<p>VeryHappy…no, it wasn’t “The” wedding. My D1 gets married this weekend! 
Crazy week and I will continue to try to get my workouts in amongst the craziness to relieve stress! Not sure if I can check in her everyday but it helps to keep me on track! Got up on Sunday morning and we did our family 3 mile walk around one of the city lakes. Beautiful and relaxing!</p>
<p>All the best for a stressfree and happy wedding day, NMinn.</p>
<p>Free blueberry and cranberry muffins in the kitchen this morning. Agggggh.</p>
<p>On Friday afternoon, I waited in the office for the free pizza to show up. My favorite is buffalo chicken. Just as I was getting ready to make the trip to the kitchen (it’s on another floor and a moderate walk), the fire alarm goes off. I grab all of my stuff and walk out of the building along with lots of other engineers with pizza plates in their hands. Oh well - I just went home.</p>
<p>Son has lost 30 pounds in the last three months. He does a ton more weightlifting and he’s got that great, young metabolism. He’s also been adopting some of my diet. I have no doubt that he will overtake me in losing weight.</p>
<p>I would love a muffin this morning! I am exhausted. I’m too old for 10 hours in the car. Just tired…and at work…didn’t run this morning, so that means I need to do something in either the ridiculous heat or on the dreadmill after work. Will be short.</p>
<p>NMinn- I hope the week goes smoothly. We did the Wedding of Daughter in June 2008. It went well, but there are always one or two “difficult” guests/relatives that constantly call or text you during the last 2 days as if you are their personal tour guide to your city and have nothing else to do! Get ready…</p>
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<p>I’m just chowing down on a peanut butter sandwich - 13 grams fiber, 120 calories, decent fat and protein. That’s breakfast for today.</p>
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<p>I haven’t done that in six or seven years. Good thing I don’t drive a clutch anymore.</p>
<p>The weather is really causing a lot of problems for a good chunk of the country this summer.</p>
<p>“The weather is really causing a lot of problems for a good chunk of the country this summer.”</p>
<p>So true! It is almost mid-August, and there isn’t a single ripe tomato in my garden! However, I’m not complaining too much: it looks like I picked a good summer to train for my race. My legs are still sore from yesterday’s run, but not as much as they have been in the past.</p>
<p>NMinn, I wish you a stress-free weekend! Enjoy the occasion and do not sweat the minor stuff.</p>
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<p>Around here, people are fighting the squirrels for those tomatoes! And I heard somebody saying recently that the squirrels are actually going after them for the moisture more than anything…</p>
<p>We’re getting regular storms (heat and humidity build up during the day and we get some rain in the late afternoon or evening) and I’ve seen no water shortages locally so I assume that the deluge in snow that we got this past winter is keeping us wet. I didn’t know that there were drought issues all the way up in IL.</p>
<p>NM: Have a great wedding weekend and enjoy yourself. It’s such a wonderful event–my D was married 2 years ago. We had the reception at a club on the beach and it was amazing. Hope the weather is perfect for you and your D.</p>
<p>I’m still on the disabled list–although I’ve been doing short 2-3 mile walks since the doc said it was OK. Hope the antibiotics are working. IDad–this is an old injury–broke my ankle 16 years ago and had plate/pins to repair it. Got a staph infection–took 2 years but it went away and ankle was OK (still had hardware). Somehow, I got a staph infection a few weeks ago and it’s on my ankle, near the hardware. Infectious disease guy can’t explain it. I have to laugh because I’ve asked both the specialist and my PCP if I could do some walking because I lost almost 45 pounds and am determined to keep that weight off. Both of them said “congratulations–how did you do that?”</p>
<p>Bromfield, has there been any consideration to go in and take the hardware out? I saw a local high school athlete broke his ankle last year and had pins, etc put in. This summer he had an infection in that ankle and they recently had all that hardware removed. He’s going to miss the football season, but is supposed to be ready to go for basketball in November…</p>
