<p>kmc- Sounds like you are having a great time!</p>
<p>I ran back to the scene of my fall this morning and I feel a little better about it. I didn’t just trip on a speck of dust (been known to do that) but a bunch of rough concrete spilled and hardened on the asphalt. I had never run in that exact place before (I was cutting around a traffic circle). I can easily see how I tripped. You would not have expected that concrete spill to be there. My ribs are sore, but not too bad while running. Lying in bed and turning over hurts. Otherwise, nothing terrible, fortunately.</p>
<p>Newsflash- I think one of my big problems with healthier eating and good food choices is that I really, really like sugar! I don’t eat crap sugar (like the orange peanut shaped candy), but a good cookie or piece of cake or donut…</p>
<p>MOWC–Most of us can run/walk ok on a flat surface, but when there’s a bump that shouldn’t be there…not our fault! Hope you feel better soon.</p>
<p>Today’s workout was an hour of brush cutting and hauling away. Pruners & band saw work! Now it’s time for a picnic with my band buddies. A girl’s got to have fun.</p>
<p>Edit: And I learned where mosquitoes hang out when they’re not trying to sip our blood–in shady underbrush. Hordes of them! I used repellent, which I don’t really like to do, and still got one bite (that I know of.)</p>
<p>I use a 3 liter Osprey water reservoir in my pack. For a six or seven hour hike (like Mt. Eisenhower), I fill it to the brim. I come home with water left over, but I’d rather have too much than run out. I would say I drank between 1.5 and 2 liters the other day. That was a cool day and I was pacing myself to not sweat that much. A lot depends on how hot it is and how much I’m sweating.</p>
<p>In the summer, I freeze a liter in the reservoir (and blow it up with air like a balloon before putting it in the freezer to max its capacity. Then I top it off with water in the morning. The ice melts during the day, giving me a nice cool drink. When camping, I fill it up with ice from the cooler.</p>
<p>I think just diving right into the deep end like your friends as something to be said for it. I’m just too much of a chicken, so I would rather start with baby steps.</p>
<p>I can’t believe it (well, I can – it just feels so early), email already coming in advertising Hot Chocolate. </p>
<p>Whereas I’m not ready to plan for March races, I do need to pick a local area 5K for late September or early October. Folks in my area (you know who you are), let me know if you think there’s one that shouldn’t be missed. :)</p>
<p>You and about a couple billion others! The food companies aren’t stupid. They put sugar in everything because they know that we find it delicious. I have to give props to Robert Lustig. His stuff (videos and book) really helped me recategorize sugar in my mind as something specifically harmful to my health above and beyond the calories. Focusing on it that way makes it easier to start cutting back on added sugar. Gotta be the single best thing that anyone can do to improve their diet, even if the change is just a small increment.</p>
<p>You can tell that he’s left a mark. Just look at how aggressively Coca Cola has responded with their marketing, repositioning the company as a champion of fitness.</p>
<p>Sugar is still a powerful draw. I’ve gotta have my nighttime apple dessert.</p>
<p>Nuts. Looks like I’m on injured reserve. I felt a pain in my hip/groin doing planks. Then the same pain doing front squats. Then, the same pain doing 3-pt DB rows. At that point, I pulled the plug on my workout. Feels like one of those minor strains that will probably clear up in a day or so, but there is absolutely nothing to be gained by exercising through pain.</p>
<p>idad- same here. My issue was lower back felt it doing squat jumps as part of my power exercise. Seems better today so it will be back to the gym tomorrow.</p>
<p>This week has been a pretty good one for me. I am still following the half training plan so this week was a 3 mile, a 5 mile and a 3 mile which I thankfully completed. My pace is finally consistent at around 9:45. Rest day tomorrow and then 4 miles Saturday and 6 miles on Sunday. It helps me to have a plan in place to stick with. Or at least that’s what I keep telling myself.</p>
<p>Super busy, so not posting much. Doing the usual – WMI program, cardio dance, kb class. Tomorrow is the last kb class. </p>
<p>Feel better, idad. Ditto MOWC, sorry to hear about the fall!
Belated congrats to Deborah on the PR.
