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Don’t worry about your friend.
I was following my brother one year and thought he hadn’t finished; turns out when he got to the end he realized the tracking chip came off his shoe. He had a PB :)</p>
<p>I don’t have any problem with diet soda. I’m not supposed to drink the colas due to bone density issues, but I do anyway. I’ve cut back, though. It’s one of my vices. It doesn’t seem to affect my desire for sugar or other food one way or another. I really, really like Diet Pepsi. I am not a coffee drinker (exception- peppermint or pumpkin spice lattes) and like iced tea but it just isn’t always available (especially since I have to have lemon in mine…). </p>
<p>NY Marathon- many of my friends were running. One young friend ran 2:28 (28 year old male) for 31st overall and 7th American male. Yay!!
His wife was trying to break 3 hours and fell apart for a 3:11. I’m anxious to hear what happened exactly. I am in a pretty intense argument of the wanna-be-elite running forum about whether that was a realistic goal for her. I think trying to go from 3:09 to sub 3 was not realistic and that she should have been shooting for 3:05. The big-talkers are saying “You have to swing for the big one!” I think marathons take too much out of you to have a goal with that much chance of failure and blowing up. She hasn’t yet broken MY PR (3:08), which I want her to do. Anyway- I’m sure she is intensely disappointed.</p>
<p>Anyway, once I tracked her through the finish line, I did my own 3.8 mile recovery run, which turned into a nice tempo run on this gorgeous fall day. As sluggish as I felt yesterday, today was the opposite.</p>
<p>BUT- I have been good about the advice from y’all after I got the TWO bug bites under my eye in the spring and wear my great sport sunglasses for my runs. Well, today I SWALLOWED a damn bug before 2 miles! Coughed for about a mile, but it seems to have resolved. Please don’t tell me to wear a mask!</p>
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<p>Fantastic. Great way to bounce back from a tough workout.</p>
<p>I swallowed a bug last year walking up the steep hill. What a sight. Big ol’ fat guy, hot as hell, panting like a dog, sweating buckets, trudging up this hill, choking and coughing on a bug. That’s about as miserable as it gets. :)</p>
<p>There is an interesting article on barefoot running in the NY Times Magazine:</p>
<p><a href=“The Once and Future Way to Run - The New York Times”>The Once and Future Way to Run - The New York Times;
<p>I’m not a runner, but I found the article interesting and thought people here might enjoy it.</p>
<p>mominva–I wouldn’t worry, but her mile times were all 11 min. and over, which seems really slow for her. She may have had an injury? So I’m guessing after 3 1/2 hours of torture, she gave it up as not her year. We’ll see when she gets home!</p>
<p>This McDougall article has been discussed for a few days on the running forums and makes more sense than some of the stuff in his book. The book was good, but this seems to resonate more with normal runners. I may try the drills. It is a great article and thanks for putting it up here.</p>
<p>I used the extra hour given to us by BCEagle and went for a run: 7.3 miles. I felt that I could not waste such a gorgeous fall day. Hubby rode his usual route.</p>
<p>I’ve swallowed my fair share of bugs while running. I just think of them as a free proteinaceous snack. ;)</p>
I’ve been doing a lot of household chores that have been on my todo list for a long time - family is in MA so it makes it easy to get stuff done without being interrupted. Some of the chores involve reaching, stepping on tables and chairs, vacuuming the light fixtures in the false ceiling, changing light bulbs in the false ceiling.
Got my weights, stretching and abs in this morning. I would get to work on another video (Exercise TV this time I think) except that I’ve been waiting for the cable guy to arrive for the last two hours (he called to say that he would be late a little while ago) so that I have broadband at home. We’ll have cable broadband and DSL (once Fairpoint sends me a new modem) at the same time (and also the 3G iPad) so we should be all set if something goes out.
I may drop Fairpoint if ComCast service looks really good. I can always start it back up again.
