Lightweight continuing to do well here.
I did my bike for over an hour yesterday, and then went for a 2 or so mile walk.
Today I’ve done my biking, but not sure I’ll get to much else, other than stretching and light weights. Kitten duty (including trying to keep the cats “separated” when they both have free access to the house) and working just a little take a lot of time 
I also have been using a pull-up bar to do what I hope are good stomach exercises. I pull myself up, and then raise my knees towards my stomach 10 times. I do that a couple of times a day. (If I were at the gym I’d use the apparatus they have just for that, and do it more times, but I can only do about 10 this way).
I realize I really do miss the gym. I don’t participate in any classes, but I do keep thinking about doing spin class and maybe beginner yoga (most classes - except Pilates maybe - are no extra cost). When I’m at the gym and see everyone else exercising, I’m encouraged to do a little more and try new things I see others doing. I doubt we will go to the gym once they open, but for now I think we’ve decided to keep our membership. We don’t want them to close and be unavailable once things are back to (a new) normal, and we are lucky to be able to afford it for at least a couple of months.
@1214mom that’s a great ab exercise! 10 times is great. I balanced my checkbook today (old fart) and noticed Planet Fitness didn’t bill us for last month. I saw something to that effect on their website, but I didn’t actually believe they would do it. I wouldn’t mind if they did.
re: the ocean. Yeah, I wouldn’t be afraid of going to the beach. I hesitate going because of the crowds. And keeping H out of all the t-shirt shops, trinket stores, etc. would be impossible. And no putt putt! The horror! (not really. We have lots of hysterical BAD stories about the kids and putt putt)
I’m working on day 4 of a sinus headache. Storms always do this. And so I caved on the run. I couldn’t face another run in pouring rain. Slept in for 40 min. and then warmed up with a short range & repair hip video and a core video before the real “Cardio Core” workout. The endorphins kicked in during the cardio portion. Can’t wait for the rain to go away. The river is already flooded and will flood pretty badly tonight/tomorrow. (as an aside, we STILL haven’t gotten the trail bridges fixed that were blown out during TS Michael in Oct 2018. We’re not high on FEMA’s list I guess.)
Older S moved back home today. Anti-climatic and I feel badly for him. I told him to put all his stuff in the living room cuz we will just be moving it again in 5 weeks. But it messes with my OCD.
Hiked for 3.5 hours today at an IL state park with one other woman from the hiking club.
It was great! The trails were badly flooded with up to a foot of standing water. It was go thru or bag the hike, and we went thru without complaint.
Saw sandhill cranes, mallards, egrets, Blue jays, crawfish, huge tadpoles…no snakes or gators! 
VERY good for my spirits. I’ll need to bank some good feelings because it looks like the rest of the week is going to be stormy.
What do you do or take to manage your sinus headaches? So ouch!
@1214mom I don’t know if I could do one stomach pull up! My stomach muscles would protest!!!
3 mile walk today and a few hours getting my vegetable garden ready - it was delightful - until it started to rain on me!
Well, after a terrible 5K run, actually a slow jog, yesterday (Wednesday), I tortured myself today in the home gym. Two hours later and I’m almost thinking about an early evening run. Almost, but probably not. 
I built to 4 working 3-rep sets at 80% of max for both the back squat and bench press. Then two HIIT workouts. First HIIT was five 3-min AMRAP rounds of DB snatches, push ups and air squats with 1-min breaks in between rounds. The second HIIT was about 18 mins (I forget actual tome now) of rowing, GHD sit-ups and walking OH DB lunges.
A few years ago we took a trip to FL, spent some time on both the east coast side and the Gulf, and we didn’t see any gators, snakes or jellyfish in the water. But I tend to be ignorant of my surroundings too. :lol:
Parks are still closed here, I think. I miss my old trail run by the Bay.
@sushiritto A couple of years ago I had a business trip to Fresno and I flew to Oakland and drove. When I got back the next day to OAK, I had to stay in a hotel right by the airport (practically on-airport) since I had a morning flight. I was feeling sorry for myself because I was sure I wouldn’t be able to run from there before my flight. Well, as it turned out, there was a gorgeous path that went right by the Hampton and along the bay! It was terrific. I’ve since recommended that hotel to other people from my company.
I LOVE the SF Bay Area. I was born in Marin County and lived in the South Bay Area while growing up. I haven’t been back in years, but you guys are making me miss it.
We wouldn’t really move there now anyway, but we are priced out of the real estate market there. (And we live between DC and Baltimore - not a cheap area).
I really liked San Diego when I visited there a couple of times late last year. We can’t afford to live where I’d like to live there either. Still trying to figure out where we will land in retirement, if we decide to move.
I’d REALLY like to buy a shack at the beach and have been dabbling a bit on Zillow, just for fun. I sincerely doubt it’ll ever come to fruition.
