<p>Thanks, idad! I bookmarked it for future watching.</p>
<p>Here is an interesting invention - does it mean the end of “helmet hair”?</p>
<p>[Swedes</a> develop invisible bike helmet](<a href=“Swedes develop invisible bike helmet”>Swedes develop invisible bike helmet)</p>
<p>Folks in Stockholm definitely do not like to wear helmets. Or maybe they do wear them, and I simply did not notice? ;)</p>
<p>MOfWC, good luck! If I were able to run 5 miles on a treadmill that no one could (with its belt accelerating and decelerating for no apparent reason), you can definitely do it!</p>
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Sadly, Notrichenough, we already ARE adding statins to the water supply…and trace amounts of hormone, antidepressants, and everything else we consume and contribute to the ecosystem when we recycle our sewage :)</p>
<p>Ten years ago, I was fired by a doc for refusing statins (had very low “good” cholesterol and ergo a high ratio despite a “bad” cholesterol low enough to keep me under 200 and under 100 on triglycerides.) But I also have arthritis and was not interested in exacerbating it.</p>
<p>MOMWC, I hope Michigan doesn’t have the distinction of being the state to scuttle your streak!</p>
<p>…though it scuttles mine all the time :)</p>
<p>Did it! And my apologies to the treadmill! It was actually a nice, working Startrac with TVs in the room. Good temperature. 3.1 miles done. Now, off on another long but fascinating day learning from my CEO and the others.</p>
<p>Four miles on a glorious, cold morning. </p>
<p>I am beat up from the trainer working on my bad left hip, but it still went well. It just takes me longer to warm up. </p>
<p>Very sorry to hear about coffee and blood pressure. Decaf is also a problem? There are some life style changes I just couldn’t make. And giving up coffee would be one of them.</p>
<p>^That’s what I used to think until I was having side effects from my blood pressure medicine. I switched to green tea. Gave up that one, too. Now I drink my own giner-lemon-honey tea and got the blood pressure down to below 120/80.</p>
DH tried meditating before taking his blood pressure and went from 140 over whatever it was to 135. He’s happier.
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<p>Not meditating, but just sitting quietly for five minutes before doing the blood pressure reading often makes a big difference for me. I think that’s the problem with the doctor’s office. I walk up the steps. Get on the scale, walk into the examining room, hop up on the table, talking the entire time, and the nurse immediately cuffs me and takes my blood pressure – which is inevitably the highest reading I’ve seen in a month.</p>
<p>Question kind of off topic for the runners or not runners here…</p>
<p>Have you ever been involved in organizing a 5k??? Asking because I’m preparing a presentation where I am proposing various methods for raising $$$ - from $200 to $2000 and am wondering if a local 5K - something with maybe a few hundred racers or less can actually profit that kind of $$??? Appreciate any input. I’m thinking $1000 wouldn’t be too hard to reach with your basic 5k but don’t want to make any assumptions.</p>
<p>Thanks. :)</p>
<p>idad, my doctor measures the blood pressure again after the nurse’s initial reading. Last time I was at the doctor’s, the initial reading was over 160. By the time my doctor came around I had calmed down and my reading was below 120.</p>
<p>Abasket, it can be done. Getting sponsors, not so much participants, is key. </p>
<p>Do you have a local roadrunners club that sponsors races? Or is there a race management company you notice puts on a lot of 5ks? Talk to them in detail about what is involved. You will pay a fee to the race management company, you might have to pay for the place, you might have to pay for security, and for portajohns. Those little details do add up. If you can sign up some good sponsors ahead of time, you will know you are on the black before the race enrolls a single runner. </p>
<p>I am involved with one here. We get a couple of big, local companies to be the marquee sponsors and do quite well. We probably get $8000 in sponsorships before we start, more very year. A friend does a 5k for a local school and puts together a dozen small sponsors and makes a tidy profit. I am betting she gets one hundred to five hundred from each sponsor and just pays for her expenses before she signs up runners. Both of us get lots of food donated, and have interesting vendors set up, like yoga studios.</p>
<p>Thanks Lizardly (by the way, where does that screen name come from ?!)</p>
<p>I’m not thinking of putting together one myself (not yet anyway) - but we have a couple of running shops/clubs that work with non profits to put together races - I am just putting together a fundraising call for programs that I work with and I want to list the 5k as a possible money maker - even on a small scale. Just want to represent with fair information.</p>
<p>Ah, the glamor of life as an ol’ (formerly) fat guy. I was the only one in GNC buying fiber supplements before my workout! Everyone else was buying protein power, “muscle milk”, and lord knows what. :)</p>
