<p>Oh, blankmind. I’m so sorry. I guess it was just over a year ago that I tweaked my achilles/calf muscle. It was just a sharp instant pain - a distinct moment of injury. Fortunately, it healed up just fine in a few weeks. Hopefully, you’ll have the same good outcome.</p>
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<p>Hah. I’ve got a great walking-on-water GPS track in Google Earth. Shows me walking right across a lake. Of course, the Google Earth satellite imagery was taken in the summer and my walk was across a very frozen lake!</p>
<p>My Nike/iPod footpod pedometer was pretty accurate. I went to calibrate it in a 400 meter high school running track, but it was calibrated quite accurately right out of the box. But, it works best with a steady gait. I don’t think it would work well at all for my hiking. And, I can’t imagine that it could draw an accurate map.</p>
<p>For hiking, the GPS accuracy is pretty amazing. Usually accurate within about 10 feet or so. Accurate enough to see which side of a small country lane I was walking on. The only time it gets fooled is when I stop for 30 minutes. The GPS track shows me darting around like a waterbug (10 feet at a jump) the whole time, even though I’m sitting down. This shows up as added distance, so my routes always end up slightly longer than they actually are. I’ve not had good luck pausing the watch while stopped because I inevitably forget to restart it and end up with a completely messed up recording.</p>
<p>Garmin has a footpod pedometer that will link to the GPS watch so you can get distance data on a treadmill or when running/walking under bridges and so forth.</p>
<p>blankmind, so sorry to hear about the injury. Speedy recovery. </p>
<p>Please give us an update if you go to have it checked out. I am wondering what could go wrong while you are doing a normal run - w/o falling or a bad landing.</p>
<p>BCE, C25K was a good thing for me to do as while I’ve run before, it’s been hard for me to get back into it as I always tried to do too much initially and didn’t really plan workouts. Here, the workouts were planned for me, which was good. I downloaded the 5210K app and we’ll see how that goes. I will probably just work on “free runs” using Runkeeper for a few weeks until I am more consistent with my pacing. I just need something planned every workout to do and I find my running is improving and getting faster in the later miles. A longer run may be better for me. I am slow to warm up. </p>
<p>I’m going to give the running challenge a whirl, simply because I like having a goal. It’s only 39 days of running a mile each day. I’m not far from a track (i.e., I can walk there) so I might as well try it.</p>
<p>Oh, blankmind, so sorry to hear that you got injured. Ice and vit I are your friends - at least until you get it checked out by a doctor. My non-running kiddo had Achilles tendinitis issues that were solved by heel cups in her running shoes (she was told to lay off running, tape her foot, ice it and take ibuprofen until her pain went away). Fingers crossed for your speedy recovery!</p>
<p>My yard is crying for my attention. I guess I will have to give it some TLC.</p>
<p>4.5 mile hike this morning to some nice waterfalls. Not too strenuous, pretty fast out and back. Got lucky with the weather, as it decided to rain at the very end.
Then 10 pushups on my toes, just because.</p>
<p>Blankmind- so sorry. Injuries suck and you never know how long the recovery will be. I hope yours is short!<br>
There are lots of things that can go wrong when running. Knees, hamstrings…</p>
<p>My daughter has done a number of the RW running streaks. It’s a great motivator. Just don’t let it get to 600 days! :)</p>
<p>Starting to get a little sore and very ready to get back home. At the airport now.</p>
<p>Have a safe flight, MOfWC! Hope you don’t get to sit between two giants. </p>
<p>I’m already freaking out about my upcoming race, actually, about the flight back home! I have no experience with sitting in a tight place for 3 hours straight after a long race!</p>
Bunsen- compression socks or sleeves for the flight. It’s not too bad. Yesterday and after my last marathon I had long drives and it went OK. You’ll be fine. Wine will help, too!
<p>Walking and more walking this weekend. Signed up for an organized group hike today and was disappointed when the leader called it off because of the rain. Bought Wright socks for my three-day charity walk next weekend–really going to focus on avoiding blisters.</p>
<p>Congrats to MOWC, and BB on your races. Nice job. Sorry to hear about your injury Blankmind–hope you’ll mend quickly. Nice pace Deb T.</p>
<p>Bromfield, best wishes for your megawalk next weekend. Have you tried body glide, in addition to the special socks, on your feet for blister prevention?</p>
<p>Don’t experiment on the day of, but perhaps try it out . Also maybe have spare socks with you during event. And moleskin.</p>
<p>Thanks, MofWC! You reminded me that I need to get a new pair of compression knee-highs. Glad that I had my run yesterday - it is wet and plain yucky today. Treadmill kind of weather.</p>
<p>My usual Monday workout in the basement today. Really good, solid workout. Did rear-foot elevated split squats with two 25lb DBs, 10 reps per leg, non-stop, no rest between legs. Saw heart rates of 91% of my max on the second and third sets of those.</p>
<p>Did TRX/Jungle Gym inverted rows. I’ve made some real gains on those.</p>
<p>Two fun kettlebell exercises. Three sets of KB swings, a dozen each. The 50 lb kettlebell doesn’t feel too heavy anymore.</p>
<p>And, the interesting single-side deadlift. KB on one side. Pick it up and stand up until the knees are locked, then put it down. 10 reps on one side, then 10 on the other, trying to not lean. 20 reps of that with the 50lb weight is plenty. Saw a heart rate of 87% on that one.</p>
<p>Idad, the surprising thing about my pedometer program is that it accurately tracks a significant portion of my hiking trail…it will show pretty much exact mapping around a rock etc. it’s just that now and then it “runs away” with something else (overhead plane? An animal?)…hence the walking on water and other anomalies Quite mystifying.</p>
<p>Back in the old days, I used to count on slimming down a little in summer due to increased activity. But after this weekend, I’m pretty clear why that hasn’t happened for a while. It’s the damned parties. First off, people actually ask for my evil pasta salad, then I cant resist it once I’ve made it. Then there are the outstanding brownies my friend always makes and brings. Then there is the Grand Marnier habit I’ve gotten everyone into after dinner.</p>
<p>Having the pool seems to increase the party density/frequency dramatically, so I either have to learn to just resist high cal culprits (which is easier at other people’s houses somehow) or become antisocial :)</p>
<p>Yesterday I made a nice maple balsamic vinaigrette for a pear-walnut-feta salad. Maybe I’ll start serving that with meat at parties and forgo the starch entirely. The problem with the pasta salad is there are always leftovers I hate to waste the next day…whereas you can’t save a dressed salad :)</p>
Ice and vit I are your friends - at least until you get it checked out by a doctor. My non-running kiddo had Achilles tendinitis issues that were solved by heel cups in her running shoes (she was told to lay off running, tape her foot, ice it and take ibuprofen until her pain went away). Fingers crossed for your speedy recovery!</p>
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