<p>The Airdyne kicked my butt. Rode me hard and put me up wet…</p>
<p>Five intervals to 90% of my max, resting to 65% of my max in between. I went as hard as I could – 80 rpms or higher to start each interval, but I wasn’t able to maintain that towards the end. I couldn’t stand up without holding on to something when I finally got off. Ouch.</p>
<p>Torture machine.</p>
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Interestingly, the things that are most sore after yesterday’s 18 miler are my biceps! I carried my hand held water bottle for 18 miles, and I guess that was like doing curls for 3 hours or something. I haven’t carried it in ages.
Today was a true “I don’t want to run” day, so I had to turn it into a “destination run”. I ran to the dog park and met H and the big dog for the ride home. Legs tired, but nice day. 175 days on the streak.
With my daughter in marathon training and my son running 16 miles today in the Colorado mountains after riding 88 miles yesterday, I may be ready to pass the baton. If I didn’t have that new age group looming up ahead I might be ready to sit on the deck and eat cheeseburgers.
<p>Last three posts show a lot of sweat.</p>
<p>BB- glad you are OK! Hope no one saw you! :)</p>
<p>Good workouts, team CC!</p>
<p>I’ve never done that but I have come close. Usually something related to scratching an itch or trying to watch something on TV or talking to someone on the side.</p>
<p>1.25 miles - a bit faster than usual. Felt very, very good. Nothing hurt - no twinges - no funny feelings - nothing. That’s been rare for a few years. Usually there is something funny on a run. I’ll credit the new tennis shoes and the running break of about two weeks. Maybe the strength-training helped. Hopefully doing 15 miles this week.</p>
<p>BB: Are you going to post the YouTube? </p>
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<p>These heart rate intervals put you in a weird place motivationally. The Garmin won’t end the interval until the heart rate hits 91%, so you can’t stop. I end up begging for my heart rate to hurry up and climb. Meanwhile, the legs are burning, my head is hanging, and I’m desperately gasping for a breath. It was crazy today, taking five minutes or more to recover between intervals.</p>
<p>LOL, MOfWC. Hubby missed my epic fail because he was glued to the TV in the “gym” (aka home office). Thank goodness I was not in a real gym. </p>
<p>Idad - that would have been a YouTube mega-hit. ;)</p>
<p>Nike reported inventory problems in their report late last week and they have plans to clear those inventory problems - so I expect more stuff at Marshalls and TJM.</p>
<p>Glad it wasn’t more serious, BB. My specialty on the treadmill is dropping my ipod and having it get caught in the track mechanism. I have done this on more than one occasion-- trashing an ipod in the process and on another occasion jamming a treadmill up so badly that they had to call a mechanic to take it apart – all this in full view of many people at the gym. </p>
<p>Awesome workouts, everyone.</p>
<p>I skied what is likely the last of the season today, ca. 11K. New route with more steep areas than I have in the past, really enjoyable.</p>
<p>Today’s numbers are higher than I would like on the carb front due to lack of opportunity/poor planning, I ended up having Kashi cereal for breakfast and a jambalaya-esque soup for lunch that had some kind of grain in it, looked like barley.</p>
<p>Cals 1449
Fat 61 g
Carbs 151 g
Fiber 12 g
Protein 77 g
Sugars 3 g</p>
<p>I have dropped my iPod before but have never damaged one. The shorts that I recently bought at RoadRunner Sports recently all have zip iPod pockets in the back so I don’t have to worry about it falling out.</p>
<p>Decided to do some pushups before taking a shower this morning and got up to 28 with no difficulty. This is a lot for some and not very many for others. I haven’t been doing pushups regularly but I was stuck in the 12-16 area for a long time. The thing that has made pushups a lot easier is doing bench presses.</p>
<p>I know that pushups work muscles outside the upper body but it seems to me that most of the load is there and if the upper body is strong, then pushups are fairly easy. Very busy day ahead of me including the dreaded staff meeting so I’ll try to squeeze in a run late afternoon or tonight.</p>
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<p>Why so dreaded? I love office stories.</p>
<p>They consume time. Our last staff meeting was four or five years ago.</p>
<p>Not a frequent occurrence, hey?</p>
<p>Meeting business took 2 minutes. Then chit-chat for 13 and we’re done.</p>
<p>Basically just an expected org change.</p>
<p>Back to work!</p>
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<p>Wow. Each of our offices meets every two weeks for an hour. Our front office staff meets once a month for 4 hours and our fitness staff meets once a month for somewhere between 2-3 hours…</p>
<p>We do a lot of stuff via email as many work from home or remotely a good chunk of the time and we all have differing work schedules. Our manager spends a huge amount of time in meetings and doesn’t want to inflict same on the rest of us. We may have to spend time in non-staff meetings but I haven’t had to do that in quite some time. I do have one-on-one meetings with other people or informal meetings in my office but those aren’t real meetings and the timing is flexible.</p>
<p>Meetings are real workout-killers.</p>
I noticed a new sensation doing the pushups in burpees Saturday: my glutes/butt activating/stiffening. Maybe the cumulative effect of so much core training. Maybe because I’ve been doing all of my pushups lately with my feet elevated – either in the Jungle Gym XT straps or on top of the weight bench. Both of those require the legs to get involved. In any case, it was a completely new sensation after two years of pushups. It wasn’t something I was trying to do. Just shows how all these exercises evolve over time. The changes in fitness are so slow that you don’t notice day to day and then all the sudden an exercise is different or you do twice as many reps.
Which is why I rely so heavily on early morning running. Only time I can be sure nothing will get in the way.
<p>3.5 miles, 8:41 pace. Smith Machine, Abs Dolly Plus and free weights. Gym was packed today. Lots of people working out after work hours now - a bunch of new regulars. I know that I should go back to workouts around 2 or 3 in the afternoon but I usually have stuff to get done then.</p>
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