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<p>I think those things are largely a waste of money. I just use pre-wrap for this purpose. It seems to stay better and is inexpensive…</p>
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I think those things are largely a waste of money
I think for $15 , the ability to exercise for more than twice as long is worth it- I’ll see how long the velcro holds up.
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<p>I have not had luck with the velcro and like I said, I have an alternative that works just as well if not more effectively.</p>
<p>The really old ones didn’t use Velcro - you had to worry as much about cutting off circulation as you did about your knee.</p>
<p>MOWC- I once read that injuries increase dramatically once you go over 30 miles a week. When I was in good shape I usually kept my totals to about 25 miles a week. Never was a marathoner so no need for greater mileage. My wife was running up to 100 miles a week training for her college track team but they improved training and would never do that kind of mileage now. We are talking the grand old year of 1975,1976 etc.</p>
<p>Injury rates do go up but do they go up only for the first time? Presumably, you figure out the cause of the injury, fix it and then move on. I’ve had two of the big five running injuries and know how to prevent them or recover from them.</p>
<p>The other huge difference between now and the 1990s is the amount of knowledge freely available on dealing with injuries, and the better technology for prevention and fixing.</p>
<p>There are many things that make injury rate increase, and I’m sure I do/did most of them! High mileage certainly can be a factor. Over-racing (that would be 2009), too much speed work, too much running on hills, not doing all the exercises iDad knows I should do…</p>
<p>Knock on wood- I seem to do OK at 35, but over 40 (at my age now) can be a problem. I know to a lot of you non-runners that this seems like a lot of mileage, but trust me that for the people I associate with it’s barely worth leaving the house for 40 miles a week. Of course, most of them aren’t 59 years old, either. My friend who is 71 (male) just set the 10 mile state record for 71 year olds and runs about 70 miles a week. He’s awesome. He’s also retired…</p>
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<p>mowc, ha ha i just strive to not injure myself daily…in doing my daily activities, let alone running miles at a time. hats off to all you runners !</p>
Day off for me. Cleaning out junk from the garage, including organizing the tool chest – everything off the work bench, everything out of the too chest, throwing out the junk and putting back what’s left, including organizing all the miscellaneous screws and nails into a few of those compartmentalized organizer boxes. No more disintegrating shoeboxes of nails and screws. Now, that’s a chore. I had two of every tool from all the times I couldn’t find the first one!
My easy week vacation from exercise comes to an end and I’m looking forward to a New Rules workout tomorrow. I expect to feel really strong tomorrow. I’ve definitely made some gains and a few days off to fully recover and freshen up should be just the ticket. We’ll see. I’m going to run through the Phase II workouts a few more times and then move on the Phase III.
<p>My stop at Marshalls turned up nothing. They have the winter stuff out right now and the closeouts are on the fall stuff. Next to nothing from the summer - mostly just cotton Ts. I could try the other Marshalls but I think that I’m just going to use my two featherlight tennis techs (they’re XLs but I can run in them). I checked some of my winter stuff back in the spring and need a bit more of that. I can use layers for a little while but I would like some stuff that fits better and keeps me warmer.</p>
<p>I’m going to do my weight routine at home tonight. The tennis was good and got me tired the rest of the days but I feel up to a bit of strength work. Back to running tomorrow - I’ll try to crank it up slowly.</p>
<p>Walked with a friend this afternoon. We went for 1.5 hours, nonstop talking. I have no idea how far or fast but I do know that my feet and entire body are aching. This all made me very hungry for dinner. I ate two chili dogs on my homemade hot dog buns. Skipped dessert.</p>
<p>Started the day off with a dance cardio class.</p>
<p>Lunch was – cake.
It was my birthday and I had decided in advance to break the Paleo/ low carb thing just for today.
My concern was having left overs lying around to be potential triggers for the next days, so instead of a cake, I had cupcakes. That is, I got two flavors and had half a cupcake of each flavor – salted caramel dark chocolate and pumpkin spice. The cupcakes were okay, very festive and from one of those high end Sex in the City type places, but were very sweet and what’s with the frosting piled higher than the cupcake? Anyway, that was lunch.</p>
<p>Dinner was out to a really nice sushi restaurant where quite a bit of sushi and 2 cocktails were consumed. I will be interested to see how my body feels, since this is the first time in months I have had alcohol and will be WAY more carbs than I have had in many months. Between the carbs, sodium and drinks I know there will be water weight galore, so I am staying off the scales for the next few days. But tomorrow will return to my regularly scheduled program…</p>
<p>Happy Birthday! You definitely get an eating pass for your birthday! The cupcakes sound wonderful.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday CJane! Cupcakes, sushi and cocktails sounds like the perfect day to me.</p>
<p>Today’s run: 10 x 400. I’m glad I only have one more of these workouts to do.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday CJane!</p>
<p>The cupcakes sound yummy. Had a good day at the gym, hope I’m working off the partying/fundraising Saturday night.</p>
<p>Happy birthday, CJane! Heck, even the stictest diets call for moderate cupcake consumption on one’s birthday! ;)</p>
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<p>I followed this advice since there wasn’t much I could do today in addition to my upper body workout. Owww… I dunno how I’m going to be able to sit at work tomorrow. Hurt knee and burning bottom =/= not a good combo for cube dwellers. :)</p>
<p>cjaneread - happy birthday ! great idea to have cupcakes rather than cake. does your cupcake shop carry the gluten free cupcakes? i noticed that our local shop does carry a gluten free cupcake but i have not tried them yet. we don’t have any gluten free bakeries in our area but i notice some areas of the country do.</p>
<p>Ya’ll are making me hungry. The cupcakes (Happy Birthday CJ) sound good, but I could really go for a couple of chili dogs! Maybe a side of onion rings. Wash it all down with a big Coke! Sounds like a trip to the Varsity in Atlanta!</p>
<p>I did have Keilbasa a couple weeks ago. Frogmore Stew or Low Country Stew: corn on the cob, shrimp, and keilbasa boiled with a ton of Old Bay Seasoning. Served with my homemade Bobby Flay ancho chile cocktail sauce (ketchup, horseradish, worcestershire, lemon, and ground ancho chile powder. Yum.</p>
<p>Oh, and my running mileage last week: 2.8 miles, I think, divided up into 14 intervals.</p>
<p>I’m still doing the glute kick-up and hold exercise, Idad, and still feeling it. For an exercise that doesn’t seem like a whole lot while I’m doing it, I can sure feel it for the next day or two. (Actually, I wish more were like that. Pushups and plank wear me out while I’m doing them, as do any of the exercises that involve stepping up, but I simply don’t feel them particularly the next day.) </p>
<p>Happy Birthday, CJane. And I’m with you about wondering when frosting took over the cupcake. I like a little frosting – as in a thin layer – but all of the cupcake places have frosting piled on to the point where it is almost taller than the cake part. I think it is the extension of the bloating of American food – when I was a kid in NY, bagels were the size of cake donuts, and croissants, if you could find them, were about half the size they are today.</p>
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