Do you have snowshoes, Francesca? I really like snowshoeing when I’m in a winter place.
I’ve always wanted to try snowshoes.
Seems like my knee is back to normal. As part of my rehab my sports chiro wants my cadence at 180 steps a minute. This is a struggle. My normal cadence at 7:30 - 8:30 pace was 163. It seems like the only way I can do this is with short choppy steps. No problem during a race. I’m 200 plus. Just a problem with normal runs.
Glad to hear those on the “injured list” are on the mend.
I run for the boost it gives my aging metabolism, compared to walking. I don’t really care about my time, and most likely won’t be running races. I hope to remain injury free.
18 holes of golf, walking. This was the last day of Ladies League play. I cleaned up - our team won today’s game, I received most improved player in my flight, and I won the season-long “Ringers” competition. (I won’t bore you with the explanation.) All the winnings are issued as Pro Shop credits, which I have to use before October 30. I see a new pair of golf shoes in my future …
A new pair of golf shoes! Very cool, CBBBlinker! 
Congrats.
CBB, it’s great that you enjoy a sport like golf so much - and you have done so well!
You cleaned up @CBBBlinker! Way to go! I got new golf shoes this year! So nice to have dry feet lol!
Ran 3 miles and then played 9 holes of golf. No money involved though!
That’s a great fitness day Deb!
Got my 11K steps (so far - another dog walk to happen in a moment…) AND 3.5 mile run on top of the 11K steps! Just a gorgeous, gorgeous early evening run!
@MomofWildChild, yes we do have snowshoes. There wasn’t much snow last winter, so we’re hoping to get to use them more this year.
Completely off topic, but @PlantMom, stay safe - I keep hoping that hurricane is going to do an about face and head out to sea.
Easy 3 this morning that went better than Monday’s easy run; Pilates with my trainer; now off to work. Wednesdays are tough!
Have a good day Sabaray!
A co-worker was suppose to be in the air at this time heading to Disney(World) with her grandchildren - she rescheduled the whole trip last night due to the storm. PlantMom, you’ll have to do some running in place inside or at the gym!!!
People are really fleeing from the coastal areas.
3 miles this morning. I really struggled to get out there, and decided to just do a mile or 2, but I managed to do the 3 even though I was later than usual getting to work.
I don’t know if anyone saw pictures from what was supposed to be Ironman Maryland (full Ironman distance) this past weekend. Because of the storms that had come through in the days before the race, the ocean was too rough for the swim, so it was cancelled. The bike route had to be shortened due to flooding. I saw a lot of video with bikers and runners going through almost knee deep water. It was unbelievable. You work so hard for a race and then something like that happens! My son just informed me that he is going to Miami for Ironman 70.3 (half) on October 23. I guess he wants to try to end his season on a better note than the DNF at Tremblant.
FYI:
http://www.active.com/food-and-nutrition/articles/8-common-myths-about-carbs?cmp=17N-PB2-S35-T3-D3-10052016-1107
Any doubts on some of these?
3.2 miles outside this morning – sunny, but quite brisk due to the wind. I wore a long sleeved top with a nylon vest + nylon jacket. I should have known better – I took the jacket off after about 5 minutes and tied it around my waist!
Hope everyone on the southern coast stays safe. Current reports are that the hurricane should go out to sea and miss those of us in the northeast. (Something I’m sure my friend whose daughter is getting married this weekend is very thankful for …)
Abasket, I wholeheartedly agree with that article. Very, very true. Awesome link.
I have to say that “net carbs” is a very misused concept. Sprinkling powdered fiber on a cake will not suddenly cancel out some carbs from sugar in that cake. Where did this cancel out idea come from? Sugars in fruit do get absorbed slower, because the gut has to break down the cellulose cell walls (aka fiber) to release the sugars contained in those cells, so in the end, you still absorbed the sugars, but you absorbed them slowly, not in one shot. It matters on how the body responds to the sugars. At the same time, adding fiber back to apple juice pressed out of those cells will not have the same beneficial slow absorbtion effect.
