MOfWC, congrats to you both! That was one tough run, for sure!
Deborah, you are on fire! 
My micro-streak continued, with 1.5 mile slow jog on Thursday and 3.6 mile run on Friday. Today’s weather is just perfect for a nice run through the neighborhoods. According to the paper, we are on a streak of our own here in Seattle - a dry weather streak, with 40 days of 0 inches of precipitation measured at Seatac. If the forecast is correct, the streak will continue for the next several days.
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<p>I ask myself that question many times, especially on the mile long stretch of uphill. The idea is actually very scary, how many years do we have to run like this? What happens when we could not run anymore?</p>
<p>The heel pain is now clearly to be Achilles Tendonitis from running on the pavement. With proper stretching, I could run now without any discomfort on the black top. However, it will let me know it is there when I suddenly get up from sitting for a while. </p>
<p>Have signed up with Urban active and will start Oct running on the cushion of TM. </p>
<p>As my distance getting longer, I could eat a lot more food w/o gain any weight. Based on what I learn here, I am eating a lot more meat and protein and avoid much carb.</p>
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<p>Seriously though, I cannot imagine running 17 miles in that kind of heat and humidity. I hope you headed straight to Sonic for a large ice tea!</p>
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<p>I barely run at at all. Typically, 1 to 1.5 miles per week, and only as intervals during walks. I stopped doing that for a month when I started feeling tenderness in my Achilles tendon. I would be just fine with not running at all. I would have to seek out some very steep walking hills and/or stairs as another way of jacking up my heart rate. Bicycling would also do it.</p>
<p>The Achilles really got my attention. At least based on watching NFL injuries, a torn Achilles is one injury that just has bad news written all over it, both from the pain of the injury and the miserable rehabilitation. Not running at all for a month took care of it, knock on wood. Now, I’m super careful running uphill, especially accellerating from a walk to a run, uphill.</p>
Knock on wood that this continues. Weighed in at 159.8 this morning. The second lightest day of 2012 (I had one day at 159.6 and a dozen 160.0s). Day off yesterday to recover from hiking, although I wasn’t really sore, thank goodness). New Rules of Lifting today. I may try to kick it up from two sets to three as I finish out Phase 2.
<p>I’ve never had the achilles problem but I’ve heard about many people that have had it and I think that it’s one of the big five. I’ve had two of them (and sprained ankles too). In any injury, I like to find the cause and a way to fix it.</p>
<p>Good work on the weight idad. You have a lot of self-control on improving the weight.</p>
<p>Slept for about 7 hours today (in addition to sleeping last night). I think that I may have had a virus or overall lack of sleep this week. There has been something going around at the office (lots of coughing) and maybe I picked up a little of it. It might have been tennis yesterday but I was feeling weak the day before. So my usual light weight workout later on today and some stretching is probably it.</p>
<p>17 miles in one morning is a lot of miles. Especially with heat and humidity.</p>
<p>I was doing some errands yesterday and had on a dark-colored t-shirt. When I was walking around, it felt like my shoulders were burning - it was in the 90s and very sunny here yesterday. I have a light-colored vest that I threw on which fixed the heat problem.</p>
<p>We have some very mild weather for the next ten days which is nice. Some thundershowers too. It’s definitely nice to have some rain given the problems that people are having with houses (foundations cracking due to not enough moisture in the ground) in the midwest.</p>
<p>HaHa, iDad. You are ALL worthy! I don’t do burpees! I did go for the large iced tea, but I was actually not at all dehydrated thanks to the aid stations. I have a houseguest, and we had to drive an hour to pick H up down in horse country where he rode his bike and only then did I get a meal! We toured the George Dickel distillery after we ate. My legs were tired. My Zensah calf sleeves looked very cute (not) with my sundress.</p>
<p>Nice streak, BB!</p>
I bet your Zensah sleeves looked just fine to the runners around you… 
Thanks, MOfWC! I need all the streaking I can get before my big, fat vacation!
