<p>I went to Warren Jr High which is about a third of a mile from the fire station and stopped at the firehouse for a drink or bathroom when needed. The firehouse was always cool when it was warm outside.</p>
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<p>It would be nice to have contour lines on Google Maps for planning. Do you have an ETrex with contour lines? I had a look at Garmin’s site and they have a pretty nice model called the Montana that looks like it does just about everything. They also have a hiking watch too. I think that I’m just going to play around with running for now and do some hiking down the road.</p>
<p>Just wanted to say that I’ve been wearing my Brooks endurance and no foot pain! Yea! Maybe it was the shoes, I’ve not been following my advice and have been wearing older shoes. </p>
<p>MOWC, so glad to hear your S is unhurt. His bike also lol! Scarey to say the least, I can’t imagine biking in Philadelphia but to be young and obsessed lol! Sorry about the iphone but it’s the easiest and cheapest thing to replace.</p>
<p>I ran the NY Marathon in 1979 and would never go back, even if paid. Even then it was just too much of a zoo. Yes, it’s awesome and exciting, but it’s not for me. Not being able to drop a bag at the start is a complete deal-breaker for many runners. That means you are stuck out there pre-start with ONLY things you are willing to donate/throw away and no option for change of clothes at the finish line. No jacket- nothing. Forget it. Give me The Monkey with 300 runners!</p>
<p>MOfWC, you will love the Skagit Flats. Only a 1000 runners, but usually they don’t get that many, and the course is as flat as they advertise it. Down to Earth, nice folks organize it. I’m going to run it next year.</p>
<p>3 miles, very hilly, mid-80s, sunny, a bit of humidity. I pulled up a contour map in Google Earth (never knew that it had that option) and there was one 0.8 mile stretch that went from 196 ft to 350 ft. The contour map makes it easy to plan hilly or flat runs. One thing that I noticed is that there are a lot of named hills around my office. The bigger ones are to the north and west. The smaller ones or flat areas are to the south and east. Some paths have a lot of shade and some have no shade.</p>
<p>Regarding idad’s comments on cured meats last night: I find that the food with the highest satiety is bacon for me - particularly Trader Joes Uncured Turkey Bacon at 30 calories per slice. Perhaps idad has found the same thing with ham and its variants. I’m a bit curious as to why bacon does this. I understand that it is all fat and protein but so are hamburgers and chicken and I find that bacon does a better job at making you feel full compared to those other things.</p>
<p>Google Maps has really detailed 40 foot contour line topo maps. Dig around in the upper right hand corner where you select SATELLITE or MAP and select TERRAIN instead of TRAFFIC for the map. Then, start zooming in. The GOOGLE topo maps are fantastic for elevation, but they don’t show many of the hiking trails.</p>
<p>First twenty minutes looked good – too good. In other words I went out too fast. And I finished with a nice sprint at the end. We just won’t talk about that section in between those two. ;)</p>
<p>Good job, Deborah! I’m very familiar with that section in between the two good ones. :)</p>
<p>My contribution to the world of fitness: 4.2 miles/35 min, 100 pushups (in chunks of 20-30 at a time). I really should lay off the soy sauce when we go out to our favorite sushi place - salt-related water retention made me “gain” 2 lb today!</p>
I have a slice of bacon a couple of times a week. I’m much less hungry at lunch the days I do.
Last night I went to a wine and cheese bar with a friend. I can’t even begin to estimate how much cheese and wine I ate! But it was truly delicious. I think I got about 1 Tb of vegetable matter in the whole meal! I’ve been making up for it today!
<p>I can only run a 33 minute 5K in my dreams. Standing ovation for Deborah and everyone else who can actually run 5 kilometers!</p>
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<p>I bought a Garmin Montana. Damn thing was crazy expensive, but it is their first model that truly works as a really good car model and as a fantastic hiking model – mostly because the color screen is big enough to see in a car. It’s a little big for hiking, but it has a camera built in, so it replaces that. I was a little concerned about getting lost in the woods on some of these hikes. I can carry a map and a compass, but it’s not like having a GPS map of the trail you are supposed to be on, where you’ve been, and where you are at any moment in time.</p>
<p>I bought the very high resolution 24K Topo map package for the North East US (they sock it too you for $99 per region!), which has 40 foot elevation contour lines and almost every hiking trail. You can set it to navigate on the topo maps, just like in the car, although I just set it to show my trail and plot my track on top of it. Everything you can do on the Montana, you can also do on the computer version and vice versa. So I look at it before I ever leave home and then download what I need to the hand held – a route using the road map to drive to the trail head, then switch modes to the topo maps for the actual hiking.</p>
<p>I figured out after the fact that it probably would have been cheaper to buy an Oregon model (slightly smaller screen) for hiking and a separate nuvi unit for the car. That’s OK, I kind of like having everything on one unit. I can bring it in the house, plug it into the computer, and set up both driving routes and hiking routes.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t be of any use for running. It’s actually easier to download the route for looking at it after the run from the watch. However, the hiking GPS does record the heart rate info from the chest strap so, the same information can be imported from the handheld. I’ve been recording hikes on both the watch and the Montana.</p>
<p>New Rules of Lifting workout for me today. Nothing terribly interesting to note. I am starting to get a little lighter on my feet for the carioca and the high knees skipping and the lateral shuffles. Single leg squats were pretty good, for an ol’ (formerly) fat guy.</p>
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<p>4 strips of bacon and 3 eggs over easy for lunch. Big dinner salad with granny smith apple, pepperoni, and parmigiano reggiano cheese.</p>
<p>Cals 1883
Fat 143 g
Carbs 77 g
Fiber 23 g
Protein 71 g
Sugars 41 g</p>
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