<p>Already up and walking! Woohoo! Go EK!</p>
<p>Well besides the yummy food I have a femoral nerve block. I’m sure that when they take that off, it will not be so fun.
But I am so relieved because I was seriously panicky before hand. But the Dr told my H, that it was totally bone on bone. So it’s good that I did it and I am so motivated to go on some of these hikes!</p>
<p>Best wishes for a speedy and successful recovery, ek.</p>
<p>Back in the gym
Rowing intervals</p>
<p>Pilates, core, planks
KB swings
Squats
Tabata-style finisher: more kb swings, push ups, jump rope, various undulating rope deals including a hideous rope pulling machine.</p>
<p>SWdad, I’m so sorry to hear about your friend. I usually peddle around our neighborhoods on my heavy bike and there’s no way I’d ride it on the “real” roads. Florida is not the friendliest place for bike riders or pedestrians. </p>
<p>EK, I hope your recovery is speedy and the new knee works like a charm! </p>
<p>I, too, am having a lazy day. Just did a quick two mile walk with H; rode the bike this morning to take a few plant photos, and that’s it. Tomorrow is likely to be even less active. Son graduates this weekend, so what the heck, I’ll just plan on coasting until next week :(</p>
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<p>Yay. I’m so happy to hear that your brand spanking new knee is already starting to work for you. I could tell how frustrated you were with being crippled. That’s so exciting and I know your progress will be steady!</p>
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<p>Back to the basement for more of these workout videos I dug up on the internet somewhere. Although, in week four, I was a little tired of the videos, so I just did the workout on my own, while listening to a Dr. William Davis (Wheat Belly dude) podcast. I have the workouts memorized and just used my trusty GymBoss interval timer to keep my rests between exercises more or less to the prescribed 60 seconds.</p>
<p>Good workout. I’m definitely stronger at this particular group of exercises than I was when I started.</p>
<p>Goblet squats and lateral lunges in this workout. i don’t know if I’m going to drop a couple of dress sizes, but my legs are sure going to look good in a bathing suit this summer! :)</p>
<p>EK, so glad to hear your surgery went well - hoping for a speedy recovery so you can get back to being active. </p>
<p>3.2 mile run at 5:30 pm; 86 degrees. Don’t know what I was thinking, but I needed to get it done. Nothing extra today; 38 minutes. 5 miles of walking with Sabadog. </p>
<p>NM, what is carb cycling?</p>
<p>5.5 miles this afternoon, 1 mile this evening at the Y. I didn’t really feel like running today but I just kept going. Got home and no dinner. Wife went to sleep due to jet lag. So I had some toasted oats and went to the Y. Then picked up some salads and gyros.</p>
<p>Also broke another 3-pound plateau. It was a short plateau.</p>
<p>Lots of good workouts today.</p>
<p>Good report, EK! Recover well.</p>
<p>swdad, I am very sorry to hear about your friend. What an awful thing.</p>
<p>EK, I’m so happy for you that you finally got your surgery! And yay for nerve blocks!!</p>
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<p>That is just about every day for me these days. </p>
<p>Evenso I am health enough to run a 1/2 marathon, my blood pressure continue to go up - 195/100 range. That force me to take this awful medicine. On top of that, my allergy is calling for prescription strength stuff. The combination of those makes so tired - running 2 miles becomes such a struggle.</p>
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<p>I really admire/envy your will power to cut down intakes. While I am doing quite a few exercises, I am eating way too much food than I should.</p>
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<p>Absolutely. I can’t imagine being lucky enough to not have those days. That’s a big reason I try to keep an assortment of 20 minute start-to-finish workouts in my hip pocket. I can usually talk myself into “just 20 minutes” and, if something seems like “yuk, no way…” to me, I can usually talk myself into something else.</p>
<p>Hell yeah! I can barely get myself out the door a LOT of days. The streak actually helps me a lot. Not sure I could do it some days without the streak. My job can be quite intense, and weather, social obligations… Geez-who wants to exercise or worry about what I should eat? The key is to do as well as you can as often as you can and don’t beat yourself up when you can’t.</p>
<p>Yay, EK, I will be knocking on wood periodically for your speedy recovery. Please take it easy with gardening until the doctors give you a green light.</p>
<p>If I got a dollar for every time I did not want to drag my sorry butt out of the door to run, I’d be rich. Nike got it right - just do it. :)</p>
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<p>In my book 5 miles of walking with Sabadog qualifies as something extra. :)</p>
<p>DadII- I don’t understand why you are so hung up on time goals right now. I would recommend not worrying about that- especially going into warmer weather. Just build up your distance, try to stay relaxed and just build a base. I think one of the problems with doing a lot of treadmill running is that the display is staring you in the face. You are still a new runner and the goal is to build up your miles- mostly easy, occasionally hard- but not to get hung up on how fast you can run 2 miles- or 13. Run a 5K once a month if you want to challenge yourself.</p>
<p>This sounds silly, but given that I’m still a beginning runner, I actually put post-it notes over the treadmill displays (and even the time stamp on CNN). I let the Couch to 5k voice tell me when to speed up or slow down, but I find that I start to lose my faith in myself if I’m always looking at the time / distance. I still want the treadmill for pace and momentum purposes, since I don’t have a sense yet as to how fast I run when I’m outdoors. </p>
<p>I hear you, ego-wise, Dad II - I am trying to get to a 10:00 pace and I can’t maintain that pace for more than a minute or two. It feels humiliating. But I just have to focus on the fact that I’m running and better than being on the couch.</p>
<p>Kind of an off day yesterday. Probably put in 2 miles running around the track meet yesterday. </p>
<p>I made the mistake of buying these 90 calorie snickers ice cream bars. Problem is that I had 3 of them last night.</p>
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<p>It took me a long time to get down to 10:00. I started at over 12:00, probably 13:00. I’ll have to check my spreadsheet at the office to see how long it took me to get down to 10:00 but I’m really sure that it was much longer than the C25K training time.</p>
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<p>How can you eat 90 calories of ice cream?</p>
<p>I never buy ice cream.</p>
<p>But other people in the house do. When it is on sale. Not really a great excuse but I can’t control what others do. I ignore ice cream in the freezer normally. The problem was that there was a bowl in the freezer with a half-eaten Klondike bar. I’m not going to open up a new package but this one was using up a lot of space in the freezer and was calling my name.</p>
<p>I had a thought this morning: buy a pair of jeans with waist size 30 and just leave it in the closet and try it out from time to time.</p>
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<p>iDad is right about that being a great motivator. I am watching the J. Crew sales and will buy some pants a size smaller when I see what I want. </p>
<p>Pizzagirl, I’m coming close to the end of C25K (hooray!). I’m not following it exactly; usually I am tacking some extra running on to the end or running more than walking. I find that my pace has been picking up the longer I’ve stuck with the running. Yesterday was miserably hot but if nothing else, I could do it. It wasn’t pretty and my average pace was 11:56 (that included the 5 minute warmup and cooldown). During the running segment I ranged from a 10:19 to 11:30 pace it looks like (I use Runkeeper too). I am now thinking of doing the local July 4th 5K. Flat course, early morning. </p>
<p>This afternoon I plan on heading to the gym and then will do Day 3, Week 8 of C25K tomorrow morning. No opportunity for exercise this weekend other than a lot of walking around Grounds, I suspect. No walks with Sabadog either (and Deborah, he doesn’t think of those as extras…they are required! :)).</p>