<p>No workout for me today. But I had a big sirloin steak for dinner! About 6-8 ounces there and I was happy with myself. I didn’t eat the whole thing (14 oz) so now I have lunch for tomorrow as well :)</p>
<p>My belated congrats to blankmind! Awesome 10K!</p>
<p>I’m slacking off tonight. Just weights and some core stuff.</p>
<p>Ouch, idad, I hope the kitty comes back.</p>
<p>Sending good thoughts for idad’s kitty.</p>
<p>Went to this class and I am always the oldest one there, 51. At krav maga I am also the oldest. Well, maybe a couple of guys are my age. Tonight at this tough class I could have been everyones mother. Strange but also woot! </p>
<p>Going to try a rowing class kind of like spin with rowing machines. Love group on and gold star and whatever for special deals. Good to mix it up. Me and the body get bored easily.</p>
<p>checking in to see if the cat has returned…
keeping fingers crossed.</p>
<p>No sign of kitty. I have a bad feeling. Our house borders woods with fox (see 'em in the yard from time to time) and fisher cats and predators for house kitties. I made the decision to make these new kitties indoor cats when our last little 3-year old kitty took off hunting one day and never returned. That was after an earlier incident where it got a pretty severe bite wound from something.</p>
<p>It’s been 18 degrees out the last two nights, so I don’t think this one has just been off on a lark. The only other times it’s been out have been six feet out on the deck or driveway and then scampering back in. Of course, it could be up in a tree somewhere and decide to come down sooner or later. I’ve had that happen before. There’s not much I can do. I’ve looked around the immediate area and I call to it from time to time.</p>
<p>This is the one that was born in a rabbit hole and spent the entire first two weeks with us hiding under a bed. I spent hours lying next to the bed on the floor with various toys to slowly entice it to come out and play. Three years later, it won’t get in my lap, but it will lie on my chair back/shoulder and follows me around to curl up somewhere in the same room. I’ve never had a feral kitty and bringing this one around has been a real challenge. I’ve always wondered what it would do if it got back in the wild.</p>
<p>I’m glad I had two kitties.</p>
<p>I had a cat very similar to yours…although, I wouldn’t go as far as calling the cat feral.</p>
<p>“This is the one that was born in a rabbit hole and spent the entire first two weeks with us hiding under a bed.”</p>
<p>Hopefully, your cat is hiding in a hole somewhere and will come out when she gets hungry. Your cat is hiding somewhere.</p>
<p>I still have hope.</p>
I had a cat that was gone for months…and she came back. I have no idea where she was.
I had a cat that was afraid of everything and used to hide in weeds…under decks…underneath the house. I had to give her to my brother when we moved and she ran away…right next door where she hides under a stairway most of her life. (the house is vacant). My brother leaves her alone and makes sure she is fed. Every once in awhile she will come over to say hi…and then she runs like crazy to get away.
When I owned her …we would not see her for days…maybe even a week or two.
It is way too early to give up…
Yeah. I’ve had them vanish for three or four days before, so I won’t give up hope. Thankfully, it has turned warm here, so if she is off on a big adventure, she won’t have endure a third 18 degree night.
One thing is for sure: there is no way that anyone took this cat into their house or something. Her name is Miss Scaredy Cat. She is not a “people kitty”, to say the least. Her parents were feral cats, so she’s first generation people-cat in her family!
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BTW, I promised photos of the two cats working out in the basement. They weren’t very cooperative, but here’s the best I could do:
[Lil</a>’ Bubba Jr.](<a href=“http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/lilbubba.jpg]Lil”>http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/lilbubba.jpg) getting ready to so some bench presses. And, the missing one [Miss</a> Scaredy Cat](<a href=“http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/scaredycat.jpg]Miss”>http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/scaredycat.jpg) sniffing around some trap bar dead lifts.
![http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/lilbubba.jpg]Lil](http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/lilbubba.jpg%5DLil){kind=link}
![http://i218.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/scaredycat.jpg]Miss](http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc14/hwc_1000/scaredycat.jpg%5DMiss){kind=link}
<p>Love the kitty pictures!</p>
okay, so still sending feline come home vibes out.
40 minutes cardio dance class.
MyPlate iphone app did not manage to synch with the main site, so I lost my nutritional data for the past few days. Not a big deal, though. I know I had a somewhat carbier weekend than usual, and one cocktail – lemon drop which I had the bartender make with just fresh lemons and vodka and then used my own sweetener in lieu of the simple syrup. So, a deviation from the regular plan but should not have been too disastrous.
@ Seahorse I feel like I have done everything under the sun exercise-wise, but when I checked out krav maga, I was seriously intimidated. Kudos to you! Also, that row class sounds great! Biggest problem with the rower is the boredom factor, a spin-style class would be amazing.
If anyone has a way to make this:
<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovRP1CUm7VE&feature=related[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovRP1CUm7VE&feature=related</a>
fun, let me know. I <em>should</em> be doing it, but I find it makes the dreadmill seem like an E-ticket ride in comparison…
Remaining three shorts arrived from Road Runner Shorts - this time they are bright blue so I have seven pairs which should be enough for running for a week (I don’t plan on doing too many doubles). 57 degrees and sunny outside right now with warmer weather tomorrow.
Very nice for early March.
Nice hip hinge in that ski erg trainer YouTube, CJANE.
<p>So last night’s easy, successful 4 miler yielded an average HR of 137 (my aerobic zone is 136-148). This morning I went out for another (hopefull) easy 4 miler but the course was not flat. No huge climbs, but lots of roll. I never could get it to feel easy, and ave HR was 147. I really struggle to slow down enough (same pace as last night- 10:31 or so which is not exactly flying…) to make those morning runs feel as comfortable as they should. I felt like I was going slow, even though it still didn’t feel easy. It almost feels like I can’t run well right out of bed anymore, or dehydrate overnight or something. It’s strange.</p>
<p>Almost all runners go too hard on their easy days. It’s really amazing how slow you are really supposed to go. The McMillan pace calculator tells me I should do my easy runs at 10:39-11:09 pace. I feel slow over 10:00!.. Long runs are 10:39-11:39. This is based on recent race performances and not what I “think” I can run or what I ran in 2009! Recovery runs are to be 11:39-12:09. I think if I could actually obey these ranges better I would not feel so trashed all the time.</p>
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<p>I thought you would appreciate that, idad. I was doing quite a bit of this technique while double poleing during my cross country stuff over the weekend, and I kept thinking during that movement-- “this is such an interesteddad move”…</p>
<p>Did a long walk today (6 miles). Went with friends who walk fast–we did the whole loop in 1 hour and 40 minutes. Left at 8 am and it was getting warm when we finished. Crazy weather–temps in my area of MA for the rest of the week are in the 50s and 60s.</p>
<p>CJane: There’s a krav maga program where we go every summer and I was intimidated by it too. Only class that wasn’t all-male was a self-defense for women.</p>
<p>Thatis a very good walk. That’s fast too.</p>
<p>idad, I just ordered Alwyn Cosgrove’s New Rules of Lifting for Abs. Thanks for the recommendation.</p>
<p>Today’s numbers</p>
<p>Cals :1545
Fat 59 g
Carbs 68 g
Fiber 5 g
Protein 179 g
Sugars 27 g</p>