<p>idad, sounds like you had a fabulous time. Thanks for sharing!</p>
<p>Bunsen- we’ll have to find a mall in Toronto!</p>
<p>deb, if your friend is ready to run a 10k, she can get through the rest. 
Who said walking is not allowed?! </p>
<p>MOfWC - absolutely! And a good beer garden. </p>
<p>Finally found local show times for Fed Up. Only Varsity will play it tomorrow, but I’m determined to have a movie date. I’m sure it will feel like being a member of the choir listening to the preaching…</p>
<p>BB:</p>
<p>Fed Up looks like something that should be available to rent on Amazon Prime in the not too distant future!</p>
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<p>Rest day for me. My quads are sore, probably from the downhill yesterday</p>
<p>I’m just curious to see if the audience will be guzzling bucket-sized sodas. 
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<p>Core day for me. I’m going to be sore after my Bosu ball routine!</p>
<p>Nice hike, Idad. I’m not sure my little hill would prepare me for such a rocky climb </p>
<p>I think I told you before about my Newfoundland friends’ little slideshow of me hiking one of their cliffs a few years back…it was hilarious…a shot of me hugging a rock wall, a shot of me hugging a tree, a shot of me hugging some more granite, a shot of me laying on the ground at the lookout… :)</p>
Bunsen, you’ll have to give us a review of the film. This popped up in my news feed this morning:
<a href=“Talking About “Fed Up” With Director Stephanie Soechtig and Executive Producer Laurie David - Washingtonian”>Talking About “Fed Up” With Director Stephanie Soechtig and Executive Producer Laurie David - Washingtonian;
Really hot yesterday and after battles with our heat pump this winter have now discovered that the a/c is not working correctly - don’t think the motor for the blower is hooked up correctly. Grumble.
Have mainly been doing short 3 mile runs this week but most importantly have been doing it. Keep on keeping on, all.
<p>Sabaray, will do! I am seriously going to count soda drinkers and candy munchers in the audience. Even in the darkness, it is not hard to do, since they are easily traceable by the sounds they make. :)</p>
<p>This came up in my newsfeed:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.activelynorthwest.com/fitness/step-indoor-stair-climbing”>http://www.activelynorthwest.com/fitness/step-indoor-stair-climbing</a></p>
<p>I thought about using the stairwell as my lunchtime gym, but then decided against it. </p>
^^^BB–there’s a race up the stairs to the top of the Empire State Building in NYC. Friend’s daughter did it–something like 1200 steps.
Long walk for me (5 miles) early this am before the rain and cold.
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<p>That’s why I only include very carefully staged hiking “selfies”. I hang on plenty of trees and clutch more than my share of granite! These hikes are awesome workouts. Combination of cardio/conditioning and resistance strength training.</p>
<p>Yay! That’s awesome!</p>
<p>Congrats! Keep it up! I have been a runner for 34 years. I would love to do a marathon again, if I can get my body to cooperate! </p>
<p>That is terrific, DadII! I am so happy and thrilled for you! </p>
<p>Dad II, so happy to hear from you. Big congrats. That time is an awesome time for a first-time 1%-er. Make sure that you take care of your body post-race and do not rush into overtraining. Yay!!!</p>
<p>That is a wonderful story. </p>
<p>So when is your next one?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Idad, hope you don’t think I am crazy now, completing a marathon within two years of running.</p>
<p>I was so sure this was a one time deal after crossing that finish line with pain every where. </p>
<p>Now, I am thinking about running the same race again next year. </p>
<p>Will be doing a couple of 1/2s in between, trying to get below 2 hours. </p>
<p>And you don’t need a Bosu ball with all the balancing you get to do during your hikes! :)</p>
<p>Bromfield, there is a similar local “race” that usually sells out quickly. I think Busdriver did a couple of years ago. </p>
<p>Starting over and checking in - </p>
<p>Hi everyone - so I realize I had not come back here to check in after a series of trips we had in March and April. Right now I’m sort of a captive audience to my computer, so I thought I’d update those of you who do not know my latest health news. On 4/21, I learned I’d been diagnosed with endometrial cancer, and on 4/29 I had a complete hysterectomy. It was done with the da Vinci Robotic Surgical System, but it still involved five small incisions across my abdomen. From the outside, it looks like a nominal procedure, but from how I can still feel things (parts) shifting and moving around on the inside, I can tell it was major surgery. I have been put on a restriction of not lifting anything heavier than a gallon of milk until my 4-6 week follow-up visit. UGH!!</p>
<p>The good news was that it was a Stage 1A/Grade 2 cancer, which is very curable. The thought is that the surgery alone took care of it. However, for the next two years I have to follow up with the gynecological oncologist every three months (although I haven’t figured out what they’re going to examine if they took everything out!), and then every six months for the following three years. That’s the part I was not prepared to hear. If they got it all… why such close watching??? (rhetorical question, of course). How do I not become a hypochondriac?</p>
<p>I had just finished the PT for my hip two weeks before the diagnosis. I became very worried about being put on restriction when I was so diligent about exercising. I was told walking, as tolerated, was OK. So I told H before I went in the hospital, that, as soon as they gave me the green light to walk after surgery, to kick my butt out of bed and make me walk, no matter how much I complained. So I walked a number of times while in the hospital (just overnight) and since coming home, have walked around a pond next to our house that has a nice asphalt path. One loop around is 1/5 mile. Yesterday I walked a mile; it was slow, but I did it. I found out that our park district also offers a range-of-motion water class two days a week, for people in rehab, so when I go to my two-week follow up next week, I’m going to ask him if I can do those classes. I was not given any bathing restrictions before discharge, but I don’t know how he’ll feel about a public swimming pool (even though I’m sure it’s well-maintained).</p>
<p>We’ve had two beautiful weather days in a row and it kills me that I can’t even go out in my yard and pick weeds! This is going to be a challenge for me. I do go up and down the stairs a couple of times a day, but am so winded when I do so. I guess it’s my body’s way of saying its energies are being spent on other activities other than providing blood to my quads and calves!</p>
<p>This thread moves waaaaay too fast for me to keep up sometimes, but I do feel like it gave me a good place to track my activity for the last few months. Unfortunately, I’m sort of starting over again. My trainer says you lose, roughly, 5% of conditioning per week that you are inactive. I’m hoping to minimize that by getting in as much walking as I can. </p>
<p>I’ve been frequenting another forum for women who have had gynecological surgery; there’s a thread just for women who have had a hysterectomy the week you had yours. Some of these women aren’t doing anything other than laying around on the couch all day long… no walking or anything, and are complaining of being tired. I wasn’t very patient with a couple of them, and finally, after one poster complained that she felt intimidated by my claims of walking a mile, I told her how active I’d been before surgery and how I’d made it a goal to get back to that as quickly as possible afterwards. She then replied, “Well, I wasn’t very physically fit before surgery.” And I thought to myself, “Why are you expecting to pop back into shape after surgery if you weren’t active before???” Granted I’m only ten days post-op and there’s still lots of room for complications, but I’m trying everything I can to avoid them. </p>
<p>Anyway, hope everyone else is doing OK and enjoying the much improved weather the majority of us are seeing across the country. I’m betting a lot of you are appreciating getting back outside on a regular basis. </p>
<p>You did great! Yeah- you always get that “never again” feeling at the end, but the memory of the pain fades away. The one you did is a great race, and lots of people do it over and over. Super congratulations! Stay healthy. Were you happy with your choice of shoes, clothes etc for the race?</p>