<p>Ran/walked just over 2 miles tonight. It’s great weather outside so I went out for awhile…</p>
<p>I think I’m on the road to recovery. </p>
<p>I just did rehab sequence workinprogress linked above for the third time today and got zero dizziness this time! The first time, it produced massive room-spinning, I think I’m going to hurl, dizziness.</p>
<p>Watch out dumbbells. The ol’ (formerly) fat guy is coming back…</p>
<p>H and I are taking a little break from execising our dancing muscles. What a weird bar! We ar surrounded by Shakespeare nerds, and all TVs are tuned to MSNBC’s coverage of the “almost shutdown”. LOL!!!</p>
<p>I keep nagging DH that we need to go home since I have 14 miles to run tomorrow. Yikes. Wish me luck.</p>
<p>How do you enter a food item into Livestrong that they don’t already have?</p>
<p>BC:</p>
<p>They’ve got the add food feature “temporarily” closed:</p>
<p>[New</a> Item | LIVESTRONG.COM](<a href=“http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/nutrition-calories/new_item/]New”>http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/nutrition-calories/new_item/)</p>
<p>I think they are in the process of cleaning up the database. I’ve seen a lot more “verified” foods latey.</p>
<p>When I added a particular type of Progresso soup a while back, I was prompted to provide a link to the actual nutrional label on the can (from the Progresso site). I think that’s how they “verify” items.</p>
<p>I have been able to find a very close substitute for every ingredient I’ve tried. Play around with your search phrases because different wording can result in a different list of items.</p>
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<p>I think I’d rather have severe vertigo!</p>
<p>Thanks for the link - it does seem to be down. I looked around and found something moderately close and had to resize the portions.</p>
<p>BC:</p>
<p>You can also try searching in the search box at the top of the site, rather than in the “what did you eat” box on Daily Plate. They often return a different list of choices for reasons that don’t make any sense to me. Nevertheless, you might find what you are looking for with a particular brand or whatever to search for in the future.</p>
<p>Once you’ve used a food item a few times, it will generally pop-up first when you search in the “what did you eat” box. For example, as soon as I type “half” I get the Hood Half 'n Half that I’ve always used to record my coffee. If I type “Chatham”, I get the Chatham Butter and Garlic Croutons that I use on salads. I type “Hormel” to find the best version of the boneless center-cut pork roast that I cook out on the grill fairly often.</p>
<p>Have any of you found small resistance bands, the kind that you can put around your legs, at local stores? I’d prefer the padded tubular ones like they have at the gym, but I’m having trouble finding them. I’d prefer to get a couple different resistance levels, and the descriptions on Amazon (“blue”) don’t help much. I don’t want to pay a bunch in shipping costs for something that costs $5-8.</p>
<p>arabrab, check out PerformBetter.com They are listing free shipping through April 18…</p>
<p>[Perform</a> Better - The Experts in Functional Training and Rehabilitation](<a href=“http://www.performbetter.com%5DPerform”>http://www.performbetter.com) has free shipping on every online order until April 18th. Perfect time to buy their minibands:</p>
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<p>I have one each in green, blue, and black. They work well around the ankles or just above the knees. Perfect for lateral walks, monster walks, etc. and – with free shipping – the price is right. </p>
<p>The blue is about right for me around the ankles right now. The black for use above the knee. You could use multiple bands for more resistance, but this stuff is sneaky – what feels easy at first can get pretty tiring after a dozen steps. I would say that almost anyone here could start with a green and a blue and have something that would work. Add the black for a couple more bucks and have all your bases covered. Worst case – you spend a couple bucks on a size that you don’t use very often. The thing with resistance bands is that you don’t have to be really precise in band selection because the resistance varies with how much you stretch them. I could use the heavy black one around my ankles and compensate with smaller steps. Conversely, to get more of a workout with a lighter band, I just take bigger steps.</p>