Let’s say an apple has 20 g of sugar and 5 g of fiber. If you eat an apple, you eat 20 g of sugar. No, you did not eat 15 g of sugar (20 g cancelled out by 5 g of fiber). You ate 20 g, you just absorbed them slowly.
I was taking a break from racing but my daughter asked me if I had signed up for the local 10 miler on Nov 5. You get nice hoodie sweatshirts. I then found myself registering… It’s a low key event with a good but challenging course. I can survive. Right?
I didn’t look at the link you referenced, but on nutrition labels, the apple in your example (if apples had labels) would report 25 grams of carbohydrates. For people who count carbs for whatever reason, the 5 grams of fiber don’t factor into the carb count because the body doesn’t digest the fiber. So the net carbs are 20, even though the label reports the total carbs as 25.
@PlantMom - keep us posted on your situation if you can!
nottelling, it is absolutely true that carbs come in digestible (simple sugars, starches, etc.) and indigestible form (aka fiber), and here is where the confusion comes from; look at my example - people often incorrectly interpret the nutritional info and assume that fiber “cancels out” carbs, i.e., in my example, they think that somehow the fiber reduces the amount of digestible carbs (20-5=15 in the hypothetical used). Some think that dumping fiber-rich stuff into a pot will “cancel out” the carbs coming from other sources.
abasket, great article. Here’s my take on the article and the myths:
- Carbs make you fat – Article is correct as far as it goes in noting the difference between healthy carbs and unhealthy carbs but it doesn’t go far enough. Carbs don’t make you fat, excess calories make you fat. The reason eating excess carbs can make you feel bloated (over and above the excess calories stored as fat) is that carbs are stored with water molecules. The reason those on low carb diets experience significant up front weight loss is that as carbs are eliminated from the diet, water weight is lost. Study after study has proven conclusively that while eating low carb can facilitate significant weight loss up front, over time it is no more effective than a balanced macro nutrient diet that is energy balanced. Outside of those with diagnosed insulin/metabolic medical conditions, study after study has also debunked the myth that eating carbs in general causes an insulin reaction that causes fat storage. While insulin is part of the metabolic process that facilitates the storage of excess carbs (repeat – excess carbs a/k/a excess calories) as fat, study after study has clearly established that it is excess calories that results in fat storage regardless of whether they come from carbs, proteins or fat. That doesn’t mean that eating excess carbs is healthy or that there isn’t a health and nutrition difference between junk carbs and healthy carbs, but when it comes to fat and weight gains, it’s the calories that count, not the source. Excess calories, regardless of the source get stored as fat and cause weight gain. And for those who rely on some of the “popular” studies that are to the contrary that have been touted by doctors and “nutrition experts” trying to sell books, I’ll try to dig up again the interview with the lab that did the studies where the head of the lab states that the study was misinterpreted or distorted by the authors of the books and that the study did not support a conclusion that carbs make you fat because of an insulin response and therefore everyone should eat low carb to lose fat.
- Fruit isn’t healthy – Article is spot on in rejecting that nonsense.
- All carbs are sugar – Article is right, what a gross over-generalization.
- All complex carbs are good – Article is correct. Must differentiate between processed, unprocessed, with additives, without. Read the ingredient labels!! And excess complex carbs outside of energy balance will still make you fat – it’s not a license to stuff your face simply because it’s “healthy”.
- Net carbs equals less carbs – Article is right, what B.S.
- You should avoid carbs post workout – Article is right, utter nonsense. You need carbs to replenish muscle glycogen and protein to rebuild and repair muscle fiber.
- Eat carbs earlier in the day – Article is right. B.S. There is no one time of day that carbs should be eaten or that eating carbs has a more beneficial effect than at other times of the day. There is no one time of the day that eating carbs is deleterious. It has nothing to do with the hands on the clock.
- The body doesn’t actually need carbs – Article is correct. Absolute B.S. But article doesn’t go far enough. Besides being the primary source of energy for daily life activities, carbs are essential for proper brain and central nervous system functioning. You need about 130 gms of carbs a day just for that.
And with that, I’m finishing my lunch of turkey meatloaf, sweet potatoes and string beans, with an Oatmega Chocolate Peanut Crisp bar for desert.
Wow that sounds like a good lunch!