<p>That stinks, hops_scout. I hope you can at least relax with some wine tonight, to help you sleep a bit better.</p>
<p>Thinking of you, MOWC.</p>
<p>Back to the basement. Good solid workout. I substituted BB’s kitchen counter pushups for the TRX pushups. Well, actually, I had my feet on top of the Airex pad on top of the DB rack, which is about the same height as a kitchen counter. My body was definitely angled down (so it’s like a partial handstand in terms of weight). That’s a really good exercise. Thanks for the tip, BB.</p>
<p>busdriver:</p>
<p>Awesome. I am definitely not worthy! 14 miles with that kind of elevation gain is out of my league. I bet the views were spectacular.</p>
<p>I’m amazed at how unprepared some folk are for serious hiking in the mountains. Those are the ones who get written up in search and rescue stories: no flashlight, no water, no map, no warm jacket. Older hikers tend to be better outfitted. The people hiking without water make me shake my head.</p>
<p>When we were hiking in West Virginia last summer we saw some people on the trail wearing flipflops!</p>
<p>So I’ve really gone and done it now, idad. Just received a Functional Movement Screen test kit and a Cook Band from Perform Better yesterday…</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. We’ve just been up and down with this for months and months, and it’s not easy on anyone. My mother has enough dementia that its probably less hard on her, actually! </p>
<p>Yum on the pineapple, Deborah. I’ll be eating plenty of that in a month!</p>
<p>Did the horrific drive into downtown Phila this evening to see the young triathletes and go to a party for them. I’m glad I went. The bike shop was really cool (their sponsor) and they had a good cake for the girlfriend for her victory. They have a Computrainer studio upstairs in the shop where they can train in the winter, with TV screens and all. This is all right in center city. Her parents are not supportive of this “distraction”, as they call it. I think she appreciates my support, which is easy since it isn’t MY daughter who is trying to be a med student (she does really well) and almost a pro triathlete at the same time! </p>
<p>Oh- my favorite part is hearing from the teammates about how fast my son goes on his bike and the risks he takes. Lovely. </p>
<p>Meeting some Internet friends for a run tomorrow (we’ve met a number of times in person). It’s cool- sort of like when some of us here get to meet, which surely we will eventually. :). When iDad cooks for us at least!</p>
<p>hops scout:</p>
<p>Well, well, well, our very own Functional Movement Screen expert right here on College Confidential! </p>
<p>I’ve never been FMS’d, but most of my warmup exercises are targeted directly at improving the movements tested by the screen. I think I might be able to get 2’s on a lot of them.</p>
<p>PackMom:</p>
<p>I saw a teenage girl hiking in flip flops at the summit of Mt. Eisenhower a couple weeks ago. More power to her doing [this</a> stuff](<a href=“http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W5M2ju7a-lE/T-KCcgFs5mI/AAAAAAAAEMo/YDjl6CGqRYk/s1600/091.JPG]this”>http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W5M2ju7a-lE/T-KCcgFs5mI/AAAAAAAAEMo/YDjl6CGqRYk/s1600/091.JPG) in flip flops.</p>
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<p>I haven’t either. But I’ve read the book Movement and have spent some time doing a little bit of the screen. I finally broke down and purchased it since it’s on sale (still expensive) and I’m looking at using it for my capstone project for my master’s degree. Probably not tomorrow, but maybe next week I’ll film myself completing the screen…</p>
<p>idad, I think you could hike those kind of hikes, no problems, particularly with all the hiking you’ve been doing lately, scrambling over rocks. We aren’t so used to hiking rocky trails around here, and complain like crazy about it.</p>
<p>It is extraordinary how unprepared people are for the elements. Yes, hiking without water on tough hikes…I’ve seen it too. Even hiking in sandals. Sometimes we think, well, they’re young, they’ll make it anyways. And sometimes we think, how can anyone be so stupid? Perhaps age does give you wisdom with the experience of screwing up. My parents (obsessed hikers) took me and my sister on one of their backpacking trips when we were young. Our tent consisted of black garbage bags…in the pouring down rain…atop a mountain…cold…didn’t know if we’d make it. When we got home, they bought high quality camping gear, though they were broke. Took a near disaster to learn the lesson.</p>
<p>busdriver:</p>
<p>I could do your hike if I could spread it out over a couple of days. But, the distance and elevation is more than a day hike for me. I wasn’t ready to keel over or anything, but 7 miles roundtrip and 2700 feet of elevation was gracious plenty. I has happy to be loading up the gear and getting in the car. I am really slow on the uphill.</p>