OK, this has caught my attention… Nothing political… While I do not appreciate their lies about their accoplishments in the public office or whatnot, I really hate when the politician folk make up easily verifyable stuff like this:
[Paul</a> Ryan Trips Over Marathon Question - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-trips-over-marathon-183056261--abc-news-politics.html]Paul”>http://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-trips-over-marathon-183056261--abc-news-politics.html)
When there is a stopwatch or a touchpad, there is always an official list of times waiting to surface… So shut up and don’t make up your times, buddy!
The article mentions some political celebrities’ marathon times for comparison:
<p>If I said I had run a marathon in “under three”, we would have to be talking about YEARS… :)</p>
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<p>New Rules of Lifting for Life in the World’s Best Gym 2.0 this evening. I felt like kicking it up a notch, so I increased from two sets of 10 reps on the four strength exercises to three sets of 10. That was very challenging for the single leg squats. Everything else was OK. I’ll probably only do Phase 2 for another week and then I’ll be cranking up the weights again.</p>
<p>“If I said I had run a marathon in “under three”, we would have to be talking about YEARS…”</p>
<p>Betcha you are talking about days, idad ;)</p>
<p>Let’s see. I average between 1 mile and 1.5 miles per day, one day per week. But, if I really made it a goal, I think I could run 1.5 miles each day. So, it would take me 18 weeks, or a little over 4 months, to complete a marathon.</p>
<p>I think that you could do 1-1.5 per day on consecutive days. The training to get to running 3 miles a day isn’t hard - it’s just a matter of consistency - and my guess is that your hikes are a lot more work than running 3 miles.</p>
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<p>Yeah. I could. In fact, I think I did 1.5 miles on consecutive days once when I was “training” for my 5K last fall. I also violated my own policy and did a walk/jog twice in one week recently when the weather was so nice. But, I really try to limit it to once a week.</p>
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<p>I don’t know about the comparison, but I do believe that these hikes are the best all-around geezer workouts of everything I’ve done. They have it all. Awesome large muscle strength training, especially the hips and glutes from all the Stairmaster climbing up and down. Awesome core stability and balance exercise as you try to stay upright with a 20 pound pack stepping from rock to rock. Fantastic intervals (at least for me) on the uphill bits where I drive my heart rate up to 90% and then recover, over and over. And, terrific steady state cardio conditioning, just from walking for hours at a time.</p>
<p>I’ve known from day one that fitness walking, especially on hills, is great exercise. This kind of hiking kicks it up a notch. No surprise, I’ve run into a lot of pretty fit looking geezers (men and women) on these trails. I love making it a part of my fitness menu.</p>
<p>The latest on Paul Ryan is that he said getting the nomination is his proudest moment since winning the Tour de France.</p>
<p>^ post of the day!</p>
Great work everyone! Real hardcore stuff considering it is a holiday weekend.
So… Funny, how things end up working out. I was shopping exercise classes and gyms, now an unlimited membership at my local big box gym fell into my lap. It’s a decent enough gym and I have had a temporary membership in the past for a few months on a special deal because my lifting partner ended up there, but I am not super thrilled by the place. I always found myself fighting the crowds, be it in the parking lot or the changing rooms, and it doesn’t have the luxurious perks of my favorite gym, but free is free.
So I went to their newly launched HIIT class this morning. Great concept, not so great execution, but to be fair the class is brand new and they are working out the kinks. Like not cramming everyone like sardines into a narrow, poorly ventilated space. Or actually grasping the concept of “intervals”. That means, that there should be rest periods after jacking up the HR, even if they are short. And, no, running in place with high knees is not really a break.
In all, lots of burpees, mountain climbers, plyojumps and lunges mainly on and off the step on 2 risers.
So 30 minute HIIT for me today. I am off to hopefully do some idad-style hiking over the next few days, then I will be trying out some of the gym’s other offerings.
<p>Rest day. I helped haul a few boxes to Half Price Books and stopped in at Road Runner.</p>
<p>Before they start distributing the free ponies I’m going to have to read up on proper care and feeding. I want to make sure my pony’s coat stays nice and shiny, and that he’s happy and all. Will the pony and my cat get along?</p>
<p>Road Runner has retail shops?</p>