<p>I use them every day for monster walks and lateral walks (actually Big-X walks in conjuntion with tubes to my arms – think Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous man with outstretched arms) as part of my warm up.</p>
<p>They sell other kinds as well, such as tubing with padded cuffs:</p>
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<p>They typically ship this stuff US Mail out of Rhode Island.</p>
<p>Phew… Just finished my run: 14 miles, 1 hr 50 min. I’m ready to run a half. My trail shoes modified with baked Viestrus inserts performed well.</p>
<p>^^I would say you are ready!</p>
<p>Congratulations Bunsen! Way to go.</p>
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<p>I don’t know what got into me. Hint of spring 63 degrees, sunny. So I headed out for my little 5K hilly walk before settling in to watch the Masters. Pushed the pace the entire way. </p>
<p>Sheesh. I guess, I pushed the pace. Every mile was faster than I had ever walked a single mile. I cut 18 seconds off my fastest mile and 17 seconds off my best previous average pace per mile on this route. Considering how many times I’ve walked this route, cutting 17 seconds per mile off the time is pretty amazing. 15’38" per mile, including both “big hills”.</p>
<p>I had great luck on the iPod shuffle. Got Phil Lesh and Friends with Trey Anatasio and Joan Osborne doing Dylan’s Bucket of Rain, Ryan Adams and the Cowboy Junkies doing 200 More Miles, Bruce Springsteen doing* Viva Las Vegas *and Janis Joplin doing Me & Bobby McGee.</p>
<p>Idad- You are very fit, but that is really fast walking! You are ready to enter a 5K! Part of your improvement is because there is less of you to haul up the hills. Good job.</p>
<p>8 1/2 miles on the beautiful and flat Perkiomen Trail in PA. Wore winterish stuff (quite a change from New Orleans) but it was sunny and pretty and warmed up to 50 while I was out there.</p>
<p>I agree. My cutover on walking/running is 15 minutes/mile. Any faster and it’s a slow jog.</p>
<p>Played 90 minutes of doubles today. Racquet strings are in pretty bad shape - I’m thinking of switching to a heavier frame as it has better strings. The good news is that one of my stringers will be there for tomorrow’s game.</p>
<p>I think that I have to dial back on tennis a bit. Three times a week is a bit too much on the joints and I always feel like it cramps my running.</p>
<p>Definitely less of me to haul up the hills, but not that much since I set my previous fast time on this route back in December. I’m down about 10 pounds since then.</p>
<p>It’s the NROL4A workouts, especially all the leg stuff – split squats, deadlifts, step ups. I can really feel a big difference in my legs on the hills. I had the racewalking arm pump going and pushed hard up both half mile hills.</p>
<p>It really is pretty amazing to think back to some of my early walks on this route a year ago and how hard those hills were. Now I just cruise up them literally as fast as I can walk. I’m breathing hard at the top, but nothing like it used to be. I can’t even get my heart rate up unless I push the pace really hard.</p>
<p>It’s really a terrific feeling. The progress is so apparent.</p>
<p>Still one little patch of muddy stubborn snow/ice on one of the trails in the park and a very cold breeze off the pond/river on the foot bridge by the old mill. That water temp is probably about 33 degrees. Perfect day for a one long sleeve shirt. No hat. No gloves.</p>
<p>“Fight Gone Bad!”</p>
<p>Three rounds of:
Wall-ball, 20 pound ball, 10 ft target (Reps)
Sumo deadlift high-pull, 75 pounds (Reps)
Box Jump, 20" box (Reps)
Push-press, 75 pounds (Reps)
Row (Calories)</p>
<p>BRUTAL! You do each exercise for a minute and then move to the next station. One minute rest in between rounds…</p>
<p>Crazy low carbs today, considering that I had a tuna on pumpernickle sandwich for lunch and a frozen italian ice for dessert:</p>
<p>*1992 calories</p>
<p>54% fat
28% protein
18% carbs*</p>
<p>Maybe it isn’t just me. My elite, 70 year old running friend who is a writer said, “The anticipation of a marathon is like waiting on death row.”</p>