<p>Ouch! Triple ouch! Hope the scrapes and cuts heal quickly, MOfWC! Lol about Garmin - I am the absent-minded professor when it comes to mine. I stopped after finishing my race, but completely forgot about stopping my watch! Interesting fact: even if several feet I walked after crossing the finish line are subtracted, I ran 26.35 miles, even though I tried hard to avoid zig-zagging.</p>
<p>Thank you for the core exercise link, which is now bookmarked. The exercises are very similar to what I was told to do by my doc when my knee was misbehaving, and I’m the living proof that this stuff works, if done properly and regularly.</p>
<p>Couldn’t help but laugh at the comment about scaring the school children at the bus - I know what I look like when I go out to run and have done a couple of miles - you are much more attractive at 2.3 miles than me, but just picturing the scene makes me chuckle!!!</p>
<p>Hope the boo-boos heal quickly and the lasting soreness doesn’t happen. I try to make myself really conscious of the sidewalk cracks, mini pot holes in the roads etc., but we are all bound to have a slip or just lose our footing I guess! (and thank God for not Lulu injuries!!! :)</p>
<p>Also chuckled about your Garmin - first things first!!!</p>
<p>Last night I was actually walking the dog (who likes to sniff alot and can be very pokey) - I wanted to prove a point to my husband who is doing Weight Watchers and counting points that his walks with the dog count for something but probably not as much credit as he is giving them. So I decided to run my RunKeeper app on “walking” mode while I was out with doggie. A little way into the walk I saw a neighbor loading her car - her only child is headed off to college today - so we stopped to talk. I pressed “pause” on RunKeeper but for some reason it still felt the need to update me every 5 minutes on my distance, pace,etc. - so in the middle of our conversation, twice we have to hear - "exercise paused, total distance .33 miles, average pace, … " and so on - how embarrassing - she probably thought I’m a fitness nut to have to monitor my pathetic walks with the dog!!!</p>
<p>^^ That’s great! I know- people don’t understand… yeah, there’s something about lying in the road bleeding and frantically reaching for the Garmin button! And my daughter can’t understand why I’m not interested in trail running.</p>
<p>Ouch. Asphalt hurts. Those road burns hurt like crazy and, at our age, take forever to heal. The last time I skinned my elbow, I couldn’t do side plank for weeks! :)</p>
<p>I’m glad you are OK. It’s the broken wrists and ankles and stuff resulting from falls that really make for a bad day.</p>
<p>I took a tumble walking down Mt. Pierce a couple weeks ago. Stepped down on a wet rock, foot slipped, and down I went. Fortunately, it was a very easy landing, with just a couple of boo-boos on my palm. The trekking poles save me from that kind of a fall at least once on almost every hike. Knock on wood, I haven’t had a ‘rolled ankle fall’ in a long time. I don’t want to jink myself, but I feel like so much walking on very unever terrain has strengthened my ankles and given me much better proprioception (I’ve always wanted to use that word in a sentence!)…</p>
<p>KMCMOM:</p>
<p>One of the things that motivated me to lose weight and getting in shape was trying to walk up and down the big hill at Swarthmore. It hit me between the eyes to see how my poor fitness was a constraint on everyday activities. Of course, part of that was not really understanding that walking up steep hills like that is actually pretty demanding exercise for an ol’ fat guy…</p>
<p>Still dealing with an infected ankle and staying off my feet. I absolutely hate sitting down. Go to the doc tomorrow. Ankle looks a little better.</p>
<p>Kudos to all who run, walk, climb, and bleed!</p>
<p>Just saw our neighbor today, out with his walker. He’s recovering from quadruple bypass surgery. I used to see him puffing and panting as he dragged his overweight body to the mailbox and thought, it’s just a matter of time. Fortunately they fixed his problem before he actually had a heart attack, though he said the doc said he was a time bomb! I hope this spurs him to achieve better fitness than he had before the surgery.</p>
