<p>WooHoo! Congratulations sabaray!!! That running program has really worked for you! SO very happy for you! :)</p>
<p>You’re right, NM, the running has really helped. You all have really helped too. More than you’ll ever know.</p>
<p>Go Saba! I brought the silly string and confetti, even a little glitter. Since this party is virtual, no worries about clean up. ;)</p>
<p>Since it’s virtual, lets have carrot cake too. No?</p>
<p>Slice of carrot cake for me, too!</p>
<p>This article struck me as funny because I thought, it comes kind of naturally for them. [How</a> to Introduce Your Dog to Running - ACTIVE.com](<a href=“http://beta.active.com/running/Articles/How-to-Introduce-Your-Dog-to-Running]How”>How to Introduce Your Dog to Running | ACTIVE) Now when they publish an article with tips on successfully getting your cat to run with you, I want to see that one.</p>
<p>It’s actually a good article. Sure, dogs will run around all day if they can be outdoors where nature intended. But if you have an indoor dog, you need to formally take them on a leash with you. The article warned about a few things, including seriously running puppies at too young an age, about running on hot concrete, and that some dogs should remain furry lap dogs in any case.</p>
<p>I’ve only had the opposite problem–not being much of a runner and being run to death by our friend’s dog when I was in charge of her. That’s when I found out I had a knee problem!</p>
<p>Oh, and Go Saba! Which is what I was going to say until I got sidetracked by the running dog article.</p>
<p>Yay, Sabaray! Party-time!</p>
<p>I’ve been reading more and more articles lately, including one in the latest Runner’s World, about “sitting is the new smoking”. This concerns me, since I sit a LOT. I even just brought it up to my boss today in a meeting (he’s into health and fitness). The articles are saying that it doesn’t matter that you do your 1-2 hours a day of exercise (running etc) if you plop on your butt for the other 13 or so waking hours! The suggestions are what you would expect- standing/adjustable workstations, standing up while on the phone, taking walk breaks etc. I’m going to try to do a LOT better, but with our current addiction to our screens (computers, iPads, phones) it is SO easy to have hours go by and you are still in your chair! I honestly think a corporate wellness program should be aimed at three things- obesity, smoking, sitting. This is more of a corporate office problem than it is for our other employees, but it sure got my attention.</p>
<p>Runner problems- We had a bad storm last night and the portolets on my run were all on their sides! Not good.</p>
<p>Congrats to saba!
Running with the dog is the thing that SOUNDS good , but can be so frustrating in practice. My neighbor is an avid marathoner and researched the heck as to what kind of dog to get to run with. Ended up with the perfect match on paper, but despite lots of training, including expensive professionals, never, ever could run with that particular pup.
I would love to see a race with our resident CCers and their cats. Deborah, MOWC, idad come to mind. Who else? Or maybe an exercise class: “herding cats” ;)</p>
<p>On the health front. Who of the men here are dropping the fish oil supplements in light of the recent cancer link?</p>
<p>I’ll join the cat herding run with my two race kitties! :)</p>
<p>Yay to sabaray! Congrats!</p>
<p>WOOT Sabaray! I am bringing up the rear about 7 lbs behind you … so to speak ;)</p>
<p>CJane, while I’m not about to tell men how to feel about their prostate, I will note that the study to which you refer was not double blind nor random and as such does not meet the scientific standard one would expect…so we ought to be seeing more definitive research before anyone would take that link seriously.</p>
<p>Further, in very general, broad terms, prostate cancer is exceedingly slow and in general, men who have it typically die from something else first, or so I am told.</p>
<p>Kudos to you MOWC for bringing this up to your boss and trying to move more in your job. </p>
<p>This brings me to another pet peeve. My H goes to many lunch meetings. He was really trying to drop weight this winter (he still is but is exercising more now). He would go to meetings and look at the pastries in the morning but sometimes the lunches would be so fatty and he would have very little for him to eat at lunch. Work was having a company wide biggest loser contest, spends lots of time on wellness education. Why can’t they carry this over to meetings. How hard can it be to have healthy options? Especially when we have to go through hoops for our health insurance now. </p>
<p>Sorry, getting off my soapbox now…</p>
<p>deb922- I hear you. It’s the same way around here, and I consider our company to be somewhat aware and health-conscious. We talk a good game, have the corporate running team etc., but then we order in pizzas for lunch and have “treats” such as the mountains of 2 pound cupcakes! Not that I don’t enjoy that stuff, but we aren’t consistent. I think it’s hard to be. </p>
<p>I probably shared this before, but in the late 70s and 80s I was fortunate to work for a company (Texas Instruments) that was a pioneer in corporate fitness. It was the real deal. TI had fitness facilities (state of the art) at each site and employees paid a pittance to belong (a couple bucks a paycheck). Admittedly, fitness at the time focused on exercise and NOT diet, but still it was a step in the right direction. Our executives took the corporate plane to compete in Corporate Track Nationals! Working out at lunch was a big part of the culture. Being in the backyard of Dr. Kenneth Cooper’s Aerobics Center was another big boost, and company executives from all over the country would come to Cooper’s to learn how to start corporate wellness programs. I thought this was simply the way things were in the corporate world. My next employer’s CEO was my running coach, and he was known to not promote people who were un-fit or smoked. To say we were a little intense would be an understatement. With a diverse workforce and the demands of jobs, computers, rewarding by feeding etc., it is a difficult battle, though.</p>
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<p>I just eat the fish.</p>
<p>Sab - glad the running kicked it up a notch!</p>
<p>Your office location can make a big difference.</p>
<p>I used to sit near the bathroom/kitchen. I now sit quite far away from the bathroom/kitchen and very far from my manager. So I wind up walking quite a bit in the office. I do spend a lot of time in front of my 7 monitors (I added one recently), 17 cores and 30 GB of RAM but I talk to people a lot and it’s not always via email.</p>
<p>I used to work in a huge complex - 3,000 people in three huge buildings. It was probably 0.3 mile to get from my office to the cafeteria which was two buildings away. In our headquarters buildings you could walk half-a-mile to get to another building and up and down a lot of stairs if you wanted to.</p>
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<p>We don’t have those around here. You must run through a nice area.</p>
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<p>Our portion of the development still has some construction of new homes so there are the blessed portolets. Other parts of my route with finished neighborhoods- none.</p>
<p>^ I read an article about the dangers of sitting in the New Yorker – very distressing – and for some reason (I can’t remember why), the deleterious health effect of sitting for hours was worse for women than men. And as MOWC says, exercise doesn’t offset the negative effects.</p>
<p>Now I try to stand up more and move around, but it’s hard if your computer and phone are all on your desk.</p>
<p>I’m lucky in my position that I am up on my feet most of the day. Really the only time I sit down is if I have to sit at my computer. I do a lot of my paperwork standing up at a counter. In an 8-hour shift, I average around 8-9k steps.</p>
<p>That’s great. Do you wear one of those counters to mark how many steps you take?</p>