<p>Absolutely zero exercise for me today. Bump on a log. I spent the day cooking and doing laundry.</p>
<p>I’d exercised 12 days in a row, breaking my own rule about always taking one day a week off.</p>
<p>I like the Show&Go program that I’m doing, but I feel like I don’t workout very often. It’s a 3-day strength program and then you can add some conditioning stuff on those other days, but I struggle to do the conditioning part. I’m hoping the weather is nice tomorrow during the day so I can run sprints before work. </p>
<p>Nice thing I like about the program is it’s structured. I don’t have to think; I just do.</p>
<p>ID, my sodium intake is already higher than it should be.
And when you crave salt, you’re not actually craving table salt.</p>
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<p>Yeah. I have my list of exercises next to the dumbbells. I just start at the top and work my way down the list. Offhand, I don’t think I’ve ever done a workout where I didn’t have a list, either printed or following along with an iPod workout. I’m not capable of exercising and thinking at the same time!</p>
<p>RGE, I don’t know if you take any medications, but I thought you might be interested in seeing the part about hyponatremia and diuretics in this article.</p>
<p>[Why</a> Do I Always Crave Water & Salt? | LIVESTRONG.COM](<a href=“http://www.livestrong.com/article/484909-why-do-i-always-crave-water-salt/]Why”>Why Do I Always Crave Water & Salt? | Healthfully)</p>
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<p>I don’t even know where I would go to find out what my sodium intake “should” be. </p>
<p>I think the LiveStrong food tracker I use from time to time lists how much salt the US government says I should be eating, but I’ve not seen any evidence that the government is competent in such matters or that they have any idea what individual diet might work for me. If their dietary recommendations are as ineffective as their stop-smoking advice, I’ll pass…</p>
<p>I sometimes crave salt after hiking (and sweating) for four or five hours in the summer. I usually eat some salted cashews or almonds. I’ve read of some situations (diet/health issues) that could result in a potassium deficiency, but I’ve never felt like any of those seem applicable to me so I don’t remember what they were! I did switch back to plain ol’ Morton’s salt from kosher salt, just to be sure that I wasn’t iodine-deficient, given my low thyroid, but I don’t think that made any difference on my thyroid tests, so I probably wasn’t iodine deficient.</p>
<p>If you eat a lot of canned goods or tons of potato chips you might be getting too much salt. I’ve never worried about it - I eat almost nothing with added salt, so it’s just what I’ve put in or on it. I tend to think if you are craving salt your body is telling you that you need it. If you are worried, try squeezing some lemon on dishes you usually salt, you can probably get away with less salt if you do.</p>
<p>MOWC, you run with a tough crowd :). </p>
<p>MaineLonghorn, great job on the half! Someday we should have a CC race meet up.</p>
<p>Kudos to MaineLonghorn!!!</p>
<p>“Someday we should have a CC race meet up.” Yay, I’m totally for it!</p>
<p>I had trouble sleeping last night so I woke up early and did a morning routine. I added a few minutes of the stretching video below and learned what a Lizard Stretch is. She has several stretching routines which I will rotate into my morning routine.</p>
<p>[Free</a> 10 Minute Stretching Routine for Runners. Online Flexibility Training Video. - YouTube](<a href=“Free 10 Minute Stretching Routine for Runners. Online Flexibility Training Video. - YouTube”>Free 10 Minute Stretching Routine for Runners. Online Flexibility Training Video. - YouTube)</p>
<p>Good morning.
I actually found the article on carnitine/red meat/by products both interesting and viable as a theory. In this case, it doesn’t seem so much a witch hunt as an attempt to discover WHY there is any correlation at all with red meat consumption. I love red meat and am not going to stop eating it on the back of a single study, but do think it would be good to further the research to understand what some of the variables are in heart disease. </p>
<p>The problem seems to lie in the barrage of half-baked communication and health policy on what is ultimately an inconclusive and possibly unending scientific search to understand nutrition and disease. As a species, we spent a lot of time thinking the world was flat or that leeching cured illness, so I don’t exactly expect us to ever really know what we’re doing conclusively in modern times. </p>
<p>So I don’t know which is worse: the psuedoscience bought by corporate/industry lobbyists that murks up he picture or the tendency of the rest of us latch onto shallow “evidence” and dietary fads. Someday I’d like to invent a “contextualizer” algorithm that can go out and read all known data on a phenom via quantum computing and deliver a summary to inquiring minds 
I’m no longer optimistic that as a human I have the capacity to do so!
