<p>I like quinoa as a breakfast cereal.</p>
<p>A little lowfat vanilla soymilk, some blueberries, cinnamon.</p>
<p>Sometimes I do things that are so stupid that I even amaze myself! Why would I think that a great time to do my fastest run since the injury would be at 2:30 in the afternoon in 94 degrees? (playing hooky from work following a dr. appt) I had a lot of shade, but it was still brutal, but after the Houston humidity it felt like San Diego or something! </p>
<p>I thought I started out easy (Monday is an easy day), but my pace was good, so I said, “Hmmmm…let’s see what happens” and I cranked out a couple more fast (fast is very relative right now) miles. The last one was brutal- HR was as close to max as I ever get except in a race and it was HOT. So- 4.5 miles done.</p>
<p>Like I have said before, wild child didn’t fall too far from the tree.</p>
<p>^^ I don’t know. He seems to be a little smarter than me right now. In Houston this weekend he ran outside the first day, couldn’t handle the heat/humidity (Denver will do that to you…) and went to the hotel dreadmill the next two days. I was slogging through the swamp outside every day!</p>
<p>Epic Fail workout today.</p>
<p>I woke up this morning with a bit of the inner ear positional vertigo I get a couple times a year (probably explains the queaziness I was feeling on Friday).</p>
<p>So, I got thru the warmup and halfway thru the first set of iPod nazi core exercises, when I was doing a really cool one. Head and shoulders on stability ball looking up at the ceiling, arms stretched out to the sides. Crab walk to one side so only one shoulder is on the ball, hold for two seconds and crab walk back so only the other shoulder is on the ball. Cool. Challenging, but fun. Until about the 40 second mark when all that motion looking up at the ceiling hit me like a ton of bricks. The room started spinning, and I literally collapsed off the ball. I was fine 30 seconds later, but that was the abrupt end of the workout for today. '</p>
<p>I may have to rethink this week’s schedule because the workouts I had planned are not going to work with the room spinning. We’ll see. If this is the worst infirmity I have to deal with, I’ll count my blessing.</p>
<p>IDad- that sounds a little scary. I hope it resolves quickly.</p>
<p>iDad – I hope the world settles into place sooner rather than later. And stability balls sound like a very, very bad idea for the nonce.</p>
<p>I’m sure it will clear up in a day or two, like it always does. </p>
<p>I was sunk, because basically the whole workout was on the floor. The next exercise was pushups with feet on the stability ball, rolling it in. Then, there were twisting side planks and hip lifts looking at the ceiling.</p>
<p>I did get in the one-foot miniband drill during warmup. That was fantastic today. Five complete reps (forward, back, to the side) on each leg.</p>
<p>20 minute weights workout with moderate intensity. This is a partial rest week for me.</p>
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<p>Yep. I think what I’m probably going to do is spend the week doing short interval conditioning stuff: walk/jog, Airdyne intervals, swing/burpees intervals. Let this vertigo clear up and use the opportunity to give my shoulder (and still tender groin) a complete rest for a week.</p>
<p>I suspect that a little recovery time is probably overdue.</p>
<p>4 rounds for time:
250meter row
7 KB snatch (per arm)
7 TRX Push ups
7 KB Swings</p>
<p>13:30</p>
<p>Then I did 20 minutes of Pilates…</p>
<p>Ha. I had TRX rows and TRX pushups pencilled in for my workout today. Both of those would have been fun with the room spinning. I find the TRX pushups to be plenty challenging under the best of circumstances.</p>
<p>idad - hate to say it, but I probably would have welcomed the vertigo – anything to get me out of crab walk ;)</p>
<p>In addition, I find push ups of any variety challenging under all circumstances…
Hope your situation clears up quickly, though.</p>
<p>MOWC - You really are hard core!</p>
<p>Ran a moderately fast paced 5K tonight, 25:50. I was tired, hungry and not in a mood for running, but I stuck to the plan, then made dinner of green salad and herb-baked salmon. DH rummaged in the fridge and unearthed the fathers’ day wine leftovers to spruce up our meal.</p>
<p>Very gray and still rainy here. Have to motivate myself to get going this morning. I’m sure I will get to the gym but probably later than usual. Hope we see the sun on this first day of summer!</p>
<p>Well, I have made a decision. There is a small racewalking competition held in Kingsport TN each year that attracts some of the very best racewalkers. I usually compete a couple of times a year in NYC (all ages) and have gone to the National Senior Games twice. This year, however, the Games are being held in Houston and I had NO desire to spend a week in Houston in the summer. </p>
<p>Since I am not doing Houston, I realized I needed something to focus on this summer. The racers in Kingsport are out of my league, but I can set some goals for myself and just suck it up and do MY best. To give you an idea of how good these people are, two of the women finished the 5K in under 26 minutes (25:08, 25:35) and the top two men finished in 22:21 and 22:46. </p>
<p>I have three months to train and my goal will be to finish under 32:00. We shall see.</p>
<p>The area around Kingsport is absolutely beautiful. It will be a nice place to visit, with or without walking.</p>
<p>I’m trying to wrap my head around walking 5k in 25 minutes. That’s amazing.</p>
<p>Honestly, the very best people are incredible to watch. I know people think racewalking is a little odd, but really it is no different than having a butterfly or breast stroke in swimming - nobody ever watches swimmers doing those strokes and asks why they don’t just do freestyle. </p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Perez wins men’s walk by nearly a minute](<a href=“Perez wins men's walk by nearly a minute - YouTube”>Perez wins men's walk by nearly a minute - YouTube)</p>
<p>Is that beautiful</p>
<p>wip2- Did you see my post from a few days ago where I saw the signs for the Senior Games when I was in Houston this past weekend. I thought of you! Kingsport sounds like a great goal. Those times are astounding!</p>
<p>Check out this chair. I believe it is the answer to my tremendous discomfort at work resulting from all this injury stuff. I was really reluctant to ask for it since we are in the industry hardest hit by the economic problems and we are really on a “no spend” program, but I have tried everything- cushions, standing, lumbar supports etc. I was going to buy it myself if it wasn’t OK to order it, but I forgot one thing… We HAVE to provide accomodations for people who need them (and since I happen to be the HR lawyer…) Anyway, it was cheap and no one had any problem with getting it for me.
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<p>The kneeling unloads my sitbones just enough and keeps my spine aligned right.</p>
<p>In other news- this is NOT me complaining about the heat (which I said I would not do after freezing all winter)- Today was brutal. It was almost as hot as Houston and also humid (not as bad as Houston) but with big hills. I did not make my 7 mile goal. I had to decide that at 3 1/2, but I was getting dehydrated and it was just too hard for me today. Did 6 1/2 but struggled and had to take a few little rest breaks. For some reason I prefer to take complete stops rather than walk. I have no problem with people who take walking breaks, but I would rather run, stop, run, stop… Go figure.</p>
<p>Hmm, MOWC – I guess you don’t really want to hear about how we had snow in the high country yesterday, and how today’s temperatures are in the mid-sixties with a high projected at 70, and thirty seven percent humidity. ;)</p>
<p>I did stair climbing at the high school stadium last evening, and I’m feeling it some today. But, it did seem to be pretty good exercise for the high intensity intervals. I have tried the stair climber at a gym before, but somehow real stairs feel completely different.</p>