That inn by OAK is great @MomofWildChild! Like OAK, so compact. Good wine at the bar near Alaska’s gates.
Watching for a hole in the clouds to go walking. Mister and I agreed that we lucked out by moving to House2 three years ago. House1 was in a nice area, but walking there would not have been as entertaining as here.
My old stomping grounds as I grew up close by. Our Boy Scout troop pulled weeds and trash alongside that estuary & bay side trail.
@sushiritto - it’s ok to look… dreaming is half the fun
Success! Walked (briskly!) about 5 miles with only a few drops of rain - not enough to spoil our fun. Saw a giant heron fishing for frogs… the heron did not like to be photographed.
2 mile slow run on the treadmill this morning. Nothing hurt so I think I’m good to go.
Happy Memorial Day weekend all.
4.2 gloomy but cool miles. Rain on and off today. Got it done! Wore a new Oiselle (I’m a brand ambassador and on the non-elite “team”) flyout top which is the best fabric ever. This was a short sleeved t-shirt style. I really liked it. I have some tanks and long-sleeved shirts, too. It was so light weight and comfortable, but kept me un-sweaty feeling.
@Midwest67 I usually take Walmart’s “Severe Allergy Plus Sinus Headache.” We refer to them as “magic blue pills.” They do a fantastic job with most congestion issues. If the headache persists, I add ibuprofen to the mix. I also take Nasocort/Zytec 365 days/year.
I am really hoping today was my last run in the rainy for awhile. I’ve done the same route Tues, Wed, and today. A new mix of old roads. Wednesday I was 4 min faster than Tuesday and today was 3 min faster than Wednesday. But today was still not fast, so that shows how slow I was on Tuesday. My legs mostly felt good. Just weird parts were sore from the jumping in yesterday’s workout.
Today’s workout was “Isometrics.” I was chuffed that I rocked the chin-up/chair holds. (chin-up in chair position/hold 10 sec, repeat for 1 min). But then I got my rear handed to me on the next exercise - a weird squat thing extending DBs at chest level back/forth for 1 min. And the tricep push-up holds kicked my tail too. I’m usually better at those. Oh well. I rocked the core stuff and worked my rear off. That was the goal.
River is very flooded. I may go out an investigate later. It is work related, right?
I can mostly keep my sinus headaches under control with Target brand Claritin.
Sometimes, it isn’t enough and I get pain so bad that I get nauseous.
The Claritin can be veer into too drying, and then I pull out the Xlear, Vaseline, or Ponaris.
I might get some of that magic you speak of, as additional back-up.
Of course, I haven’t been tested or paid much attention to what season is worse, so I’m just throwing the kitchen sink at it.
Friday afternoon’s workout was strict and then push presses for strength and the HIIT was 20 minutes of rowing, pull-ups, light push presses and deadlifts. And finished up with glute ham raises for core work.
@Midwest67 Claritin doesn’t do anything for me, but different drugs do different things in different people. and different drugs seem to work better for different symptoms/allergens. For pure nasal congestion, I swear by any steroid nasal spray that used to be prescription and now many are OTC. I use Nasocort as it works better for me than Flosnase. It takes care of 90% +/- of my congestion most of the time. Zrytec on top does even better. I still always have a layer of sludge/pressure in my face/eye area. And the itchies come/go during various seasons. And breathing issues during peak grass season spring/fall. Yay!
But I am also severely allergic to almost everything alive. Years ago I did an allergy test. They started with a pre-test where they just barely stick you with the allergens. If you react badly to those like that, they know not to do the real test and have you go into shock. Well, I badly reacted to almost everything in the pre-test. When they did the remaining few in the real test, I reacted to almost everything there too. There were 2 obscure trees and something like 3/12 molds that I was ok with. Fortunately, it’s mostly just annoying. I have no drug or food allergies. My mom is the same way. Thanks mom!
Today I ran across our flooded river. On a bridge. I’m not Jesus. It’s surreal running across when the river is 20-25 feet higher than usual. I was very thankful it was not raining and I didn’t need a second change of clothes for my workout. It KILLED me yet again, but I stuck with it. 75 reps of push-up burpees on sliders, arnold presses, weighted jumping lunges, alternating chest press with legs doing this dead bud type thing, weighted sumo jumps, diamond push-ups, runner lunge jumps, and weighted rotating planks. And the rest was 30 sec of army crawls on sliders (plus 30 seconds of a real break). I had to take breaks on a few things (diamond push-ups!) but I got in all the reps. And now I’m done for the day!
And i just got my new favorite brownies out of the oven. You can google another word for “woman who gets around” brownies. You press a LARGE tube of Nestle chocolate chip cookie dough into a 9x13 pan, place a layer of Oreos on top, then pour on top your favorite brownie mix. (Betty Crocker Supreme triple chunk was it for me today). Bake for 35ish minutes. heaven! Thanks to my favorite co-worker who clued me into such a delight!