<p>I remember an overnight at a friend’s house when I was a kid. The dad brought donuts for everyone in the morning. Enough for each person to have five or six donuts.</p>
<p>One donut – tasty. Five donuts – stomach pump. ;-)</p>
<p>If one donut will lead to another and another, then perhaps best to avoid starting the cycle. Or if it just makes you feel icky, your body says no way, or there are other foods you’d prefer.</p>
<p>I’m a snacker. Small amounts all day long. Smaller meals than what most other people consume from what I’ve observed.</p>
<p>Looking at family photos I believe there’s a gene some of us inherited.</p>
<p>Stuck in the car halfway to Charlottesville. I would LOVE a donut. Had to run at 4:30am to keep the streak going. Stupid.</p>
If I recall my geography, that would put you pretty much smack dab in the middle of Deliverance country. Forget the donuts (although I bet you could find a Krispy Kreme). I’d go straight for the sour mash moonshine… 
OK, time to improvise. It’s absolutely glorious New Hampshire weather this afternoon. Sunny. 72 degrees. Lo humidity. Slight breeze. Then, it’s forecast to rain for the next seven days. So, I’m forsaking the world’s best gym in the basement for a second day of walk/jog/exploring with a new 5K route mapped out. I don’t normally like to do anything two days in a row, but I can’t miss out on this weather.
Get out your sunglasses. I’ll be wearing my neon green adiddas running shirt again… I’ve still got the neon yellow New Balance and Nike running shirts and a couple of red ones in reserve. Not that I want to blind the neighbors, but I kinda like the cars to see me…
<p>Moved and installed the digital piano. I had to bring it up a flight of stairs - one step at a time. Only thing that complained was my knees. I asked about hitting tomorrow and was reminded of the weather. My guy just dropped his membership at the club and then it rains for the next five days. We’re going to try for 1:00 PM at the club. I leaded up my racquet last night and hope that I got the specs right. I’m going to mod the third frame to feel like the other two - I don’t think that I can get another one. I posted an ad for it several days ago and didn’t get any responses. The third frame is a 4 5/8 grip while the other two are 4 1/2. I’m going to get a very thin replacement grip that will hopefully make it almost as small as the other two. The remaining work will be to add lead to make it feel like the other two.</p>
<p>I need to do something tonight - maybe weight machines or a short run. Probably a short run. I can always do an Efit30 at home now that I have space in the basement.</p>
<p>Glad to hear you’ll be able to establish a routine again soon, BC. Moving can be very disconcerting that way, the disruption. Btw, do you use a knee brace when the knee isn’t 100% or no?</p>
<p>I use knee braces for tennis whether I need them or not. Damage in predictable because of extreme lateral forces in tennis. I don’t use them for running. I sometimes use them for squats and leg-lifts. The knee brace is more for prevention than it is for playing through an injury. I didn’t play a match this week because it’s injured and playing matches when you are injured is a good way to make worse the injury. Just doing practice sessions is a good way to keep strokes grooved and get some decent exercise. I think that practice sessions may give you a somewhat better aerobic workout as you’re not using your leg muscles as much for moving large distances.</p>
<p>I’m working from my mother’s house this afternoon - it’s a nice city to live in as you can walk everywhere.</p>
<p>Well, that is a super-nice 5K route. Winding up and down around an old circa-1980 rural subdivision. Wide roads, lots of trees, zero traffic. And, very hilly. Garmin says that my old hilly state park route had 330 feet of cumulative elevation gain. This route has 260 feet – the only thing it lacks is the super steep bits, but it has a nice long 1/3 mile hill.</p>
<p>I did the jog to 90% heart rate then walk routine again. That’s a great way to do walk/jog intervals on an unfamiliar route, because it automatically adjusts for running uphill or downhill.</p>
<p>I was huffin’ and puffin’ pretty good.</p>
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<p>That’s an oxymoron. What’s old about 1980?? Where I come from, “old” is 1880 and earlier.</p>
Old as far as subdivsions in New Hampshire go. Old to differentiate it from a new “trophy” home subdivision. 
It could be 1970s. This was all woods or farmland from the town’s charter in the early 1700s. I don’t think this part of New Hampshire got developed until fairly recently.
Anyway, it’s a nice walk/jog route with lots of potential variations.
<p>Speaking of new… the UPS man brought my new chin up bar today. Now, I’ve got to figure out how to take out a ceiling tile and bolt it to the rafters in the basement. I think it’s probably going to be convenient that Home Depot is only a couple of miles up the road… :)</p>
Home Depot is always an essential supplier for any new home.
I started a new job today and am not happy that I have to be sitting in a chair all day. Job is great. Sitting all day, not so much.
<p>Southern NH experienced a building boom in the 70s and on up until the Great Recession due to the hordes of folks from MA moving here for cheaper housing and different taxation. So there’s a lot of stuff built in the last 40 years here.</p>
<p>^ You need one of these:</p>
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<p>Finally got in to see the orthopedic dr today. She thinks I pinched something in the shoulder/neck area, and is having me take a course of steroids to reduce the inflammation. Plus I can’t work out for at least two more weeks.</p>
<p>That’ll be six weeks without a workout… I will be so weak it’s ridiculous. 
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<p>Gah.</p>
<p>I went out for a run/walk today, and it started off great. I ran 1.25 miles, which included a big hill, but I really felt good and I was keeping a good pace. I took a .1 mile walk break and then ran for about .2 miles when all of a sudden I got this really sharp pain in my calf. I had to give up the run and walk back to my car. It still hurts, but it’s feeling better. I don’t know what I did this time, it feels more like a muscle thing than a ligament. I’m so mad. I just got over my hip & knee and now this.</p>
<p>notrichenough, I would LOVE a treadmill desk, but no way am I spending almost $4K to get it!!!</p>
<p>I spent part of the day today kneeling instead of sitting. Made my back happy.</p>
AJ Jacobs in his humorous book, “Drop Dead Healthy” (where he spends a year trying to get as healthy/fit as possible), jury rigs a treadmill desk set up, which he proceeds to write most of the book on.
I am sure you could put something workable together for far less than $4000. I wonder if I could ever get used to it though. Anyone else ever done this IRL?
<p>Blank, are you putting ice on it?</p>
blankmind:
That’s what happened to me when I pulled up lame a couple months ago. Accelerated from a walk to a run and, with the first step, felt a sharp pain in the back of my calf sort of in the area where the top of crew socks would hit. I could barely walk.
In researching what I might have done, it sounds like a very common running injury. It’s where the calf muscles attach to the top of the achilles tendon. Usually just a muscle strain. I iced it for a couple of days (just put my calf on top of a gallon freezer bag filled with ice cubes.) The icing really helped. Stayed off of it for a week and was good as new.
notrichenough:
I’ve had that one, too. A pinched nerve exiting the C5 vertebrae at the base of my neck. The most excrutiating pain radiating down my chest and arm on one side. I stood on my feet for over 24 hours – literally falling asleep standing in my hall, dropping to the floor, waking up, and standing back up. Pure hell. The pain was so bad, I went to the emergency room at midnight on a Saturday thinking I might be having a heart attack. I was so happy that my heart was fine, I didn’t get anything for the pain. On Monday morning, the nurse practitioner at my doctor’s diagnosed it immediately when she say me holding my arm outstretched overhead (the only thing that gave me any relief). We had driving to the doctors in my wife’s convertible with the top down, me holding my arm up through the open top!
Steroids might help as they reduce swelling.
