<p>High-five, youtube lady! You go girl!!</p>
<p>(That’s what I do - a set of 30 push-ups with my feet on the bed, good form, one set before getting in the bed, the other just after rolling out of the bed. 
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<p>High five for BB, too!</p>
<p>I think I can do 25 with my feet on the bench, but I would be struggling at the end… I’ll have to try it, now.</p>
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<p>I don’t really know what pilates is exactly, but with the core stuff I do, the way I see progress is to do it three days a week for six months or a year and then go back and do one of the first exercises again. Then, it’s night and day.</p>
<p>What’s uncomfortable for me right now is finally doing this foam roller stuff. For starters, I’m like a box turtle flipped over on its back trying to get into these positions and roll something. I hope I get a little more graceful.</p>
<p>5 miles yesterday evening. 5 miles this morning. Maybe intervals tonight.</p>
<p>When I was in my 20s I could do three unassisted pullups. I can’t do any now. I haven’t tried doing foot elevated push ups. I can do lots in a day if they are spread out enough, but I never did more than 20 in a set.</p>
<p>Tested out an out-of-bed early morning run today. Liked it! Nicely cool and just love e morning “feel”. Might aim for this in the summer since in the summer I only have to be responsible for myself in the morning to get ready and head to work.</p>
<p>Took today off. 2 mile run. A few of hours of yard work ahead of me!!!</p>
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<p>It’s really cool when a 2 mile run is a rest day.</p>
<p>I envy your run outside. Still snowing today. This weather is really bothering me. :(</p>
<p>Snow? Wow.</p>
<p>Stretch/strength/core</p>
<p>NMinn, hugs. </p>
<p>Sunny with clear skies. I want to go outside and play in my garden, but i am swamped with random stuff that needs to be taken care of today.</p>
<p>Im still dragging myself out to go to water aerobics 4x week even though I think I am going to have to get a walker soon. 
Hard to believe that five years ago I was working outside year round almost full time restoring habitat in the watershed to prevent flooding. I would come home wet & muddy & I loved it!
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<p>It is supposed to be in the upper 70s today & the sun is wonderful! (But I dont really need the heat - I have my own little furnace going on) :p</p>
<p>I love reading about what everyone else is doing, but even after I get my new knee, I am not going to be a runner-However I will invite you all to come hiking with me in the North Cascades next spring!
[Wallace</a> Falls ? Washington Trails Association](<a href=“http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/wallace-falls]Wallace”>Wallace Falls State Park — Washington Trails Association)</p>
<p>EK, that looks lovely.</p>
<p>I never would have guessed I’d become a runner. As a kid I disliked running because I’d get side cramps. I wonder if I had PE right after lunch? In high school I had friends on cross country who asked me to come with them on their practice run once after school. I did, and I vaguely remember somebody getting a funny look on her face at one point and saying, “Let’s walk now.” I was good and sore the next day, but apparently I had at least some oomph, lol. </p>
<p>Plenty of fun, active things to do besides running!</p>
<p>That looks like my kind of hike!</p>
<p>The hiking reports from the White Mountains still sound miserable, but I’m going to try to take advantage of the nice weather and do a couple hikes a little farther south: Mt. Major tomorrow and Monadnock early next week. I believe that the ice and snow should be gone on the east/south facing trails on those.</p>
BCEagle, oh that two mile run wasn’t a rest day, IT COUNTS!!! I meant that I took he day off work. 
<p>FYI - Myhabit has New Balance running shoes for men as one of their events today. The prices look reasonable.</p>
<p>EK, looks like the sun is forecast to keep shining for the next week. We’ve got to take that one as a win.</p>
<p>Okay, week 6 of C25K is completed. Whew. Ordered new clothes for graduation weekend. I hope they fit. </p>
<p>Today would be a box of donuts day if I hadn’t started this. I don’t even want them though. I just feel sick and sad. Good thing I went for a run; doesn’t that release endorphins or something like that? I should feel better any minute!</p>
<p>Ran five miles and then went to hit outside for 45 minutes. It was pretty challenging because it was quite windy out. Got a pretty decent workout though sometimes you had to charge the ball because the wind held it up and sometimes you had to react quickly because the wind accelerated the ball.</p>
<p>Stretching video, upper abs, obliques and pushups early this morning. All of that and I’ve only had 245 calories so far today. I need to get some more food this weekend.</p>
<p>I know that I’ve been saying that I’m in plateau mode but I looked on the LiveStrong weight chart and I’m down 4 pounds since April 1. So plateaus actually feel a lot longer than they actually are. I say to myself that I’m not really trying to lose a lot of weight but when I describe what I’m doing to someone else, they think that I sound fanatical. I guess that the mode that I’m in normally would be considered by others to be extreme.</p>
<p>I might be making a but more progress because my wife isn’t around. She normally cooks more than what I need and I feel obligated to finish everything. Well, it’s not that hard either.</p>
<p>BC, I just think you sound like someone who’s really strong and has a lot of endurance. :)</p>
<p>EK, that hike looks beautiful. I hope your knee situation improves soon.<br>
Saba-good job on finishing week six and on resisting the doughnuts. I hope you feel better because of the run, and that what’s bringing you down will turn itself around.
NMinn…I am speechless about this continued snow. Only two weeks until our trip there…
Nice working out, in general, CC group. </p>
<p>4.25 miles on the treadmill, 3.5 miles of solid running of 1/4 mile run/jog intervals. HR up high, but it felt tolerable. Running faster has the real benefit of shortening the workout time. Added shoulder and back weight machine exercises, planks. Now for a sushi dinner.</p>