<br>
<br>
<p>Sounds like a success to me. You coming to Boston this spring?</p>
<br>
<br>
<p>I think that it’s a tough call for this time of the years as the weather is so variable.</p>
<p>I’ve actually been thinking I should try a New Balance shoe. They make them in wide widths and they are apparently the last remaining company making a running shoe that isn’t butt-ugly…</p>
<p>[Ol</a>’ school New Balance shoe](<a href=“http://a1.zassets.com/images/z/1/7/8/1/8/3/1781831-p-4x.jpg]Ol”>http://a1.zassets.com/images/z/1/7/8/1/8/3/1781831-p-4x.jpg)</p>
![http://a1.zassets.com/images/z/1/7/8/1/8/3/1781831-p-4x.jpg]Ol](http://a1.zassets.com/images/z/1/7/8/1/8/3/1781831-p-4x.jpg%5DOl){kind=link}
<p>I believe these are actually made in the United States of America!</p>
<p>Very nice run, Bunsen! You are still really fast! </p>
<p>A lot of people are liking Saucony shoes lately. I think Brooks Ghost is a good shoe if it can fit you.</p>
<p>That’s a pretty old look. I’ve had New Balance shoes that look just like those in the picture though they didn’t have some of the technologies in that pair. NB makes shoes in Brighton, Lawrence and one other place in New England. I don’t recall whether they have factories in the rest of the US. US-made shoes have a US flag on the box. You might try one of the factory stores in Lawrence or Brighton (Merrimack has a factory store but it’s not a real factory store - there’s no factory nearby). They often have nice deals on clothes too.</p>
<p>Box Squat
-135x5
-185x5
-205x5
-225x4
-245x2
-260x1</p>
<p>Bench Press
-115x5
-125x5
-145x4
-155x2</p>
<p>I needed to find 1RM so I know where to work with my program… I’ll start it either tomorrow night or Tuesday night…</p>
<p>I’m having an unexpected set back in the running, and it’s not my legs, but my shoulder. I’ve been having arm/shoulder pain, and it’s starting to become very painful while running. My chiro did some work on it Wed, and gave me some teeny tiny exercises to do for a week. If it doesn’t improve he’s sending me to an orthopedist to have it checked out to make sure it’s not something more serious than tendonitis. </p>
<p>Nice work this weekend everyone!</p>
<p>Anybody know anything about this shoe?</p>
<p>[Brooks</a> Ravenna 3 Red Orange/Black/White - Zappos.com Free Shipping BOTH Ways](<a href=“Brooks ravenna 3 red orange black white brooks + FREE SHIPPING | Zappos.com”>Brooks ravenna 3 red orange black white + FREE SHIPPING | Zappos.com)</p>
<p>I’m actually considering it for more of a day-to-day shoe than anything…</p>
<p>Bunsen - nice running. 8:15 for 6 is cooking. </p>
<p>I can’t seem to get past 4 or 5 miles at the 7 or 8 minute pace. And would like to do the mileage MOWC can clip off. Aerobically just not there yet.</p>
<p>Took today off after a nice day of 100s/200s/400s on the track yesterday.</p>
<p>46 reviews for you, Hops.
[Ravenna</a> 3: running shoe for men who are mild overpronators](<a href=“http://www.brooksrunning.com/Ravenna-3/1101131D835.090,default,pd.html?start=9&cgid=mens-sale]Ravenna”>http://www.brooksrunning.com/Ravenna-3/1101131D835.090,default,pd.html?start=9&cgid=mens-sale)</p>
<p>Hi all. My “birthday/Easter” debauch concluded with my weekly caloric budget less than target but still under “the red” so I’m calling it good and moving forward 
yesterday after driving to Ann Arbor to take mcson back/for dinner I was stuck in a 2-hr traffic halt due to a rollover that closed the highway. Didn’t count as exercise but when I got home, every muscle in my body ached!</p>
<p>Hops- it’s a good shoe and Brooks (gait analysis at an Expo) recommended it for me. I liked it- just has slight posting- but I went to shoes with less of a drop (Brooks Flow, Altra, Hoka).</p>
<p>blankmind- hope the shoulder resolves!</p>
<p>4.1 miles yesterday, stretching video, upper abs, obliques, military press.</p>
<p>4.18 mi treadmill run for me this morning.</p>
<p>I was sore last night. I think Rachel Cosgrove’s little circuit kicked my butt, even though it didn’t seem that tough while I was doing it.</p>
<hr>
<p>Something I’ve started working on, as a offshoot of both hiking and kettlebell swings, is integrating breathing into the tempo of all exericises. Really trying to match an inhale and exhale to each rep. Or, even two inhales and two exhales, like on this one:</p>
<p>[TRX</a> pushup/pike](<a href=“Super Advanced Circuit | Sleek/Strong With Rachel Cosgrove - YouTube”>Super Advanced Circuit | Sleek/Strong With Rachel Cosgrove - YouTube)</p>
<p>I’m doing it nice and slowly. Inhale on the way down, exhale pushing up, inhale pulling the feet in, exhale pushing them back out… </p>
<p>It sounds so simple and it’s probably something most people already do, but I’m starting to think that I was effectively holding my breath on a lot of exercises. Matching the breathing to the cadence of the exercise is letting me do more/better reps. It also helped with the next exercise in this workout, the TRX hop.</p>
<p>I’ve always tried to implement rythmic breathing when I run. Inhale/exhale pattern for each step. Typically in 2/out 2. When I’m going slow in 4/out 4. I tend to fall apart at the end of 400 meters.</p>
<p>Latest article on breathing, Ohiopublic, says to go 3/2, but I can’t remember which way it goes- 3 in and 2 out or 2 in and 3 out. That switches sides for you on your footstrike or something. I don’t do it…</p>
<p>When I run, I use this breathing pattern: 2 short ins and one longer out. Seems to work well to curb my EIB, which has not given me any troubles lately (or maybe I have outgrow it - this happens, too).</p>
<p>When I said that my last run was a semi-success, I meant that I felt like a slug at the end of the run. Shoulda brought my water bottle and dressed lighter without thinking too much about modesty. Next time, I will not give a cat’s behind about my behind in cat tights :)</p>
<p>Sometimes my daily routine swallows me whole, and I can’t seem to find any time for exercise. So I decided that I would do 30 pushups (feet on the bed) before going to bed and after just getting out of it. So far, so good, 4 days and counting. :)</p>
<p>Blankmind, I hope your shoulder recovers soon. Try to avoid carrying any heavy bags on that shoulder/in that arm. I once had a terrible shoulder pain, and the chiro doc diagnosed me with “purse-itis” just by looking at my purse. 
Acting upon her advice, I got a wallet on a chain kind of bag, which is so tiny that I physically can’t shove too much crap into it, and it definitely helped.</p>
<p>I try not to pass out. :D</p>
<p>Today I took it at the “I could go this speed indefinitely” pace for most of the run and then amped it up at the end. If I hadn’t I could have gone longer than I did, but that wasn’t the goal. I increase very incrementally intentionally, as y’all know.</p>
<p>BB, you’re going by so fast nobody has time to see your behind!</p>
<p>Blank, I hope the situation with your shoulder is straightened out soon. Feel better!</p>
<p>NMinn, thinking of you and hoping your knee isn’t bothering you too much. Hope you’re able to get it taken care of soon.</p>
<p>Thanks Deborah. I forced myself to do absolutely nothing and the swelling is down and almost pain free. I am headed to the gym tonight to try the recumbent bike again. Will see how it goes!</p>
<p>Hooray Sabaray! Way to go!</p>