BTW, I was going to do a particular video today but decided against it because the lady doing it is too chirpy (the efit30 videos are more no-nonsense) and she over-exposes herself which I find annoying (or distracting).
ComCast just called; it will be another two hours so I guess I can proceed with my workout.
<p>Nice article!</p>
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<p>This leaning from the ankle stuff works! This is what the trainer tried to teach me to do while I run.</p>
<p>Had a nice gym workout, scales at a new low, squeezed in a walk around the local pond before it got too dark. Salmon on a cedar plank on the menu for dinner and for once I remembered to get it soaking early.</p>
<p>Good day.</p>
<p>For everyone in the sore back category today, here’s Stuart McGill’s favorite back limbering stretch: the cat/camel.</p>
<p>[Allegro</a> Coaching - Cat / Camel Stretch - YouTube](<a href=“Allegro Coaching - Cat / Camel Stretch - YouTube”>Allegro Coaching - Cat / Camel Stretch - YouTube)</p>
<p>Nice and relaxed, don’t force it to the extremes. Just gently arch the back down into the “cat” and up in to the “camel”. Feels great!</p>
<p>A fantastic new Dr. Robert Lustig video on insulin resistance and obesity:</p>
<p>[The</a> Cause of Obesity - YouTube](<a href=“The cause of obesity - YouTube”>The cause of obesity - YouTube)</p>
<p>Good work, everyone and some good info posted, thanks to all.
Had a beautiful weekend with a crummy end.</p>
<p>Shared BB’s experience of having to put my beloved dog down. Very, very sad and if crying burns calories then quite a few were burned…</p>
<p>Awwwh. CJANE. I’m so sorry to hear that. I hear ya on the crying. Both times, I just blubbered uncontrollably. With the unexpected one I can still remember, from 25 years ago, sitting on the steps outside the vets bawlin’. This last one was not quite so bad because I had been bracing for it as the cat declined over a couple of years and I knew it was time. It was more just numb.</p>
<p>It was also just a couple of months after I quit smoking and I was well aware how common it is for nicotine junkies to use an event like that as the perfect excuse to start smoking (“oh you poor thing, of course you needed a cigarette…”), so I was on my toes.</p>
<p>BTW, in case any lurkers don’t want to wade through the entire Lustig interview, he does a 3 minute version of his brilliant explanation of what happens to a perfectly balanced thin person eating and burning 2000 calories a day if you hook them up to an IV and pump them with a shot of insulin everytime they eat. The insulin makes them store 500 calories as fat, so they gain weight. But, now they only have 1500 calories to burn, so they are literally starving. As a result, their bodies stop exercising and make them start eating 2500 calories a day. Not because they suddenly became a glutton or a sloth, but because a bio-chemical action (too much insulin) forced them to store fat, eat more, and move less. It’s just a brilliant explanation of why insulin resistance is so fundamental to why (most of us) get fat.</p>
<p>The three minutes starts here:</p>
<p>[The</a> Cause of Obesity - YouTube](<a href=“The cause of obesity - YouTube”>The cause of obesity - YouTube)</p>
<p>Thanks for the kind words, idad. And the cautionary note.
Fortunately (?), I have had no appetite yet, but I will take care to be prepared and remind myself that, no, actually, <insert random="" detrimental="" food="" item="" here="">, will NOT make me feel better ;)</insert></p>
<p>CJane, I’m so sorry. Loss of a beloved pet is an awful, afwul experience. Cyberhugs.</p>
<p>Thanks, BB. I know you are still grieving your recent loss. Hugs back at you.</p>
<p>BB and CJane: Sorry about your pets. It’s really a sad time. Hang-in there.</p>
<p>Congratulations to Mathmom on new low on the scale! That’s always welcome news.</p>
<p>I appear to have weathered the Halloween candy storm. The scale has been behaving nicely for the last week.</p>
<p>My back is better today, but I think I’m going to let discretion be the better part of valor and lay off the weight lifting for a day or two.</p>