7E5392t_02%7E1500.3.jpg%5DMarmot){kind=link}