<p>Off to workout B, the second of two new workouts. Can’t even remember what I have in store 'til I hit the basement and look at the dance care. It was 54 degrees down there, so I’ve got the space heater running for a few minutes while I load a fresh batch of podcasts on the iPod.</p>
<p>Back from the basement. I might have to fire my personal trainer if he keeps this up. I spent the second half of my workout, the strength training half, bent over panting like a dog.</p>
<p>Warmup was good. Core was fun. I did Tabata planks with four 20 second rounds of front plank on the stabilty ball and four rounds of plain old side plank on the floor. Then did some ValSlide painful push-aways.</p>
<p>The power set was embarrassing. I managed the overhead med ball slams without incident (I know my neighbors must love those), but missed the bench on one of the box jumps. I do that from time to time. Fortunately, no harm, no foul – knock on wood.</p>
<p>I set up four stations around the weigtht bench for a 4-exercise circuit of strength training </p>
<p>Started at one end of the bench for 10 goblet squats with a 50lb KB. Whew. Saw heart rates of 84% of my max.</p>
<p>Then moved to the other end of the bench for 3-pt DB rows with one hand on the bench. 50 lb DB. 10 reps with the left arm, 10 reps with the right arm. That was an increase from the 8 I’ve been doing.</p>
<p>Then walked around the bench, grabbed two 30lb DBs and did step ups to the 16 inch bench. Ten on the left leg. Stop and pant. Ten on the right leg. That’s also a heart rate killer – 84% of max, even with the rest in between legs.</p>
<p>And finally back to the other end of the bench for 10 reps of DB bench press with two 35 lb DBs.</p>
<p>That’s one set. Repeat for a total of three sets.</p>
<p>Yikes. I hope these get a little easier as I do them a few more times. Really good workouts, I think, but definitely challenging.</p>
<p>That all sounds very challenging, iDad. </p>
<p>Abasket- I have a lot of experience with race administration and have been involved in many events, including 20 years on the Board of Trustees for a major city marathon. Generally, an inaugural race is not a good fundraiser. Most cities of any size have multiple races almost every weekend and a new race struggles to attract entrants without a big sponsor to promote it and help with expenses. You need permits for the course, police to redirect traffic, a race administration company for timing and course measurement…it goes on and on.</p>
<p>Hot yoga today and short walk (1.2 miles). My kids gave me 3 private yoga sessions for my birthday–going to use the first one tomorrow.</p>
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<p>At least I pegged the weights I could handle pretty well for both new workouts this week. I used the weights that I had pencilled in for 10 reps. By and large, they were good. The final reps were really hard, but I was able to keep decent form. That’s kind of what I aim for.</p>
<p>I think the most surprising thing is what a cardio workout these strength sets are. I think it’s because exercises like this are the definition of anaeroblc – no way to supply enough oxygen to the muscles to keep going. If I really wanted to have fun, I’d shorten up the rest between exercises.</p>
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<p>Thai green curry with salmon, broccoli, snow peas, and red bell peppers for dinner. Yum. I splurge and use two skillets for this one. Sear the salmon in a non-stick skillet to put a nice crust on top, then finish it in a second skillet with coconut milk and the veggies. Omega 3 rocks! :)</p>
<p>^idad, that gym weight trainer back in Canada I had 14 years ago ran my sets that way and said indeed it was good cardio.
My little cooking sets pale by comparison but this week I’ve had trouble even consistently fitting those in because two out of three nights I had to eat on the run because I couldn’t manage to get home before 9 or 10. So I’ll have to make up with a longish set tonight even though its my 5 am day and tomorrow to even get my base three in!</p>
<p>Right now I’m sticking with the continuous plank rolls, bird dog, glute bridge, kb swings, cleans, overhead press, kb squat, single leg deadlift then finishing with some curls etc. on and weights. It’s short, but I do work up a sweat and I can see some emerging definition :)</p>
<p>The website wouldn’t let me be “lizard.” Turns out there is one already. </p>
<p>If you are looking at a small scale fundraiser, I’d use my friend’s 5k example of trying to round up a dozen small sponsors. The race director could hit up doctors’ offices, accountants, insurance offices, small businesses like that. If someone has a connection to a large, local business by all means use that connection, but if not, a set of smaller businesses would work fine. </p>
<p>My friend’s 5k raises some money, but lots of good will. It is a really fun event and gives people in the school community a chance to hang out in a new setting.</p>
<p>3.1 outside in cold and windy Lansing, MI. My last day of travel with the big boss. It’s been great- really.</p>