(I’m also pretty sure Google’s already working on this…we will come to love our oppression, as they say ;))</p>
<p>What’s also interesting is our societal hindsight and the way that research moves along a slow continuum that often is not actually fast enough to resolve in the span of a human lifetime.</p>
<p>Back in the late 90s I’d written an article about shortening/extending telomeres after reading some enthusiastic new research about the connection between aging and the possibility of averting decline or certain diseases (cancer, alt) via gene therapy that manipulated telomere length. At the time, it was treated as “science fiction” by the mainstream. A researcher in this field, however, won a Nobel peace prize just a few years ago, and I’m seeing a revival in interest of this particular holy grail. </p>
<p>While it may not bear fruit in my lifetime, I suspect this area of study may be germane or taken for granted in a generation or so ;)</p>
<p>Then they’ll be saying “Ah, the good ole days where you actually aged and died!”
They may also be getting a good giggle at our expense over our spotty grasp on fat,
cholesterol, sugar…you get the idea. But like us, what they won’t know is what they don’t know :)</p>
<p>"I don’t enjoy walking or jogging on roads with traffic. "
-I also hate it. Fortunately, I never have to do it. Have very good choices both at home and close to the office. Do not like to smell the gas and listen to the noise of passing cars.</p>
<p>Had a nice one-hour hike with two friends on hilly park trails that were formerly golf course paths. I’m glad they asked me to come along! :)</p>
<p>Sometimes clothes do make a difference.</p>
<p>Received these:</p>
<p>[Perfect</a> Booty Pant | Training Pants | lucy activewear](<a href=“http://www.lucy.com/Perfect-Booty-Pant/111020,default,pd.html?dwvar_111020_color=LUCY%20BLACK%2FBLACK%20SPACEDYE]Perfect”>http://www.lucy.com/Perfect-Booty-Pant/111020,default,pd.html?dwvar_111020_color=LUCY%20BLACK%2FBLACK%20SPACEDYE)</p>
<p>as a gift. Chagrined to see the high price tag, but the compliments have just kept coming. They really do fit better than any other yoga or workout pants I have ever had. Just put a pair of the shorts version on hold.</p>
<p>CJane, I have 4 pairs of the shorts. I really like them for running, and they have a zippered pocket for my keys, which is one of my must have features.</p>
<p>Congratulations sabaray! Way to go! </p>
<p>Back from my weekend away. Four mile walk on Saturday and 3 miles yesterday. Will weigh in tomorrow.</p>
<p>Yeah, running in comfort can cost a few bucks. Or working out in general.</p>
<p>Got in a six-mile run this morning indoors.</p>
<p>It’s going to get into the mid-60s and sunny late this afternoon so I was thinking of an outdoor run then. I’m trying to decide on whether or not to wear the HRM strap. I’ve been running without it the few times outdoors this year. Tomorrow is warm and sunny too and then about five days of rain - seasonable weather.</p>
<p>I like Lucy stuff. It and Athleta are more affordable Lulu type items.</p>
<p>1 hour to go in the 5 hour car ride home. Stiffening up nicely. Quads are sore. My "fast kids"running forum is honoring my course age group record, which is sort of cool. They put up a throwback picture of me finishing Cowtown in 1983 as 3rd female overall. I’m totally feeling my age today.</p>
<p>You all are doing some serious work. I need to get food back under control.</p>
<p>I vote for Seattle. 
There are always plenty of races in this area, the weather is mild, plenty of fun stuff to do and see, places to hike, and you have pals in this area!</p>
<p>I guess Carnitine is not good.</p>
<p>[Researchers</a> Find New Pathway Linking Heart Disease To Carnitine - Forbes](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2013/04/07/researchers-find-new-pathway-linking-heart-disease-to-carnitine/]Researchers”>Researchers Find New Pathway Linking Heart Disease To Carnitine)</p>