<p>I just went for a 10-minute run. Probably a little over a mile. Was chilly on my run… wore some athletic pants and a long-sleeve Nike shirt. Get much cooler and I won’t be running outside anymore…</p>
<p>I wear a racerback tank top and shorts when I run most of the time. I will wear running tights and a long sleeve shirt only when the temps dip below 45. I think I’m having permanent hot flashes when I run. :)</p>
<p>Today’s run was brutal - 75 degrees is more than I can bear. I’m so glad that my really long runs are over. :)</p>
<p>Back from Acadia where we were advised NOT to use the tandem on the roads in the park. I don’t like riding on the carriage paths because I enjoy the scenery too much. We rented two bikes and did the park loop. The weather was spectacular, the views were awesome, and yet I still don’t really like biking. I would need to start another thread about female issues and biking if I were to seriously consider resuming. Before DD was born, DH and I often did bike tours and went from B&B to B&B on bike. He carried all the stuff (including my hair dryer) and I was the diva. I think the tandem idea was just a ruse to get me back in the saddle. I am not sure it worked. </p>
<p>Can’t wait for this nagging leg injury to heal. The original stress fracture seems pretty good, but I also have pain in my calf. Grrr - everything takes longer to heal as we get older despite our regimens.</p>
<p>Hard class starting with the stretches, not sure jumping right in to challenging hamstring stretches is great for me. This isn’t about injury prevention, so much as getting ready for the exercises to come, but I think I need twice the time allotted to really get my hamstrings ready. </p>
<p>3 minutes hell raisers (20# medicine ball situps into standing, then burpees)
3 minutes jump rope double unders</p>
<p>as fast as possible, breaking up any way you wanted:
1 mile run
100 kipping pull ups
200 push ups
300 air squats</p>
<p>Toward the end the push ups took forever to grind out.</p>
<p>CJane:</p>
<p>I can’t even imagine doing that workout!</p>
<p>hey wip…hope you’re well! We just went to Acadia two weeks ago and did lots of hiking and biking. To me, that place is like heaven on earth…so beautiful. Biked quite a bit on those hilly carriage trails and LOVED it but of course we had TWO bikes and I’m quite used to biking long distances. Hiked Cadillac and that was an adventure…more rock scrambling than I remember from when we did it 10 years ago! Probably just getting old! Tired as a dog when we were finished…
Had lots of lobster and blueberry pie too. Oh, and did a side trip to Block Island and decided we needed to go back when it was less crowded!</p>
<p>^^^Two words. Blueberry beer.</p>
<p>Did some of my marathon training runs in Acadia while on a road trip. Just beautiful there.</p>
<p>I ran there in August 2008 while at Board of Directors meeting for The Company. It was horrible weather. We all planned our wardrobe carefully - nice business casual but with a “resort” touch. It was 60 degrees and raining and we all bought Mangy Moose sweatshirts and warm socks. Lovely. That was my last trip on the corporate jet. Had to sell the planes and fire all the pilots at the end of 2008 when the economy had not improved. I did like the runs, though.</p>
<p>Hit balls for ten minutes in a racquetball court and hit serves (relatively slow) for five minutes and everything seemed fine. So planning on playing a match tomorrow.</p>
<p>TR - we missed each other by a week! Darn!! It would have been so much fun to have a meet up. We stayed in Northeast Harbor at Kimball Terrace. Funny you should talk about Block Island, we were there last October and it was deserted. A little tooooo deserted. </p>
<p>We have been going to Acadia for almost 30 years. It is a religious experience for me. I find a place on the rocks and just breathe in the beauty. MoWC - weather is tricky there. We have been there in the early summer (fogged in), in late autumn (freezing) summer (sometimes good, sometimes rainy) and this year we hit the jackpot! Temps in the 70’s, no humidity, not a cloud in the sky. </p>
<p>It really was great biking weather.</p>
<p>Little rainy day Airdyne ride for me today. Three sets of six intervals. </p>
<p>First set: 10 seconds fast and 50 seconds rest.
Second set: 15 seconds fast and 45 seconds rest.
Third set: 20 seconds fast and 40 seconds rest.</p>
<p>Let my heart rate recover to 60% of max between sets. Good little 30 minute workout. Not too brutal, but enough get my heart rate up and breathing heavy. </p>
<p>Back to New Rules of Lifting for Abs again tomorrow. Now that I’ve got the barbell set up, I’ll probably have to throw some more weight on it and do the Romanian deadlifts that way. I’ll be completely guessing as far as weight. I don’t know if it will be easier or harder than dumbbells.</p>
<p>Block Island? You all could wave to me across the water to our beach house … well, except at the moment we aren’t there; we’re in Cambridge. 
Where, I might add, it has rained (a lot!) for the past 2+ days. I think we’re actually supposed to see the sun today. </p>
<p>In between the torrential downpours I’ve been getting into our new pedestrian lifestyle. Walking to the grocery store is fine – but yesterday we had to drive since H was out of beer, and that’s a little heavy for the walk home. (Not sure I’m ready to get one of the wheeled pull baskets for groceries …)</p>
<p>I’m itching to sign up for a gym here, but won’t do it until we’re back full time a little later in the fall.</p>
<p>hey - WIP…just LOVE it there too. Maybe another time in the future. We also had gorgeous weather. I was in SUCH a good mood when we were there…felt 10 years or more younger too. Now, I’m bummed out with the constant soggy weather. Hope to get out biking this weekend. Last Monday, I went out for a long ride with dear hubby, got SOAKED and covered with mud. Didn’t mind though so I guess I’m a real biker.
Yes…blueberry beer. Lobster. Pie. Heaven</p>
<p>Horrible run on my wonderful PA Perkiomen Trail. 100% humidity and 71 degrees. Footing was a little rough in parts from all the rain and debris, but mainly I was just dead and slow. Possibly dehydrated from my travel day yesterday. 5.4 done.</p>
<p>Two hours of tennis - lost 6-0, 3-6, 2-6. I took it easy on hitting serves as cranking the serve probably caused the injury last week. Opponent was playing quite well in the second and third sets after playing a terrible first set. I was a bit tired in the third set - I had about 1,000 calories before starting and it’s possible that that isn’t enough.</p>
<p>Down to 185 pounds - I’m in the 60 pound club now. Just goes to show that you don’t have to do any exercise to lose weight.</p>
<p>Weight before tennis = 185, weight after tennis and lunch (6.7 oz of herring) and 1.7 liters of water = 184. Maybe I need to bring out 2.5 liters of water? I’d need to buy another water bottle to do that.</p>
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<p>That’s awesome BC! Sounds like it’s time for a “Just 5 Pounds” party!</p>
<p>It wasn’t that long ago that you were bustin’ thru the 200 pound barrier.</p>
<p>Congrats, BC, that is quite the achievement.</p>
<p>Friday. New Rules of Lifting for Abs day. Kind of a punch the clock session. These workouts are really well paced. Right at an hour: warmup (15 min) > core (15 min) > two supersets of weight lifting (30 min).</p>
<p>I loaded up the barbell (112 pounds) for three sets of 12 Romanian deadlifts. That was about the right weight for me for that many reps. I think they are a little easier than the dumbbell deadlifts. Lovin’ the pushups with my feet in the TRX suspension trainer straps. I can do 12 good ones for three sets. Not as strong with the feet elevated inverted rows. 9 is about my limit. Kind of struggling with the front foot elevated split squats – although not as much as I struggled with them eight months ago.</p>
<p>Birddog plank (plank raising one arm and the opposite leg) are much improved. I finally feel like I can at least do them without struggling to keep from falling over.</p>