Wow Gertrude that’s a great # of 1/2’s and the last one a PR to boot! Absolutely give your knee a rest.
7 halfs in a year! Wow, congrats Gertrude!
Snowshoeing yesterday, XC ski today. Made a bunch of cookies and tried to get the house clean, I’m leaving for my sisters on Wednesday. Then a whirlwind of Christmas activity.
I’m tired, a good tired. The one where you feel great because you had a good workout. It’s one of the best feelings.
Loved that article about women’s health and menopause. I had no idea the effect of declining hormones on sleep. Fascinating.
Gertrude - so impressed with your running. My daughter had IT band issues. She used a roller and said it helped.
The last week I escaped the cold and weather that hit almost everywhere with a last minute trip to someplace cool and another place tropical. Yesterday I did an early morning run and then a hike along the shore. Today was a travel day and I barely did anything. Tomorrow I predict serious jet lag.
I’m definitely getting an Apple Watch, so Michael, you and I can compare notes. Or you can give me advice.
High-five, Gertrude!
Nice job on the half-marathons, Gertrude!!
Did 20 minutes on the step climber and worked out for 30 minutes–squats, lunges, plank, etc.
@fireandrain, here’re my impressions do far in using the IWatch as a fitness device. Too soon to tell whether my overall experience is due to my inexperience with the watch or the watch’s limitations.
- The watch imports my workout time from the program I use to log my weight lifting called StrongLifts. It shows as activity time on the watch but it includes rest time between sets.
- The heart rate function seems to be pretty accurate during nonexercise time. The one downside is that the heart rate monitoring is on an intermittent basis not a constant basis and ehen you go to the heart rate function, it takes a few seconds for the watch to refresh.
- I have not been successful yet in getting the watch to log my indoor cycling. I can't get it to recognize my elevated heart rate as exercise time. Moreover, it's not importing my exercise time from my fitness pal even though I have linked the health software on my iPhone and watch with the my fitness pal software.
- During my indoor cycling, the heart rate function is plus or minus 0-3 BPM at different times compared to my heart rate chest strap linked to Trainer Road on my laptop. Moreover, there are occasional wild spikes shown on the watch when I wake the hr function from sleep mode but it then settles down.
I’m going to schedule an online/telephone educational session with Apple to see how to address these things and more fully use the watch as a fitness device.
Waving hi/bye to all. Leaving today for 2 nights in The City, aka NYC. Anticipate lots of walking, as well as some morning exercise at the club facilities. (I’m always awake before H, and when we travel there’s not much else to do, so I hit the exercise room/facility.)
We’ve done no Christmas decorating, and I’d really be OK with that. Neither D or S will be with us, and I really dislike UNdecorating, so … I think the compromise will be a very small tree, assuming we can still find one when we return from NYC.
Congratulations, gertrude!
Great article, sabaray.
Happy and safe travels, CBB and anyone else who will be traveling. We leave on Thursday for a quick trip to the midwest to see family.
Have a great time, CBB!
7 miles this morning - nice relaxed pace. HR is still higher than it should be but I’ll keep working on that.
Safe travels to all our D/E/H/W friends as you travel here and there, near and far over the next couple of weeks. Always good to hear how you did (or didn’t) manage to get some exercise in on those travels!
Way to go Gertie! That’s like a half marathon every other month (plus some!). Great you got your time down – it’s amazing what a motivator that is, isn’t it? Rest up. Ice is nice but rest is best 
Gertrude, that sounds great. A steady diet of halfs.
Spin this morning because it is still too cold to swim. Like MOWC described, we normally can swim outside in the heated pool year round but the heater isn’t working well so that coupled with the cold air means we have to swim indoors if we want to swim. I don’t like to swim inside. Kid has taken my car so I will be running errands on foot later.
I had some trouble getting out of bed this morning and only had time for 2 1/2 miles on the treadmill. No way was I going outside. I hope I have time to do more after work before our Oiselle team party. Some of the women are joining the Fleet Feet Monday night run, but it’s very cold and I don’t want to be running in Christmas traffic near the mall at 6pm- especially with my night vision issues.
^^That sounds like a recipe for disaster! Running in the evening, near at mall, during Christmas week!?
Heading to the gym in a bit. NEED to run. First of three work lunches this week. I brought chicken tortilla soup so that was healthy. Did eat a small slice of peppermint chocolate pie. Otherwise not too much damage done.
Kid is snowboarding again! The weather is not great, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that the pass will not get closed today. Oy.
That run near a mall does sound like sheer madness. Glad you have better things to do, MOfWC!
I don’t usually contribute to this thread because everyone here seems so much more sophisticated on these topics than I am, but:
- I'm on Weight Watchers. I've lost 28 pounds.
- My doctor knows this and says she is pleased.
- Nevertheless, as I was on my way out of the office today -- after an office visit during which weight control was one of the topics we discussed -- the doctor offered some Christmas cookies brought in earlier in the day by another patient and absolutely insisted that I take two of them.
I expect to encounter food pushers almost every day at this time of year, but a doctor? A doctor who knows that the patient is trying to lose weight? [Insert your favorite expletive here.]
(The cookies went into the trash in the corridor. They didn’t look that good anyway. It was much harder to throw away the Ferraro Rocher candies that one of the managers at work put in everyone’s mail tray earlier in the day.)
Kudos on resisting the temptations! Great job. I am shocked that your doc offered you cookies… especially after that weight control discussion.
Marian - that is pretty ironic! Glad you were able to resist. Welcome to the thread and please stick around - this thread is great for motivation.
Marian, yes stick around. I love it that you 1. realize how ironic it was that your doc encouraged cookies. 2. That you tossed them in the trash when you left! WINNING!!!
Wow, Marian. I would be unhappy with that, too! Geez. Good for you for ditching them! It is a season full of sabotage, for sure. Don’t hesitate to post. Many of us may have some supposed sophistication in one area but be woefully inadequate in another. The beauty of this thread is that we learn from each other and from the articles and learnings that we all dig up! Congrats on the terrific weight loss!
I’m sure they have a fairly safe route for the run, since it happens every Monday night, but I don’t like all the crossing streets, stoplights and up and down sidewalks, either. It I didn’t get run over, I would fall. (and did I mention that it’s too cold…) I think I’ll enjoy a couple of warm treadmill miles, get cleaned up and head to the food part of the evening!