And everyone else who has managed to keep up the good work during these waning days of summer-- nice to see the consistency.</p>
<p>Hops-- nice snatch and those are some deep squats-- looking good.</p>
<p>Sending the healing mojo to broomfield, idad and MomWC
Kudos sabaray on your accomplishments!</p>
<p>And thanks, idad, for the water tip. I will share it…that way at least I know that they had good intel :)</p>
<p>I am now at a lovely cottage right on the water about an hour north of St. John’s (my friends family cottage.) It is a stunning vista. Drunken guitar singalong s last night and impending threats to “screech in” mch that didn’t materialize because although there was lots of rum, nobody could find a cod to kiss :)</p>
<p>For the fourth day in a row, the kayak outfitter cancelled our trip due to high winds on the water. Perchance the universe is trying to tell us something :)</p>
<p>We are rescheduled for today, but its anybody’s guess at this point whether we’ll go. Seems windy to me this am but its early yet. Doesn’t seem to matter how I’ve carried on the night before…I can’t seem to help waking up at 6 am even on vacation. </p>
<p>If they manage to drag themselves out of bed this am, we’re to take a hike along a rocky trail to the lighthouse. I’m tempted to do it now solo, but I don’t know the way and best have a buddy lest I slide into the very cold sea Apparently, that happens to the occasional hike – the wind gets so strong on some of the seaside cliffs hikers ave literally been blown in.</p>
<p>So instead I will nurse my “screech coffee” enjoy the view and await signs of life :)</p>
<p>There is an electronic scale here similar to my own. If it is in fact calibrated like my own, the damage appears to be about 3.6 lbs – not bad at all if true, considering the scope of debauch. There’s a romp scheduled for tonight back in St. John’s followed by a party Sat. Night but I’m beginning to think I’ll survive it all without horrific gains if I keep picking my spots :)</p>
<p>Thanks, CJane. It’s good to see you post! If you get a moment – have you chosen what’s going in the kb slot after the current class ends?</p>
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<p>Rest day for me, although plenty else to get done. Yesterday’s workout turned out to be a good one. Felt like some of my best pushups, and my husband, who was over in the dining room at the time, confirmed form looked good. 12 max, that is where I’m at on those, not a single one more. I make sure to do them before I start in on the stuff with dbs because if I did them afterward it would probably be fewer than that, lol. I think the true order of my home workout is more like stretch/core/more stretch/strength.</p>
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<p>Oh, and to Abasket and anyone else who has a race this weekend, good luck!</p>
<p>Last KB class today.
Practiced pretty much everything we learned. My TGU’s are actually pretty good. Swings are solid. Felt very sucky at the cleans and was starting to feel overall kind of negative,(also cloudy, gray morning, bemoaning summer’s end, general mood dip) when we got to the carrys. Apparently I am Queen of the Farmer’s Walk. For some reason (unintentionally good technique, lots of experience schlepping suitcases through airports?) I was better than almost all of the guys at this? I continue to be puzzled at my ability to shine on one, tiny, trivial exercise and struggle with most others.
Going to miss the class, trainer heading back to the Midwest, don’t think I will like his replacement. So, no, Deborah, don’t have any idea yet what I will be doing next.</p>
<p>Bromfield, I am so sorry about your continued problems with your ankle. I would be so frustrated!!! Hang in there!</p>
<p>My best wishes of speedy recovery to all sidelined by recent injuries, and good luck to all who are going to race this weekend!</p>
<p>For the first time in 4’days I did some exercise - push-ups. My legs are completely back to their normal state. Oh, one little funny thing: I discovered a blister where I would have never expected to get one - on my right index finger, from carrying a water bottle for 26 miles. The other parts of my body did fine. I pity the poor lady who ran the whole thing in her thongs underpants (judging by the “whale tail” sticking out of her shorts) :eek:</p>
<p>CJane, kudos on beating the boys in your KB class :)</p>
<p>How are you feeling today, iDad? You seem to be so smart about resting your injuries. Some of the rest of us could learn from that! (finger pointing at self lest I drive someone else away! )</p>
<p>I have no idea. I only felt it while doing exercises. The first clue was my hip/grown hurting doing planks. I haven’t decided if I want to test it again today… I’ll probably just go down and try the plank. That will tell…</p>
Now it’s time for a picnic with my band buddies. A girl’s got to have fun.</p>