<p>HS: Ortho mentioned it, but said he’s inclined to leave it alone. He wants to wait and see if the infection will go away with the IV antibiotics.</p>
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<p>Thanks. I didn’t think I had missed you breaking your ankle recently, but it’s just so odd to have a staph infection years later. Hopefully, it’ll clear up soon.</p>
<p>I can understand why your guy doesn’t want to go in and take out the hardware. After 16 years, it would probably take a lot of WD40 to budge those screws! It’s probably not even related to the hardware.</p>
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<p>Yeah, whenever talk to my doctor about quitting smoking and losing 90 pounds, he looks at me like I’m a little green alien describing how I landed my flying saucer. There’s just no place on his laptop computer insurance company health records to record that, so, officially, it can’t happen.</p>
<p>Speaking of heart rates, I finally took advantage of lounging around in bed on a Sunday morning to get a solid resting heart rate number. I put on the monitor strap and hit start on the Garmin to record a half hour of lying in bed, awake, but fully at rest. I usually see heart rates of 50 to 55 when sitting quietly in a chair taking my blood pressure, but I’d never checked while lying in bed first thing in the morning. Looks my official lowest resting heart rate is 48 beats per minute.</p>
<p>I wish I knew what it was back 90 pounds ago. I’m pretty sure that the weight loss and all the interval cycles up and down has probably made a significant difference.</p>
<p>A 4 handle is something to be proud of.</p>
<p>It puts you in the athlete category.</p>
<p>There should be a t-shirt for that.</p>
<p>Or a license plate: HR 48 BPM.</p>
<p>Wow, iDad. Excellent fitness level. Lance is going to feel like a has-been!</p>
<p>Thought I would be refreshed from my active rest weekend and raring to go on the workouts. Yeah, not so much. Turns out my quads were really tired from the hiking and biking. Which made this workout tons of fun, not:</p>
<p>Warm Up
2 rounds
250 m row
20 lunges
15 push ups
10 back exentensions</p>
<p>Work Out:
3 rounds</p>
<p>20 high box step ups with 18 lb. kbs
30 ab mat sit ups
20 lunges with 18 lb. kbs
500 m row</p>
<p>no breaks, as fast as possible
20 minutes, 44 sec.</p>
<p>Well, the exercises I got at the PT for my shoulder Friday managed to make the shoulder excruciatingly sore rather than just plain sore, so I think today is mostly walking as well as some unweighted squats and step exercises. Went back to the PT this morning and I’m now wearing the handy iontophoresis patch with the cool flat batteries now that she’s done with the stretches and manipulations. </p>
<p>On top of that we’ve had a bloom of mosquitos, and over the weekend I acquired five bites, each of which itches like the dickens despite supposed numbing/soothing cremes. And each of which I keep scratching. I think this means I’ve got to go back to the dreadmill since my morning and evening times are now mosquito heaven, and I can’t cope with the mid-day sun and heat. This is really too bad, since the evening temperatures are fine. Normally we don’t have much in the way of mosquitos in my area, but the wet weather this year has led to quite the crop. </p>
<p>And having seen a friend’s husband end up in the ICU with encephalitis caused by West Nile (and several years after that of impaired mental functioning which did him no good at all in his legal career) I’m just a little nervous about that.</p>
<p>I think that the vast majority don’t have any problems with West Nile but it seems that it can be very nasty for some. We were in NYC when it hit down there and it’s been found in our area this summer. My guess is that we’ve all been exposed to it in years past and the effects were very mild.</p>
<p>To just go with the insanity, I am seriously considering doing this:</p>
<p>[Hell</a> Run | The Most Kick-Ass Mud Run on Earth](<a href=“http://www.hellrun.com/]Hell”>http://www.hellrun.com/)</p>
<p>Thoughts? Advice?</p>
<p>Good lord… In my area, it is held on October 1st, Remliger Farms… 'Nuff said. This IS going to be hell. CJane, I do not think I will be joining you. :)</p>