<p>Douglas- we don’t go to school. We’re old. We sit in rocking chairs.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>That’s what I should do. i don’t even like walking on roads with no shoulders and cars whizzing by at 40 to 50 mph. </p>
<p>I should get a bike rack and load up the bike when I go camping. My favorite hiking spot, Franconia Notch, has an 8 mile paved bike path. They even have a shuttle service ($10) for bikers who want to ride the 8 miles down hill and catch a ride back up!</p>
<p>Still in denial. I’m a spring chicken.</p>
<p>Nice work, PackMom!</p>
<p>Congrats, MOWC!</p>
<p>Keep on keepin’ on, Deb922. :)</p>
<p>Still laughing outloud at post# 28841. :)</p>
<p>Deb922 people say that you should sign up for a 5k before finishing c25k. I needed to just FINISH first - like you said, run for 30 mins and be “close” to 3 miles at the end of the 30 mins. I was NERVOUS the first 5k - and the 2nd one! And every time I still go out to doa longer run just cause I can’t quite believe I can do it!! But I have done it! One of the things that gave me confidence was I found a local low key group run that occurs at a local outside nicer mall - every Thursday ANYONE can show up for no cost - and they have an untimed, just for fun 3 mile run. Some people walk, some run-walk, some push strollers , some do the route twice for 6 miles. NO PRESSURE. The night I completed that and kept my anxiousness in check was when I knew I was ready to sign up.</p>
<p>Just imagining MOWC in her rocking chair smoking her corn cub pipe. Just like granny on The Beverly Hillbillies! Lol! Jk, not even close!</p>
<p>Thanks for all the encouragement! Much appreciated.</p>
<p>Abasket, how fun. A geezer running group. Sounds great. H joined a bike group last year. He was so nervous. But once he found out that he could keep up, it was great. He really enjoys it. Of course then he HAD to buy a new carbon fiber bike. I’m glad his feet are too bad to run or I would be afraid he would be entering triathlons. Now that is where you can drop some real money. </p>
<p>MOWC, late to the party but congrats to the GF for qualifying for the Vegas half ironman. It will be fun for them to have a training goal together lol! The heat of this qualifier will prepare her for that one. Talked to someone who did it last year. He said the heat was brutal. Hats off to them.</p>
<p>MOWC also congrats on your 5k. Before breakfast. Sounds great. </p>
<p>Idad, when I bought my new car putting my bike in it was a deal breaker. We have a hitch and a bike rack. But it’s so much easier to throw it in the back of the Subaru. I’m lazy.</p>
<p>
I’ve done this ride. There wasn’t anybody going uphill. It’s a fun ride down, too bad the Old Man in the Mountain is no more.</p>
<p>Is actually NOT a geezer group run. People of all ages - lots of young people. But also people of all abilities. Some come every, every week. It’s sponsored by a running store in the mall and they usually have drawings for free gear, test drives for running shoes and refreshments. The most positive and welcoming group (and colorful - really, lots of fun colorful gear in that group !) I see all week!</p>
<p>Stretch/strength/core</p>
<p>Since I use two wooden chairs as my workout bench, I find that putting a folded up bath towel on the chair where my knee and shin rest, covering the edge, makes tricep kickbacks a lot more comfortable.</p>
<p>Intervals tonight. 100s/200s/400s and an 800 in 2:40 without too much effort so if I don’t PR (post 50 !) Saturday I’ll be bummed. I guess I need to think of PRs in 5 year increments now.</p>
<p>Annual physical today followed by short Airdyne ride followed by bbq chicken and green beans.</p>
<p>Sad to report that serious storms scuttled both my much-anticipated bike outing and the concert itself for my little group. We’re on again though for next Tuesday and the second concert in the series by the sounds of it.</p>
<p>To add insult to caloric injury, I’d screwed up dates for a client’s reception. The good news is that I was able to make it due to the cancelation. The bad news was that the man forced me to eat the most delicious cupcake I had ever encountered. I did manage to put my foot down when he attempted to send some home with me for mch. I confessed they would never get to their intended recipient.</p>
<p>I’m pretty certain my subsequent tipsy aquajog when i finally made it home and the skies miraculously cleared did not put a dent in the cupcake or replace the benefits of a 20 mile ride 
Mch thinks its all pretty funny, but hey, have bike, will eventually travel!</p>
<p>Temps were down to high 80s so I went for a walk. Trying to decide whether to do the yoga class again tomorrow. I don’t think there’s air conditioning in the building…</p>
<p>Tipsy aqua jog …:)</p>
<p>Maybe it was a vodka jog!</p>
<p>1.16 miles, dips, pullups, pushups. Son sent me an IM saying that he’s run 8 days in a row and his left knee is bothering him. I told him that he could take one of my knee sleeves and that he should take it easy on the running. Like he’s going to believe me.</p>
<p>Nights like this remind me why treadmills make good investments… here in my neck of the woods. I walked out of the front door into a wall of water so thick it looked like the Niagara Falls! I ran back inside the house and… you know the rest of the story. :)</p>
<p>Vodka jog, now there’s a sport at which I might excel shaken not stirred, and probably best not before breakfast…</p>
<p>Bunsen, that must be the same evil deluge that extinguished our cycling fun. I hope the plants are happy – they’re not getting a lot of attention from me so I can’t begrudge them a little rain.</p>
<p>Hops, one of the folks I met at the reception yesterday works for a retirement community and was a trainer in another life. I told him about your kettlebell geezer group and he was highly intrigued by the notion. If you suddenly hear of retirement communities across the nation having kettlebell sessions, its your fault :)</p>
<p>But seriously, maybe you should write up your program and findings and offer it to homes as trainer education or in-service to (for a fee) implement it. Of course, we’ll have to axe the kettlebell-for-geezers nickname and come up with a sexier program name like “Senior Sunset Swing” group or “for Whom the Kettlebell Tolls” or maybe “White Nights in Swinging Iron” (As homage to our Russian inventors) or some other idiotic phase they think we (future) geezers like …Oops, I should never start a paragraph with the word “seriously” given my penchant to devolve!</p>
<p>Target + 19;</p>
<p>Some improvement in the week 2 Insanity fitness test.</p>
<p>I need some help making some fitness decisions. As many of you know I have been plagued with a bad knee that hasn’t really recovered from knee surgery over the past few years and I have also been told the knee is arthritic. The knee was so swollen and bothering me so much I recently had to stop all workouts including long walks. For the first time in years all swelling is gone and I have no pain at all! I can walk up and down stairs and walk in heels with not even a twinge. The dilemma is that I need to lose more weight and I have to do some type of fitness program. Any suggestions? I love being pain free but I don’t love being overweight. I did water walking against the current in our local lazy river pool last summer but even that aggravated my knee. I am desperate!</p>