<p>I had an unusual workout today. Visited a friend of mine who is a dance/movement teacher. She said before we had lunch, we had to do some stretching! So we both got on the floor in her studio and she talked me through some Pilates & other excellent work. I have to say, she is 18 years older than I am and much more flexible! But then she’s been doing this all her life, while I was stuck behind the piano getting stiff around the neck & shoulders.</p>
<p>Ha- not this week! Not motivated - so I’m going to just let it be and recharge this weekend. I have a 5K in 2 weeks, so my goal is just to hang on and finish!</p>
<p>3 miles after work. Ribs hurt a little but bearable. Wrist bone hurts when running- which is strange. All in all, I guess I’ll pull through. It’s strange how falling like that sort of shakes you up all over and you just feel “off”. Certainly had worse, though.</p>
<p>I need some advice from all of you dedicated weight-lifters (my biggest fitness failing – I am absolutely convinced that I need to add strength training to my life but for some reason I just can’t commit to it). I am looking for a book that will walk a true beginner through the first steps of using weights, and also has a fitness/health tone or focus rather than an appearance tone. If the book were just for me I really wouldn’t care what the tone is but D has said she wants to read it too, and I really don’t want to give her a book that is all about how she can improve her appearance.</p>
<p>I have looked on Amazon at books by Rachel Cosgrove and those books are actually what prompted me to ask about this here – a few too many references to “looking sexy” in the official commentary about the book. (Not that I am opposed to my daughter wanting to look sexy, but eating disorders seem to run in our family, and so I am happier if she wants to exercise to be healthy.)</p>
<p>My current choice is The New Rules of Lifting for Women - seems like a solid program, plus the focus seems to be on fitness and not weight loss/appearance.</p>
<p>The problem with New Rules of Lifting for Women is that it is quite old and actual workouts are obsolete relative to what A. Cosgrove is doing now. It is written more from a traditional bodybuilder workout perspective and heavily barbell focused. I don’t think that’s the right place to start. Dumbbells and kettlebells make a lot more sense, IMO. So, in that series, I would get either New Rules of Lifting for Abs or New Rules of Lifting for Life. Better, safer programs.</p>
<p>Both of the Rachel Cosgrove books are terrific. Unfortunately, the “look sexy” part is required in any female fitness book, or so the publishers think. Of course, these are the same idiots that don’t want people recommending their books. Cosgrove is definitely NOT in the starve yourself thin camp. To the contrary, she teaches that most women need to eat MORE and build some lean muscle. Starving away the lean muscle is the problem for female dieters.</p>
<p>I would be very hard pressed to think of better beginner program than Drop2Sizes. Get the book, download the free workout sheets and go to town. Or, better yet, get the DVDs and watch Rachel Cogrove coach you thru the workouts – while Neghar Fonooni does the exercises…</p>
<p>MOWC, hope you’re feeling better and glad injury wasn’t more serious!</p>
<p>Idad, I think folks thought I was nuts using hiking poles yesterday on a wee 20 minute climb up a steep trail to the top of a cliff, but those poles saved me twice from “rollovers” on the chunky, sliding rock trail. The stability makes a big difference for me Mine are telescoping, so its easy enough to carry them in a pack for such instances.</p>
<p>My gf, who is planning to hike gros morne next week as I mentioned earlier, is now worried about water as others ave told her they ran out of water on the hike. I suggested the camelback to her and even located one at the local cycling shop, but was curious as to how much water you would use on a 7 hour hike with a couple of strenuous parts. Let me know and I’ll pass it on. I’m a bit worried she’s in over her head on this one. </p>
<p>On the bright side, the other girlfriend has purchased a solid pair of Solomon’s for the hike and is now clomping around the house in them. I’ve gently suggested she may need a few good mini hikes to actually break em in. She’s putting a lot of stock into her new specialty wool socks ;)</p>
<p>These two are a hoot. Part of me would like to be a fly on gros morne next week, and part of me is glad ill be safely ensconced in my guilded poolside cage back home :)</p>
And my daughter can’t understand why I’m not interested in trail running.</p>