<p>blankmind- be careful not to overstride- keep your steps short and quick. Less contact with the ground. Downhills can be brutal. I used to do downhill intervals to get ready for Boston back in the day…</p>
<p>I almost always wear a hat running/walking/hiking outside. Partially because I don’t have any sun protection up top! Partially because it keeps sweat from constantly dripping on my glasses. And, for hiking, I’ve got all these caps treated with the clothing insecticide, so it keeps the bugs away.</p>
<p>I’ll go for stretches without as I try to soak up a little vitamin D and get a little tan, but I quickly miss the sweatband attributes of these hats on a hot day.</p>
<p>I don’t wear hats on indoor workouts, but I probably would on a treadmill run because I doubt that I could jog and towel off a the same time without flying off the back end of the thing! :)</p>
<p>Thanks MOWC, I’ll try that. I’ve been arranging my walk/runs to walk up all the hills and save the running for flat and downhill. But even after walking uphill, I have trouble with calf pain on the downhill. Today I just did set intervals so I ended up running up and down randomly. I found that I had no problem with the uphill, but pain on the downhill. After today’s workout, my calves feel great, unlike the other days when they have been achy for a day or two. I think next time I will try walking the downhill sections and see how that goes.</p>
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<p>Pretty sure that any event of significant size has been sued.</p>
<p>Of course, the very nature of Tough Mudder and similar obstacle course events does increase the risk of injury compared to a more ordinary running event.</p>
<p>45 min hilly park run. Just as I was thinking I should tell my friend you can’t get lost on the other side, I got lost, lol. Not really lost, more discovered a new trail – freshly laid, I believe, based on the condition of the bark. I also accidentally landed myself on a long hill I usually intentionally avoid, oops! Definitely got in my workout today. Good thing I had a towel in the car.</p>
<p>Picked up my goody bag. Kind of disappointing for a $125 entry fee. No stinking shirt. Have to buy them! Got a small little backpack with discount coupons on Crestor, nexium, and other assorted drugs. After all it is the senior olympics and all of us are the walking dead. My favorite is the badly screen printed Humana towel about the size of a wash cloth.</p>
<p>Ran 3 miles this morning and headed to the track for some 100 meter strides.</p>
<p>Best of luck to the weekend runners - muddy or otherwise!!!</p>
<p>30 mins combo of indoor track and treadmill . One fan directly on me, no hat, nobody next to me to elbow or doge flying arms. Actually the place was dead- hardly no one there !!</p>
<p>Celebrating with come grilled meat and veggies and splurging with a few loaded fries ( a few fries topped with chopped tomato , jalape</p>
<p>Ohio, do they have a suggestion box? Maybe you could kindly offer up a few recommendations… ;)</p>
<p>Walking dead, LOL, Ohio. </p>
<p>Good luck to all of you running races this weekend!</p>
<p>I usually wear a hat outside to protect my face and hair from the sun. Sad because the hat is hot and I wish I didn’t have to wear it. At the gym with its wonderful AC, only a ponytail. </p>
<p>I was going to rest today, but S2 asked to go to the gym. He’s on a streak, and it’s only a matter of weeks before he departs for college. I did 40 minutes on the treadmill at a jog, walking only when needed to drop my HR down to the bottom of zone 2. No window view from my treadmill, so I watched the little TV. Food Network.</p>
<p>OMG, ohio, they put Nexium coupons in the goody bag?! Shame on them! If they want to pitch meds, they better include some Advil, Aspercreme, moleskin, band-aids, and the like - the stuff we, senior athletes could actually use!</p>
<p>Good luck to all competing this weekend!!!</p>
<p>AstraZeneca is the big underwriter. Most people competing here are pretty healthy individuals and are exercising to stay off the drugs.The AstraZeneca exhibit seemed pretty empty. Maybe they would have had better business prospects down at Indians stadium where folks are gorging themselves with hot dogs at dollar dog night. I’m with idad on boycotting the statins. My doc still tries to push them and I’ve got extremely low numbers.</p>
<p>I do a lot of consulting for pharma companies, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all that the targets for Nexium and similar drugs would be easily reached at a running event. I’ve recommended running events to other clients who make similar drugs based on data as to what their target does.</p>
<p>Hottest muggiest day of the year. 97 degrees in New Hampshire is sick.</p>
<p>To the basement for another one of these killer workouts from the random program I found on the internet. I finally decided that these Phase 3 workouts have been too long and too much like forced marches. The problem is that they are high-rep sets, but I’m using too much weight. For example, 12 reps of 160 lb deadlifts is just too damn many. So I cut those and the push presses and the single leg deadlift/rows back to 8 reps per set today and picked up the pace a little bit on the rest between the sets. Much better.</p>
<p>Big fan, no shirt, lots of water. It is really a struggle right now to cajole myself into working out in this heat. Tomorrow will have to be Airdyne intervals in the air conditioning. Workout motivation won’t get any easier!</p>
<p>No workout for me today. After work, I drove to Chicago for the weekend. Was intending on getting a workout in once I got here, but I wasn’t expecting to spend over an hour sitting in road construction. :(</p>
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<p>Hmmm, maybe the Nexium (esomeprazole) is being marketed there because people taking Advil (ibuprofen) and other NSAIDs tend to get stomach and esophegal distress that Nexium (esomeprazole) is supposed to be used against?</p>
<p>It does seem to be the case that people in the US reach for the drugs very quickly (including Advil (ibuprofen) and other over the counter drugs).</p>
<p>Not compared to Saudi Arabia, where they pop pain medications the way you or I might pop Tic-Tacs. (I’m doing a project now comparing use of pain meds across 16 countries.)</p>
<p>47 and I am having trouble losing the “love handles”. Any suggestions? I was told cardio cardio cardio. I am doing a hybrid routine with cardio just 3 time a week, weights 3 and a day of rest.</p>
<p>ucb, being overweight is the number 1 cause of GERD, not an occasional Advil. 
I highly doubt that there are too many overweight geezers among the Senior Olympians.</p>
<p>HappyDaddy:</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no way to spot reduce fat. All we can do is just keep losing fat and gaining lean muscle until the fat we want gone is gone. Alas, for most men, the belly fat is the first fat we gain and the last fat we lose!</p>
<p>If you’ve been successfully shedding fat, just keep on keeping on…</p>
<p>I would cut back on sugars and grains to keep the fat loss going or even kick it up a notch. And, shift the exercise from cardio to whole body big muscle strength training, at a reasonably fast pace – although, realistically, diet is 90% of fat loss. The exercise part is to keep from losing lean muscle.</p>
<p>Long term, committing to regular core training will pay off, too.</p>
<p>5.1 miles tonight - hot and humid. Mr B is going to work on our water heater tomorrow, so I have to go shower while we still have hot water… :)</p>