<p>I’m thinking about giving my daughter and her boyfriend a nice tent for Christmas. They camp several times a year at festivals. They absconded with a 3-person Sierra Designs tent we had. Still in good shape, but it’s 20 years old. Tents have come a long way since then. Snag free zippers are the best thing since sliced bread!</p>
<p>I’m not really equipped for backpack camping. My camping stuff fills up the car – 30 inch wide Thermarest pads, heavy tents, etc. And, I like running water, showers, and accessible restaurants…</p>
<p>Sending hugs to MomWC.</p>
<p>Got in a few good hours on the river yesterday and quite happy about that. As it turns out, however, whie i did find the path to our deeded access (and also figured out who had the honey bees that keep escaping to my pool) this particular spot is NOT in any condition to put-in a kayak…huge tree down and thick sinky swamp area that would make it near impossible to shove off without a floating Ramp. At least now we know :)</p>
<p>It was funny as we were later kayaking along to note that this specific spot seemed to be the only spot for a few miles on our side of the river that was swampy. The fellow who lives beside the path told me the neighbor on the other side has tred repeatedly to put in there with no success. I supposed if I were determined, I could talk to him about splitting on a floating ramp. But I don’t really “need” to…plenty of put-ins nearby…just not with portage distance from the house. If I were a fisher, I’d be quite delighted though. I nearly had a heart attack when, after disturbing the area on approach one jumped so high it nearly landed on my lap :)</p>
<p>Fortunately, my neighbour friend with several acres of frontage has a great put-in so am keeping kayak there for easy access. Gorgeous day topped with my first ride ever in a float plane 
So the theme was definitely looking at the river from a different vantage, including a bit if shore sleuthing over a huge private preserve where they’ve put in by our calculation about a mile of constructed wood wetland-style walkway on the other side of the river. The family who owns the land makes the “world’s richest” list each year so we suppose undertaking such expense doesn’t phase them, but we’re also wondering if some day it might be donated as a public preserve. If so, it would be a delightful preservation of a gorgeous area.</p>
<p>My friend’s husband built the float plane himself and periodically flies it home from work at the airport and I had the good fortune of being there at such a time. It was a blast.</p>
<p>iDad, have a great hike and campout.</p>
<p>MOWC, running with friends sounds great.</p>
<p>I have a run scheduled for today, too. Hope everyone has a fantastic rest of the weekend.</p>
<p>A race today Deborah? Or just running your own race? Enjoy either way!!</p>
<p>Greetings from the South Pacific, and belated birthday wishes to the birthday people. Back on the boat, hoping to maintain with Trx, bw exercises and some work with bands. Food and alcohol super expensive, so hopefully not too much of a lure. Carry on with all the good work, looking forward to catching up upon my return in a few weeks.</p>
<p>Have fun, Jane!</p>
<p>5.5 miles with my 2 friends. We did some walking because one of them is having some health issues with abdominal pain, but we had a lot of fun talking. I wound up with 38.3 miles for the week, which is a whole lot better than I expected after starting out with two 1 mile days! Stupid me wants to go out and get it up to 40, but I don’t feel like changing my clothes!</p>
<p>Oh- it was 43 degrees! I had quite the mishmash of an outfit, since I wasn’t planning on it being quite that chilly here. It was sunny and pretty, though. Neon yellow compression socks with hot pink accents under my red capris. Yellow long sleeved top over a red print dress. Lovely…</p>
<p>Ran 5 today followed by…shopping :)<br>
Totaled up my miles run so far in 2013. As of today I’ve done 333 miles.</p>
<p>MOWC, I was looking at compression socks in Marshalls while on my shopping trip.
I’ve noticed a lot of people wearing them.
Do they make a noticeable difference in how you legs feel?</p>
<p>I generally don’t run in compression socks because I usually like other socks for the feet part, if that makes sense. I have run in compression sleeves and like them. My son in law (doctor) thinks it’s all a gimmick, but my daughter says they are like hugs for your legs. They feel really good and are good for recovery, in my opinion. The compression socks and sleeves come in really cool colors and designs, so there’s that! The sleeves are footless and just go over your calves.</p>
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<p>Same reason so many have fallen in love with kinesio tape or similar things! ;)</p>
<p>Yeah, I can’t stand thick lumpy socks. I’d have to do just the sleeves.</p>